Shelter from Our Secrets, Silence, and Shame
Title | Shelter from Our Secrets, Silence, and Shame PDF eBook |
Author | MSW RSW Rebecca L. Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2022-01-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780228859413 |
AS a mental health clinician, Rebecca Brown has been a safe place for many to seek shelter from their secrets, silence and shame. Inspired to finally slow down, stop running from herself and share her own story, she found ways to seek and savour her own shelter. Rebecca's personal journey takes us through sadness, tragedy, self-sabotage, the impossible pursuit of perfection, distorted thinking and eating, engaging with her shadow self, divorce, and numbing with alcohol, all in an attempt to avoid the story needing to be shared. Dispelling the limiting beliefs we hold about ourselves can unlock our limitless potential to reach goals we never dared to dream. From the Boston Marathon to working with horses, Rebecca sets out to prove to herself that anything is possible when you don't listen to the negative stories you tell yourself. Everyone has a story. We become who we are because of what has happened to us, and because of the stories we tell ourselves. But do our stories continue to serve us well, or keep us stuck? Are our stories fact or fiction? Is it time to rewrite the versions we have been telling ourselves? Shelter provides strategies to help reframe the thinking patterns we have developed, and offers tools to recognize when we are suffering from our own thoughts, feelings and actions. Resilience-building techniques are woven through the pages, and encouragement for the lifelong journey of collecting moments of awe and happiness. Seeking and reading Shelter is a gift of self-compassion and self-discovery. Rebecca's hope is that it will be read with a highlighter in hand, pages folded down, re-read, recommended to a friend, and used as a guide to start sharing our own stories with those we love. We may not have written our beginnings, but we have the ability to write every word from this point forward and just imagine where our stories can take us when we are free of secrets, silence and shame.
Shelter from Our Secrets, Silence, and Shame
Title | Shelter from Our Secrets, Silence, and Shame PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca L. Brown MSW (author) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780228859420 |
The World Is Our Home
Title | The World Is Our Home PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey J. Folks |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 439 |
Release | 2021-10-21 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0813185599 |
Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity. The essays in The World Is Our Home focus on writers who have explicitly addressed social and cultural issues in their fiction and drama, including Dorothy Allison, Horton Foote, Ernest J. Gaines, Jill McCorkle, Walker Percy, Lee Smith, William Styron, Alice Walker, and many others. The contributors provide valuable insights into the transformation of southern culture over the past thirty years and probe the social and cultural divisions that persist. The collection makes an important case for the centrality of social critique in contemporary southern fiction.
Garden of Secrets
Title | Garden of Secrets PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Freethy |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2011-09-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1451636539 |
Dr. Charlotte Adam is torn between two men in this final book in the heart-tugging Angel’s Bay series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Freethy. For years, Dr. Charlotte Adams has been concentrating on her career and trying to make up for her past by helping out pregnant teenagers. Taking care of Annie’s baby has gone a long way in healing old wounds and Charlotte realizes she needs to think about what she wants for her future and if Andrew Schilling, a high school romance gone wrong, or Joe Silveira, the hot divorced police chief, have any part in it. Both Andrew and Joe are trying to convince Charlotte to give them a chance. But when Pamela, the girl who destroyed Andrew and Charlotte’s relationship, shows up once again—and this time pregnant and in trouble—Charlotte realizes that Andrew is hiding things from her. Unsure of telling the truth, Andrew keeps his cards close, even when trouble comes in the form of Kenny, Pamela’s ex-con boyfriend and Andrew'’s old college buddy. But keeping his silence could have deadly results. Meanwhile, Joe is given a second chance at love and realizes Charlotte is the only woman he wants. When he can’t find her anywhere, he knows something is wrong. With Kenny in town and Pamela due, Joe knows he must find Charlotte before it’s too late.
Keeping Family Secrets
Title | Keeping Family Secrets PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret K. Nelson |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2022-11-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1479815624 |
"Drawing on 160 published memoirs, this book explores the costs and benefits in the post-WWII period in the United States both for individuals and for families of keeping secrets about homosexuality, institutionalization of children with disabilities, unwed pregnancy, involvement in left-wing political activities, adoption, and Jewish ancestry"--
Secret Shame
Title | Secret Shame PDF eBook |
Author | Carrie Starr |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2017-12-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781981491148 |
Some secrets are too shameful to speak--until now. Told with sincere and brutal honesty, these brave confessions complete a collective memoir of abuse, abandonment and addiction. With nine distinct yet hauntingly similar personal tales, it becomes clear these painful experiences are all too common. We are not alone in our suffering and have no need to be ashamed of our stories.
Burnout
Title | Burnout PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Nagoski, PhD |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2019-03-26 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 198481706X |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead “A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves, Burnout is essential reading [and] . . . excels in its intersectionality.”—Bustle This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a roadmap to minimizing stress, managing emotions, and living more joyfully. Burnout. You, like most American women, have probably experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to exist as a woman in today’s world are two different things—and we exhaust ourselves trying to close the gap. Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the all-too-familiar cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. They compassionately explain the obstacles and societal pressures we face—and how we can fight back. You’ll learn • what you can do to complete the biological stress cycle • how to manage the “monitor” in your brain that regulates the emotion of frustration • how the Bikini Industrial Complex makes it difficult for women to love their bodies—and how to defend yourself against it • why rest, human connection, and befriending your inner critic are keys to recovering from and preventing burnout With the help of eye-opening science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises, all women will find something transformative in Burnout—and will be empowered to create positive change. A BOOKRIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR