Kirjahaku

"But what about me?" "Is it possible to go one day without dealing with the survivor's issues?" "Will we ever make love again?" "Will the survivor love me in the end?" "How do I know if I should throw in the towel?" Based on in-depth interviews and her workshops for partners across the country, Laura Davis offers practical advice and encouragement to all partners-girlfriends, boyfriends, spouses, and lovers-trying to support the survivors in their lives while tending to their own needs along the way. She shows couples how to deepen compassion, improve communication, and develop an understanding of healing as a shared activity. Addressing partners' most important questions, Allies in Healing covers: * The Basics-answers common questions about sexual abuse. * Allies in Healing-introduces key concepts of working and growing together. * My Needs and Feelings-teaches partners to recognize, value, and express their own needs. * Dealing with Crisis-includes strategies for handling suicidal feelings, regression, and hopelessness. * Intimacy and Communication-offers practical advice on dealing with distancing, control, trust, and fighting. * Sex-provides guidelines for coping with flashbacks, lack of desire, differences in sexual needs, and frustration. * Family lssues-suggests a range of ideas for interacting with the survivor's family. * Partners' Stories-explores the struggles, triumphs, and courage of eight partners.

This book analyses how the European Union translates its principles of peace and justice into policy and puts them into practice, particularly in societies in or emerging from violent conflict.The European Union treaty states that in its relations with the wider world, the EU is to promote peace, security, the protection of human rights, and the strict observance and the development of international law. The EU is active in peace processes around the world, yet its role in international peace mediation is largely ignored. This book offers the first scholarly analysis of how the EU engages in peace processes and justice for human rights violations, focussing on the point where mediation and transitional justice intersect. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book includes case studies of how the EU sought to promote peace and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), how it supports international justice through the International Criminal Court, and a model of the EU as a mediator. These provide an evidence-base for policy makers and practitioners as well as strong empirical contributions to theory. The book addresses whether and how the EU pursues its principles of both peace and justice in conflict zones, where, in practice, these principles may be in conflict, and the implications of these findings for understanding EU foreign policy and the EU as a security actor. This book will be of much interest to students of EU foreign policy, transitional justice, peace and conflict studies and security studies.

Informative, inspiring, and enlightening, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be provides parents with the building blocks they need to discover their own parenting philosophy and develop effective parenting strategies. Through in-depth information, practical suggestions, and many lively first-person stories, the authors address the many dilemmas and joys that the parent of young children encounter and demonstrate a range of solutions to the major issues that arise in the raising of babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Full of warmth, clarity, humor, and respect, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be gives parents permission to be human: to question, to learn, to make mistakes, to struggle and to grow, and, most of all, to have fun with their children.

Found & Lost is Laura Davis' debut collection of found and visual poetry. She has remixed and reworked a variety of classic texts, including Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native, using her background as a political scientist to touch upon themes such as Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. In this transformative collection, Davis adapts these traditional pieces into a beautiful and fascinating series of written and visual poetry, offering a unique insight into both her own experiences and the world around us.