Author: Gordon Walsh
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1640795820
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Avoidance in dealing with childhood trauma can ensnare one into a life of despair and be lacking in the sense of purpose. The darken words spoken over you as a child, or the unspeakable actions which defy any boundaries set, can necessarily become part of our DNA and become a huge hindrance to our adult life. This book is about actual traumatic events that have occurred, and in his quest you will acquire skills to overcome your past despite the fractured foundation that was laid in one's youth. These teachings will not only help you to overcome, but provide understanding about the various foundations, which encompasses us as humans. For example, you will learn: - Foundations of Faith - Foundations of Discipline - Foundations of Intimacy Just to name a few. Learn how you too can overcome childhood trauma by a person that overcame physical, mental abuse, and what began initially a journey of being victimized to discovering a relationship with Jesus Christ, which then turned these tragic events to becoming victorious. The label "Retard" was a title that became part of his DNA, but a new identity was birthed and his journey led him from brokenness to becoming a Green Beret to now finishing his Doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership emphasis in Ministry. This triumphant story and teachings will leave you with not only a better understanding of how childhood trauma becomes graphed into one's DNA, but provide the tools to overcome any obstacle.
They Called Me Retard
Author: Gordon Walsh
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1640795820
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Avoidance in dealing with childhood trauma can ensnare one into a life of despair and be lacking in the sense of purpose. The darken words spoken over you as a child, or the unspeakable actions which defy any boundaries set, can necessarily become part of our DNA and become a huge hindrance to our adult life. This book is about actual traumatic events that have occurred, and in his quest you will acquire skills to overcome your past despite the fractured foundation that was laid in one's youth. These teachings will not only help you to overcome, but provide understanding about the various foundations, which encompasses us as humans. For example, you will learn: - Foundations of Faith - Foundations of Discipline - Foundations of Intimacy Just to name a few. Learn how you too can overcome childhood trauma by a person that overcame physical, mental abuse, and what began initially a journey of being victimized to discovering a relationship with Jesus Christ, which then turned these tragic events to becoming victorious. The label "Retard" was a title that became part of his DNA, but a new identity was birthed and his journey led him from brokenness to becoming a Green Beret to now finishing his Doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership emphasis in Ministry. This triumphant story and teachings will leave you with not only a better understanding of how childhood trauma becomes graphed into one's DNA, but provide the tools to overcome any obstacle.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1640795820
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Avoidance in dealing with childhood trauma can ensnare one into a life of despair and be lacking in the sense of purpose. The darken words spoken over you as a child, or the unspeakable actions which defy any boundaries set, can necessarily become part of our DNA and become a huge hindrance to our adult life. This book is about actual traumatic events that have occurred, and in his quest you will acquire skills to overcome your past despite the fractured foundation that was laid in one's youth. These teachings will not only help you to overcome, but provide understanding about the various foundations, which encompasses us as humans. For example, you will learn: - Foundations of Faith - Foundations of Discipline - Foundations of Intimacy Just to name a few. Learn how you too can overcome childhood trauma by a person that overcame physical, mental abuse, and what began initially a journey of being victimized to discovering a relationship with Jesus Christ, which then turned these tragic events to becoming victorious. The label "Retard" was a title that became part of his DNA, but a new identity was birthed and his journey led him from brokenness to becoming a Green Beret to now finishing his Doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership emphasis in Ministry. This triumphant story and teachings will leave you with not only a better understanding of how childhood trauma becomes graphed into one's DNA, but provide the tools to overcome any obstacle.
They Called Me Retard
Author: Gordon Walsh
Publisher: Go to Publish
ISBN: 9781647496272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The inspiration to tell his story can be accredited to his wife, Teresa; Gordon states that she believed his story would not only help others, but inspire them as well, regardless if they have experienced trauma within their lives. Gordon's fractured past did not hold him back from becoming a former U.S. Army Sniper, Army Ranger, and Army Special Forces (Green Beret). With his relentless desire to overcome and his relationship with Jesus Christ, the challenges he faced in academia did not hold him back from achieving multiple degrees. He holds a bachelor's degree in Business administration, a Master's degree in Ministry, and a Master's degree in Leadership. Prior to retiring from the Army, Gordon was called by God to change careers and start a new career with God. Gordon is currently the senior pastor of Alive in Christ in Kennewick, WA, and is now a warrior for God.
Publisher: Go to Publish
ISBN: 9781647496272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The inspiration to tell his story can be accredited to his wife, Teresa; Gordon states that she believed his story would not only help others, but inspire them as well, regardless if they have experienced trauma within their lives. Gordon's fractured past did not hold him back from becoming a former U.S. Army Sniper, Army Ranger, and Army Special Forces (Green Beret). With his relentless desire to overcome and his relationship with Jesus Christ, the challenges he faced in academia did not hold him back from achieving multiple degrees. He holds a bachelor's degree in Business administration, a Master's degree in Ministry, and a Master's degree in Leadership. Prior to retiring from the Army, Gordon was called by God to change careers and start a new career with God. Gordon is currently the senior pastor of Alive in Christ in Kennewick, WA, and is now a warrior for God.
Somebody Called Me a Retard Today-- and My Heart Felt Sad
Author: Ellen O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Walker & Company
ISBN: 9780802781970
Category : Children with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A girl expresses her sadness at being called a "retard" by people who do not know how loving and self-reliant she is.
Publisher: Walker & Company
ISBN: 9780802781970
Category : Children with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A girl expresses her sadness at being called a "retard" by people who do not know how loving and self-reliant she is.
Don’t Accept Me as I am
Author: Reuven Feuerstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1489961283
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1489961283
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Yes... My Retarded Ass Signed Up
Author: M!Chael Mayhem
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434326217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The title for my novel is taken from a scripture verse out of the book of Revelation. The connection is made by relating that verse to Jeffery Lucas, the main character in The Pretender Lamb. Prior to meeting Jessica Thompson, Jeffery spends most of his early life only pretending to be what others expected of him While he was on a Fall vacation in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, Jeffery meets and falls in love with Jessica, a school teacher from Madison, Wisconsin. A misunderstanding during the single night they stayed on the summit of Mt. Le Conte leads them into a journey of slopes and grades over the following years of their lives. The hopes and dreams of both Jeffery and Jessica are laid bare as they allow themselves to be completely open with another person for the first time in their lives. Jeffery tells of how he was raised in a small Iowa town and learned at an early age to fend for himself. Jessica tells of how fate had found her still single at thirty, but with a satisfied mind. The Pretender Lamb is a love story bursting at the seams with twists and turns. Its pages are splashed with equal amounts of humor, sadness, faith and hope. Those on both sides of the morality issue will get a chuckle from this story although they may need a good supply of tissues to dab at their tears as well. The Pretender Lamb takes a pass at explaining the experience of dejavu from a Christian point of view. Although the explanation is no more than an opinion, it should provoke some deeper thought on the subject. Anyone who has had heart problems, or known someone that has, will feel a strong tugging at their emotions as they get lost in the lives of Jeffery and Jessica. The Pretender Lamb is a story of failing health and healing, and of broken spirits and those lifted up again.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434326217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The title for my novel is taken from a scripture verse out of the book of Revelation. The connection is made by relating that verse to Jeffery Lucas, the main character in The Pretender Lamb. Prior to meeting Jessica Thompson, Jeffery spends most of his early life only pretending to be what others expected of him While he was on a Fall vacation in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, Jeffery meets and falls in love with Jessica, a school teacher from Madison, Wisconsin. A misunderstanding during the single night they stayed on the summit of Mt. Le Conte leads them into a journey of slopes and grades over the following years of their lives. The hopes and dreams of both Jeffery and Jessica are laid bare as they allow themselves to be completely open with another person for the first time in their lives. Jeffery tells of how he was raised in a small Iowa town and learned at an early age to fend for himself. Jessica tells of how fate had found her still single at thirty, but with a satisfied mind. The Pretender Lamb is a love story bursting at the seams with twists and turns. Its pages are splashed with equal amounts of humor, sadness, faith and hope. Those on both sides of the morality issue will get a chuckle from this story although they may need a good supply of tissues to dab at their tears as well. The Pretender Lamb takes a pass at explaining the experience of dejavu from a Christian point of view. Although the explanation is no more than an opinion, it should provoke some deeper thought on the subject. Anyone who has had heart problems, or known someone that has, will feel a strong tugging at their emotions as they get lost in the lives of Jeffery and Jessica. The Pretender Lamb is a story of failing health and healing, and of broken spirits and those lifted up again.
Stuck in Neutral
Author: Terry Trueman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062216996
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This "intense reading experience"* is a Printz Honor Book. Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger. To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life. *Booklist starred review
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062216996
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This "intense reading experience"* is a Printz Honor Book. Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger. To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life. *Booklist starred review
Kill Me Now
Author: Timmy Reed
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619025639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
One of the Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2018 (Big Other) "Timmy Reed writes like a whacked–out angel." —Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World and May We Shed These Human Bodies Miles Lover is an imaginative but insecure adolescent skateboarder with an unfortunate nickname, about to face his first semester of high school in the fall. In Kill Me Now, Miles exists in a liminal space—between junior high and high school, and between three houses: his mother's, his father's, and the now vacant house his family used to call home in a leafy, green neighborhood of north Baltimore. Miles struggles against his parents, his younger identical twin sisters, his probation officer, his old friends, his summer reading list, and his personal essay assignment (having to keep a journal). More than anything, though, he wrestles with himself and the fears that come with growing up. It's not until Miles begins a mutually beneficial friendship with a new elderly neighbor—whom his sisters spy on and suspect of murder—that he begins to find some understanding of lives different than his own, of the plain acceptance of true friends, and, maybe, just a little of himself in time to start a whole new year. When you're green, you grow, he learns. But when you're ripe, you rot. With tenderness and tenacity, Timmy Reed's prose—written in a confessional tone via Miles's journal—captures the anguish and grit of adolescence, and the potential of growing up.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619025639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
One of the Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2018 (Big Other) "Timmy Reed writes like a whacked–out angel." —Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World and May We Shed These Human Bodies Miles Lover is an imaginative but insecure adolescent skateboarder with an unfortunate nickname, about to face his first semester of high school in the fall. In Kill Me Now, Miles exists in a liminal space—between junior high and high school, and between three houses: his mother's, his father's, and the now vacant house his family used to call home in a leafy, green neighborhood of north Baltimore. Miles struggles against his parents, his younger identical twin sisters, his probation officer, his old friends, his summer reading list, and his personal essay assignment (having to keep a journal). More than anything, though, he wrestles with himself and the fears that come with growing up. It's not until Miles begins a mutually beneficial friendship with a new elderly neighbor—whom his sisters spy on and suspect of murder—that he begins to find some understanding of lives different than his own, of the plain acceptance of true friends, and, maybe, just a little of himself in time to start a whole new year. When you're green, you grow, he learns. But when you're ripe, you rot. With tenderness and tenacity, Timmy Reed's prose—written in a confessional tone via Miles's journal—captures the anguish and grit of adolescence, and the potential of growing up.
The Fields
Author: Kevin Maher
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
ISBN: 0316223573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A warm and funny debut novel about a young man in trouble and a family in love and in pieces. It's the first summer of lust for 14-year-old Jim Finnegan, a boy trying to become a man in 1980s Dublin. Jim's vivid and winning voice leaps off the page and into the reader's heart as he watches his parents argue, his five older sisters fight, and the local network of mothers gossip. Jim hilariously recounts his life dealing with the politics of his boisterous family, taking breakneck bike rides with his best friend, dancing to Foreigner on his boombox, and quietly coveting the local girls from afar. Over the summer, Jim wins the attention of a beautiful older girl, but he also becomes the unwilling target of a devious religious figure in the community. His life starts to unravel as he faces consequences from both his love for his girlfriend and his attempts to avoid the Parish Priest. When he and his girlfriend take a ferry for a clandestine trip to London, the dark and difficult repercussions from the trip force Jim to look for the solution to all his problems in some very unusual places. The Fields is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary character. It's a portrait of a boy who sinks into troubles as he grows into a man, and the loving but fractured family that might be his downfall -- or his salvation. Lyrical, funny, and endlessly inventive, it is a brilliant debut from a remarkable new voice.
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
ISBN: 0316223573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A warm and funny debut novel about a young man in trouble and a family in love and in pieces. It's the first summer of lust for 14-year-old Jim Finnegan, a boy trying to become a man in 1980s Dublin. Jim's vivid and winning voice leaps off the page and into the reader's heart as he watches his parents argue, his five older sisters fight, and the local network of mothers gossip. Jim hilariously recounts his life dealing with the politics of his boisterous family, taking breakneck bike rides with his best friend, dancing to Foreigner on his boombox, and quietly coveting the local girls from afar. Over the summer, Jim wins the attention of a beautiful older girl, but he also becomes the unwilling target of a devious religious figure in the community. His life starts to unravel as he faces consequences from both his love for his girlfriend and his attempts to avoid the Parish Priest. When he and his girlfriend take a ferry for a clandestine trip to London, the dark and difficult repercussions from the trip force Jim to look for the solution to all his problems in some very unusual places. The Fields is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary character. It's a portrait of a boy who sinks into troubles as he grows into a man, and the loving but fractured family that might be his downfall -- or his salvation. Lyrical, funny, and endlessly inventive, it is a brilliant debut from a remarkable new voice.
HandiLand
Author: Elizabeth A. Wheeler
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125710
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
HandiLand looks at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities take center stage for the first time. These books take what others regard as weaknesses—for instance, Harry Potter’s headaches or Hazel Lancaster’s oxygen tank—and redefine them as part of the hero’s journey. HandiLand places this movement from sidekick to hero in the political contexts of disability rights movements in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ghana. Elizabeth A. Wheeler invokes the fantasy of HandiLand, an ideal society ready for young people with disabilities before they get there, as a yardstick to measure how far we’ve come and how far we still need to go toward the goal of total inclusion. The book moves through the public spaces young people with disabilities have entered, including schools, nature, and online communities. As a disabled person and parent of children with disabilities, Wheeler offers an inside look into families who collude with their kids in shaping a better world. Moving, funny, and beautifully written, HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth is the definitive study of disability in contemporary literature for young readers.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125710
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
HandiLand looks at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities take center stage for the first time. These books take what others regard as weaknesses—for instance, Harry Potter’s headaches or Hazel Lancaster’s oxygen tank—and redefine them as part of the hero’s journey. HandiLand places this movement from sidekick to hero in the political contexts of disability rights movements in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ghana. Elizabeth A. Wheeler invokes the fantasy of HandiLand, an ideal society ready for young people with disabilities before they get there, as a yardstick to measure how far we’ve come and how far we still need to go toward the goal of total inclusion. The book moves through the public spaces young people with disabilities have entered, including schools, nature, and online communities. As a disabled person and parent of children with disabilities, Wheeler offers an inside look into families who collude with their kids in shaping a better world. Moving, funny, and beautifully written, HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth is the definitive study of disability in contemporary literature for young readers.
Visions, Voices and Violence
Author: Zahn Pesh
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477158863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
As a "fictional memoir," Zahn Pesh tells the true story of a mentally disabled young man Billy, known affectionately as Vaney and Billy's run-in with the San Francisco police. Often using "Billy speak," the youth's arcane lingo, the author reveals society's neglect and injustices toward such individuals. Wrongly, Billy is accused of making "terrorist threats" against a paramedic, but few other than Pesh believe the disabled kid's story. Avoiding the blame game, Pesh shows how each from personal perspective does his duty, indiscriminately, but nonetheless Billy, or Vaney, suffers because the system fails. Billy is treated like a criminal, not as a patient, which Pesh insists he is. Try as he might, Pesh only meagerly reforms that system, before . . .
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477158863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
As a "fictional memoir," Zahn Pesh tells the true story of a mentally disabled young man Billy, known affectionately as Vaney and Billy's run-in with the San Francisco police. Often using "Billy speak," the youth's arcane lingo, the author reveals society's neglect and injustices toward such individuals. Wrongly, Billy is accused of making "terrorist threats" against a paramedic, but few other than Pesh believe the disabled kid's story. Avoiding the blame game, Pesh shows how each from personal perspective does his duty, indiscriminately, but nonetheless Billy, or Vaney, suffers because the system fails. Billy is treated like a criminal, not as a patient, which Pesh insists he is. Try as he might, Pesh only meagerly reforms that system, before . . .