From tragedy to triumph, inspiring lessons unfold in this one-of-a-kind book by twelve survivors of sexual assault. An eye-opening journal of personal growth and recover, Voices of Courage will forever change your perspective on life after a sexual assault!
There will never be too many books or stories of how others have dealth with life’s many challenges. 100 Voices of Inspiration, Awakening and Empowerment is a “Compilation” featuring stories of hope and courage. From surviving cancer, to surviving childhood trauma, the stories of inspiration will make your heart feel good. Learn how life coaches use various techniques to help their students to cope and thrive. Read the poetry of the Broadenax girls who wrote alongside their mom in 1 of the 2 mom and child teams that contributed to this book. “I have been so honored to write alongside some amazing people who give me hope for a better tomorrow. Some had shaky knees all the way to the end but we did a great job together as a team” Carla Hall
From Susan Casey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wave and The Devil’s Teeth, a breathtaking journey through the extraordinary world of dolphins
Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have felt a kinship with the sleek and beautiful dolphin, an animal whose playfulness, sociability, and intelligence seem like an aquatic mirror of mankind. In recent decades, we have learned that dolphins recognize themselves in reflections, count, grieve, adorn themselves, feel despondent, rescue one another (and humans), deduce, infer, seduce, form cliques, throw tantrums, and call themselves by name. Scientists still don’t completely understand their incredibly sophisticated navigation and communication abilities, or their immensely complicated brains.
While swimming off the coast of Maui, Susan Casey was surrounded by a pod of spinner dolphins. It was a profoundly transporting experience, and it inspired her to embark on a two-year global adventure to explore the nature of these remarkable beings and their complex relationship to humanity. Casey examines the career of the controversial John Lilly, the pioneer of modern dolphin studies whose work eventually led him down some very strange paths. She visits a community in Hawaii whose adherents believe dolphins are the key to spiritual enlightenment, travels to Ireland, where a dolphin named as “the world’s most loyal animal” has delighted tourists and locals for decades with his friendly antics, and consults with the world’s leading marine researchers, whose sense of wonder inspired by the dolphins they study increases the more they discover.
Yet there is a dark side to our relationship with dolphins. They are the stars of a global multibillion-dollar captivity industry, whose money has fueled a sinister and lucrative trade in which dolphins are captured violently, then shipped and kept in brutal conditions. Casey’s investigation into this cruel underground takes her to the harrowing epicenter of the trade in the Solomon Islands, and to the Japanese town of Taiji, made famous by the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, where she chronicles the annual slaughter and sale of dolphins in its narrow bay.
Casey ends her narrative on the island of Crete, where millennia-old frescoes and artwork document the great Minoan civilization, a culture which lived in harmony with dolphins, and whose example shows the way to a more enlightened coexistence with the natural world.
No writer is better positioned to portray these magical creatures than Susan Casey, whose combination of personal reporting, intense scientific research, and evocative prose made The Wave and The Devil’s Teeth contemporary classics of writing about the sea. In Voices in the Ocean, she has written a thrilling book about the other intelligent life on the planet.
From the Hardcover edition.
Compiled by Carla Wynn Hall, author of The Paradigm: Success Codes for Life and the founder of the Women’s Empowerment Network, a Facebook Support group with over “25,000” members – Empowered Women of Social Media: 44 Women found their Voices using the Power of Social Networking is a book about women who were able to write their story and have their voice be heard. Read the stories of women who have survived breast cancer, were born with Cerebral Palsy and conquered misconceptions to become published authors, brave women who escaped domestic violence as well as educational material from experts in the fields of social media and marketing. When you read this book think about how social media has impacted your life. Our life coaches give you tips from their programs and our health coaches show you how to incorporate holistic and healthy habits into your life. Each author has a vibrant story, a unique style and a message hidden within. Social Media is a unique form of communication. Some women said that they were a little skeptical about Facebook until they found support. Compiler Carla Wynn Hall says “Facebook saved her life” during a time of emotional turbulence. VIP Angel Sponsor Elizabeth Hassan writes from Australia about how Facebook and the Internet in general has helped her friend Sarah who has “Liver Cancer” to find support groups to help her heal. The stories go on and on and each one is worthy of your attention. You can learn more about each author and endorser at our website EmpoweredWomenofSocialMedia.com We proudly support the Breast Cancer Foundation and Break the Silence against Domestic Violence and our women who have written their story so their voice can be heard. Women women write, the whole world is a better place to be.
There are over three million nurses in the United States who deal with a multitude of issues every day, from patient suffering and death to the stress of dealing with insurance companies. With a growing shortage of nurses, finding inspiration and keeping hope alive is necessary for nurses to keep up their morale and to have a good quality of life outside of the workplace. In Meditations on Hope, nurses from a variety of specialties share their tales of staying positive and focused, maintaining hope in the face of patients’ suffering, triumphing over tragedy, overcoming adversities and challenges, and developing relationships that bring hope, understanding, and healing to themselves and their loved ones. Nurses—from hospitals, private practices, and in home health care—tell about how they keep their faith and hope in the healing process, in the face of patients’ suffering. Hear from people new to the field as well as those who have been in nursing for decades about the cases that have buoyed their spirits and those that require their greatest reserve of strength.
