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Author: Amy Oestreicher Publisher: Singing Tree Publishing ISBN: 9781733138819 Category : Languages : en Pages : 548
Book Description
An estimated 70 percent of adults in the United States have experienced a traumatic event at least once in their lives and up to 20 percent of these people go on to develop posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. An estimated 5 percent of Americans-more than 13 million people-have PTSD at any given time. Amy Oestreicher was one of them. So, what happens when an ordinary teenager has to turn into a warrior just to survive? And can the journey through Post Traumatic Stress Disorder really become an "adventure?" Amy had ambitious plans for college and a Broadway career, until her stomach exploded the week before her senior prom. Months later, she awoke from a coma to learn that she might never be able to eat or drink again. After years on IV nutrition, her first bite of food awakened her senses to life's ordinary miracles but also brought back memories of being sexually abused by a trusted mentor for months, just before the unexpected rush to the emergency room that fateful Passover night. With determination, imagination, relentless resilience, and an inner "hunger" for life, Amy created a roadmap where none existed. Her journey through life's unthinkable detours is nothing short of miraculous, but the creative path to healing she forged is accessible to anyone. As a survivor-and "thriver"-of abuse and extensive medical trauma, Amy discovered sources of resilience she didn't know she had but it turns out we all possess. In this book, she creates a tapestry made from each of each thread of her journey, empowering others to find gratitude in every setback and discover their own infinite inner strength. Amy's search for "home" proves to be the greatest test of cultivating resilience after near-death, and reclaiming identity after both sexual assault and medical trauma. Amy's journey is ultimately a celebration of ordinary and extraordinary challenges and miracles. In this coming of age story, Amy shares her struggles and discoveries living with both visible and invisible illness, the tremendous gifts to be reaped from trauma, its lessons which have illuminated her path, and how these gifts can be discovered as a unique, yet universal way to navigate any kind of uncertainty. Interwoven through her remarkable story are insights on navigating any kind of uncertainty, including: - What is a "detourist"- and why is it important to take those detours? - The importance of detours for college students - How to transition from being a "survivor" to a "thriver" - Amy's" Four Hardcore Skills" to resilience - Finding your own uniqueness not through what's happened to you, but what you choose to do with it - The power of art to heal - Our innate ability to be artists, and why creativity is an essential mindset - How sharing your story becomes imperative to healing - How humor is a way through - Turn messes, mistakes and setbacks into creative detours My Beautiful Detour offers practical strategies for individuals and unexpected tools for the families of trauma survivors, helping communities build new, limitless futures. The book includes numerous "trauma insights," and is enriched with humor, art, poetry, and useful takeaways for readers. Reading one woman's heroic adventure through trauma, recovery, and discovery of new directions in healing the body and the mind is an empowering tale of not just getting through, but thriving
Author: Amy Oestreicher Publisher: Singing Tree Publishing ISBN: 9781733138819 Category : Languages : en Pages : 548
Book Description
An estimated 70 percent of adults in the United States have experienced a traumatic event at least once in their lives and up to 20 percent of these people go on to develop posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. An estimated 5 percent of Americans-more than 13 million people-have PTSD at any given time. Amy Oestreicher was one of them. So, what happens when an ordinary teenager has to turn into a warrior just to survive? And can the journey through Post Traumatic Stress Disorder really become an "adventure?" Amy had ambitious plans for college and a Broadway career, until her stomach exploded the week before her senior prom. Months later, she awoke from a coma to learn that she might never be able to eat or drink again. After years on IV nutrition, her first bite of food awakened her senses to life's ordinary miracles but also brought back memories of being sexually abused by a trusted mentor for months, just before the unexpected rush to the emergency room that fateful Passover night. With determination, imagination, relentless resilience, and an inner "hunger" for life, Amy created a roadmap where none existed. Her journey through life's unthinkable detours is nothing short of miraculous, but the creative path to healing she forged is accessible to anyone. As a survivor-and "thriver"-of abuse and extensive medical trauma, Amy discovered sources of resilience she didn't know she had but it turns out we all possess. In this book, she creates a tapestry made from each of each thread of her journey, empowering others to find gratitude in every setback and discover their own infinite inner strength. Amy's search for "home" proves to be the greatest test of cultivating resilience after near-death, and reclaiming identity after both sexual assault and medical trauma. Amy's journey is ultimately a celebration of ordinary and extraordinary challenges and miracles. In this coming of age story, Amy shares her struggles and discoveries living with both visible and invisible illness, the tremendous gifts to be reaped from trauma, its lessons which have illuminated her path, and how these gifts can be discovered as a unique, yet universal way to navigate any kind of uncertainty. Interwoven through her remarkable story are insights on navigating any kind of uncertainty, including: - What is a "detourist"- and why is it important to take those detours? - The importance of detours for college students - How to transition from being a "survivor" to a "thriver" - Amy's" Four Hardcore Skills" to resilience - Finding your own uniqueness not through what's happened to you, but what you choose to do with it - The power of art to heal - Our innate ability to be artists, and why creativity is an essential mindset - How sharing your story becomes imperative to healing - How humor is a way through - Turn messes, mistakes and setbacks into creative detours My Beautiful Detour offers practical strategies for individuals and unexpected tools for the families of trauma survivors, helping communities build new, limitless futures. The book includes numerous "trauma insights," and is enriched with humor, art, poetry, and useful takeaways for readers. Reading one woman's heroic adventure through trauma, recovery, and discovery of new directions in healing the body and the mind is an empowering tale of not just getting through, but thriving
Author: Lizzie Simon Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 9780743446600 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 228
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In the fall of 1999, 23-year-old Simon hit the road on a journey that took her across the United States. Her inspired interviews with other young men and women suffering from manic depression comprise the heart and soul of this remarkable memoir.
Author: Morgan Matson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0857072692 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 359
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An ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Readers, Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Prize and a Publisher's Weekly "Flying Start" book Amy Curry's year sucks. And it's not getting any better. Her mother has decided to move, so somehow Amy has to get their car from California to the East Coast. There's just one problem: since her father's death Amy hasn't been able to get behind the wheel of a car. Enter Roger, the son of a family friend, who turns out to be funny, nice . . . and unexpectedly cute. But Roger's plans involve a more "scenic" route than just driving from A to B, so suddenly Amy finds herself on the road trip of a lifetime. And, as she grows closer to Roger, Amy starts to realise that sometimes you have to get lost to find your way home. . . Praise for Amy & Roger's Epic Detour 'One of the most touching, irresistible, and feel-good road trips I've been on in a long, long while. Amy & Roger is a book to love.' Deb Caletti, National Book Award Finalist 'A near-perfect summer read that should leave readers with a thirst for travel and romance.' Publishers Weekly, Starred Review 'This entertaining and thoughtful summertime road trip serves up slices of America with a big scoop of romance on the side.' Kirkus Reviews 'A classic literary road trip is what Matson delivers in high style…if all road trips were like this, nobody'd ever stay home.' BCCB 'An emotionally rewarding road novel.' School Library Journal
Author: Andromeda Romano-Lax Publisher: Soho Press ISBN: 1616950501 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 249
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A “compelling” novel of art, danger, and one man’s adventure in pre-World War II Italy, from the author of Plum Rains (Library Journal). Ernst Vogler is twenty-six years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer—the Third Reich’s Sonderprojekt, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Führer. Vogler is to collect a famous Classical Roman marble statue, The Discus Thrower, and get it to the German border, where it will be turned over to the Gestapo. It is a simple, three-day job. Things start to go wrong almost immediately. The Italian twin brothers who have been hired to escort Vogler to the border seem to have priorities besides the task at hand—wild romances, perhaps even criminal jobs on the side—and Vogler quickly loses control of the assignment. The twins set off on a dangerous detour and Vogler realizes he will be lucky to escape this venture with his life, let alone his job. With nothing left to lose, the young German gives himself up to the Italian adventure, to the surprising love and inevitable losses along the way. From the celebrated author of The Spanish Bow and Behave, The Detour is a bittersweet novel about artistic obsession, misplaced idealism, diversions, and second chances, set along the beautiful back-roads of northern Italy.
Author: Lindsay McKenzie Publisher: Lindsay McKenzie ISBN: 9781733811347 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 182
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We've all been told to "follow our dreams", but what happens when those dreams aren't working out? Part personal memoir, part self-help, Follow Your Detour will inspire you to embrace the unexpected, let go of your pain and fears, and find the courage to create your own path.
Author: Dd Prince Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781796666885 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 404
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Love an over-the-top possessive dirty-talking book boyfriend who is an alpha male biker without being an alpha-hole? You need to meet Deacon. Standalone. No cliffhanger.Contains: smokin' hot steamy scenes, romance, drunk texting, erotic spankings, a battery-operated boyfriend, dirty-talking, shoe shot-put, celebrity and puppet impersonations, a soft drink war, pudding shooters, laughs, tears, a bit of darkness. Oh... and an HEA.Deacon is a beautiful biker who sets eyes on his girl and decides he's going to go to any lengths to: -make her his and only his.-keep her safe amid some very amped circumstances with his MC and a rival club.-give her a wild ride on the way toward happily ever after.Detour is the first book in a set of standalone but linked love stories about the Dominion Brotherhood MC.Meet Deacon: He's 28, tall, dark, gorgeous, and 100% alpha male. In the relationship department, things either go one way or the other. He either shows them a good time and moves on, never going back for seconds, or he stakes a claim and things get serious REAL fast. It's been a long while since he's been motivated to claim anyone. Deacon has what some might classify a problem with possessiveness and jealousy. But he's got good reasons for this. And when he does stake his claim, he means it. And he allows no one to mess with that.Meet Ella.: Ella, 23, feels like the Marilyn Munster of her eclectic household. Despite her crazy hippie parents and rambunctious little brother, her life is boring and humdrum. And her love life is so far off the mark that she considers herself in a serious relationship with her battery-operated boyfriend. She's having trouble shaking off an ex that won't go away and fending off her partying friends who continually hassle her to either party with them or be their designated driver.But things are about to get real for Ella. Real fast.Very soon after she notices the new Beautiful Biker in town she finds herself in a real pickle. In fact, Ella keeps finding herself in trouble. And Deacon, whose MC has just opened a chapter, biker bar, and garage in Ella's town, (much to the chagrin of an existing rival MC), notices Ella, too. Deacon keeps swooping in to save Ella's bacon from a variety of tight spots.And because of that, it draws even further attention to her. Someone or several someones want revenge against Deacon and his MC and don't mind using a biker's woman to make their point.Ella has been warned away from Deacon. And she worries that her heart will go SPLAT if she lets the beautiful biker get too close.But it's too late. Ella has no choice because Deacon is determined to get right in her space.This book contains a hot alpha book boyfriend, steamy hot scenes, some laughs, and plenty of biker romance action. And because it comes from the brain of DD Prince, it has a little bit of darkness, too.Standalone, no cliffhanger.
Author: Amanda Radley Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc ISBN: 163555957X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 277
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Romance is in the air on this detour to love. High-flying executive Celia Scott is on her way to Tokyo to accept a prestigious award heavy with emotional baggage. She’ll make the trip, but she doesn’t have to like it, and she certainly doesn’t have to make nice with a stranger on a plane. Artist Lily Andersen is excited to finally meet her online crush, the only person in the world who truly gets her. She just needs to survive the eleven-hour flight from London to Japan with a testy seatmate who by turns annoys and fascinates her. Fate, upgrades, and a troupe of travelling clowns bring them together for a journey memorable for all the wrong reasons. Not only do they have nothing in common, they really can’t stand each other. But people are not always as they seem, and Celia and Lily are about to realise, there’s more than one path to love.
Author: Gerbrand Bakker Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1446450341 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
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WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE 'A wonderful novel. Wise and generous to a fault of all our human failings and frailties' Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip A Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. She has left her husband, having confessed to an affair. In Amsterdam, her stunned husband forms a strange partnership with a detective who agrees to help him trace her. They board the ferry to Hull on Christmas Eve. Back on the farm, a young man out walking with his dog injures himself and stays the night, then ends up staying longer. Yet something is deeply wrong. Does he know what he is getting himself into? And what will happen when her husband and the detective arrive?
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