The Christian life is what I believe to be a continuous journey, growing spiritually toward perfection; however, maturity only comes from a clear understanding of being truthful of the real person you are. Christians often display sheer hypocrisy, wearing masks to impress others, so the real person never matures. We rely on the opinions of the experts and usually feel that their opinions are the only ones that matter. I feel were living at a time when many people are hurting inside and have to deal with many unpleasant obstacles while wholeheartedly trying to be that perfect person. I pray that this book will appeal to baby Christians, whether nineteen or ninety. Being a competent toastmaster, Ive spoken in many programs about the hardships of life, and some people have asked me how Ive been able to relate to many issues and speak with such passion. I explained that these issues were my own personal experiences that God has allowed me to learn from and endure. Consequently, after hearing some of my speeches, which were limited, some people have told me that I should write a book, so thats why I decided to put my thoughts in writing. But I Dont Feel Nothin relates to a few of the various feelings we experience in life, which we must deal with, and it reminds us that life is not always about feeling good. Ive also met many unchurched people who experienced hurtful feelings from church leaders who never explained the Christian life at a level they could comprehend. As a result of unhealthy ways to mask the pain, I believe, many suicides are the result of people feeling empty, useless, no good, unloved, etc. They cant get past the circumstances surrounding cancer, divorce, joblessness, repossession, foreclosure, loneliness, etc., to push past the pain and live more productive lives. My primary goal is that someone will read this book and understand how to accomplish their specific assignments in life. Moreover, I believe that this book will at least raise an awareness from a laymans perspective to open more dialogue and discussions relating to our feelings. Most people make unsuccessful efforts to please so many other people rather than try to please God and themselves. Even though professional help is more available today, God is usually left out of the therapy or maybe only casually mentioned, so this can result in dealing with habits that are not easily broken, as some analysts feel they should be. But the analysts themselves usually have never experienced what the patient is dealing with. This book is not to discredit the expertise of our extensively trained psychoanalysts, who I believe have been beneficial to many individuals. Even though Im considering researching actual statistical data to validate some of my suggestions, I feel it would take away from the appeal to the baby Christians and move the book into an arena for more mature Christians to dissect. I believe that this would create more problems and become less attractive. I speak as a layman, with real issues and problems, who only desires to share my nameless relationships to help someone else. Specific names and churches are not mentioned in the book, only my personal issues; and having lived in five different states, attending various churches, I made sure no one will be aware of who my references are.
Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists transgressed the previous boundaries between private and public domains. Their performances advocated for female agency while also contributing to a new social construction of gender. Elocutionists, proud purveyors of wholesome entertainment, pointedly contrasted their "acceptable" feminine attributes against those of morally suspect actresses. As Wilson Kimber shows, their influence far outlived their heyday. Women, the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, did nothing less than create a tradition that helped shape the history of American music.
One of the most critical developments within 'welfare' in recent years, has been the transformation of service users from 'passive recipients' to 'active subjects' of welfare policy and practice. People who use services have challenged paternalistic notions that professionals are always the experts, and have offered alternative analyses both of the experience of living with disability or illness, and of policy and practice responses to such experiences. Taking Over the Asylum explores the way in which users or survivors of mental health services - people too often regarded as 'lacking capacity' to make decisions about their own care - have taken action to empower themselves. The authors examine evidence of the impact this action has had on their lives, on services, and on practice in mental health. They argue that disempowerment can be exacerbated by racist and gendered assumptions and they question the way we think about 'mental health' and 'mental illness' and what it means to live with 'madness'. Drawing on the writings of activists and on international research evidence of action by users and survivors, this important book explores different strategies being adopted to achieve change both within the mental health system and in the lives of those who live with psychological distress. The wide-ranging analysis of current debates provides a valuable and clear insight into the potential and dilemmas of collective action by service users and survivors.
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