My Family My Self

Author : Latinas Unidas En Servicio Comunidades
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781616495299

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My Family, My Self by Latinas Unidas En Servicio Comunidades Pdf

A culturally sensitive guide specific to the emotional health of Latinos, with a focus on family, in navigating the psychological, social, and cultural challenges faced after immigrating to America. Latinos immigrating into the United States bring with them their rich, unique cultural values and practices, with one constant being the celebration of and reliance on family. Family members find strength and support in the well defined roles and expectations passed down over many generations. This can provide a safe haven for individuals finding their way in the fast paced, competitive American culture where, in addition to the language barriers, different attitudes toward personal issues like dating and relationships, alcohol and drug use, parenting, and the role of elders can cause conflict and confusion and threaten the stability of family life.For over thirty years, the professionals at CLUES have worked with Latinos and their families to provide support and guidance in navigating the many psychological, social, and cultural challenges they face in adapting to their new environment. In this book, experts from different disciplines across this nationally recognized organization, share their practical wisdom--a combination of cultural sensitivity and knowledge and current behavioral health expertise--to produce a friendly, accessible guide to emotional health for Latinos. With a focus on family throughout, including success stories from a variety of Latino families, readers will find useful and inspiring information on: Understanding the importance of emotions, intimacy and communication in personal relationshipsFinding strength in cultural and family traditions as roles and expectations changeKey stages of life issues such as parenting, gender identity, and agingAvoiding alcohol and drug abuse and getting help should this become a problemContributing to family and society through work and career, education, and developing financial stabilityThe importance of spirituality and moral values in maintaining a sense of personal and family well-beingSelected key passages are bi-lingual.

Author : Sharon Ann Thorne
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781504986823

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My Family, My Self by Sharon Ann Thorne Pdf

This is my first book and is intended for family and close friends. The older I get the more I regret that I didnt ask my parents and grandparents more about their lives. My grandmothers were in their 20s when women got the vote. Did they care? What did they think about that? Nanas father died before she was born. Her mother had to raise six young children in a small town in Texas in the late 19th century. How did she manage? To the dismay of her parents, my mother eloped at 18 instead of going on to Stanford where she had been admitted. Grandpa lost his mother at a young age and gained a stepmother that he apparently didnt like. How did my grandparents meet and what attracted them to each other? What kind of weddings did they have? My questions are endless. Ill never get them answered. The stories would be precious to know. In this spirit I offer these family stories for readers I know and for all others in the future.

Author : Nancy Friday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Families
ISBN : 0006382517

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My Mother/my Self by Nancy Friday Pdf

Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of women's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence and very selfhood.

Author : Omar Luther King
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781482873771

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My Saviour My Country My Family and Myself by Omar Luther King Pdf

The author wishes to tell what Jesus has done in his life and what he can do to all those who accept him as their Lord and Saviour. His also intends to encourage his readers to know for sure that no hearts are impossible to touch as long as ones faith is shared with love and compassion. The book will inspire people to know India, its, people and the living God, the Creator. Some of the very personal letters have been included in the book to give the readers an idea of how letters of personal nature can mould the thoughts of the recipient. This autobiographical book is the result of the invisible, inspiring presence of Christ Jesus in the life of the author.

Author : Lisa Bullard
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467762922

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My Family, Your Family by Lisa Bullard Pdf

Makayla meets her friends' families. She notices some families have many children, but others don't. Some friends live with grandparents or have two dads or have divorced parents. How is her own family like the others? How is it different?

Author : William L. Blevins
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications Incorporated
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1879237539

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Your Family, Your Self by William L. Blevins Pdf

Author : Lisa Heffernan,Mary Dell Harrington
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781250188953

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Grown and Flown by Lisa Heffernan,Mary Dell Harrington Pdf

PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.

Author : Orna Donath
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623171384

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Regretting Motherhood by Orna Donath Pdf

Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds, sociologist Orna Donath treats regret as a feminist issue: as regret marks the road not taken, we need to consider whether alternative paths for women currently are blocked off. She asks that we pay attention to what is forbidden by rules governing motherhood, time, and emotion, including the cultural assumption that motherhood is a “natural” role for women—for the sake of all women, not just those who regret becoming mothers. If we are disturbed by the idea that a woman might regret becoming a mother, Donath says, our response should not be to silence and shame these women; rather, we need to ask honest and difficult questions about how society pushes women into motherhood and why those who reconsider it are still seen as a danger to the status quo. Groundbreaking, thoughtful, and provocative, this is an especially needed book in our current political climate, as women's reproductive rights continue to be at the forefront of national debates.

Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781558744271

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Bradshaw On: The Family by John Bradshaw Pdf

Analyzes the structure of families, examines the unexpresssed rules used to raise children, and discusses family violence, child abuse, and dysfunctional families

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : MSU:31293008295010

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Department of State News Letter by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Roxana Robinson
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374719753

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Dawson's Fall by Roxana Robinson Pdf

A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning In Dawson’s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political, social, and moral landscape. Dawson, a man of fierce opinions, came to this country as a young Englishman to fight for the Confederacy in a war he understood as a conflict over states’ rights. He later became the editor of the Charleston News and Courier, finding a platform of real influence in the editorial column and emerging as a voice of the New South. With his wife and two children, he tried to lead a life that adhered to his staunch principles: equal rights, rule of law, and nonviolence, unswayed by the caprices of popular opinion. But he couldn’t control the political whims of his readers. As he wrangled diligently in his columns with questions of citizenship, equality, justice, and slavery, his newspaper rapidly lost readership, and he was plagued by financial worries. Nor could Dawson control the whims of the heart: his Swiss governess became embroiled in a tense affair with a drunkard doctor, which threatened to stain his family’s reputation. In the end, Dawson—a man in many ways representative of the country at this time—was felled by the very violence he vehemently opposed.

Author : Hans Natonek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : UCAL:$B75067

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In Search of Myself by Hans Natonek Pdf

Author : Bernard Bosanquet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Ethics
ISBN : WISC:89050882430

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Psychology of the Moral Self by Bernard Bosanquet Pdf

Author : Juan F. Thompson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307265357

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Stories I Tell Myself by Juan F. Thompson Pdf

Hunter S. Thompson, “smart hillbilly,” boy of the South, born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky, son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom, public school-educated, jailed at seventeen on a bogus petty robbery charge, member of the U.S. Air Force (Airmen Second Class), copy boy for Time, writer for The National Observer, et cetera. From the outset he was the Wild Man of American journalism with a journalistic appetite that touched on subjects that drove his sense of justice and intrigue, from biker gangs and 1960s counterculture to presidential campaigns and psychedelic drugs. He lived larger than life and pulled it up around him in a mad effort to make it as electric, anger-ridden, and drug-fueled as possible. Now Juan Thompson tells the story of his father and of their getting to know each other during their forty-one fraught years together. He writes of the many dark times, of how far they ricocheted away from each other, and of how they found their way back before it was too late. He writes of growing up in an old farmhouse in a narrow mountain valley outside of Aspen—Woody Creek, Colorado, a ranching community with Hereford cattle and clover fields . . . of the presence of guns in the house, the boxes of ammo on the kitchen shelves behind the glass doors of the country cabinets, where others might have placed china and knickknacks . . . of climbing on the back of Hunter’s Bultaco Matador trail motorcycle as a young boy, and father and son roaring up the dirt road, trailing a cloud of dust . . . of being taken to bars in town as a small boy, Hunter holding court while Juan crawled around under the bar stools, picking up change and taking his found loot to Carl’s Pharmacy to buy Archie comic books . . . of going with his parents as a baby to a Ken Kesey/Hells Angels party with dozens of people wandering around the forest in various stages of undress, stoned on pot, tripping on LSD . . . He writes of his growing fear of his father; of the arguments between his parents reaching frightening levels; and of his finally fighting back, trying to protect his mother as the state troopers are called in to separate father and son. And of the inevitable—of mother and son driving west in their Datsun to make a new home, a new life, away from Hunter; of Juan’s first taste of what “normal” could feel like . . . We see Juan going to Concord Academy, a stranger in a strange land, coming from a school that was a log cabin in the middle of hay fields, Juan without manners or socialization . . . going on to college at Tufts; spending a crucial week with his father; Hunter asking for Juan’s opinion of his writing; and he writes of their dirt biking on a hilltop overlooking Woody Creek Valley, acting as if all the horrible things that had happened between them had never taken place, and of being there, together, side by side . . . And finally, movingly, he writes of their long, slow pull toward reconciliation . . . of Juan’s marriage and the birth of his own son; of watching Hunter love his grandson and Juan’s coming to understand how Hunter loved him; of Hunter’s growing illness, and Juan’s becoming both son and father to his father . . .

Author : Sebastian Maniscalco
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781501115998

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Stay Hungry by Sebastian Maniscalco Pdf

From comedian and actor Sebastian Maniscalco—star of the film About My Father with Robert DeNiro—an inspiring, honest, uproarious collection of essays tracing his career from playing boxing rings and bowling alleys to reaching the pinnacles of comedy success. At twenty-four, Sebastian Maniscalco arrived in LA with a suitcase and saved up minimum wages. He knew no one and nothing about standup comedy, but he was determined to go for it anyway. Two decades later, he’s on the Forbes’ list of highest earning comedians, selling out arenas, and starring in numerous hit comedy specials including Why Would You Do That? and Is It Me?. Stay Hungry tells the story of the twenty years in between. On the way from clueless rube to standup superstar, Seb was booed off stages; survived on tips and stolen food; got advice from mentors Andrew Dice Clay, Vince Vaughn, Tony Danza, and Jerry Seinfeld; fell in love; and stayed true to his Italian-immigrant roots. The one code that always kept him going: stay hungry, keep focused, never give up, and one day, you’ll make it.