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A Clinician’s Journey from Complex Trauma to Thriving : Rev. Sheri Heller LCSW
A Clinician’s Journey from Complex Trauma to Thriving: Reflections on Abuse, C-PTSD and Reclamation
A Clinician’s Journey from Complex Trauma to Thriving is an anthology of articles by Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW.
Written for survivors and clinicians this collection was inspired by Rev. Heller’s unrelenting struggle with recovering from complex PTSD rooted in systemic and generational child abuse, and her commitment to devoting her life to helping others similarly afflicted.
Spanning the trajectory from abuse, complex trauma, addictions, the relational quest, recovery and treatment, and ultimately thriving creatively and spiritually, this assortment of writings offers a comprehensive assessment of the healing process and the triumph of reclamation.
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The Tree : Thomas Goering
The Tree: A Starting Point for Discussing Death with Children
This book is about a boy and the questions he asks a magical tree about life and death.
The book is intended for parents who want to have a discussion with their child about death – after they get that question one night “What happens when we die?” The book introduces the idea, provides a snapshot of three different opinions, but really focuses on the life aspect, and how amazing it is to be alive.
The secondary purpose of the book is to start the process of unlocking the critical thinker in our kids. The book aims to help children understand the value of gathering information, accepting different opinions, and forming their own conclusions after thinking through a problem. The book offers the premise that it might be OK to be honest with our children and to say “I don’t know”.
I hope this book helps inspire curiosity, and at the very least creates a good conversation with your child.
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An Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Spark : J. A. Richards
An Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Spark
Life can be tough, especially with the constant barrage of obligations, news, work, family events. It can be hard to find yourself and God through all the chaos.
J. A. Richards’ memoir, An Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Spark, takes the reader through her spiritual journey and how she found God in the quiet, the mundane, the ordinary.
While the author’s life is seemingly ordinary, her retelling of her dad’s death and its impact on her life shows how God works with and through ordinary people and events to make extraordinary things happen. How many people can say that the post office almost lost their dad? And say that with humor and grace? Only J.A. Richards, and only in this memoir.
Although Richards’ recounts several other life events along the way, including her bumpy at-times faith journey, she also offers some tips and tricks to the reader so they can hopefully learn from her ridiculous (and sometimes painful) mistakes, and she does all of it using a humorous voice with a positive message.
As J.A. Richards mentions, she is just happy if she can create a spark for your own spiritual journey, and she hopes that you can listen for God in the quiet too.
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Red Stick Two : Kenneth Kirkeby
Red Stick Two
Master tracker, Virgil Cleary, lives quietly on his Wyoming ranch with his wife and children. Life has been happy for the Clearys but the ranching business is difficult.
When Virgil’s former intelligence chief from Vietnam offers a lucrative mission Virgil accepts, partly for the money but ideally to reaffirm his sense of value to his country.
Virgil must travel to South America, to a country nearing civil war, where he joins forces with Agent Richard Creole. Together, the two operatives will rely on each other’s unique skills to locate an American engineer abducted by members of the rising Maoist movement.
Happiness and Success : Raphaël Savoy
Happiness and Success – Full version
This book has one essential objective: to cause the tiny spark that will light up your whole life.
You may have tried countless times to readjust your trajectory so that it leads you towards your dreams.
If the results have not been not satisfactory, this is because one key part has always been missing from the magic combination.
You will find all the key parts of the combination in this book. You will also discover what you have been missing so far: the tiny sparks, in the form of “tiny little things”, that will ultimately illuminate your perception and whole life.
This method is resolutely pragmatic, and every one of its formulae actually works. It was designed with great love, so that it could become the best friend of whoever is immersed in it. A friend that will finally allow them to be successful and happy.
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Chronicles of Chaos and Consonance : Kalybre The Eclectic
Chronicles of Chaos and Consonance
“Chronicles of Chaos and Consonance” is a book which is mainly about many things. As oxymoronic as that may sound, it is true. This book is about discovering one’s own identity where most would consider it to be lost. It is about triumph as well as the trails and trials that have led to it. It is, as the title proclaims, about maintaining consonance in the midst of chaos without neglecting those who would wish to cause chaos while things are in consonance.
The word choice and vocabulary may prove difficult for some but it is the author’s wish that any reader, whoever it may be, regardless of education level, writing or reading skill, would embrace the feel of the story and allow the details of the words to supplement the content. In any case, the writing style is undoubtedly unique, meticulously conjured and somewhat cryptic, yet such is the nature of poetry.
Her Viking Heart : Heidi Herman
Her Viking Heart
When her father is suddenly killed a year after her mother’s death, Anna Miller is alone.
With no other family and a dismal dating history, loneliness and depression threaten to overwhelm her. As she struggles to cope, she comes across a family secret that changes everything.
She finds new purpose after discovering her father’s hidden research and is determined to complete what he had started.
Anna begins a journey to unravel the family mystery buried in four generations of deceit. As she follows the clues, she finds a new love and a sense of belonging, but is it real?
The present and past collide when she uncovers a family legacy of lies and betrayal, cold-blooded ambition and vicious deceit surround her. The answer she searches for may reveal her true heritage but threaten her own chance at happiness and a new life.
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TRASHLAND : Anton Baer
TRASHLAND
In the dire twilight of a blazing summer afternoon, at an upmarket farmhouse outside Toronto, Herbie Peel is born at the bottom of the kitchen sink.
‘I can’t decide if you’re a genius or a lunatic.’ Chris Labonte, McIntyre & Douglas, Vancouver.
Herbie’s fall from the mother potato is nothing compared to the shock of hitting the cold steel, which knocks a bit of the starch out of him. As he lies there, dazed under the trickling tap, orphaned, bruised, and already despised, the last fresh air of the world comes drifting in from the candlelit patio… Washed over by waves of erudite conversation, young Herbie soaks up big ambitions. Will he be the smartest peel ever, or just another pretentious phoney?
‘What makes this novel so brave and so original is exactly what would make it so difficult to publish.’ Judy Clain, Little, Brown, New York.
Striking out into a nursery-tale landscape in eclipse he meets Dickie Dirt, former objet d’art, in a Stetson hat and rhinestone-spangled vest. Impressed by Herbie’s intellectual-manqué vocabulary, Dickie proposes a cunning partnership to take them to the top of Megalopolis Studios.
Join Herbie as he careens towards the bright lights of a postmodern dump rimmed by the fire of celebrity television. Herbie has only till dawn to trip up his big buddy at every turn, unseat Percival Pig, Renaissance cowboy banker and gargantuan host of Poke Party, and dethrone the Day-Glo Pope, ruffian in a wedding dress who lords it over the highest stage of all.
‘You’re a fantastic writer, but publishing this book in Canada will ruin your career before it even starts. Get on the bestseller lists first.’ Janie Yoon, literary agent’s assistant, Toronto.
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Learning Every Day : David Wilson
Learning Every Day
David Wilson grew up in Arkansas but worked 27 years in education in Missouri, so his roots are deep in the heart of America. And it is the very heart of America–its people, its traditions, and its values–that has deeply influenced his life, and his writing. You will see that when you read Learning Every Day, his first book.
It is a book about examining life, personal growth, education, history, family, faith, and communication. And it sometimes uses analogies from the world of sports or entertainment.
Dr. Wilson has been a construction worker, a journalist, a teacher, a principal, and a communications director, and has learned a great deal from people at every stop along the way. He has a deep respect for faith and honest introspection and it shows in his book.
Learning Every Day is organized into small, manageable parts, because it is loosely based on written pieces from an insightful weekly newspaper column that the author has produced for more than 12 years.
It is one of those books that you can read from cover-to-cover, or you can simply read the selections that seem most interesting.
You should try it. As the back cover states, “It provides plenty to think about, and it just might help you gain a better perspective.”
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Take Her To The Dark Side : Anonymous
Take Her To The Dark Side, The Things A Woman’s Body Was Made For
A disturbing, highly sexual account of the darker needs of women and what brings them to have true orgasms. The original copy of this book that you see all over the internet was purchased from the Old Town Bookshop in Edinburgh and believed to be the sole copy. It has been republished here for you an Amazon exclusive.
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