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Women's Issues

Reviews of books dealing with all aspects of women's and feminist issues, including women's rights and advocacy.

Author
Kathy Reed

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Multiple Sclerosis: The Many Faces of the Disease

Multiple Sclerosis: The Many Faces of the Disease, is a non-fiction autoimmune disease story revolving around Suzanne McCuiston Bradley, my aunt and a woman plagued with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for most of her life.

In the beginning, the focus is on symptoms and early indicators of the disease.......

Author
Victor R. Volkman

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction, Second Edition

Victor Volkman has created a tool that takes the mystery out of one of the more remarkably effective clinical procedures in a way that can help millions of people revitalize and improve their lives. To those desperate people who have experienced trauma or tragedy, this process is a pathway to dealing with their feelings and getting on with their lives.......

Author
A.T.W.

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Got Parts? An Insider's Guide to Managing Life Successfully with Dissociative Id

Got Parts? was written by a survivor of DID in association with her therapist and therapy group. This book is filled with successful coping techniques and strategies to enhance the day-to-day functioning of adult survivors of DID in relationships, work, parenting, self-confidence, and self-care.......

Author
Sharon Wallace

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Surviving a House Full of Whispers

Sharon suffered continual physical and sexual abuse from her stepfather for seven years. Unfortunately, no one would listen to her or believe her story. At age 16, she finally finds the courage to flee from her tormenters. Social Services find her the first of a string of temporary jobs between which she criss-crosses England trying to find a safe haven.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Life Without Jealousy: A Practical Guide

Ask yourself...

• Do you feel the need to be frequently checking up on your partner?
• Are you suspicious when you meet new people?
• Do you often question your partner about where they are going and who they are seeing?
• Do you withdraw from your partner without giving an explanation as to why you doing this?.......

Author
Sherry Quan Lee

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Chinese Blackbird (Reflections of America)

Critical Acclaim for Sherry Quan Lee's Chinese Blackbird

"Quan Lee eloquently expresses how painful and confusing it can be to embrace the many complex identities that one body can contain.......

Author
Sandra L. Ceren

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Look Before You Leap: A Premarital Guide for Couples

Ready to Tie the Knot?

Originally published as a highly recommended professional text for premarital counselors, the research based quizzes, exercises, and case examples are now available for couples planning to marry. The materials can help you discover more about yourselves and your partner and determine readiness for marital challenges.......

Author
Sandra L. Ceren

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Essentials of Premarital Counseling: Creating Compatible Couples (New Horizons in Therapy)

b>Expand Your Clinical Practice with this Practical Hands-on Guide

• Teach conflict resolution skills to your couples
• Introspective quizzes expose more of couples¿ inner lives and past history to each other
• Real-life exercises let couples practice cooperative decision- making and compromise before a crisis happens.......

Author
Nancy Wesson

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Moving Your Aging Parents: Fulfilling their Needs and Yours Before, During, and After the Move

Whether whittling down to the essentials for a parent moving into a room or two or downsizing for ourselves, ignoring the spirit and basing decisions on health and safety alone could have devastating results.......

Author
Marjorie McKinnon

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Repair for Kids: A Children's Program for Recovery from Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse

R.E.P.A.I.R is Recognition, Entry, Process, Awareness, Insight, and Rhythm

Enter a Six-Stage Program with your child to cross the Bridge of Recovery and make available a whole new world of hope:

• Uncover and acknowledge feelings by discovering emotion
• Build self-esteem and optimism with the "Magic Mirror".......

Author
Marjorie McKinnon

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse

R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!

• Recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse.
• Enter into a commitment to transform your life.
• Process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy.......

Author
Tami Brady

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Strategies: A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Journey

It is estimated that 4-8 million people in the United States suffer with Fibromyalgia. Another one million also have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Some statistics state that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia may directly affect 5% of the world's population.

I am one of the individuals in this growing epidemic.......

Author
David M. Matthews

Publisher
Wheatmark

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Every Man Sees You Naked: An Insider's Guide to How Men Think

Employing equal measures of wit and wisdom, Emmy Award-winning composer/writer/producer (The Young and the Restless, The Nanny, Half & Half) David M. Matthews leads you on an amusing yet highly informative journey through the seamy underbelly of the male mind.......

Author
Catherine Jones

Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong Books

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Eating for Pregnancy: The Essential Nutrition Guide and Cookbook for Today's Mothers-to-Be

Every pregnant woman understands that what she eats and drinks affects the baby developing within her. Yet as a mother-to-be, you’re likely juggling so much that you simply don’t have the time—or energy!—to ensure that you’re always eating right.......

Author
Barbara Sinor

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Gifts From The Child Within: Self-discovery and Self-recovery Through Re-Creation Therapy, 2nd Edition

Gifts From the Child Within brings a refreshing approach to guiding its reader to understanding the initial or underlying basis to their emotional suffering due to past childhood trauma. This recovery book is geared toward both professional and layperson.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Stop Being Pushed Around!: A Practical Guide (10-Step Empowerment)

Something is not quite right and you're not sure what it is...

• Are you getting pushed around?
• Do you feel you need to do everything asked of you by your partner or anyone else?
• Do you feel you have to fulfill all your partner's needs no matter what?.......

Author
Nancy Oelklaus

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Journey From Head to Heart: Living and Working Authentically

Journey From Head to Heart is...

• A Toolkit for those who are exhausted from solving neverending problems, working harder and harder and not arriving at the destination where they truly want to be.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Life Without Jealousy: A Practical Guide

Ask yourself...

• Do you feel the need to be frequently checking up on your partner?
• Are you suspicious when you meet new people?
• Do you often question your partner about where they are going and who they are seeing?
• Do you withdraw from your partner without giving an explanation as to why you doing this?.......

Author
Heyward Bruce Ewart III

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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AM I BAD? Recovering From Abuse (New Horizons in Therapy)

Find Your Way to Freedom Today!

If you were abused or neglected as a child, chances are that you have been your whole life, whether you are a man, a woman, or a teen. Child abuse so mangles the personality that the victim unconsciously attracts abusers throughout the life cycle.......

Author
Lori Radun

Publisher
Mom Coach Press, an imprint of Wyatt-MacKenzie

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The Momnificent Life: Healthy and Balanced Living for Busy Moms

Authentic and empowering, The Momnificent! Life ~ Healthy and Balanced Living for Busy Moms by Lori Radun is an important work of nonfiction, which can play a significant role in creating healthy families based on the concept that mothers are role models and that the path to a happy family begins with a happy mother.......

Author
Tami Brady

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Regaining Control: When Love Becomes a Prison (New Horizons in Therapy Series, 4)

• Only 1% of the world's assets are held in the name of women.
• 70% of people in abject poverty¿living on less than $1 per day¿are women.
• Over half the women of this generation do not themselves receive, from either employment or the state, enough to 'get by'.......

Author
Tami Brady

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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The Complete Being: Finding And Loving the Real You

Like many people, I used to spend a good deal of my time fantasizing about the life I wish I had. Caught in the mindset of “I could never do that,” “why can't I be more like so and so,” and “nothing is ever going to change”, I felt my dreams slipping away. But one simple question, why not?, changed my life forever.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Life After Your Lover Walks Out: A Practical Guide (10-Step Empowerment Series)

Your long-time partner has just walked out on you forever:

• Do you feel paralyzed or afraid to move on?
• Does the thought or sight of your old partner with someone else fill you with rage?
• Are you worried or anxious about how to get by financially on your own?.......

Author
Susan R. Blaske Williams

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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Making it Home: How to Run your Household Like a Business...And Find Your Heart Along the Way

"Making It Home" is more than just a book full of how-to suggestions. It is a book that guides women into a journey of self-discovery where "home" is not a place or a building but something that happens within their own hearts.......

101 Tips For Recovering From Eating Disorders: A Pocket Book of Wisdom

If you're recovering from an Eating Disorder (E.D.) it's important to take one day at a time. Let 101 Tips for Recovering from Eating Disorders be your companion in healing and you'll be reminded of the strength and wisdom that's already inside you. This book will help you celebrate the good days and develop solid coping strategies for the bad times.......

The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won't Learn in Business School

Over the course of a year, Selena Rezvani interviewed women executives in various industries, roles, and job functions, including Jamie McCourt, president of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Denise Incandela, president of Saks Direct at Saks Fifth Avenue, Roxanne Spillett, president and CEO of Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and Naomi Earp, chair of the Equal Employment Opport.......

Author
Colette Petersen

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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30 Isn't Old

You can be successful at 30!

Being successful does not mean being perfect or having the perfect life. It's about having the best life for you. With a focus on all that is positive and fabulous about being a woman on the verge of turning thirty, this book is vital for any woman nervous about leaving her twenties.......

Author
Ernest Dempsey and Victor R. Volkman

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. II, No.1)

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. II, No. 1) January 2010

Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through poetry, memoir, essays, fiction, humor, media reviews and psycho-education.......

Author
Holli Kenley

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Breaking Through Betrayal: and Recovering the Peace Within

Are you ready to finally recover your peace of mind?
We are living in a time where betrayal abounds. Tragically, most of know or know of someone who has been scarred by the betrayal bandit.  In whatever form it takes (financial, political, personal, social, legal, environmental, cultural, etc.......

Author
Editor: Stephanie Marohn

Publisher
Elite Books

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Goddess Shift: Women Leading for a Change

For millennia, woman have been without a strong leadership voice in human affairs. No more! Women are now in positions of power in every branch of government, business, and social organization. They are providing a new style of collaborative and visionary leadership, which is changing the way society functions.......

Author
Liliane Desjardins

Publisher
Life Scripts Press

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Rewriting Life Scripts: Transformational Recovery for Families of Addicts

Finally a treatment approach that embraces the whole family!

In one sense, alcoholics and drug addicts are the fortunate ones. They have to learn a new way to live or risk death, incarceration, and loss of everything they hold dear.......

Author
Dr Kathleen Albertson PhD

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine for Women's Health: Bridging the Gap Between Western and Eastern Medicine (Volume 1)

Educates readers about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), (acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine), and how women's health problems are effectively treated holistically versus the typical Western, compartmentalized approach. Acquire a basic understanding of TCM - what it is and how it works - as well as its benefits, risks and potential for treatment.......

Author
Jacquie Lewis-Kemp

Publisher
Zoe Life Publishing

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Blessed Assurance

Author, Jacquie Lewis-Kemp, chronicles the battles fought and the victories won growing up with juvenile diabetes, diagnosed at the age of seven. She details tips and techniques her parents and she used from childhood, through college, into marriage, childbirth and as CEO of an automotive supplier.......

Author
Ernest Dempsey

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. II, No. 2)

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. II, No. 2) April 2010

Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through poetry, memoir, essays, Opinion, fiction, humor, media reviews and psycho-education.......

Author
Amy Lou Jenkins

Publisher
Holy Cow! Press

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Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting

Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting is a narrative of mother-and-son nature outings across the state of Wisconsin. In a style that blends the voices of Janisse Ray and Annie Dillard, a mother and son explore parallels in the world of people and nature. The interconnected chapters stand on their own and build upon each other.......

Author
Diana M. Raab

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Healing With Words: A writer's cancer journey

Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey is a compassionate and wry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse and poet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS (early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by another, seemingly unrelated and incurable cancer--multiple myeloma.......

Author
Sweta Srivastava Vikram

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Because All is Not Lost: Verse on Grief (World Voices)

Sweta Srivastava Vikram is a multi-genre writer living in New York City. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals, online publications, and anthologies across six countries and three continents. Sweta has attended several writing residencies and workshops in the United States and Europe. She is a VONA writer and a graduate of Columbia University.......

Author
Marjorie McKinnon

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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It's Your Choice! Decisions That Will Change Your Life

Are you ready to have balance and harmony in your life?
It's Your Choice! Decisions That Will Change Your Life is a work of personal discovery. Marjorie Mckinnon shows you how to create a perfect world through positive growth in what she calls the six dimensions: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, social, and financial.......

Author
Bevan Lynda

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Life After Betrayal: A Practical Guide (The 10-Step Empowerment Series)

Your long-time partner has just betrayed your relationship and everything you hold dear:

• Are you stuck trying to decide whether to move forward in your relationship or give up?
• Do you find yourself repeating old ways of behavior?
• Do you frequently talk about whose fault the betrayal was?.......

Author
Jewel Kats

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Reena's Bollywood Dream: A Story about Sexual Abuse

Reena wants to be a star...
...A Bollywood star. Unfortunately, her family won't stand for it. It doesn't help that Reena is only eight-years-old. However, a beacon of hope arrives in the form of Uncle Jessi. He's just emigrated from India to America, and is a welcome addition to her family household. Uncle Jessi and Reena share a special bond.......

Author
Kaitlyn Kashman

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Words of a Journey: My Thoughts on Life and Living

A book by a teenager for teenagers!
Words of a Journey is a book for anyone who wants to take a closer look at life's meaning and their experiences. Seventeen-year old Kaitlyn Kashman has designed this book to provide thought-stimulation on various issues and feelings that young adults explore.......

Author
Michelle Pearl

Publisher
Gallery Press Publishing

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Wake Up! You're Probably Never Going to Look Like That: How to be Happier, Healthier and Imperfectly Fit SECOND EDITION

In the second edition of this well-received book, atypical fitness guru Michelle Pearl has a message for all those who have suffered with ongoing weight problems: “You are not weak, losing weight has nothing to do with willpower, and you really can be happier, healthier and imperfectly fit.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

Life Without Jealousy: A Practical Guide (10-Step Empowerment Series)

Ask yourself...

• Do you feel the need to be frequently checking up on your partner?
• Are you suspicious when you meet new people?
• Do you often question your partner about where they are going and who they are seeing?
• Do you withdraw from your partner without giving an explanation as to why you doing this?.......

Author
Alan E. Smith

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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How to UnBreak Your Health: Your Map to the World of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, 2nd Edition

Find better health with your map to the world of complementary and alternative therapies in this comprehensive health and wellness guide for mind, body, and spirit.
Are you sinking into the Quicksand of Pain? Are you stranded in the Mountains of Misery or simply lost in a Forest of Symptoms? Find your way to Hope with the second edition of the award-winn.......

Author
Tom Pointer

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Vivian's Song

In the spring of 1998 the residents of a small Missouri town are alarmed to learn that a New Age cult from California has bought land nearby. The leader of this so-called cult is a former champion bull rider, Cadillac salesman, and Viet Nam vet from Texas named Duke Tanner.......

Author
Robin Marvel

Publisher
Marvelous Spirit Press

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Awakening Consciousness: A Woman's Guide!

Are You Ready to Awaken the Power Within?
Be a woman of strength. Know you are an amazing, all creating individual. This guide will strengthen and encourage you to discover your inner core and create an empowered zest for life.......

Author
Sweta Srivastava Vikram

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Because All is Not Lost: Verse on Grief (World Voices)

Sweta Srivastava Vikram is a multi-genre writer living in New York City. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals, online publications, and anthologies across six countries and three continents. Sweta has attended several writing residencies and workshops in the United States and Europe. She is a VONA writer and a graduate of Columbia University.......

Author
Kaitlyn Kashman

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Words of a Journey: My Thoughts on Life and Living

A book by a teenager for teenagers!
Words of a Journey is a book for anyone who wants to take a closer look at life's meaning and their experiences. Seventeen-year old Kaitlyn Kashman has designed this book to provide thought-stimulation on various issues and feelings that young adults explore.......

Author
Susan Frances Dunham

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Beyond Schizophrenia: Michael's Journey (Reflections of America)

What would you do if your child suffered with something so severe it affected every aspect of his life?

Susie Dunham, Midwestern mom and former nurse, never suspected her son Michael was anything but a typical college student with big dreams until he developed schizophrenia shortly after his 21st birthday.......

Author
Sharon Wallace

Publisher
Modern History Press

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A House Full of Whispers (The Whispers Trilogy)

An orphan's dearest dream becomes her nightmare...
Until age 9, Sharon had been in an orphanage most of her young life craving a family of her own. Her wishes were granted when her biological mother came and rescued Sharon from a lonely world. Within a year, her stepfather began touching her and her life quickly became a fight for survival.......

Author
Liliane Desjardins

Publisher
Life Scripts Press

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The Imprint Journey: A Path of Lasting Transformation Into Your Authentic Self

Ever Wonder Why The Same Patterns Happen To You Over And Over Again?
We all have imprints, both negative and positive. An imprint is a belief that shapes our thoughts and actions, a belief we often hold unconsciously.......

Author
Regina D. Jemison

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Soul Clothes

Here's your invitation to join a literary as well as a personal relationship with the deeply insightful and profoundly expressive perspectives of Regina Diane Jemison. As you encounter these soul-stirring pieces, you may imagine listening to one of God's own trombones.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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How To Forgive: A Practical Guide

Ask yourself:

• Do you believe that the other person is responsible for how you feel?
• Do their actions seem like a complete mystery?
• Are you ready to stop feeling angry or upset?
• Do you still feel hurt or sad?
• Are you ready to re-build the trust within this relationship?.......

Author
Diana M. Raab

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

Healing With Words: A writer's cancer journey

Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey is a compassionate and wry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse and poet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS (early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by another, seemingly unrelated and incurable cancer--multiple myeloma.......

Annabelle's Secret: A Story about Sexual Abuse

Annabelle has a secret. When she was seven years old, she was approached by a neighborhood boy and invited into a "secret club". Unfortunately, this club was just a ruse for thirteen-year-old Joel to groom Annabelle for abuse. A few years later, when Annabelle turns eleven, she finds some bad feelings have returned for her.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

How To Forgive: A Practical Guide

Ask yourself:

• Do you believe that the other person is responsible for how you feel?
• Do their actions seem like a complete mystery?
• Are you ready to stop feeling angry or upset?
• Do you still feel hurt or sad?
• Are you ready to re-build the trust within this relationship?.......

Author
Marjorie McKinnon

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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REPAIR Your Life Workbook: Supporting a Program of Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse

R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!

• [R]ecognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse.
• [E]nter into a commitment to transform your life.
• [P]rocess your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy.......

Author
Marjorie McKinnon

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse

R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!

• Recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse.
• Enter into a commitment to transform your life.
• Process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy.......

Author
Christine Stark

Publisher
Modern History Press

5 Review Copies Left

Nickels: a tale of dissociation

"...a perfect genius that makes the impossible in expression, possible; the unknowable in experience, knowable"
--Anya Achtenberg, author of The Stories of Devil-Girl

Nickels follows a biracial girl named "Little Miss So and So", from age 4-1/2 into adulthood.......

Author
Sweta Srivastava Vikram

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Beyond the Scent of Sorrow

Sweta Srivastava Vikram is an award-winning writer, poet, novelist, author, essayist, columnist, blogger, and educator whose musings have translated into four chapbooks of poetry, two collaborative collections of poetry, a fiction novel, and an upcoming nonfiction book of prose and poems.......

Author
Debra Allenbaugh

Publisher
Acacia Publishing, Inc.

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Angels In My Path

Debra Allenbaugh's story is both like and unlike that of millions of others. After decades of perfectly normal life, running a business and raising a family, she descended abruptly into the deepest pit of addiction - in her case, alcoholism. Ultimately, she lost everything, including herself.......

Author
Alma Hudson

Publisher
Eloquent Books

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The Trouble With Change

Sondra's only dream in life is to complete college and make her family proud. But when she moves into an apartment she can barely afford near the University of Southern California, her dreams start changing.......

Cyber Bullying No More: Parenting A High Tech Generation (Growing with Love)

Electronic Media Can Endanger As Well As Empower Your Kids

Cyber bullying is rampant. Every day children are being humiliated, violated, and degraded through the use of electronic devices. Young people are frightened and don't know where to turn. Parents are frustrated and unsure how to help or how to protect their children.......