Music in Therapeutic Practice: Using Rhythm to Bridge Communication Barriers builds upon an emerging awareness in psychotherapy that music can create therapeutic rapport with patients. Music has been described as our first language, beginning with our mother’s heartbeat. Early rhythms echo and elaborate as themes threading through the narratives of our emotional lives. Given the ways we can access and share music today, we find ourselves increasingly maneuvering through musical landscapes ...

An innovative hybrid of memoir and fiction, Noboku is kind of like Call Me By Your Name, but the two main characters are women, and it's set in Japan.Nobuko is based on author Trisha Ready's experiences teaching English in the 1980s in Japan, where she fell for a woman who lived in a rustic cabin and made dentures for a living. A twisting maze of subplots involve the yakuza, the Japanese organized crime syndicate -- as well as food, art, adventure, samurai swords, and marriage....

Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well as personal, it becomes ev...

First comes marriage. Then comes divorce. Then it’s every woman for herself…When Charlie’s husband Matt tells her that he wants a divorce she has to start from scratch. Suddenly single, broke and approaching forty, she is forced to return to her childhood home in the Yorkshire moors.Living with her father and eccentric siblings could be considered a challenge, but soon Charlie finds her new life somewhat refreshing. Now that she’s single she’s got no need t...

I meet a hot gothic futanari named Trisha at a club. She then makes me her slut! Hot futanari on female action inside! Don't miss it!

He thinks she's a bossy shrew. She thinks he's rude beyond measure. It's hate at first sight.The illegitimate son of a wealthy aristocrat and a Romani mother, Dr. Oliver Somersby is a man caught between two worlds, longing to be accepted--somewhere. Fear of discovery prevents him from seeking a relationship. And even if he would, the high-and-mighty widow, Camilla Denby, is the last person with whom he'd wish an attachment. If only she would stay out of his thought...

First comes marriage. Then comes divorce. Then it’s every woman for herself…When Charlie’s husband Matt tells her that he wants a divorce she has to start from scratch. Suddenly single, broke and approaching forty, she is forced to return to her childhood home in the Yorkshire moors.Living with her father and eccentric siblings could be considered a challenge, but soon Charlie finds her new life somewhat refreshing. Now that she’s single she’s got no need t...

Rooted and Radiant: Women’s Narratives of Leadership shares the narratives of 39 women navigating the process of leadership. It seeks to honor the unique experiences of the narrative authors while also challenging the dominant stories of the leadership process. The audience for the book is leadership educators and women looking to further explore leadership as a phenomenon.Rooted and Radiant: Women’s Narratives of Leadership is grounded in the hope and radiance described by Skye, o...

AUTHORS: Sandra Haseley, Shiran Cohen, Tricia Snyder, Jenni Rae Oates, Andrea Costrino, Joanne Sotelo, Irene Elbie, Maria Violante, Vanessa Napolitano Duarte, Trisha Freley, Milda Sabiene, Erin-Kate WhitcombWe don't volunteer for hardships in life, but we're also not ignorant enough to imagine they won't show up. We know the gritty part of life will come, but along with it, we get to choose to believe that the grace will show up, too. And as long as we look for it,...

In this charming romantic comedy, an aspiring artist weathers divorce, manslaughter, her eccentric family, and dating in her forties.Charlotte—Charlie—Rhymer's husband wants a divorce. Charlie isn't sure what she wants now, but after the incident with the frying pan, even she must concede that their differences may be irreconcilable after all. Returning home to her native Yorkshire and the bosom of her family seemed like a good idea at the time. Even if Charlie's fa...

Trisha is a political activist with a secret crush on a redneck cop -- she never thought she could be with a man like that, until one magical ring turns her from black and bitter to Southern and sultry!