The Loss That Binds Us

Author : Sweta Vikram
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781615997992

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The Loss That Binds Us by Sweta Vikram Pdf

Follow a Trail Blazed Through Grief’s Landscape The Loss That Binds Us is abeautifully written grief manual from the heart. When the agony of losing a beloved one strikes, you will find solace, comfort and even inspiration within it. The 108 practical tips help navigate the multitude of emotions brought on by loss. Let Sweta’s guidance help begin your own healing and move on or support someone who is grieving. The book looks at grief in its various facets and helps you identify what you are experiencing. Following her own journey through grief of losing her parents, the author helps you acknowledge, understand, and accept what you may be experiencing. An intentional, insightful, deep, raw, sometimes funny, and always real book, this is one you will turn to if you are experiencing loss. You’ll want to keep this book by your side as a trusted ally. “If you are experiencing the loss of a loved one, or the loss of love in your own heart, then pick up this read and dive in. You will emerge with a sense of priceless wholeness that we all gravely need in this modern life, bereft of the fabric of community that has long been our human right.”~ Victor Briere, Ayurvedic Doctor “Vikram sheds light on the various stages of grief, coping with it, emphasizing emotional and mental wellbeing and leaves you with practical suggestions to embrace your grief and live through it.” ~ Inder Kalra M.D “The book provides concrete and realistic tools and tips for grievers at any stage in their journey. Sweta's ability to interweave education about grief with her own lived experience demonstrates the power our cultures and communities have in learning to live with grief.” ~ Shelby Remillard, LMHC, Senior Therapist and Assistant Clinical Director, Steady NYC "Grief is a universal experience we all endure. In her book, The Loss that Binds Us, Sweta asks us to think of grief as a cycle and to be prepared for its temperamental nature. The book provides 108 tips that will deepen your understanding of grief and hand you the tools to quietly - but surely - soldier on. The book is hopeful, gentle and kind. It maintains that navigating grief and swimming to the other side is a lot of work, but, with time, it's possible." ~ Mamta Singh, documentary filmmaker From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com

Author : Judith Viorst
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781439134863

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Necessary Losses by Judith Viorst Pdf

The classic New York Times bestseller about the many forms of loss we experience throughout our lives, and the necessity of letting go. In Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst turns her considerable talents to a serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are a certain and necessary part of life. She argues persuasively that through the loss of our mothers’ protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper perspective, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life. She has written a book that is both life-affirming and life-changing. Drawing on psychoanalysis, literature, and personal experience, Necessary Losses is a philosophy for understanding and accepting a universal human experience. “One of the most sensitive and comprehensive books about the human condition I have read in a long time.” —Harold S. Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People “Viorst has synthesized a vast amount of research into a very readable and generous whole.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Joanna Ho
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780063059368

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The Silence that Binds Us by Joanna Ho Pdf

“A grieving teen fights Asian hate by finding her voice in this complex, timely story.” —Kirkus (starred review) "With a layered, sensitive voice, Ho’s weighty novel delves into themes of racism, classism, loss, and healing." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Inspired by the recent rise in hate crimes against AAPI, Ho’s story of inclusion, diversity, and social action rings true. Maybelline is a multifaceted narrator whose drive to right wrongs and stand up to injustice deserves applause. Ho illuminates both activism and mental health in marginalized communities, showing that even a bright, young achiever can experience depression without anyone knowing.”—Booklist "A powerful, hopeful YA debut. May’s journey through personal and familial grief is poignant and questions of power and privilege are explored with nuance that will spark conversation among teen readers." —School Library Journal “This sensitive novel does an impressive balancing act, examining mental illness and its stigma among Asian Americans while weaving in themes of racism and grief. The overarching messages—listening with empathy, and seeking help—ring loud and clear.” —Horn Book Joanna Ho, New York Times bestselling author of Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, has written an exquisite, heart-rending debut young adult novel that will inspire all to speak truth to power. Maybelline Chen isn’t the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May prefers hoodies over dresses and wants to become a writer. When asked, her mom can’t come up with one specific reason for why she's proud of her only daughter. May’s beloved brother, Danny, on the other hand, has just been admitted to Princeton. But Danny secretly struggles with depression, and when he dies by suicide, May's world is shattered. In the aftermath, racist accusations are hurled against May's parents for putting too much “pressure” on him. May’s father tells her to keep her head down. Instead, May challenges these ugly stereotypes through her writing. Yet the consequences of speaking out run much deeper than anyone could foresee. Who gets to tell our stories, and who gets silenced? It’s up to May to take back the narrative. Joanna Ho masterfully explores timely themes of mental health, racism, and classism. A Bank Street Books Best Children's Book of the Year for ages 14 and older in Family/School/Community and noted for outstanding merit (2023) "An ornately carved window into the core of shared humanity. Read and re-read. Then read it again." —Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin "Powerful and piercing, filled with truth, love, and a heroine who takes back the narrative." —Abigail Hing Wen, New York Times bestselling author of Loveboat, Taipei “A held-breath of a novel that finds courage amidst brokenness, and holds a candle to the dark.” —Stacey Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl “Ho confronts racism with care and nuance, capturing the complexities of grief and growth. A poignant call to action.” —Randy Ribay, National Book Award finalist for Patron Saints of Nothing

Author : Norm Prigge
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781465385994

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A Journey Through Existence: the Way of Worldly Love by Norm Prigge Pdf

Preface I explicitly do not affirm the truth of any statement made or implied herein concerning any actual people, including myself; or any actual relationships, including my own; or any concrete situations depicted. Everything I have written is either about or based upon my perceptions, memories, imagining, suppositions, assessments of poetic and dramatic appropriateness, and the like, all such, qua sources of factual truth, being notoriously fallible. The only truth that I do affirm herein is that of the universals that can be abstracted from the particulars of my subjective experience, the universalscall them poetic truthswhereby my audience can better understand and perfect themselves as I, hopefully, have been able to do for myself in the living and subsequent describing of all that follows. If anything I have written happens to occasion any people pain, I express in anticipation my deepest compassion; such people must know, however, that I would not have written as I have if I did not suppose that I would thereby have caused, in potentiality, far greater good than harm. Bear Valley Springs August, 2011

Author : Robert Mugerauer
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823263257

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Responding to Loss by Robert Mugerauer Pdf

Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed readings that seek to clarify the particularity of the intense force such works bring forth. Mugerauer shows how, in the face of what is irrevocably taken away as well as of what continues to be given, the unavoidable task of interpretation is ours alone. Mugerauer examines works in three different forms that powerfully call on us to respond to loss: Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing, Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Berlin, and Wim Wenders’s film Wings of Desire. Explicating these difficult but rich works with reference to the thought of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Marion, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas, the author helps us to experience the multiple and diverse ways in which all of us are opened to the saturated phenomena of loss, violence, witnessing, and responsibility.

Author : Dr. Nancy Copeland-Payton
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781594733451

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The Losses of Our Lives by Dr. Nancy Copeland-Payton Pdf

Find hope and renewal in life's natural cycle of ordinary losses and new beginnings. "When we intentionally enter into our everyday walk through small losses, the terrain of larger losses, the valley of the shadow of death, is not totally unknown. It is not completely unfamiliar, alien, terrifying, for we have walked some of this way before with our lesser losses. We can journey through this valley of loss, for journey through it we must. And we can emerge markedly changed, but alive, on the other side." —from the Prologue Going beyond loss as a problem to be resolved, a grief to be worked through, Dr. Nancy Copeland-Payton, a spiritual director and ordained clergywoman, reframes loss from the perspective that our everyday losses help us learn what we need to handle the major losses. Weaving in spiritual and classical themes, personal and scriptural story, Dr. Copeland-Payton shows us that by becoming aware of what our lesser losses have to teach us, the larger losses of our lives become less terrifying. Each chapter includes a spiritual practice and questions for reflection to help you: Mine the hidden depths of painful losses of things and places Traverse the devastating loss of relationships and the heart-wrenching death of people we love. Overcome the steep, dark slopes of loss of beliefs and faith. Venture past our fear of the losses of aging and our own death.

Author : Eric Coombes,Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781845409197

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What is Wrong with Us? by Eric Coombes,Theodore Dalrymple Pdf

Can any of us entirely banish from our hearts and minds grave misgivings about the condition of the culture we now inhabit? Expressions of those misgivings are mostly unheard in public forums, ignored in the dominant media, and, if noticed at all, dismissed by state-supported bureaucracies and commercial vested interests. To have any chance of gaining attention, they must resolve themselves into coherent forms. We need to clarify our perceptions of the things that trouble us, by articulating and developing our thoughts about them. That is, we are in need of serious criticism—serious criticism, aesthetic, social and political—which is notably lacking in the contemporary world, especially in places readily available to the educated non-specialist, such as the 'quality' weekend newspapers, and especially, perhaps, in relation to the visual arts. The pieces collected in this volume are not presented as amounting to an overall account or theory of our cultural condition. They are offered merely as examples of serious criticism, of what we need if we are to begin to think more profitably about our condition, daring, in defiance of contemporary dogmatism, to make the necessary judgements of value without which our culture will continue to disintegrate.

Author : A.P. Mead
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382320447

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Manna in the Wilderness by A.P. Mead Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Sarah Nagaty
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031350139

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The Collective Dream by Sarah Nagaty Pdf

This book links two seminal moments in Egypt’s history – the Revolution of 25th January 2011 and the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser – through various cultural manifestations. It conceives the concept of “collective dreaming” to map out the subliminal feeling which runs deep through experiences of socially transformative moments. The author has extensively studied the structure of feelings that encompasses the experiences not only of activist minorities but the broader mass of revolutionary movements. In certain historical moments, hopes and aspirations bind together millions of people from all walks of life: students, workers, farmers, and middle-class professionals. Nagaty calls this phenomenon the “collective dream”, something which has been carried through generations of Egyptians. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of social movement studies, cultural studies and cultural sociology.

Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781941631447

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Mapping the World of the Sorcerer's Apprentice by Mercedes Lackey Pdf

From the Dursleys as social commentary to a look at Snape's role in less than child-friendly fanfiction . . . from the parallels between Azkaban and Abu Ghraib to the role of religion at Hogwarts . . . from why Dumbledore had to die to why killing Harry never should have been part of Voldemort's plan to begin with . . . Mapping the World of the Sorcerer's Apprentice offers a comprehensive look at the Harry Potter series through the eyes of leading science fiction and fantasy writers and religion, psychology, and science experts. This book has not been authorized by J. K. Rowling, Warner Bros. or anyone associated with the Harry Potter books or films.

Author : Yvonne Donohoe
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504322348

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Soul Stripped Bare by Yvonne Donohoe Pdf

In an era of happiness, lattes and the ‘quick fix’ Donohoe explores the natural but painful experience of grief. The question on her lips is ‘Am I Grieving Normally?’ She soon discovers there is nothing normal about profound loss. This beautifully written memoir and grief manual is healing and transformative for anyone experiencing loss. “Grief provided time to heal from the brokenness of loss: my broken heart, my broken spirit, my broken life, my broken future...” Meet courageous parents who all learnt that love transcends death and that grieving is like breathing – we instinctively know how to do it. “Death stripped my son of his life yet grief provided the opportunity to strip away the protective walls I’d built around mine. Death was the doorway to his new life in spirit and as my precious son moved on, I too, was moving on. My soul had been stripped bare in preparation for my rebirth.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015023176160

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Switchmen's Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pal Ahluwalia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135161781

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Out of Africa by Pal Ahluwalia Pdf

At the heart of this book is the argument that the fact that so many post-structuralist French intellectuals have a strong ‘colonial’ connection, usually with Algeria, cannot be a coincidence. The ‘biographical’ fact that so many French intellectuals were born in or otherwise connected with French Algeria has often been noted, but it has never been theorised. Ahluwalia makes a convincing case that post-structuralism in fact has colonial and postcolonial roots. This is an important argument, and one that ‘connects’ two theoretical currents that continue to be of great interest, post-structuralism and postcolonialism. The re-reading of what is now familiar material against the background of de-colonial struggles demonstrates the extent to which it is this new condition that prompted theory to question long-held assumptions inscribed in the European colonial enterprise. The wide-ranging discussion, ranging across authors as different as Foucault, Derrida, Fanon, Althusser, Cixous, Bourdieu and Lyotard, enables the reader to make connections that have remained unnoticed or been neglected. It also brings back into view a history of struggles, both political and theoretical, that has shaped the landscape of critique in the social sciences and humanities. This clear and lucid discussion of important and often difficult thinkers will be widely read and widely debated by students and academics alike.

Author : J. Geddes,J. Roth,Jules Simon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230620940

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The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust by J. Geddes,J. Roth,Jules Simon Pdf

The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust advances the idea that the Holocaust undermined confidence in basic beliefs about human rights and shows steps of salvage and retrieval that need to be taken if ethics is to be a significant presence in a world still besieged by genocide and atrocity.

Author : J. Catherine Sherman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781462067633

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Grieving by J. Catherine Sherman Pdf

Grieving invites the reader to understand the universality of grief, its various expressions, and the depth of emotion experienced within it. In grieving the loss of loved ones, jobs, reputations, and numerous other things, we may begin to doubt the faith that has upheld us throughout our trials. In doubting, though, we open ourselves to further growth by inviting God to share our pain and sorrow and to help us in renewing ourselves in Him. In the first part of this guide, called The Retreat, author J. Catherine Sherman offers a deeper understanding of the painful emotions that develop as part of grief, the facets of the journey through the grieving process, and the acceptance that our anger at God may be more typical than we realize. The second part, called The Journey, presents an examination of the process of grieving, moving through anger, doubt, trust, and eventual surrender to the situation as it stands. Depicted in vivid imagery, these passages transport readers to a place of meditative exploration of grief. Through thoughtful reflections and resolutions, we are able to take steps into understanding the struggle while moving beyond the initial anger with God or doubt of His love for us and our loved ones.