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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
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
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
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
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.......