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Sidelined: How Women Can Navigate a Broken Healthcare System
by Susan SalengerDON'T MAKE ANOTHER HEALTHCARE DECISION WITHOUT READING THIS BOOK.Learn how to navigate a broken healthcare system."I told my doctors about my pain for years, but they told me it was all in my head...""My doctor said I needed a hysterectomy to relieve my symptoms that I was sure were just normal menopause. Unfortunately, I agreed to the surgery anyway. Why did I agree to that?”"If men had cramps, they'd have cured this by now..."These and countless other comments from women who've suffered at the hands of the healthcare industry are frighteningly common, but they don't have to be.Sidelined describes how our healthcare system has marginalized women and made it seemingly impossible for them to take control over their own healthcare. But what's behind this nationwide medical crisis?In Sidelined, writer and researcher Susan Salenger explains why women are misdiagnosed more often than men, and why their symptoms often go unrecognized or are even disputed.This book teaches women how to ask the right questions to get the care they deserve. It equips readers with the knowledge, language, and tools they need to overcome the gender bias in the medical industry and get the best healthcare possible.Praise for Sidelined“A well-written and empowering work about the challenges facing female patients.”—Kirkus Reviews“Good guidance for turbulent times.”—Library Journal2022 Living Now Book Awards Silver Medalist2022 Best Books of 2022 Forward Reviews2022 Indiebookawards Gold Medalist
Sidewalk Oracles: Playing with Signs, Symbols, and Synchronicity in Everyday Life
by Robert MossSynchronicity is when the universe gets personal. Through this book of games and enchanting stories, you’ll learn how to monitor the play of coincidence and the symbolic resonance of incidents in daily life in order to tap into the deeper logic of events, receive extraordinary counsel, and have wonderful fun. You will be invited to become a kairomancer: someone who is poised to catch the messages in special moments when synchronicity is in play — and to take action to seize the opportunities those moments present. To be a kairomancer, you need to trust your feelings as you walk the roads of this world, to develop your personal science of shivers, and to recognize in your gut and your skin that you know far more than you hold on the surface of consciousness. This is a way of real magic, which is the art of bringing gifts from a deeper world into this one. Follow it, and you will put a champagne fizz of enchantment into your everyday life.
Sierra North
by Mike White Thomas Winnett Stacey Corless Kathy MoreyNow in its 9th edition, the completely updated and revised Sierra North showcases new trips and old favorites in regions such as Desolation Wilderness, Emigrant Wilderness, the proposed Castle Peak Wilderness, and the world-famous Yosemite National Park.
Sierra South
by Mike White Thomas Winnett Stacey Corless Kathy Morey Chris Tirrell Analise Elliot HeidThis completely revised and updated 8th edition of Sierra South now covers an expanded region of the Sierra, from the southern boundary of Yosemite National Park to southern Golden Trout Wilderness. With new trips and old favorites, Sierra South is the classic guide to backpacking in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, Ansel Adams Wilderness, and Mt. Whitney.
Siete Pasos Hacia lo Fabuloso: ¿Estás listo para la alfombra roja? Actualiza tu vida, ¡ahora!
by Ellen Frazer-Jameson¿Eres más triste que glamurosa? ¿Estás mirando más allá de tu fecha de caducidad? ¿Podrías hacer una revisión? ¿Sí? Entonces este libro es para TI. Ellen Frazer-Jameson cree que ser fabulosa es fantástico y lo que es incluso más fantástico es que cualquiera puede serlo. A través de los años Ellen se ha dado cuenta que solo siete pasos la han ayudado a lograr su fabuloso estilo de vida y que siguiendo estos simples pasos, tú también puedes verte, sentirte y ser fabulosa. Mientras abraces y practiques los ¡Siete Pasos hacia lo Fabuloso! te encontrarás creciendo con más confianza, más prospera y más amada. Emitirás un vibrante brillo interno que atraerá a personas maravillosas, situaciones y oportunidades. Te verás y sentirás fabuloso solo por incorporar estos siete pasos en tu vida. No te demores – toma los pasos – ¡AHORA! PASO 1: ENFRENTA LOS HECHOS, PASO 2: SÉ ETERNO, PASO 3: TRAE RIQUEZA A TU VIDA, PASO 4: LUCE BIEN, SÉ APASIONADO, PASO 5: IDENTIFICA TU SUEÑO, PASO 6: HAZ LAS COSAS SUCEDER, PASO 7: AMAR Y SER AMADO. En esta guía divertida y reveladora, la autora y entrenadora de vida, Ellen Frazer-Jameson, ofrece siete pasos para dar rienda suelta a los fabuloso que hay dentro de ti. ¡Practícalos a diaro y pronto te verás, sentirás y serás verdaderamente FABULOSA!
Siete Pasos para Navegar Siendo Una persona Fabulosamente
by Ellen Frazer-JamesonGracias a todas las mujeres FABULOSAS que siguieron los Siete Pasos y se tomaron el tiempo para compartir los resultados que lograron y cómo el libro cambió sus vidas. Estoy segura de que le van a encantar sus historias. Si tuviste una experiencia que te gustaría contarle a otros lectores, solo escríbeme y quizas podamos incluir tu historia en una nueva edicion Siempre nos encanta escuchar tus comentarios . Por favor, tómese el tiempo para contar algo sobre su vida FABULOSA y compartir ideas e inspiraciones, y tal vez nos este dando a todos sus propios consejos y Pasos Secretos de como ser una persona totalmente FABULOSA. El arte de lo fabuloso puede quedarse contigo durante toda tu vida. No es una cuestión de edad o peso o altura, no depende del estatus, el trabajo, las relaciones o el dinero. Lo Fabuloso es una luz interior, una vitalidad, un deseo de vida que trasciende lo mundano. Lo Fabuloso te eleva a un reino de conexión espiritual-forja una conexión a un lugar mágico, fuera de la comprensión ordinaria. ¡Practica los Siete Pasos para Navegar siendo Fabuloso! todos los días. Puedes meditarlos, crecer con ellos y colocar tu pensamiento en un plano superior. Lo Fabuloso puede transformar tu vida tanto como la lámpara de Aladino produjo un genio que concedía deseos. Escondido dentro de cada compromiso de vivir y proyectar una vida fabulosa hay una conexión sagrada que trasciende este mundo y proporciona gracia y resplandor. Crea y celebra la nueva persona fabulosa que eres. Y pásalo a los demás.
Siete cualidades para una vida plena: En modo mindfulness
by Javier CandarleDesde su sólida experiencia profesional, Javier Cándarle nos ofrece aquí los conceptos esenciales de mindfulness junto con propuestas de prácticas enfocadas a la reducción del estrés y el bienestar. Podría confesar que me la he pasado luchando contra quien verdaderamente soy. De jovencito, creo que me detestaba. Veía con dolorosa claridad lo lejos que estaba de aquello que idealizaba y me costaba mucho habitar mi precariedad imperfecta y contradictoria. Somos seres imperfectos con ansias de eternidad, con intuición de perfección. Quizá fue la fuerza de la frustración la que me ayudó a entender que algo muy estéril había en aquella pelea permanente. ¿No deberíamos dejar de intentar ser lo que no somos? "La práctica de Mindfulness no implica intentar ir a ningún sitio ni sentir nada especial", nos comenta Jon Kabat-Zinn. Puedo decir que demoré bastante en comprender la importancia decisiva de la cualidad del corazón con la que uno practica. Y bastante más aún me llevó asumir que la práctica no me iba a conducir finalmente a ningún tipo de santidad. Sin embargo, paradójicamente, como dijo Carl Rogers: "Una vez que me acepté pude empezar a cambiar". Emergió entonces un enorme alivio, un amor intenso hacia lo imperfecto. Hacia las lágrimas, los sustos, mis caídas y las de mis prójimos. Podemos descansar y mecernos en el vaivén de la existencia, dejar de luchar contra la alternancia de las luces y las sombras, las imperfecciones y los dones, nuestros miedos y nuestro coraje. Sentirnos más cómodos, tanto en el lodazal como en los espacios de aguas claras y cristalinas. Se trata tan solo de aprender a descansar en quien se es verdaderamente. En quienes vamos siendo. Hoy me enternecen las batallas que libramos día a día a nuestras faltas. Expulsados del paraíso, nos hacemos bellos de tierra y en la tierra. De eso les quiero hablar en este texto. De la belleza de estar vivos y de la importancia de nuestro modo de vincularnos con todas las cosas que nos llegan y nos habitan.
Sight Unseen
by Budd Hopkins Carol RaineyThe New York Times bestselling author of Witnessed, Intruders, and Missing Time -- three groundbreaking books on the UFO phenomenon -- returns with astonishing evidence that other-worldly beings are a very real -- and growing -- part of our lives. In Sight Unseen, Budd Hopkins and coauthor Carol Rainey show how fascinating discoveries in modern science support the plausibility of the UFO phenomenon. Featuring sixteen never-before-published cases, Sight Unseen probes two newly uncovered patterns in alien abduction: cases of UFO "invisibility" and reports of genetically altered alien beings who interact with humans during their routine lives. The "invisibility" accounts detailed by Hopkins include numerous daylight abductions in densely populated urban areas -- all apparently unseen and accomplished through a technology of invisibility. Two air force non-coms are snatched from the tarmac of a busy military airfield. An Australian family is levitated up into a hovering craft while the father remains paralyzed on the ground with a camera to his eye. The resulting evidence on film is discussed in terms of our own scientific advances. In the second series of cases, abductees report encounters with beings who appear human but apparently possess paranormal powers and stunted emotional ranges. Three young women, unknown to each other, are mysteriously summoned to "job interviews." In ordinary office settings, they encounter human-looking beings who lead them into baffling UFO abduction experiences. A Wisconsin farmer meets "Damoe," a man with odd behavior who closely resembles his son. Damoe eventually reveals himself as an accomplice of UFO occupants in a startling abduction of the farmer and his wife. Five-year-old Jen is abducted at night to a nearby playground. There she must teach the techniques and skills of "play" to twelve seemingly identical, quasi-human children. Along with these bizarre, first-person stories told by credible people, Hopkins and Rainey explore cutting-edge advances in our own technologies and scientific theories that show how these new UFO patterns could have a concrete basis in contemporary science. Included are an examination of cloaking devices for aircraft, mind-control technologies, and teleportation achieved in the lab. Perhaps the most compelling argument to support these cases lies in the startling and controversial new science of transgenics that actually allows for the creation of alien/human beings.
Sight Unseen
by Georgina Kleege<P>This elegantly written book offers an unexpected and unprecidented accout of blindness and sight. Legally blind since the age of eleven, Georgina Kleege draws on her experiences to offer a detailed testimony of visual impairment - both her own view of the world and the world's view of the blind. "I hope to turn the reader's gaze outward, to say not only 'Here's what I see' but also "here's what you see,' to show what's both unique and universal," Kleege writes. <P>Kleege describes the negative social status of the blind, analyzes stereotypes of the blind hat have been perpetuated by movies, and discusses how blindness has been portrayed in literature. She vividly conveys the visual experience of someone with severely impaired sight and explains what she cannot (and how her inability to achieve eye contact - in a society that prizes that form of connection - has affected her). <P>Finally she tells of the various ways she reads, and the freedom she felt when she stopped concealing her blindness and acquired skills, such as reading braille, as part of a new blind identity.
Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility, and Transgenic Beings
by Budd Hopkins Carol RaineyThe New York Times bestselling author of Witnessed, Intruders, and Missing Time -- three groundbreaking books on the UFO phenomenon -- returns with astonishing evidence that other-worldly beings are a very real -- and growing -- part of our lives. In Sight Unseen, Budd Hopkins and coauthor Carol Rainey show how fascinating discoveries in modern science support the plausibility of the UFO phenomenon. Featuring sixteen never-before-published cases, Sight Unseen probes two newly uncovered patterns in alien abduction: cases of UFO "invisibility" and reports of genetically altered alien beings who interact with humans during their routine lives. The "invisibility" accounts detailed by Hopkins include numerous daylight abductions in densely populated urban areas -- all apparently unseen and accomplished through a technology of invisibility. Two air force non-coms are snatched from the tarmac of a busy military airfield. An Australian family is levitated up into a hovering craft while the father remains paralyzed on the ground with a camera to his eye. The resulting evidence on film is discussed in terms of our own scientific advances. In the second series of cases, abductees report encounters with beings who appear human but apparently possess paranormal powers and stunted emotional ranges. Three young women, unknown to each other, are mysteriously summoned to "job interviews." In ordinary office settings, they encounter human-looking beings who lead them into baffling UFO abduction experiences. A Wisconsin farmer meets "Damoe," a man with odd behavior who closely resembles his son. Damoe eventually reveals himself as an accomplice of UFO occupants in a startling abduction of the farmer and his wife. Five-year-old Jen is abducted at night to a nearby playground. There she must teach the techniques and skills of "play" to twelve seemingly identical, quasi-human children. Along with these bizarre, first-person stories told by credible people, Hopkins and Rainey explore cutting-edge advances in our own technologies and scientific theories that show how these new UFO patterns could have a concrete basis in contemporary science. Included are an examination of cloaking devices for aircraft, mind-control technologies, and teleportation achieved in the lab. Perhaps the most compelling argument to support these cases lies in the startling and controversial new science of transgenics that actually allows for the creation of alien/human beings.
Sightseeing with Aliens: A Totally Factual Field Guide to the Supernatural (A Totally Factual Field Guide to the Supernatural #3)
by Insha FitzpatrickDiscover everything about aliens in this funny and informative handbook packed with weird science, fascinating history, and plenty of trivia—perfect for curious and adventurous readers ages 8–12.Are aliens out there? What&’s the deal with Area 51? Can outer space support human life? Blast off to space with Sightseeing with Aliens and discover: Cool science and eye-opening history! Learn about the past, present, and future of space exploration. Strange accounts of alien encounters! Dig into the truth behind UFO sightings, crop circles, extraterrestrial events, and more. Hands-on activities to try at home! Create a time capsule and learn how to advocate for the environment.Engaging, offbeat, and educational, Sightseeing with Aliens is an illustrated exploration of the unknown and how it can shape our lives. The whole galaxy is out there—grab your guide, and let&’s go!For more on the supernatural, check out Hanging with Vampires and Chilling with Ghosts!
Sigil Craft: Your Guide to Using, Creating & Recognizing Magickal Symbols
by Lia TaylorA sigil is an intensely powerful magickal tool that any modern witch should consider adding to their repertoire. Sigils can help manifest your desires, ward off evil, and add deeper levels of meaning to your spells. You don&’t have to be an artist to create a sigil—anyone can do it. Sigil Craft is Lia Taylor&’s must-have guide to creating sigils, including step-by-step instructions using various methods including the Magic Square and Austin Osman Spare, as well as an overview of sigils throughout history, from Agrippa to modern chaos magick, from medieval grimoires and prehistoric cave paintings to the graphic novels of Grant Morrison. Taylor shares how to charge your sigils, incorporate them into your creative endeavors, and heighten the power of your sigils through the shoaling technique. This immensely useful book is fully illustrated with Taylor&’s art, and is a fascinating guide to an increasingly popular practice.
Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols
by Laura Tempest Zakroff“Definitely the best book on the subject of sigils that has ever been written, hands down . . . Tempest brings new creative ideas to the table.” —Mat Auryn, professional psychic, witch, writer, and blogger at Patheos PaganSigils are magical symbols that are designed to influence ourselves and the world around us. Tracing through history, art, and culture, this illustrated book offers an innovative and fresh approach to sigil magick that is accessible and intuitive. You don’t need a degree in art or magick to make effective sigils!Learn how to manifest your will through your very own designs. Explore traditional and modern meanings of shapes, symbols, numbers, letters, and colors, while receiving guidance on how to add personal meaning to your marks. Sigil Witchery includes methods of application, tips for choosing materials, and important considerations for both temporary and permanent sigils. This book helps you improve your drawing techniques, use sample exercises to challenge yourself, and gain deeper metaphysical insight and inspiration—all to guide you to develop your own powerful sigil magick.“To the best of my own knowledge, Tempest has invented an entirely new approach to making and using sigils here, and I think it is an extremely powerful one . . . I recommend this book in the highest possible terms.” —Robert Mathiesen, Professor Emeritus, Brown University, and coauthor of The Rede of the Wiccae“Sigil Witchery perfectly combines the history and art of mark-making with the science and art of magick.” —Chris Orapello, author, artist, and cohost of Down at the Crossroads
Signos
by Carolyne FaulknerUm guia inspirador para alcançar a felicidade e o bem-estar - na vida, no trabalho e nos relacionamentos -, que revela como trilhar o caminho do sucesso através da astrologia. O futuro não está escrito nas estrelas, mas podemos usar as estrelas para escrever o nosso futuro. Em Signos, a astróloga Carolyne Faulkner revela como a antiga sabedoria das estrelas nos dá o poder para tirarmos o máximo proveito da vida. O método de Faulkner leva-nos a descobrir as qualidades, boas e más, associadas à nossa carta astral - a posição dos planetas e estrelas no momento do nascimento - e, usando esse conhecimento, ajuda-nos a tomar decisões e estabelecer ou desenvolver relacionamentos. Fácil de usar, este guia mostra como interpretar a sua carta astral, encontrar o equilíbrio e reconectar-se consigo mesmo. «Uma nova constelação, uma verdadeira guru da astrologia.»Vogue
Signposts of the Spiritual Journey
by John SiddiquePopular meditation leader and poet John Siddique draws on more than 40 years of practice to offer this uniquely helpful road map to the spiritual journey, highlighting the changes that show us we&’re making progress and the obstacles that will certainly come up.This book is a guide to the spiritual path that clearly reveals the signposts of success on the journey, as well as the blockages and traps that hold us back from a life of presence, meaning and enlightenment. By laying out the signs and blockages clearly and honestly and with a lot of love and humour, the book offers a wonderful resource for growth. Whatever level of freedom the reader feels drawn to – basic human freedom, or the great goal of the spiritual life of enlightenment – this roadmap will guide readers to tread the path of their ordinary life and receive the benefit in the here and now. From Signpost 1, The Arising of Questions to, finally, Signpost 16, Giving Everything to Love, the book explores all the indications of progress those who embark on a spiritual journey will encounter, offering reassurance as well as highlighting blocks such as the painbody, object consciousness, spiritual bypassing, the cult of individualism and dualistic thinking, and hard-to-spot cultural, religious and spiritual influences. In addition to sharing encouraging real-life stories, the books also offers a huge range of tools and practices, from using writing and drawing to explore our own teachability to self-reflections designed to expand awareness and let go of ego, to instructions for effective, safe, meditative practices little known in the West.
Signs & Seasons: An Astrology Cookbook
by John Okas Amy Zerner Monte FarberDiscover how to eat for your sign and nourish your soul in Signs and Seasons, the one-of-a-kind cookbook that pairs chef-driven seasonal recipes with deep insight into how astrology shapes our appetites, from iconic astrologer Monte Farber and artist Amy Zerner.Food connects us to our families, history, culture, and to the natural world itself—to the seasons and the cycle of life. Just as our path around the sun—and through the Zodiac—dictates the seasons, the seasons dictate what will flourish, from the tender greens of early spring to late summer’s lush and impossible perfect tomatoes. In Signs and Seasons, Farber and Zerner—along with chef John Okas—take home cooks through the four seasons and each of their astrological signs in over 95 tantalizing seasonal recipes that include starters; meat, seafood, and vegetarian mains; sides; and desserts for each sign.Inspired by the cuisine of the Mediterranean, home of the Greco-Roman cultures that named the planets after their gods, Signs and Seasons teaches you how to:· Feed friends and loved ones based on their signs and the season· Deepen your understanding of Nature and the Universe · Discover how astrology shapes our personalities, tastes, and appetites Whether exploring the “Twin nature” and “Mercurial spirit” of ramps (a spring delicacy well suited Geminis) in a recipe for Ramps al Olio or the historical association of saffron with Venus in the recipe for Roasted Corn Orecchiette, Signs and Seasons is the perfect guide for eating in a way that emphasizes both sensual nourishment and psychic satisfaction. Beautifully photographed in full color by Monte Farber and illustrated by Amy Zerner, Signs and Seasons is a one-of-a-kind source of inspiration for astrology enthusiasts and home chefs alike.
Signs & Skymates: The Ultimate Guide to Astrological Compatibility
by Dossé-Via TrenouSigns & Skymates is your ultimate guide to astrological compatibility—from romance to self-love—from star astrologer and founder of @ScorpioMystique and KnowTheZodiac Dossé-Via Trenou. Get to know yourself, your partner(s), and your friendships through the full constellation of your astrological self! In Signs & Skymates West African astrologer Dossé-Via Trenou uses her signature whole-chart approach to reveal how your Sun, Moon, Rising, Mercury, Venus, and Mars signs contribute to astrological compatibility—and serve as the basis for romantic and platonic relationships, as well as your all-important relationship with yourself. Using astrology as a guiding light in her evolutionary approach to compatibility, Dossé-Via invites you to connect to your innermost self, and others, in new and more expansive ways. Through chapters on the role of each chart placement, as well as comprehensive explorations of relationships between different signs, Signs & Skymates dismantles ideas of which signs "go together," encouraging readers to expand their ideas about each sign—including the ones in their own chart. Discover the joys, challenges, and opportunities in your relationships as you deepen your knowledge of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.
Signs & Symbols: An encyclopaedia of origins & sacred concepts
by Madonna GaudingWe make symbols in order to communicate ideas. But we also make symbols to help communicate and understand higher truths that are veiled or hidden to ordinary consciousness.Wherever you are, you are surrounded by symbols. Everyday symbols such as the Freemason's set square or the lotus flower are familiar to nearly everyone, but few are aware of the true significance and fascinating origin of these signs.Signs and Symbols reveals the key ideas and sacred concepts behind over 300 signs and symbols, from those used by ancient religions to the glyphs of medieval magicians.Every symbol is illustrated and is accompanied by a guide to the symbol's use in art, magic and mythology from a wide range of traditions and cultures. Chapters include:- Ancient civilizations- Esoteric and magical traditions including Alchemy, Wicca and Witchcraft- Animals, Plants and the Natural World- Amulets, charms and talismans- Alphabets and letters- Time, shape, number and colourThis definitive guide is a fascinating exploration into a shadowy world where nothing is as straightforward as it seems.
Signs & Symbols: An encyclopaedia of origins & sacred concepts
by Madonna GaudingWe make symbols in order to communicate ideas. But we also make symbols to help communicate and understand higher truths that are veiled or hidden to ordinary consciousness.Wherever you are, you are surrounded by symbols. Everyday symbols such as the Freemason's set square or the lotus flower are familiar to nearly everyone, but few are aware of the true significance and fascinating origin of these signs.Signs and Symbols reveals the key ideas and sacred concepts behind over 300 signs and symbols, from those used by ancient religions to the glyphs of medieval magicians.Every symbol is illustrated and is accompanied by a guide to the symbol's use in art, magic and mythology from a wide range of traditions and cultures. Chapters include:- Ancient civilizations- Esoteric and magical traditions including Alchemy, Wicca and Witchcraft- Animals, Plants and the Natural World- Amulets, charms and talismans- Alphabets and letters- Time, shape, number and colourThis definitive guide is a fascinating exploration into a shadowy world where nothing is as straightforward as it seems.
Signs From Above: Your Angels' Messages About Your Life Purpose, Relationships, Health, And More
by Doreen Virtue Charles VirtueYour guardian angels are continually giving you messages, frequently through signs, such as seeing rainbows, repetitive number sequences, finding coins or feathers, and hearing meaningful songs. In this fascinating book, Doreen Virtue and her son Charles teach you how to understand the signs that are always around you. You'll gain comfort from reading true stories of how angels have answered prayers by giving clear signs revealing their love and protection. You'll also learn how to ask the angels for signs, along with specific prayers for your relationships, career, health, and other vital areas of your life.
Signs From The Afterlife: How the Other Side can comfort and inspire you
by TJ HiggsIn her first book, Living with the Gift, TJ Higgs shared the gripping account of her rise from difficult beginnings to becoming one of the nation's leading celebrity mediums. In Signs From The Afterlife she reveals the wisdom and psychic insights that have made her the star she is today.Brimming with incredible true stories, Signs from the Afterlife explains the ways in which TJ receives messages from the Other Side and communicates amazingly accurate information from those who have passed over. More than this, Signs from the Afterlife tells readers how they can use TJ's psychic techniques for themselves. Through reading the signs that are to be found all around us, we too can connect more closely with our lost loved ones and become the masters of our destinies. Generous, warm and with a great sense of humour, TJ shows us how to decode the signs from the Afterlife that are all around us.
Signs Of Safety: A Solution And Safety Oriented Approach To Child Protection Casework
by Steve Edwards Andrew TurnellThis book presents a revolutionary approach to child protection work. It focuses on the question, "How can child protection professionals actually build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect?" The authors bring the solution orientation to child protection work, expanding the investigation of risk to encompass signs of safety that can be built upon to stabilize and strengthen the child's and family's situation. The philosophy behind this approach is clearly articulated through ten practice principles that serve as guiding beacons for child protection workers as they traverse the rough waters of abuse and neglect investigation. Child protection workers are involved with vulnerable, at-risk children in potentially volatile situations. Here they will find a new child protection assessment and planning protocol that allows for comprehensive risk assessment incorporating both danger and safety and the perspectives of both professionals and service recipients (parents). The authors provide practical, hands-on strategies for building a partnership with parents, which may, in the long run, prevent abuse and family dissolution. They illustrate these strategies in cases showing the subtle process of integrating the seemingly opposite notions of coercion and cooperation. Respectful, optimistic, and highly practical, this book promises to revitalize and redirect child protection services.
Signs and Wonders
by Albert Clayton GauldenAn important step towards a new consciousness that will change the planet." -- Paolo Coelho Have you ever ignored a coincidence -- and wished you hadn't? Have you ever denied the truth of a dream -- and wished you didn't? Have you ever disregarded a hunch -- only to regret it? Then you have heard the new language of God. Albert Clayton Gaulden, founder and director of the Sedona Intensive, believes that the new language is God's mother tongue, the language in which His messages and guidance are expressed. Experiential and laden with messages, the new language isn't spoken chiefly in words (though sometimes it comes to us that way); it is rich in signs, symbols, wonders, and coincidences. When we open ourselves up to the new language, we can open ourselves to a larger and better life. When we learn to be receptive to the new language, we can begin to understand its unique grammar and rules, and to benefit from its grace. Signs and Wonders is an innovative work that offers practical strategies, anecdotes, case studies, and stories of personal transformation to expand our awareness of the new language. It teaches us how to listen to God and to understand the answers to our prayers, to know if we are on the right track when plagued by worry, doubt, and uncertainty. Focusing on the process that the author uses in his groundbreaking work as director of the Sedona Intensive, Signs and Wonders can help us all to learn how to clear "God's channel" and to master a new form of communication. "If prayer is about talking to God, the new language is about listening for His answers.
Signs from the Other Side: Opening to the Spirit World
by Bill PhilippsLOVE NEVER DIES Finding comfort through communication With stories and insightful suggestions, beloved psychic medium Bill Philipps demonstrates that our loved ones on the other side are available to us. He promises that, with an open heart and mind ready to receive, anyone can recognize the signs that spirits of the departed may be trying to send. Signs from the Other Side offers an in-depth explanation of how Bill does what he does, as well as practical advice on how to receive and interpret signs when they appear. By tapping into our intuition, we can experience deep connections that lead to forgiveness, reassurance, or simply one last moment with a loved one. The book also includes more than twenty inspiring examples of how others experienced comfort through such communications.
Signs of Disability (Crip #4)
by Stephanie L. KerschbaumHow can we learn to notice the signs of disability?We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped “deaf person in area” road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms “dis-attention.”To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomena—including disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability’s materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life.Drawing on a set of thirty-three research interviews focused on disabled faculty members’ experiences with disability disclosure, as well as written narratives by disabled people, this book argues for the materiality of narrative, suggesting narratives as a means by which people enact boundaries around phenomena and determine their properties. Signs of Disability offers strategies and practices for challenging problematic and pervasive forms of “dis-attention” and proposes a new theoretical model for understanding disability in social, rhetorical, and material settings.