Kirjahaku

SELF-HELP/Personal Growth Have you noticed that time does not heal all wounds? Has your world been rocked by abuse or trauma that your best intentions and modern self-help have failed to help? GROUNDED IN GRIT is personal development for women weighed down by crises or abuse, finally ready to become their own best advocate. Written by the author of multi-award -winning memoir Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters, now the Lifetime TV movie Stolen By Their Father, this simple book shares tips and tricks on recovery learned by the author through her education, life experiences, inspirational podcast guests, and more than three decades of serving crime victims and offenders, lessons that allow challenges to refine rather than define us. By the end, you will learn: - Why it's critical to unpack and incorporate old wounds from the past rather than get over them. - Tips to manage thoughts and emotions. - Tactics on both getting and sustaining support from friends, family, and outside agencies. - How to turn your challenges into your superpowers. "Don't let the conversational tone fool you. Lizbeth Meredith knows what she's talking about and has generously offered us the benefit of her hard-earned personal and professional wisdom."--Virginia A. Simpson, Ph.D., award-winning author of The Space Between: A Memoir of Mother-Daughter Love at the End of Life

Now a Lifetime television movie starring Sarah Drew, Stolen By Their Father was adapted from the story of Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters about a young mother and her daughters face the unimaginable consequences after leaving abuse. In 1994, Lizbeth Meredith said good-bye to her four- and six year-old daughters for a visit with their non-custodial father only to learn days later that they had been kidnapped and taken to their father's home country of Greece. Twenty-nine and just on the verge of making her dreams of financial independence for her and her daughters come true, Lizbeth now faced a 100,000 dollar problem on a 10 dollar an hour budget. For the next two years fueled by memories of her own childhood kidnapping, Lizbeth traded in her small life for a life more public, traveling to the White House and Greece, and becoming a local media sensation in order to garner interest in her efforts. The generous community of Anchorage becomes Lizbeth's makeshift family?one that is replicated by a growing number of Greeks and expats overseas who help Lizbeth navigate the turbulent path leading back to her daughters.