How to Live Between Office Visits: A Guide to Life, Love and Health

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Helpful and heart warming

Bernie Hits a Homer Again

Many fine ideas ....

Best book I ever read, and I read every day!!!

How to Live Between Office Visits: A Guide to Life, Love and Health
Bernie S. Siegel
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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In this compassionate and powerful healing guide, Dr. Bernie Siegel, the author of the triumphant bestsellers Love, Medicine & Miracles and Peace, Love & Healing, provides readers with healthy ways to respond to life's adversities.

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Helpful and heart warming.......2007-07-13

Helpful and heart warming, Dr. Bernie does it again. Very inspiring at a time when inspiration is what one needs most.

Diane L. Donohue

Bernie Hits a Homer Again.......2006-03-19

I think I have every one of Dr. Bernie Siegel's books. I started in 1990 when I was diagnosed with cancer and needed some support and information. I have recently returned to them again due to a heart attack. Bernie is the most compassionate doctor I have ever encountered. He understands the connection between mind, body, and emotions thoroughly and offers concrete suggestions for making life better no matter what physical ailments may assail you.

His other books dealt heavily with getting what you need when hospitalized and from your doctor and other medical staff. This book focuses on simply living life to the fullest, as he says, "between office visits". It is a wonderfully uplifting and encouraging book and I highly recommend it to anyone: patient, loved one, medical staff, and general public. I believe there is something in it for everyone.

Many fine ideas ...........2000-02-26

That apply to living, not just death . . . very inspirational . . . and uplifiting . . . I recommend it strongly.

Best book I ever read, and I read every day!!!.......1998-05-03

The book in a very loving way tells you how to live, instead of just existing, with a disease or chronic illness.

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" Reach for tomorrow "
Best book ever!
WoW.....greatest book!
Reach for Another Day
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reach for Tomorrow (One Last Wish)
Lurlene Mcdaniel
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
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ASIN: 0553571095
Release Date: 1999-07-13

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Katie O'Roark is thrilled to learn that Jenny House is being rebuilt. After the fire last year, Katie thought she could never return to the camp, where she spent the summers with teens like her who faced medical odds stacked against them. But thanks to Richard Holloway's efforts, Katie and her longtime friends Lacey and Chelsea will work as counselors once again. They'll be joined by Megan, Morgan, and Eric, who are newcomers to Jenny House but who have experienced the generosity of One Last Wish Foundation.

It's not until Katie arrives at camp that she discovers that Josh Martel, her former boyfriend, is also a counselor. Being near Josh again brings back a flood of old emotions for Katie. And when Josh confronts unexpected adversity, Katie knows she has to work out her feelings for him. Through the heart transplant she underwent years ago, Katie miraculously received a gift of new life. Now she must discover how to make the most of that precious gift and choose her future.

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" Reach for tomorrow ".......2007-03-23

Have you ever wanted to read a good romance with a little tragdey mixed in that will knock your socks off? Well, "Reach for Tomorrow " will by Lurlene McDaniel does just that. The main character in this book is Katie O'Roark. Katie is a college student with an athletic scholarship. She has recentally had a heart transplant.Which has changed her life dramatically.During her summers she attends the Jenny House.The Jenny House is a camp for kids with medical problems to go relax and meet people with the same problems. One summer Katie recieved a letter from The Jenny House. She was thrilled to know she was choosen to be a counselor. Along with some of her friend from the former years she has attened The Jenny House. Last year The Jenny House was burned dwom due to a fire. Katie was excited to know it was being rebuilt. Katie's ex-boyfreind, Josh Martel also is going to be a counselor. Being around Josh brings back so many memories and emothions that Katie just can't handle.

This book revels flashback and realistic detail. Some of the flashbacks that are mentioned are of when Katie was in the hospital and when her and Josh was still together.The realistic detail is amazing. For example, when Eric and Meg go for a canoe ride together the author gives details on everyhting surrounding then and what they do exactly. Also, the author uses a lot of humor in the book. Such as whe nthey have a tug-a-war challenge and the girls lose.They get pulled into a mudd puddle and Lacey says, " I've always wandered what i'd look like as a brunette.

This book is a really good book to read. When I started reading this book I didn't want to put it down. It shows realationships and friendships. If I had'nt read this book and someone had just told me about it I would read it in a heartbeat. That says a lot because i'm not one to read that much. So therefore, this book is a great book for romance and tradgey.

Best book ever!.......2006-09-06

I really loved thsi book. Especially how all the characters from the other stories get together. The scenes with Josh and Katie were heart-breaking and wonderful at the same time. And if you want to know what ahppens between Katie and Josh once the summer's over, you gotta read this book!

WoW.....greatest book!.......2004-04-21

Ok.....i have read all of the One Last Wish books and this one by far is the greatest!! Katie and Josh's ending was fantastic...i think Lurlene McDaniel should write more of the OLW books about Katie and Josh's future together...and Lacey and Jeff and Meg and Morgan. The book does leave you at a loss with what happend to Meg and Morgan, Jeff and Lacey, Eric, and Chelsea..it would be great to find out what happens to eveyone. I loved all of the other OLW books too! I couldn't put any of these books down they were great. And Lurlene McDaniel should defiantly write more books about OLW and Jenny House!!!

Reach for Another Day.......2004-01-30

I really like romance novels. The way Lurlene McDaniel explains the character's emotions is unbeliveable! My favorite book by Lurene McDaniel is "Reach for Tomorrow," the second in this McDaniel series. It is about a girl named Katie and she goes to a camp where sick kids go to have fun. Katie meets up with a bunch of friends including her ex-boyfriend,Josh. When they saw eachother, they freaked out. Then she found out that he has been in an accadent and they didn't know if he was going to live. She and all the campers are all worried. She goes down to the chapel and prays for him. A couple of weeks later they got married in the chapel. Katie's favorite camper,Sara, was supposed to be in the wedding but....If you want to know what happens, read "Reach for Tomarrow." I really like the book "Telling Christina Goodbye," also by Lurlene McDaniel.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2002-08-15

in my opinion, Reach For Tomorrow is Lurlene McDaniel's best book.It was great how she put in Eric, Megan, Sarah, and Morgan from the other one last wish books. The only OWL character missing was Dani from Mourning Song. I hope Lurlene writes a sequel that describes what happens to Josh and katie now that they're married, if meg and morgan stay together, and what happens to the other characters. YOU GOTTA READ ABOUT THIS FABULOUS JENNY HOUSE REUNION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Sick: A Smoldering Look at Love, Lust, and Marriage

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Confusing, a little humorous, mostly a waste
Another Pop ink triumph
Love Sick: A Smoldering Look at Love, Lust, and Marriage

Love Sick: A Smoldering Look at Love, Lust, and Marriage
Michael J. Nelson
Manufacturer: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
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ASIN: 0810957906

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From the bodice-busting covers of Harlequin romances to personal ads to wedding cake toppers, romantic subjects have thrived in the fertile soil of American modern-age media and pop culture. Brought to Abrams by the creators of the successful Happy Kitty Bunny Pony: A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute, Love Sick celebrates the many facets of love: dating, marriage, heartbreak, sex, and strange, thin men in shorts with funny socks!

Containing more than 200 images from the print and advertising archives of Charles S. Anderson Design Company in combination with a sharply hilarious text by Michael J. Nelson, the main writer and host of the legendary Mystery Science Theater 3000, Love Sick is a steamy, kitsch, and campy testament to America's love of LOVE. So grab a cozy spot by the fire, snuggle up with the one you love, and see if either of you recognizes yourself in Love Sick.

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Confusing, a little humorous, mostly a waste.......2007-08-08

Mike Nelson is a comic genius, clearly, but this book is sort of unsalvageable. If this was a book of actual images and objects that have been created and used about "love, lust and marriage" and then Mike were to write comments on each of them, that would be a good book, it would be interesting, and significant and maybe even insightful. But as far as I can tell, that's not even what the book is, it seems that it's a bunch of random images created by a company (popart?), not over the course of the last century, as the book seems to imply, but over the last few decades, and the objects were created, apparently, as parodies of real pieces of media, and now the book makes fun of these parodies, which were never even intended to be serious, originally. It's complicated, but mostly it's not very good. The paper is good, the binding is good, the quality is fine, and the (very short) mike nelson comments are good, but this book could be made into an amusing flashplayer webpage, and really probably should be. If you need the complete Mike Nelson collection, though, you should buy it.

Another Pop ink triumph.......2006-10-12

I was worried I wouldn't like this one as much as "Happy Kitty Bunny Pony", but I think I might even like it more. The artwork is gorgeous (and bizarre at times) and funny in its own right, but Mike's comments send it over the edge into pure hilarity. While it may not have the let's-all-pass-it-around-and-laugh potential of HKBP, it's well worth the purchase price. Of the 3 Pop ink-Mike Nelson books I've read, I think this one has the best writing and the art is as good as HKBP.

Love Sick: A Smoldering Look at Love, Lust, and Marriage.......2005-10-24

Every page of this book is filled with extra sharp graphics, some never see before. A wonderful collection of designs, very bright, clean and well done. Love Sick has combined enjoyable humor with fine graphics (a few sleazy pics too) but all is in good fun for a cute look at a the smoldering look of Love, Lust and Marriage.

Love Sick was equally enjoyable as part of the trilogy of "Pop-Ink" graphic books: "Happy Kitty Bunny Pony" and "Goth-Icky" all in my estimation were well done. Enjoyable good fun! All books featured the best and sharpest graphic collection - the best I've ever seen.

Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction

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Interesting But Somehow Incomplete
This is a terrible book
Courageous and Compassionate
a courageous woman with an important message
Can't swallow the underlying assumption about the 12 step cure

Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction
Sue William Silverman
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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ASIN: 0393019578

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A deeply personal story of a woman's addiction to and recovery from the high of dangerous encounters. In this powerful, often lyrical memoir, a woman learns to value herself—as a whole person rather than as a sexual object. Recounting her past experiences as part of her journey toward recovery, Sue William Silverman explores her skewed belief that sex is love, a belief that began with her father's sexual abuse from early childhood into adolescence. She tells of college years in Boston, an early marriage in Galveston, and a roller-coaster life of sex and self-destructive behavior. Finally, having become addicted to danger itself, she hits bottom emotionally and spiritually. At this point, with the help of a trusted therapist, Silverman begins to discover the difference between the high of dangerous encounters and the more reliable promise of love. This utterly candid account may be the first book by a woman to examine sexual addiction. But the misguided search that became Silverman's life has resonance for other addictions, whether to food, drugs, alcohol, or work—anyone whose only satisfaction is now.

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Interesting But Somehow Incomplete.......2007-06-10

Sue William Silverman's LOVE SICK is the author's first person account of her experience as a sex addict. This book written by an amateur writer wanting to share her experiences could have been excruciating. Silverman, however, is clearly a professional author, and the book is written professionally. She presents her work in segments which alternate between the retelling of episodes from her years of sexual addiction and her rehab hospitalization, in her early 40s, as she finally makes an attempt to overcome her addiction and at the same time to save her life. I feel there are both positives and negatives in the book.

On the positive side, Silverman presents herself in an honest and open manner. This is commendable as it must have been very difficult to provide to a readership of strangers the truly painful details of most of her life; although it also seems to be a part of her recovery program.
Also, I gained a lot of understanding about sexual addiction, one of the most intersting points being that, according to Silverman, she and apparently many other addicts do not actually enjoy sex; rather the addiction seems to be more about the feeling that being able to attract someone sexually validates to the addict that he or she is attractive and worthwhile. And, I confess to some personal ignorance. I was never really sure that sexual addiction was actually a real phenomenon, having believed to a great extent that it was merely a convenient excuse used by people caught cheating on their significant others. After having read LOVE SICK I no longer doubt the reality of sexual addiction.

On the negative side, the writing, though professional as I mentioned, seems somewhat histrionic. I realize that this subject is highly and painfully emotional to Silverman, but from a reader's perspective I would have preferred a little less drama and more straight reporting, particularly in the segments dealing with the author's month in rehab. The parts of the book (probably two-thirds of it) which deal with Silverman's hospital experience become repetitive. I imagine that the days themselves of her stay were quite repetitve, but that does not translate particularly interestingly to a written account.

To summarize,I found this book, while informative and intersting at times, to be somewhat dramatically overblown at others; and it became repetitive enough that I skimmed the hospital scenes over the last half of the book. Not bad, not real good, 3 stars.

This is a terrible book.......2006-04-16

I usually do not write book reviews, but I thought it was important to add a review of this book so that other people don't waste their money. This is the worst book I have ever read on addiction. Basically, the author describes her pain regarding her sexual addiction and describes scenerios she encountered in detail. The book reads more like [...] than a self-help manual. If you are looking for a self-help text or a text to assist patients with this problem, this is definitely not the right text!!!!!

Courageous and Compassionate.......2005-09-15

Review of Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction by Sue William Silverman (Norton, 2001) Memoir. ISBN: 0-393-01957-8

What is sexual addiction? How does one recover from this addiction? Sue William Silverman answers these questions in her heartbreaking and heartwarming autobiography. Even if a reader does not experience an addiction of any kind, no time is wasted while reading the book because the prose is so expertly crafted.

In her first book Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, (University of Georgia Press, 1996) Sue William Silverman writes about the childhood sexual abuse she experienced. She had an incestuous father and a complicit mother. The tragedy of incest leaves any child feeling that she is unlovable, and the confusion that sex equals love. The incest was woven with the elements of secrecy, danger, and destruction. In Love Sick, Sue shows the reader how those elements became a blueprint for her relationships.

As with any addiction, sexual addiction is a narrow one-dimensional drive serving only to feed itself. Sue was starved for real love as a child, so she uses unhealthy behaviors to search for love; she literally does not know better because she was not shown unconditional care. In college, she is caught in an affair with an emotionally unavailable married man, who has a son her own age. She also meets (for sex) a random obscene phone caller who is a stranger. Incest leaves the victim with instinct askew, so Sue literally believes that this strange caller was meant to meet her to show her how loveable she really is. Sue later marries Andrew, and confesses: "I first had sex with Andrew while married to someone else." Andrew is unable to comprehend Sue's turmoil except in terms of how it affects her role as his wife. He says, "I'm tired of shouldering all the responsibility. She could at least try to get a job teaching..."

Sue's primary responsibility becomes recovery from childhood abuse and its ramifications. After trial and error therapy with ten counselors, Sue meets a therapist named Ted. He learns that Sue cannot will herself to stop seeing yet another married man, even while she is married to Andrew. Ted says, "Love doesn't result in sitting alone in motel rooms. Addiction results in sitting alone in motel rooms." Ted encourages Sue to enter a facility with a program for sex addicts. Sue learns that she is as much a predator (searching for love via sex) as she is a victim. She writes, "I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic." That sentence offers enlightening information regarding the vicious cycle of addictions. Sue offers the reader reasons to have compassion for those struggling with sexual addiction by giving us glimpses into the psyches of others in the facility. During the recovery program, Sue searches her soul for genuine feelings that are not in context with a man.

As an author and advocate, I read this book twice: once to become informed about sexual addiction (or any addiction) in reference to victims of abuse, and again for the creative writing that Sue William Silverman is so keenly able to craft.

a courageous woman with an important message.......2005-08-31

I stumbled upon this book by accident and am very glad I did. Even though I don't have this addiction that Sue Silverman describes, I still find it a fascinating account. For one thing, addiction, in general, is such a part of our culture, that Silverman is, in a way, describing more than "one woman's journey." She describes the way so many of us live addicted lives, regardless of the addiction. The book is also beautifully written. She's a real writer. She is also a role model, showing the way for how the rest of us might live more spiritually and more humanly. I hope many, many people read this compelling memoir.

Can't swallow the underlying assumption about the 12 step cure.......2005-08-24

Sorry, but I disagree with some of the other reviewers. I could not enjoy this book. If it were more explicit about the sex scenes, it might be successful erotica. But the sex is portrayed as being "bad" for the main character.

In order to appreciate her story, you have to first swallow the underlying assumption that the "12 step" method will work to cure a sexual "addiction." Fact is, this woman was sexually abused as a child, and that why she's been acting out sexually ever since.

She is incapable of sorting out manipulative sex from genuine love, so she ends up being a pawn to various men who desire her only for her body. The thing is, she LIKES sex with accquaintances, and finds her husband dull. How is that an "addiction?" I just can't "get" the whole confessional/penance-type mindset that is the basis for the treatment.

The characters at the treatment center are just as manipulative as those in the outside world. One of them, "Gabriel," uses his job to meet sexaholic women & gets himself fired. Ted, the therapist, is a bit unbelievable, considering he is so removed from human sexuality himself while at the same time so convinced of the guilt of his clients.

Reminds me somewhat of a modern day story of London's "Magdalen" hospital, which was a shelter for reformed prostitutes. In a time of great economic injustice, they were given food & shelter, in exchange for agreeing to cease their foul means of making a living.

The female character in "Love Sick" seems to have zero hobbies or personal interests besides lining up sexual affairs. She tries to deny her adult sexuality to please her therapist, yet can't stop herself from contacting men, who are like a drug to her. Ultimately, she realizes how "wrong" it is, and tries to reform in a humble spirit.

On the other hand, a secondary character is much spunkier and more rebellious, even leaving treatment for a time. I'm not saying that promiscuity is good - of course it's not - just that it seems illogical to shame women into denying their sexual feelings while failing to help them cope with past personal history of exploitive sex.

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My ReViEw!!!!!
LOVE IT!!!!!!!
Bobby's Girl
Just Beautiful
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How Do I Love Thee
Lurlene Mcdaniel
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
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ASIN: 0553571079
Release Date: 2002-12-24

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Though written more than a century ago, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s beautiful sonnet rings true today for three young couples who believe in the power of love.

In “Night Vision,” Brett finds a way to brighten a special girl’s lonely existence. “Bobby’s Girl” features Dana, who must choose between two brothers, both of whom she loves. “Laura’s Heart,” the third story, introduces 16-year-old Laura Carson, who is hospitalized on a regular basis because of her weak heart. But when tragedy strikes a loved one, she realizes her heart is stronger than she thought and that love lives on forever.

From the Hardcover edition.

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My ReViEw!!!!!.......2007-05-17

How Do I Love Thee was a great book. I enjoyed the descriptions of everything and it aloud me to visualise what was happeneing in the story. Also it made me thnik of real life problems and desieses that real people have to deal with in everyday life.And since it had three stories in one book i was always intertained during the whole book.That is my review of How Do I Love Thee.

LOVE IT!!!!!!!.......2007-02-11

Everyone seems to say that the third one was the worst, but I loved it! I have read almost every Lurlene Mcdaniel book out there, and the short story "Laura's Heart" is the best! I also love The first, but the second was a little predictable. If you love sad books, this book is for you!

Bobby's Girl.......2005-10-21

Bobby's Girl
By: Lurlene McDaniel

Bobby's Girl is the best book I've ever read. Lurlene McDaniel wrote this romantic, sad, and fictional story with a lot of detail and thought.
Dana and Bobby have been a couple for a while, but no one knew she is one of those millions of girls who fell for his athletic star older step-brother. Not even her best friend. She thought she wouldn't have to face both the brothers until the holidays, but the College Football Coach sends Steve home to the doctor because he is throwing way off. Steve is finds out he has terminal cancer and wants to spend time with the girl he loves before he dies, Dana. Neither of them want to hurt Bobby though. Bobby only has Dana because everyone loves his brother, like the girls, his dad, and the news reporters. The story usually takes place at Bobby's house and the hospital, around this time, and year round. Dana receives a necklace with a gold heart hanging down, embedded with a seed pearl, from Bobby for Christmas. She got a love-poem book from Steve for Dana to read when he's gone. Dana really wants to go to Julliard College with a piano scholarship, but never gets the scholarship. Steve has a stroke right before Bobby goes to a California College with a College scholarship for Cal-Tech.
Of course, not all books are perfect. Bobby's Girl has a few things I don't like as much as others. For instance, I don't like that Steve dies, Dana doesn't get a scholarship, and Bobby and Dana wont be seeing each other until the next summer. But, I do like more things then I hate, of course. I cant tell them all because some are about the end, but here are some of them: Dana goes to Julliard, Bobby and his father get closer after Steve's death, both brothers are on the news at one point in the story, and etc.
I defiantly recommend this book! I'd give it a 5 out of 5. And there isn't a certain age to read this book, but I would say it is probably best for teens and adults, because of the romance and sadness.
Lurlene McDaniel writes tons of great stories, but most are sad or romantic. They usually have deaths. But she is still my favorite author!

Just Beautiful.......2005-08-22

Lurlene McDaniel never ceases to capture the art of love and life in her books. These three stories are my favorites of all Lurlene McDaniel's books. They are very meaningful and share all that life gives, what with how wonderful it is. Not everything can be well received, though, but what you make of it could make a difference.
If this book doesn't make you cry, I don't know what would.

how do i love thee review.......2005-06-09

I think that this author did an amazing job with this book! There are three stories in this book. They are all connected with the peom called "How Do I Love Thee." I think it was a really good idea to connect the poems in the end of each story. All these stories are sad stories. In each story there is a character that has a deadly, genetic disease. The characters in this book suffer a horrible heartbreak. This book made me cry but I love it anyway. I hope people would read this book to understand the terrible diseases that some people suffer.

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The truth

Love Sick: Love as a Mental Illness
Frank Tallis
Manufacturer: Thunder's Mouth Press
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ASIN: 1560256478

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Obsessive thoughts, erratic mood swings, insomnia, loss of appetite, recurrent and persistent images and impulses, superstitious or ritualistic compulsions, delusion, the inability to concentrate—exhibiting just five or six of these symptoms is enough to merit a diagnosis of a major depressive episode. Yet we all subconsciously welcome these symptoms when we allow ourselves to fall in love. In Love Sick, Dr. Frank Tallis, a leading authority on obsessive disorders, considers our experiences and expressions of love, and why the combinations of pleasure and pain, ecstasy and despair, rapture and grief have come to characterize what we mean when we speak of falling in love. Tallis examines why the agony associated with romantic love continues to be such a popular subject for poets, philosophers, songwriters, and scientists, and questions just how healthy our attitudes are and whether there may in fact be more sane, less tortured ways to love. A highly informative exploration of how, throughout time, principally in the West, the symptoms of mental illness have been used to describe the state of being in love, this book offers an eloquent, thought-provoking, and endlessly illuminating look at one of the most important aspects of human behavior.

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The truth.......2006-12-02

Tallis writes on the biological and psychological truth on "romantic" love, even though most people don't want to hear it. This book is an academically sound work on the evolutionary psychology of humans and "romantic" love (that it's purpose is procreation and survival of the species). Procreation is so important for a species that that's why when we "fall in love", many basically act psychotic (obsessive thoughts, melancholy for un-returned love, etc). I can't wait to read his other works!

Love, Honor and Value: A Family Caregiver Speaks Out About the Choices and Challenges of Caregiving (Capital Cares)

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Permission To Live ( while caring for an aging parent )
A primer for families tending the ill and disabled
A Shot in the Arm
Perfect Resource for All Caregivers!

Love, Honor and Value: A Family Caregiver Speaks Out About the Choices and Challenges of Caregiving (Capital Cares)
Suzanne Geffen Mintz
Manufacturer: Capital Books
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ASIN: 1892123568

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"Family caregivers don’t go home at 5 or 6 o’clock. We are on duty 24 hours a day because this is something we care about," says author Suzanne Mintz. "Caregivers are literally underpinning the health care system. The value of the services we provide for ‘free’ is estimated to be $196 billion a year." But who helps them? Much has been written about the caregiver’s role in helping an ill or disabled person, but little has been said about the caregiver - how to care for yourself as you care for others. This message to caregivers addresses issues such as the impact of caregiving on caregivers, the four principles of Caregiver Self-Advocacy, and reaching out for help.

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Permission To Live ( while caring for an aging parent ).......2003-08-17

After reading Love, Honor, & Value I was struck by many things about this book. The first was the extraordinary personal story of Suzanne Geffen Mintz. (President of NFCA). Each chapter touched on something that I'm presently experiencing at different times of the days; months; years of caregiving my dear mother Petie.
While flying back to NYC two weeks ago I realized that something written in Chapter 4 was the true core of my situation. Suzanne said, If you lie down, no one will die. Isn't that what we are afraid of in our hearts?
For me, each time I get on a plane while dividing my life between New York and Michigan to care for mom, I pray that I will be with her when she dies. I'm smart enough to know that I could walk down the hall of the nursing home she lives in and that she could pass away then.
Each time I fly now I give myself permission (as Suzanne says) as a gift to care for myself and my husband who may be giving the greatest gift of love and sacrifice that I've ever seen. He shares me with mom and airplanes. Our sacrifice has lasted almost eight years but we believe in doing the right thing thing for Petie and ultimately for ourselves.
Thank you Suzanne for your gift of this book.

A primer for families tending the ill and disabled.......2003-03-11

Love, Honor & Value (author: Suzanne Mintz) discusses in practical, often poignant terms, the problems faced by long-term caregivers. The books offers practical and sound advice for handling day-to-day problems, and includes sources of information and help for families coping with the physical, emotional and financial burdens of caregiving. The author, president and co-founder of the National Family Caregiving Association, is herself is caregiver to her beloved husband who has suffered with multiple sclerosis for 30 years. She writes with uncompromising candor and insight. As a former long-term caregiver myself, I recognize the wisdom and usefulness of this book and can recommend it without reservation. I wish it had been available during my 17 years of caregiving.

A Shot in the Arm.......2003-02-04

A very sweet, short volume that energizes and empowers and does the rarest of things--gives the caregiver permission to take care of herself.

Perfect Resource for All Caregivers!.......2002-10-03

Suzanne Mintz has helped save my life, and I have never met her. I was at my wit's end caring for my ill mother and had no one to turn to. A friend gave me a copy of "Love, Honor, & Value" and I read it all in one night. Suzanne Mintz's advice and information has helped me take better care of my mother and myself.

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Practicing psychiatrist Andrew Abarbanel explains how imbalances in brain chemistry can lead individuals into the wrong relationships, undermine good relationships, and keep people from having any relationships at all. He shows readers how to identify these difficulties, discusses techniques and medications that can help resolve them, and provides ways to evaluate the results.

Mates, Dates, and Sizzling Summers (Mates, Dates...)

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Mates,Dates,and Sizzling Summers
Good-Bye Lucy, Izzie, Nesta and T.J.

Mates, Dates, and Sizzling Summers (Mates, Dates...)
Cathy Hopkins
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" I reckon that's the last we've seen of Ollie Axford," I said.
"I wouldn't be so sure TJ," said Nesta. "I bet he calls and asks you out."
"Nah, he looks like a player. You know the type. Too much of a twinkle in his eye to be trusted."

"A bit like Luke then?" said Lucy.

Boys are like buses for TJ. No sign of one for ages and then two come along at the same time! First there's charmer Ollie Axford. And just when TJ has decided that he could be the one, old flame Luke De Biasi tells her that he wants to rekindle their romance.

TJ is torn between the boys, and unhappy that it makes her look like a two-timer. But it all seems unimportant when someone close to her is taken seriously ill. More than ever, TJ needs a clear head and the support of her friends as she faces the most important summer of her life.

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Mates,Dates,and Sizzling Summers.......2007-02-17

There are four girls the main character is Izzy. They are B.F.F.L and Izzy is the new one to the group so she is a little shy. All is fun until the other two have boyfriends and the other two don't. Izzy's dad has a stroke and her mum is so upset. So her dad gets better really fast and the doctor ask them if they want his family's summer house in NORTHERN ENGLAND!!! They go there for a week and did i say that Izzy has two guys who are in love with her. So they go up there and stay for a week and they buy the house and the only have it during the summer, and she finds the guy that she wants and they live happily ever after till the next book. I wonder what will happen in the next book.

Good-Bye Lucy, Izzie, Nesta and T.J........2006-05-19

The final volume of this series has a title that only applies to a few paragraphs at the end. It is just after the Diamond Dazzle. T.J. gets Feng Shui help and discovers that her waste bin has been sitting in her relationship zone. No sooner is it moved than things begin to happen. A boy she met at the Diamond Dazzle calls and a new relationship may be beginning. But then tragedy strikes her family as one of them is hospitalized and relationships are not big on T.J.'s agenda. But it does give her an excuse to pick up some food as an alternate to what is being served in the hospital and she runs into Luke. You may remember him as the two-timer from TEMPTING TROUBLE that almost spit up the mates.

Now T.J. finds herself interested in two guys in different ways. She needs a way to decide between them. This time she enlists the mates right up front so everything is in the open. But no sooner does she realize she has to make a decision then the guys run into each other. To complicate things, T.J.'s family heads for Cornwall for a bit of rest and recuperation. But T.J. still has to figure out how she feels about each guy without being a two-timer herself. As with the other books it all works out in the end but you will have to read it to find out how.

This is the last book in the series and I was happy to see the preaching that was so important in the last two volumes was gone from this one. Sure, there is still some teen angst (there wouldn't be a series without it) and some real drama. The end reminded me of the end of Calvin and Hobbs where things don't end, they just confirm that they will go on. No silly breaking up the cast to the four winds. But it really didn't have the feel of being the last book (which could be less sad for those who will miss the characters). Still, if you have made it through the first eleven books, you will not be disappointed here. Read on.

Love Sick Plastic Semi-Concealed Wire-o Bound Blank Journal

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Love Sick Plastic Semi-Concealed Wire-o Bound Blank Journal
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The perfect place to keep lists and record ideas. Includes 1 sheet of stickers. PVC cover features side flaps for storing business cards and notes. 140 pages, 5 x 6 1/2".

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