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Was your childhood dysfunctional?
Was your parent more like a demanding child than a loving caregiver?
Perhaps your parent is a narcissist.
Raised by Narcissists helps you identify parental narcissism and
narcissistic abuse to understand the harmful dynamics at play in a
toxic family environment - and shows you how to heal and move forward
with your life.
You will learn how to:
- Manage an ongoing relationship with your parent, including going
low-contact and no-contact
- Address fractured family relationships
- Combat inherited negative self-beliefs and unhealthy thought patterns
- Break the trauma cycle to build a loving family of your own
Our childhoods shape us, but they are not a life sentence.
Compassionate and practical, Dr Sarah Davies draws on clinical
expertise and personal experience to acknowledge the complexity of
being a narcissist's child and repair the damage from your upbringing.
God did not create men to be nice boys. He created us to live a life of
passion, freedom and adventure. To be dangerous men living in a really
big story.
God designed men to be powerful. Simply look at the dreams and desires
written in the heart of every boy: to be a hero, a warrior, to love a
beauty, to live a life of adventure.
But sometime between boyhood and the struggles of yesterday, most men
lose heart. All those passions, dreams, and desires get buried under
deadlines, pressures, and disappointments. Christianity feels
irrelevant to the recovery of their heart. No wonder most men leads
lives of quiet resignation, meanwhile looking for a little “life” on
the side. In this provocative book, Eldredge invites men to
wholeheartedness by
- recovering their true masculine hearts;
- healing the wounds and trauma in their stories; and
- delighting in the strength and wildness they were created
to offer the world.
In this updated and expanded edition of the timeless, bestselling
classic, John Eldredge calls men―and the women who love them―to
discover the true secret of a man’s soul and embrace the danger,
passion, and freedom God intended for every man.
Remembering Histories of Trauma compares and links Native American,
First Nation and Jewish histories of traumatic memory. Using source
material from both sides of the Atlantic, it examines the
differences between ancestral experiences of genocide and the
representation of those histories in public sites in the United
States, Canada and Europe. Challenging the ways public bodies have
used those histories to frame the cultural and political identity
of regions, states, and nations, it considers the effects of those
representations on internal group memory, external public memory
and cultural assimilation. Offering new ways to understand the
Native-Jewish encounter by highlighting shared critiques of public
historical representation, Mailer seeks to transcend historical
tensions between Native American studies and Holocaust studies. In
linking and comparing European and American contexts of historical
trauma and their representation in public memory, this book brings
Native American studies, Jewish studies, early American history,
Holocaust studies, and museum studies into conversation with each
other. In revealing similarities in the public representation of
Indigenous genocide and the Holocaust it offers common ground for
Jewish and Indigenous histories, and provides a new framework to
better understand the divergence between traumatic histories and
the ways they are memorialized.
According to Michael Porter, some people believe that today's
youth, especially African American males, are lost; many of them
can be found inside Behavior Disorder classes in America's public
school system. This book examines how African American males end up
in dead end BD classes, what happens to them in these classes, and
how people can help their community to get on a life enhancing
path.
The DinĂŠ, or Navajo, have their own ways of knowing and being in
the world, a cultural identity linked to their homelands through
ancestral memory. The Earth Memory Compass traces this tradition as
it is imparted from generation to generation, and as it has been
transformed, and often obscured, by modern modes of education. An
autoethnography of sorts, the book follows Farina Kingâs search
for her own DinĂŠ identity as she investigates the interconnections
among Navajo students, their people, and DinĂŠ BikĂŠyahâor Navajo
landsâacross the twentieth century. In her exploration of how
historical changes in education have reshaped DinĂŠ identity and
community, King draws on the insights of ethnohistory, cultural
history, and Navajo language. At the center of her study is the
DinĂŠ idea of the Four Directions, in which each of the cardinal
directions takes its meaning from a sacred mountain and its
accompanying element: East, for instance, is Sis NaajinĂ (Blanca
Peak) and white shell; West, DookâoâoosĹĂĂd (San Francisco
Peaks) and abalone; North, DibĂŠ Nitsaa (Hesperus Peak) and black
jet; South, TsoodziĹ (Mount Taylor) and turquoise. King elaborates
on the meanings and teachings of the mountains and directions
throughout her book to illuminate how Navajos have embedded
memories in landmarks to serve as a compass for their peopleâa
compass threatened by the dislocation and disconnection of DinĂŠ
students from their land, communities, and Navajo ways of learning.
Critical to this story is how inextricably Indigenous education and
experience is intertwined with American dynamics of power and
history. As environmental catastrophes and struggles over resources
sever the connections among peoplehood, land, and water, King's
book holds out hope that the teachings, guidance, and knowledge of
an earth memory compass still have the power to bring the people
and the earth together.
Winner of the 2021 New Voices Book Award by the Society for
Linguistic Anthropology Exploring the ways in which the development
of linguistic practices helped expand national politics in remote,
rural areas of Venezuela, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the
Orinoco Delta situates language as a mediating force in the
creation of the 'magical state'. Focusing on the Waraos speakers of
the Orinoco Delta, this book explores centerâperiphery dynamics
in Venezuela through an innovative linguistic anthropological lens.
Using a semiotic framework informed by concepts of 'transduction'
and 'translation', this book combines ethnographic and historical
evidence to analyze the ideological mediation and linguistic
practices involved in managing a multi-ethnic citizenry in
Venezuela. Juan Luis Rodriguez shows how indigenous populations
participate in the formation and contestation of state power
through daily practices and the use of different speech genres,
emphasising the performative and semiotic work required to produce
revolutionary subjects. Establishing the centrality of language and
semiosis in the constitution of authority and political power, this
book moves away from seeing revolution in solely economic or
ideological terms. Through the collision between Warao and Spanish,
it highlights how language ideologies can exclude or integrate
indigenous populations in the public sphere and how they were
transformed by Hugo Chavez' revolutionary government to promote
loyalty to the regime.
This book looks at the historical background to the law's approach
to ageing, focusing on questions such as: Has the law promoted
ageism? How well has the law protected older people against
discrimination, abuse and social exclusion? How effective will new
prohibitions on age discrimination be when they come into force? In
this title, the themes include the ways in which the law has a
distinct impact on the lives of older people, human rights,
housing, finance, health and social care, discrimination, crime,
abuse and the state's reaction, and poverty and social exclusion.
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