Imagine going to sleep one night as yourself-the emotional, anxious person you've been all your life-but on awakening, not being able to recognize your face and body in the mirror. No longer feeling empathy, joy or love. But feeling no anxieties at all. Imagine being afraid you've gone insane, and living in terror that all who know you might find out. Imagine trying to describe your 'altered state' to a succession of doubting psychiatrists. And now imagine that lasts for sixty years.
The brothers Milan and Stefan Dub¿ek migrate to the USA, where Stefan meets the blue-eyed Pavlina, whom he marries later on. Their son Alexander Dub¿ek is born in 1921, after the newly-weds' return home to Slovakia. The Dub¿eks are enthusiastic about the new socialist movement and long to help building the arising socialist society. They decide to move to one of the most neglected areas of the Soviet Union, where the little Sasha (Alexander) meets his future wife Anna. After some time, however, the Dub¿eks lose their illusions and return home in search of happiness. Here, Alexander Dub¿ek's story begins - he participates in the Slovak National Uprising against the Nazi occupation, assumes his political career, during which he attempts to establish a 'socialism with a human face', but fails due to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The novel reflects his life till his tragic death in a car accident, which still remains un-resolved by authorities.
While I Still Am is a children''s book about endangered animals. Delightfully illustrated in watercolor, with fascinating details about each of the 12 featured animals and why they are endangered is designed to teach compassion. Reference sites are included to provide additional information about wildlife conservancy, protecting the environment and what each of us can do in our lives to positively impact our world. Even the smallest of change from the smallest of individual can help preserve these species for many years to come.
Bestselling book The Universal language of NatureThe Universal Language of Nature struck a chord with many in today's times of lockdown and the COVID pandemic which shows the need of a new vision and innovative solutions.More than ever our personal evolution and expanding consciousness are important to heal our fragmented world.We have lost the connection with nature and therefore with ourselves and others; a world where technology and science are not just in service of humanity, think of social media, and arguably business and scientific research.This book highlights interesting aspects that have been neglected for far too long, but could offer structural solutions to the problems of our society today; by caring for our "Mother Nature" inside us; the development of intuition, as well as emphasizing the importance of the authentic power of every human being. Nature and especially horses help us in our personal development: They act in the service of a greater good, feel the system and the energy of each person and the dynamics of his relations and show us the solutions! With this book we'll realize that there is knowledge that defies logic, a treasure hidden in darkness, and that we are all connected with each other as living beings.
Drew Mulvey's journey of alternative baking and cooking started when introduced to a paleo-style diet after having a severe dairy allergy. From there, she undertook several other therapeutic style diets for her health which entailed getting creative in the kitchen. From gluten-free, to paleo, to vegan, Drew developed a deep compassion for those with dietary restrictions or those with specific dietary preferences without defining her diet by a dietary label. She believes in food as medicine and found inspiration for her book amidst her mother's battle with cancer in March of 2018. Many of the recipes in this book were created during her mother's chemotherapy treatments. As of August 2018, her mother is in remission and remains cancer-free to this day. After this, she made it her mission to make the most delectable foods into emotionally enjoyable, nutrient dense, alternative dishes for every population. Her new cookbook, "The No-Title Cookbook", emphasizes that food can be a unique expression of one's self through incorporation of healing, alternative recipes and free of a dietary label.
Many time published author Dr. R. Jay Shetlin's newest work is a two books-for-the-price-of-one guide to peaceful living AND healthy relationships.The Successful Roommate's Survivor Guide: Agreements That Create and Maintain a Healthy Living SpaceEach of us comes from different backgrounds, cultures and family values. Once those are transplanted into a new living quarters with all the variables of living, breathing roommate, it can rock our world with conflict and uncomfortable scenarios. The Successful Roommate's Survivor Guide helps remove relationship roadblocks, and build successful foundation in co-habitation, thus aiding to remove triggers and inflammatory situations with harmonious living. Great for college roommates, newly-weds and even teens living at home. This book brings the simplest principles to understanding and implementation that create harmony and personal growth for "the many" as they live together under one roof.The Bullseye Principle: Understanding Healthy RelationshipsMany of us get stuck in a quagmire of emotion or personal suffering that stunt our growth or progress in this life. The Bullseye Principle helps us build healthy relationships, starting from within our self and expanding to those around us that give us the freedom to be our best self.
Per aspera ad astra - Through adversity to the starsMilan Rastislav Stefánik was great not only for the Slovaks, but also for the Czechs and the French. A virtuoso in life and death, a magnificent example of a man who in every act surpassed himself. A man who went to the very limits of his strength to pursue his dream despite pain and adversity. The liberation of the Slovak nation was a work worthy of the measure of this man. His life was a composite of enormous faith, iron will and noble love for his nation.In everyone there is a will to fly to the stars, but few manage to reach them. Only those whose desire is greatest can achieve this. While those lacking faith perished in the glow of street lamps, Stefánik managed to reach the stars.
Married for forty-one years, the Thompsons reflect over their child rearing and marriage experiences and have completed what their children's psychiatrists long recommended. They've put into writing their story of faithfulness to each other, to their children and to God. Having adopted three apparently normal children, they discovered quickly the emotional, behavioral and educational challenges that faced Heather, Dylan and Molly. The Thompsons delineate the choices they made to solidify their marriage, choices of Trust, Commitment, Resilience, Health and Optimism. They worked to pass these values to their children as they matured.They share the conflicts experienced by their children in the school system, in the community and even within their immediate families where outsiders judge yet never know the depth of problems they faced. This is a story of love and commitment to each other. It teaches a lesson of determination and of seeing the positive and funny in times of crisis. The lessons demonstrate the flexibility and tenacity that too often is sacrificed in marriages. It encourages the reader to stay the course, to look far into the future, and to focus on progress not perfection in all aspects of life. This is a marriage book that offers parenting guidance, openly embraces their faith and will be helpful to a young couple, a couple with years of marriage and couples with or without children whether adopted or not and without regard for special needs.
College is one of the most exciting and growth filled times in your life. What you do there, learn there - your overall experience of the college life, both in the classroom and outside of it, will lay the foundation for the course of your life. Your motivation, mindset, and goal achieving will be put to the test daily. Your habits, whether defined as good or bad, will present themselves in every aspect of your life. The habits you've created and followed since you started primary school, way back when, are influencing you today. As you moved through middle and high school these habits became more ingrained. Now you are in college, and these habits are controlling your actions even more - with little to no parental supervi-sion.You know that habits are just a sequence behaviors your mind has memorized, so it can think less about them, and prioritize more energy toward learning and experiencing new things. The main problem is some of these habits you have cultivated throughout your childhood and teen-age years are not healthy - and in many cases, aren't even the behaviors you chose, but rather be-haviors instilled in you by your family, friends, teachers, and anyone else you came into contact with that influenced you - on purposefully or inadvertently.We both know that new habits can be formed and old habits dropped. Imagine if there were a set of principles you could adopt that gave you the keys to success in college and throughout your life.This book will provide you with the steps you can take to rewire your mind and beat the over-whelm you feel in the many aspects of your day-to-day life. College Success Habits will draw your habits into your awareness. Here you will have the oppor-tunity to decide if you want to keep, alter, or eliminate that habit altogether. There will be effort on your part. Anyone who tells you change can be effortless is a charlatan because while deciding to change takes a second - the follow through is where the effort lies.You can accomplish anything you want in life. Everything this amazing world has to offer is at your fingertips. You just decide what it is you truly desire in your life and then you begin to work your tail off until it comes to fruition. That's the part of the "you can have and be anything you want" cliché that is so often left out. You have to put in the work, you have to do little tasks every day toward your "projects" in order to achieve your goals and see the vision of your life actualized. College Success Habits is your guide, your road map, and it's up to you to stick with it and follow through in order to achieve your "meant to be" in your life.
Are You Still Mine? is a fresh and deeply fascinating take on one of the most controversial historical mysteries ever debated: The love story of Jesus and Mary Magdalen. We've all seen the breadcrumbs of clues and evidence strung throughout the ages that have kept the question of their love alive, but never put together transcendentally as a timeless solution to the corrupt and outdated patriarchal religious institutions of today. This Primordial Gnosis, which has been relentlessly attacked is finally being presented to the modern world as a means of liberating the spirit of human kind and waking us up out of fear and into enlightenment. Take a bite out of this apple and not only be introduced to your transcendental consciousness, but experience the transfiguration of your heart into the aureole of something more than human, something entirely spiritual.
Who are you really? Is your life ruled by fear, or is love the motor of your existence?Recognize your authentic self and decide who you want to be. These questions will confront you with ways of seeing your life that you may not have fully considered. By sweating your way through them, you will see the emotions behind the beliefs that motivate your sense of self, your relationships, the way you handle money, your ability to make or refuse a connection to a purpose greater than yourself. But like a trip to the desert, by exploring a new, uncluttered, terrain, they will sweat something out of you as you find your way towards the oasis.
It's a blustery December day in Springfield Massachusetts. The year - 1891. James Naismith, age 29 is a rare combination of violent rugby player and Presbyterian minister. He has his dream job as an athletic coach at the Y.M.C.A. but his boss threatens to fire him if he doesn't come up with a game to be played between the football and baseball seasons. Determined not to fail, he prays in earnest and through logic and elimination invents "a New Game" - Basketball. A few days later he sees a pretty Southern lady who just happened to invent the first football helmet and they fall in love. He keeps his job and gets the girl all in the same week! They marry and have children. In 1905, the family moves to Lawrence, Kansas so Naismith can head the Kansas University Athletic Department. There he meets Phog Allen, a superb basketball coach with a foghorn voice. Phog starts a campaign to put basketball into the Olympics. As Naismith mentors many students (among them African- American John McLendon, who later becomes the Father of Basketball Integration), he wonders who would even want to go to the Olympics. Now, it's the Depression. 1932 to be exact, and Joe Fortenberry at 21 years old, wants to play in the Olympics more than anything. Phog Allen protege, Gene Johnson, discovers Joe and hires him to play for the Globe Refiners with the goal of going to the Hitler Olympics in 1936. In preparation, at a Madison Square Garden game in 1936, the world sees the fast break, the zone press and for the first time Joe Fortenberry unveils his own invention - the Slam Dunk! The Refiners join with the Hollywood Universals and they become the first U.S.A. Olympic basketball team. After much controversy and many obstacles, they arrive in Berlin to win. However, the rules are changed, the ball is a balloon beach ball and the game is going to be played outdoors in rainy weather! Their uniforms are stolen and other countries want to eliminate all players over 6'2". Still America perseveres. In the thrilling last game, it's pouring rain and even though the court is a mudpit, America wins 19-8 with Joe as the high scorer. The next day is sunny and beautiful for the awards ceremony. Naismith presents the first Olympic Gold Medal for Basketball to the U.S.A. team. "The happiest day of my life". Indeed, James Naismith made "the world a little better than he found it".
Profits benefit the Rotary International Foundation & the Fairfield Suisun Rotary Foundation.Just across the eastern hills from Napa Valley sits the bountiful Suisun Valley. It adjoins the robust and diverse city of Fairfield. While less prosperous than its neighbor, it balances by huge community involvement and commitment to protect and nurture its population, especially youth. It is here where three precious, and someday very well known, babies are born within hours of one another - Katie Gonzalez, Taylor Turner and Leon Phillips. As teenagers, they meet in a serendipitous way and over time, become unlikely but lifelong friends. Katie is a first generation American, from a loving and hardworking Hispanic family. Growing up, even with the high expectations from her mother and her Rotary mentor, attorney Betty Lam, all were eclipsed once fifteen year old Katie discovered her passion. With extraordinary determination and God given talent, her debate skills became unsurpassed, particularly on the topic of senseless gun violence. Seared by personal experiences and those of close friends, she could and would, go "toe to toe" with anyone on the importance of sensible gun laws. She will become a life force on the cause.Loss of his mother from gun violence followed by foster care disasters, threatens to break Taylor's spirit and future. With a thread of hope, a worn teddy bear and an unwavering social worker, can the black ten year old child open his heart yet again? The red front door opens to him and Taylor recognizes the tall blue-eyed man who is smiling warmly before him...his hero from a trauma months before. Stability and love, along with homemade chocolate chip cookies, await him inside with fireman, Tom, and his wife, Jenny. Will this lead to the life his community hopes for him?Leon is tall and lanky with distinctive red hair, like his dad's. At twelve, he had a jump shot that made the high school basketball coach salivate. Emotionally fragile, he is making progress towards a stable life thanks to a caring father, his doting grandma and PAL (local Police Activities League) where he learns to box. The Phillips Gun Range, still owned by his grandma, is where he learns to shoot...and he loves the feel of a gun, even more than his basketball. Then it happens. His world crumbles. His community rallies, as do his friends. But, will it be enough to save him - to save those who are the cause of his tragedy?All three characters are bound together by devastation caused by needless gun violence. How does a community, service groups like Rotary, public entities, non-profits succeed- all with earnest goals to help people, to keep them safe - when there is an endless number of guns flowing into the hands of anyone who wants them? The point of the book is a grandmother's desperate effort to humanize and yes, make it personal to all who profit from the scourge of assault rifles in the hands of vulnerable people.
In the constant state of chaos and uncertainty that President Trump delights in creating, one thing is certain, it would be disastrous if he serves another term. Everyone is worse off with Trump--women, men, all ethnicities, farmers, industrialists, steelworkers, coal miners--everyone, except Trump. It's time for change. Kelly Hyman, attorney, Democratic strategist, and popular speaker has created a practical, accessible, and enlightening quick reference guide to the top ten reasons to dump Trump in 2020, including: He lies about everything--immigration, air quality, the economy, the weather. He's worked tirelessly to undermine fundamental human rights. He believes he's "the chosen one," and as such, what's good for Trump is good for the country, if not the universe. He and his administration have sought to roll back key climate regulations at every turn. He withheld aid to Ukraine to compel them to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. Trump doesn't follow or believe in the Rule of Law. He debases it with his cheating, lying, ignoring legal requests, and publicly denigrating judges. And while he may be impeached for his actions, he won't be convicted. Reading this book will heighten your awareness of the issues, help you become crystal clear about why Trump must not serve another term, and provide voting resources to get you--and others--to the polls to vote. Vote, vote, vote!
As the founder of the Holistic Counseling Center in Raynham and Plymouth Massachusetts, I talk with people every day who are struggling. A full ninety percent of the patients who seek out my services are so stressed it's taking a toll on their health--they're experiencing lack of sleep, irritability, anxiety, and even actual medical conditions such as cardiovascular illness, autoimmune diseases, infertility, digestive issues, diabetes, and migraines, I was inspired to pursue a career in holistic counseling after spending 10 days in the ICU with a perilously high heart rate of over 300 beats per minute while working in a stressful corporate job. When surgery and medication failed to stabilize my condition, I began to study and to treat myself with acupuncture, yoga, meditation, prayer, nutrition, and metaphysics. Your Body Knows How to Heal walks readers through the exact system I use to help the patients I see in my clinic. And I am living proof this works!
A celebrity athlete is arrested for a brutal triple murder at the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey in 1966.The facts of the case have been obscured by decades of legal wrangling, accusations of racism and frame-ups, a Bob Dylan ballad, and a Hollywood movie.Does anyone know the truth?In this never-before-published account, Vincent DeSimone Jr., the lead detective on the Lafayette Grill murder case, lays out the investigation into a shocking crime, explains why he became convinced that “Hurricane” Carter was the killer, and recalls how he and his fellow officers were vilified as corrupt, racist cops.The true, definitive, and inside account of the Lafayette Grill murders.
"Examines how we as a culture treat our elder citizens as they continue life's journey. The author presents the idea that our elder citizens are essentially our future selves, and therefore, each and every one of us should be concerned about the quality of care and quality of life they receive, especially within the long-term care setting. This book provides information on the nursing home industry from an insider's perspective, ... models of care, and the need for grassroots advocacy and a national conversation on how we care for our elder citizens"--
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