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Story Carrier: A Collection of Tales of The Disappeared
By Jane Clark
This dramatic, fast-paced memoir traces a woman's search for a story to explain sudden losses she experienced as a young child, including her sister's cancer death, her father's disappearance, and her overnight move away from home, events that fractured her relationship with her mother and thrust her into a life-long pattern of abandonment and loss. Juggling professional success with unresolved grief, she follows a career path as a writer, journalist, professor, and spiritual director, traveling from West Texas to the plains of Spain, the forests of Pennsylvania, and the Alps in southern France trying to find a mysterious tale carried for generations in her family. Resisting the pull to either condemn or quickly forgive those who hurt her and avoiding the temptation to fall into the trap of spiritual bypassing, she chooses, instead, to follow the story's call across thresholds of time and space, where she discovers a family legacy that illuminates the lives of all the women in her family. A universal story that speaks into the often-troubled relationship between mothers and daughters. Blending ancestral storytelling with spirituality and mystery, this is a memoir that will inspire the reader to believe in the power of story to transform the storyteller into a story carrier, where the magic of healing can begin.
No Ordinary Love
By BB Gabriel
Three untold, true stories. Three different stages of survival. Three women share their experiences of intimate partner violence, vowing to no longer remain silent. But the countdown is on for them to speak up and say, no more.
In an unspoken story of survival, Gabbi, a therapist in her late thirties, wants her family to know what really happened to her all those years ago, but she's running out of time to finish writing her story before it's too late.
Seeking safety throughout a lifelong escape, Alex, a school counsellor in her late twenties, struggles to navigate dealing with her clients' traumas while healing from her own when her abusive ex finds her and starts sending letters from jail. Now she must flee again before he's released and hunts her down.
Falling for a nightmare disguised as a dream guy, Katee, a high school student, craves love, but her desperation grooms her for the perfect predator. Now she must escape her abusive boyfriend before she becomes yet another statistic in the femicide epidemic.
The abuse they suffer echoes the countless shared experiences of domestic violence survivors around the world, but their fight for freedom is uniquely their own.
He shall remain unnamed, for he could be anybody's tormentor.
Stopped in My Tracks:
A Physician’s Collection of Cancer Patients’ Quotes
By Christina Gomez, MD
A life-threatening diagnosis. Impossible choices. Patients coping with life, death and cancer treatments.
Christina Gomez, MD, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist, welcomes you into her exam room: the intimate place of encounter between patient and physician. In Stopped in My Tracks, she shares fifteen years of collected quotes from patients in the trenches of their cancer care. Their words are the art of medicine embodied. Far from a litany of symptoms, these patients' words evoke the full spectrum of experience and emotion.
Dr. Gomez sensitively captures her patients' voices in this poignant collection, which makes a perfect gift for anyone in your life touched by cancer. Pull up a chair and prepare to be stopped in your tracks.
Wesley Yorstead Goes Outside
By Stephanie Harper
When an agoraphobic man develops a relationship with a vivacious grocery delivery woman, the order he prescribes to his apartment, and his world, begins to crumble around him. Wesley Yorstead Goes Outside explores the life of Wesley Yorstead, a thirty-three-year-old graphic novelist who suffers from a severe case of agoraphobia that has kept him shut inside for over five years.
When he meets Happy Lafferty for the first time, delivering groceries on behalf of her father's neighborhood market, Wesley can't shake the inherent magnetism between them and seeks to get to know this young woman who invades his space-both physical and mental. As their relationship grows more intimate, the restrictions of his situation become an even greater obstacle. When Happy's past comes back to haunt her, Wesley must decide if he can finally leave his apartment to help. A meditation on anxiety, fear, and human connection, Wesley Yorstead Goes Outside asks the reader to consider what our fears take away from our lives, and how we might overcome them.
Not Alone: A Parent's Guide to Navigating Mental Illness
By Sarah Magnoni
This book is for those looking for information and hope in navigating serious mental illness with their child. As I found out in my own journey, this is a difficult path full of disappointment, disbelief, and grief. From being told "she's good to go" at the ER when in full blown psychosis to months of finding a psychiatrist that had availability to see her, this is my story of how I kept getting back up every time I was knocked down. It's full of the hard truth, scary moments, and humor. It includes how I found one thing to keep me going, when I was ready to give up and how creating spiritual practices helped myself and my daughter heal. Full of "if I would have known then what I know now" advice and resources, this book will take you along on my journey and provide information to help you with your own.
A New Path: A Practical Workbook and Planner for the First Year of Grief and Settling Your Person's Affairs
By Megan Malick
Death enters the landscape. Grief complicates the simplest tasks. The to-do list is more than never-ending. Sometimes it’s written in collegiate-level vocabulary. And each piece of paper feels like a heavy weight.
Megan Malick, a licensed relational therapist, pastor, and educator, meets grievers, their families, and their friends on the journey that begins after they lose their beloved person. She guides readers on A New Path and invites them to see the practical tasks of settling their person’s affairs as more than paperwork. Megan integrates education about the grieving brain and the grieving process with functional tasks that grievers must complete during the first year. She offers that mundane tasks become meaningful when grievers engage in accomplishable tasks as part of the mourning process.
Megan’s compassion and practicality shine through in the monthly and weekly tasks, reflections, and practices she provides. She offers both education and real-life examples, ensuring that grievers and their support system have a reliable guide to navigate the complexities of grief.
A Mother's Guide Through Autism,
Through The Eyes of The Guided
By Brigitte M. Volltrauer Shipman & Joseph D. Shipman
A mother and son have teamed up to give both views of what their journey of living with autism has been like over the past 30 years. The good thing is, both stories are all in ONE tome! Brigitte shares stories that she applies to her guided practices to heal a mother's heart. She offers all mothers to become inspired to live more joyfully, no matter where they are on their autism journey. Joseph gives his own perspective and insightful views of what living with autism has been for him, and what we all can do to understand and help those like him. The first half of this book, Mother's Guide Through Autism, will give you tools, guided practices, support, and inspiration through Brigitte's own experience as a teacher, life coach, and mother guide. Metaphorically, when you flip the book over you will gain knowledge, insightful life experience, and hope from Joseph's life who is now an adult autistic person. Mother's Guide Through Autism is the second book authored by Brigitte, following It's A God Thing. However, this is Joseph's debut as an author. Whether you're a blossoming guide yourself, or just a curious soul, this is sure to bring insight and perspective to a large, yet still mysterious phenomenon of human development.
The Purposeful MD - Creating the Life You Love Without Guilt
By Dr. Laura Suttin
Dr. Laura Suttin dives into her own journey as a female physician, wife, and mother struggling to balance her personal and professional life. Weaving in stories with her actual coaching clients, this guide offers practical guidance and advice for physicians who've tried all the productivity "hacks" and are still struggling to make time for what matters most to them.
The book begins by addressing the unique challenges that women physicians face in the medical field, including societal expectations, gender biases, and the pressures to excel in all areas of their lives.
Becoming a PA Educator:
A Practical Guide for Physician Assistant/Associate Faculty
By Dr. Emily WhiteHorse
This book is the only one specifically designed to help PA faculty successfully transition from clinician to educator by providing practical, evidence-based, immediately applicable educational concepts, principles, strategies, and skills needed to navigate the daily work of a faculty member in PA education.
This text is a practical resource that will provide essential information, concepts, and strategies needed to help you think like an educator, navigate the basic tasks and responsibilities you will encounter as a new faculty member, and become an excellent teacher.
Dr. WhiteHorse guides faculty through four major areas. The first begins with discussing the critical concepts needed to successfully transition from clinician to educator, including helping new educators adjust and better understand the academic environment. Next, the essential and fundamental information faculty should know about accreditation, program development, curriculum design, and course design is presented. Third, she presents the building blocks teachers use every day related to course and syllabus development and assessment. In the last area, she focuses on evidenced-based teaching and learning concepts, principles, and practices that support student learning and retention. Real experience examples, suggested resources, and activities help make the concepts and information easily understandable and immediately applicable.