These poems offer solace to people who are living with pain and injury and encourage them to share the truth of their experience. This book is ultimately a message of love and understanding for the many people who face adversity throughout their lives. This book is a reminder that we are not alone. Living with pain and injury is a moment by moment experience. The gift in all suffering is access to a deeper well of compassion and the peace of acceptance.

Maureen Cochram and Clare Eacott share their experiences and innermost thoughts as they move on from their professional careers into retirement. This is their story about the emergence of a friendship and a journey shared. As they free themselves from years of routine, habits, and other peoples expectations, they discover the boundless possibilities of life after work. Retirement becomes the catalyst and the vehicle for some profound thinking about the meaning and purpose of life and how t...

A collection of amusing short stories about the human condition revealing the absurdity of our existence.Stories appearing in this collection are:The English Patient, Dr Zhivago and the Purposeful StrideThe ProposalThe Imaginary LoverThe College Girl and the Older ManWhat the Power of Love Looks Like on a Monday MorningI Was Young OnceThe Influential Life of Speckly JimThe Fleeting Nature of True FriendshipHow to Snag ...

Butch did a bad, bad thing. He went against his owner's orders, and he bit the postman. Unbeknownst to Butch, though, the postman was a werewolf. We all know what happens when a werewolf bites a human... but what happens when a dog bites a werewolf?Don't Bite the Postman, Puppies! is a short story, approximately 9 (print) pages in length.

Tired of not getting what you want? Don't know how to ask for it? Best-selling author Richard Templar brings his inimitable blend of originality, imagination, wisdom, and straight talk to the challenges of negotiation, persuasion, and influence. Templar offers up 100 clever, simple, pain-free ways to get people to happily say "yes" to you!Templar is the world-renowned author of best-sellers like The Rules of Money and The Rules of Life. In this new book, he offers...

Statistics indicate that one in every three females and one in every five males are sexually abused by the time they reach eighteen years of age. Live to Tell is a collection of poetry chronicling the journeyfrom being a sexual abuse victim to becoming a survivor. The road to emotional healthcan be arduous and painful. Consequently, itcan also be lonely. The poems in this book are meant to provide hope and encouragesurvivors of sexual abuseto continue on their path of healing.

She is angry sure with me.By now she knows sure I'm here. When she's looked in all the other places she always knows I'm here and this is where she looks next.But I'm here anyway. Here is out of her wayest. Here is not under her feet, making her mad at me, always under her feet is what I am when I'm not here or in some other hiding place where she usually looks first, before she remembers here and then looks here and finds me.I don't have many hiding places for our ...

Dawn Meredith has worked with children and their parents for over 20 years and has seen many children suffer with anxiety, even depression. This book was written as a resource for her clients but demand for 12 Annoying Monsters: Self-talk for kids with anxiety has been so strong she has now released it to the general public.Suitable for readers aged eight and over, this book details the reasons for anxiety symptoms, how the body protects us in times of real danger and helps childre...

These writings are from a young woman who has had to face obsticles no person should have to. She has put her feelings into her writings for people going through similar experiences. Silent War gives readers an insight into Haleys life and and what she has been through. Pieces about teenage love, heartbreak, medical journeys, losing someone and much more these writings are all from the heart.

Most books about bullying tell children how to act without addressing how they feel. But the usual advice to 'ignore it' or 'say something smart' is doomed to fail, as you can't act brave and confident if you feel stressed and helpless inside.Jenny Alexander's approach is to develop readers' psychological defences. Through an entertaining mix of exercises, quizzes and fictional scenarios, she combines common sense with simple cognitive therapy techniques, to build up children's sel...

Three very short science fiction stories. Each is only around eight hundred words.

A straight from the shoulder look at life in which I ask some awkward questions; such as, 'Who am I?', 'Where did I come from?', 'What am I doing here?' and 'Why do we resist change?' If at this point you're tempted to flick through this book looking for the answers, save yourself the trouble - you won't find any. This isn't a book of answers - it's a book of self-reflective questions that have fascinated me all of my life. Reflecting on them has given new meaning and purpose to my life an...