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This book is about doulas and their work. We cover antepartum doula - (doulas for bedrest); birth doulas (for pregnancy and labor); postpartum doulas (doulas for after birth - care of mother and baby); and death doulas or end of life doulas (helping the dying). We also cover some about nutritional doula and bereavement doula work too. We also have brief organizations of doula list.
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SHE LIVED. SHE DIED. SHE AWAKENED.
Conscious Living Teacher, Best-Selling Author, and Spiritual Mentor, Dawn James experienced being blind, deaf, and mute before the age of ten. In her teens, she faced the fight of her life which left her paralyzed from the waist down.
How much more could she endure?
Two decades would pass before her world would begin to unravel again. An unexplainable loss of appetite was swiftly followed by a heart-stopping event...
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Have you ever had a dream? How did you make that dream come true? Dave McGillivray is a world-renowned athlete, entrepreneur, captivating motivational speaker, and philanthropist. He's also the director of the Boston Marathon, the world's oldest and maybe most famous annual race! But he wasn't always so accomplished. In Dream Big: A True Story of Courage and Determination, his nonfiction picture book for readers ages 6 to 10, Dave shares his unique,...
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Bret and Kim Stafford, the oldest children of the poet and pacifist William Stafford, were pals. Bret was the good son, the obedient public servant, Kim the itinerant wanderer. In this family of two parent teachers, with its intermittent celebration of talking recklessly," there was a code of silence about hard things: Why tell what hurts?" As childhood pleasures ebbed, this reticence took its toll on Bret, unable to reveal his troubles. Against a...
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Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation-and how those meanings still influence Americans today.
In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite-including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat...
5266) The Second O of Sorrow
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Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in the Rust Belt. Finding delight in everyday moments-a night at a packed karaoke bar, a father and daughter planting a garden, a biography of LeBron James as a metaphor for Ohio-these poems take pride in the people who survive despite all odds, who keep going without any concern for glory, fighting with wit and grace for justice, for joy, every god damned...
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With massive social media followings and a loyal fan base, Jeanty is poised for great success for his sixth poetry collection entitled Apologies That Never Came. In this series of prose and poetry, both the words and sentiment are simple, uninterrupted by excess flair or complexity. Apologies That Never Came dissects the agony of heartbreak and loss through the unexpressed words and feelings; what is left over at the end. While his poems and prose...
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In the bluegrass fields of Kentucky, Anne Wilson and her siblings, Jacob and Elizabeth, grew up in the security and love of their family-and Jesus. But when Jacob died in a car accident, Anne was thrust into a painful journey of grief and soul-wrestling that led to God calling her to create songs that glorified Him.
My Jesus weaves together Anne's personal story with an encouraging message to anyone longing for God to wipe away their tears.
No matter...
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Quatrième recueil de poèmes en innu-aimun et en français o Joséphine Bacon renouvelle son univers. Loin des légendes innues, l'aînée des poètes s'installe entre les saisons et avance lentement dans une méditation sur l'arbre, le temps et le silence.
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Née en 1947, Joséphine Bacon est une poète, parolière, conteuse, conférencière, scénariste, traductrice-interprète et réalisatrice innue originaire de Pessamit au...
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In the summer of 1994, a freak lightning and thunder storm explodes on the southern coast of Maine, killing Nancy Bills's husband and critically wounding her younger son. She promises her late husband that she will write their family's story and bind it with a red ribbon of love and courage.
In language alternately tender and gritty, The Red Ribbon documents the aftermath of Bills's husband's death. As a wife, she grieves and attempts to rebuild...
5271) Rules for Life
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When her mother died two years earlier, Izzy thought the world would change in some identifiable way, but it didn't. It didn't even slow down. Along with constantly watching her brother, Jason, to ensure he didn't repeat his involvement with drugs, Izzy has managed to get through school and the rest of her life using her mother's endless "rules" as guidance, even making up some of her own as she goes along. When her father starts dating again and...
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La construction de soi à l'adolescence n'est pas chose aisée, surtout quand on a perdu son double
Lisa ne se sent pas bien ce matin. Ce n'est pas le cours consacré à Moby Dick et les blagues vaseuses que ce roman inspire aux plus poètes de classe. Elle est grosse et on l'appelle Cachalot : c'est comme ça ; elle en a l'habitude. Ce n'est pas non plus les trois croissants et les deux canettes de coca du petit-déjeuner. Ça aussi, elle en a l'habitude....
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Everything doesn't (always) happen for a reason.
Infertility and pregnancy loss can be devastating, yet both are often private sorrows for the one in six people who cope with the experience. This collection offers personal stories about what it's like to go through the emotional and physical facets of infertility, miscarriage, and pregnancy loss: the pain, sadness, and desperation, the hope, humour, and frustration.
Through, Not Around offers reassurance...
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This book is a meditation on facing fear, heartbreak, and mortality. In his own irreverent and inimitable style, Daniele Bolelli tells the story of his courtship and marriage, which would have been a sweet story had not all hell broken loose. Or as he puts it, "Hell was a ninja who entered my house without being seen. It all began in such an unremarkable way that it barely registered as anything meaningful. Little did I know that the experiences of...
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In the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American citizen who suffers from post-concussive memory loss after a major auto accident.
The collection is an odyssey of what it means to recover-physically and mentally-in the aftermath of trauma and traumatic brain injury, charting when "before" crosses into "after." Through connected poems, buckling and expansive syntax, ekphrasis, and conjoined poetic forms,...
5276) Twenty-Nine Footfalls
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Twenty-Nine Footfalls led Debra Danz-Solitario to reclaim a functional heart, and kept all but her feet from falling.
Through 29-photographs and short stories, Debra pays tribute to her late husband's photography collection. Writing became her lifeline after her husband's fatal accident. In an attempt to confront grief, she divided the stories into categories based on Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's "stages of grief" model.
Debra hopes to lend guidance...
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Cheryl Collins Gatons grew up believing a person could plan his or her life and that everything would work out according to that plan. However, on November 3, 2006, she learned otherwise when her husband died suddenly.
Farther Than 26.2 Miles is the true story of Cheryl, who went from running simply for the fun of it to qualifying for the Olympic marathon trials, thrusting her into the world of competitive running. It was in that world that Cheryl...
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"Whose Name was Writ in Water" contains a fantastic collection of poetry by various authors written in dedication to English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821). Together with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was a key figure during the second generation of Romantic poets most famous for such poems as "Sleep and Poetry", "Ode to a Nightingale", and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". Keats died at the age of 25 from tuberculosis, only...
5279) Stay With Me
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A collection of poems exploring the topics of Love, Heart, Fear, Suffering and Faith.
In this collection, Stacy Nicholson explores her own heart, drawing us with the transparent vulnerability of her own memory into the depths of darkness, into the death of past shelves, and into the bright, bittersweet light of hope. Nicholson open her heart to love. This is universal experience of what it is to be fully human and what it is to dream.
5280) Lemon Drop Falls
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Brave the sour to taste the sweet.
Morgan is devastated by her mother's sudden death. Before, Mom's amazing organizational skills kept the family on track, and her bowl of lemon drops was always on hand to make difficult conversations easy, turning life's sour into sweet. After, there's no one to help Morgan navigate her new role caring for her younger siblings, her worries about starting junior high, and her increasingly confusing friendships. All...
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