One little girl who plays, learns, and has fun is just the same as all her friendsexcept that she cannot see. As she invites her friends and readers to close their eyes and see what she sees, the girl builds blocks, makes puppets with her socks, climbs a tree, rides a bike, and plays tag. She is having so much fun growing up. She teaches everyone around her that even though she is blind, she still has abilities, hopes, and dreamseven if she may have to do things in a different way. Close Your Eyes shares delightful rhymes and engaging illustrations to foster an understanding of what is possible for disabled children while encouraging acceptance of differences. It is a hard concept for a young child to grasp that another child cant see, but your focus on the humanness and similarity between children keeps a balance. Audra Kaplan, PsyD, clinical psychologist
Born in Johannesburg to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, Michelle Friedman practises Catholicism until her father divorces her mother and, at fourteen, converts her to Judaism. So begins a spiritual journey leading to Padre Pio, a priest who bears the stigmata, followed by ten years as a Catholic nun. In St. Louis and Seattle, Michelle discovers the harsh secrets of her childhood. Her healing continues, climaxing years later in India, where she reflects on her eventful life and her journeys, both outward and inward.God in All Worlds is the inspirational story of a woman's journey across four continents in her quest for spiritual fulfilment and emotional healing. A soul-searching odyssey and a disarmingly honest chronicle, this is a spiritual memoir unlike any other.
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling provides a clear, practical guide to working with congregants in a range of settings and illustrates the skills and core principles needed for effective pastoral counseling. The material is drawn from Jewish life and rabbinic pastoral counseling, but the fundamental principles in these pages apply to all faith traditions and to a wide variety of counselling relationships. Drawing on relational psychodynamic ideas but writing in a very accessible style, Friedman and Yehuda cover when, how and why counseling may be sought, how to set up sessions, conduct the work in those sessions and deal with difficult situations, maintain confidentiality, conduct groupwork and approach traumatic and emotive subjects. They guide the reader through the foundational principles and topics of pastoral counseling and illustrate the journey with accessible and lively vignettes. By using real life examples accompanied by guided questions, the authors help readers to learn practical techniques as well as gain greater self-awareness of their own strengths and vulnerabilities. With a host of examples from pastoral and clinical experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone offering counselling to both the Jewish community and those of other faiths. The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling will appeal to psychoanalysts, particularly those working with Jewish clients, counselors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and rabbis offering pastoral counseling, as well as clergy of other faiths such as ministers, priests, imams and lay chaplains.
Do human beings have free will? Are they genuinely responsible for their actions? These questions have persisted all through the history of philosophy, but in the 21st century they have become defined more sharply and clearly than ever. Indeed, a vivid and mighty tension underlies today's intellectual struggles over free will. On the one hand, the rapid advances of several empirical disciplines, notably neuropsychology and genetics, threaten our instinctive affirmation that free will and moral responsibility exist. On the other hand, the depth and force of our instincts-our powerful intuition that there is free will, that there is moral responsibility-present, for most people, an almost impenetrable barrier against the sweeping denial of free will suggested by empirical research. The papers in this volume address this tension from a dual vantage point. While drawing heavily upon traditional Jewish texts and teachings, they also offer a blend of scientific, philosophical, psychological, and social insights into this most mystifying of topics. In addition, they illuminate the concept of repentance, a transformation of character that ranks in much of Jewish literature as the highest expression of free will.
From "Gourmet" to "Esquire" to the "Wall Street Journal," Bernstein has drawn widespread acclaim for her passionate reinterpretations of the Latin dishes of her childhood. In her first cookbook, she introduces this exciting food.
For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the latest research in discourse and content analyses trending in both domestic and international circles, Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground highlights the progress—or lack thereof—in media regarding portrayals of women, across genres and cultures within the twenty-first century. Blending both original studies and descriptive overviews of current media platforms, top scholars evaluate the portrayals of women in contemporary venues, including advertisements, videogames, political stories, health communication, and reality television.
Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the computer, and receive gratification when they score well. Schools using the Accelerated Reader program have seen a significant increase in reading among their students. These new titles are valuable resources to help reluctant readers get the guidance they need.
This book is a compilation of stories from powerful women who are making an impact in the world. Michelle Lee, a two time Best Selling Author, and #1 International Author shares a tragic story of child abuse, the subsequent path it took her down, the choices she made to cope with a long history of abuse that steemed from childhood all the way through adulthood, and how she eventually overcame not only the cycle of abuse, but the self sabotaging behaviors, drug addictions and painful limiting beliefs that were ingrained in her at such a young age, that she wasn't good enough, to be treated with basic human decency, even by herself. Michelle shares this story to help others who are in similar situations to hopefully not spend the 20 years blaming themselves, and works to help get those in abuse and human trafficking situations out and receive the care and love they need to re-enter the world knowing that they are strong, they are valuable, loved, and ENOUGH. Michelle shares this book with fellow authors Lisa Nichols, Enna Aujla, Laura Husson, Stefanie O'Polka, Terrie Peters, Cristina Rodriguez, Patty Staco, Stacey Friedman, Katie Jefcoat, Michelle Lee, Denise McCormick, Debbie Pettit, Violeta Potter, Donna Wald, Katherine Wolff, Carole B. Young, Jessica Amaro, Sagoo Arora, Jodie Baudek, Natalie Citarelli, Megan Datz, Cameo Gore, Amy Hehre, Stacey Kirkpatrick, Tina Raffa, Jennifer Roth, Erin Kreitz Shirey, Kara Thompson and Dr. Wendi Wardlaw who all have their own unique stories of impact they are making on the world. Please visit michellekatherine.com to learn more about Michelle's mission to save and rehabilitate survivors, her business and mindset coaching, event planning and philanthropic efforts as she shares her journey to wellness and the humor and realness of being a single mama to a fun loving 4 year old, whom she lives with in Northern Virgini
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