The nerve of the vagus... You heard about it, did you? It's an incredible nerve that links our brain to our body, also known as "The Wanderer" The nerve starts in the medulla oblongata (the part of the brainstem that regulates involuntary processes such as chewing, digestion, and heart rate), branches up into the brain, crosses the digestive tract through the mouth, branches off into the lungs and heart, and goes down to the esophagus, uterus, liver, kidneys, and intestines. I know you are...

Following a relational, Indigenous-led approach grounded in 25 years of collaborative work, this book looks to weather and climate, tracing the embodied, emplaced and affective ways weather co-constitutes people, place and time/s raising critical questions of ethics, politics and becoming.Becoming weather leads the reader through a reflexive engagement with weather, seeking to shed light on pressing issues around climate change and its entanglements: from the body where contours of...

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent ‘prosthetic memory’. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema.Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, ‘art-house horror’, science-fiction, social realism and fantasy. It includes reference to Er...

This accessible guide explores how our brains react to stress and offers a fresh perspective on how we define "trauma." Probing how the words we use can influence our understanding of distress, this text focuses on expanding awareness of excess stress and reducing judgment of its potential impact on relationships and day-to-day life.Helpfully split into three parts, the book introduces the terms "cortisprinkled," "cortisaturated," and "cortisoaked" and provides a rationale for why ...

Kestrel lives to inspire others, but has her own mysterious past that remains a ghost story. She is the co-founder of Thriving Through Seasons Ministries, an organization that heals the broken and teaches them how to heal other broken souls. With her fellow characters (Andreya, Andra, and Eijaz), she finds peace and love through Jesus Christ, despite their tragic circumstances.Join Kestrel as she experiences suffering, loss, illness, abandonment, tragedies, and deception. Her journ...

Kestrel lives to inspire others, but has her own mysterious past that remains a ghost story. She is the co-founder of Thriving Through Seasons Ministries, an organization that heals the broken and teaches them how to heal other broken souls. With her fellow characters (Andreya, Andra, and Eijaz), she finds peace and love through Jesus Christ, despite their tragic circumstances. Join Kestrel as she experiences suffering, loss, illness, abandonment, tragedies, and deception. Her journey delv...

Being Zen(ish) is what we call it - and it's the ish that we endorse!Teresa Palmer and Sarah Wright Olsen, two moms from opposite sides of the world, are doing their best to raise happy, empathetic children while working, traveling, and maintaining their sanity. With seven kids between them, the founders of the much-loved Your Zen Mama blog know as well as anyone that motherhood doesn't exist in the highlight reel of life, and that finding even a fleeting semblance...

Experience Deep Joy!!God provides a way for us to experience real, deep, meaningful joy despite our circumstances, our past, or our future. In this forty-day guide, Beth-Sarah Wright leads you to reflect on various Scriptures and quotes. As you meditate on these thoughts, God can open up new possibilities of thinking and living! You can find deep joy!

DIGNITY is a transformative set of ideas to help individuals and communities identify and address barriers to authenticity.The author was inspired by a question in the Episcopal Baptismal covenant: Will you strive to respect the dignity of every human being? DIGNITY is seven actionable tenets (diversity, identity, growth, nurture, integrity, transparency, and yield) with which we can identify our purpose, articulate our aspirations, and equip ourselves and...

This book offers a comprehensive framework for the study of moral panics. It provides an up-to-date overview of the history and development of the concept of panic, and discusses the key criticisms and debates that have stemmed from its use over the last four decades. While investigating the critical connections between crime reporting and panic development, Wright Monod also highlights the overall importance of social context, and social theory, for understanding episodes of moral panic.

Her happily-ever-after just fell apart. Can she find the courage to write a new one?After discovering her fiancé tutoring his college student in bed, Marin Beckett is done with love. The only problem? She’s a romance author, and her next novel is way overdue. When her estranged parents come together to offer her an escape to tiny Seasalter, England—the setting of her father’s famous memoir and the last place her family was whole—she seizes the chance to un...

Me? Depressed?: A Story of Depression from Denial to Discovery is an uplifting, inspirational story of hope and healing through depression. In her own words, this well-educated, professional thirty-something wife and mother, describes her journey of an unexpected diagnosis of depression from complete denial to her discovery that depression does not discriminate, is not "her" fault, needs to be openly and honestly discussed and there is always hope.