Amy Emme is a fully certified and qualified HypnoCoach of the National Guild of Hypnotists and is a member of the International Hypnosis Federation.Amy has coached and prepared numerous US athletes for the Olympics supporting each high performance athlete through intense 2-3year training programs.Combined with an extensive education (including qualifications and degrees) in business, biology, chemistry, secondary education and languages Amy brings a breadth of experience to...

Interiority in German Women’s Writing for the first time systematically gathers and engages with contributions of German women authors to the discourse on interiority (Innerlichkeit) from 1750 to 1850. This volume shifts the recent focus on abstract theoretical and medical discourses on inwardness to the origins of interiority in literature and philosophy as written and experienced by women from the Age of Sensibility (Empfindsamkeit) to the Romantic era. At the ...

Dear reader,If you are reading this blurb, you may be asking yourself, "What is a book called The Foster Care Rollercoaster all about?" Well, as the title implies, this book is about foster care, particularly foster parenting, and the rollercoaster of emotions that come along with it.You see, this book is a collection of true events I recorded over my several decades-long experience as a foster parent. Inside you'll learn about my family's journey as we became an emergency ...

Dear reader,Perhaps you read my first book The Foster Care Rollercoaster and are eager to learn more about my large family, or perhaps you stumbled across this book randomly and are now wondering about the wonderful journey that adopting a child (or several) can be. Either way, I'm glad you have made your way here.This book contains the stories of how we grew our family through fostering and adoption. You see, I've always wanted a large family, but when my body decided I wo...

Alors que je viens de me disputer avec ma copine, je sonne chez Rémi, mon collègue de travail, en quête d'un hébergement ...

Fifteen years. That’s how long it’s been since Hannah McLean set foot in the Amish community where she was raised. Through it all, her heart has never forgotten Pontotoc—or Aaron Zook, her first love. Now widowed and left with little more than her hurting teenager and her prayers, she returns home, even knowing she and her son may be turned away. When Aaron learns Hannah has returned, he nearly falls to his knees. He’s a strong man, but lately the care of his three motherless children and ...

Gracie Glick is known for being the helpful one, always available for a relative in need. But now that she’s longing for a home and family of her own, it’s time to help herself. With few eligible men in Pontotoc, Gracie’s choices, and her time, are limited. So she takes a bold leap of faith: she proposes to Matthew Byler, a handsome, recently widowed, father of five. It’s not until after they’re married that Gracie learns Matthew doesn’t want more children. With his grief still fresh and h...

Tillie Gingerich is so in love with Melvin Yoder that she agrees to leave her conservative Amish home to live with him in the English world. But when the struggle to make ends meet leads to conflict and reveals troubling weaknesses in their relationship, Tillie returns to Pontotoc—pregnant and unmarried. Her loving family accepts her, but to convince the rest of the community, they must turn to the bishop. Distraught, Tillie runs away on Christmas Eve—only to get as far as an isolated hous...

Independent-minded Leah Gingerich has always been outspoken. And even though she is now a progressive Mennonite, she's rediscovering the joys of family traditions back in her Amish hometown. Yet she can't help but clash with her handsome new Amish neighbor, Jamie Stoltzfus. He's too hard-headed and old-line to see that his traumatized young nephew, Peter, needs faith and help—or that a woman who stands up to him may be what he needs to heal. After a devastating tragedy, Jamie moved to Pont...