Remedies For Sorrow

Author : Jan Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735161209

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The Cure for Sorrow by Jan Richardson Pdf

When Jan Richardson unexpectedly lost her husband and creative partner, the singer/songwriter Garrison Doles, she did what she had long known how to do: she wrote blessings. These were no sugar-coated blessings. They minimized none of the pain and bewilderment that came in the wake of a wrenching death. With these blessings, Jan entered, instead, into the depths of the shock, anger, and sorrow. From those depths, she has brought forth words that, with heartbreaking honesty, offer surprising comfort and stunning grace. Those who know loss will find kinship among these pages. In these blessings that move through the anguish of rending into the unexpected shelters of solace and hope, there shimmers a light that helps us see we do not walk alone. From her own path of grief, Jan offers a luminous, unforgettable gift that invites us to know the tenacity of hope and to recognize the presence of love that, as she writes, is "sorrow's most lasting cure."

Author : Matt Fradd
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645851325

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How to Be Happy: Saint Thomas’ Secret to a Good Life by Matt Fradd Pdf

What brings us real and lasting happiness? Although just about every marketing firm, self-help guru, and man on the street has an answer, very few, if any, understand true happiness. It doesn’t come from power, pleasure, popularity, or possessions. So what is happiness and how do we find it? In How to Be Happy, author Matt Fradd relies on the help of St. Thomas Aquinas to show what will—and what won’t—bring us happiness in this life. By making the thought of Aquinas utterly accessible for today, How to Be Happy is an invaluable guide to a good life.

Author : Walter Farrell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780984173143

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Companion to the Summa Theologica: The pursuit of happiness (corresponding to the Summa theologica Ia IIae) by Walter Farrell Pdf

Author : Megan Nix
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385548601

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Remedies for Sorrow by Megan Nix Pdf

This "compulsively readable memoir...brings to light an issue that has been too long ignored...An immensely important book" (Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of Cribsheet). A new classic memoir about a mother’s fierce love for her exceptional child and her courageous journey to break the silence about a hidden risk to pregnant women. After a seemingly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix’s second daughter, Anna, was born very small and profoundly deaf. Megan and her husband, Luke, learned that Anna could have lifelong delays due to an infection from a virus they had never heard of: cytomegalovirus, or CMV, which Megan had unwittingly contracted from her toddler during pregnancy. Megan was electrified by this knowledge. She had been warned, while pregnant, about the risks of saunas, sushi, and unpasteurized cheese, a lack of folic acid, and an excess of kitty litter. She knew to fear a slew of genetic syndromes she could do little to prevent. But she had not been told that CMV is contagious in the saliva of one out of three toddlers, spread through a kiss, a shared cup, a bite of unfinished toast. She had not been told that the stakes were high, that congenital CMV causes more birth defects and childhood disabilities—including blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and autism—than any infectious disease. Or that some of these disabilities are evident at birth, but others appear suddenly at age two or three and are never traced back to congenital CMV. Remedies for Sorrow unfolds across the dramatic landscape of Sitka, Alaska, where Luke makes his living as a salmon fisherman. There, Megan struggles to meet Anna’s needs and dives deeper into the mystery of why no one—not her OBGYN, not her toddler’s pediatrician—had mentioned CMV, despite the staggering cost of this silence to families and children like Anna. From this rugged and beautiful place comes a memoir about the boundless capacity of mothers, the extraordinary child that is Anna, and the lifesaving power of truth.

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002026515M

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The "Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) Pdf

Author : Ian Dowbiggin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139498685

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The Quest for Mental Health by Ian Dowbiggin Pdf

This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first, this search for emotional health and welfare has cost billions. In the name of mental health, millions around the world have been tranquilized, institutionalized, psycho-analyzed, sterilized, lobotomized and even euthanized. Yet at the dawn of the new millennium, reported rates of depression and anxiety are unprecedentedly high. Drawing on years of field research, Ian Dowbiggin argues that if the quest for emotional well-being has reached a crisis point in the twenty-first century, it is because mass society is enveloped by cultures of therapism and consumerism, which increasingly advocate bureaucratic and managerial approaches to health and welfare.

Author : Meg Mason
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063049604

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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason Pdf

"Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. . . . While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." — Ann Patchett “Improbably charming...will have you chortling and reading lines aloud.” — PEOPLE The internationally bestselling, compulsively readable novel—spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tender—that combines the psychological insight of Sally Rooney with the sharp humor of Nina Stibbe and the emotional resonance of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick—the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happy—has just moved out. Because there’s something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. When she was seventeen, a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. But countless doctors, endless therapy, every kind of drug later, she still doesn’t know what’s wrong, why she spends days unable to get out of bed or alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks. And she has nowhere to go except her childhood home: a bohemian (dilapidated) townhouse in a romantic (rundown) part of London—to live with her mother, a minorly important sculptor (and major drinker) and her father, a famous poet (though unpublished) and try to survive without the devoted, potty-mouthed sister who made all the chaos bearable back then, and is now too busy or too fed up to deal with her. But maybe, by starting over, Martha will get to write a better ending for herself—and she’ll find out that she’s not quite finished after all.

Author : Richard Baxter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1460994655

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The Cure of Melancholy and Overmuch Sorrow, by Faith by Richard Baxter Pdf

Richard Baxter writes on the best preservatives against melancholy and sorrow. He wrote with astonishing relevance about the complexities of dealing with Christians who seem to lack the joy of the Lord and who are unable to enjoy God. '¬SDelighting in God, and in his word and ways,'¬ he said, '¬Sis the ?ower and life of true religion. But these that I speak of can delight in nothÂing'¬ ;neither God, nor in his word, nor any duty.'¬

Author : Susan Cain
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0241300673

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Bittersweet by Susan Cain Pdf

Whether you long for the partner who broke up with you, or the one you dream of meeting; whether you hunger for the happy childhood you'll never have, or for the divine; whether you yearn for a lost person, an unborn child, the fountain of youth, or unconditional love- These are all manifestations of the same great ache... In this inspiring masterpiece, Susan Cain - author of the international bestseller Quiet - shows us the power of a "bittersweet" outlook- the dramatically overlooked tendency to states of longing and poignancy, and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. Embracing the bittersweet means understanding that light and dark, birth and death - bitter and sweet - are forever paired, and that only by recognising this can we be fully whole. Bringing to light the ideas of artists, writers and thinkers from all over the world, and her own quest for answers over the course of a lifetime, Susan Cain shifts our understanding of the world by teaching us how to transform pain and sorrow into creativity and love - and therefore how to turn our sadness into an enriching superpower.

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
ISBN : UCBK:B000713806

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The "Summa Theologica" of St. Thomas Aquinas ... by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) Pdf

Author : Richard Baxter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1713
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021894753

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Preservatives against Melancholy and Overmuch Sorrow. Or the Cure of both by faith and physick, etc by Richard Baxter Pdf

Author : Allan V. Horwitz,Jerome C. Wakefield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780195313048

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The Loss of Sadness by Allan V. Horwitz,Jerome C. Wakefield Pdf

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Author : Ellis Weycoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1657
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021157405

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Publick sorrow. A remedy for Englands malady. Being an explanation of the fourteenth verse of the first chapter of the Prophet Joel by Ellis Weycoe Pdf

Author : Richard Oliver Brooks
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781669840442

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The Final Elegy: the Consolation of the Classics in Old Age by Richard Oliver Brooks Pdf

Old age is a time of losses- permanent, cumulative and irreversible. These losses include our loss of work in retirement, the eclipse of our past, our biological decline, dependency resulting from such decline, the foreshortening of our future, the abandonment of belief in our own improvement and our society’s progress, and, of course, our death. This book views these losses as part of an elegy of old age. Elegy is a poetic or prose mourning of loss. Sadness and other emotions result. With elegiac understanding we detach ourselves from these losses to seek and find consolation. This book is concerned with achieving intellectual detachment through meditative reflection with the help of reading and appreciating the classics. The final stage of the old age elegy- consolation can be found, at least in part, within the classics-“the garlands of repose”. The classics are broadly defined by Matthew Arnold as: “the best that [has} been thought and said: { or found in the fine arts}. To benefit from the classis requires a life-long liberal education. This education begins with an introduction to the classics in youth, makes use of them during our adult lives, and supplies their conclusion for old age meditation. Such significant works enable us to place the losses we suffer within an intellectual framework of perennial ideas. It is by means of such an intellectual framework that we secure consolation in old age. Classic works familiarize us deeply with the losses and emotions we endure-suggest substitutes for the goods of the life we have lost in old age, offer opportunities of catharsis for the sadness we experience and help us transform ourselves in old age. Classics help us see old age and its losses as part of a complete life which hold a unique value of its own, while remaining part of larger nature processes, history and intellectual traditions.

Author : David A. Karp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190260965

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Speaking of Sadness by David A. Karp Pdf

"Speaking of Sadness, based on fifty in-depth interviews, provides first-hand accounts of the depression experience while discovering clear regularities in the ways that personal identities are shaped over the course of an "illness career." The new edition of the book is highlighted by a thoroughly new and extensive introduction"--