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Loving You From Here: Stories of Grief, Hope and Growth When a Baby Dies
by Susan ClarkFew experiences can compare to the trauma and pain of losing a baby; and the wall of silence that often surrounds that loss can make grieving even harder.Loving You From Here explores the traumatic impact of losing a baby through stillbirth and neonatal death. It features the moving stories of multiple families; some affected recently, some decades ago, but still living with the loss. This book is a practical guide for grieving parents in the grips of tragedy, and those around them who want to be able to offer support. From managing those initial feelings of shock, grief, guilt and anger, this book will also show families how it is possible to grow around that grief and eventually form an enduring bond with their baby.This profound and insightful book will help everyone impacted by the loss of a baby - before, during or after birth - including those who have suffered an early or a late miscarriage and those who have had an ectopic pregnancy, and provides sensitive and reassuring advice on all aspects of loss and bereavement, as well as practical advice on how to find a new normal.This groundbreaking book breaks through the suffocating silence that surrounds the death of a baby and gives a voice to all those affected by baby loss.(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
What Katy Did: 3 Stories - What Katy Did, What Katy Did At School, What Katy Did Next
by Susan Coolidge'I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall find out'Katy Carr is the longest girl that was ever seen. She is all legs and elbows, and angles and joints. She tears her dress every day, hates sewing and doesn't care a button about being called 'good'. Her head is full of schemes and one day she plans to do something important. But a great deal is to happen to Katy before that time comes...BACKSTORY: Learn some splendiferous vocabulary and find out which character you most resemble.
Best Sex Ever: The Ultimate Guide to Positions, Techniques, Toys, and Games
by Susan Crain BakosExperience incredible sex with this helpful guide to everything from playful toys to tantalizing techniques!The Best Sex Ever is your guide to amazing sex. It will intensify the sex you’re having, and open your mind to new and exciting techniques with unimaginable results. After you read this book, every stroke, flick, pinch, bite, and kiss will have a purpose, and every one of them will drive your partner wild.Give the ultimate erotic massageLearn techniques for reliable orgasms—multiple, extended, and whole-body—anytime, anywhereDrive all five senses crazy with the best toys and games for couplesUse Tantric and Taoist principles to fuel your passion for each other and change the way you look at each other, kiss, and touch during sexPraise for the author“Susan Crain Bakos is perhaps our most intrepid sex journalist.” —Publishers Weekly“[She writes with] wit and intelligence . . . entertaining.” —Kirkus Reviews
Joy at Birth: An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry (Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery)
by Susan CrowtherTo be at the birth of a baby is special, yet there is an increasing secularisation and reliance on technology in contemporary maternity care, particularly in the western context. Through exploration of experiences at birth this book explores joy at birth, which is often ignored and overlooked beyond the activities that help to ensure survival. This book draws on a collection of stories of birth from mothers, birth partners, obstetricians and midwives, that demonstrate joy at birth across professional groups and in different types of births and locations with or without technological interventions. Each chapter introduces stories of joy that highlight embodied, spatial and relational meanings. Employing the Heideggerian notion of a human being, it sketches out an ontological focus that draws our gaze to the everyday taken-for-granted ways of being at birth. Based on phenomenological experiential data and rigorous interpretive analysis underpinned by seminal philosophical writings, this book calls for readers to attend to the wholeness of birth in all situations and at all births in ways not attempted before. It will be of great interest to midwives, and those working in and studying maternity, obstetrics and neonatology, as well as social and medical anthropology, sociology, cultural, organisational and clinical psychology and spirituality.
Guided to Wisdom
by Susan D'AgostinoIn her new book Susan D'Agostino, emotional healer and internationally accredited Healer of the Journey Work, uses her own journey to demonstrate the power within all of us to overcome the many challenges of life, not by looking for outside help but rather looking inward at our true selves. Diagnosed with cancer, Susan understood intuitively that invasive medical techniques wouldn't save her, and she turned inward to confront and overcome a lifetime of emotional damage. With guidance and grace, Susan unlocked her own inner power and resolved not only the cancer, but her life-long battle with depression, and a failing marriage. Today she is 10-years cancer free, happy and very much in love. Guided to Wisdom is not just her story, but an honest, deeply personal guidebook to help others discover their own potential.
Bugs for Dinner (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading)
by Susan DerKazarianNIMAC-sourced textbook
Songs of My Life#Slightly Out of Tune
by Susan DintinoSongs of My Life . . . Slightly Out of Tune speaks to a generation of women and men over the age of 40 who are dealing with life’s challenges, both big and small. Susan Dintino writes about love, marriage, family, aging, health scares, parenting, and staying relevant and excited about what life has to offer. Her message is one of hope, and her conclusion is that we’re all trying to do our best, and it’s better if we can do so with a smile. Susan offers gentle advice, the kind that comes from a lifetime of experience: What should you do if your spouse loves to give you the silent treatment? How do you conquer your own fears in order to be "cool enough" to your kids during a European school trip? How do you interact with a terminally ill sibling and deal with the regrets of not spending enough time with each other? How can you make sure that you’re a good mate, parent, and person?This book shows you that life is like a song. You learn the words, but that’s not the end, because the tune can change at any time. Susan shares her journey in such a way that you’ll smile, tear up, wince, and nod your head in time to her song, because all of us are the same: We’re slightly out of tune, too.
He Loves Lucy
by Susan DonovanFans of Jill Shalvis, Rachel Gibson, Susan Andersen and Carly Phillips will be bowled over by this fabulously funny and sexy romance from New York Times bestseller Susan Donovan, author of The Girl Most Likely To... and The Kept Woman. Marketing exec Lucy Cunningham is thrilled when her firm wins Miami's hottest fitness club. The reality TV show was Lucy's idea: leave a fitness-challenged woman in the hands of top personal trainer, Theo Redmond, with a cash bonus for every pound shed. But Lucy didn't expect to be the guinea pig...After one meeting, Theo knows Lucy will be his toughest client yet, and a woman he'll never forget. Smart-mouthed and stubborn, she rises to the challenge like a pro. And before he knows it, his heart's in jeopardy.As Lucy works her way into a whole new life, things start to heat up. Lucy and Theo are about to discover that appearances can be deceiving - and that true love lies somewhere between pizza and Pilates...Don't miss Susan Donovan's sublime Bayberry Island series. In Sea of Love, The Sweetest Summer and Moondance Beach, escape to a special island where, legend has it, a bronze mermaid statue grants true love...
He Loves Lucy
by Susan DonovanFans of Jill Shalvis, Rachel Gibson, Susan Andersen and Carly Phillips will be bowled over by this fabulously funny and sexy romance from New York Times bestseller Susan Donovan, author of The Girl Most Likely To... and The Kept Woman. Marketing exec Lucy Cunningham is thrilled when her firm wins Miami's hottest fitness club. The reality TV show was Lucy's idea: leave a fitness-challenged woman in the hands of top personal trainer, Theo Redmond, with a cash bonus for every pound shed. But Lucy didn't expect to be the guinea pig...After one meeting, Theo knows Lucy will be his toughest client yet, and a woman he'll never forget. Smart-mouthed and stubborn, she rises to the challenge like a pro. And before he knows it, his heart's in jeopardy.As Lucy works her way into a whole new life, things start to heat up. Lucy and Theo are about to discover that appearances can be deceiving - and that true love lies somewhere between pizza and Pilates...Don't miss Susan Donovan's sublime Bayberry Island series. In Sea of Love, The Sweetest Summer and Moondance Beach, escape to a special island where, legend has it, a bronze mermaid statue grants true love...
Grieving Forward: Embracing Life Beyond Loss
by Susan DukeAward-winning author Susan Duke writes from painful experience as she shows how to deal with grief in a way that brings hope back to life.When Susan Duke's teenage son was tragically killed, she found herself stranded in a dark pit of grief. Yet she discovered a way out: by GRIEVING FORWARD--taking practical steps to face and overcome her pain and refusing to let loss freeze her in her tracks. She experienced God's healing touch and embraced life again. Though she still lives with the loss of her son, Duke also lives with incredible joy. Everyone experiences grief; GRIEVING FORWARD points the way not only to surviving it, but thriving in spite of it.
DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge, and the Transformation of Women's Health Politics
by Susan E. BellFrom the 1940s to the 1970s, millions of women were exposed prenatally to the synthetic estrogen DES, a "wonder drug" intended to prevent miscarriages. However, DES actually had damaging consequences for the women born from DES mothers. The "DES daughters" as they are known, were found to have a rare form of vaginal cancer or were infertile. They were also at risk for miscarriages, stillbirths, and ectopic pregnancies. In DES Daughters, Susan Bell recounts the experiences of this generation of "victims. " In moving, heartfelt narratives, she presents the voices of those women who developed cancer, those who were cancer-free but have concerns about becoming pregnant, and those who suffered other medical and/or reproductive difficulties. Bell examines the hierarchy of knowledge and power of scientists, doctors, and daughters, tracing the emergence of a feminist health movement. The "embodied knowledge" of these DES daughters prompted them to become advocates and form a social movement that challenged reproductive medical knowledge specifically, but also the politics of women's health in general. Bell's important book chronicles the history and future of these grassroots activists born out of illness, suffering, and uncertainty.
Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America
by Susan E. CayleffAn eclectic group of firebrands overcame strong odds to create the naturopathic healing system.An alternative medical system emphasizing prevention through healthy living, positive mind-body-spirit strength, and therapeutics to enhance the body’s innate healing processes, naturopathy has gained legitimacy in recent years. In Nature’s Path—the first comprehensive book to examine the complex history and culture of American naturopathy—Susan E. Cayleff tells the fascinating story of the movement’s nineteenth-century roots.While early naturopaths were sometimes divided by infighting, they all believed in the healing properties of water, nutrition, exercise, the sun, and clean, fresh air. Their political activism was vital to their professional formation: they loathed the invasive, depletive practices of traditional medicine and protested against medical procedures that addressed symptoms rather than disease causes while resisting processed foods, pharmaceuticals, environmental toxins, and atomic energy. Cayleff describes the development of naturopathy’s philosophies and therapeutics and details the efforts of its proponents to institutionalize the field. She recognizes notable naturopathic leaders, explores why women doctors, organizers, teachers, and authors played such a strong role in the movement, and identifies countercultural views—such as antivivisection, antivaccination, and vegetarianism—held by idealistic naturopaths from 1896 to the present.Nature’s Path tracks a radical cultural critique, medical system, and way of life that links body, soul, mind, and daily purpose. It is a must-read for historians of medicine and scholars in women’s studies and political history, as well as for naturopaths and all readers interested in alternative medicine.
Clara Barton: Civil War Hero and American Red Cross Founder
by Susan E. HamenTeen biography of Clara Barton.
When Someone You Love Has Dementia
by Susan Elliot-WrightDementia affects more than 700,000 people in the UK; Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia, affecting around 417,000 people in the UK and some four million in the USA. While dementia affects mostly older people, some 17,000 young people also have dementia in the UK. There are treatments, but no cure. Caring for people with dementia is a well-recognized burden, but recently there have been moves to represent this in a more positive light, emphasising people with dementia as individuals who deserve respect, rather than as the challenge as which they have traditionally been viewed. Nevertheless, for individual carers without enough support, having a loved one with dementia often remains challenging. This book looks at practicalities and relationships, including: Defining Alzheimer's and other dementias; Diagnosis; After diagnosis; planning for the future; Medications to help with symptoms such as memory problems, wandering, and aggressive behavior; Other therapies such as music therapy; Practicalities: coping with strange behaviour, confusion, memory problems. Outside help and services and how to access them; Later stages of dementia; issues to consider such as residential care, financial arrangements, wills and living wills and coping with being a carer.
When Someone You Love Has Dementia
by Susan Elliot-WrightDementia affects more than 700,000 people in the UK; Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia, affecting around 417,000 people in the UK and some four million in the USA. While dementia affects mostly older people, some 17,000 young people also have dementia in the UK. There are treatments, but no cure. Caring for people with dementia is a well-recognized burden, but recently there have been moves to represent this in a more positive light, emphasising people with dementia as individuals who deserve respect, rather than as the challenge as which they have traditionally been viewed. Nevertheless, for individual carers without enough support, having a loved one with dementia often remains challenging. This book looks at practicalities and relationships, including: Defining Alzheimer's and other dementias; Diagnosis; After diagnosis; planning for the future; Medications to help with symptoms such as memory problems, wandering, and aggressive behavior; Other therapies such as music therapy; Practicalities: coping with strange behaviour, confusion, memory problems. Outside help and services and how to access them; Later stages of dementia; issues to consider such as residential care, financial arrangements, wills and living wills and coping with being a carer.
White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing (Anthropology of Contemporary North America)
by Susan FallsWomen have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern United States. Drawing on her own experience as a participant, Falls describes the sharing community. She also presents narratives from donors, doulas, medical professionals, and recipients to provide a holistic ethnographic account. Situating her subject within cross-cultural comparisons of historically shifting attitudes about breast milk, Falls shows how sharing “white gold”—seen as a scarce, valuable, even mysterious substance—is a mode of enacting parenthood, gender, and political values. Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. Far from uniform, participants may be like-minded about parenting but not other issues, so their acquaintanceships add new textures to the body politic. In this interdisciplinary account, White Gold shows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.
Change of Life: The Menopause Handbook
by Susan Flamholtz TrienChange of Life: The Menopause Handbook is the most complete and compassionate guide to your body's physical and emotional change.
Padres que odian
by Susan ForwardEn esta notable guía de autoayuda, la doctora Susan Forward te lleva de la mano, a través de casos reales de hijos de padres que odian, para ayudarte a liberarte de los patrones frustrantes de tu relación con tus padres -y te ayuda, asimismo, a descubrir un excitante mundo nuevo de seguridad personal, fuerza interior e independencia emocional-. Supere su doloroso legado y recupere su vida. No todos los niños encuentran la necesaria comprensión en el seno familiar; algunos padres han reaccionado con excesiva rigidez o con escasa sensibilidad ante los comportamientos de sus hijos. Muchos de aquellos niños, cuando son adultos, se sienten indignos, se subestiman y actúan de manera autodestructiva. Sin embargo, les cuesta admitir que la relación con sus padres ejerce una poderosa influencia sobre su vida, a pesar de que continúan luchando por conseguir de ellos el amor y la aprobación que siempre anhelaron. ¿Deben perdonar o existe otra alternativa que les ayude a alcanzar la paz interior? En este libro, Susan Forward, en colaboración con Craig Buck, ofrece soluciones eficaces para librarse de las frustraciones que en algunos casos marcan las relaciones con los padres. Enseña, además, a descubrir un mundo nuevo y apasionante, donde imperan la confianza en uno mismo, la fuerza interior, el respeto y la independencia emocional.
Suegros tóxicos: Estrategias afectivas para proteger tu matrimonio
by Susan ForwardSusan Forward te enseñará cómo impedir que tus suegros acaben con tu matrimonio sin poner en riesgo la relación con tu pareja. Los suegros tóxicos vienen en una gran variedad de disfraces. Está el criticón, quien no puede esperar para señalar tus errores; el controlador, quien intenta manejar tu vida; el devorador, quien con frecuencia te exige tiempo; el amo del caos, de cuyos numerosos problemas terminas haciéndote cargo; y el marginador, quien abiertamente te hace saber que no quiere que formes parte de su familia. Si padeces a causa de tus suegros, es probable que la frustración afecte la relación con tu pareja. Este maravilloso libro te será de gran ayuda. A partir de historias auténticas de hombres y mujeres que luchan para liberarse del comportamiento destructivo de sus suegros, Forward te ofrecerá estrategias muy efectivas para lograr que tu pareja te defienda y te dé prioridad, para establecer límites sensatos y, sobre todo, para proteger tu matrimonio. Sus técnicas y estrategias no transformarán a tus suegros tóxicos en los suegros de tus sueños, pero sí te ayudarán a mantener la cordura, el respeto por ti mismo y, en particular, la relación con la persona con quien has decidido compartir tu vida.
Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice (6th edition)
by Susan G. DudekThis introductory-level, nursing-focused nutrition book is meant to be introduced in the beginning of the curriculum and used as a reference in later stages of the curriculum. The text is written in a user-friendly style that incorporates the Nursing Process approach, with a heavy emphasis on patient teaching and interactive features to engage students.
Fertility Fuel: Create Your Family Without Losing Your Mind, Your Marriage, or Your Money
by Susan G. SchiffFertility Fuel is an integrative approach to understanding and overcoming infertility. While most fertility clinics thrive on scary statistics and over-medicalized interventions, it is possible to create your family without fear and desperation. Laying out five steps to get one’s body in the best possible state to say YES to fertility, Fertility Fuel examines widely accepted western medicine protocols as well as the integration of adjunct therapies to improve fertility results. It discusses options and possible treatments that may not be on the patient’s current radar and helps couples separate facts from scare tactics in their fertility quest. Founded in clinical experience as well as current exposure to modern integrative practices, Fertility Fuel is a patient advocate handbook for helping couples create a family.
Divine Revelation
by Susan G. ShumskyINCREASE YOUR SPIRITUAL STRENGTH AWAKEN YOUR HIDDEN POTENTIAL AND FULFILL YOUR DESTINYSushan Shumsky has taught thousands how to develop a deep spiritual connection within themselves by learning to listen to and trust the "still small voice" within -- the voice that embodies the wisdom needed to set a clear direction in life and make the biggest decisions with peaceful confidence. InDivine Revelation,she presents her proven techniques for opening your heart, mind, and spirit to the riches of inner divine contact and for learning how to:* Augment your innate intuitive abilities* Identify the source of intuitive messages and test their authenticity* Overcome resistance to divine contact by breaking through ego barriers* Attain mastery in the practice of meditation* Become self-reliant in solving personal problems and charting a course for the future
Taking Care of Our Own: A Year in the Life of a Small Hospital
by Susan GarrettGarrett's compelling depiction of the hospital in York, Maine, that she administered for six years becomes her occasion to examine what she terms the "fix" today's medical practitioners find themselves in. Noting that market competition has not contained medical costs, she shows us the turf battles within the system as her not-for-profit hospital attempts to reinvent itself to survive. What services should be added to compete in the hospital marketplace? Contract for a traveling CAT scanner owned by a for-profit firm? Institute a cardiology lab, a market niche? The 79-bed, 80-year-old York Hospital is vexed by its perceived mandate to take care of its own. Along with the affluent summer folk, the hospital's "neighbors" include the likes of homeless Tim Bailey, who turns up with chest pains each Christmas Eve and is hospitalized so he needn't be alone for the holidays; Elizabeth Littlejohn, a 19-year-old bulimic with a hospital bill of $76,000, who defaults on her $10 monthly payments and whose dirt-poor family has looked to York Hospital for social services for three generations. As Garrett ruminates on what hospitals should contribute to their communities, she vivifies the daily happenings at her own. And if she doesn't have ready answers, Garrett, who is now a freelance writer, makes us ponder the price of valuing too highly the cold logic of cost-benefit analysis.
Celebrating Food: 121 Gluten-Free Recipes for a Healthier You
by Susan GauenNow you can enjoy the foods you’ve been missing, without draining your bank account! For too long people with allergies to gluten, wheat, dairy, soy, eggs, nuts, corn, shellfish, and food dyes have had to choose between good-tasting food and the health of their wallets. Thanks to Susan Gauen and her new cookbook, Celebrating Food, if you struggle with dietary restrictions due to allergies, you can once again enjoy flavorful, nutritious food that can be made quickly and cheaply at home. Serve these fantastic dishes to your friends and family members who don’t have allergies, and they’ll never know the difference between the original versions and Susan’s allergy-free recipes. Celebrating Food offers: More than one hundered gluten-free, wheat-free, dairy-free, and egg-free recipes for favorites like Caramel Rolls, Country Biscuits and Gravy, Pineapple Berry Upside Down Cake, Peanut-free Peanut Brittle, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, Italian Meatballs Over Pasta With White Wine Sauce, Pizza, Ranch Dressing, and Chocolate Cream Pie Instructions for how to make no-fail, gluten-free baking mixes that yield perfect results every time A must-have quick reference guide to finding allergy-friendly ingredients anywhere With so many options, how will you celebrate first?
Lady of the Northern Light: A Feminist Guide to the Runes
by Susan Gitlin-EmmerBy examining mythology, folk traditions and archaeological evidence, the author reveals the symbolism of the Goddess that lies buried at the heart of the runes.