Author: Cristien Storm Publisher: Bookbaby ISBN: 9781483566689 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 0
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What happens when a collection of artists, musicians, and activists grapple with the violent assault and murder of one of their friends? What happens when they refuse to give in to fear and focus their anger and pain on ways to imagine self-defense as a revolutionary tool for social justice? For over two decades, Cristien Storm has grappled with these questions as a self-defense instructor, writer, therapist, activist, survivor, partner, friend, and community member. As a co- founder and former Executive Director of Home Alive, an anti-violence organization that offers self-defense and boundary setting classes on a sliding scale formed in response to the brutal rape and murder of singer Mia Zapata, Cristien Storm developed self-defense programs that recognize the link between the concepts of self-defense and social change. Living in Liberation outlines this innovative and radical approach to self-defense that challenges those practicing boundary setting and self-care to see themselves not simply as individuals but also as local, national, and global community members. Living in Liberation argues that responses to violence can and should embody boundary setting, self-care, and self-defense skills that interrupt victim-blaming, fear-based approaches and locate healing within the social context of community. Living in Liberation roots boundary setting and self-care in larger visions of happier and healthier communities, all the while holding on to the complexities of individual safety and social justice. There are many books on boundaries. Most of them have good skills to share. What Living in Liberation offers that is unique is a simple, direct approach to boundaries and boundary setting that reflects the complexity of the world we live in while offering practical tools. This book looks deeply at how oppression (racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, ableism, ageism) and privilege impact the context and interpersonal environments in which our boundary setting occurs. Living in Liberation looks beyond physical self-defense and individual safety to important issues connected with setting, maintaining, and negotiating personal boundaries within larger social context and makes links and connections between self-care, community care, social justice, healing from individual and collective trauma, and social change. Living in Liberation is a practical reference on how to set boundaries, limits and negotiate interpersonal needs and wants in a variety of contexts and conditions. The book offer readers suggestions on how to set boundaries, create self-care goals, identify and address challenges, and understand the complexity of intuition as part of self-defense. In addition, readers are invited to explore larger social context and form their own connections between self-care, community care, social justice, and social change. Storm also includes exercises culled from years of developing and facilitating anti-violence and boundary setting curricula as well as her experience working with trauma survivors as a mental health therapist. Living in Liberation is an important reference for readers looking for boundary setting skills as well as a practical resource for those who wish to dive deeper into considering self-care and social change. This book is for any one who has ever struggled with boundaries and everyone who wants to not only improve their relationships, but work to make a better world. The book is a great resource for support, discussion or study groups.
Author: Andrew O. Fort Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791427064 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 300
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This book is about the state of embodied perfection often called enlightenment, self-realization, or liberation. It examines the types, degrees, and stages of liberation that are possible, with and without a body.
Author: Charles Birch Publisher: University of North Texas ISBN: 9780962680700 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 353
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This book is about the liberation of the concept of life from the bondage fashioned by the interpreters of life ever since biology began, and about the liberation of the life of humans and non-humans alike from the bondage of social structures and behaviour, which now threatens the fullness of life's possibilities if not survival itself. It falls into a tradition of writings about human problems from a perspective informed by biology. It rejects the mechanistic model of life dominant in the Western world and develops an alternative 'ecological model' which is applicable to the life of the cell and the life of the human community. For the first time it brings together in one work the insights of modern biology with those of a modern holistic philosophy and a liberal theology in a way which challenges conventional approaches to science, agriculture, sociology, politics, economics, development and liberation movements.
Author: Cristien Storm Publisher: ISBN: 9780615320212 Category : Conduct of life Languages : en Pages : 120
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What happens when a collection of artists, musicians, and radical activists imagine self defense as a revolutionary tool for social justice? What happens when this group, working for social change, holds a variety of collective visions of what safety and security mean that embody the complexity of how privilege and oppression operate? What happens when someone envisions boundary setting, self care and self defense that not only keep individuals safe, but also help energize progressive social movements making them more vibrant and resilient? For the past twenty years, Cristien Storm has grappled with these questions as a self defense instructor, a writer, musician, therapist, activist, survivor, partner, friend and community member. In 1993 an organization called Home Alive was founded in response to the brutal rape and murder of Mia Zapata in Seattle, Washington. As one of the founders of Home Alive, Cristien Storm developed self defense programs that recognized the link between the concepts of self defense and social change. Over the past two decades Cristien has continued to develop self defense, self care, and boundary setting programs and curricula that address the broad scope of how violence, trauma, abuse, and secondary trauma inform the structures of our relationships, our organizations, and our progressive movements. Most boundary setting curricula focuses on the self as an individual. Living In Liberation challenges those practicing boundary setting and self care to see themselves not simply as individuals but also as local, national, and global community members. Living In liberation argues that responses to violence can and should embody boundary setting, self care, and self defense skills that interrupt victim-blaming, fear-based approaches and locate healing within the social context of community. This groundbreaking book, based on over two decades of developing and teaching boundary setting curricula, roots boundary setting and self care in a larger vision of happier, healthier, safer communities while holding on to the complexities of individual safety and social justice.
Author: Michael A. Singer Publisher: New Harbinger Publications ISBN: 1648480950 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 200
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Now a New York Times bestseller! The book you need right now is finally here! From beloved spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer—author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Untethered Soul—this transformative and highly anticipated guide will be your compass on an exciting new journey toward self-realization and unconditional happiness. Now more than ever, we’re all looking to feel more joy, happiness, and deeper meaning in our lives. But are we looking in all the wrong places? When our sense of wholeness depends on things or people outside ourselves—whether it’s a coveted job, a new house, a lavish vacation, or even a new relationship—sooner or later we’re bound to feel unsatisfied. That’s why we must look inside for real freedom, love, and inspiration. But how do we embark on this inner journey? Living Untethered is the book to reach for. At once profoundly transcendent and powerfully practical, it provides clear guidance for moving beyond the thoughts, feelings, and habits that keep you stuck—so you can heal the pain of the past and let your spirit soar. On each page, you’ll discover a deeper understanding of where your thoughts and emotions come from, and how they affect your natural energy flow. Finally, you’ll find freedom from the psychological scars, or samskaras, that block you and keep you from reaching your highest potential. It’s time to stop struggling and start experiencing. This miraculous book will show you how to put the spiritual teachings of Michael A. Singer into practice every day, and propel you toward a life of liberation, serenity, openness, and self-knowledge. Isn’t it time you started Living Untethered? This book is copublished by New Harbinger Publications, Inc., the premier publisher of psychology and self-help books for nearly fifty years; and Sounds True, the leading multimedia publisher of original works by world-renowned spiritual teachers.
Author: U Pandita Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0861718801 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 322
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Burmese meditation master Sayadaw U Pandita shows us that freedom is as immediate as breathing, as fundamental as a footstep. In this book he describes the path of the Buddha and calls all of us to that heroic journey of liberation. Enlivened by numerous case histories and anecdotes, In This Very Life is a matchless guide to the inner territory of meditation - as described by the Buddha.
Author: Ray Baskerville Publisher: ISBN: 9781521165119 Category : Languages : en Pages : 137
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This book presents a clear and understandable explanation of life as a spiritual process. It is in two parts. Part one is an explanation of the means, function and purpose of life as a process of spiritual evolution. It reveals the hidden mechanisms that show exactly how we can understand and live this process as our own healing and liberation. This understanding is derived from the authors many years of both spiritual practice and work as a soul healer. This book will teach a radical new way of viewing and understanding the nature and working of karma. It offers a clear view of how the experiences of your life arise and why, but more importantly how you can creatively engage in your life's process to create freedom and healing.Part two presents the six principles that facilitate life as a Living Liberation. Each principle becomes a component in the Living Liberation(tm) Meditation Practice. The meditation is a means of learning and practicing how to live in alignment with life as a process of liberation and healing, bringing peace and self acceptance. Each meditation comes with a commentary illuminating it's function and a work book to facilitate it's integration through self reflection and observation. Through the process of Living Liberation(tm) situations that were previously a cause of pain become the means of your liberation, healing to the root cause. You will deepen your ability to be present in yourself and to yourself. In this self-acceptance you creatively integrate what you previously experienced as separation, reclaim yourself and open to joy.Living Liberation(tm) bridges the gap between meditation and life, between the internal and external experience. It teaches the means of living the process of liberation. It requires nothing but the willingness to practice it in your life, to bring love and healing to every level of your being. If practiced sincerely and diligently the contents of this book will change your life.
Author: Christine Platt Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982168056 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 224
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"Forget the aesthetics of mainstream minimalism and discover a life of authenticity and intention with this practical guide to living with less...your way"--
Author: Marci Lock Publisher: ISBN: 9781950367177 Category : Languages : en Pages : 276
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Are You Ready to Live in Liberation, Abundance & Bliss Right Now? What is an Awakened Being? A Being who is awake to ALL the joy, bliss, abundance, love and pleasure that is available. Very few are living in a life they absolutely love. Instead, the "norm" is living in a state of settling, and sacrificing in at least one or often many areas of life. We're taught that success requires hard work and compromise when the truth is that success is our birthright and our natural state of being. The Awakened Being is your guide to creating the light, love, liberation, peace, and flow of life as your natural state and result in every area of life. It gives you the framework, action steps, and upgraded understandings along with the exact "how to" tools to take you from where you are at, to an even greater Awakened life of Bliss. The Awakened Being will guide you through the depths of your own transformation by dissolving the illusions and bringing light codes, context and greater understanding that bridges the gap to each step of your path to your own Liberation. This is a map to shift, restructure, and reprogram your consciousness and way of operating that creates the alignment to a life you absolutely love. It leads you on a journey to your wholeness, where there are no longer limitations, parameters, judgments, or stories holding you back from everything you want and who you are meant to be. Upgrading how you operate moment-by-moment consciously instead of unconsciously reacting out of old programs you didn't even know were running. We are the source of our own experience and our reality aligns to what we choose. We can choose love, bliss, pleasure, play and even the luxury available to be fully supported by life. Liberation is available to us all, yet we haven't been given the reference point for it and how to align to it because we are operating out of the limitations we were taught. The teachings of personal development center on mindset and motivation, yet such tools only offer surface-level results and surface self empowerment. It's just the tip of the iceberg for what's really available to all of us when we awaken to all of our abilities and natural state to create our best lives. The Awakened Being quite literally awakens readers to their ultimate life of freedom and how to manifest moment by moment their greatest joy. It is the complete guide on your journey from broken to bliss, sacrifice to serenity and from wherever you are at now to infinite possibilities of creating and receiving a life you absolutely love.
Author: Olivia Laing Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393608786 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 311
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"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.
Author: Cristien Storm
Author: Andrew O. Fort
Author: Charles Birch
Author: Cristien Storm
Author: Michael A. Singer
Author: U Pandita
Author: Ray Baskerville
Author: Christine Platt
Author: Marci Lock
Author: Olivia Laing