In Pungent Boundaries, the fourth volume of her Love Potions for Healthy Relationships series, Nancy Landrum uses many descriptions and examples to clarify the sometimes confusing topic of codependency and boundary setting. Nancys life experience uniquely qualifies her to educate others about the concepts and pitfalls of setting healthy boundaries. If youre tired of feeling resentful, exhausted from trying to figure out what is wrong, struggling to understand the difference between loving support and unhealthy codependency, this simply written handbook is for you. By learning to establish, and maintain, healthy boundaries, your life will be liberated from resentment that poisons your relationships and prevents you from taking good care of yourself.
Love Potions for Healthy Relationships Nancy Landrum has written a series of transformational books that deliver gigantic wallops of insight. Each volume in the series covers a particular ingredient present in a healthy relationship. These powerful truths will demystify how healthy relationships work. Her wisdom is harvested from a passionate, lifetime search for the secret to loving and being loved. The examples from her years of relationship coaching make reading these volumes engaging as well as inspiring. Each chapter ends with perceptive recipes to help the reader add that particular ingredient to his or her love potion. In Savory Safeguards, the third volume of her Love Potions for Healthy Relationships series, Nancy Landrum maps out simple and effective strategies for safely managing the strong emotions that sometimes derail otherwise loving relationships. By her own examples, she delivers abundant hope that anyone can learn to make his or her emotions work for them rather than see out-of-control emotions damage or destroy personal peace and treasured relationships. In addition, Savory Safeguards outlines a simple but powerful plan for resolving differences so that all parties have their core concerns satisfied. The delightful outcome is that issues stay resolved, rather than resurfacing when the solution breaks down. Since all relationships have issues, Savory Safeguards is an essential component for any healthy relationship. Overpowering emotions? Recurrent problems? Nancy Landrum, M.A., reveals how to break the painful cycle of hurt in this 3rd volume of her Love Potions for Healthy Relationship series, Savory Safeguards. By following the simple steps outlined in this book, one has the keys to rebuilding themselves and their relationships with lasting change. Landrum has brilliantly helped transform the lives of so many people this book will no doubt change the lives of many more! -Sylvia Palda, M.S., M.A., LMFT Founder of Aspire Psychotherapy and Counseling, www.aspirefamilytherapy.com Clinical Outreach Specialist for Healthy Relationships California, a non-profit committed to educating the world with healthy relationships skills. We love this book! As you read Savory Safeguards, youll become enchanted by Nancys ability to teach a relationship concept clearly and concisely, and then tell a story which not only grabs you, but also illustrates the concept perfectly! There is so much here to help protect and grow a healthy relationship, from research-based strategies for managing strong emotions, to practical steps for finding solutions that work, to inspiration and encouragement for those who feel like theyre the only ones working at the relationship. We heartily recommend reading- and savoring - this book! -Don & Alex Flecky, co-authors of CoupleTalk, www.coupletalk.com I often hear couples say, We just dont know how to communicate. I beg to differ, I think couples are definitely communicating, but how they are communicating is impacting their relationship in a profound ways. Nancy Landrum has done a fabulous job of breaking down how couples can communicate in a way that builds up their relationship instead of tearing it down. LOVED the way she incorporated the tools all of us need to help marriages thrive! -Julie M. Baumgardner, President and CEO of First Things First Board Chari, National Association for Relationship and Marriage Education
Season the Pot encourages the reader explore the foundational beliefs of his or her relationship experience. Some beliefs support the manifestation of loving, nurturing relationships. Other beliefs can unknowingly block or destroy the possibility of _satisfying relationships. Nancy clearly outlines the process of replacing toxic beliefs with beliefs that provide a strong, dependable container in which to concoct your unique love potion.
This field guide dedicated to wildlife of Acadia National Park is an information-packed book that introduces park visitors to animals, plants, insects, and more that reside in the area in a colorful, easy-to-use package. Including full-color photos and easy-to-understand descriptions and with full cooperation from the park association, this book will appeal to anyone interested in nature.
In Communication Elixirs, the second volume of her Love Potions for Healthy Relationships series, Nancy Landrum delivers a collection of simple, yet powerful communication skills that will raise all of your relationships to higher levels of understanding and satisfaction. She clarifies why some communication patterns result in relationship dissatisfaction or failure and teaches how to listen and speak in ways that significantly increase the chances of a loving connection. Communication Elixirs adds practical, useful ingredients to your love potion, guaranteed to help heal old wounds and build confidence in your ability to create and sustain healthy relationships.
In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chineseness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered, and cultural identity is imagined and produced through affect. She frames the vulgar as a characteristic that is experienced through the Chinese concept of weidao, or flavor, in which bitter, salty, pungent, sweet, and sour performances of beauty produce non-Western forms of sexualized and racialized femininity. Analyzing contemporary film and media ranging from actress Gong Li’s post-Mao movies of the late 1980s and 1990s to Joan Chen’s performance in Twin Peaks to Ali Wong’s stand-up comedy specials, Zuo shows how vulgar beauty disrupts Western and colonial notions of beauty. Vulgar beauty, then, becomes the taste of difference. By demonstrating how Chinese feminine beauty becomes a cinematic invention invested in forms of affective racialization, Zuo makes a critical reconsideration of aesthetic theory.
In Pungent Boundaries, the fourth volume of her Love Potions for Healthy Relationships series, Nancy Landrum uses many descriptions and examples to clarify the sometimes confusing topic of codependency and boundary setting. Nancy's life experience uniquely qualifies her to educate others about the concepts and pitfalls of setting healthy boundaries. If you're tired of feeling resentful, exhausted from trying to figure out what is wrong, struggling to understand the difference between loving support and unhealthy codependency, this simply written handbook is for you. By learning to establish, and maintain, healthy boundaries, your life will be liberated from resentment that poisons your relationships and prevents you from taking good care of yourself.
Comprehensive and impeccably edited, Neural Networks in QSAR and Drug Design is the first book to present an all-inclusive coverage of the topic. The book provides a practice-oriented introduction to the different neural network paradigms, allowing the reader to easily understand and reproduce the results demonstrated. Numerous examples are detailed, demonstrating a variety of applications to QSAR and drug design.The contributors include some of the most distinguished names in the field, and the book provides an exhaustive bibliography, guiding readers to all the literature related to a particular type of application or neural network paradigm. The extensive index acts as a guide to the book, and makes retrieving information from chapters an easy task. A further research aid is a list of software with indications of availablility and price, as well as the editors scale rating the ease of use and interest/price ratio of each software package. The presentation of new, powerful tools for modeling molecular properties and the inclusion of many important neural network paradigms, coupled with extensive reference aids, makes Neural Networks in QSAR and Drug Design an essential reference source for those on the frontiers of this field. - Presents the first coverage of neural networks in QSAR and Drug Design - Allows easy understanding and reproduction of the results described within - Includes an exhaustive bibliography with more than 200 references - Provides a list of applicable software packages with availability and price
If animal behavior is mostly instinctual, why do animals need to communicate? Is it possible that there is a universal language spoken and understood by all animals on earth, including humans? Do barks, growls, rumbles, chirps, yips, and meows have communicative meanings? "No matter what species," writes acclaimed science journalist Tim Friend, "we're all concerned with the same topics of conversation -- sex, real estate, who's boss, and what's for dinner." In Animal Talk, Friend draws upon years of field research, interviews with preeminent scientists, and lively personal anecdotes to find out how our animal neighbors communicate and what their languages mean. From bird calls to whale songs, laughing hyenas to rattling snakes, an elephant cry in the jungle to the bark of a Chihuahua in his own backyard, Friend tells the grand story of animal communication through the sounds, stripes, scents, and signals of the animals themselves.
This book focuses on the theme of magic in Tibetan contexts, encompassing both pre-modern and modern text-cultures as well as contemporary practices. It offers a new understanding of the identity and role of magical specialists in both historical and contemporary contexts. Combining the theoretical approaches of anthropology, ethnography, religious and textual studies, the book aims to shed light on experiences, practices and practitioners that have been frequently marginalized by the normative mainstream monastic Buddhist traditions and Western Buddhist scholarship, which focuses primarily on meditation and philosophy. The book explores the intersection between magic/folk practices and Tantra, a complex, socio-religious phenomenon associated not only with the religious and political elites who sponsored it, but also with 'marginal' ethnic groups and social milieus, as well as with lay communities at large, who resorted to ritual agents to fulfil their worldly needs.
