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Gifts from the Child Within: Self-discovery and Self-recovery Through Re-Creation Therapy with Dr. Barbara Sinor

Loving Healing Press (2008)
ISBN 9781932690460
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (12/07)

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Synopsis: ” Gifts From the Child Within” brings a refreshing approach to guiding its reader to understanding the initial or underlying basis to their emotional suffering due to past childhood trauma. This recovery book is geared toward both professional and layperson.

Its pages are filled with offerings from psychological, physiological, and spiritual perspectives which takes the reader on a journey into the soul. It is written with sensitivity and clarity inviting the reader to search within for healing. As the author shares her own journey of childhood abuse, the reader is asked to address issues surrounding physical, mental, spiritual, and sexual abuse. Instructions are captured to guide one toward reaching for their own child within; releasing negative emotions; re-creating outdated childhood beliefs; and, to recognize the gifts the inner child has for us.

The process of Re-Creation Therapy(tm) is introduced by the author allowing the reader who follows its guidance to reap the effects of gradual changes in self-awareness which lead to a greater understanding of the psychodynamics the child within plays in the adult life. Included are a series of healing visualizations and autohypnosis suggestions; blank journal pages; and sample affirmations following each chapter.

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Humanizing Madness: Psychiatry and the Cognitive Neurosciences, an Application of the Philosophy of Science to Psychiatry

Niall McLaren, M.D.
Future Psychiatry Press (2007)
ISBN 9781932690392
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (7/07)

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Synopsis: This book is the result of thirty years of research in the philosophy of science. In addition it takes each of the major theories in psychiatry and demonstrates conclusively that it is so flawed as to be beyond salvation.

It goes farther, in that the author outlines a model of mental function which both satisfies the essential requirements of any scientific model, and shows how the phenomena of mental disorder can be described in a parsimonious dualist model which leads directly to a humanist form of management of the most widespread form of disability in the world today.

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Giving My Heart: Love in a Military Family by Lisa Farber-Silk

Modern History Press (2008)
ISBN 9781932690446
Reviewed by Vicki Landes for Reader Views (12/07)

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Synopsis: ” Giving My Heart” is the true story of a New England wife’s struggle to find hope and help for a soldier, friend, and lover after his return from Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Before the war, he was an outgoing and affable man with a can-do attitude. After deployment, he returns to Vermont wanting nothing more than to be left alone. In the months after, he begins avoiding family and old friends. He is subject to mood swings, angry outbursts, headaches, trouble sleeping, problems at work, and feels that no one can ever understand his world and what he has become.

Meanwhile, Lisa has sacrificed everything including a marriage of two decades, to be with a man who is no longer interested in relationships with anyone. Her quest to find healing for her friend with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) will take more love, patience, and persistence than she ever knew she had. “Giving My Heart” portrays the legacy of our involvement in the Middle-East from the Persian Gulf War to the Iraq War as one family tries to grapple with what it means. Lisa provides a personal and heart-rending perspective that only a military wife and mother can share.

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Into the Silence: The Power of Stillness in Living and Dying with Judith Ashley

 Judith M. Ashley
iUniverse (2007)
ISBN 9780595440856
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (12/07)

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Synopsis: “I was by her hospital bed when the surgeon gave his prognosis of ‘about a year.’ Mother turned to me. Looking directly into my eyes, she reached gently for my hand, and said, with such simplicity, ‘Judith, I’m going to need your help.’”

So begins the remarkable journey of two women. Judith Ashley had long ago emigrated from England to the United States. Her mother, Enid, still lived in Great Britain and was now dying of cancer of the bowel and liver. Separated by distance for virtually thirty years, Judith traveled back to England to fulfill a promise made two decades earlier - to be the primary caregiver throughout her mother’s last weeks of life.

In more than fifty letters written to her husband living six thousand miles away, Ashley recounts - with love and unflinching candor - the conscious way in which her mother approached the last year of her life with dignity, intimacy, and grace. The letters also show how Ashley navigated her way through her own chattering thoughts and roller-coaster emotions to help her have access to an inner source of strength and keep her promise. A moving testament to the strong bond between mother and daughter,” Into the Silence” beautifully captures one family’s enduring spirit.

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AIDS Orphans Rising: What You Should Know and What You Can Do To Help Them Succeed

Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, M.P.F, Ed. D.
Loving Healing Press (2008)
ISBN 9781932690477
Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (12/07)

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Synopsis: The death of parents from AIDS leaves behind little children, often four or five of them, who desperately want to stay together as a family. In the literature, they call them Child Headed Households. Imagine watching your mother and father slowly die before your eyes, leaving you to bury them and then to raise and care for your younger brothers and sisters.

” AIDS Orphans Rising” takes you through the daily lives of these children. What do they eat? Where do they live?How do they survive? What can I do to help? Each chapter provides weblinks to organizations working with these children as well as real solutions, actions that you can take now to help these children not only survive, but succeed. By 2010, there will be 25,000,000 AIDS orphans!

Left alone, they will be uneducated, disenfranchised, and unwanted: ripe candidates for radicalization and exploitation by dictators and terrorists. If good people like yourself do not reach out to these children so they can get love, an education and set up in some profitable enterprise, civilization will deteriorate to a point that you will not even recognize it. This book is an inspiring gem of human caring for human. Particularly, the last chapter is beautiful and inspiring. It is very clearly written, and for the ordinary reader, and yet it is a fully documented scholarly work.

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A Broad Abroad in Thailand: An Expat’s Misadventures in the Land of Smiles with Dodi Cross

Dodie Cross was a newlywed American expat who faced far more than a language barrier in her new home. Among the challenges of her move to Thailand: the subtleties of the Eastern Squat Toilet, a near-fatal accident on the Sukhumvit Highway and bladder surgery performed by an inscrutable Thai doctor who decided to restore her virginity.All of these mishaps and more are described with great insight and wit in her new book, “A Broad Abroad In Thailand: An Expat’s Misadventures in the Land of Smiles.” In the end, it’s her unflagging sense of humor that sees Cross through all obstacles: from the first pitfalls and pratfalls in her new land, through times of seemingly insurmountable problems.

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Adopted Paws with Lauretta (Retz) Reeves

Eight years after moving to South Florida, Retz met Randy Reeves, and Bo-Jo -his adopted Chow chow. Taking place in South Florida and the Florida Keys, Adopted Paws is the story of the animals they adopted - Bo-Jo, Lucky, Petey, Samantha, Cali and the heroine of the story, Molly, who was a victim of feline AIDS - and other animals who ran through their life and sometimes into their neighbor’s yard.

Retz Reeves
PublishAmerica (2007)
ISBN 9781424169412
Reviewed by William Phenn for Reader Views (10/07)

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