Coffee at 5:36 am" uses short stories, prose and musings to distinquish 16 insights which sweep the reader away on a journey to recapture their natural sense of aliveness and connection with life. His work explores the question we will all ask ourselves one day, "Is this it, is this how my story has to end?
We each carry within us a host of limiting Core Beliefs that although created in childhood, continue to sabotage our best hopes for a life of love, health, happiness and success. Although we no longer need these obsolete defence mechanisms, like ghosts in the machine, they persist well into adulthood. In her exciting new book, Who's the Boss of You?, Kris Williams explains how these damaging Core Beliefs are set up, how you can identify them, and how you can begin the process of eradicating them from your life once and for all. Packed with inspiring case studies, compelling research, and useful activities and exercises, Who's the Boss of You? can help you to move away from an unsatisfying life of limitation and frustration towards a life filled with greater confidence, abundant joy, improved health, and increasing success and prosperity. Uncovering your limiting Core Beliefs is possibly the most important and rewarding piece of personal development work you could do. Who's the Boss of You?
In astronomical terms, first light is the first image seen when using a new or upgraded telescope to observe the heavens. In a conversation about personal transformation, first light could also be used to describe a new breakthrough or awakening resulting from a shift in how we view our personal reality. The intention of this book suggests that we all live inside of self-imposed limitations in our ability to express our nature joy, aliveness and creativity. It doesn’t matter if we allow our joy to be robbed from us by something as ordinary as an upset because traffic was too slow or, the disappointment we feel when looking at our imperfect bodies in a mirror; the outcome is still the same. As a writer, I like to use everyday life situations to help the reader discover the borders and boundaries which, if left unchallenged, affect every aspect of our lives from relationships, to our health and well-being. Together, we will take a closer look at love, personal choice, our need for perfection, commitments, and confront our fear of the unknown. Along the way, I will share with you a few insights that may sound like a page taken from your own life, or they may trigger a long-forgotten memory of a person or event that helped create who you are today. Either way, First Light will be a fun journey of self-discovery.
A New Kind of Madness is a self-empowering inquiry into what it means to truly be alive and how to create a future that leaves you standing in a space where you made a difference and nothing is missing. Where you go from here is up to you and...it all starts right now!
Windwalker is a poetic story about a starry-eyed young couple who meet while selling magazines door-to-door across the United States. On the road, their love and courage stood solid and invincible like the Rockies, but would either survive the journey back home? Travel with them farther and farther down each highway and encounter the beauty and danger that lies in waitamaybe just around the corneraand walk through doors with them, hand in hand.
A New Kind of Madness is a self-empowering inquiry into what it means to truly be alive and how to create a future that leaves you standing in a space where you made a difference and nothing is missing. Where you go from here is up to you and...it all starts right now!
In May 1982 a young man from Zurich, Switzerland headed west across the planet to spend a year in Alaska. With him he took $5000 purposely saved for the journey, a tent, a mini-survival kit wrapped around his waist, a few woolen clothes, and a stout belief that he had the skill required to survive a year in the Alaskan wilderness. Five months after abandoning his mother, sister, friends and job as a graphic designer, Ruedi found himself hunkered down in the Ray Mountains, having every one of his survival skills tested to the limit. How this Swiss explorer faced much more than he bargained for in the wilderness of Alaska is the extraordinary story of Switzerland To Alaska: Just To Die.Glauser had wandered up and down the mountains and valleys of the Swiss Alps in his youth, always confident in his ability to endure whatever Nature sent his way. But Switzerland had become too tame. He needed a greater challenge. Settling into a routine lifestyle might have been more comfortable, but "settling" would never have forced him to face up to the insecurities so deeply entrenched in his being. Ruedi's initial intent was to go it alone in Alaska, or to have with him at most a pack of dogs. But in the end he opted for one solitary companion to go with him. What challenged Ruedi were not only the unrestrained energies that nature presented, but the constant inward journeys his circumstances forced him to undertake --- journeys that required him to crawl deep into his soul.
“There is plenty in this book to get your teeth into and help us think about how we work with people in mental health crises and how we might best make a difference.” Alan Simpson, Professor of Mental Health Nursing, Health Service and Population Research, King’s College London, UK “Any one of us could experience a mental health crisis. However, a high-quality interdisciplinary response can be lifesaving and life changing. This book is an important contribution to the literature as it has examples of good practice for all professionals – both on the frontline and in service development.” Dr Adrian James, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK “This publication is a valuable and timely resource given the increasing recognition of the impact of mental health needs in a range of different professional settings.” Victoria Sweetmore, Acting Discipline Lead for Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing, University of Derby, UK Interprofessional Perspectives of Mental Health Crisis improves the care of those experiencing a mental health-related crisis by providing insight into the roles different UK statutory services have and the need for collaborative mental health care. For those studying and working in the field of mental health crisis, this vital work will bridge your understanding by offering a cross-discipline perspective of the different services, their role in aiding service users and, the ways we can work more collaboratively together to meet the mental health needs of those requiring care. Throughout, the book: • Promotes understanding of the various roles each of the key services play within the crucial first 24-hours of a mental health crisis and the challenges they face • Fosters interprofessional collaboration to create a whole-system approach to crisis care • Helps professionals to understand good practice and the challenges of other services when aiding a person in crisis • Critically evaluates service provision and ways to improve crisis care • Explores recovery and collaboration with service users experiencing a crisis and their significant others The book is timely and essential in its promotion of high-quality interdisciplinary response and emphasis on integration and collaboration between service providers. Kris Deering is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing and the module lead of Working with a Person Experiencing a Mental Health Crisis at UWE Bristol, UK. Including working as a senior practitioner for a mental health crisis team, Kris has over 15 years of mental health nursing experience. Jo Williams is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at UWE Bristol, UK. Her clinical practice experience includes civilian and military nursing, supporting people living with co-existing mental health and substance misuse issues.
The Hacienda Paradisio resort in Mexico is the backdrop for an ensemble of vibrant, engaging stories featuring four women, each from very different backgrounds. Maddie, a virgin in her mid-twenties, learns that things are not always as they seem when she thinks she's met the man of her dreams. After thirty years of marriage, Marion confronts issues of intimacy with her husband and searches for answers to her past. Teenage Karla, at the resort with her family after a tragic loss, meets a young man suffering from schizophrenia and learns more about herself in the process, and when forty-two year old Jess has a fling with a younger man, the relationship takes a surprising turn. Together, these stories of love, strength and survival, amid the exotic locale, reverberate with passion and revelation. Kirsten Anne Williams grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and has been writing since she was eleven years old. She is passionate about creating inspiring characters that face challenges and give us insight into the human condition. Ms. Williams is working on her next novel, the story of a woman, who many years later, meets the son she gave up for adoption when she was a teen.Publisher's Web site: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/StaysInMexico.htm
Explores a range of basic topics covered in research courses in exercise science, kinesiology, and physical education. This work provides the information and skills needed to write effective research proposals and theses; and understand how to conduct basic studies in health, physical education, exercise science, athletic training, and recreation.
A New Kind of Madness is a self-empowering inquiry into what it means to truly be alive and how to create a future that leaves you standing in a space where you made a difference and nothing is missing. Where you go from here is up to you and...it all starts right now!
Coffee at 5:36 am" uses short stories, prose and musings to distinquish 16 insights which sweep the reader away on a journey to recapture their natural sense of aliveness and connection with life. His work explores the question we will all ask ourselves one day, "Is this it, is this how my story has to end?
“There is plenty in this book to get your teeth into and help us think about how we work with people in mental health crises and how we might best make a difference.” Alan Simpson, Professor of Mental Health Nursing, Health Service and Population Research, King’s College London, UK “Any one of us could experience a mental health crisis. However, a high-quality interdisciplinary response can be lifesaving and life changing. This book is an important contribution to the literature as it has examples of good practice for all professionals – both on the frontline and in service development.” Dr Adrian James, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK “This publication is a valuable and timely resource given the increasing recognition of the impact of mental health needs in a range of different professional settings.” Victoria Sweetmore, Acting Discipline Lead for Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing, University of Derby, UK Interprofessional Perspectives of Mental Health Crisis improves the care of those experiencing a mental health-related crisis by providing insight into the roles different UK statutory services have and the need for collaborative mental health care. For those studying and working in the field of mental health crisis, this vital work will bridge your understanding by offering a cross-discipline perspective of the different services, their role in aiding service users and, the ways we can work more collaboratively together to meet the mental health needs of those requiring care. Throughout, the book: • Promotes understanding of the various roles each of the key services play within the crucial first 24-hours of a mental health crisis and the challenges they face • Fosters interprofessional collaboration to create a whole-system approach to crisis care • Helps professionals to understand good practice and the challenges of other services when aiding a person in crisis • Critically evaluates service provision and ways to improve crisis care • Explores recovery and collaboration with service users experiencing a crisis and their significant others The book is timely and essential in its promotion of high-quality interdisciplinary response and emphasis on integration and collaboration between service providers. Kris Deering is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing and the module lead of Working with a Person Experiencing a Mental Health Crisis at UWE Bristol, UK. Including working as a senior practitioner for a mental health crisis team, Kris has over 15 years of mental health nursing experience. Jo Williams is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at UWE Bristol, UK. Her clinical practice experience includes civilian and military nursing, supporting people living with co-existing mental health and substance misuse issues.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon examines the emergence of several key media forms—social networking and crowdsourcing, video games and virtual environments, big data and data visualization—and demonstrates the formative influence of political conflict and the documentary film tradition on their evolution and cultural integration. Focusing on particular moments of political rupture, Fallon argues that the ideological rifts of the period inspired the adoption and adaptation of newly available technologies to encourage social mobilization and political action, a function performed for much of the previous century by independent documentary film. Positioning documentary film and digital media side by side in the political sphere, Fallon asserts that “truth” now lies in a new set of media forms and discursive practices that implicitly shape the documentation of everything from widespread cultural spectacles like wars and presidential elections to more invisible or isolated phenomena like the Abu Ghraib torture scandal or the “fake news” debates of 2016.
Casualty care and first aid is an integral part of the fire and rescue services’ role and firefighters have always worked closely with pre-hospital medical providers in their aim to save lives. As the fire services are now increasingly involved in the delivery of medical care through co-responding schemes, casualty care and first aid training has become crucial for firefighters to provide initial assessment and care of patients when responding to a variety of medical emergencies. This textbook, written by an experienced team of firefighters and paramedics, is an essential guide to life saving care and has been specifically written for firefighters already employed or undertaking training within a fire and rescue service. Casualty Care for Fire and Rescue combines a skills-based practical approach with clinical knowledge and covers a range of urgent care that firefighters deliver and respond to, including trauma injuries, burns, road traffic collisions and cardiac arrest. The book is up to date with the latest policy and research, and addresses legal issues and clinical governance. A multi-disciplinary approach is taken throughout, and is explored in detail in a chapter on working with healthcare professionals. Chapters are also illustrated with photographs and anatomical diagrams to support understanding. Contents include: Working with Other Health Professionals; Communication; Clinical Governance, Legal and Ethical Issues; Safeguarding Adults and Children; Health and Safety; Manual Handling; Drug Administration; Scene Assessment; Patient Assessment; Airway; Breathing; Circulation; Disability; Exposure/Environment; Medical Emergencies; Trauma Emergencies; Cardiac Arrest; Children and Infants; Mental Health; Older People and Frailty
The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than other objects? Are there different ways in which one object might enjoy more being than another? Most contemporary metaphysicians would answer "no" to each of these questions. So widespread is this consensus that the questions this book addressed are rarely even raised let alone explicitly answered. But Kris McDaniel carefully examines a wide range of reasons for answering each of these questions with a "yes". In doing so, he connects these questions with many important metaphysical topics, including substance and accident, time and persistence, the nature of ontological categories, possibility and necessity, presence and absence, persons and value, ground and consequence, and essence and accident. In addition to discussing contemporary problems and theories, McDaniel also discusses the ontological views of many important figures in the history of philosophy, including Aquinas, Aristotle, Descartes, Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, Leibniz, Meinong, and many more.
In a lively discussion of books written as early as 1903 and as recently as 1994, Kris Lackey reveals the crucial roles the highway and automobile travel have played through generations of American writing.
This is a story of war and peace. It may have been the greatest crime of the century after the Bolshevik coup and Russian Revolution and the murder of the Russian Romanov Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five young children: four Grand Duchesses Olga, Anastasia, Tatiana, Marie and the Tsarevich, Alexis. It is our story. And I want to share it with you now because it is your story too.
A dark cloud hangs over Hillside Apostolic Church. Violating theft of virtue, murder, and psychological despair convolutes this presentation of abhorrent criminal behavior. Dark images of rape clash with sunny beach fishing days and a Rottweiler you can’t help but love. “Liberty” encompasses forgiveness, uncontrollable hatred, and relationships of true love, including descriptive images of mentally ill individuals. Freedom from violation is your right. Take your liberty and read this book. You will be rewarded with truth and freedom, and personal liberation. “Ms. Ralston’s brilliant introspective story brings new insight and understanding into the difficult reality of those living with mental illness.” - Pam Phipps, BS, Research Manager, Retired, University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences “Kris Ralston’s latest book, ‘Liberty’, gives the reader a poignant, realistic look at mental illness. The everyday trials and experiences of the characters portrayed in this surprising and intriguing story provide a clear and captivating illustration of its effects.” - Jerry Ralston, Ph. D
As the first cross-disciplinary analysis of money laundering - fully recognizing the activity's economic, political, and juridical dimensions - Criminal Finance clearly identifies a useful array of appropriate criteria that may be used to develop and implement effective control strategies. The book will be of immeasurable and immediate value to bankers, legislators, regulators, law enforcement authorities, and concerned lawyers and academics everywhere.
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