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The Charm of Confrontation shows how mastering the skill of confrontation - which is simply a situation of opposing parties - can open doors to your success in relationships and your career. Different from most self-help books, The Charm of Confrontation uses my spiritual journey and background in theater to give you tools as a framework for your confrontations. And you don't have to be an actor or a Christian to use these tools. Anyone who wants to get better at confrontation can use them!

Lilly Lind was forced to emigrate from Sweden two years ago, due to circumstances beyond her control. She finds a job as a garment maker in the Brown Textile Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, finally feeling as though she is settling in her new country. Then a suspicious fire burns the mill, making Lilly seek another way to survive. She answers a mail-order bride ad in the Grooms' Gazette and sets off for Chicago, believing she will be a business owner's wife.

Jana McGuire is devastated when she returns from an African mission trip only to find her pastor husband has taken all their money and left with his secretary. Left with no worldly possessions, Jana is forced to seek help from her distant mother and her bubbly, welcoming great-aunt Taffy. Jana soon realizes that her mother's cold demeanor hides a tragic past - and that the two must mend their relationships with God and each other.

When Linda Gray, iconic star of Dallas, was 20 years old, a magazine editor coldly rejected her as a model, writing that perhaps one day "you might shape into something". At 38 Linda got her big break, as Larry Hagman's wife on Dallas. To celebrate her 75th birthday, Linda is opening up about her life for the first time.

In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in her time of pain. This audiobook is the record of her experiences.

Relaxing guided visualisations for inner peace and contentment. Beautiful positive imagery and powerful use of metaphor to support health and well-being. Linda Hall, inspirational meditation teacher, subtle energy healer and personal development coach, has 20 years’ experience in stress management. This collection of inspiring and empowering meditations draws on the resources of nature to promote personal development and deepen spiritual awareness. Set to gentle background music.

Childbirth educator and doula Dayna Martin takes the truth about birth to new, provocative levels. Being responsible for your birth means shifting from a cultural place of control, to a place of trust and inner knowing that all is well and as it should be. It is a space of acceptance for what is; then from that disposition of well-being, informed decisions can be made. A place of fear or worry isn't the best place to be when making decisions; but unfortunately, in our culture, fear is what fuels most decisions.

When an early morning call brings Deputy Ben Packard to the scene of a home invasion, he finds Bill Sandersen shot in his bed. Bill was a well-liked local who chased easy money his whole life, leaving bad debts and broken hearts in his wake. Everyone Packard talks to has a story about Bill, but no one has a clear motive for wanting him dead. The business partner. The ex-wife. The current wife. The high-stakes poker buddies. Any of them—or none of them—could be guilty.

Wenn wir als Kind nicht das bekommen, was wir für eine gesunde Entwicklung brauchen, zum Beispiel Sicherheit und eine dauerhafte emotionale Verbundenheit, entstehen seelische Verletzungen. Unsere Lebendigkeit wird eingeschränkt, wir können unser Potenzial nicht entfalten oder fühlen uns minderwertig. Oprah Winfrey diskutiert mit dem renommierten Hirnforscher und Kinderpsychiater Bruce Perry die Auswirkungen traumatischer Kindheitserlebnisse.

A workbook for transactional analysts and all others in the helping professions to introduce clients (and yourself) to spirituality, self-actualization, and transcendence. All people, consciously or unconsciously, are longing to find their purpose in life—to be on their path to self-actualization and connect to their deep inner spiritual self. Spiritual connection is essential for mental health and well-being. Spiritual connection brings us back into balance with our natural state of being, regaining autonomy, which consists of awareness, spontaneity, and intimacy.

In this groundbreaking book, Anita Hannig brings us into the lives of ordinary Americans who go to extraordinary lengths to set the terms of their own death. Faced with a terminal diagnosis and unbearable suffering, they decide to seek medical assistance in dying—a legal option now available to one in five Americans. The Day I Die tackles one of the most urgent social issues of our time: how to restore dignity and meaning to the dying process in the age of high-tech medicine.

Five years ago, the residents of the Gerbera subdivision in the small town of Fallen Oaks were brutally murdered in their beds. The only survivors, now called The Fallen Oaks Five, were children - practically strangers at the time, forever connected by the weight of all they witnessed.

In this transformational guide, speaking coach Linda Ugelow delivers a holistic methodology that gets to the root of what’s stopping you from sharing your voice. Through powerful exercises and real-life stories of conquering performance nerves (including her own), Ugelow tells you how to free yourself from the anxieties and psychological roadblocks that are holding you back, and actually learn to enjoy the limelight.

Lady Alba Snowden lost her first love when she was 17. Since then, no man has touched her heart - until the summer she encounters wild, fun-loving Russian Prince Yuri Volkov, who is visiting London with the tsar. Dazzled by Alba’s beauty, Yuri follows her to her country home, determined to melt her frozen heart. In the process, he helps her family out of several scrapes and falls in love. But summer is not their time, and Alba and Yuri separate over misunderstandings and the ill will of others.

Why are levels of anxiety and stress rising faster than ever before? Why has no one come up with a solution that offers true and lasting relief? Why has no one found the key to calm? Based on Linda Blair's years of experience as a clinical psychologist, this book not only answers these questions, but offers solutions to achieve calm and serenity in our everyday life. In five simple and effective steps we learn to: Stop, Look and Listen - Stop reacting to what's going on 'without', and regain inner balance and focus.

How do we build strong families in a world that threatens to tear the very fabric of the family apart? This guide provides parents with a 3-step program to improve family communication and give children a sense of consistency and security. These simple steps are: a family legal system, a family...

The "modern noir masterpiece" is now back in print! Hot and scrappy Sherri Parlay gives up her life of depravity, and with best intentions, finds a respectable job as a dry cleaner in hopes for a decent future. But nature and nurture plot against her when she meets the beautiful, tortured, and rich young Payne, who tempts her with the love and life she never thought possible. Even Brenda, Payne's domineering mother, can't keep the lovers apart when Sherri's animal passions take control.

A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House i must stop writing letters and get to writing a novel. Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and...

What if living a life true to yourself meant unraveling everything you were taught to believe? In this powerful continuation of her story, Emma Stevens returns to The Gathering Place and shares the hard-earned wisdom that comes from confronting loss, identity, and truth. As an adult adoptee raised to feel grateful rather than grieve, Emma was shaped by silence, expectation, and trauma. But deep within, resilient parts of her fought to be heard. Through raw and reflective storytelling, she explores what it takes to stop merely surviving and start living intentionally.

Radical gender activists are using a pseudoscientific theory of human biology to hijack sports and subvert the long-established concept of fair play - forcing women and girls to risk their safety, pushing them aside for male athletes using the excuse of “inclusivity”.