Unlock transformational healing with Polyvagal-informed intervention.Post-traumatic growth is more than just recovery—it’s about thriving after trauma. By integrating Polyvagal Theory into therapeutic practice, clinicians can empower clients to not only heal but to transform, cultivating resilience and unlocking their true potential.In this groundbreaking guide, trauma expert Ruby Jo Walker introduces cutting-edge, somatic interventions designed to reshape ...

Support clients' growth and expansion with cutting-edge, polyvagal-informed interventions.Post-traumatic growth refers to the personal transformation which sometimes occurs after trauma. With an understanding of Polyvagal Theory, a well-informed mental health clinician can support their clients in developing resilience and experiencing the possibility of post-traumatic growth.This cutting-edge guide presents practical somatic interventions to support client...

This book and downloadable resources are the simple answer to a busy therapist's problem. It enables the therapist to meet their professional responsibility to inform patients and carers of relevant dysphagia instructions by designing contemporaneous written information, advice and therapy. Using downloadable resources, Swallowing Guidelines allow you to produce multiple individualised programmes that may be emailed or posted to the individuals, their carers or other professionals in any l...

A Hope for All I wish you love, peace, joy and healings. Love God, love others, and love yourself with your whole heart. Make a difference for the better by sharing your love and God-given talents as you encourage those around you. Others will not have to guess that you truly care when you let them know by what you say and how you say itWhat you do and how you do it. When others think of you, let them get a good feeling and Smile!

This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important controversies of each period of black history. The selections represent a broad spectrum of ideology. Conservative, radical...

The passage from real life to an imagined, magical one has fulfilled a childish yearning for many a young person, particularly those who grew up in less than desirable circumstances. Writer and editor Dayle A. Dermatis tapped into that yearning to bring together this collection of stories that take their characters through portals to fantastical worlds—although sometimes the new worlds prove more problematic than the old ones. Still, for anyone who sees herself as the hero of her own story...

In Wray's science fiction, Queen of the World Walkers, a woman receives an ancestry DNA test for Mother's Day, has a car accident, and then travels through time to all the places and historical events from her DNA report, all the while trying to make it back in time for her daughter's wedding.

For centuries, when calamity has approached the Mortal World, a World Walker has appeared to prevent disaster from destroying, well, everything. The problem for Diana Silverwell is that a World Walker has appeared in front of her and neither of them knows what that means. With only a rumor to lead them forward, Diana and Kan’sa must discover the secrets of a nation and stop a hidden threat before it’s too late. Lives at stake, they must uncover the truth long since hidden away.But ...

This issue, we have the first of Robert Reginald’s sequel to H.G. Wells’s The War of the World. (It’s a thriller!) And that’s only the beginning. We have quite a few returning authors—Joseph S. Walker (thanks to Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman) celebrates Talk Like a Pirate Day, Mary Jo Rabe has a historical crime story, Ron Miller has a double header with a new Velda, P.I. story, and a science fiction tale. Plus we have classics by Roy Norton, Henry Leverage, Murray Leinst...

With recent advances in digital technology, a number of exciting and innovative approaches to writing lives have emerged, from graphic memoirs to blogs and other visual-verbal-virtual texts. This edited collection is a timely study of new approaches to writing lives, including literary docu-memoir, autobiographical cartography, social media life writing and autobiographical writing for children. Combining literary theory with insightful critical approaches, each essay offers a serious stud...

‘I was so busy keeping him happy I didn’t notice how long it had been since I’d seen my friends. I seemed to apologise for everything. I was constantly tense, holding my breath, trying to predict his mood. Slowly my world became smaller, darker and lonelier.’Coercive Control is an insidious fog. The first ‘red flags’ are so small you don’t notice them: a simple remark about how to do something ‘the right way’ or a suggestion about how you should dress. He cares about where you are ...

Local and international writers converge to create emerge 19, a powerful anthology now in its 19th year, filled with intrepid and haunting stories. Explore a tiny universe within a shard of glass, find lullabies for insomniacs and follow the kidnapping of a magical cat. In this collection, you will find prose and poetry that lay new ground, whether it be uncovering hidden jawbones in walls, bearing witness to childhoods in raging war zones, or examining one’s paradoxical relationship with ...