Author: Becky Norwood
Publisher: Mbk Enterprises, LLC
ISBN: 9780997168747
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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In this book is the stories of 31 amazing women who have the love, the heart, the courage and the wisdom to share their stories with you. These stories will touch your heart. We Choose to Thrive is a work of heart with messages from women who have a story to tell. Each of us has been a victim of abuse, some beginning in childhood, others later on as adults with domestic violence or even rape. You will find stories from sea to shining sea...from Australia, New York, roots in Guatemala, from all around Canada and the U.S. You will discover that the perpetrators of abuse do not respect ethnic backgrounds, socio-economic backgrounds, or religious backgrounds. Our message is to other who've been victims of abuse. Abuse is abuse no matter what KIND of abuse. There is no measuring device that can determine the extent to which the experience of the abuse has affected our lives. Abuse can come as sexual, emotional/mental, physical and spiritual abuse. Sexual childhood abuse seems to carry the deepest scars but truly there is no way to measure.While we mention what happened to us, we don't dwell there. We talk about what we have done and what we are currently doing to be well adjusted, happy and productive. We've done our healing work and as we began to heal, that seeped out to our families, our communities, our countries and our world. We also know that it takes constant attention to our thoughts and feelings as there can be triggers of memory that can threaten to derail our efforts.Abuse is abuse no matter what kind, and there is no measuring device that can predict the impact it has on the victim, no matter how significant or insignificant the abuse may seem. Leaving the sadness and pain aside, our message, the recurring theme of this book is to share that you too can thrive. It begins with a decision, a choice and the courage to SPEAK UP, STAND UP, FIND YOUR TRUTH, and COMMAND YOUR OWN INNER POWER.
Author: Tharon Howard
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 008095720X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Social networks and online communities are reshaping the way people communicate, both in their personal and professional lives. What makes some succeed and others fail? What draws a user in? What makes them join? What keeps them coming back? Entrepreneurs and businesses are turning to user experience practitioners to figure this out. Though they are well-equipped to evaluate and create a variety of interfaces, social networks require a different set of design principles and ways of thinking about the user in order to be successful. Design to Thrive presents tried and tested design methodologies, based on the author’s decades of research, to ensure successful and sustainable online communities -- whether a wiki for employees to share procedures and best practices or for the next Facebook. The book describes four criteria, called "RIBS," which are necessary to the design of a successful and sustainable online community. These concepts provide designers with the tools they need to generate informed creative and productive design ideas, to think proactively about the communities they are building or maintaining, and to design communities that encourage users to actively contribute. Provides essential tools to create thriving social networks, helping designers to avoid common pitfalls, avoid costly mistakes, and to ensure that communities meet client needs Contains real world stories from popular, well known communities to illustrate how the concepts work Features a companion online network that employs the techniques outlined in the boo
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: Emily Lex
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736980377
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Your Invitation Awaits… You’ve tried harder. You’ve been more intentional. You’ve done everything “right.” In your search for meaning and purpose, you’ve placed your hope in many different things—only to find yourself at a turning point, quietly asking, Is this it? Is this all there is? If the direction of your life is leading you away from peace, contentment, and true fulfillment, Emily Lex has some great news to share with you: God is offering you a better way. A way of real rest. A way of quiet confidence. A way to free yourself from expectations. A way to become the person he created you to be. A way to learn his unforced rhythms of grace. Do you breathe a sigh of hope when you hear this holy and gentle invitation from Jesus? “Come to me… Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” If so, then you are ready to accept his offer to recover and renew your life. Start your journey today.
Author: Sara Saunders
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 0828026815
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Lila, born in the Blue Country and having lived in the Yellow Country, then the Red, has swirls of all of those colors in her but wonders if she belongs in any one place until a swirly boy's mother tells of Jesus, who was also swirly and has prepared a home for them all.
Author: Becky B Norwood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732072756
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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This series is dedicated to those who have suffered abuse at the hand of someone who was supposed to love them and care for them. Often this means a family member. Not always though. We know that abuse is abuse, no matter where it comes from or what kind of abuse it is. Not just child abuse, abuse from domestic violence, abuse from siblings, relatives, father or mother, a family friend, or a complete stranger. Abuse can destroy. Abuse can color a person's world so drastically that life as they once knew it is forever changed. Our stories join the many that are already published, as we feel that together, our voices are meant to be heard. Our purpose is to provide encouragement and inspiration to those still in abusive situations, as well as those who are just now taking steps to walk away. Walking away takes a great deal of courage. It is scary and full of uncertainties. It is often said that it takes much more courage to walk away than it does to stay, simply because staying is familiar. Walking away is walking into the unknown. Even more than courage, is the determined decision to do what it takes to heal, to recover from the pain, the devastation to the body, the mind, the self-esteem is where these stories come to light. In each of these stories, a decision was made. As you will read in the pages of this book, the stories are as many, and as varied as the courageous women that chose to write and share them. They come from many different walks of life, even from different countries. Some are young, some are older. One story is of a 92-year-old woman who told her story for the very first time. There is one that shares a poem, her story of vicious and evil cyber-attacks that almost cost her life was not safe enough to share at this time. Healing is a process. It does not happen overnight, and often there are triggers that will take us by surprise and set us back a bit. This is normal. To have had the opportunity to get to know each of these women has been humbling and evoked deep respect for them and the journey they have chosen to be on. Many of the women that were in book one in this series, gained such courage from find speaking up and being heard that they are now actively helping others to take a stand. Today's world has a lot of publicity about these topics. It is not meant to get attention, nor, to have others feel sorry for us. These stories are shared to inspire others and to bring about sorely needed change in our world. We want to change the tide and create awareness that abuse is unacceptable. If you are reading this book today, we hope you will reach out for help if you are in need of help. We encourage you to reach out to any one of us for support. The beauty of this is that YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
Author: Josh McDowell
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0310123348
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Overcome your struggles. Fulfill your deepest longings. Your whole life awaits you. Many people today are struggling with unprecedented levels of anxiety, hurt, doubt, guilt, and shame. Medical and mental health professionals confirm that much of the dysfunction and disconnectedness we experience in life stems from unresolved relational and emotional hurts. These hurts leave us with unfulfilled God-given longings that we seek to fulfill through unhealthy behaviors and relationships. Yet, our struggles aren't random; they're signals that when answered, can pave our way towards a thriving life. In Free to Thrive, Josh McDowell and Ben Bennett invite you on a journey of healing and will teach you how to overcome unwanted behaviors by engaging your unmet longings. With a blend of hard-won wisdom and youthful energy, they present: Biblical teaching Recent neuroscientific research Time-tested principles Personal stories of deliverance Practical tools Opportunities for reflection No matter what you are struggling with, it is possible to experience the spiritual, emotional, and relational wholeness that God wants you to have--and live the thriving life you were made for.
Author: Alexandra Stoddard
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061873012
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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From Alexandra Stoddard - beloved lifestyle philosopher, mother, and author of Choosing Happiness, a small book of wisdom about the big questions of life, perfect for new graduates, new mothers, and as a treasured gift from woman to woman. Alexandra Stoddard, a mother, grandmother, and author of more than 25 books on personal fulfilment, shares a series of succinctly–stated principles worth living by. Each statement is fleshed out in a few brief, useful paragraphs. By turns wise ("Pain is inevitable; suffering is a choice"), controversial ("Don't feel guilty about your feelings toward your parents, stepparents, or in–laws"), affirming ("You don't have to prove anything to anyone"), and humorous ("When you discover something you love, stock up"), these short pieces cut to the essence of what's important and are oases of clarity amid life's chaos.
Author: Debbie Silver
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1506381588
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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There’s more to student success than standards and test scores… Integrating Social and Emotional Learning into a curriculum has been shown to increase personal and school-wide growth. With lifelong success the goal over simply meeting academic thresholds, Teaching Kids to Thrive presents strategies, activities, and stories in an approachable way to develop responsible, self-motivated learners. Uniting social, academic, and self-skills this instrumental resource offers benefits to students such as: Using mindfulness strategies to help students tap their inner strengths Learning to self-regulate and control other executive brain functions Developing growth mindsets along with perseverance and resilience Cultivating a sense of responsibility, honesty, and integrity Encouraging a capacity for empathy and gratitude
Author: Sherrill L. Sellers
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9781475825176
Category : EDUCATION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Research demonstrates that faculty of color in historically white institutions experience higher levels of discrimination, cultural taxation, and emotional labor than their white colleagues. Despite efforts to recruit minority faculty, all of these factors undermine their scholarship, pedagogy, social experiences, promotion and retention. This edited volume builds upon the existing research on faculty of color, however, it also departs from the existing literature and unravels the socio-emotional experiences of being in front of the classroom, in labs, and in the Ivory Tower for faculty who are in multiple racialized social locations. In an effort to circulate the experiences of faculty of color more widely to academic and non-academic audiences, this edited volume replaces conventional scholarly technical papers with unconventionally accessible letters. Stories from the Front of the Room focuses on the boundaries which faculty of color encounter in everyday experiences on campus and presents a more complete picture of life in the academy - one that documents how faculty of color are tested, but also how they can not only overcome, but thrive in their respective educational institutions.
