The Cauldron of Dreams is a mysterious and magickal place that exists within each and every one of us. Each night as we sleep, we stir the bubbling cauldron and partake of its enchanted brew, whether or not we have any recollection of the dream visions it paints upon the canvas of our minds as we sleep.
“In writing this book I walked on hot coals, met a man making a weight-loss robot, joined a Healing Circle, and faced my debilitating fear of flying. Of all of these things, talking to my father about my mother’s death was by far the hardest.”
The daughter of a widowed child psychologist and parenting author, Jessica Lamb-Shapiro grew up immersed in the culture of self-help, of books and pamphlets and board games and gadgets and endless jargon-filled conversations about feelings. It wasn’t until she hit her thirties that Jessica began to wonder: if all this self-improvement arcana was as helpful as it promised to be, why wasn’t she better adjusted? She had a flying phobia, hadn’t settled down, and didn’t like to talk about her feelings.
Thus began Jessica’s fascination with the eccentric and labyrinthine world of self-help. She read hundreds of books and articles, attended dating seminars, walked on hot coals, and attempted to conquer her fear of flying. But even as she made light of the sometimes dubious effectiveness of these as-seen-on-TV treatments, she slowly began to realize she was circling a much larger problem: her mother’s death when she was a toddler, and the almost complete silence that she and her father had always observed on the subject.
In the tradition of Augusten Burroughs, Jessica Lamb-Shapiro illuminates the peculiar neuroses and inalterable truths that bind families together, whether they choose to confront them or not. Promise Land is a tender, witty, and wise account of a young woman’s journey through her own psyche toward the most difficult stage of grown-up emotional life: acceptance.
I have written this book, to share my passageway of how I became aware of the incredible power which exists within forgiveness. How I learned to become empowered by looking outside the walls of my pain and anger. How I moved beyond discomfort and confusion to release that which was determined to swallow me up, wholly and completely. My choice instead, was to take what was agonizing and terrifying in my life and turn it around, utilizing it to fuel my own self-empowerment. And, to bring my heart and mind the peace needed for healing.
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If Alcoholics Anonymous is so effective, why do fourteen million Americans struggle with alcoholism? Why does the rate of relapse among AA members hover around 70 percent? Can it be that the original twelve-step program — and such offspring as Al-Anon and Narcotics Anonymous — represents not a solution but merely a different facet of the problem?
In this first-person account of fourteen years as a drunk, thirty-three-year-old Marianne Gilliam concludes that AA is a fundamentally flawed program. Refusing to accept the idea that alcoholism is a “disease”, that she and all other drunks are “powerless”, and that twelve-step meetings are the answer, she found a different path to sobriety in a meaningful, love-based approach to life founded on innate self-worth.
Admitting that AA may work for some, Gilliam argues from personal experience that the twelve-step culture of victims and codependents actually perpetuates addiction by denying the individual’s capacity for responsible behavior or; at best, replacing dependence on alcohol and drugs with an equally powerful dependence on the program itself While this may stop members from drinking, it does nothing to cure the underlying psychological problems that cause self-destructive behavior. Instead, she offers guidance based on her own search for sobriety, addressing each key issue methodically but sympathetically and pointing the way toward true recovery, independence, and lasting freedom from addictions of all kinds.
A life of dignity is the right of every citizen and poverty is an obstruction to a dignified life. Of the 1.3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around the globe, about 55% are women. For these women, poverty doesn’t just mean scarcity and want, rather, rights denied, opportunities curtailed and voices silenced. Women, who represent half of the human resource are often not recognized and regarded so, due to their inferior positioning in the society. Empowerment’ is a continuous process by which powerless people become conscious of their situation, organize collectively to improve it and access opportunities, as an outcome of which they take control over their own lives, set their own agenda, gain skills, solve problems and develop self-reliance. Personal empowerment can lead to changes in existing institutions and norms, however, without the collective empowerment the personal empowerment and choices are limited, as Sen explains. The nature of empowerment can be diverse, depending upon the parameters that define the lack of power within the institutional framework in operation. In India, Micro finance intervention have brought tremendous change in the life of women.
Self-help Groups (SHGs) have emerged as an effective instrument to promote entrepreneurship and self-confidence among women, particularly in rural areas and empowerment has become an important paradigm of women’s developmental efforts of the state and the civil societies since two decades. Against this background the book is an in-depth study of Empowerment of Women through Self Help Groups. It contains the problems of Self Help Groups Members and draw correct policy suggestions for sustaining the reduction in poverty through empowerment. The study has been conducted in Kodagu district of Karnataka State, The book contains five chapters. India. This book will be of great use to Scholars, Administrators, Planners, Policy-makers, and Students of, Economics, Sociology, Commerce, Women Studies, Human Development and NGO s and also other functionaries dealing with women.
Eversince Independence, a number of innovative schemes have been launched for the upliftment of women in India. There has been a perceptible shift form viewing women from Orthodox non-participative to active participative and critical agents for soco-echonomic and political development. The emphasis has been shifted form development to empowerment. The government of Andhra Pradesh has taken up the thee of Women’s employment as one of the main agenda items to tackle rural poverty through social mobalization through Self Help Groups (SHG) movement. Andhra Pradeh is the pioneer state to introduce Self Help Groups to achieve self sufficiency and to empower social transformation among the rural women.
Empowerment for Self-Healing is designed to help you expand your own awareness of healing. This course is a self-guided program designed to lead you to your vision of inner healing. The mind, body and spirit connection is essential in holistic healing. This program will allow you the chance to self-discover that which is blocking your healing. By making the connection between mind, body and spirit you will find answers to long unresolved questions.
