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The Healthy Navajo K'é Podcast is supported by Diné College, Northern Arizona University, and Arizona Department of Health Services. The podcast shares information and resources on Navajo infant, child, adolescent, maternal and overall family health.
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Committed to a mental hospital against her will for something she claims she did not do, Cassie O'Malley signs herself out against medical advice when she turns eighteen and tries to start over at college, until her estranged mother appears, throwing everything Cassie believes about herself into question.
602) The missing
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Maggie is a young plainswoman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily is kidnapped by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father offers to help find her. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance, father and daughter set out to track...
603) See what I have done
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"See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt's "eerie and compelling" (Paula Hawkins) debut novel, is a wholly unique reimagining of the infamous true story of Lizzie Borden, who gained celebrity status after being tried and acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother. On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden calls out to the maid: Someone's killed father. The brutal axe-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in their house in Fall River, Massachusetts...
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"In this richly depicted story, told in vignettes relative to markers of age and experience, Patricia Eagle reveals the heartbreak and destruction of her sexual abuse, from age four to thirteen, by her father. A victim of her father's anger and her mother's complacency with his abusive behavior, Eagle uses dissociation and numbing in response to the abuse, and as a way to block her own sense of self. How does a child confused by episodes of abuse...
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Acute trauma and addictive disorders are often a result of psychological injuries experienced as a child while typically producing long-term and harmful generational consequences on loved ones and other family members. Claudia Black presents a portrait of a broken family system, exploring how addiction and trauma develop in families, their damaging repetition, and offers a roadmap for healing.
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Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home. Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year's Day and instantly recognizes Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the course, Archie said: 'the biscuits'. Social workers...
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"Dad, you will never meet your grandson."
These are the words that opened David Koll's soul to a world of anguish. Denial provided a soothing escape for a time, but eventually reality set in: His estranged relationship with his daughter was indeed going to keep him from meeting his cherished first grandson. David begins to write letters to the grandson he'll never meet in the hopes of one day establishing some sort of connection.
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Dancing into the Light is a heartwarming memoir that captures one woman's transformative journey of self-discovery by making peace with a family at once extremely dysfunctional, yet oddly endearing. As a child, her troubling interaction with her depressed mother coexisted with the affection she held for her happy-go-lucky father. With little guidance from either parent, Arlyn was left to fend for herself.
A series of fateful events, from taking off...
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In this revised and updated edition of Repeat After Me, Dr. Claudia Black's revolutionary self-help workbook, readers are provided with a step-by-step framework and a guide that takes them through a process to recognize how present challenges are influenced by growing up in a troubled family system, release the parts of the past they wish to leave behind, and take greater responsibility for how they live today.
610) Lobster Boy
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Fred Rosen researches the shocking true story behind the murder of Lobster Boy - and finds his own life at risk. In his account of the sensational life and murder of Grady Stiles Jr., also known as the legendary carnival "freak" Lobster Boy, author Fred Rosen explains how Stiles's death was engineered by his wife, Mary Teresa, the carny known as the Electrified Girl. Rosen describes how Mary Teresa arranged for her husband's murder after years of...
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Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home.
Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year's Day and instantly recognises Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the course, Archie said: 'the biscuits'.
Social workers...
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Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home.
Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year's Day and instantly recognises Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the course, Archie said: 'the biscuits'.
Social workers...
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On a bus trip to a Catskill Mountain ashram, Rifka Kreiter recollects her past as she travels to meet Swamiji, another new guru on the scene in the bustling spiritual marketplace of 1976. Memories abound of an eventful childhood with an unstable mother on New York's Upper West Side and in LA, of dancing the Twist at Manhattan's Peppermint Lounge, and of sitting in against the war-as well as getting tear-gassed in Mississippi, surviving broken love...
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Un témoignage bouleversant sur les horreurs de l'inceste et de la pédophilie
Ce livre autobiographique relate la jeunesse d'une enfant que le hasard de la naissance a menée au bout de l'horreur mais que la soif de vivre a tirée du néant. Ce témoignage bouleversant illustre la capacité de résilience d'une petite fille maltraitée par ses parents, placée dans un orphelinat et qui connaîtra l'horreur de l'inceste et de la pédophilie. Le réseau...
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In “Running Away from Home”, Tracy Burger explores her lifelong dispassionate relationship with her mother; why she couldn't connect with her mom during the last five years of her life and her desperate need to please her.
Many of us who grew up in the seventies saw the perfect home exemplified on afternoon TV reruns. Supportive mothers rendered a stable presence, empathizing with their children while providing the required safety net for their...
616) Call Me Nikki
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From victim to survivor to warrior-Nikki Navarro's compelling story of overcoming adversity and generational trauma to discover the strength and power of her life. "This raw, heartfelt memoir provides an authentic voice for survivors that rejects platitudes and instead delivers difficult conversations on the impact of abuse. An engrossing, often gut-wrenching portrayal of abuse that offers a path to healing."-Kirkus Reviews "When you rise above the...
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Jackie, born of medical missionaries in China during World War II,
rejected her connection to her birth country growing up because it made
her different.
A return to China with her parents in 1980,
however, is life-changing. After always having known her mother as
distant and emotionally abusive, she is stunned to see a loving side to
her for the first time-and pleasantly surprised by the affinity she
feels for her birth country.
These revelations...
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There is one proven method for happier kids, more involved dads, and less stressed-out moms after divorce-50/50 custody
It's hard for everyone when parents split up-but the end of living together doesn't need to mean the end of a functional family. Part of the reason divorces are so traumatic for the kids involved is because of our child custody system, which truly sets everyone up for failure. Throughout the country, the default arrangement is...
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Four young children caught between love and hate-hostages to the cruelty of revenge. A deceitful American father and a naïve decision by a Filipino mother transformed their lives forever.
Valorie, Veronica, Vance, and Vincent's perfect world turned into a nightmare one hot afternoon in 1959 in Cebu, Philippines. What was to be a quick lunch with their father turned into a flight to America, where four dreadfully long years of running from state...
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