Author: Lisa King
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
ISBN: 1953945317
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Help Kids Discover Their Own Inner Hero We often teach children that heroes are famous because of something they did, but it's just as important to teach them that heroes are remembered for who they are. In Be Your Own Hero, Lisa King reveals what it takes to be a real-life hero. And it has a whole lot more to do with character and kindness than anything else! Being a hero takes having the courage to believe in yourself, overcome obstacles, and make the world a better - and brighter - place for everyone around you. And the good news is, we all can do that! It's Hero Week at school, and Quinn Wilson can hardly contain her excitement! Each day, her class will meet a real-life hero, and on Friday they get to dress up as their favorite hero from the past or present. Every other kid in the class knows who they want to be, except for Quinn! There are so many heroes she looks up to! How can she choose just one? But when Quinn's teacher, Mr. Finley, teaches the class some important truths about heroes, Quinn discovers something unexpected. In her search to find a hero in someone else, she actually finds the hero in herself!
Author: Schwartzen Precil
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728329914
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Foster care was Schwartzen Precil's home since he was one years old. He endured many extreme hardships including an encounter with the criminal justice system as a teenager. He used that obstacle as an opportunity to start over. Despite a traumatic childhood, Schwartzen remained hopeful as he developed a resilient spirit. Through the game of basketball, he enhanced his leadership skills which earned him college scholarship. After graduation, he went on to empower and inspires youth and young professionals with his story as he searched for his long lost family. "Many people struggle with acceptance, identity, and emotional instability their entire lives. I decided to stop blaming others and take full responsibility. I became my own hero." -Schwartzen Precil
Author: Samra Zafar
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443454877
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Despite facing years of abuse after arriving in Canada as a teenage bride in a hastily arranged marriage, nothing could stop Samra Zafar from pursuing her dreams At fifteen, Samra Zafar lives with her family in Pakistan and has big dreams: she will go to university and forge her own path in the world. Then, with almost no warning, her dreams evaporate when her parents arrange her marriage to a stranger in Canada. Her new husband and his family promise that the marriage and the move will be a fulfillment of her dreams. But as the walls of Zafar’s new home slowly become a prison, she realizes how deeply she has been betrayed. Desperate to get out and refusing to give up, she hatches an escape plan for herself and her two daughters. Somehow, she finds the strength to not only build a new future, but also to walk away from her past, ignoring the pleas of her family and risking cultural isolation by divorcing her husband. A Good Wife tells Zafar’s harrowing and inspiring story, following her from a young girl with big dreams to a woman who finds strength in the face of oppression and battles through to empowerment.
Author: Parmida Barez
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525553410
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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All of our lives we’ve been told that superheroes are these “fictional” characters with extraordinary powers, yet every day, millions of us put on our capes, and continue to face and overcome the obstacles, adversities, and hurdles in our lives. But, are we using our inner-Heroes correctly? In Becoming Your Own Hero author Parmida Barez guides readers on the journey of becoming your life’s truest Hero. A journey that leads to you not only putting on your cape but truly owning and earning it, perhaps for the first time. Her proven and practical approaches can be successfully applied by people from all walks of life to decipher where they are sitting on the Hero spectrum and how they can unlock their next level of purposeful, self-aware, and empowered living. Along this journey, you will learn how to free yourself from self-sabotaging thoughts, behaviours, and associations that have been holding you back. Becoming Your Own Hero isn’t just a ‘to-do’ list; it’s a lifestyle that is within your reach.
Author: Wendy L. Rouse
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147980729X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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The surprising roots of the self-defense movement and the history of women’s empowerment. At the turn of the twentieth century, women famously organized to demand greater social and political freedoms like gaining the right to vote. However, few realize that the Progressive Era also witnessed the birth of the women’s self-defense movement. It is nearly impossible in today’s day and age to imagine a world without the concept of women’s self defense. Some women were inspired to take up boxing and jiu-jitsu for very personal reasons that ranged from protecting themselves from attacks by strangers on the street to rejecting gendered notions about feminine weakness and empowering themselves as their own protectors. Women’s training in self defense was both a reflection of and a response to the broader cultural issues of the time, including the women’s rights movement and the campaign for the vote. Perhaps more importantly, the discussion surrounding women’s self-defense revealed powerful myths about the source of violence against women and opened up conversations about the less visible violence that many women faced in their own homes. Through self-defense training, women debunked patriarchal myths about inherent feminine weakness, creating a new image of women as powerful and self-reliant. Whether or not women consciously pursued self-defense for these reasons, their actions embodied feminist politics. Although their individual motivations may have varied, their collective action echoed through the twentieth century, demanding emancipation from the constrictions that prevented women from exercising their full rights as citizens and human beings. This book is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most important women’s issues of all time. This book will provoke good debate and offer distinct responses and solutions.
Author: BuzzPop
Publisher: BuzzPop
ISBN: 9781499812565
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Be miraculous with Ladybug and Cat Noir in this debut, 100% official, full-color guided activity book from the hit animated show airing daily on Disney Channel and streaming on Netflix. Marinette is just an average teen until she joins with her Miraculous to become Ladybug, protector of Paris. Now you can be a hero, too! Spot the difference, break the code, color your costume, and scramble Hawk Moth's evil plans to make the city miserable. Just make sure Cat Noir doesn't step on your toes. With trusty Tikki giving you power, you turn a bad day into-simply-the best. But back at school, can you keep your courage and your identity secret? Your biggest challenge awaits. You must make your dreams come true. Packed with fun puzzles, prompts, and creative challenges, this book is a must-have for magical superheroes, bashful dreamers, and fans of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir! Kids 7 to 10 years old know adventure begins with the call: Tikki, spots on! MIRACULOUS™ IS A TRADEMARK OF ZAGTOON - METHOD. © 2021 ZAGTOON - METHOD ANIMATION - TOEI ANIMATION - SAMG - SK BROADBAND - AB INTERNATIONAL - DE AGOSTINI EDITORE S.p.A. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Author: Catherine Owens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734830200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Your Dreams Are Still AliveThe decisions we make from our heart, using good guidance and information, are often the best ones. Our culture focuses on reactionary health care rather than proactive life decisions. Often, we wait until there is a crisis before we really address the root cause. This approach can be devastating if we wait too long to choose a positive living environment. The answer is to seek the best quality of life in our aging years.THIS BOOK WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO:?Make proactive, educated decisions versus reactive, crisis-driven decisions?Identify the key influencers and their roles in the decision process?Define independence and what it means to you
Author: Alyson Reid-Larade
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544773568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The life of a teenager can be tough. But not all teens get into trouble, and the ticket to an easier ride comes down to one thing - self-esteem. Self-esteem affects how teens think and behave with their families and friends, at school, and in relationships. Self-esteem also affects how teens deal with stress, drugs, alcohol, food, their bodies, and much more. How to Be Your Own Hero guides teens to make decisions that will improve their self-esteem and to move them toward their success. In building self-esteem, teens will find inner strength and resilience - and the greatness that they all have inside of them. How to Be Your Own Hero is a toolkit for building Self-Esteem. It is written for Teens, but is also helpful for the parents and educators who love them.
Author: Annie Mayfield
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728316650
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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In a world filled with comparison, confined creativity, limited flexibility, and sustained dissatisfaction, young adults are suffering from a lack of pure passion and zest for life now more than ever. Social media makes things so easy to constantly feel your life is not as good as the person on your Snapchat feed or Instagram scroll, and today’s society puts so much emphasis on being the “perfect” person that adolescents are setting themselves up for an impossible standard to reach. The youth of our generation needs to be reminded that they have the power within themselves to set their own standards and go after their innermost blissful desires to create more thrill and purpose in their lives than they could ever deem possible. Magic in the lives of young adults needs to be reinstalled, dreams need to be reintroduced, and seeds of passion for life needs to be replanted. Be Your Own Hero cultivates a mind-set that the door to success always swings inward, not outward. In order to achieve your external goals, you must work on your inner self. This book aims to help young adults realize that their external empire only goes as far as their internal empire. By building a sense of self heroism and an ability to save themselves versus relying on external factors to do their saving for them, young adults can not only dream bigger but also love and serve bigger—leading them to a life they never thought possible.
Author: Tammy Mariposa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549813122
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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This is the book I wish I could've read when I was broken. It details my entire journey from marrying a man with a cluster B personality disorder,living with his abuse,my eventual escape from him after many years of marriage and then as he promised me through gritted teeth if I divorced him,losing everything including my children who he turned against me.We explore how I learned about cluster B disorders particularly Narcissism and how I healed myself from this toxic relationship.As I began healing I thought of myself as a caterpillar gathering knowledge and working towards a transition of huge changes towards a fully fledged butterfly and freedom.I used this knowledge to write manageable bite size 'Chrysalis to Butterfly' healing blogs designed to be read in order chunk by chunk through your recovery but also in titled sections so they can easily be referred back to.These have helped many survivors navigate their way out of abusive relationships and onto the healing road towards recovery.I've included my personal Parental Alienation Diary,which details how the Nex achieved total alienation of my children from me. Then I explore how I reconnected with my scapegoat son despite my daughter,the Nex golden child still being lost in the fog of alienation for nearly four years as this book was going to be published.All my advice and articles have either appeared in my secret abuse recovery group and been read by survivors or more recently on Tammy Mariposa public page where I write exclusively for target parents and have helped them to reconnect with their children using my 'drips of love' technique.When my son returned to me I held on through my joy pain and tears and continued to journal my sons reunification story over the year which provides valuable insight into how parental alienation is achieved and how the conditioning can be broken by the 'Drips of love' technique.So let me hold your hand and walk with you in your grief and pain and help you to heal yourself by firstly letting go of the guilt about moving forwards without your children so you can reach a mentally healthy place, so you are then in a position to rescue your children from their pathogenic parent.Firstly by understanding what is actually happening to your child, how your alienated child thinks and secondly how you can use this knowledge to reconnect with them and repair and nurture a loving relationship with them once again.We then explore how we can look to the future with our new knowledge by turning our pain into positivity and heal to such a point where we can live a life of love and abundance.
