![]() ![]() Most importantly, you'll learn that asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. You'll also find tangible tips for quieting that critical inner voice, and powerful strategies for coping with difficult feelings. With this compassionate guide, you'll begin the process of understanding your perfectionism, identifying destructive beliefs, and connecting with emotions suppressed for far too long. Read 45 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. If this sounds like you, you may have perfectly hidden depression (PHD). You recognize something is wrong, but you're not sure what exactly-only that you feel trapped and alone. ![]() ![]() The problem? You're filled with self-criticism and shame, and you can't allow yourself to express fear, anger, loss, or grief. If you were raised to believe that painful emotions are a sign of weakness, or if being vulnerable has always made you feel unsafe, then you may have survived by creating a perfect-looking life-a life where you appear to be successful, engaged, and always there for others. Margaret Rutherford, Ph.D., is the author of Perfectly Hidden Depression: How to Break Free from the Perfectionism that Masks Your Depression. Summary: When your life looks perfect, but you're silently falling apart. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Both brothers shared a love of photography and it is that which brings Harry back to the Western Front. ![]() He too longs for Francis to be alive, so they can forgive each other for the last things they ever said. Harry, Francis’s brother, fought alongside him. He is considered ‘missing in action’, but when Edie receives a mysterious photograph taken by Francis in the post, hope flares. While many survivors of the Great War have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie’s husband Francis has not come home. Families are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. Until she knows her husband’s fate, she cannot decide her own.Īn epic debut novel of forbidden love, loss, and the shattered hearts left behind in the wake of World War I.ġ921. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I think it’s called “being happy!” It means that I can make my family and friends-and maybe even my readers-feel a bit of that, too. I can say that I really like myself and I do the things I need to do to keep feeling that way. It’s taken me some time to feel this way. What made you interested in writing a book for the Well Aware series?įeeling good and STRONG about myself is important to me. The one award, or honour, that has stood out for me is the inclusion of my picture book, Grandpa’s Music, on the IBBY List of Books for Children Living with Disabilities. My favourite part is the actual writing-the working part of it-and it’s a place where I just get to be me. It’s something I can do in my pajamas, and no one is judging me. ![]() The best part of being a writer is the feeling that I have time to think about things. What do you like best about being a writer? I was born in Vancouver, and now live not far away from there, in a small town where people farm and fish, where the Fraser River meets the Pacific Ocean (and the river is salty and has tides!). Where were you born, and where do you live now? ![]() She isn’t afraid to tackle tough subjects, and she has received many awards and honours for her work. Alison is a writer and creative writing instructor. Alison Acheson wrote 19 Things: A Book of Lists for Me for the Well Aware series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For Gay, it was easier to block out the memories than confront them. For example, she told herself repeatedly that being gang-raped wasn’t the worst thing that could happen, because she is still alive it happens to many girls. She remembers looking for ways to mitigate the trauma so she could deal with it on her own. The anthology begins with an introduction from Gay in which she discusses her own gang rape and sexual trauma. ![]() Readers should be aware that some essays in the collection might be triggering for those who have experienced sexual abuse or harassment. The works share in the condemnation of rape culture and gender inequality. Women authored twenty-seven of the essays. Not That Bad is an anthology of twenty-nine essays, each authored by a different person. She is a qualified creative writing teacher and a published novelist. A popular writer and editor, Gay’s work has appeared in publications such as The Los Angeles Times and the Virginia Quarterly Review. It won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for an LGBTQ Anthology. First published in 2018, these essays consider what it is like being a woman in the twenty-first century, and why we must do more to counter our society’s desensitized view of rape culture and sexual assault. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture is a collection of feminist essays compiled by Roxane Gay. ![]() ![]() The nominees include 19 women (26 percent) and 55 men (74 percent). The final report will be printed in the 2023 Annual Meeting Tuesday Bulletin and brought as a slate for Convention approval on Tuesday afternoon (June 13). ![]() Seventy-four new nominees were named in the initial report with a handful of vacancies yet to be filled by the committee. “Anything less would be a disservice to the Convention, to our boards and standing committees, and to the churches who entrusted this task to us.” “A number of factors contributed to our selection process but some of the main qualities we looked for were a devotion to the inerrant and sufficient Word of God, affirmation of the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, the skills and experiences needed to steward trusteeship of a specific board well, faithful financial support of the Cooperative Program and other Convention causes, and willingness to serve God’s Kingdom through the SBC. “Our committee has prayerfully and enthusiastically served the SBC this past year,” Criner, pastor of Rock Hill Baptist Church, said. The nominations will be presented to messengers for approval at the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, June 13–14. ![]() ![]() The 2023 Committee on Nominations chaired by Michael Criner has released its list of nominees to fill vacancies on the boards and standing committees of the SBC. ![]() ![]() ![]() But at certain moments when the younger officials go too far, Akaky shouts at them to leave him alone. He always copies his documents diligently and carefully. While the younger clerks constantly make fun of him, Akaky usually does not let it affect his work. Nevertheless, Akaky is a constant presence there-however much the department changes directors, Akaky is always “in precisely the same place, sitting in exactly the same position, doing exactly the same work-just routine copying, plain and simple.” No one respects Akaky in the department, and he barely has any civil interactions with his peers. ![]() The Narrator claims that no one remembers how Akaky Akakievich was appointed to his specific department. ![]() ![]() Whichever man impregnates her will bond her to them forever. Forced to participate in the Betrothal Trials, she receives a wizard suitor for one night each month. Instead, through a twist of fate, and despite her expensive Convocation Academy education, Nic is doomed to be a familiar like her mother. ![]() ![]() To her bitter disappointment, she will never be a wizard. With her by his side, he can ascend to such a position of power in the Convocation that he can destroy it forever.Lady Veronica Elal, captive in her tower, has only one way out. ![]() If he can obtain a familiar to amplify his magic, a highborn daughter he can marry, to be mother to his children, he'll be that much closer to saving his family. Fortunately, through a wild chance of birth, he was born with powerful wizard magic, the first in his family in generations. ![]() Lord Gabriel Phel wants one thing: to rebuild the shattered fortunes of his people and restore his ruined house to its former station in the Convocation's highest tiers of elegant society. ![]() ![]() ![]() No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. If you order this along with other items, your entire order will be held and despatched when complete. She is the author of three novels No Bones, Little Constructions and Milkman and of the novella Mostly Hero. Usually despatched in 3 to 10 working days. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.Ĭurrently not in stock but due shortly. ![]() ![]() ![]() Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. So begins this kaleidoscopic, surreal and enigmatic tale of dark deeds in a small town. An irate woman bursts into the best gun shop in the town of Tiptoe Floorboard, helps herself to a Kalashnikov rifle and sets off in a taxi on her mission of retribution. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. The new novel from Anna Burns, critically acclaimed author of No Bones. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Sshortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Eason Book Club Novel of the Year Award for 2018 and for the Women's Prize for Fiction for 2019. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all-including Leo-related to a god. ![]() ![]() What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. Rick Riordan is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the Kane Chronicles, and the Heroes of Olympus. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. The Son of Neptune is a 2011 fantasy-adventure novel written by American author Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea-except that everything seems very wrong. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. ![]() ![]() Among the subjects covered and illustrated are:Īccessibly written, superbly designed and organized, and brilliantly illustrated, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior is an indispensable source of information on the avian life around us. ![]() The 80 family-by-family chapters describe the amazing range of behavior dictated by birds’ biology and environment. Introductory essays outline the principles of avian evolution, life cycle, body structure, flight dynamics, and more. F rom the New York Times best selling author of the peerless bird identification guide The Sibley Guide to Birds, a landmark exploration of how birds live and what they do.ĭesigned to enhance the birding experience and to enrich the popular study of North American birds, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior combines more than 795 of Sibley's beautiful full-color illustrations with authoritative text by 48 expert birders and biologists. ![]() |