Author: Anna Gray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781973436744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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'I want to live, not just survive' takes you on Anna's journey, of taking back control of her life. In 2015 the priority had been on her health but in 2016 the priorities were switched; from focusing on her health, to living life to the full and cramming in as much fun as possible. She goes on breaks away and fits in her hospital appointments around them and she begins to look forward to a better, more balanced life. She ticks off many things on her bucket list and she literally spends half of the year travelling away from home, on various trips both home and abroad. She takes as many holidays as she can, doing as much as her body would allow and then some. 2016 proved to be an amazing year for Anna; we see how the love of her family and friends has such a positive effect on her and enables her to fulfill her dream of travelling. She is still battling with her health but she is always aiming for it not to consume her; it was important for her to shift her focus, she didn't want to be seen as the 'sick person' who couldn't do anything. 'I want to live, not just survive' shows how, even with significant illness and disability, you can still achieve, you can still live your life and enjoy all that it brings. Reading this book will make you want to experience new things, to travel to different places and fill your life with as much enjoyment as possible, irrespective of your ability. Reviews from Amazon, for the first book in the series, 'You are my sunshine.' 'A truly inspirational read, that illustrates a person's suffering, trials and tribulations but still leaves you at the end of the book with a positive outlook on life, and feeling anything is achievable.''Very inspirational great reading. Couldn't put the book down.cant wait for the follow up book. Hope Anna is doing good.''Inspirational read by Anna. Written with obvious passion for her family and friends who are helping her through her illness. Complete insight to how she is coping with her illness and the accomplishments she has achieved whilst fighting this battle. Remarkable lady!''Anna's bravery and determination to beat her condition is inspirational!As a nurse and a mum I related with everything she said about her experiences and worry for her children! An amazing book and a must read. I will be expecting any student nurse who passes under me to read this and will highly recommend it as it gives all perspectives.God bless Anna and the kids. Hoping for a happy ever after. 'Reviews from Amazon, for the second book in the series, 'Learning to dance in the rain''I couldn't wait to read the second book, just hoping it was as good as the first. Well it truly was, yet another moving and inspirational story of one womans battle, how she adjusts to a different life and finds strength not only from herself but from her amazing children. Her story shows how you can find positives in every situation, she certainly did learn to dance in the rain!!!''I read this book in 2 days. An excellent follow on story of her battle of recovery after major surgery. Anna is an inspiration and her determination to remain positive even when she felt so poorly, continue with her studies, travel and be a role model to her children makes for a great read. Well done Anna Gray, I look forward to reading the next book.''A great sequel to the fabulous You Are My Sunshine. Anna Gray is inspiring and humorous and writes with honesty and grit about her fight back to health. Can't wait for Part 3!'
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Publisher: Xspurts.com
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Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: Bettina L. Love
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807069159
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.
Author: Deborah Spungen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307807436
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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“Honest and moving . . . Her painful tale is engrossing.”—Washington Post Book World For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager addicted to drugs, violence, and easy sex, a daughter completely out of control—who almost destroyed her parents’ marriage and the happiness of the rest of her family.
Author: J. Chad Barrett
Publisher: Grace Acres Press
ISBN: 9781602651005
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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How does one handle hardship? What does it look like to persevere through a painful trial, especially if that trial never leaves? And how can a man who is riddled with anxiety and depression endure the suffering of watching his young daughter battle a terminal childhood cancer and unable to do anything about it?This book tackles several issues including anxiety and depression, overcoming bitterness, learning how to persevere, and how to deal with fear, shame, and guilt. The story includes Kristina, the 8-year-old daughter of Chad and Melissa Barrett, who was diagnosed with Clear Cell Sarcoma and battled it for four years. But this book isn't really about Kristina.This story also includes Chad, who had struggled with anxiety and depression for several years when he and his wife, Melissa, got the dreadful phone call that their daughter has cancer. But this isn't really about Chad, either.This true story is about the God-man, Jesus, who showed up in the midst of this storm. Instead of delivering the main characters from their plight, Jesus did something counterintuitive to us, humans. He led them deeper into the storm and showed His power. Written mostly in story form, his book is proof that the grace of Jesus is sufficient even for a parent's worst nightmare. It's sufficient to take a human, with all his flaws of shame, fear, and guilt, riddled with anxiety and depression, and then the grief from the death of his child, and bring him past the point of surviving into the realm of thriving.Only God can do that. He can do that for you, too, and this book will show you how.
Author: Ira Israel
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 160868508X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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As children, we learned to get approval by creating facades to help us get our emotional and psychological needs met, but we also rebelled against authority as a way of individuating. As adults, these conflicting desires leave many of us feeling anxious or depressed because our authentic selves are buried deep beneath glitzy or rebellious exteriors or some combination thereof. In this provocative book, eclectic teacher and therapist Ira Israel offers a powerful, comprehensive, step-by-step path to recognizing the ways of being that we created as children and transcending them with compassion and acceptance. By doing so, we discover our true callings and cultivate the authentic love we were born deserving.
Author: Altregia Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781986041980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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It's Your Time To Shine!I AM are two of the most powerful words, for what you put after them really does create your reality. Are your thoughts stuck on repeat because of past mistakes you've made?What you constantly think about will manifest through your words. "Should've", "could've", and "would've" will keep you looking back. When we speak, we aren't just making noise and sounds. Our words are producing fruit. This fruit can be ripe or rotten, good or bad, negative or positive.In this book, Altregia shares 21 days of powerful I AM affirmations that can help you learn how to shift your thoughts and words to create the reality you want. Gain the confidence, courage, and clarity to shine like the diamond God created you to be.It's up to you to choose what follows the "I AM". What are you saying about yourself?
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Author: Pakhi
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1543702848
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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A broken heart still loves unconditionally. Even though it gets cautious, it never runs out of love. A broken smile still tries to reassure everyone that everything is fine. Even though your mind is in pieces, it never lets those feelings of being lost and hurt through. A broken home still hopes that it will all be okay. Even though times are tough and there is no one around, it never gets too cold in those times when you are somewhere between a broken place and your safe haven. A broken soul still heals, given time. Even though it tests your patience, it never stops you from your redemption. Beautiful Carcass is a collection of coming-of-age poems. It is a reminiscence of a young girl as she sees a few faces of love, how she has her heart and soul broken, and how she eventually picks herself up again and creates a warrior out of the broken pieces to fight battles with the ugly side of life. It is the journey of acceptance of an innocent mind that not everything is unicorns and rainbows, but it is okay. Not everything has to be.
Author: Lindo Bacon
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1950665496
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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"Belonging has been a formative struggle for me. Like most people with marginalized identities, my experience has taught me that it's hard to be yourself and feel like you belong in a culture that is hostile to your existence. That's why my body of work as a scientist, author, professor, speaker, and advocate for body liberation always comes back to the impact of belonging or not belonging. Radical Belonging is my manifesto, helping us heal from the individual and collective trauma of injustice and support our transition from a culture of othering to one of belonging." —Lindo Bacon Too many of us feel alienated from our bodies. This isn't your personal failing; it means that our culture is failing you. We are in the midst of a cultural moment. #MeToo. #BlackLivesMatter. #TransIsBeautiful. #AbleismExists. #EffYourBeautyStandards. Those of us who don't fit into the "mythical norm" (white, male, cisgender, able-bodied, slender, Christian, etc.)—which is to say, most of us—are demanding our basic right: To know that who we are matters. To belong. Being "othered" and the body shame it spurs is not "just" a feeling. Being erased and devalued impacts our ability to regulate our emotions, our relationships with others, our health and longevity, our finances, our ability to realize dreams, and whether we will be accepted, loved, or even safe. Radical Belonging is not a simple self-love treatise. Focusing only on self-love ignores the important fact that we have negative experiences because our culture has targeted certain bodies and people for abuse or alienation. For marginalized people, a focus on self-love can be a spoonful of sugar that makes the oppression go down. This groundbreaking book goes further, helping us to manage the challenges that stem from oppression and moving beyond self-love and into belonging. With Lindo Bacon's signature blend of science and storytelling, Radical Belonging addresses the political, sociological, psychological and biological underpinnings of your experiences, helping you understand that the alienation and pain you are experiencing is not personal, but human. The problem is in injustice, not you as an individual. So many of us feel wounded by a culture that has alienated us from our bodies and divided us from each other. Radical Belonging provides strategies to reckon with the trauma of injustice; reclaim yourself, body and soul; and rewire your nervous system to better cope within an unjust world. It also provides strategies to help us all provide refuge for one another and create a culture of equity and empathy, one that respects, includes, and benefits from all its diverse peoples. Whether you are transgender, queer, Black, Indigenous or a Person of Color, disabled, old, or fat—or your more closely resemble the "mythical norm"—Radical Belonging is your guidebook for creating a world where all bodies are valued and all of us belong—and for coping with this one, until we make that new world a reality.
