Forget leaning in or leaning out to get ahead both personally and professionally, in Permission! Stop Competing and Start Creating the Life You Want to Live, Nicole Matthews, founder of The Henley Company, champions the power of leaning on others to help create the life you want to live. This witty, humorous, and self-deprecating tale of a forty-something, who has had more fascinating life experiences than dates, will help you realize that giving yourself permission to live the life you want is the first step to finding your best future! Matthews is at the top of her game, but not without having to overcome challenges and mend emotionally, financially, and personally. The personal journey of Nicole R. Matthews, a social media-loving member of generation x, who cherishes unique experiences, stamps in her passports, and trying to make sense of the opposite sex, is humorously chronicled in Permission! Through her stories, she shares the heartbreak she endured, a depression so profound she spent the night in the ER, and the challenge of having low self-esteem. But despite the setbacks she faced, she found the courage to give herself permission to get out of her broken relationships, start a successful business, and create the opportunities to honor her most precious authentic intentions.
This book you are holding demonstrates the true meaning of life. How to cherish each waking moment, and that with help you can overcome anything that life puts in your path. Obstacles are meant to be faced head on, not avoided. With all the things Nicole has to overcome, she shows that no matter what life throws your way, you can overcome anything. It is giong to be a struggle, but with help and love, you can do anything you put your mind and heart into. Count your blessings, and really put aside the negativity in life. Lend that helping hand to others, and truly show what it means to live life to the fullest."--Back cover.
Les Murray is amongst the most gifted poets writing today, his multi-faceted talents have received high praise both in his native Australia and beyond. But he has also proved a controversial figure, whose poetry strays across the boundaries of political and cultural debate. The only full critical study of Murray's work available, Steven Matthews provides a complete picture of his career to date, from its early parables of national emergence to the working man's epic encounter with the major events of the twentieth century, Fredy Neptune. Provides detailed readings of key poems, as well as literary and cultural contexts for the rapid shifts in style and subject matter Murray has made from collection to collection. Gives an overview of Murray's place within Australian literature and national thought.
As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into focus once marginalised and neglected voices. Breaking new ground by reframing multimedia life stories as a resource for education, public health, and policy, this book challenges policymakers, professionals, and researchers to reimagine how they find out about and respond to people’s daily lives and experiences of health, disability, and well-being. The book develops theoretical, methodological, and practical resources for listening to digital stories through a series of carefully selected international case studies, from dementia care education to campaigns in the UN to ban cluster munitions. The case studies explore and illuminate different ways that digital stories have – and have not – been listened to in the past. The authors expose the great potential as well as the complexity of using powerful personal stories in practice. Together, the case studies highlight that processes of listening to, learning from, and making use of digital stories involve unavoidable processes of reinterpretation, recontextualisation, and translation which have significant ethical and political implications for storytellers, listeners, and society. In mapping and theorising the movement of stories into new contexts of policy and practice, the book offers a critical lens on the widely celebrated democratising potential of digital storytelling and its capacity to amplify marginalised voices. Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy develops an authoritative and original re-conceptualisation of digital life stories and their use for social justice ends, and will be important reading for researchers and practitioners from a range of backgrounds, including social policy, digital media, communication, education, disability, and public health.
This church girl and a young guy that seems to know the streets. Their from different sides of the coin and yet they manage to fall in love, considering their families didn't think it would last long, or even that they'd make it to the alter. The saying opposite's attract does have meaning to it. Two best of friends marry and find themselves once again in a position of odds. After coming through the death of their child, they find them selves in another situation that test their marriage. This time it might be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Will they manage to survive this one?
When the worse has happened, who will you become. After the first ordeal which damaged their marriage, this time around Pastor Smith feels his faith is put to the ultimate test. Will Mitch be able to fix his marriage?
Writing from The Huffington Post, Alan Keyes' RenewAmerica.us, TownHall.com and more debates hot button political issues. From media bias to women's rights, religion to global warming and President Obama to recent headliners Rod Blagojevich and Carrie Prejean, nothing and no one is off limits. As conservative Hartsock takes on the liberal agenda, Russin presents questions and background facts. This, all done with new short essays and color photos featuring both authors and Mint Owl tie designer Chris Cantoya - striking a pose in formal attire, jeans, lingerie or...nothing but a cooking apron.
She was wrong when she thought that escaping was the hardest thing she would ever do. It was surviving after the fact. Darkness and danger lurk in every corner. Finding a way to light her path seems to be infinitely difficult. Hope Matthews is trying to make her way through a world after the terror and tragedy she has faced with her friends by her side. However, are they truly her friends? Or has she been deceived this entire time? Hope must find her strength and discernment if she is ever going to survive the victimization she has faced. Joe Clemmons cannot seem to figure out his place in Hope's life and struggles to maintain a proper relationship with her. However, the more that he struggles to be true to himself, the more distant he becomes - until he runs the risk of losing her completely. He is faced with the decision of following his heart or following the recommendations of others. Neither path is easy, but love never is.
When a multimillion-dollar development threatens the sacred site of one of Australia's Aboriginal populations, the Corrowa people file a native claim over the site. Hours after Justice Brosnan rejects the claim, he is dead. Days later, the developer's lawyer is also killed. As the body count rises, it becomes clear that the key to unlocking the murderer's identity the single red feather left behind at each crime scene. Filled with suspense and grisly detail, this book follows detectives Jason Matthews, a young Aboriginal policeman, and Andrew Higgins, a wizened cop possessed by his need for revenge, as they attempt to investigate the murders and stay impartial. A fast-paced crime novel as well as a cutting social commentary, this narrative puts native title and contemporary Australian issues under the microscope, exposing a nation still struggling to come to terms with its bleak past.
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