Turn menopause and midlife into a positive experience Dealing with the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Menopause examines the emotional toll of menopause, offering help for the worry, anxiety, stress, and depression women can face during the midlife years. Instead of focusing on estrogen, hormones, and osteoporosis, the book shares up-to-date research findings on the link between spiritual and emotional health. Women from different backgrounds and spiritual traditions will find hope in the healing power of the mind/body/spirit connection as they gain a healthy perspective of the changes taking place and restore balance to their lives. Dealing with the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Menopause goes beyond the traditional medical approach to examine ways women can make peace with the changes they face at midlife. This unique book informs, empowers, and enlightens women about the opportunities for personal and spiritual growth during menopause, offering strategies for exercise, meditation, prayer, and counseling. The authors offer a new perspective on menopause that offers hope in the face of the stress, worry, hot flashes, and often-overwhelming responsibilities women face at the midlife. This book demonstrates that women can do more than just make it through menopause. The authors show that menopause can become a positive experience for women as they discover new avenues for finding peace and hope to sustain them through the challenges of mid-lifeand beyond. Dealing with the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Menopause examines alternative aspects of menopause, including: dealing with emotional loss on top of physical and psychological changes moods, attitudes, and depression the benefits of counseling and group support exercise as a treatment for anxiety and depression the work experience spiritual issues special challenges of the perimenopausal period and much more! Dealing with the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Menopause is a vital resource for physicians, counselors, therapists, and psychologists, and especially for the women they treat.

Turn menopause and midlife into a positive experience Dealing with the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Menopause examines the emotional toll of menopause, offering help for the worry, anxiety, stress, and depression women can face during the midlife years. Instead of focusing on estrogen, hormones, and osteoporosis, the book shares up-to-date research findings on the link between spiritual and emotional health. Women from different backgrounds and spiritual traditions will find hope in the healing power of the mind/body/spirit connection as they gain a healthy perspective of the changes taking place and restore balance to their lives. Dealing with the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Menopause goes beyond the traditional medical approach to examine ways women can make peace with the changes they face at midlife. This unique book informs, empowers, and enlightens women about the opportunities for personal and spiritual growth during menopause, offering strategies for exercise, meditation, prayer, and counseling. The authors offer a new perspective on menopause that offers hope in the face of the stress, worry, hot flashes, and often-overwhelming responsibilities women face at the midlife. This book demonstrates that women can do more than just make it through menopause. The authors show that menopause can become a positive experience for women as they discover new avenues for finding peace and hope to sustain them through the challenges of mid-lifeand beyond. Dealing with the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Menopause examines alternative aspects of menopause, including: dealing with emotional loss on top of physical and psychological changes moods, attitudes, and depression the benefits of counseling and group support exercise as a treatment for anxiety and depression the work experience spiritual issues special challenges of the perimenopausal period and much more! Dealing with the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Menopause is a vital resource for physicians, counselors, therapists, and psychologists, and especially for the women they treat.

Dr. Vera Chaney is a widow. Her husband, Elton, was one of the last soldiers killed in Iraq. She is left to manage the family farm in Yazoo County, Mississippi. As a young, black doctor in a rural county, her life is demanding and stressful. And now she is alone. Her two children, Ann, 7, and Roscoe, 5, react differently to their father's death. Ann shows strength. Roscoe retreats into a world Vera can not penetrate. In desperation, she asks for help from an unlikely source. Her father, Robert Lee Whitfield, has recently been released from Parchman Prison. He served over twenty-eight years for killing Billy Ray Starnes, a reprehensible red neck hated by everyone, in the parking lot of a grocery store on a clear Friday afternoon. Vera was a child then and lived with her maternal grandmother. Her mother had left the State and Robert Lee lived on a farm near the grandmother's place and was trying to be a father and make a honorable living farming. Robert Lee admitted his guilt and expressed no remorse. But Vera remembers good things about her father and takes a chance on him. Vera writes a letter to her father and takes it to Memphis and turns it over to Ethan Cheatham. Cheatham is a young private detective. He lives above a law office on Front Street and does work for the two lawyers who own the building. He has drifted some in his young life. From graduation at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi to Perdido Key, Florida, and a career as a fishing guide, to Memphis and a short stint as a Memphis Policeman. He drinks some and spends a lot of his nights on his dark porch watching the traffic on the Mississippi River. Ethan is described as looking more like a guitar player in Jimmy Buffet's band than a private detective. But he comes highly recommended and Vera takes a chance on him. She delivers the letter to Cheatham and asks him to find her father, who has disappeared after being granted clemency by the Governor. Ethan takes the case and his investigation leads him to Nora Deen Barksdale, an aging beauty queen, Dump Warren, a former star football player for Ole Miss, Essie Beard, a young black social worker at Parchman and eventually to San Diego, California. Ethan finds Robert Lee Whitfield and delivers the letter. Robert Lee must make a decision that impacts many lives. But what direction will he choose? A Broken Circle is a story of loss, quests, redemption, and of relationships between blacks and whites in America today.

This publication includes images of forty-seven sculptures created by sculptor Jerry Harris between the 1980's and 2009. The sculptures are made of carved and constructed wood, mixed media, iron, found objects, laminated clay (Bondo), or bronze. These artworks can also be viewed at http://www.harrisculptor.com. The site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Harris provides links to other Harris' sites as well.

A collection 15 essays by the authors covering a full set of new and unique theoretical work on the crisis in socialist theory, the impact of the information revolution, globalization, the rise of the right, and an outline and practical examples of strategy and tactics on how to deal with it.

Democracy is in crisis, from the streets of Ferguson to the struggle in Greece. Throughout the world millions suffer under neo-liberalism and austerity but are unable to force their governments to address their needs. Fundamentally, democracy is about the relationships between the state, markets and civil society. Attempts to artificially repress the functions of any of these institutions result in political, social and economic problems that lead to irresolvable contradictions and eventual failure. This book undertakes the examination of capitalist democracy, globalization, and the emergence of a transnational capitalist class needed to develop a strategy for implementing democracy beyond its current impasse. Early capitalism contained the contradiction between property rights and popular democracy. The American and French revolutions saw an alliance between the capitalist class, farmers, craft workers and laborers. Democracy was a class compromise, based on the political balance between the masses and the new ruling elite. This tension has set in motion the continual conflict over democratic rights. As the transnational capitalist class coalesced into a hegemonic bloc, their project was to reengineer the national state to serve global markets and suppress democratic input from civil society. This has led to a growing social crisis that cannot be resolved by global capitalism. Socialism emerged as the alternative to capitalism, promising economic equality and social justice. But the Soviet system centralized power into the state, suppressing both civil society and the market. This created fundamental economic and social contradictions. Eventually the failure of an internal transformation led to collapse. As for anarchism, its theory ignores the role of the state and rejects the market, creating a limited ideology of social change that fails to create a viable alternative. A successor system must recognize the relationships between the state, markets and civil society, seeking to balance naturally occurring contradictions through the practice and renewal of democratic institutions. Conflicts are not an indication of a dysfunctional society, but of a vibrant, adaptable and open society. The key is recognizing horizontal democracy as the structure for resolving conflicts. Worker ownership and cooperatives may be the first step in constructing such a society, alongside sustainable economics, protagonistic democracy and governmental public financing.