Love and Light: A Guide to Peace and Oneness provides step-by-step guidance to reclaim peace, tranquility, love, and connection. Lisa Collins, Ed.D. provides desperately needed guidance on connecting to peace and love—as well as God. Get answers to questions such as: • How have we allowed sexuality, politics, and skin color to divide us so much? • Why is it so difficult to love each other as human beings? • What would happen if we were to look at others as if they were whole? • How can we control the darkness of our minds? The author also explores what life would be like if we led with love instead of judgement. It’s hard and it takes practice, but through prayer, each one of us can make progress. This book is an enlightening gift to the world on how to come back to love by connecting with yourself and with God. Expand your consciousness, boost self-awareness, and help the ones you love with the simple instructions in this book.
I wish I was an actor, because if I was an actor, I’d be acting about dying. But I’m not an actor. I am dying. I’m dying from cancer as a result of smoking.’ – Gerry Collins The whirlwind final few months in the life of Gerry Collins – the man behind the famous QUIT campaign run by the HSE in 2014 – movingly recounted by his daughter. In early 2014 Gerry Collins’ moving words carried across the nation. This was due to his central role in the ads for the HSE’s QUIT campaign, which sought to convince people to give up smoking. The nation saw a brave man warning others, trying to save people from making the same mistake that he made. But Gerry was also a family man. A father. For Lisa Collins, her dad had always been ‘her person’. She simply couldn’t imagine a future without him. In immediate and honest prose, Lisa guides us through this turbulent period in her life and the life of her family as they battled against the diagnosis, as filming for the ads commenced and the campaign was launched, and the public spotlight was suddenly thrust upon the Collins family – all while Lisa struggled to accept her father’s impending death and Gerry’s health quickly deteriorated. This account of the final months of the life of Gerry Collins, the man who moved the nation with his bravery and honesty, is at once heartbreaking and inspiring, succeeding as it does in capturing the joyful soul of Gerry Collins himself, as well as showcasing the heart and resilience of the daughter and family who supported him right to the very end.
Understanding and Learning to Live Well with Food Allergies Considering that severe allergic reactions can be life-threatening, parents often find that protecting children can be a daunting task-trying to make sure they are safe, while still creating a sense of normalcy as they grow up. But it can be done. Sorting the truth from the myths and misunderstandings, Caring for Your Child with Severe Food Allergies presents not only pertinent facts but, more important, it helps families cope with the emotional aspects of raising a child at risk for severe food reactions. With compassion and insight, Lisa Cipriano Collins blends her own experiences raising a child with severe peanut and tree-nut allergies with practical observations, interviews with parents, and data from recent medical studies. By learning how to reduce risks while promoting a child's normal emotional development, parents can address the needs of their allergic child and his or her siblings, as well as their own needs-and work toward a happy, healthy family. Caring for Your Child with Severe Food Allergies covers: Identifying allergies Working with schools Restaurant and travel concerns Encouraging independence Finding treatment Safety risks and solutions Helping your child help himself Identifying ingredients Making an emergency kit Finding support Developing community awareness
This title examines the work of contemporary African-American women artists, focusing on four problems that recur when these artists confront their histories.
COLLINS CHILDREN'S PILL GUIDE is a user–friendly reference guide to the various medications most often associated with children. The guide includes a wide range of children's medications, from over–the–counter drugs, to psychiatric prescription drugs, to physician administered vaccinations. It also covers basic topics such as home first aid, tips for communicating with your pediatrician, and the safe use of drugs. In an increasingly medication–dependent culture, where children are receiving medication for everything from allergies to ADHD, parents want a guide to help them sift through the morass of available treatments––their first concern is the health and safety of their children. Our guide will be written in language that every parent can understand, and will offer the comfort that comes with being informed when making important decisions.
In easy-to-follow language, this guide spells out the rules for every type of deductible expense, including home office expenses, depreciation, contributions for medical coverage, and retirement plan contributions.
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.
TRUTH, LIES & ALZHEIMER'S Its Secret Faces is a concise guide to navigating the heartbreaking challenges of having a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias. Through a rich trove of stories culled from her years in the eldercare industry, author Lisa Skinner offers insight into the difficult questions families face, including: - How do I respond to a loved one's false belief? - Am I abandoning my parent if I place them in the care of professionals? - How do we make the best of our time left together? Skinner's original thinking and counter-intuitive solutions provide family members, spouses, children, caregivers, and others with the tools they need to effectively manage the symptoms of brain disease. Readers will feel empowered to work through the difficulties of the disease and return to what matters - enjoying their remaining time with their loved one.
Thomas A. Edison remains rooted in the popular imagination primarily as the inventor of the practical electric light, but he also continues to function in the lexicons of advertising and politics as a symbol of American individualism, ingenuity, and know-how. Introduced here with a broad range of primary sources for discussion, the American inventor emerges as a prolific mind, a tireless worker, and an inveterate self-promoter. Examples of Edison’s own experimental notes, his personal correspondence, as well as press accounts provide an opportunity to explore the themes of modernization and the American ideology of progress. The volume includes an extended introduction, headnotes to the documents, illustrations, a chronology, discussion questions, a bibliography, and an index.
Who is Bible Verse Bejule? Bible Verse Bejule is an adventurous character who is ready to explore the Bible with you and teach you lessons and Bible verses. Can you guess the Bible verse before the end of the story? With every turn of the page, you are getting closer and closer to the unveiling of the Bible verse. Are you ready to join Bejule on his adventures? Then let's go!
Visit the author's website at http://www.tiptopwebsite.com/lisajeancollins. About a year and a half ago, my friend ́s autistic daughter Sara asked me if I could write a book about her life. At around the same time, Sara ́s mother told me that Sara had been repeatedly saying that she wanted to be famous--that she was definitely going to be famous--but nobody was really sure what she meant by that or if she thought of "famous" the way most other people did. It was around this time that she began discouraging people from buying her birthday and Christmas presents; she spent the days after Halloween giving out her own candy to sick children at children ́s hospitals. I was inspired to write this story after seeing Sara ́s Christian faith in action, and after listening to Sara ́s mother tell of Sara ́s experiences in the mainstream school setting as a Christian autistic girl. These experiences were often filled with loneliness, frustration, rejection and discrimination, but they resonated with her faith and helped to strengthen it so that she could aspire to give to others what she herself so often had not received. Sara the Famous is based on a true story, as told in the voice of the author ́s young friend Sara, a Christian autistic girl with a deep faith in Jesus. It chronicles Sara ́s experience with isolation and discrimination, and it shows the flip side of what such experiences can mean when one ́s highest aspiration is to be a different kind of famous: A Jesus kind of famous.
Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman, Michael Bishop, Larry Bond, Ben Bova, and other popular authors take readers on a literary tour of the magical and the mysterious. From Egypt's great pyramids to the Shroud of Turin to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, this anthology invetigates forces, people, and things which some feel are better left unexplored.
Collins International Primary Maths supports best practice in primary maths teaching, whilst encouraging teacher professionalism and autonomy. A wealth of supporting digital assets are provided for every lesson, including slideshows, animations, tools and games to ensure they are rich, lively and engaging.
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