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What Must Be Carried: Living a Beautiful Life Beyond Loss
by Whitney Lyn GadeckiA guide to start living again for those who have lost a loved one, written by a mother and widow What Must Be Carried: Living a Beautiful Life Beyond Loss is an empathetic guidebook that walks readers through the grieving process, giving them the tools they need to carry the pain of their loss and start truly living again. With relatable personal narratives from Whitney Lyn Allen Gadecki, mother of two boys, Jackson and Leo, certified grief educator and coach, and a widow whose life has been forever altered by the loss of her husband, as well as actionable advice for those grieving, this book is a perfect, steady companion for anyone impacted by a devastating loss. This book explores ideas including: The emotional range of processing grief, from numbness, to agony and rage, to cascading waterfalls of tears and beyond Patience, experimentation, time, curiosity, and practice as difficult but essential foundations of living with and healing from grief How to discover contentment, peace, love, and beauty anew, even when it often feels like life is all downhill from here Grief's hidden gifts of helping you live more authentically, ambitiously, purposefully, and fearlessly despite its heavy burden What Must Be Carried: Living a Beautiful Life Beyond Loss is an important, helpful, and cathartic read for widows and all those who have lost someone precious to them seeking to once again shine brightly in the face of darkness.
What Needs to Be Said: Speak Your Truth, Release Shame, Find Oneness
by Alex ReeganAlex Reegan&’s incredible story of healing and growth is your call to look within and live as your most authentic self.As a trans man born into an evangelical Christian family that prevented his true identity from emerging, Alex spent years struggling with depression, anxiety, and addiction, trying to break free of the oppressive beliefs that bound him. After years of fighting—for his life, his freedom, and his truth—Alex learnt to surrender and come home to himself.In this part memoir, part self-help book, Alex weaves his own story with healing guidance for you to take away and implement in your own life. You&’ll find uplifting messages of compassion that will encourage you to let go of the things that are no longer serving you, as well as exercises such as journaling, self-reflection, and meditation to help you begin to heal and reclaim your connection to the divine that is within all of us.This powerful book, with its raw honesty, vulnerability, and wisdom shows you how Alex rediscovered and embraced his authentic self and gives you what you need to do the same.
What Next?: Your Five-Year Plan for Life after College
by Elana Lyn GrossCreate a five-year plan that covers all aspects of daily life—including work, finances, and health—with this all-inclusive guide to successfully reaching your goals after college graduation. The celebrations have ended and you&’ve finally graduated from college. But the one looming question remains over every recent grad&’s head: what&’s next? In this book, you&’ll find a detailed guide to putting together a five-year plan to set yourself up for success. No need to stress about having the rest of your life mapped out—instead, you&’ll focus on how to make the most after graduation so you can thrive in the years to come. Whether you&’re looking for advice on turning your first job out of college to a long-term career or need some tips on managing your money so you can pay down your student debt (and treat yourself), you&’ll find all that and more in What Next?. Filled with advice from journalist and lifestyle blogger Elana Lyn Gross, What Next? includes all the tools you need to achieve your goals one step at a time. Offering helpful guidance on every aspect of life, you&’ll have no problem answering the question: what&’s next?
What Next After School?
by Elizabeth HolmesWhat Next After School? has established itself as a key guide for helping students to understand the many options available to them as they approach the end of their school years, including education options (academic as well as vocational training), gap years, the world of work, and practical issues such as finances, debts and insurance. This new 10th edition also includes case studies illustrating how other students have adapted to life after school, as well as detailed information on making the most of the decisions facing all school leavers.
What Next After School?
by Elizabeth HolmesWhat Next After School? has established itself as a key guide for helping students to understand the many options available to them as they approach the end of their school years, including education options (academic as well as vocational training), gap years, the world of work, and practical issues such as finances, debts and insurance. This new 11th edition also includes case studies illustrating how other students have adapted to life after school, as well as detailed information on making the most of the decisions facing all school leavers.
What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood
by Dr. Alexandra Sacks Dr. Catherine BirndorfYour guide to the emotions of pregnancy and early motherhood, from two of America’s top reproductive psychiatrists.When you are pregnant, you get plenty of advice about your growing body and developing baby. Yet so much about motherhood happens in your head. What everyone really wants to know: Is this normal? -Even after months of trying, is it normal to panic after finding out you’re pregnant? -Is it normal not to feel love at first sight for your baby? -Is it normal to fight with your parents and partner? -Is it normal to feel like a breastfeeding failure? -Is it normal to be zonked by “mommy brain?” In What No One Tells You, two of America’s top reproductive psychiatrists reassure you that the answer is yes. With thirty years of combined experience counseling new and expectant mothers, they provide a psychological and hormonal backstory to the complicated emotions that women experience, and show why it’s natural for “matrescence”—the birth of a mother—to be as stressful and transformative a period as adolescence. Here, finally, is the first-ever practical guide to help new mothers feel less guilt and more self-esteem, less isolation and more kinship, less resentment and more intimacy, less exhaustion and more pleasure, and learn other tips to navigate the ups and downs of this exciting, demanding time
What Now?: How to Move into Your Next Season
by Mark JobeI want to live God&’s calling, but where do I begin?Be it in the midst of a spiritual lull, a midlife crisis, or an unforeseen pandemic, at some point all Christians feel the need to readdress and reorient to move toward God&’s calling for their lives. What Now? is for anyone who wants to emerge from stagnation and envision what could be best for their next season of life. You&’ll learn how to:Be still and discern God&’s will for your lifeRe-envision the possibilities of your calling Turn away from isolation and turn to healthy communityBoldly step out into the unknown with faithDon&’t let confusion or fear of the unknown keep you from moving toward the fullness of God&’s plan for your life. Instead, learn to listen to the spiritual whisper directing you to the next stage in your divine calling. As you long to live differently and find your heart awakening to new possibilities, What Now? will help you step forward bravely.
What Now?: How to Move into Your Next Season
by Mark JobeI want to live God&’s calling, but where do I begin?Be it in the midst of a spiritual lull, a midlife crisis, or an unforeseen pandemic, at some point all Christians feel the need to readdress and reorient to move toward God&’s calling for their lives. What Now? is for anyone who wants to emerge from stagnation and envision what could be best for their next season of life. You&’ll learn how to:Be still and discern God&’s will for your lifeRe-envision the possibilities of your calling Turn away from isolation and turn to healthy communityBoldly step out into the unknown with faithDon&’t let confusion or fear of the unknown keep you from moving toward the fullness of God&’s plan for your life. Instead, learn to listen to the spiritual whisper directing you to the next stage in your divine calling. As you long to live differently and find your heart awakening to new possibilities, What Now? will help you step forward bravely.
What Now?
by Ann PatchettBased on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage to another. With wit and candor, Patchett tells her own story of attending college, graduating, and struggling with the inevitable question, What now? From student to line cook to teacher to waitress and eventually to award-winning author, Patchett's own life has taken many twists and turns that make her exploration genuine and resonant. As Patchett writes, "'What now?' represents our excitement and our future, the very vitality of life." She highlights the possibilities the unknown offers and reminds us that there is as much joy in the journey as there is in reaching the destination.
What Now?
by Ann PatchettBased on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage to another. With wit and candor, Patchett tells her own story of attending college, graduating, and struggling with the inevitable question, What now?From student to line cook to teacher to waitress and eventually to award-winning author, Patchett's own life has taken many twists and turns that make her exploration genuine and resonant. As Patchett writes, "'What now?' represents our excitement and our future, the very vitality of life." She highlights the possibilities the unknown offers and reminds us that there is as much joy in the journey as there is in reaching the destination.
What Now?: Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond
by Yael ShyBuddhist teachings and meditation offer a roadmap to help college students and others in early adulthood incorporate mindfulness into their lives as a means of facing the myriad struggles unique to this stage of life.Early adulthood is filled with intense emotions and insecurity. What if you never fall in love? What if you can't find work you’re passionate about? You miss home. You miss close friends. You’re lost in the noise of how you think you should be living and worried about wasting what everyone says should be the best years of your life.What Now? shares mindfulness practices to help twentysomethings learn to identify and accept these feelings and respond—not react—to painful and powerful stimuli without pushing them away or getting lost in them. This is not about fixing oneself or being "better." Readers are encouraged to embrace themselves exactly as they are. You are already completely whole, completely loveable, completely worthy. What Now? shares practices that help us to wake up to this fact. This uniquely tumultuous developmental period is a time when many first live away from home and engage in all kinds of experimentation—with ideas, substances, relationships, and who we think we are and want to be in the world. Yael Shy shares her own story and offers basic meditation guides to beginning a practice. She explores the Buddhist framework for what causes suffering and explores ideas about interconnection and social justice as natural outgrowths of meditation practice.
what now you need to know
by Tony BurroughsThe world is changing all around us with increasing speed, making most of us feel we have no control. Through the art of Intending, you can take control of your own destiny and create your ideal life. The author of several bestsellers, Tony Burroughs has taught over 2 million people how to get exactly what they want for themselves, their loved ones, and the planet. Now, for the first time, Tony reveals the secrets from the very source in this revelatory text. Tony Burroughs was a young man living in Hawaii when an older philosopher sage took him under his wing and became his mentor at an exotic fruit farm on the Big Island. Over a period of ten years, Tony learned "The Information," a series of oral lessons comprising a body of deep teachings about the meaning of life, the history of mankind, and how to evolve and live a meaningful life filled with love, peace, and abundance. A core teaching was intention-setting, and Tony and two friends started a weekly circle to try it out. This first humble circle of three people had life-changing effects, resulting in Tony Burroughs's lifelong mission to guide others.
What on Earth Have I Done?: Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
by Robert FulghumRobert Fulghum's new book begins with a question we've all asked ourselves: "What on Earth have I done?" As Fulghum finds out, the answer is never easy and, almost always, surprising. For the last couple of years, Fulghum has been traveling the world - from Seattle to the Moab Desert to Crete - looking for a few fellow travelers interested in thinking along with him as he delights in the unexpected: trick-or-treating with your grandchildren dressed like a large rabbit, pots of daffodils blooming in mid-November, a view of the earth from outer space, the mysterious night sounds of the desert, every man's trip to a department store to buy socks, the raucous all-night long feast that is Easter in Greece, the trials and tribulations of plumbing problems and the friendship one can strike up with someone who doesn't share the same language. What on Earth Have I Done? is an armchair tour of everyday life as seen by Robert Fulghum, one of America's great essayists, a man who has two feet planted firmly on the earth, one eye on the heavens and, at times, a tongue planted firmly in his cheek. Fulghum writes to his fellow travelers, with a sometimes light heart, about the deep and vexing mysteries of being alive and says, "This is my way of bringing the small boat of my life within speaking distance of yours. Hello…"
What Our Children Teach Us: Lessons in Joy, Love, and Awareness
by Piero FerrucciChildren: They have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and our sleep, to try our patience, and to elicit our most ferocious love. But children also have the power to teach us the greatest lessons we'll ever learn. . . . Now Piero Ferrucci, a noted psychologist, author, and the father of two young sons, reveals how the journey of parenthood can be a spiritual path, a succession of experiences that can enrich and transform us like no religious retreat or course of psychotherapy ever could. Through sometimes hilarious, often moving, and always insightful anecdotes taken from his own home life, Ferrucci eloquently shows how each moment of parenting, no matter how trivial or challenging, holds hidden surprises and opportunities for change. For instance . . . He drives an hour to take his son Emilio to the zoo, only to find that Emilio isn't interested in the lions, monkeys, and giraffes but in chasing ordinary pigeons . . . and in the midst of his frustration Ferrucci realizes that to Emilio the pigeons are not commonplace, because nothing is commonplace to a child. Everything is vital and interesting. And as h
What Our Mothers Could Have Told Us: A Journey of Self-Discovery through Motherhood
by Haemala ThanasgaranWhat Our Mothers Could Have Told Us is a heartfelt memoir of self-discovery through motherhood based on the author&’s experience in conceiving, delivering, and raising triplets while working full-time and completing her PhD. If that wasn&’t enough, migration was thrown into the picture wherein the family had to, in essence, start over in a new country with a fresh set of challenges. Being a parent is no easy feat, but a woman&’s journey to motherhood begins even before the birth of her child, and this book is an ode to a mother&’s selfless love. It showcases a woman&’s journey and growth as a mother and how she reinvents herself out of necessity and to remain relevant. Full of wisdom, this book covers what isn&’t necessarily always talked about openly—fertility problems, breastfeeding, and post-partum depression. It also spans the full breadth of motherhood from tackling the struggles of parenting toddlers and teenagers to making a full circle when they eventually fly the coop. Parenting is a unique experience for every individual, but this book will resonate with you and inspire you on your journey of motherhood.
What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
by Danielle CrittendenTalk to women under forty today, and you will hear that something has gone terribly wrong with their lives. They have achieved goals previous generations of women could only dream of. Yet women feel more confused and more insecure than ever. Now one of the leading female commentators of her generation exposes the ideas that prevent modern women from finding happiness and points the way to a better future. What has gone wrong? What can be done to set it right? These are the questions Danielle Crittenden answers in What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us. Crittenden is the founder and editor of The Women's Quarterly magazine. In only four years, Crittenden's Quarterly has made itself the center of a new national debate about women. Her views and writings have been cited, reprinted, argued, lauded, and criticized across the country. Mary Matalin describes the Quarterly as "one of my most favorite magazines on the planet. " George Will calls it "a bright light," and even Betty Friedan, with whom Crittenden has sparred, concedes that her views are on "the cutting edge. "In What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us, Crittenden looks at the big topics in women's lives: sex, marriage, motherhood, work, aging, and politics. She argues that a generation of women has been misled: taught to blame men and pursue independence at all costs. Happiness is obtainable, Crittenden says, but only if women will free their minds from outdated feminist slogans and habits of behavior:There are a great many women unhappy because they acted upon the wisdom passed along to them by the people they most trusted. These women thought they did everything right only to have it turn out all wrong. That the wisdom they received was faulty, that it was based on false assumptions, is a hard lesson for anyone to learn. But it is a lesson every woman growing up today will have to learn as I, and thousands upon thousands of women of my generation, had to learn, often painfully. By drawing on her own experience and the decade she has spent researching and analyzing modern female life, Crittenden passionately and engagingly tackles the myths that keep women from realizing the happiness they deserve. And she introduces a new way of thinking about women's problems that may, finally, help women achieve the lives they desire. What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us is sure to ignite debate not only across the country but, more compellingly, within the reader herself.
What Possible Good?: Turning the Tables on Our Pain and Suffering A Study of the Pain and Suffering We All Face Living in a Fallen World and The Hope We All So Desperately Need
by Bill TroutIn the midst of our own intense storms of life, we desperately search for an anchor of hope. This book by author Bill Trout takes us on a journey towards gaining a better understanding of our pain and suffering. We will find that God alone is the one true steadfast anchor that we seek. Believers in Jesus are firmly secured to God as our anchor by a heavenly chain of very strong links. One of the most vital links is found in the answer to the following question: &‘What possible good could come from our suffering?&’ There is great news! God can and does turn bad things into good things for us. To see him at work in our lives we need to ask God to open our spiritual eyes. To improve our vision of the Master Potter at work, we will look through a number of different spiritual lenses. Each lens will permit us to see a different Biblical perspective of viewing our pain and suffering. Not only will we see a broad range of the possible causes and sources of our trials, but also we will discover additional links in the chain of hope, which may have eluded us thus far. Though we have a natural tendency to blame God for our pain and suffering, we will learn that the devil is the primary cause for most of the trials we face. But more great news! As we grow in our faith and trust in God, we realize that he is an expert at &‘turning the tables&’ on all of the devil&’s deceptive schemes to tempt, torture and destroy us. God clearly &“works for the good of the those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.&” (Romans 8:28) He is the master of turning potential defeat into decisive victory! If we hold tight to him as our anchor, we can safely and securely ride out all of the storms of life until we reach that promised eternal heavenly shore!
What Really Counts: Your Guide to Discovering What Matters Most in Life & Letting Go of the Rest
by Thomas Thomas Nelson PublishersHow to navigate the day-to-day struggle for meaning, success, and happiness by sharpening your focus on the spiritual necessities.Meaning. Purpose. Calling. Vision. Whatever you name it, we are all searching for something that matters. Something that counts. We want to know that we’re concentrating on the right things and that we’re not missing the point.What Really Counts tackles twenty-two areas of significance—including God, Love, Wisdom, Purpose, Health—and explores what matters most in each of them, answering questions like What are the basic truths? and What is most important?With introductions, meditations, and directed journaling sections on each topic, readers will embark on an interactive journey to discover not only what really counts, but also what doesn’t, further drawing focus to their purposes within the context of God’s call for them.
What Really Counts for Men: Your Guide to Discovering What Matters Most in Life & Letting Go of the Rest
by Thomas Nelson PublishersSift through the daily grind to make the best choices for yourself and your loved ones and discover what will elevate your reality and life experience.Meaning. Purpose. Calling. Vision. Whatever you name it, we are all searching for something that matters. Something that counts. We want to know that we’re concentrating on the right things and that we’re not missing the point.What Really Counts for Men tackles twenty-two areas of significance to men—including God, Love, Wisdom, Purpose, Health—and explores what matters most in each of them, answering questions like What are the basic truths? and What is most important?With introductions, meditations, and directed journaling sections on each topic, men will embark on an interactive journey to discover not only what really counts, but also what doesn’t, further drawing focus to their purposes within the context of God’s call for them.
What Really Counts for Students: Your Guide to Discovering What's Most Important in Life and Letting Go of the Rest
by Thomas NelsonMeaning. Purpose. Calling. Vision. Whatever you name it, we are all searching for something that matters. Something that counts. We want to know that we're concentrating on the right things and that we're not missing the point. What Really Counts for Students tackles twenty-two areas of significance to students-including God, Love, Wisdom, Purpose, Health-and explores what matters most in each of them, answering questions like What are the basic truths? and What is most important? With introductions, meditations, and directed journaling sections on each topic, students will embark on an interactive journey to discover not only what really counts, but also what doesn't, further drawing focus to their purposes within the context of God's call for them.
What Really Counts for Women: Your Guide to Discovering What Matters Most in Life & Letting Go of the Rest
by Thomas Nelson PublishersA handbook on setting your spiritual priorities straight—filled with inspirational stories, thought-provoking quotes, and life-changing Scripture verses.Meaning. Purpose. Calling. Vision. Whatever you name it, we are all searching for something that matters. Something that counts. We want to know that we’re concentrating on the right things and that we’re not missing the point.What Really Counts for Women tackles twenty-two areas of significance to women—including God, Love, Wisdom, Purpose, Health—and explores what matters most in each of them, answering questions like What are the basic truths? and What is most important?With introductions, meditations, and directed journaling sections on each topic, women will embark on an interactive journey to discover not only what really counts, but also what doesn’t, further drawing focus to their purposes within the context of God’s call for them.
What Really Helps: Using Mindfulness and Compassionate Presence to Help, Support, and Encourage Oth ers
by David Richo Karen Kissel WegelaMost of us, at one time or another, would like to help a friend, family member, or acquaintance through a challenging time. But do we really know how to give meaningful support and guidance? And why do our best efforts at helping others often come up short? Here is a practical guide that will be of special interest to helping professionals--and anyone who wants to make a positive difference in the lives of people they care about. To be truly helpful to others, Karen Wegela explains, we must begin by focusing on ourselves. We must develop greater awareness, steadiness of mind, fearlessness, and self-compassion. Only then we can extend these qualities to the people we'd like to help. Drawing on her experiences as a psychotherapist and on her longtime study of Buddhist meditation, Wegela emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness, or learning to become fully present in our moment-to-moment experience. Through mindfulness we develop a fearless, compassionate presence in our daily lives--and we become better listeners, take wiser actions, and give more valuable, effective guidance to the people we'd like to help.
What REALLY Matters?
by R. W. Alley Brother John Mark FalkenhainOne of the most important gifts we can offer a child is passing along to them the values that will help them form their own sense of what is important--a sense of what REALLY matters. In What Really Matters? A Kid's Guide to What's Really Important in Life, author John Mark Falkenhain, O.S.B., helps both children and adults reflect on those things in life which are most important, especially respect, relationships, and love.
What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking
by Rupert Callender‘This book is a great work of craft and beauty.’ Salena Godden ‘This compelling personal story of a pioneering punk undertaker is a moving revelation.’ Love Reading ‘Inspiring and unforgettable.’ John Higgs, author of William Blake vs the World Death has shown me...the unbreakable core of love and courage that lies at the heart of what it means to be human. Ru Callender wanted to become a pioneering undertaker in order to offer people a more honest experience than the stilted formality of traditional ‘Victorian’ funerals. Driven by raw emotion and the unresolved grief of losing his own parents, Ru brought an outsider, ‘DIY’ ethos to the business of death, combined with the kinship and inspiration he found in rave culture, social outlaws and political nonconformists. Ru has carried coffins across windswept beaches, sat in pubs with caskets on beer-stained tables, helped children fire flaming arrows into their father’s funeral pyre, turned modern occult rituals into performance art and, with the band members of the KLF, is building the People’s Pyramid of bony bricks in Liverpool – all in the name of creating truly authentic experiences that celebrate those who are no longer here and those who remain. Radical, poignant, unflinchingly real and laugh-aloud funny, What Remains? will change the way you think about life, death and the human experience.