This book is designed to help parents explain the importance of getting vaccinated. The first part of the book is written for children; it begins with a simple rhyming story about a girl that is terrified of getting a shot. Laurie Zelinger uses age-appropriate language to talk about how vaccines…
101 Tips To Lighten Your Burden: Practical Advice For Life contains insightful and practical solutions to many of life’s problems. The “tips” are written out, followed by a single paragraph explaining them and sometimes a real-life application on the part of the author. Bonn’s advice may read like common sense…
Please Explain Alzheimer’s Disease to Me introduces the condition to children in a colorful, sensitive and gentle story, followed by a parent/caregiver section that supplies comprehensive information that adults can use to understand and plan for the course of the disease affecting their loved one. Dr. Zelinger, a board-certified psychologist…
Please Explain Vaccines to Me: Because I HATE SHOTS! www.lovinghealing.com 9781615996131, $29.95, HC, 44pp Shots, injections, needles, and vaccines-whatever their purpose, they all hurt. More than half of children in the 6-17 year-old range report a strong fear of needles. Nearly 25% of adults do as well. This book is…
Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs: A Users Manual Synopsis: This book can help people with mental health issues to survive and return to a normal life. Citizens believe, and the science shows, that medications for depression and psychosis and admission to a psychiatric ward are more…
Synopsis: Pretreatment In Action: Interactive Exploration from Homelessness to Housing Stabilization by Jay S. Levy, MSW (and who has spent more than thirty years working with individuals who experience homelessness) provides the reader with a wonderfully crafted, detailed step-by-step manual with real-world scenarios on how Pretreatment and the Stages of…
Please Explain Alzheimer’s Disease to Me: A Children’s Story and Parent Handbook About Dementia by Laurie Zelinger Ph.D. is a guide for children and parents in talking about dementia. The book begins with a story about a family affected by dementia. At first, it’s silly when their grandmother leaves her…
by Ernest Dempsey Loving Healing Press books will now be available on iReader as of October 13, 2021. The press went live on iReader yesterday, Publisher Victor R. Volkman announced. With over 500 million users across the globe, iReader is the world’s leading mobile reading platform. The platform is accessible…
By Ernest Dempsey Eight women from Australia put on boxing gloves and pick up pens to knock out the demons of sexual abuse haunting them from the dark memories of their childhood. Their collective fight takes the form of a book, Left / Write // Hook, published by the Loving…
Hot off the Loving Healing Press is the new gem of a survival and recovery book Left / Write // Hook by Donna Lyon. The book is a collection of stories by eight victims of abuse, who found their way back to recovery via a unique project combining a regimen…
After embracing her own recovering journey from multiple childhood adverse experiences, Holli Kenley, MA, LMFT, has dedicated her adult life to helping others lead more healthy lives. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for over twenty-five years, Holli Kenley has been a sought-out expert on betrayal. Holli’s groundbreaking research…
The True Nature of Tarot — 10th anniversary edition Marvelous Spirit Press, 2021 ISBN: 978-1-61599-584-4 Paperback, 346 pp., $27.95 Reviewed by Victoria Constantino (reproduced with permission) Released this year in an updated 10th anniversary edition, The True Nature of Tarot by Diane Wing is an exploration of a beloved system…
The True Nature of Tarot caught my eye not because I wanted to learn how to read the cards. I do not plan on being a reader or seeker for the Tarot. However, you may have heard of Tarot cards in movies, books, and conversations like me. What is it?…
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1418047/8202067-writing-up-not-down-syndrome-with-author-nancy-schwartz.mp3 I recently enjoyed reading the book, “Up, Not Down Syndrome”, a love letter and a map written by Nancy Schwartz about her journey in parenting her youngest son, Alex. Nancy learned at Alex’s birth that he had Down Syndrome and from that moment on, she’s been learning that love…
This Video reviews the history of Housing First in conjunction with the Evolution of Vulnerability Assessment Tools and the need for Trauma Informed Care. Pretreatment Principles are also presented as a means of modeling Person-Centered Work, while engaging people with significant histories of homelessness, trauma, and loss in an effort…
Music is like receiving a gift on Christmas, but not knowing the full extent of its capabilities. It’s great to have the music and use it for what we think it’s meant for, but if we knew of its power, we’d appreciate and use it a whole lot more. The…
Nancy Schwartz:”Up, Not Down Syndrome: Uplifting Lessons Learned from Raising a Son with Trisomy 21″ Presented February 11, 2021 for Phoenixville Public Library Up, Not Down Syndrome is a love letter and a map. Experience how it feels to think your life is over after having an unlovable baby. At…
I just finished reading From Depression to Contentment by Bob Rich, PhD. “Reading” is probably a misnomer. From Depression to Contentment is a practical guidebook to revamping our behaviors as a means of changing our inner life. It is not only engaging; it is meant to be engaged with. I…
Lucky G and the Melancholy Quokka is a truly delightful and wonderfully illustrated book that is aimed at children who have depression. In the current climate of lockdowns and pandemics this book couldn’t have come at a better time, and as a sufferer of depression myself it is often hard…
