When facing demands at work, dealing with emotional situations at home, or struggling with a relationship, stressful thoughts and feelings can be overwhelming and may cause stress-related physical or emotional problems. This meditational will help readers identify the source of their stress and will offer techniques to reduce the unhealthy tension, anger, frustration, negativity, or fear the result. Topics include the pressure to achieve, the impact of the past, setting goals, identifying burnout, raising healthy children, coping with death, dealing with finances, and managing time. These supportive meditations--each with an inspirational quote, reflective essay, and positive affirmation--will help the reader tap into the calm, positive person within them to achieve relaxation, improved health, and self-satisfaction.
A book of fresh meditations, Morning Light offers beautifully written bursts of inspiration to help you begin each day with renewed self-confidence and serenity. Author Amy Dean brings the comfort and courage offered in her top-selling mediation book Night Light to this companion for the morning hours, helping devoted fans and new readers start their day on a bright and positive note. Written in her signature personable style, these sensitively chosen quotations, inspiring reflections, and simple prayers work together to make each day of the year one to look forward to.
Creativity is essentially nothing more than awareness: the ability to take notice, to pay attention, to perceive, to examine, to probe, to weigh, to study, to look, and to heed. A big part of creativity is discovery, and the natural world is one big treasure hunt, full of potential, possibility, and priceless possessions. Natural Creativity will interest craftspeople and artists of all ages, and van be used to promote family projects. It teaches how to rediscover awareness, appreciation, and reverence for every little thing in life. It shows us ways to exercise natural creativity, using nature's raw materials to make natural crafts, thereby integrating personal creativity and ingenuity with nature. In addition, the book raises awareness about America's early settlers with tales and information that heighten the appreciation of traditional American crafts. In addition, you can use Natural Creativity to guide you on a stimulating journey of creative exploration. Find our more about your natural surroundings as well as your own innate creativity by trying some of the simple and easy-to-follow exercises that are described at the end of each chapter. For more of a challenge, try out the more complicated projects that are scattered throughout the book. These activities make wonderful projects for the whole family to share.
Amy E. Dean, bestselling author of Night Light and Pleasant Dreams, tells us in Facing Life's Challenges--Daily Meditations for Overcoming Depression, Grief and "The Blues," that there are healthy responses to emotional pain, as well as destructive responses. She says, "Give yourself permission to feel and express those feelings when handling a loss, or major disappointment, in life. Doing so can lead to healing and long-term recovery." Facing Life's Challenges is designed to assist readers experiencing depression, who are going through a grieving process or just generally having a hard time. Each of the 366 daily meditations in this book suggests a simple "mental conditioning exercise" that can help muster an optimistic attitude even when things are most chaotic. Facing Life's Challenges can help you gradually minimize your emotional lows, and maximize your self-empowering highs.
When facing demands at work, dealing with emotional situations at home, or struggling with a relationship, stressful thoughts and feelings can be overwhelming and may cause stress-related physical or emotional problems. This meditational will help readers identify the source of their stress and will offer techniques to reduce the unhealthy tension, anger, frustration, negativity, or fear the result. Topics include the pressure to achieve, the impact of the past, setting goals, identifying burnout, raising healthy children, coping with death, dealing with finances, and managing time. These supportive meditations--each with an inspirational quote, reflective essay, and positive affirmation--will help the reader tap into the calm, positive person within them to achieve relaxation, improved health, and self-satisfaction.
Night Light's quotations, reflections, and simple prayers ease the loneliness, fear, and anxiety that can burden our nights so we can wake up and meet each new day refreshed and inspired. Remember how comforting it felt, as a child, to fall asleep with a night-light glowing in the dark? Our Night Light is a collection of meditations that helps us remember how our Higher Power is like a comforting, ever-present light in our lives. These nightly readings can help us learn to trust the spiritual light within us for strength, comfort, and guidance.
Twenty ordinary people from troubled homes demonstrate how there can be happily ever after endings to the painful, confusing stories of adults who grew up amidst addiction, mental illness, and emotional disorder.
In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how alliances organized at the regional level are the most effective tool to build a voice for working people in the workplace, community, and halls of government. The authors draw on their own successes to offer in-depth, contemporary case studies of effective labor-community coalitions. They also outline a concrete strategy for building power at the regional level. This pioneering model presents the regional building blocks for national change. A diverse audience—both within the labor movement and among its allies—will welcome this clear, detailed, and inspiring presentation of regional power-building tactics, which include deep coalition-building, leadership development, policy research, and aggressive political action. A New New Deal explores successful coalitions forged in Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, San Jose, New Haven, and Atlanta toward goals such as universal health insurance for children and sensible redevelopment efforts that benefit workers as well as businesses. The authors view partnerships between labor and grassroots organizations as a mutually beneficial strategy based on shared goals, resulting in a broadened membership base and increased organizational capacity. They make the innovative argument that the labor movement can steward both industry and community and make manifest the ways in which workplace battles are not the parochial concerns of isolated workers, but a fundamental struggle for America's future. Drawing on historical parallels, the authors illustrate how long-term collaborations between labor and community organizations are sowing the seeds of a new New Deal.
Pleasant Dreams is designed for adults to create a peaceful pre-sleep ritual so you can drift off into a slumber and stay asleep all night long. This book will help restore your inner peace when darkness falls so you can make your journey into the night calmly and peacefully, ready to let go of the constant stress of daily life. It is filled with inspirational and uplifting thoughts that will enable you to have a more restful night’s sleep. Pleasant Dreams is easy to use with 52 meditations and quotes; one for each week of the year!
Most contemporary young people operate far enough from Moses’ moral compass that it never occurs to them that “OMG” (“oh my God,” in teenspeak) has anything to do with the Ten Commandments, much less that it breaks one of them. After all, the phrase is a nearly ubiquitous adolescent throw-away line...Yet Christians should hear the phrase “oh my God” differently. Youth ministers, parents, teachers—anyone who has ever loved an adolescent—know that “OMG” can be a prayer, a plea, a petition, a note of praise, or an unbidden entreaty that escapes our lips as we seek Christ for the young people we love." from the book Using six lens the authors detail current practices and tease out underlying questions as youth ministry becomes more self-consciously aligned with practical theology. Contributors include: Kenda Creasy Dean, Mike Carotta, Roland Martinson, Rodger Nishioka, Don Richter, Dayle Gillespie Rounds, and Amy Scott Vaughn.
One night to rewrite the rule book! Spontaneity is not in Miranda Dean's vocabulary. Life as a single mum with a demanding career leaves no time for anything impulsive. But that's before the appearance of the delectable Dr. Patrick Costello! Miranda has been resisting all men's charms, but there is something about Patrick—his gentle eyes, his cheeky smile, that feeling that she's always known him… So when he takes her by the hand she knows this will be one night she'll never forget!
Have you recently been drawn to Wicca, especially owing to its growing popularity (it is the fastest growing religion in America) and wish to know what it is all about, its place as a religion and much more? And are you looking for a comprehensive guide that will break down the ins and outs of Wicca using simple, straightforward language that is not only suitable for complete beginners but also practicing Wiccans wishing to expand their knowledge about the religion? If you've answered YES, keep reading... You Are About To Discover The Ins And Outs Of Wiccan Beliefs Of Magic And Witchcraft! If you are excited to go on a trip through the deepest practices of Wicca including herbal rituals, candles and crystal magic to not only give you a full insight into the history, practices and secrets of Wicca, this book will prove helpful. It will help you to get started on the Wiccan journey confidently and proficiently. This is not your average book that limits your understanding of Wicca to magic, but one that encompasses other subjects that are likely to strike your interest such as paganism, the Tarot and religion. I imagine you've probably been wondering: What is the relationship between Wicca and the common cults we hear of everyday? What do Wiccans believe about life after death? How do Wiccans practice magic? Is there a relationship between Wiccan magic and that of the Tarot? How can you get started with Wiccan rituals safely? If I am right, then you came to the right place. This is where all your questions, including the ones above, will be answered from unexpected angles to give you a holistic understanding of Wicca while satisfying your curiosity, so keep reading! More precisely, you'll learn: What Wicca really is How the Wicca movement came to be and how it has grown over time How Wicca is connected to Paganism The origins of paganism The beliefs and practices of Wicca Facts about Wicca and the occult The different deities of Wicca Interesting facts about the Wiccan Sabbats The major seasonal Wiccan rituals The Wiccan views on life after death How the tarot came to be, and how it has evolved The art of reading the tarot How to perform Wiccan rituals from start to finish How to use the crystal ball, incense, candles and other Wiccan tools to perform rituals The scientific methods of magic What you need to know before you get started with Wicca ...And so much more! Amy Dean presents Wicca as it is; as wholesome and raw as you'd want to experience it in real life. As you'll soon find out, Wicca is more magical, spiritual and amazing than you'd ever envisioned it to be, and this simple and practical beginners' guide is created to give you an equally magical experience as you journey through it. So even if you are a complete beginner or feel Wicca is too advanced, this book will open your eyes and prove very helpful! Scroll up and click Buy Now With 1-Click or Buy Now to get started!
Trager’s The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication provides a clear and engaging introduction to media law with comprehensive coverage and analysis for future journalists and media professionals. The Eighth Edition brings the law to life with cutting-edge research, the latest court and legislative rulings, and a wealth of new content.
The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication, Sixth Edition, by Robert Trager, Susan Dente Ross, and Amy Reynolds offers a clear and engaging introduction to media law with comprehensive coverage and analysis of key cases for future journalists and media professionals. You are introduced to key legal issues at the start of each chapter, building your critical thinking skills before progressing to real-world landmark cases that demonstrate how media law is applied today. Contemporary examples, emerging legal topics, international issues, and cutting-edge research all help you to retain and apply principles of media law in practice. The thoroughly revised Sixth Edition has been reorganized and shortened to 12 chapters, streamlining the content and offering instructors more opportunities for classroom activities. This edition also goes beyond the judiciary—including discussions of tweets and public protests, alcohol ads in university newspapers, global data privacy and cybersecurity, libel on the internet, and free speech on college campuses—to show how the law affects the ways mass communication works and how people perceive and receive that work.
Story of a shelduck who flies towards heaven to endure the pain of losing her mate, who is injured by duck shooters and dies a slow death. Explains that because of the courage of the shelduck that flew to heaven, shelducks in New Zealand are now called paradise ducks. Suggested level: primary.
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