In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezen discusses the ways new rights standards and networks of activist collaboration facilitate indigenous claims about culture, adding coherence to their histories, institutions, and group qualities. Drawing on historical, legal, and ethnographic material on aboriginal communities in northern Canada, Niezen illustrates the ways indigenous peoples worldwide are identifying and acting upon new opportunities to further their rights and identities. He shows how - within the constraints of state and international legal systems, activist lobbying strategies, and public ideas and expectations - indigenous leaders are working to overcome the injuries of imposed change, political exclusion, and loss of identity. Taken together, the essays provide a critical understanding of the ways in which people are seeking cultural justice while rearticulating and, at times, re-dignifying the collective self. The Rediscovered Self shows how, through the processes and aims of justice, distinct ways of life begin to be expressed through new media, formal procedures, and transnational collaborations.

She was 23 and at the height of her professional tennis career - a top-30 singles player, the #1 ranked doubles player in the world in 2000, and the winner of Grand Slam titles at both Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport, and the Australian Open Mixed doubles in 2001. Then, in May 2001, Corina Morariu was diagnosed with an advanced form of ...

An inspiring interactive guide to embracing imperfection and creating space for creativity in your mind and your life. “Give yourself margin” is a sewing maxim about leaving enough excess fabric to account for potential mistakes. This book from successful designer Stacie Bloomfield is about giving yourself the space—the mental margin—to reconnect with your creative self by trying new things and, yes, even by failing sometimes. With lush illustrations, empowering interactive prompts, and inspiring personal stories, Give Yourself Margin is perfect for anyone who is looking to rediscover their spark.

Do you have trouble saying "no," or constantly sacrifice your own needs to please others? If so, this evidence-based workbook will help you set healthy boundaries in all aspects of your life—without feeling guilty or afraid. If you find yourself feeling responsible for others’ happiness, worrying about letting people down, or struggling to speak up for yourself, you probably have difficulty setting healthy boundaries. Establishing clear personal boundaries is essential to creating and nurturing mutually respectful relationships based on equality. Setting limits can also protect you from getting involved in exploitative relationships, and help you avoid toxic personalities who don’t have your best interests at heart. This evidence-based workbook will show you how to set healthy boundaries across all aspects of life—without sacrificing your kindness or compassion for others. You’ll learn to define your boundaries and discover why they’re so important for your emotional well-being. You’ll also find a wealth of tips for maintaining boundaries in a "constantly-connected" world, strategies for what to do when people get upset or threatened by your assertiveness, and ways to make sure your needs are met. If you’re tired of feeling guilty or afraid of putting your mental and physical health first, are ready to take back control of your life, and create healthy and balanced relationships, this book will show you how to step up and set limits, assert yourself confidently, and realize your full potential.

If you’re tired of living for others, doing what they say and want, being with toxic people and living with constant unhappiness, stress, overthinking which leads to regular headaches, stomach aches, sleepless nights. Then, you should definitely read this eBook. One piece of advice people often give is to stay away from toxic people. But, how do you identify a toxic person and even if you do- how do you handle them. It’s very easy to say that you should stay away from toxic people but what if they are your family members- your parents, brother, sister, partners. You can’t just cut them off, you need to know the ways to handle them so it doesn’t affect your mental health. You may often wonder- “why this only happens to me” or “why do I only get people who hurt me”. This ebook would help you find the answers to your questions. Just to give you a gist of what I am talking about. Our childhood plays a major role in our character building. If you had a loving secure childhood, you are likely to grow as a positive, confident and secure individual. But if you were raised in a dysfunctional family and had faced abusive or traumatic childhood. You might have trust issues, anger issues, a negative mindset towards life, you may be a people pleaser who doesn’t feel worthy of anything, lacks self-love and looks for others’ validation and so much more. As a result of a traumatic past, you carry your old wounds (that never healed) even as an adult. And subconsciously, always choose or attract toxic people and narcissists everywhere- as your partner or colleague in your workplace or family or friends. They end up hurting you deepening your wounds further. Many people suffer for years in a toxic relationship because they don’t work on themselves. They keep thinking about what they don’t want and attract that more. I understand your pain because similar to you, I suffered from toxic people and considered myself worthless for over 20 years. I have cried for years, attempted suicide, had toxic people control my life the way they wanted, fell from one toxic relationship to another and suffered from physical and mental ailments. But then, I took some major decisions, worked hard on my self-growth and self-improvement and continue to do so to date. And that changed my life by entire 360 degrees. If I can do it so can you... Here is what you will learn from this ebook Identify the toxic people and learn the art of dealing with toxic people (because you cannot eliminate them completely) Take charge of your own life and set personal boundaries. Be a confident, positive and self-loving person. Heal your past and childhood trauma Take care of your mental health Rediscover yourself and find your purpose in life. Bad relationships And more It doesn’t matter if you’re 18 or 50, you can change your life if you want to. No matter how bad your situation is or how hopeless you feel. You just need some courage, firm decision and the right guidance. And this ebook will help you with that. Do you want to live your life as a confident, positive, assertive person or spend the rest of your life crying on your FATE? THE CHOICE IS YOURS! If you want to change your life. Take the first step by buying this e-book - Toxic people: Learn to identify & handle them & rediscover yourself. Click on "Buy Now" to purchase this ebook.

The science and practice of feeling our movements, sensations, and emotions. When we are first born, before we can speak or use language to express ourselves, we use our physical sensations, our “body sense,” to guide us toward what makes us feel safe and fulfilled and away from what makes us feel bad. As we develop into adults, it becomes easy to lose touch with these crucial mind-body communication channels, but they are essential to our ability to navigate social interactions and deal with psychological stress, physical injury, and trauma. Combining a ground-up explanation of the anatomical and neurological sources of embodied self-awareness with practical exercises in touch and movement, Body Sense provides therapists and their clients with the tools to attain mind-body equilibrium and cultivate healthy body sense throughout their lives.

Maverick Israeli poet Yona Wallach (1944-1985) is often remembered for her outrageous and unconventional personality and the controversies engendered by her sometimes shamelessly erotic verse. But she is regarded by many of her friends and colleagues as the most important among the Israeli poets of her generation, perhaps even the greatest Hebrew poet of modern times, and has had a profound effect on Israel's cultural life ever since her works began to appear in periodicals in the early 1960s. Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen presents the first full-length critical analysis in English of her works, exposing the roots of her poetry in the poetic revolution in Israel during the 1950s and explain how she epitomizes the literary climate of her time. Wallach's poetry reflects the cultural crises that shook the academic world of the 1960s and the intellectual battles many artists fought with the prison-house of semiotic systems in which the human mind, they felt, was entrapped. Mysticism, religion and prophecy, passion, genius, sex, and madness are only some of the terms associated with this woman and her poetic art, which one critic has called a "unique combination of elements of rock and roll, Jungian psychology and street slang, break-neck pace and insistent sexuality." Cohen paints a background for Yona Wallach's poetry by outlining her short life and surveying her critical reputation. Drawing on her own rich and varied background in Bible, mythology, Hebrew language, and Poststructuralist and Postmodernist literary and linguistic theory, Cohen traces Wallach's poetic corpus, translates and interprets representative examples of her works, and situates them within a variety of historical and literary contexts.