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'Both inspiring and disturbing, Sex Cult Nun unravels Jones'
complicated upbringing, the trauma she endured as a result and her
eventual path to liberation.' TIME 'A moving story about family,
courage, religious oppression, and more, and readers will have
their heads spinning.' SHONDALAND 'Her gripping memoir-like
Educated-takes you inside a disturbing childhood and leaves you
marvelling at the resilience of the human spirit' PEOPLE MAGAZINE
Faith Jones was raised to be part of an elite army preparing for
the End Times. Isolated on a farm in Macau, she practised devotions
and read letters of prophecy written by her grandfather, the leader
of the now infamous cult, The Children of God. A direct decedent of
the founding family, Faith featured in international media coverage
- she was celebrated as extraordinary and then published doubly as
a sharp reminder that she was not. With indomitable grit, Faith
created a world of her own, pilfering books and educating herself
in secret. At the age of 23, she escaped, abandoning her history,
her inheritance and her legacy. While her childhood friends
succumbed to addiction, suicide and prostitution, Faith fought her
way into Georgetown University and went on to establish a
successful career in law. Sex Cult Nun is an enthralling
coming-of-age story that gives fascinating insight into the closed
and complex world of extreme belief. Exploring the issues of
psychological and physical control, Faith draws on her hard-won
insight to interrogate the binaries of good and evil, and shed
light on the insidiousness of oppression. At its heart, this
extraordinary story is a stark warning about the consequences of
surrendering our rights and responsibilities.
Do you have a parent who is invalidating, critical, demanding, or
hateful? In this important and much-needed guide, you'll learn how
to set boundaries; uncover the hidden motives behind your parent's
behavior; put a stop to repetitive, hurtful interactions; and
foster healthier relationships. There's no sugarcoating it-if you
grew up with a parent who made you feel invalidated or unloved as a
child, your pain is very real. In some cases, you may decide that
you want to remove this parent from your life, and that is a valid
choice. But for many people, dealing with a problem parent becomes
a necessary part of life, for whatever reason. If you're one of
these people, this book can help. Written by a psychotherapist and
expert in relationships, Coping with Critical, Demanding, and Toxic
Parents will help you develop unique assertiveness strategies based
on the characteristics of your own family dynamics. You'll learn
powerful communication skills to help you build boundaries and put
a stop to your parent's hurtful behavior. And, most importantly,
you'll learn to advocate for your own needs. If you've "had it up
to here" with a parent who makes you feel as though you're just not
good enough, this invaluable guide can help you put an end to toxic
interactions while maintaining peace in your family.
So, you're having a teenager? Congratulations/commiserations.
Worried about drugs? We recommend Valium, wine and HRT. Happy you
survived the toddler tantrums? Let us introduce you to the eye
roll, the cold shoulder and the incoherent mumble. On the bright
side, you've reduced your need for Google - your adolescent is now
able to frequently correct, hector and lecture you with their
strong opinion on everything. And if you feel tired, you're not
imagining it. Teen years are like dog years: for every year your
teen ages, you age seven. You need a survival guide for the testing
times ahead. Friends, next-door neighbours and fellow mums of teens
Sarah Macdonald and Cathy Wilcox have lived through it all and
produced this straight-talking, not entirely sarcastic, informative
guide to what for many parents are the most challenging - but
interesting and exciting - years in the role. From A is for
Argumentative, Awkward and Angst, to Z is for Zits and Zzzzzs.
Because having a toddler is a doddle.
The PERFECT GIFT for that superhero, saint, figure of worship or,
if none of those apply, your plain dear old dad. 'Shawn has set up
his own firework display in the garden. "Those big displays are
rubbish," he tells his son. "You can't see a thing." When Shawn's
son has seen the firework, they will go back indoors. Fireworks are
more expensive than Shawn expected.' _______ '"What does a
hippopotamus eat, dad?' asks Philip 'Children who ask for stuff in
the gift shop,' says his dad. Being a dad is brilliant.'" _______
This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books
which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world
about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words,
the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with
pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves
to cope. Featuring original Ladybird artwork alongside brilliantly
funny, brand new text. 'Hilarious' STYLIST
We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details
of that care, for caretaker and recipient alike, raise some of life
s most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the
mid-twentieth century, as an explosive economy and shifting social
opportunities drew the young away from home, the elderly used
promises of inheritance to keep children at their side. Hendrik
Hartog tells the riveting, heartbreaking stories of how families
fought over the work of care and its compensation.
"Someday All This Will Be Yours" narrates the legal and
emotional strategies mobilized by older people, and explores the
ambivalences of family members as they struggled with expectations
of love and duty. Court cases offer an extraordinary glimpse of the
mundane, painful, and intimate predicaments of family life. They
reveal what it meant to be old without the pensions, Social
Security, and nursing homes that now do much of the work of serving
the elderly. From demented grandparents to fickle fathers, from
litigious sons to grateful daughters, Hartog guides us into a world
of disputed promises and broken hearts, and helps us feel the
terrible tangle of love and commitments and money.
From one of the bedrocks of the human condition the tension
between the infirmities of the elderly and the longings of the
young emerges a pioneering work of exploration into the darker
recesses of family life. Ultimately, Hartog forces us to reflect on
what we owe and are owed as members of a family.
Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is
this what being a boy is? As a boy growing up on the south coast of
England, Howard Cunnell's sense of self was dominated by his
father's absence. Now, years later, he is a father, and his
daughter is becoming his son. Starting with his own childhood in
the Sussex beachlands, Howard tells the story of the years of
self-destruction that defined his young adulthood and the escape he
found in reading and the natural world. Still he felt compelled to
destroy the relationships that mattered to him. Saved by love and
responsibility, Cunnell charts his journey from anger to
compassion, as his daughter Jay realizes he is a boy, and a son.
Most of all, this is a story about love - its necessity and
fragility, and its unequalled capacity to enable us to be who we
are. Deeply thoughtful, searingly honest and exquisitely lyrical,
Fathers & Sons is an exploration of fatherhood, masculinity,
authenticity and family.
Being a grandmother is one of life's most important roles and many
women can feel unprepared to take it on. New Age Nanas presents the
rich and diverse views of over 1000 modern Australian grandmothers
on what it is like to be a grandmother today, interwoven with
expert commentary on how to make the most of this potentially
wonderful and rewarding stage of life. This book is for
grandmothers and their families to contemplate, learn from, laugh
and cry with. Readers will read about grandmothers' views on topics
such as feelings towards grandchildren, managing changing
relationships as grandchildren get older, negotiating conflicts,
special issues faced by grandmothers and taking time for their own
lives, together with expert suggestions and advice from the authors
on positive grandmothering. Based on sound research, and written in
an engaging and readable style, it is a 'self help' book for
grandmothers with a difference. Most importantly, New Age Nanas is
a book in which Australia's two million grandmothers can find
themselves, their concerns and their joys in the modern
grandmothering role.
The PERFECT GIFT for that special grandparent you know so well and
love with all your heart but whom you haven't got a clue what to
get her for a present. Not a bloody clue.
_______________________________________ Grandparents are versatile.
They are babysitters, weather forecasters, mother's helpers, sweet
collectors, child-minders, knitwear suppliers, au pairs, curators
of G-plan furniture and providers of day-care for the under
twelves. Retirement is an exhausting job.
_______________________________________ Grandparents spend a lot of
time in the garden making everything tidy and pretty, so they have
something tidy and pretty to look at while they are doing the
gardening _______________________________________ This delightful
book is part of the Ladybird series specially planned to help
grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the
careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful
matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they
have taught themselves to cope. Featuring original Ladybird artwork
alongside brilliantly funny, brand new text. Other titles in the
Ladybirds for Grown Ups series: How it Works: The Student How it
Works: The Cat How it Works: The Dog The Ladybird Book of the
Meeting The Ladybird Book of Red Tape The Ladybird Book of the
People Next Door The Ladybird Book of the Sickie The Ladybird Book
of the Zombie Apocalypse How it Works: The Husband How it Works:
The Wife How it Works: The Mum How it Works: The Dad The Ladybird
Book of the Mid-Life Crisis The Ladybird Book of the Hangover The
Ladybird Book of Mindfulness The Ladybird Book of the Shed The
Ladybird Book of Dating The Ladybird Book of the Hipster
In simple layman's terms, 'Inner Child Journeys' explains a safe, step-by-step method for understanding the emotional reactions triggered in us by our children, at all ages. This process was tested and refined over many years by Australian psychologist Robin Grille, and it is based on sound neuropsychological principles.
In its 'light' or 'in-depth' forms, this Inner Child Process can help you gain new and profound insights about yourself and about your children, honing your own intuition about what your children need in order to thrive. It will help you understand even your children's most baffling behaviors - via a better understanding your own childhood experiences and how they've affected you. At the same time, this Process helps you to better understand your own, deepest emotional needs, and how to have those needs met. Ultimately, Inner Child Journeys are about healing long-held emotional wounds that are often brought to the surface through our interactions with our children. Most of us encounter, from time to time, significant challenges and difficult terrain in the course of parenting or educating our children. This Inner Child Process helps you engage with even the most insurmountable challenges in your child-rearing endeavours, and turn those challenges into exciting and empowering personal-growth and healing opportunities for you. The book gives no advice about how to raise your children, nor how to educate your students. That's because this book helps you access your own inner knowledge, based on your own experiences as a child.
The more you befriend your own Inner Child, the more empathic and effective a parent or teacher you become. Your children benefit enormously as you grow. Written for parents, elders, schoolteachers and psychotherapists, this book shows you how to turn child-rearing into a most exciting and transformative personal growth and healing adventure. Indeed, 'our children grow us up'.
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