The poems of Everything reaches out to everything else explore the nature of our world now and the interconnectedness of all life. Poems are set in the older urban neighborhoods of Los Angeles which are bounded by the LA River that was thwarted and yet is reclaiming itself. These poems capture longings, fears, and the beauty of the moment, all set among the anxiety of living now. This chapbook Includes the poem, Atwater, winner of the Crossing Boundaries Award for Innovative and Experimental Writing from International Quarterly.
Many people have silently asked themselves why can’t I drink like everyone else? They wonder why sometimes it feels like alcohol has a pull over them, that they don’t understand, and don’t like to talk about. They are frustrated that other people can control how much they drink without any problem, when their efforts are often hit or miss. Rachel Hart has spent years trying to answer these questions for herself and untangle this mystery. Deep down, she was afraid that her drinking was always going to be a problem, and grew more and more frustrated of the repercussions. As the years mounted, she worried that not being able to rein herself in meant something was really wrong with her. There is a solution—and it doesn’t require anyone to wear a label for the rest of their life or admit to being powerless. In fact, the tools outlined inside will reveal just how much power there is within each and every person struggling with this issue.
Blank Lined Journal Features: 110 blank lined pagesProfessionally designed soft matte coverConvenient size to take anywhereCan be used as a journal, notebook or a composition bookMakes a great gift for any special occasion: Christmas, Mother's Day, Secret Santa, birthday, gift exchange...This blank lined journal is an awesome funny gift for your Best Friend, it's a great way to show how much you appreciate and love your best friend.
This book is your crash course in education from a professional teacher's / tennis pro's standpoint. It's a boiled down synopsis of my 4-year college courses from one of the highest regarded teacher's colleges in the U.S. which is Illinois State University, where I was on the varsity tennis team. While there I learned the fundamentals of how people learn, and of course several teaching methods that have been proven to get the best results of learning from the most people. Most tennis instructors have never taken a course in HOW to teach and I watch them commit all of the mistakes that somone would make in trying to teach the game of tennis, without having that education background. I've been using these methods for 25 years and refined them to a science that really works. Since I am a NLP level 1 practitioner, I have a section on how to use NLP to be the best communicator/teacher you can be. This alone is worth 100X the price of the book. Bottom line, if your students learn something while they are enjoying you, and having fun, you get more students, and YOU have fun. See what a difference it will make. Get it NOW
Imagine if you could reach new levels of happiness and joy; releasing years of shame, guilt and stress from your life. Are you ready for a spiritual awakening and to start fully living life? You may be holding onto a Black Ball. After childhood bullying, debt, alcohol, gambling and drugs, business mentor Simon Lovell went on a huge journey into self-help and personal transformation, but still found himself lost after invested hundreds of thousands of dollars. He was living a double life. Finally, in 2018 he experienced a profound spiritual awakening that was captured live on Facebook, releasing 30 years of shame from a secret that he was holding deep inside. This was his 'Black Ball'. It was raw, emotional and impactful to everyone watching. Suicide is both a major mental health and national public health issue around the globe with rates rising sharply. A person dies every 40 seconds by suicide and up to 25 times as many again make an attempt to take their life. The Black Ball is Simon's journey, as well as a series of courageous stories from people around the world who have released their shame and guilt and are living happier lives through the groundbreaking Black Ball process. Simon also reveals a powerful four step process to letting go and living your best life possible. Simon writes, "It was finally when I was willing to let go of the masks I was wearing and stop playing the character of Simon Lovell that everything changed. Now I understand personal transformation at a much deeper level because I've found 'home', the real Simon Lovell. Now it's my mission to help others release their Black Ball and for them to be 100% okay with the story of their life. Are you ready to reach huge levels of happiness? This book is for anyone who is currently feeling helpless, lost and wants to boost their self-esteem with a motivational message as well as simple action steps to change. It's also for those who are currently on their personal transformation and self-help journey and want to boost their spiritual growth.
Do you ever feel like you're merely going through the motions-working hard, meeting deadlines, yet never quite finding the time to truly live? Are you constantly chasing success but feeling unfulfilled? If so, you're not alone. Balancing career ambitions with a meaningful personal life can feel overwhelming. The demands of work often consume our time and energy, leaving little room for what truly matters-our passions, relationships, and well-being. Let's change that narrative Own the Life You Deserve-No One Else Will is not about achieving an elusive "work-life balance." Instead, it's about creating a career-life partnership, where your professional and personal aspirations align to support one another. Shift your mindset and develop a strategic approach, you can transform your career from a source of stress into a partner in building the life you desire.Paul has drawn upon his own career and life experiences, as well as insights from colleagues, mentors, and mentees who have successfully navigated the complexities of career and life integration. The book is designed as a practical guide-one that provides actionable tools to help you take charge of your career and life. Whether you're an individual striving for fulfillment or a leader seeking to develop and retain talent, the principles outlined here will empower you to take control of your journey.Here's what you can expect: -Cross-Generational Framework - Understanding generational perspectives can help you better navigate workplace dynamics and personal growth.-ADAPT Career Lifecycle Model - A five-stage model designed to help you identify where you are in your career and plan your next steps.-Career-Life Care Assessment - A self-assessment tool to evaluate which of the twenty Career and Life Building Blocks are most relevant to you today.-Career-Life Partnering Matrix - A guide to identifying your current relationship with your career and actionable steps to improve it.-Essential Partnering Elements - A framework to assess whether your company or organization supports your career-life aspirations.-Career-Life Partnering Plan - A customized action plan to help you cultivate long-term career and life growth.Paul's first book, Own Your Career-No One Else Will, was initially created as a roadmap for his children as they entered the workforce. Over time, it evolved into a resource for professionals at all career stages. Own the Life You Deserve-No One Else Will expands on that foundation, focusing on integrating career development with a meaningful life plan. Taking charge of your career and life requires intention, strategy, and commitment. This journey may feel daunting, but the rewards are immeasurable. Imagine a life where your career supports your passions, where financial stability enables you to explore new opportunities, and where your work fuels your personal growth rather than detracts from it.This book provides you with clear, actionable steps that will help you achieve both professional and personal success. To further support your journey, Paul has developed an online assessment tool, available at www.PaulGoudreault.com.You deserve a career that inspires you and a life that fulfills you.
Thin is the line between dreaming and wakefulness, wellness and disorder, here and there, this and that. Elana Wolff's poems illuminate the porousness of states and relations, the connective compulsion of poetic perception, in language that blends the oracular and the everyday, the elliptical and the lucent, the playful and the heart-raking. The de- and re-constructive workings of the poems in Everything Reminds You of Something Else argue for empathy and attentiveness. At the core of this work is the belief that art is the sanest rage.
A full-colour illustrated guide to Canada's endemic species for young readers, from the award-winning author of Snooze-O-Rama: The Strange Ways that Animals Sleep. Canada is home to over 308 endemic species of plants and animals -- meaning they're found nowhere else on Earth. In Canada Wild, award-winning author Maria Birmingham introduces young readers to twelve uniquely Canadian animals -- many of which are threatened or endangered. Like the Sable Island sweat bee, which lives on a single sandbar three hundred kilometres off the coast of Nova Scotia; the Kermode bear, the rare white black bear also known as the "Spirit Bear", which calls the coastal rainforests of northwestern BC home; and the Peary caribou, which can be found clomping through the Arctic tundra of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Profiles of each animal showcase their habitat, diet, and status, while sidebars highlight fascinating facts about each animal, and a How's It Doing section explains where it falls on the endangerment spectrum. Informative backmatter gives young readers practical advice on conservation and combating climate change, while colour illustrations throughout -- including a map of Canada, showing the animals' habitats -- offer whimsical yet scientifically accurate depictions. From the coasts to the prairies to the mountains to the tundra, and every nook and cranny in between, Canada Wild is the perfect read for budding naturalists.
Rachael Clyne's You'll Never Be Anyone Else presents a direct and assured voice, demanding that we think carefully about what it takes to reconcile being different. She advises the reader to 'Stop drinking the poison / labelled "Hate me." / It's that simple. I didn't say easy.' Clyne also has an alter-ego "Girl Golem" reminiscent of a superhero but based on the mythical man made from clay and spells to protect Jewish people from persecution. Through this empowering persona, Clyne opens up an exploration of Jewish and lesbian identity. Surveying attitudes in the present day and in the past, these poems explore migrant heritage, sexual identity, domestic violence and ageing. The stories of this collection are often poignant, like the retired tailor in 'Mr Shopping Trolley', who takes to shearing newspapers, so that his scissor fingers remain busy. Or in 'Leaving Odesa', the speaker revisits the prison where - under Tsarist law - her grandmother (even as an infant) had to serve out the remainder of her father's sentence after he died. Clyne's imagery is razor sharp in its precision, as she deftly weaves different poetic forms and wildly versatile subject matter, even interspersing Yiddish phrases, as part of her own unique poetic idiolect. Take the hilarious poem, 'Jew-a-lingo (Code-switching for Jews 1970 edition)' which emphasizes Jewish humour as a staple survival strategy. You'll Never Be Anyone Else offers a unique story of survival and empowerment told in spite of experiences of violence and prejudice - this from a poet who has spent a lifetime learning self-acceptance and as a psychotherapist helping others to do similar. Treating even dark subjects with playful wit and colourful imagery, Clyne is a distinctive new voice with a powerful message about self-acceptance.
The last forty years have seen a massive change in the delivery of healthcarein the UK. Starting from well outside the establishment, SteveBollen negotiated his way through prejudice and personal problemsand, from a base in one of the most socially deprived areas in the UK, rose through the ranks to become one of the country's leading sportsinjury surgeons. Part autobiography, part observation, comment and commentaryon the Health Service, health, life, love and death, sprinkled withstardust from his long association with top sportsmen and women, his story shares the laughter, tears, frustrations and triumphs of a longand fulfilling surgical career.
The dialogues contained in this book are a testimony to 'Sailor' Bob Adamson's wisdom and clarity in action. Bob's words always go to the heart of matter. They are uncompromising and direct pointing to the fact of our own being. His words are filled with warmth, energy, clarity and humour. His teaching is the essential message of non-duality presented in the most direct and clear terms.
Currently we are at the beginnings of widespread wireless connectivity and ubiquitous computing. The Web is merging with a variety of technologies: cell phones, laptop computers, hand held organisers, information appliances, and GPS and other sensors. The capability for access anytime and anywhere is here. The increasing frequency of cell phone calls at inappropriate times testifies that people no longer can easily control access. Devices can determine where they are located and can make a range of information available to users as well as make users available to others or their devices. We have proposed a general technique that promises to assist in mediating access. It capitalises on advantages afforded by computation(Hollan & Stometta, 1992). We first described the negotiation technique in the context of problems involved in scheduling meetings and then showed that similar issues, which at first may seem unrelated but in fact have much in common, arise in other contexts. One such activity, gaining immediate access, is currently of growing importance because of expanding connectivity via wireless technology. Cell phones and related technologies make it possible to be constantly available for synchronous interaction. At times, this can be advantageous but the associated costs and benefits result in a complex tradeoff space for designers as well as users.
If someone close to you has mental health problems, you need to read this book Most people do nothing when a relative, friend or colleague has mental health problems. The reason is not a lack of care or compassion. it is simply that most of use are frightened of doing or saying the wrong thing. Unfortunately, doing or saying nothing is the wrong thing. It leaves the person you care about felling isolated and unloved. So what will you do? Helping Hands: How to help someone else cope with mental health problems uses an easy to learn, evidence-based 4-stage approach that you can employ to help those that you care about. In addition, Helping Hands introduces you to mental illnesses and the treatments that are available for them, and provides case studies that show you how the symptoms and warning signs manifest in day to day life. Helping Hands also sets out what is meant by wellbeing, and shows you how encouraging the use of self-management techniques will lead to recovery.
“Natasha Sajé’s quicksilver, wideawake poems in The Future Will Call You Something Else never fail to delight and impress me with their at-the-ready empathy, encyclopedic wit, and prismatic range of allusions. With its ‘all systems go’ verve and vigorous attention to the myriad world, this dazzling, exhilarating new book is a treasure and a wonder.”—Cyrus Cassells
