On Trying to Keep Still

On Trying to Keep Still
Author: Jenny Diski
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: New Zealand
ISBN: 9781844080168

Montaigne was alarmed to discover that by staying still, his mind 'bolted off like a runaway horse ' Diski, failing to keep still, finds much the same problem and produces here a record of her ramblings both mental and physical.

Keep Still

Keep Still
Author: Eleanor Taylor Bland
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1998-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312961725

A novel on child abuse featuring lady detective Marti McAllister of Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, investigating the murders of a teacher and a social worker. The cases have links to the disappearance of a girl, victim of abuse at the hands of her father.

I Choose To Try Again

I Choose To Try Again
Author: Elizabeth Estrada
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781637312094

In this rhyming story, Kiara learns how to keep going even when things get too hard. Through colorful illustrations and rhythmic rhymes, Kiara reflects on her mistakes and realizes that mistakes help her grow. Instead of avoiding them, she learns from them so she can improve. Do you want your child to learn about perseverance and diligence? Your child will learn how easy it is to get back up after failing. "I Choose to Try Again" is a story with social emotional learning (SEL) in mind. It has been praised by teachers and therapists worldwide. This story told from Kiara's point of view will help open your child's mind to what it feels like to fail, and then try again. Kiara will teach your child how to be mentally strong. With Kiara in real life examples, your child will learn to develop their understanding of their own emotions. Throughout the story, Kiara will show you what perseverance looks like. Teacher and Therapist Toolbox: I Choose is an empowering series curated to empower young children to become aware of big emotions. A new book series developed in tandem with teachers and therapists to help children cope with a range of emotions and teach them that they indeed hold the power to choose their actions and reactions. Try not to say 'never.'. That brainwashes you to fail. It means that you won't have the chance To raise the victory sail. "I Choose to Try Again" was developed alongside counselors and parents to be used as a resource in a social emotional curriculum.

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9780340978504

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

The Tongue That Wouldn't Keep Still

The Tongue That Wouldn't Keep Still
Author: Robert Evans Jr.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2011-05-26
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1463416431

This story expresses life,truth and beauty; it represents a 1950's American Southern way of life; it touches on love, jealousy, life, hate, death and hope. You will see a determination and love for his wife also the quality that he puts forth in all he does.

Hungry Hearts

Hungry Hearts
Author: Walsh, Jennifer Rudolph
Publisher: Dial Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0593229649

Sixteen innovators, creatives, and thought leaders—Austin Channing Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, and Luvvie Ajayi Jones, among others—share intimate stories of uncovering beauty and potential through moments of fear, loss, heartbreak, and uncertainty. “You’ll find kindred spirits in these tales of resilience, transformation, and joy.”—Time Over the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse storytellers for epic evenings of laughter, music, and hard-won wisdom to huge audiences across the country. Well-known womxn (and the occasional man) from all walks of life shared their most vulnerable truths in a radical act of love, paving the way for healing in the face of adversity. Now, off the stage and on the pages of Hungry Hearts, sixteen of these beloved speakers offer moving, inspiring, deeply personal essays as a reminder that we can heal from grief and that divisions can be repaired. Bozoma Saint John opens herself up to love after loss; Cameron Esposito confronts the limits of self-reliance in the wake of divorce; Ashley C. Ford learns to trust herself for the first time. A heartfelt anthology of transformation, self-discovery, and courage that also includes essays by Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Amena Brown, Austin Channing Brown, Natalie Guerrero, Sue Monk Kidd, Connie Lim (MILCK), Nkosingiphile Mabaso, Jillian Mercado, Priya Parker, Geena Rocero, Michael Trotter and Tanya-Blount Trotter of The War and Treaty, and Maysoon Zayid, Hungry Hearts shows how reconnecting with our own burning, undeniable intuition points us toward our unique purpose and the communities where we most belong.

Everybody's

Everybody's
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1078
Release: 1927
Genre: American periodicals
ISBN:

January First

January First
Author: Michael Schofield
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307719081

The creator of the janisjourney.org blog traces the story of his fight to save his daughter from her severe schizophrenia and what he has learned about mental illness and its impact on family life.