Punished is the inspiring true story of an unusual little girl, Vanessa, whose childhood was devastated by torture and abuse at the hands of her sadistic mother. Vanessa was nearly destroyed until she discovered a secret that ultimately saved her life.

From the age of 3, Vanessa lived in daily terror of her mother's unpredictable rage. If she was 'naughty', her mother would lash out at her with beatings, torture, starvation and making Vanessa sleep in their garden's pigsty, tied up like an animal. Her mother said her punishments were God's revenge on her for being the devil's child. Her father lived in denial of her suffering.

When she was 6 years old, Vanessa's grandfather began to sexually abuse her to her despair, aided and abetted by both her mother and grandmother. At eight years old, she then discovered that the 'mother' who hated her so much had adopted her as a baby and would never love her as her own.

At the most horrific times of Vanessa's abuse, she nearly lost all hope that she would escape her prison, until mysterious things started to happen to her that allowed her to fight back.

This is the story of how Vanessa survived a childhood that nearly destroyed her and how her secret led her out of the horrors of her past."

In Kitchen Witchcraft: Crystal Magic, best-selling author Rachel Patterson looks at some of the more commonly available crystals and presents them in a magical light! Combining an extensive reference section along with topics such as how to work with crystals for magical purpose, connecting with crystal magical energy, which crystals to use for specific magical intent, creating crystal spell grids and using crystals for divination, Crystal Magic is an essential book for the modern Kitchen Witch. Crystal Magic is the third in a series of books that delve into the world of the Kitchen Witch. Each book breaks down the whys and wherefores of the subject and includes practical guides and exercises. Other titles include Spells and Charms, Garden Magic and The Elements.

A Reader for Navigating the Depths of Our Lives The Universe holds us and tosses us about, only to hold us again. With Things That Join the Sea and the Sky, Mark Nepo brings us a compelling treasury of short prose reflections to turn to when struggling to keep our heads above water, and to breathe into all of our sorrows and joys. Inspired by his own journal writing across 15 years, this book shares with us some of Mark's most personal work. Many passages arise from accounts of his own life events-moments of "sinking and being lifted"-and the insights they yielded. Through these passages, we're encouraged to navigate our own currents of sea and sky, and to discover something fundamental yet elusive: How, simply, to be here. To be enjoyed in many ways-individually, by topic, or as an unfolding sequence-Things That Join the Sea and the Sky presents 145 contemplations gathered into 17 themes, each intended to illuminate specific situations. The themes include: Unraveling Our Fear, Beyond What Goes Wrong, The Gift of Deepening, The Practice of Relationship, What Holds Us Up, Right-Sizing Our Pain, The Reach of Kindness, Burning Off What's Unnecessary, How We Make Our Way and many more. For those interested in either beginning or expanding their own journaling explorations, this reader also provides a guide to the practice of daily writing, with 100 compelling questions to get us started. "Joy is the sea that holds all," writes Mark, "the Unity of Being where feelings don't separate, but surface like waves to remind us we are alive." Here, he helps us swim in those waters until we are held in the mystery of their buoyancy.

This book is a meditation on the different aspects of colour, particularly its relationship to healing. Drawing on examples from natural science and spiritual science, Klocek focuses on the real essence of colours and how they relate to human beings in our physical body and soul. From Newton to Rudolf Steiner, and including the development of artistic pigments, this enlightening book shows how colour can be linked to healing with artistic therapies, homeopathy and flower essences. Illustrated in colour with numerous diagrams and examples of art from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, this book offers surprising insights into a subject that is integral to our everyday life and development.

A complete guide to understanding, working with and developing your connection to your chakra system for healing and transformation. Anodea Judith is the world's bestselling author and foremost expert on the chakras. In this inspirational guide, she introduces each of the seven major energy centres in the body and offers practical tools for using this incredible energy system to take charge of your wellbeing, express your true self and navigate your journey towards full-spectrum living. Learn how you can use the chakra system for: - Enhancing wellbeing - Liberating yourself from limiting patterns - Manifesting the life you want - Awakening to a higher state of consciousness - Helping to transform the world we all share This book was previously published under the title Chakras (Hay House Basics series).

A full-color guide to harnessing the potential of your life numbers through the supportive and healing energy of crystals * Explains how to calculate your personal numbers and work with gemstones to enhance the strengths of your numbers and overcome weaknesses * Explores which crystals resonate most with each number's energy, including detailed descriptions of the gemstones' spiritual, mental, and physical qualities alongside beautiful photographs * Offers affirmations, meditations, and crystal healing techniques to connect with the energies of the gemstones Numerology offers a surprisingly accurate tool to gain insight into your character, talents, and abilities by analyzing the numbers in your birthdate, the numeric values of the letters in your name, and the numbers that serendipitously appear in your life again and again. While our personal numbers are the mirror that reflects our inner world, crystals are our helpers in the outer world to harmonize the energies we were born with. They are gifts from the earth that we are offered to unfold our divine potential. Through their beauty and wisdom, they can help us be more in tune with our destiny. In this full-color guide, the authors explain how to calculate your personal numbers and work with the healing energies of gemstones to unfold the full potential your numbers reveal. Each of the numbers 0 to 9 is explained on the numerological level, including their qualities, energies, and how they act on human consciousness. The authors then describe which crystals resonate most with each number's energy and which offer complementary energies, providing detailed descriptions of the gemstones' spiritual, mental, and physical qualities alongside beautiful photographs. The authors also offer affirmations, meditations, and crystal healing techniques to connect with the energies of the gemstones. By working with the gemstones that resonate with your numerology, you can enhance the strengths of your personal numbers. If a certain number's weaknesses are manifesting in your life, you can discover crystals that will help to integrate and balance the number's hindering effects. Together, numbers and stones offer a wonderful possibility to find your own way, recognize your true self, heal, and harmonize with the world around you. Let the numbers guide you and the crystals empower you!

- Designed by Grace Duong, founder of Mystic Mondays - Deluxe keepsake box with magnetic closure - 80 full-color hexagonal cards in stylish printed travel case - Full-color, 11 X 17" illustrated foldout poster Use the power of crystals to tap into your intuition and supercharge your intentions. Created by Grace Duong of Mystic Mondays, The Crystal Grid Deck uses beautiful, vibrant illustrations to channel the magic of 80 gemstones, from rose quartz and lapis lazuli to amethyst and Tiger's Eye. Featuring bold, 3D renderings of crystals, these deluxe hexagonal cards fit together, allowing users to magnify their intention-setting by creating grids and spreads. Each card offers users a glimpse into the properties of the stone, with notes on uses, zodiac connections, chakra work, and more printed on the reverse. Housed in a stunning, fully-illustrated keepsake box, with magnetic closure, and separate travel case for the cards, this breathtaking set is an essential addition to your mystical toolbox. An accompanying 11 X 17" poster shows all 80 crystals together, for convenient reference that doubles as bold artwork suitable for display.

'This delightful - and highly accessible - book is beautifully illustrated and filled with hints and tips to help you make the most of your crystals. I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as I did.' Judy Hall, bestselling author of The Crystal Bible Luminosity Crystals founder, Juliette Thornbury, provides all the information you need to create a beautiful and empowering home environment with healing crystals. Featuring a dedicated section organised by the key rooms in the home, this modern guide to crystals helps you choose stones that will attract the energy you want in each space. Infused with the energy of Mother Nature, every crystal has a unique set of healing properties which, armed with a little knowledge, you can unlock and harness to improve all aspects of life. From tackling insomnia to relieving anxiety and fostering creativity, crystals can energize, calm and inspire.

When we enter a theta brain state, we can connect to the Creator of All That Is. Discover how to improve this connection to achieve deep inner healing. Founded by Vianna Stibal, ThetaHealing (R) is a powerful healing modality through which we can change limiting beliefs to receive deep emotional and physical healing. While in the Theta state, we're able to connect with the divine energy that flows through all things: The Creator of All That Is. Vianna is often asked: 'How do I know I'm connected to the Creator, or if it's just my own thoughts?' The true answer is that to know the difference between your thoughts and divine inspiration, you must first understand yourself. This in-depth guide for ThetaHealing practitioners will teach you how to experience knowing yourself on an intimate level, so you can recognize this difference and establish clear and enlightened communication with the Creator. Vianna shares powerful teachings, downloads, exercises, and her own experiences to illustrate how to recognize the belief systems, inner aspects, and subconscious selves preventing you from fully bonding with the energy of the Creator, and how to navigate and understand your own mind. The Creator always communicates from a place of pure, perfect love, and Vianna details a powerful road map for experiencing and strengthening this connection, so that you too can become limitless.

Heal and energize by working with the natural power of crystals and the body's seven chakras. In many cultures, the chakra energy system is a route map for the transfer of healing energies to the mind, body and spirit. By working through the chakras with the easy-to-find crystals recommended in this book, you will benefit your physical, emotional and spiritual well-being - detoxifying the body of unhelpful energies, and promoting a more contented, energized and stress-free life. The introduction explains what crystals and minerals are, and how they focus, store, transmit and transmute energy for healing. Next, Working with Crystals gives the principal methods, such as the laying on of stones, simple holding, making crystal elixirs and crystal cleansing methods. You will also discover how to connect with your crystals and how to programme your master quartz crystal, along with crystal meditation exercises. Chapter 3, The Body's Energy System, then explores the chakras and the aura, followed by a detailed chapter on the seven major chakras. Included are their healing benefits for emotional, physical and spiritual well-being, along with checklists to help you assess the health of every chakra. Profiles of over 100 crystals for chakra healing are included. Finally, Healing Techniques shows how to carry out a full crystal chakra healing treatment, including diagnosis with a pendulum, activating crystals and aura healing, plus sections on self-healing and distant healing. With over 100 crystals, along with symptom charts, exercises, and case studies, The Little Pocket Book of Crystal Chakra Healing will guide you toward better health and, ultimately, a calmer, happier life.

Discover how to use crystal grids, which harness the powerful energy of crystals, to improve wellbeing and manifest your desires. Crystals are renowned throughout the world as natural healers. They are also energy-boosters which help enhance our experience of living at every level, and can protect us by detoxifying our physical, emotional and spiritual systems from the stresses and strains of life. Within a crystal grid, their potential is magnified and directed. The Book of Crystal Grids presents all these amazing benefits in a format that's direct and easy to use. First, discover what crystal grids are and how and why they work, including how crystal grids create energy fields and the theory of sacred geometry. Learn how to create a crystal grid, empowering it through the selection, colour and shape of the crystals in the grid, and how to give the grid a focus by setting an intention and meditating. Then, explore 50 different crystal grids, each photographed with clear instructions, for a range of specific purposes, from love and romance to travel, and from promoting health to self-esteem and confidence. A colour-coded directory of over 100 common crystals and their energy benefits when used inside a crystal grid is also provided. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, and supplemented with practical exercises and case studies, The Book of Crystal Grids is the ultimate practical reference from a highly respected crystal author, healer and teacher.

Are there dimensions of existence beyond the material world? If so, can we connect with loved ones who have passed, and with higher levels of consciousness than our own? Messages of Hope is the page-turning story of a former skeptic who has found the answers to these questions and more through evidential communication with the unseen realms. When Commander Suzanne Giesemann, former U.S Navy commanding officer and aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, walked the halls of the Pentagon and flew on Air Force One, she did everything by the book. A personal witness to the horrors of 9/11, she saw things in black and white, with little time for spiritual seeking. Never did she expect that a personal family tragedy would propel her on a mystical journey that would turn her life's path in a most unexpected direction. Follow Suzanne-now a practicing psychic-medium-as she moves from doubt and disbelief to full faith and trust in a reality beyond the physical senses. Laced with spirit-inspired poetry and compelling answers to many of life's big questions, Suzanne's remarkable story will leave readers with the comforting and credible message that this life is not all there is.