Author: Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
Publisher: Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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I wrote 10 books about love, but maybe someone should come to forbidden me … the right of speaking about the subject. Cause to be honest … i was writing so much about it … but … i don’t really know what love is. When i was personally involved … i was blind. I was not seeing clear absolutely anything at all. Most probably … being so, so … deep … in those stories … i did not had the ability to see everything detached and … it all became illusory for my mind. And i had so contradictory … perceptions. But one day … someone told me an interesting story … about how he got all what he wanted in his life … except love. This story made me decide to start writing a new book about the subject … but from a new perspective. This time i was the one that watch the play … like a spectator. I was looking at him. … but also at her. I was not interested to analyze more …. one of the sides … but only and only … the connection between those souls. My new friend started to tell me more and more about his life … and the paradox that even if he succeeded to get from life all he ever dreamed … he could not see any joy at all for himself. There was no reason for him to smile or …. to be happy. His face was always sending to everyone the impression of a profound … unhappiness. But one day … the guy … which by the way was a married person … met an amazing lady … and asked her to be his … love teacher. He could not say it from the beginning … but the next second he had this opportunity …. he found the guts to say it. And the funny thing was that she said … yes. She accepted the fact that he was married … cause there was no other chance to be together for the present moment. So … they started the lesson. Brian … this was his real name … was telling me new and new details. Many times i was simple smiling … not really knowing how to define the 2 of them, but later i realize that Carla was in the same position as him. She tried many times to find the happiness. The Universe sent in her life so, so many men … but all of those relationships looked like …. what we could name as …. pathless paths. This time … with this guy Brian …. all looked different. And he really wanted to understand what love is about. He came to me … confessing about his amazing story with Carla … and we were wondering … why the hell we had to learn so, so many things in school, but never about … love. His relationship with Carla became kind of a therapy. A weird one … but even if it was a slow process …. my friend Brian started to feel like a … different person. He was visiting her in her small studio, spending so, so many hours together … kissing her, discussing together … but also making love. She was teaching him … the tremendous power of touch … the meaning of feelings … and how love can heal our souls. Everyday … was a new lesson. She was his therapist … but liking her so, so much … and falling in love with her … he became her therapist also. In the night he was coming back at home …. and he was meditating more and more of what he was doing. Had no regret that he was cheating his wife, cause the connection itself was broken by a long, long time. And he loved this kind of … therapy. Everyday … he wanted to spend more and more time with her. Her energy … all that love felt while being into her arms … even if there were moments when they simple practiced the silence …. was making him feel cured. I was analyzing them … more and more …. until one day when i had the chance to meet her also. And i had the same feeling regarding Carla … that she was also having therapy with my friend Brian. … love therapy. Now … i was looking from outside at all this … and … i actually saw my stories. … all my love stories. I was analyzing and defining them … but i was trying to understand my stories and my way of acting from the past. It all became so damn clear now. Looking at Brian and Carla … i suddenly understood that all i was doing into my past …. In all the love stories … was to heal my soul. I needed … therapy also. But i was afraid of following a classic way …. at a regular therapist. All needed to be abstract … to hide the fact that i needed … to heal my broken soul. I smile realizing that all those partners … were my therapists …. Brian and Carla made me understand much clearer … my own story. And many others as them. Seeing detached … all those love stories …. defining them in my writings … little by little i started to understand what love is about … and its tremendous power.
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author: Sarah J. Robinson
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0593193539
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.
Author: Bruce L. Moon
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 0398080895
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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Artist, Therapist and Teacher is a compilation of writings taken from the author's 40 years of experience. The book is organized chronologically, earlier works are presented first and the most recent, last. Chapters include writings from particular years accompanied with commentaries by Chris Belkofer, Ph.D. that highlight their relevance to contemporary art therapy practices. Bruce L. Moon uses music, performance art, poetry, sports activities, visual art forms, and other task-oriented modalities to cultivate relationships with clients. His vision of art therapy work is intimately connected to creativity, artistic self-expression, and exploration of meaning. Based on the author's art therapy practice, his overwhelming sense is that art therapy is continually being reshaped and transformed. This sense of ongoing “re-creation” is connected to the foundation of art's healing power, which resides in the ability of art to constantly shift and find new forms of expression. Unique features include: social applications of the arts, art-based group therapy, art therapy education as performance, metaphor, artfully constructed narratives, and case vignettes. Further enhanced with 12 illustrations to completely clarify the vignettes discussed, this book is a call to art therapists to embrace the artistic dimensions of professional identity, and use creativity when presenting ideas about the discipline of art therapy. This book will be an excellent resource for art therapists, art lovers, artists, art educators, and other mental health professionals.
Author: Judy Belmont, MS
Publisher: PESI Publishing & Media
ISBN: 1936128438
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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127 More Amazing Tips and Tools for the Therapeutic Toolbox is Judy Belmont's third Tips and Tools book in PESI's bestselling series that has offered thousands of clinicians practical "hands on" strategies to help clients reach therapeutic goals. Judy Belmont's newest Tips and Tools addresses today's evolving needs, using techniques from CBT, DBT and positive psychology to help their clients and their practice. All reproducible worksheets and handouts will quickly become a clinician's best friend! Something for everyone, and packaged in a creative and enjoyable way! "127 TIPS delivers a wealth of ideas, skills, and exercises to apply and customize to a vast array of clinical issues and situations. Speaking to eclectic and integrative therapists (who comprise the majority of working practitioners), Judith Belmont taps in-demand and evidence-based treatments for their most practical interventions and teachings. Filled with psychoeducation, handouts, and worksheets for clients, active therapists will find TIPS to be a frequent and effective resource." ~ Lane Pederson, Psy.D., LP, DBTC, author of The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual and DBT Skills Training for Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment Settings
Author: Bari Tessler
Publisher: Parallax Press
ISBN: 1941529216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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MEET YOUR FINANCIAL THERAPIST: Improve your financial literary and heal your relationship with money using this 3-part framework combining mindfulness, radical self-love, and body awareness. “An exciting, important voice to the money conversation . . . at once spiritual and practical, this is the education we've been waiting for.” —Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money For many of us, the most challenging and upsetting relationship in our lives is with our finances—and it often brings feelings of shame or powerlessness. Enter Bari Tessler, your new financial therapist and money-savvy best friend. Her “Art of Money” program gives you the tools you need to improve your financial literary and heal your money anxiety in 3 phases: • Money Healing: Heal money shame through body-based check-ins, transformative money rituals, and by reframing your “money story”. • Money Practices: Learn to approach money as a self-care practice—with advice on values-based bookkeeping, finding financial support, and setting up helpful tracking systems. • Money Maps: Designed to evolve with you over time, the 3-Tier Money Map helps you make good money decisions and affirm your money legacy. Bari Tessler’s gentle techniques weave together mindfulness, emotional depth, big-picture visioning, and refreshingly accessible money practices. A feminine and empowering guide, The Art of Money will help you transform your relationship with money—and in doing so, transform your life. Check out The Art of Money Workbook for more insights and teachings.
Author: Malcolm Ross
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136738797
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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The constituency for education and therapy in the arts is rapidly expanding beyond the conventional school and clinical settings to include the wider community. In Cultivating the Arts in Education and Therapy, Malcolm Ross integrates traditional Chinese Five Element Theory, also known as The Five Phases of Change, with contemporary Western psychological and cultural studies, to form a new Syncretic Model of creative artistic practice. The Syncretic Model is explored and validated through an analysis of interviews with practising, successful artists, and in a comprehensive review of the latest neuro-scientific research into human consciousness and emotion. The book addresses the well-documented difficulties experienced by arts teachers and therapists intervening in, supporting and evaluating the creative development of individual students and clients. This groundbreaking text repositions the arts as central to the effective initiation and management of change in contemporary society. Besides being of wide general interest, it will have particular relevance for practising and trainee arts teachers, arts therapists and community artists. With the demand for their services growing and pressure to demonstrate effectiveness mounting, the arts community is looking to build bridges between the different arts, and between arts education and therapy across national boundaries. This book offers a fresh, coherent, and challenging framework for a revitalized reflective practice from an experienced authority in the field.
Author: Bo Jacobsen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470724385
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Existential psychology examines how people deal with the biggest issues - such as finding meaning in life and facing death. It deals with many of the same problems as psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, but emphasises the view that one can understand the life of another by listening to their way of seeing existence and opening up their ‘phenomenal world’. As a therapeutic approach it is recognised by the British Psychological Society and taught on a number of courses. This introductory text discusses all the main contemporary theories of existential psychology, and illustrates them with case examples. Practical implications for clinical work are considered, and comparisons with other approaches such as humanistic psychotherapy are made throughout.
Author: Fran DiGioia McClain LCSW ACSW
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Life Recipes from a Therapist is a blend of professional and personal experiences of the author in her thirty-five years as a licensed clinical social worker. Each short chapter includes insights about toxic ingredients to leave out of your life, such as shame, guilt, and comparison to others. Other topics include how to cope with main ingredients of anxiety, doubt, and fear. Mixing things up with mindfulness, the spice of friendships, and good boundaries and one may find even as life throws us many changes, it can be a savory dessert. Taking first steps to get the life you want is never easy, but the author offers examples of how to rise above the challenges.
Author: Chris Higgins
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444346512
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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The Good Life of Teaching extends the recent revival of virtue ethics to professional ethics and the philosophy of teaching. It connects long-standing philosophical questions about work and human growth to questions about teacher motivation, identity, and development. Makes a significant contribution to the philosophy of teaching and also offers new insights into virtue theory and professional ethics Offers fresh and detailed readings of major figures in ethics, including Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams and the practical philosophies of Hannah Arendt, John Dewey and Hans-Georg Gadamer Provides illustrations to assist the reader in visualizing major points, and integrates sources such as film, literature, and teaching memoirs to exemplify arguments in an engaging and accessible way Presents a compelling vision of teaching as a reflective practice showing how this requires us to prepare teachers differently
