A USA TODAY Bestseller A Washington Post Noteworthy Book A Mom’s Choice Awards Winner Funny, honest, and inspiring for readers feeling overwhelmed by life, Everyone But Myself is like a best friend’s story of how she returned to solid ground while embracing chaos along the way. For Julie, an elementary school librarian and mother of two boys, there was no time for debilitating anxiety. Yet the terrifying aftershocks of her first panic attack left her grappling with questions about the causes of her mental health crisis and where it would lead next. What follows is a hopeful, honest account of love and loss, a husband who can’t read minds, disastrous family outings, and finding a path (with help from loved ones and a few key new friends) to the joy of a well-lived life. Sure to resonate with mothers spread thin by the demands of modern family life, Everyone But Myself offers an intimate portrait of how one woman found her way back to herself.
Dr. Stephen J. Briggs presents his education and compassion as a medical physician and writer within the Lordas Ministry. Raised in a warm and friendly town known as Titusville, Pennsylvania, he felt the pain of losing his mother to cancer when at the young age of thirteen years old. Rebuilding his life from that day forward, he married and divorced, having been gifted with four wonderful children during the twenty-one years of marriage. His drive to serve and enlighten people lead him through the education of Psychology, Sociology, and several studies in English, among many other subjects to establish and maintain research presentable to aid others in there quest for aself improvement.a His extensive efforts gained him high honors at his graduation and were an important application in his research concerning the many varieties of people, their race, creed, culture, religion, customs and methods of expressing their emotions. His love for fellow human beings echoed in his heart the need to present avenues of improvement that could be utilized by the many that read and meditated on his findings and how the presented knowledge could effect the readeras life personally.
Selected by Asiaweek as one of the 10 Best Chinese Novels of 2006 Winner, Singapore Literature Prize for Chinese 2008 Selected by The Business Times as one of the Best Books of 2014 The Chinese protagonist of Cultural Medallion recipient Yeng Pway Ngon's novel, Trivialities about Me and Myself, is a journalist turned entrepreneur who possesses a split personality. “Me” is a figure consumed by greed and sexual desire, two impulses that undermine his careers, his two marriages, and his relationship with his son. Throughout the novel he engages in a dialogue with his other identity, the moralistic “Myself”, whose principled stances try but usually fail to win over his other half. The protagonist’s lifetime, from childhood to his dying days in a rest home, parallels the modern history of Singapore itself and its evolution from a colonised city to a consumer-oriented nation, one in which an English-language educational system and commercial interests suppress indigenous languages and traditions. While the meticulously described action takes place in the city, the real setting is within the psyche of the narrator, whose two halves are engaged in an epic struggle for dominance.
When a fall from grace, catapults you to your higher inner power, self-love. A detailed accounting of a black woman's experience growing up in South Central Los Angeles. A memoir depicting a serious emotional and comedic journey which chronicles a life dealing with Christianity, racism, addictions, single parenting, and toxic relationships. Through a multitude of wrong choices, by the grace of God, she learned how to love herself enough to release herself from destructive behavior and finally budded into a perfect rose that doesn't need water to blossom. These personal words were written to reveal an honest truth of a life of ups and downs and yet shows the beauty of falling and coming back stronger after every fallthe beauty of finding the moral compass to finally center her world.
This is a book about the causes, effects, and coping strategies pertaining to Schizoaffective Disorder. The story is an account of my struggle with this difficult mental illness. The book is a description of a descent into madness, the repercussions of that descent, and the things I did to get my life back on track after my frightening and bizarre experience with Schizoaffective Disorder. If you or someone you know is suffering from Schizoaffective Disorder, Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar Disorder, or severe depression, then you should think about reading this book. This book provides insight into the mind of a person affected by this most misunderstood illness and explains the steps necessary to make a full recovery from it. Readers of this book will come away with an understanding that there is much hope for people suffering from mental illness, and that if the illness is taken seriously, a meaningful and productive life can still be lived regardless.
The Conscious Relationship Of I And Myself represents the understandings I have come to through my own personal path of self discovery, it is a way to see the connection of all things as a complete whole without exception and how putting this knowledge into practice can and will end all the conflict in not only my life but also in anybody elses that is willing to take up the challenge, allowing humanity once again return to heaven on earth . For most of my life I had felt like there was a part of me that was missing, the feeling that I didnt belong here and even that idea that I was born in the wrong time period often crossed my mind. This lead me to the path of self-discovery , a path that would take me half way around the world seeking the answers to the questions that raged around in my head of who, what and why I was here . At the age of 38 while living in India I finally received the answers I had been seeking . I had a light at the end of the tunnel experience after contracting an illness and refusing treatment while trying to starve my body to death. I finally understood the relationship between the physical and non-physical and where the idea of separation came from and how The Conscious Relationship Of I And Myself, expressed as The Game Of Life, is the reason we are all here. It was never my intention writing this story to change your life, thats your job, all that I will say is that if you put into practice what is being implied in The Conscious Relationship Of I And Myself you will come to an understanding of just how powerful you are, as a unique individual being, to literally change the world you inhabit. If everything in the universe truly is interconnected and interactive as modern science has suggested then what you do affects the whole. What if your energy is all that is needed to tip the scale towards unity, dont you owe it to yourself and the rest of humanity to at least try. Join me in the silent revolution, stop talking and start acting.
At last, this much?awaited volume sheds substantial light on one of the most difficult disorders to diagnose and treat: the closet narcissistic disorders of the self. The third of a series on the disorders of the self, and the first written by Dr. Masterson since 1985, the book fills a crucial niche in his work and in the field of personality disorders. It describes not only the psychopathology and treatment of this disorder but, more importantly, demonstrates the key dynamic of the disorders of the self triad: self activation leads to anxiety and depression, which leads to defense. This is the central dynamic of all the disorders of the self, and its particular manifestations in the closet narcissistic personality disorder are described along with the therapeutic techniques required to identify and manage it. The volume succeeds in clarifying a great deal of the clinical confusion surrounding the disorder, and addresses such questions as: What does the clinical picture look like? What is the reason for the diagnostic confusion? How does one resolve it? What other disorders does this disorder mimic? How do you differentiate it from the borderline and/or schizoid disorders of the self? What are some possible etiologic factors? What precipitates a clinical syndrome? What is the intrapsychic structure of this disorder, and how does it compare with other disorders? What is the central psychodynamic? What is a mirroring interpretation of narcissistic vulnerability, and why is it the intervention of choice? What is projective identification, and why is it so important to countertransference reactions to these patients? The Emerging Self offers a clear, down to earth, hands?on presentation of interest to all therapists students, teachers, and practitioners. It will enable the therapist to identify what emotional issues are on center stage, understand how to deal with it, and also how to evaluate the results of his or her efforts. Beyond that, it will illustrate the variations in countertransference that occur as a result of projective identification. Above all, the volume will take its substantial place alongside Psychotherapy of the Borderline Adult and The Real Self as one of the three pillars of Dr. Masterson's whole theoretical approach.
If you are suffering from pain. . .If someone you love is suffering from pain. . .If you'd give anything to be able to overcome that pain, without drugs. . .If you need inspiration from someone who has "been there". . .This book is for you. In 1982, Gari Carter's old life abruptly ended. A headon car crash destroyed much of her face. Ahead were almost ten years of operations that gradually rebuilt her jaws, cheekbones, nose, and gums. Ahead lay months of helplessness, pain, anxiety, and depression. Ahead lay overwhelming fear of pain. But ahead lay much more. Healing Myself is the story of one woman's successful battle to rise above pain and despair. But it's about more than pain. It's about the elation she felt as she gained control of her suffering. It's about the lessons she learned from hard experiencelessons in patience, love, and proper priorities. Perhaps most astoundingly, it's about her discovery of a series of commerciallyproduced audio paincontrol tapes that changed her multiplehour operations from ordeals to be dreaded into challenges to be met calmly and confidentlywithout anesthetics!
