TRIUMPHANT SPIRIT, CELEBRATING THE PASSAGE TO PERSONAL INTEGRITY....LIFE IS WORTH LIVING: Healing From Within, is an extremely hopeful and uplifting book. It offers the reader compelling evidence of the existence of a natural healing process contained in the human spirity. Residing within each of us is a creativity that lies dormant until brought forth by determination and hard labor. It is said that a poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesichness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. Nowhere is this more true than in this, Jim Bruns' exquisite volume of poetry. In this collection, Jim beautifully describes his hourney of self-discovery and how he was able to transform a life once filled with pain, suffering, and anguish, to a life filled with love, joy and a deep sense of worth and value. These poems compel the reader to experience a wide variety of emotions: despair, fear, loathing, helplessness, but also hope, forgiveness, compassion and love. Jim invites us into his world and shares with us his past, thereby honoring both it and the reader, and infusing the rader with the assertion that yes, it is possible. Obstacles can be overcome, challenges can be faced, and love can be found, but only if one is willing to dedicate onself to the pursuit of truth and is willing to offer unconditional love to oneself as well as to others.

LIFE IS WORTH LIVING: Healing From Within

Bruns, Jim

Self-Help

Puget Sound Pr

Abstract Freedom is a powerful and persuasive book with regard to its ability to make a vital connection between our collective past as a society and our personal ethnic and cultural histories. Abstract Freedom assists the reader in understanding how American society is able to make amazing technological and economical advancements, yet is unable to establish the same competence in advancing human relationships.  The author, Lorenzo D. Leonard, brings to the forefront a critical element formerly missing from our history lessons.  What we are teaching our children with regards to the history of their culture serves to perpetuate the violence, dominance and hatred we currently witness being acted out with a disturbing frequency. This book offers a clear analysis of how the distorted truth with reference to our collective past, as a society, impacts the core of an individual's personal life, expecially primary relationships.  The author quotes Mark Twain: "It is not what you don't know that will hurt you. It is what you think you know that aint' so."  Mr. Leonard continues: As a society, we continue to perpetuate a way of life that is based on emotional, psychological, spiritual, sexual, physical, economical, legal and political dominationn of either self or another. To help reinforce this way of life we have constructed religious mores and political ideologies that support the practice of domination; a fact that can be evidenced by our ever-increasing need to seek power and control through condemnation ofo either self or another.  We have become a society thoroughly addicted to dominating self and another, as well as to being dominated ourselves in return. We know of the "other", but we know very little about "one another."  We need not continue to be afraid of "what we don't know", and that is precisely the very painful yet rich history that each individual represents, both individually as well as culturally. What will contune to hurt us, both individually and as a society, is the reluctance to let go of "what ain't so", which is the belief that power, control and indignity takes precendence over emotional integrity, equality, respect, and dignity....So Let It Be Different Tomorrow.

ABSTRACT FREEDOM, Creating Emotional Integrity in Relationships

Leonard, Lorenzo D.

Relationships

In her thought provoking autobiography, Mrs. Curatolo delightfully blends her recipes for success with satisfying delicious, homemade recipes of some of the most popular dishes in her restarants. Also, Mrs. Curatolo demonstrates through her life and through her actions that in order to succeed in life a person must never give up on making their dream a reality. Mrs. Curatolo also believes that a person must always give to others with the expectation of getting nothing in return and must never stop believing 100% in whatever it is they want to do. 
For those who are fans of this Chicago-based restaurant's mouth-watering meals, as well as for the person who is looking for support and encouragement in his or her life, this book will appeal to the reader's appetite.

MADE FROM SCRATCH-A Recipe For Success

Travel

Curatolo, Orenella

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Being Nice at a Price, illiminates the pervasive and destructive influence of "Emotional Domination" in our lives. It "Confronts" commonly held beliefs that bind our passions, and offers one "hope" both for releasing oneself from being emotionally dominated and from the need to dominate others. Through an intimate portrayal of the author's life, the experience and impact of emotional domination, a conditiion seldom recognized or discussed, is masterfully "revealed" and "challenged". It is exposed as a foundation for the depression, illness, despair, victimization, obsessions, and rage that are so prevalent in our contemporary society. But in this book, we find that "what is learned can be unlearned". Steve Russell chronicles his emotional resurgence from the depths of depression and passivity into a state of "emotional autonomy" and personal power. Insightful and compassionate revelations from the author's personal experiences offer those who yearn for respite from their own "living hell" a pathway to emotional freedom. This book serves as a valuable resource for all who seek to bring forth the fullness of their passion, energy and creativity.

BEING NICE AT A PRICE: Emotional Domination, Depression and the Search for Autonomy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Russell, Steven J.

Mental Health

Self-Help/Relationships 
This Book is for our times Lorenzo Leonard renders a lucid and deeply honest look into the increasingly pervasive dissatisfaction with our way of life: a life-style that supports incredible material wealth and abundance for some while ignoring the spirtual and emotional excellence of each and every individual. The author puts forth ideas not often voiced in the mainstream culture that lend a profound insight and understanding to the perplexing issues of our day: cruelty, violence, sexual and racial inequities as well as the difficulty for individuals to establish satisfying and mutually supportive relationships. 
We live in a society that teaches WHAT one is - typified by one's race, sex, role, social status and material wealth - is of far greater import than the essence of WHO one is - typified by the inherent excellence and good that one natually embodies. The former requires the practive of domination, power and control in all relationship. The latter would instead require that we adopt a model of cooperations that will ultimately lead to a new way of life in which dignity, emotional integrity, and responsibility prevail among the citizenery.

Who We Are Vs What We Are: Establishing a Model of Cooperation in One Relationships

In ORKNEY DAYS, Lucy Dougall's poetry evokes the elemental beauty of Scotland's remote and mystical Orkney Islands. She has lived in these islands and returned to them many times. Her poems bring a vivid and personal reality to the ancient landscape and to its people.

Orkney Days

Literature & Fiction

Dougall, Lucy

Poetry

Kalakala: Magnificent Vision Recaptured

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