Diversity plays an important role in how people experience illness and healthcare as patients. Listening carefully to stories of how race, class, age, gender, sexuality, and disability can affect patient experience can be revealing and provide much needed change to health communication in the patienthood narrative. This book is a collection of vibrant and engaging essays by scholars of narrative methods in health communication. Each chapter takes readers into the fascinating world of patie...

Enjoy Safety, Security + Stability through Your First ChakraFeaturing yoga poses, guided meditations, vibrational remedies, and more, this book immerses you in the power of the root chakra. Cyndi Dale and nine expert contributors teach you how to connect to this grounding energy center through dozens of hands-on practices, including visualizations, affirmations, healing mantras, and recipes. Working with this chakra, which is located at the base of your spine, will...

Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical progressive work required for societal health and wellbeing, forming a mental picture of what the world has the potential to be without excluding current realities for Black boys a...

"The rule of siblings: if your siblings get something you want, you try to take it, break it, or say it's no good." Patricia FlemingFour siblings inherit their Mom's house full of stuff. And they all want the same item. What could possibly go wrong?When Courtney claims a long-forgotten sugar bowl as a memento of her late mother, suddenly the law of siblings kicks in. Twins Brando and Brandi and sister Mona want the bowl too-and they'll do what it takes to ...

Can two hesitant fifty-somethings get out of their own way to fall in love?Professional home organizer, Jenn Morrison, is at the top of her game in business and the bottom of the heap in love. If dead-end dates were an Olympic sport, Jenn would own the podium.Ex-gym teacher Mark Russell still can't face dating after losing his wife three years earlier. When Mark's daughters hire Jenn to declutter their dad's home, he fends off the makeover. After J...

A moving and beautifully illustrated collection of stories surrounding the complexities of navigating dementia, all told through the eyes of a community dementia companion.When Time Aligns follows Sienna, a dementia companion who works with individuals, families and organisations to deliver advice, advocacy, better understanding and compassionate support.Each story is based on real experiences and is brought to life with heartwarming and often hear...

Enjoy Empathy, Intuition + Creativity through Your Second ChakraFeaturing yoga poses, guided meditations, vibrational remedies, and more, this book immerses you in the power of the sacral chakra. Cyndi Dale and nine expert contributors teach you how to connect to this sensual energy center through dozens of hands-on practices, including visualizations, affirmations, healing mantras, and recipes. Working with this chakra, located in your lower abdomen, will help you...

Enjoy Self-Confidence, Nourishment + Passion through Your Third ChakraFeaturing yoga poses, guided meditations, vibrational remedies, and more, this book immerses you in the power of the solar plexus chakra. Cyndi Dale and nine expert contributors teach you how to connect to this radiant energy center through dozens of hands-on practices, including visualizations, affirmations, healing mantras, and recipes. Working with this chakra, located in your stomach, will he...

Bestselling author and chakra expert Cyndi Dale has curated contributions from nine energy medicine practitioners who teach you all about the crown chakra.This flowering-truth energy center is the seventh step on a staircase that leads up from the base of your spine toward enlightenment. Featuring hands-on practices, this two-color book teaches you how to transform negative traits and trauma into peace and serenity with help from guided meditations, yoga poses, gro...

Enjoy Communication, Discernment + Creativity Through Your Fifth ChakraFeaturing yoga poses, guided meditations, mudras, and more, this book immerses you in the power of the throat chakra. Cyndi Dale and nine expert contributors teach you how to connect to this expressive energy center through dozens of hands-on practices, including visualizations, affirmations, working with crystals, and recipes. Working with this chakra, located in your throat, will help you puri...

In this two-color book, bestselling author and chakra expert Cyndi Dale has curated contributions from nine energy medicine practitioners who teach you all about the third eye chakra.This clarifying energy center is the sixth step on a staircase that leads up from the base of your spine toward enlightenment. Featuring hands-on practices, this two-color book teaches you how to develop your innate clairvoyance and access your divine nature with help from guided medit...

A dance to the death. A girl who’s just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that’s constantly changing—and hungry. All of these stories exist in the same place—within the frame of a particular house that isn’t bound by the laws of time and space.Following in the footsteps of dark/horror-filled YA anthologies like His Hideous Heart and Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, and Netflix’s ground-breaking adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, this YA specula...