The Monster And Me

Download or read book The Monster and Me written by Brian Lange and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a real-life story of one man's struggle with 3 major and at least 12-15 minor strokes. From it's beginings through the stroke's aftermath, the novel is written in fast and simplistic terms. A truthful accounting of what led or possibly led to 3 massive brain accidents and their resulting consequences. Hard, factual, and sincere in every way, the author hopes to help others who have been there - or are heading there - to change their outlook and turn their lives around before it happens to them. If you have had a stroke, or know someone that has, this is a must read.

Download or read book My Healing Journey written by Dana Gregory and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary collection of poetry reflects on a personal journey of healing. These poems represent an artistic viewpoint about the growth that I had to undertake to uplift the child of my past. My thoughts and sensitivities go way beyond the words and the twists of the unspoken language, touching on various topics such as child abuse, dysfunctional parenting, toxic relationships, addiction, death, anger, and love. My overall hope is that poetry will inspire intense healing or convey a hidden message that will enable you to find that hidden spark to begin your healing journey.

Download or read book The Monster and the Mirror written by K.J. Aiello and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelatory memoir and cultural criticism that connects popular fantasy and our perceptions of mental illness to offer an empathetic path to compassionate care Growing up, K.J. Aiello was fascinated by magical stories of dragons, wizards, and fantasy, where monsters were not what they seemed and anything was possible. These books and films were both a balm and an escape, a safe space where Aiello’s struggle with mental illness transformed from a burden into a strength that could win battles and vanquish villains. A unique blend of memoir, research, and cultural criticism, The Monster and the Mirror charts Aiello’s life as they try to understand their own mental illness using The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and other stories as both guides to heroism and agency and cautionary tales of how mental illness is easily stereotyped as bad and violent. Aiello questions who is allowed to be “mad” versus “sane,” “good” versus “evil,” and “weak” versus “strong,” and who is allowed to tell their own stories. The Monster and the Mirror explores our perceptions of mental illness in a way that is challenging and tender, empathetic and knowledgeable, and offers a path to deeper understanding and compassionate care.

Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers more than 250,000 words of the finest Science Fiction stories published in the previous year, and includes a thorough review of the year in SF and a comprehensive list of recommended reading.

Download or read book Land of the Dragon written by Steffanie Costigan and published by Steffanie Costigan. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They had not even started to fight, yet I already could smell blood in the air… I am a traitor, victim, fighter, survivor, sister, and daughter of a Nazi. I am Eleanor Kuhn. I will not be indoctrinated by Hitler. I fight for the truth my world has forgotten and ignored. Upon escaping the country, I stumbled into a whole new world, and I soon realized that war is everywhere you look. With nothing but the clothes on my back and five siblings in tow, I wash up on the coast of a world I’d only glimpsed in books and the clouds of dreams: Land of the Dragon. But there’s something about this new world that rings with familiarity. Or perhaps someone . . . Land of the Dragon is a historic fantasy layered with details and rich symbolism an Eric Hoffer Award Nominee. If you like details in stories, magic, adventure, romance, and dragons this book is a read you will enjoy time and time again. With each read, you may uncover more details layered throughout the book that you didn't originally recognize. This book is brought to you from Reading Dream Press where stories come alive.

Download or read book Bad Luck written by Brad Younie and published by Brad Younie. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you piss off a group of fairies? Poor Mrs. Mann desperately needs to know, since somehow her family did just that, and the fairies have started a campaign of terror on them. Of course, the police are useless. There’s nothing new there. They’re woefully ignorant in the ways of the paranormal. When dealing with supernatural baddies, it helps to believe in them. That’s why they contract me occasionally. I’m a private investigator, and I only do cases involving the occult and the paranormal. The weird world that no one wants to think exists is my area of expertise. And I have a foot in that door, so to speak. I can see supernatural creatures—or supies, as I call them—through the glamour, they disguise themselves with. So, I’ve got an advantage. Fairies are targeting the Mann family in some pretty nasty ways. I have to find out what they did to upset the little people and tell them how to appease them before they go for blood. But of course, things aren’t quite that easy. The Fae are hard to enrage these days. You can’t do it by accident, which means the wee folk may not be the real bad guys in this case. It’s going to take all my effort and every ounce of guts to solve this mystery and put it all right before anyone else gets hurt, including those I care most about!

Download or read book Social Skills Assessment and Training with Children written by Larry Michelson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to provide readers with sufficient knowledge regard ing social skills assessment and training with children so that they can imple ment and evaluate social skills programs on their own. Increased interest in promoting children's social skills has stemmed in part from advances in research that have shown the importance of childhood social competency for adjustment in both childhood and adulthood. There is a growing need for assessment and training methods that can be utilized by diverse groups of professionals and paraprofessionals. This book is intended for mental health workers, teachers, educators, clinicians, and child-care personnel. The book thoroughly reviews the literature to acquaint readers with relevant findings on social skills and to pro vide discussion regarding contemporary issues and assessment techniques. Sub sequently, comprehensive procedures in the training of children's social skills are presented. Readers are also provided with 16 detailed training modules, each of which comprises a rationale, instructions, Scripts, and homework assign ments. These modules are designed to permit effective implementation of social skills training programs. Moreover, they provide a structured and program matically designed format that builds in clinical flexibility for their use with individual children or groups of children. These modules are followed by a clinical-issues section designed to address potential obstacles to effective training. Following these major sections, two appendixes have been included in the book. The first appendix is a step-by-step description of how to conduct an assessment.