Shedding Light On The Darkness Dealing With The Issues Of Suicide

Author : James Michael Smith,Beverly Smith,Kelly Solheim
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469998394

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Shedding Light on the Darkness, Dealing with the Issues of Suicide by James Michael Smith,Beverly Smith,Kelly Solheim Pdf

***This edition is a revision of the first. I rewrote it with the mindset of making it an easier read by cutting out a lot of the busyness of the first edition. My Story is better detailed, chronologically smoother and does not have the unnecessary topical breaks. The optional questions have been eliminated. I believe the reader is already coming to the text with their own questions. Again, I believe this edition will be more valuable because of the changes that were made and it takes only about 1 1/2 hours to read.*** This work was written out of genuine concern. It is intended to give hope, insight, support and healing to those who have been touched by suicide. My main goal is to aid in suicide prevention through enabling the reader to identify, help and save both those who are contemplating suicide and those who are likely to ponder it in the future. I believe that I have an insider's view of this devastating darkness called suicide. I have battled with it for over 20 years. My compelling desire is to help, support, and create a healing environment for those who have been destroyed by suicide and to aid in prevention whenever possible. In order to get the most out of this book, it's important to read it with an open mind. It has been written from my worldview and personal beliefs. These beliefs have kept me alive over the years and they continue to support me on a daily basis. A compilation of stories will be used throughout this book to help us understand this dark act we call suicide. It is my hope that you will find it both interesting and encouraging. I do not pretend to fully understand this enormous subject and this book is not intended to be all inclusive. My intent is to show there is hope for the hopeless, light for those in darkness, truth for those being lied to, and forgiveness for the guilt-laden. For more information go to the author's website: www.mikessite777.com

Author : Claudio V. Zanini,Lima Bhuiyan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848883666

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This Thing of Darkness: Shedding Light on Evil by Claudio V. Zanini,Lima Bhuiyan Pdf

Author : Rory O’Connor
Publisher : Random House
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781473583467

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When It Is Darkest by Rory O’Connor Pdf

AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 Winner of the 2021 BPS Popular Science Book Award 'Read this incredible book. I wept and I learnt' - Prof Tanya Byron 'This book comes from the heart' - Roman Kemp 'Compassionate, personal and thought-provoking' - Prof Steve Peters When you are faced with the unthinkable, this is the book you can turn to. Suicide is baffling and devastating in equal measures, and it can affect any one of us: one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Yet despite the scale of the devastation, for family members and friends, suicide is still poorly understood. Drawing on decades of work in the field of suicide prevention and research, and having been bereaved by suicide twice, Professor O'Connor is here to help. This book will untangle the complex reasons behind suicide and dispel any unhelpful myths. For those trying to help someone vulnerable, it will provide indispensable advice on communication, stressing the importance of listening to fears and anxieties without judgment. And for those who are struggling to get through the tragedy of suicide, it will help you find strength in the darkest of places.

Author : Linda Goldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135933050

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Raising Our Children to Be Resilient by Linda Goldman Pdf

In this timely and much-needed book, Linda Goldman addresses the many frightening events that impact our children by providing the reader with a seamless mixture of theory and practice garnered from her extensive experience in the field. Raising Our Children to Be Resilient includes trauma resolution techniques and case studies, discussions of the respective roles played by parents, teachers and the larger community as well as additional resources for those in a position to help children who have been traumatized. The goal of Raising Our Children to Be Resilient is exactly what its title promises: to help children through their pain and confusion and guide them into a flexible and compassionate adulthood.

Author : Christina Thoen
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452599458

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Life... Create Your Own Masterpiece! by Christina Thoen Pdf

Prepare to be inspired and have your visual sense as well as your heart and mind enticed as Christina Thoen describes how to create the ultimate masterpiece – your life! From gathering your materials to the finishing touches, this book is your guide to creating the life of your dreams. And the best part is you don’t need to be an artist to “get it”. She explains how the elements of art and principles of composition used to create stunning artwork can be applied to explore and create a life of true happiness! Your world is a blank canvas and understanding how it all works gives you the freedom to create exactly what you want. This life is all yours to make the best that only YOU can!

Author : Robert S. Bristow,Ian Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000434835

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Liminality in Tourism by Robert S. Bristow,Ian Jenkins Pdf

Liminality is not typically associated with tourism, even though it can be viewed as an intrinsic element of the social/cultural experiences of tourism. Liminality in Tourism: Spatial and Temporal Considerations aims to build upon the tradition of liminality as expounded in social and anthropological disciplines, elaborating on the theoretical principles and concepts found within certain aspects of the tourist journey and tourist product. The emergence of post-modern society has impelled a change in the tourist gaze towards a more experiential and adventuresome globalised experience. An important aspect of the tourist phenomenon of liminality is where a transformative experience is triggered by entering a liminoid tourist space, leaving the tourist permanently psychologically transformed, before returning to normalised society. The narrative provides a new perspective on the tourist experience with a provocative examination into the multidimensional aspects of tourism, by exploring tourism within the spatial and temporal aspects of liminal landscapes. Covid-19 has further changed the rubric of tourism. Until the current pandemic, tourism has basically been a fun experience. In a post pandemic world, however, the tourist is now facing an unknown future which will almost certainly affect tourism liminality. This book presents the reader with a wealth of examples and case studies closely illustrating the association between tourism and liminal experiences. The geographical perspectives explore the more subconscious outcomes of destination and tourist product consumption. The book should be a useful reader to tourism geography where the theory of liminality can be synthesized into tourist experiences. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.

Author : Korstanje, Maximiliano,George, Babu
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522527510

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Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism by Korstanje, Maximiliano,George, Babu Pdf

Mankind has been fascinated with and drawn to the macabre for many years. This is particularly evident in the growing popularity of dark tourism, which centers on locations known for death and suffering. Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism is a pivotal reference source featuring the latest scholarly research in which the rise of new technology platforms is not only changing tourism worldwide, but also facilitating the access to areas of war, mourning, and disaster. Including coverage on a number of topics such as sexual tourism, disaster recovery, and capitalism, this publication is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on concepts and methodologies of the dark tourism industry.

Author : F. David Farnell,Norman L. Geisler,Joseph M. Holden,William C. Roach,Phil Fernandes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498237246

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Vital Issues in the Inerrancy Debate by F. David Farnell,Norman L. Geisler,Joseph M. Holden,William C. Roach,Phil Fernandes Pdf

The inerrancy of God's Word has been attacked throughout church history. Today's assaults are unique since neo-evangelicals now surrender to post-modernistic ideas of history and historical-critical ideologies that assault this vital doctrine. They seek to redefine the orthodox meaning of inerrancy. Since the signing of the Chicago Statements, troubling signs have once again appeared in recent years among many who either did not fight the battles for the inerrancy of Scripture as did the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, or who do not remember the troubling times that caused their development. The nature and definition of "inerrancy" are now being changed to include ideas of fallibility. History is forgotten. The need arises for sounding the alarm for Vital Issues in Inerrancy. Evangelical schools and churches that broke away earlier to defend inerrancy surrender now to academic prestige and scholarly fads instead of faithfulness to God's inerrant Word. The contributors pray that the Lord will raise up a new generation with the spiritual fervency of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy to uphold the inerrancy of God's Word: Isaiah 40:8--"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever."

Author : Dallen J. Timothy,Alon Gelbman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000798135

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Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism by Dallen J. Timothy,Alon Gelbman Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism examines the multiple and diverse relationships between global tourism and political boundaries. With contributions from international, leading thinkers, this book offers theoretical frameworks for understanding borders and tourism and empirical examples from borderlands throughout the world. This handbook provides comprehensive overview of historical and contemporary thinking about evolving national frontiers and tourism. Tourism, by definition, entails people crossing borders of various scales and is manifested in a wide range of conceptualizations of human mobility. Borders significantly influence tourism and determine how the industry grows, is managed, and manifests on the ground. Simultaneously, tourism strongly affects borders, border laws, border policies, and international relations. This book highlights the traditional relationships between borders and tourism, including borders as attractions, barriers, transit spaces, and determiners of tourism landscapes. It offers deeper insights into current thinking about space and place, mobilities, globalization, citizenship, conflict and peace, trans-frontier cooperation, geopolitics, "otherness" and here versus there, the heritagization of borders and memory-making, biodiversity, and bordering, debordering, and rebordering processes. Offering an unparalleled interdisciplinary glimpse at political boundaries and tourism, this handbook will be an essential resource for all students and researchers of tourism, geopolitics and border studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, history, international relations, and global studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004681385

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Analysing Darkness and Light: Dystopias and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

The book situates itself in the fields of philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theories of art, linking its discussions of fictional dystopias to debates on ongoing crises. It asks: Are dystopias a useful tool for imagining ways out of sombre situations or do they prevent us from engaging in transformative action? The book consists of a thorough introduction and three major sections: 1. Dystopias of Meaninglessness, 2. Techno-Euphoria vs. Terror of Technology, and 3. Dystopias Come True? The individual chapters discuss, among other things, liberalism and conservatism, “luxury communism”, pandemics, technology-induced anxiety, empty speech, ethics, film, literature, architecture and music.

Author : Andrew Lacey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031495403

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Shelley’s Visions of Death by Andrew Lacey Pdf

Author : Daniel H. Olson,Maximiliano E. Korstanje
Publisher : CABI
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789241877

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Dark Tourism and Pilgrimage by Daniel H. Olson,Maximiliano E. Korstanje Pdf

In recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Taking a broad definition of pilgrimage so as to consider aspects of both religious and non-religious travel that might be considered pilgrimage-like, it covers theories and histories of dark tourism and pilgrimage, pilgrimage to dark tourism sites, and experience design. A key resource for researchers and students of heritage, tourism and pilgrimage, this book will also be of great interest to those studying anthropology, religious studies and related social science subjects.

Author : Jonathan Skinner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857453419

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Writing the Dark Side of Travel by Jonathan Skinner Pdf

The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how are they represented? This volume takes an ethnographic and interdisciplinary approach to explore the writings and texts of dark journeys and travels. In traveling over the dead, amongst the dying, and alongside the suffering, the authors give us a tour of humanity's violence and misery. And yet, from this dark side, there comes great beauty and poignancy in the characterization of plight; creativity in the comic, graphic, and graffiti sketches and comments on life; and the sense of profound and spiritual journeys being undertaken, recorded, and memorialized. Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004), and co-editor of Managing Island Life (University of Abertay Press 2006) and Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism (Berghahn 2011).

Author : Conrad Riker
Publisher : Conrad Riker
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Death Cult by Conrad Riker Pdf

Are you tired of watching society celebrate the destruction of human life and relationships through abortion, euthanasia, and no-fault divorce? You're not alone. In this hard-hitting exposé, author Conrad Riker takes a dive into the darkness of the anti-natalist, progressive death cult that seeks to erode our most cherished values. Using objective facts and a masculine perspective, Riker debunks the myths perpetuated by the left and delves into the consequences of their actions on our society. You'll wonder why you ever believed their lies. With each turn of the page, you'll find yourself more engrossed in the author's well-crafted arguments and eye-opening evidence against these cruel practices. The power of the book lies in its ability to connect directly with your concerns. Some questions you may have been asking yourself include: 1. What's the real truth behind the so-called "choice" of abortion? 2. Are vulnerable and elderly lives really worth sacrificing in the name of euthanasia? 3. Why have no-fault divorce rates skyrocketed, and what's the impact on children and families? In "Death Cult," Riker addresses these concerns head-on, revealing the chilling realities behind these seemingly benign actions. Key insights include: 1. The shocking statistics on abortion and euthanasia that definitively prove their inhumanity. 2. The patriarchal, rational perspective on reducing human suffering without resorting to the intentional termination of life. 3. A revealing exposé on the nefarious agendas behind the rise of no-fault divorce, and the long-term consequences for families. The book maintains a balanced and reasoned tone throughout, leaving the reader better informed and more prepared to challenge the prevailing death cult ideologies. If you're ready to fight back against the encroachment of anti-natalist beliefs and defend the sanctity of life, then "Death Cult" is the book for you. Don't waste any more time in despair - order your copy today and join the ranks of the red-pilled resistance. Act now, and help put an end to this Satanic death cult once and for all.

Author : George Newlands,Allen Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317121213

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Hospitable God by George Newlands,Allen Smith Pdf

Exploring the hospitality of God, and its implications for human thought and action, this book examines the concepts of hospitality as cognitive tools for reframing our thinking about God, divine action, and human response in discipleship. Hospitality is imagined as an interactive symbol, changing perspectives and encouraging stable environments of compassionate construction in society. Human rights are of crucial importance to the wellbeing of the people of our planet. But there is a sense in which they will always be an emergency measure, a response to evils as they are happening. The authors argue that a hospitable comparative theology reaches out to bring Christian hospitality into the dialogue of world religions and cultures. It will respect the identity of particular groups and yet will strive for a cosmopolitan sharing of common values. It will respect tradition but also openness to reform and re-imagining. It will encourage convergence and development in a fluid stream of committed hospitalities.