Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, she sheds light on the complex coexistence of multiple forms of labour (paid/unpaid, free/ unfree, with various forms of legal regulation and social protection and so on) on the local and the world levels. Combining this global approach with a ge...

By focusing on effective communication strategies and leveraging cutting-edge research, Mental Health Communication for Underserved Populations makes meaningful progress toward improving mental health outcomes for everyone, with a particular emphasis on underserved populations.Health communication research offers a critical lens for examining mental health, especially in relation to marginalized populations. Contributors to this volume identify and critica...

Just days after Jacob and Kristine Watson celebrated their thirty-third wedding anniversary, Kristine unexpectedly passed away while on a family reunion. Jacob was devastated, engulfed in grief. A writer, he did the only thing he knew: he wrote. In Gifts of Grief, Watson shares his story as he describes the unexpected gifts he received, not only from friends and neighbors, but from the universe, soap bubbles, a hummingbird, a neighbor’s cellar candle, green tree leaves overhead, an offshor...

Dear WOW is a collection of poetry and prose that prompts understanding about Godly wisdom. Those who enjoy journal writing will find this book refreshing. It is a daily devotional, writing guide, and meditation tool that connects women with the Holy Spirit over a 31-day journey. Part 1 is easy to read excerpts of womanly experiences that provide light humor and thought-provoking messages. Part 2 is poetry with spiritual value. Part 3 contains pages for the reader to write notes from their...

We’re Gainin’By: Jacob WatsonWe’re Gainin’: Collins Brook, A Maine Free School - A Memoir is set in Maine during the turbulent 1960 and ’70s. It chronicles a man whose traditional public and private schooling focused on the intellectual and physical, and how he discovered in Summerhill schools his emotional and spiritual life.At age 27, Jacob (then Dick) Watson and his wife Sharon founded Collins Brook School and, with volunteer help, built classrooms and dormitories...

Enso Morning: Daily Meditation Gifts presents over 160 Morning Blessing Letters to awaken, stimulate and deepen meditation and spiritual practice. In the tradition of Robert Frost and Wendell Berry, Jacob uses poetic images and personal experiences of New England nature, the birds, animals, woods, and beaches of coastal Maine, to awaken readers to begin their day nurtured and encouraged to be themselves, joined with like-minded souls. The personal letters in Enso Morning: Daily Meditation ...

Essence: The Emotional Path to Spirit is packed with wise, fierce and gentle emotional and spiritual teachings that describe how our natural emotions clear a path to the spiritual life. Using a holistic model of health - body, heart, mind and soul - and illustrated by stories of tragedy, death, and illumination that guided the author through his personal healing, Essence is like having an intense spiritual workshop in your own hands. Includes meditations and spiritual practices in each cha...

Imagine you can look at your life with all its peculiarities, by analysing what you do and how you do the things you do but in an articulate way. This proposition is an introspective review, which allows a detailed understanding to be formed that provides a sense of ‘Self’ awareness. In a place that is confident in the knowledge that you are safe, to make observations about how you feel, and what you appear like to others. It is possible to look deeply into the life we have made for oursel...

Acclaimed author and renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom distills thirty-five years of psychotherapy wisdom into one brilliant volume.The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom’s more than thirty-five years in clinical practice, Gift of Therapy, The EPB is a remarkable and essential guidebook that illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of the therapeutic process. This classic book on the therapist-patien...

Now more than ever—it’s time to get out of your mind and into your life! This evidence-based ACT workbook can help you get started.If you’re struggling with painful thoughts and emotions, anxiety about the future, depression, the effects of trauma, job stress, or anger, this game-changing workbook—now in a special 20th anniversary edition—can help you build the psychological flexibility needed to reduce your suffering and commit to living your life based on what ma...

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most widely used treatment for depression for one simple reason: it works. The CBT program in this workbook has helped thousands of readers defeat the depressive thoughts and beliefs that keep them from enjoying life and feeling like themselves. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression delivers evidence-based tools you can confidently use to do better, feel better, and prevent depression f...

You are not your thoughts! In this powerful book, two anxiety experts offer proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help you get unstuck from disturbing thoughts, overcome the shame these thoughts can bring, and reduce your anxiety.If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive, frightening, or even disturbing thoughts, you might worry about what these thoughts mean about you. Thoughts can seem like messages—are they trying to tell you something?