Mental Health Matters: Breaking the Silence, Igniting Hope, and Redefining Wellness is an inspiring collection of personal stories that shatter the stigma surrounding mental health. Grammy Award-winning legend Cheryl "Salt" James of the iconic rap duo Salt-N-Pepa lends her voice in a powerful foreword and chapter addressing the realities of mental health struggles.Featuring 22 co-authors, the book shares raw, deeply personal accounts from ...

The poems in Catastrophizing in Catastrophe had their genesis in a series of recent fundraisers for the English Department of Augsburg University in Minneapolis, where I taught for over 30 years. As an incentive to contribute, I offered to honor the donors by writing poems in various forms. You will find here haiku, sonnets, ghazals, pantoums, villanelles, and sestinas, as well as free verse and idiosyncratic stanzaic poems. This project was an ongoing labor of love, as well as a ...

You never expected to say goodbye.The most helpful grief book to read when you're ready to start healing after the loss of a loved one.Whether you've lost a parent, partner, child, sibling, friend—or anyone you loved—I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye offers the compassion and clarity you need when grief is sudden, raw, and overwhelming.This trusted guide has helped over a million readers cope with the shock of unexpected loss. Drawing f...

Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually.Maybe the desire to make something beautifulis the piece of God that is inside each of us.In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work.Herons, sparrows, owls and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry and impermanence. Whether considering a bird's nest, the seeming patience of oak trees or the paintings of Franz Marc, Mary Oliver ...

So much of recovery from codependence has to do with figuring out where we stop and another person begins. Growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional family often prevents us from creating healthy physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual boundaries. This pamphlet offers meaningful insight on how to build healthy boundaries.So much of recovery from codependence has to do with figuring out where we stop and another person begins. Growing up in an alcoholic o...

If you stop and look around you, you'll start to see.Tall marigolds darkening. A spring wind blowing. The woods awake with sound. On the wooden porch, your love smiling. Dew-wet red berries in a cup. On the hills, the beginnings of green, clover and grass to be pasture. The fowls singing and then settling for the night. Bright, silent, thousands of stars.You come into the peace of simple things.From the author of the 'compelling' and 'luminous' essays of The Wor...

Finalist for the National Book Award: May Sarton at her evocative and contemplative bestThe title poem of this entrancing collection compares love to salt for its ability both to dissolve and to crystallize "into a presence." At once philosophical and fiercely corporeal, this work presents emotion as a sensory experience. Written with Sarton's characteristic concision, these deeply felt poems will delight readers.

Domestic Violence "You Are Not Alone" was written to inform individuals on what Domestic Violence is, the warning signs, risk factors and how it affects the whole family. The book also discuss prevention methods and developing an escape plan. Through experience and education this is a practical book on the dynamics of Domestic Violence. The book is being used as a textbook at a local univerity and is also in ShreveMemorial Library.

In May Sarton's seventeenth and final collection of poetry, the writer reflects on life, aging, and mortalityComing into Eighty presents a poet's look at age. Herein, Sarton gives readers a glimpse into her quotidian tasks, her memories, her losses, and her triumphs. The volume explores topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the struggle of taking a cat to the vet. Dark and immediate, this work catalogues both the tedium and the splendor of life with equal...

A collection of poems I have kept since I was 13-17 years old. They're all varying in different subjects but mostly it's about what I imagine certain things must have been like.

• Why you must pause, look up and out of the window.• Why a geranium flowering on the windowsill and wind soughing in the pines is serenity• How rain drumming on the roof can still the mind as effectively as a night of meditation• How to recognize serenity once you have achieved itThis gorgeous pocketbook collects some of Ruskin Bond’s wisest observations—as well as those of the thinkers he most admires—on a life of calm a...

If You Have 30 Minutes, You Can Take Charge of AngerAnger fills us with adrenaline, but can also cloud our thinking--a combination that tends to get us into trouble. In 30-Minute Therapy for Anger, you'll learn proven-effective skills developed by therapists for helping people process and control their anger instead of lashing out at others. These conflict-defusing techniques will help you "cool down" anger so that you can respond calmly and effectively, even in li...