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It is devastating when a busy person who thrives on setting goals and meeting them is suddenly struck with a serious illness—a situation made worse if the person is responsible for caring for others. Barbara Gabogrecan had always been a busy woman with a plan, one who thrived on setting goals and meeting them. In addition to her many professional responsibilities, she was caring for her blind and deaf ninety-year-old mother who was battling dementia. Her husband’s chronic back condition left him bedridden much of the time. She didn’t have the time or energy to deal with any more—and that’s when her own life was changed in an instant, when she had, in quick succession, a stroke and subsequent surgery for a brain tumour. For many people, that would have been the final straw, but for Barbara, it was the chance to rise above her adversity and not just survive but prosper. Her extraordinary life experiences and accomplishments shaped her character, and now she shares her journey to recovery in candid detail with humour and compassion. Barbara tells her story in the hope of inspiring those who are living with a serious illness or are caring for someone who is.

On a steamy summer day in 1964, sixteen-year-old Guy Harmon is drawn into a situation more dangerous than even his youthful imagination could have devised. Life in Roxborough, his rural Australian hometown, has never been this mysterious or confusing-or exciting. On the outskirts of town, he meets Amy, the girl of his dreams, along with her mother, Ruth. Smitt en as only a teen can be, he doesn''t pick up a few warning signs. Guy has no way to know that this budding love story will end poorly for all involved. Soon, he is ensnared in a web of violence and lies, and his life spins out of control. Th e summer becomes a torturous endurance race as a man is murdered and the killers recruit Guy to help dispose of the body. One of his friends, an innocent witness to the murder, wonders if he is safe. What''s more, Amy and Ruth turn out to be not as trustworthy as he thought they''d be. Now an adult, Guy returns to Roxborough to say goodbye to a dear childhood friend who has died suddenly. The past and the present swirl together as Guy struggles desperately to make sense of those senseless summer days of sixty-four.

For the poet Yosipa, her spiritual journey has been like that of a child jumping up and trying to touch that overhanging branch on a tree, to swipe the tips of its leaves. He or she doesn’t give up, but continues to try, knowing that one day it will be possible. And then suddenly, the child is grown; he or she no longer needs to jump to reach the tree and instead can just be one with the tree and everything else—effortlessly. Yosipa’s journey began twenty years ago in Sydney, Australia. Riding the bus home as a young woman, she saw a crystal shop and felt compelled to leave the bus and go inside. She did so, and found a world of discovery through self-help books. At the age of twenty-three, Yosipa moved to Byron Bay, where the inspiration and wisdom came from to write Share My Soul and to share it with the world. She presents this collection of spiritual, emotionally evocative poetry that draws you into the inner world of life, love, and discovery based upon Yosipa’s life experiences.

Who am I? When you are able to answer this timeless question, you are ready to truly become one with God. Now you have the keys to transform your life into a journey of peace, success, and adventure. Freespirit offers skills, insights, and inspirations aimed at sweeping you along on a life-changing journey to profound personal understanding. God is not an outside entity you should bow down to or fear; God is a part of you. This guide provides many valuable and powerful lessons, including ways to ΓÇó become one with God (or Consciousness);ΓÇó understand your true purpose; ΓÇó comprehend the value of your life;ΓÇó transform negative situations, beliefs, and conditioning into journeys of light, peace, success, and adventure; andΓÇó appreciate the healing powers of affirmation and meditation. Within these provocative life lessons-and more-are the doorways to understanding. Once you learn how to trust that everything happens for a reason, you can raise your awareness as you trudge through even the harshest lessons. The world is what you believe it to be, so why believe in anything but the best for yourself and your loved ones? Life is a journey of growth and expansion. Are you ready to live your life with joy?

Winsome Smith loves a good story and loves sharing one even more. The author of eleven books and countless short stories and poems, she shares some of her favorites in Tales the Laundress Told. Her tales deal with the realities and fantasies of the imagination, human and otherwise. With honesty and compassion, she writes of the strange experience of growing up. • She takes the reader back to ancient Athens, to tell the story of a well-to-do young girl’s rebellion. • We meet a garrulous ironing lady who shares her domestic wisdom. • An earnest (and bossy) daughter of a minister has a few ideas of her own to share. • She recounts the touching tale of a son who learns that he really does have the courage he needs. • In a freefall flight of fancy, she introduces her readers to a young man with ambitions to study a distant planet known as Earth. • Everyone who knows her wonders what on earth could have made a very serious mother get the giggles. • A young girl boasts that she is ready for anything—but can she handle the challenge at hand? These characters—and more—await you in Tales the Laundress Told.

Diet starts tomorrow. Those three words come out of our mouths more often that we would like. Ruby is fed up with constantly dieting, focusing on losing a large amount of weight, just to look good and get into a pair of skinny jeans. Finally, with the decision of wanting to be healthy, Ruby begins sessions with Crystal-a healthy lifestyle coach. The sessions with Crystal prove to Ruby that there is more to becoming healthy than walking away with a menu plan to follow and weekly weigh-ins. She discovers it has more to do with embracing the path of a healthy lifestyle and what goes on in her mind while she is progressing through it. Follow Ruby on her journey to living a new, healthy lifestyle. Along the way, she learns how important it is to love and respect herself as well as discovering what she is capable of, and how all of this is more important than the number on a set of scales or on the label of that little black dress. You never know, Ruby may just motivate you to do the same for yourself.

Memoirs from a Stormy Passage shares the story of author Mandy Innis’s life with her son, Storm, describing a passage of her life that brought great pain but also great joy. After years of wanting a child and three failed in vitro fertilization attempts, she managed to naturally conceive and give birth to a son. After three precious months of happiness at the long-anticipated gift of Storm, Mandy and her husband faced devastating heartbreak when they learned their son was blind. But before she could adjust to her son’s blindness, more medical conditions were diagnosed, all in the midst of their disintegrating marriage. Even so, Mandy didn’t allow herself to wallow in self-pity, as her maternal instincts demanded that she step up to the challenge of doing what was best for her son. An inner knowledge told her there would be worse to come, and her son would need as much help as she could give. Storm was blind, the only word he could say was mum, and he couldn’t walk unaided because his legs were failing him. Even so, he loved unconditionally, laughed loudly and showed Mandy how to live in the moment, to stop and listen. She now shares their story, as well as the ways in which a small, semi-rural town welcomed them, supported Mandy in her endeavour to help her son, and brought happiness to mother and child.

This book is for everyone from any background or who holds any type of beliefs. This book is designed to show you your connection to love and how to master your consciousness by allowing yourself to be limitless. Many people are not equipped with the knowledge that you have complete creative control over everything you wish to experience here on earth. You can create any love story for your life that you have ever dreamed of. Expansion is every human being''s deepest desire; you will always expand whether you consciously choose to or not. To expand on a daily basis is to consciously make choices that bring out a positive emotional reaction in you. Interestingly we are meant to feel the feeling of being in love every day. Be in love with the day-to-day love story you are writing. Love consciousness is an understanding that it is you who is the love story!

 Going! Going! Gone!This is a travel story with a difference.A tale of misadventure, should SHE have a name, and wonder. It is a short story about life and the difficult art of navigating its trails.Those who for different reasons find that life sends them down a path unknown or dare wonder what it is all about if anything at all. This is that sort of story.The writer did, and still does wonder.Is that an issue, only for those who have not asked the question the author thinks.Readers can peruse this tale and make their own decisions about such deep and ponderous notions.And for those who think they are lost and alone in the world, it is full of others just like you.Remember then, you are not alone.Chance and opportunity bring like persons into contact, and as such what seems to those unfamiliar a lonesome path is abundant with those who tread its boards.This is the story of one of those many.

Karen''s quick and easy-to-follow guide is for the busy woman who wants more positive relationships, weight loss, and more money. She received her wakeup call when she found herself at the lowest point of her life during her divorce. Everything in Karen''s life seemed to be in a mess, namely her relationships, weight, and money. Karen thought that surely life was not meant to be so difficult. So she started to search for some answers to her questions such as: ΓÇó Why do I attract the same type of relationships? ΓÇó How do I attract positive relationships? ΓÇó How do I lose weight and keep it off? ΓÇó How can I have more money and support my children? ΓÇó How can I live the type of lifestyle I want to lead? ΓÇó How can I be HAPPIER?Karen read a variety of books, and each author helped her to fine tune her life-changing strategies. She found out through personal trial and error what worked and what did not work to improve her relationships, weight, and money. When Karen looked around, she saw that many of her friends had to deal with similar issues. In fact, many women were struggling to deal with their relationships, weight, and money. Karen started to help other women and found the experience was extremely rewarding. So she then decided to write this book so she could draw from her own experience to help more people. Karen details the strategies she has learnt to help lead a happier life. She knows how busy women are, so she has written an easy, step-by-step guidebook which will show you the strategies to make positive changes in your life.

Do you feel out of focus? Do you wish you could cleanse all the negative, toxic energy from your life? Do you long to know how to purify yourself, body, soul, and spirit? Do you want to know how to invite powerful spiritual beings into your life? Do you want to experience a profound state of serenity? Do you yearn for more strength and vitality?For the first time, spiritual teacher, naturopath, and herbalist Jennifer Bailey shares her gentle and natural approach to self-healing. She explains how you can invite the powerful healing energies from high levels of the solar system, channelled through the herbs in your garden, for your own use. You can bring the archangels and fairy kings and queens into your daily life.Through these amazing techniques, you can learn how to:ΓÇó cleanse your meridians;ΓÇó restore your crystal grid;ΓÇó remove unhealthy blocks;ΓÇó improve your strength;ΓÇó feel more vitalised;ΓÇó awaken your spiritual power;ΓÇó unleash the power of herbs and plants; andΓÇó enjoy increased health.Once you know how to quickly bring in high beings associated to each colour for everyday use, you can improve your focus, communication, strength, vitality, balance, calmness, and harmony."An incredible read, guiding the beginner into initiation and offering valuable insights and practical exercises for all those who are passionate to take the next step."-Emi Jackson, Reiki practitioner, and massage therapist, Oceania Healing Centre.

You Are Already There YOU CAN NEVER BE ANYWHERE ELSE There are so many chasing this so-called enlightenment, when all along they are already there, but because this is too simple they just don''t want to believe it. They are after something harder, something that makes them feel they have deserved this reward of enlightenment. This is my story of my own inner experience in this so-called enlightenment. I have shared what I disappeared into and came out laughing-because I have realised that this so-called enlightenment is simply who we all are; we are there, we have always been there, and we can be nowhere else but there. I''ll share with you my own experience and what brought me to this experience of so-called enlightenment and how you can also experience what I and many more have experienced. You will learn that there is no big deal to this experience, and it''s so simple that you will be laughing at how simple it is, and you may wonder why you never realised this before. It''s all fun, so don''t take anything I say seriously. In fact, never take anything seriously about enlightenment. After all, You Are Already There.

To avoid an early and painful, potent termination of my enraged procedure to remove the manhole cover of this disgraceful sewer which penetrates and permeates human societies, human families, members that are our precious, precocious infants -to our treasured, dignity-seeking elderly-I am writing this under the nom de plume, "Bartholomew Identity." Also, to avoid avertable legitimate legal repercussions, unless I am quoting from another source (which will be always perceptible by my use of distinct references and the appropriate punctuation), never will I mention even one sole human person''s name in relation to the burden I have endured and sought succor for via Western medical practitioners since 1964 and needed (actually) since I was very young. At the regular "sanctioned-doctors only" conventions held at diverse, global, extravagant venues, do those wealthy members beam out there each time with the excited catchphrase mantra: "The only thing that stops a tired guy with a ''depressed'' (actually this simply means dispirited, downcast) appearance is a medical guy with a prescription for antidepressants?" The scenario, which I am in this booklet depicting, was once my prevailing, appalling reality; however I know that I am not a sole victim; thus my hideous internment had not been unique! This type of incarceration by the effect of antidepressants (which is often almost laughingly, nearly callously, verbally mitigated by the delivery of the terminology "side effects") has been a legally enacted operant of medical professionals at least since the first known use of even the word "antidepressant" -in 1961.

There are several experiences that gradually start looking like pearls, held together by a string that is practically... the untouchable! There are several developments, which can be classed as successes. On the other hand, there are failures, despite all the good will and effort. In the mix of things, it becomes imperative to make peace with... the untouchable! Based on our nature, nurture, and circumstances... we gradually figure out our formula to keep afloat... the Mantra! For many years I have been having a glass of warm water with honey and lemon in the morning, as suggested by many for good health. Generally I am more comfortable in outdoors than indoors. Going for a walk stimulates me at many levels. For me it’s all part of... the Mantra! Few days back, I was grating radish. The grater was not the best. It occurred to me that a slightly different design would do better. On a casual visit to the shops that afternoon, I happened to come across a grater, just of the right design! Several events of such precision, often point me to... the cosmic dance! Our world is held together by friction. Every part of our journey from womb to tomb, every step we take, every garment we put on, every note we write... rely on friction! This necessary evil called friction that also gives plenty of headache and heartache, is an integral part of... the cosmic dance! This book is an effort to touch... the untouchable, decipher... the Mantra to help us all participate in the... the cosmic dance!

Lucia was in awe of her new afterlife in the heavenly realms. Serapha, her mother in the family of Light, has prepared her for her new experience on Earth and instructed her on her responsibilities as an ancient soul in new flesh. She is now ready to return to Earth with a pure understanding of how her actions impact others, for better or worse. Joined forever with her spirit brother, David, they are ready to do their part. Each is humbled and exhilarated for what is to come next: a new life, in a newborn''s body, back on Earth. As they struggle to adjust to their new reality, with all of its pleasure and pain, delight and despair, and love and fear, they find comfort in the knowledge that they are truly serving the Creator, the God/Goddess/All That Is. They know that they are both guided and guarded by a host of angels and that they are bound to service to this higher purpose. Armed with the gift of free will, Lucia and David must now make a crucial decision: Will they choose, of their own volition, to risk their sacred journey to help bring the Light to their fellow travelers and remind them of their own heritage-or will they make a different choice?

When you finally decide to empower yourself, you can live to your fullest potentials. Your birth was no accident. You chose to be here, in this time, to experience something new, because your soul wants you to know why you are here. INSPIRED VERSES-NEW WISDOM contains a message that can help your life in many ways. The guidance is here to show you that the change you want in your life is more visible. There is nothing you cannot accomplish once you have set your intention and focus upon it. Whatever you are drawn to is because the Law of Attraction has come into play. Knowing there are no wrong answers will always lead you to learn something new about yourself and whomever you wish to be. Be guided in your highest good, and know everything that comes to you is because you have asked for it!"Inspired Verses-New Wisdom is simply a treasure! Every page provides insight and gentle guidance. The messages I need to know appear no matter which page I turn to! This book is full of love and light and will take you on a deeper journey to your truest self. Spirit will show you what is in your greatest and highest good." -Indigo SkyeHawk.

Author John Edmonds was given something very few were given: insight on the day he died. For the twenty-five minutes when his physical body was without a heartbeat, his spiritual self soared to a great and profound epiphany. On this impossible journey, he was given a glimpse into a greater truth as he learned of his thirty-three previous incarnations on this earth. Among his past lives, he was an Inuit kinsman, a father, a doctor, a seafarer, an ancient pagan chieftain, and a monk. He was allowed to revisit a former life in which he and Jesus Christ, his dearest soul brother, lived in a town called Bethany. There, they shared in His love and wisdom. At night, as the blazing winter fires burned, they partook of the Divine. John and his sisters clothed Him, bathed Him, and anointed His feet. In return, He saved them in every possible way. Their hearts were torn to learn of His great suffering. He was the One, the Messiah. He was Christ Jesus, and He was John''s dearest friend. These are John''s tales of a past life spent in the blessed company of Christ Jesus, his brother, his flesh, and his blood-his very personal recollection of an extraordinary friendship and love. It chronicles an epic journey from ancient times to the present day, a journey far beyond the realm of the living. This is the story of his fascinating and compelling nonphysical experience and the instruction he received during his time on the other side. His is an astonishing tale of survival, courage, revelation, and inconceivable willpower.

"Here''s some pidgin, Mick," and Garrick spoke rapidly. "Who been dat pella? Where him been prom? You been subby him? Him been talk punny way, ay? Him been kardiya bloke.""What?" Mick shook his head quickly."I said, ''who is that man? Where is he from? Do you know him? Doesn''t he talk in a strange way? He''s a stranger in this place''."It''s 2017. Mick Wilson''s wife has taken off from Adelaide with a long-haul truck-driver and Mick''s two little kids. In an attempt to find his family, Mick, a brick-layer and former top-level Australian Rules footballer, blindly heads for Alice Springs.In Central Australia, where many people go to hide from their past, Mick finds a different and challenging world. He stumbles into work on a remote cattle station, with an Aboriginal community close by. He also finds three very different women who shape his destiny.Racial tensions, tangled personal relationships, a mysterious mountain range and a struggling Aboriginal community and football team force Mick to become part of a strange new world and way of being. Across a cultural divide, new understandings emerge in the most unlikely ways.Through it all, Mick searches and aches for his kids, but because of the people he comes to know, he''s never alone.

Daniel Spencer lives a charmed life in his hometown of Broken Hill, Australia. He enjoys the support and friendship of his large extended family, the satisfaction of a high-paying job, and the love of Amy, his wonderful girlfriend. As he prepares to propose, he knows that his life will change in ways he could never imagine. He has no idea how right he is.At a family gathering, Daniel proposes, and Amy says yes-only to watch his world shatter as masked gunmen murder every member of his family in front of him, including his new fiancée. Even though he alone escapes with his life, something else has died in him-and something else is born in its place. Now Daniel must decide just how far he will go to avenge his lost family, his lost future, his lost love. In Broken Hill, things are no longer as they seem. The night hides darker secrets than most can imagine. When night drowns the city, hell comes out to play. What will emerge from the cracks in the earth to drag the light and life from the residents of this once-peaceful town? Welcome to Broken Hill.

Are you happy with your life? At one time or another, every one of us has gone through a dark time as we struggle with our relationships, sense of purpose, finances, or health. It''s part of being human. This guide shares some of the best secrets, strategies, and tips that Kerry , the founder of Blossom Body & Soul, a qualified homeopath and holistic counsellor with a successful practice in Perth, Australia, has successfully used and has shared with her clients. These insights can help you to create a life you can truly love. Do you realise that you control your destiny? Do you understand that you can create a life you love? Do you know that you can make your dreams come true?By using the keys contained within and adopting these simple practices, you can immediately begin to create and live a life you love. Incorporate these healthy and loving new strategies, and you may soon begin to see a new life emerge. Welcome to your new world!

My Spirit Is Like the Eagle begins with a poem sharing its title with the book. The central image of the poet as an eagle provides a unique introduction to the variety of themes in this poetry collection. Some verses soar high above the landscape, while others swoop down from the heights to grasp the small gestures that make up daily life. Poet Roy Forrester has Parkinson''s disease, and it has changed his world dramatically. What began as a poem to his wife expressing his love for her has turned into a dynamic collection of poetry on many different topics, from love and passion to humour. He also writes of the frustrations he encounters with his disease. This debut poetry collection represents the end of a long journey for Forrester, and he invites you to join him in considering that journey. My spirit is like the eagle. It is an illusion that I am bound to this earth by an aging body. It is an illusion, as is life itself. It is an illusion that this existence is finite. My spirit is like the eagle. I, too, scan the earth below, and though I search for sustenance, sustenance for my soul, it is the beauty of the journey which fulfils me. -from "My Spirit Is Like the Eagle"

Oliver thought he was just an average fellow, living an ordinary life. In the twilight days of a dystopian society, Oliver is just trying to make it through the day before it all falls apart. But when he crosses the border of life and death, his simple life – and that of every man, woman and child – takes on a whole new perspective.Desperate and alone, all he wants is to find the gateway back to his world. But evil is everywhere, and has its own plans for Oliver. Deep within the city, an unknown force is amassing a great legion for a dark purpose. At some point, these two will meet – and only one can enter the gateway.Oliver enlists the help of some odd travelling companions, including Alison, a woman who could be his sister, and the wild and enigmatic Towel, a small girl who is wise beyond her apparent years. Together they must embark upon an epic journey, one that will bring them face to face with what it means to be human.Souls of the living past are at war, causing the world to spiral towards an impending cataclysm that may bring life and death together for eternity. Will there be an end of graves for us all?

Freedom is a choice. And it’s our right. Many of us live in free and democratic nations, yet hold ourselves captive within the limited perception created by our beliefs. Freedom is a divine gift from our creator, but it is one that many are unable to embrace because of the limitations we’ve placed on the human experience. Walking in a New Light details a spiritual journey toward a less restricted life. Wisdom and insights revealed in the course of a genuine search provide the key to releasing mysteries previously hidden. Th rough changes in perception come the much-needed changes in reality. This story, which allows the reader to enter the unique and troubling circumstances of another through the mindful art of journaling, provides lessons and opportunities to promote growth and understanding. Here is proof that a willing heart that seeks healing and change for self first has the potential to heal many, and can therefore create the change we all wish to see. We all experience life as a journey, but when we become aware of our own potential, power and purpose, we have an opportunity to create the circumstances that make for a kinder and more beautiful existence. Walking as one, we become one. This union unlocks the door that holds us captive, and reveals the true meaning of freedom and peace.

These poems shine light on one individual''s inner journey along the path of life. There is no "to-do" list here, just gentle pointings to what can be found when thinking ... stops.We all have experienced this spaciousness from time to time, often while watching a beautiful sunset or a butterfly in flight. It is these ephemeral moments that these poems were born, and it the celebration of these moments that fire the imagination of both the poet and the reader.Join the poet Spirit Finder on a physical and emotional journey to the heart of the moment, that magical place and time where the spirit lives. Her experiences reveal that these moments of grounded-ness-that many would describe as empty-are actually amazingly full.... And I am entwined.Impossible to disentangle,from this That is me at its core.My total attention,and every breath is breathing for this.This fire of purity and bliss.-from "Deeper and Deeper It Pulls"... No one noticed this holy man,who came forward with his begging bowl outstretched.She looked up at the man with dreadlocks,numbed by the quiet of this renunciate in the crowd,and found his silence deafening. ...-from "The Sound of Silence"

Have you ever wanted to travel the King''s Highway in Jordan and walk down the famous Siq Gorge to the ancient city of Petra? Or wanted to spend an Orthodox Christmas in Bethlehem? Wondered how you would feel if stuck with a flat tyre in the middle of the Sudanese desert at sunrise? Or pondered about the Call to Prayer as it echoes repeatedly across Istanbul at sunset? Have you ever wondered how so many people live and survive in the Middle East without the rules and regulations of Australian building, working, and plumbing?Meet Shazam the Jordanian taxi driver, the boys in the Sea of Shoeshine, Mr Ali and his famous Green Door Pizza in Jerusalem, Russell from Noosa, and the Great Paperweights of Giza as you travel on a journey of adventure, mishaps, revelations, architectural wonders, and lack of plumbing, though Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey. And don''t forget the Cats of Istanbul, the Cairo Cat Shop, and Camel School and the Art of Haggling .In 1997, architect MahalathHalperin, together with her colleague and his wife, Peter and Pauline Buckwell, spent four crazy weeks travelling by plane, train, and automobile throughout the Middle East on a journey to discover architecture, culture, and of course, plumbing. And they found lots of cats along the way. This is the story of that adventure.

If you have ever wondered why you ΓÇó gain weight ΓÇó lack energy ΓÇó retain fluid ΓÇó get headaches ΓÇó lack mental clarity ΓÇó suffer from digestive problems ΓÇó have joint stiffness ----and what to do about it---- Then your problems could be food related. This may be the book you need. "I love Caroline Sutherland''s easy and delicious recipes. Her information totally inspired me to lose 50 pounds and, thanks to my newfound energy and mental clarity. I am really enjoying live." -Barbara C., Los Angeles, California "I will always be grateful to Caroline Sutherland for her guidance and refinement of food choices. In order to stay very healthy and have lots of energy, I grow my own food and I am very aware of the foods that are right for me." -Louise Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life