Download or read book Redefining Normal written by Alexis Black and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up, they didn't believe they had a future. Together, they are building forever. Alexis Black persevered through her mother's death and her father's imprisonment. And after escaping a long and abusive relationship, the college junior promised her foster parents not to date for at least a year. But when she meets an incoming freshman on the first day of their scholarship program, she feels the world melt away, as though it were only the two of them in the room. Justin Black lived in the poorest section of Detroit before his parents surrendered him to the foster care system at the age of nine. But when he grabs the chance for better opportunities by pursuing higher education, he can't help but be drawn to a beautiful third-year student. At first, their past traumas--and their age difference--conspired to complicate their attraction. But the joy each took in the other and eventually conquered those obstacles, and these two survivors journeyed together toward healing. In a stark and wholehearted true story that shares how two individuals on separate paths found each other, Alexis and Justin merge their course into one full of hope and purpose. And hand-in-hand, with a desire to help others, they learned to reject the abusive patterns of their past, thereby intentionally breaking the cycle of generational violence and unhealthy behaviors. Written in an engaging novelistic style, the authors put forward a thoughtful exchange of ideas and personal experiences illustrating how anybody, no matter their backgrounds, can have a life of self-empowerment and joy. Broken down into four sections that cover crucial topics such as "Worthiness" and "Mental Health," this compelling narrative will help any who are learning to love themselves and want to end the line of toxic relationships. Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat The Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness, and Love is a page-turning memoir that will open your eyes to possibilities and dreams. If you like honest tales of triumph, refreshing transparency, and resilient faith in God, then you'll adore Justin and Alexis' inspirational story. This story contains mentions of domestic violence, trauma, sexual assault, and other difficult issues faced on the road to healing. Buy Redefining Normal to claim victory over harmful pasts today!

Download or read book Rethinking Normal written by Katie Rain Hill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this Young Adult memoir, a transgender girl shares her personal journey of growing up as a boy and then undergoing gender reassignment during her teens"--

Download or read book Redefining Normal Embracing and Celebrating Your Individuality written by Anila Singh and published by Writers Corner Publication. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are invited to take this transformative journey - a journey encompassing authenticity, resilience, creativity, well-being, celebrating individuality, cultivating innovation, and contributing to the positive ripple effect. The conclusion emphasizes the ongoing nature of the narrative, encouraging readers to embrace their unique stories and continue exploring the multifaceted aspects of redefining normal. It serves as a call to action, inspiring individuals to craft their own narrative of redefined normalcy. A narrative marked by authenticity, purpose, and unwavering commitment to a life lived on their terms.

Download or read book Asperger Syndrome in the Family written by Liane Holliday Willey and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liane Holliday Willey and one of her daughters both have Asperger Syndrome. In Asperger Syndrome in the Family she looks, with honesty, wisdom and humor, at the implications this has for her family, both the Aspie and the non-Aspie members. Through personal vignettes, frank discussions and practical suggestions for dealing with everything from major to minor Aspie challenges, Liane, her husband and their three daughters bravely open their home to their readers, inviting them to look behind the curtains at their version of Aspie life. Not only does the book underscore the importance of mutual support and respect in an Aspie family - in fact in any family - it offers practical help for families in similar situations. This is a rich and positive book that will speak to all those whose lives have been affected by Asperger Syndrome.

Download or read book Redefining Rape written by Estelle B. Freedman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uproar over "legitimate rape" during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms that rape remains a word in flux, subject to political power and social privilege. Redefining Rape describes the forces that have shaped the meaning of sexual violence in the U.S., through the experiences of accusers, assailants, and advocates for change.

Download or read book Ready to Redefining Normal written by Alexis Black and published by Global Perspectives Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does redefining normal mean for you? This provoking question is at the core of this life-changing workbook inspired from the book Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat The Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness and Love by Justin and Alexis Black; it is designed to help you heal and discover your truth as you embark on the journey of structuring a culture conducive for your future. The communities we are raised in teaches us societal norms that influence our behavior and outcomes in life. These views of what "normal" is can cloud our judgment and affect our happiness while predetermining our life circumstances. Whether you've experienced extreme trauma or been a part of a vibrant community, this workbook challenges each individual to be intentional about their personal and professional decisions and their impact on the families, communities, and institutions they're a part of. This workbook is broken down into six sections and is meant to be used as a tool on your journey of healing and self-discovery. What you will learn in this process:Who informed your definition of what is "normal", along with definitions of love, happiness, family, success and much moreHow to build and strengthen a sense of control, autonomy, and excitement to establish a more conducive pathway for yourself future generations Statistics that are set before you and how you have the tools to overcome How to break unhealthy generational cycles to leave a lasting impactThe questions and activities are intended to help examine how you feel about relationships, self-image, self-esteem and to help them build or strengthen a sense of control, autonomy, and excitement to establish a more conducive pathway for yourself and the generations after you. Are you ready to redefine YOUR normal?

Download or read book Redefining Normal written by Brent Heinze and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Original versions of these writings were published in Out front and are included here in cooperation with Q Publishing Group, Inc. (OutFrontMagazine.com)"--Title page verso.

Download or read book Ungifted written by Scott Kaufman and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning everything we know about the childhood predictors of adult greatness, a cognitive psychologist, who was told as a child that he wasn't smart enough to graduate from high school, explores the latest research to uncover the truth about human potential.

Download or read book Redefining Girly written by Melissa Wardy and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Melissa Wardy’s book reads like a conversation with a smart, wise, funny friend; one who dispenses fabulous advice on raising a strong, healthy, full-of-awesome girl.” —Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter All-pink aisles in toy stores, popular dolls that resemble pole dancers, ultrasexy Halloween costumes in tween sizes. Many parents are increasingly startled and unnerved at how today’s media, marketers, and manufacturers are sexualizing and stereotyping ever-younger girls, but feel powerless to do much about it. Mother of two Melissa Wardy channeled her feelings of isolation and frustration into activism—creating a website to sell T-shirts with girl-positive messages; blogging and swapping parenting strategies with families around the world; writing letters to corporate offenders; organizing petitions; and raising awareness through parent workshops and social media. Wardy has spearheaded campaigns against national brands and retailers that resulted in the removal of sexist, offensive ads and products. Now, in Redefining Girly, she shares her parenting and activism strategies with other families concerned about raising a confident and healthy girl in today’s climate. Wardy provides specific advice and sample conversations for getting family, friends, educators, and health care providers on your side; getting kids to think critically about sexed-up toys and clothes; talking to girls about body image; and much more. She provides tips for creating a home full of diverse, inspiring toys and media free of gender stereotypes; using your voice and consumer power to fight the companies making major missteps; and taking the reins to limit, challenge, and change harmful media and products. Melissa Wardy is the founder of Pigtail Pals & Ballcap Buddies, a website selling empowering and inspirational children’s apparel and products, and Redefine Girly, a blog surrounding the issue of the sexualization of girls. Wardy and her work have been featured

Download or read book The Myth of Normal written by Gabor Maté, MD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing. In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health? Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society—and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Cowritten with his son Daniel, The Myth Of Normal is Maté’s most ambitious and urgent book yet.

Download or read book Redefining Possible written by Dustin Hillis and published by Southwestern Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone feeling stuck in a daily grind, authors Dustin Hillis and Ron Alford offer a proven method to overcome obstacles, stop making excuses, and start living a life of purpose. Why settle for an ordinary, safe life when there's something so much more fulfilling within reach? Redefining Possible challenges readers to take an honest look at their lives and ask, What would happen if I stopped holding myself back . . . and started believing that I really can achieve everything I desire?Hillis and Alford provide the perfect roadmap to launch busy, overwhelmed adults into a new life with a greater sense of purpose and fulfillment. The authors are not interested in limitations and inside-the-box thinking and don't prescribe one path to success. They offer a proven formula to help readers define their own path. Along the way, readers will learn the authors' RAFT technique for getting unstuck, engage in strategic activities to redefine their potential, identify targeted affirmations to break belief barriers, and pursue action items that bring the main points off the page and into their lives. Both record-breaking business coaches and sales leaders at Southwestern Consulting, Hillis and Alford's insights come from their decades of collective experience. By letting go of all things outside their control and accepting responsibility for what they could change, they became top producers at one of the fastest-growing sales and leadership and consulting companies in the world-while achieving their personal goal of living more balanced lives. Hillis and Alford have personally coached hundreds of top leaders and executives. With this book, they will help thousands more to tap into their potential and redefine what's possible for their future.

Download or read book Redefining Normal Bible Study written by David Rhodes and published by AMG Publishers. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the Following God for Young Adults series, Redefining Normal turns us upside down as we examine the kind of people God wants us to become. This eight-week study challenges the norm of our culture and Christianity and urges young adults to live under grace and grow in holiness. The challenge presented is not only to live within God's moral boundaries but also to become people of greater faith, hope, and love.

Download or read book Elderhood written by Louise Aronson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction A New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award Winner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."

Download or read book Sociological Reflections on the Covid 19 Pandemic in India written by Gopi Devdutt Tripathy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a sociological study of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of India. It invites readers to understand disasters and crises as triggers of radical transformations in society, changing the very nature of every day and the meaning of normal. It discusses the processes through which society accepts, internalizes and reinvents a new way of life. It provides insights into its impact on the individual, family, economy and the state and the relationships not only between them but also within them. The chapters draw attention to the concerns of the vulnerable sections of the population – the aged, children, women, the disabled, migrant labour and the economically backward classes. The chapters are written in an engaging style, and each chapter investigates the way societies think about the risk, threat and harm and the ways to navigate crises of all kinds. As such, the book provides a key read for academics, students and administrators, as well as general readers confronted by an existential crisis caused by the pandemic.

Download or read book Some Assembly Required and Rethinking Normal written by Arin Andrews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two teens. Two struggles. Two unforgettable stories. Now available in one ebook, Arin Andrews and Katie Hill share their personal journeys of undergoing gender reassignment in two inspiring memoirs: Some Assembly Required and Rethinking Normal. About Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen: We’ve all felt uncomfortable in our own skin at some point, and we’ve all been told that “it’s just a part of growing up.” But for Arin Andrews, it wasn’t a phase that would pass. He had been born in the body of a girl and there seemed to be no relief in sight… In this first-of-its-kind memoir, Arin details the journey that led him to make the life-transforming decision to undergo gender reassignment as a high school junior. He also writes about the thrill of meeting and dating a young transgender woman named Katie Hill—and the heartache that followed after they broke up. Some Assembly Required is a true coming-of-age story about knocking down obstacles and embracing family, friendship, and first love. But more than that, it is a reminder that self-acceptance does not come ready-made with a manual and spare parts. Rather, some assembly is always required. About Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition: Have you ever worried that you’d never be able to live up to your parents’ expectations? Have you ever imagined that life would be better if you were just invisible? Have you ever thought you would do anything—anything—to make the teasing stop? Katie Hill had and it nearly tore her apart. Katie realized very young that a serious mistake had been made: she was a girl who had been born in the body of a boy. In this first-person account, Katie reflects on her pain-filled childhood and the events leading up to the life-changing decision to undergo gender reassignment as a teenager. She reveals the unique challenges she faced while unlearning how to be a boy and shares what it was like to navigate the dating world and experience heartbreak for the first time in a body that matched her gender identity. Told in an unwaveringly honest voice, Rethinking Normal is a coming-of-age story about transcending physical appearances and redefining the parameters of “normalcy” to embody one’s true self.

Download or read book Togetherness Redefined written by Celeste Orr and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, author and divergent thinker Celeste Orr shares 52 of her popular togetherness tips to help families build big family togetherness on good days and bad days, in big ways and small ways, with everything from playing board games to having one-on-ones, talking about tough issues, reframing frozen pizza nights, and going after big family dreams, long-term travel, and adventure too.As a mom of teenagers who often feels like there aren't enough hours in the day or ideas in her head, and as someone who has shared these tips with families around the world in her email group and online platform, Celeste knows no effort is too small and it's never too late to build togetherness with your family - no matter what.With real-life stories and simple, honest examples, this book gives parents, grandparents, and families of all kinds a go-to list of ideas to break the disconnect that is so often a by-product of the modern-day trappings that keep us from having the kind of family life we truly want. It's great as a one-time read and also designed for those who want to keep it at their fingertips for on-the-fly togetherness suggestions when things get sticky at home.

Download or read book Companion Guide Faith Edition Redefining Normal written by Justin Black and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does redefining normal mean for you?This provoking question is the core of the life-changing workbook, Ready to Redefine Normal?: Faith Edition inspired from the book Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat The Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness and Love by Justin and Alexis Black. This companion guide will equip communities and individuals to begin personal self-reflection and connect with others from a faith-based perspective. The communities we are raised in teaching us societal norms that influence our behavior and outcomes in life. These views of what "normal" is can cloud judgment, impact healing, and predetermine the life circumstances of individuals. What you will learn in this process: Examine if your thoughts and behaviors are grounded in your faith or insecurities. Channel our faith and resources into creating communities that operate outside the lens of trauma. Establish intentional relationships that provoke conversation surrounding mental and emotional health and stability for individuals and communities. This book is a powerful tool that explores each subject and asks questions from a faith-based perspective to support advocates, professionals, and parents discover how they can continue to contribute to the development, growth, and stability of those that have experienced trauma. *Redefining Normal is a page-turning memoir that will open your eyes to possibilities and dreams. *Both the book Redefining Normal and the Workbook are for youth 15+ unless deemed appropriate by someone 18+.