Swimming through the reeds

This brilliant self-help book is designed to assist each one of us to conquer our own particular problems, and ‘Smile... Just one smile can make a difference' as Victoria explains.
Throughout this book, a feeling of peace, hope and an uplifting momentum grows with each page and imbues the reader until its genuine calming and morale-lifting impetus is thoroughly absorbed and the healing commences.
Happiness and confidence starts with a wonderful chain reaction in our individual dealings with our own problems and creating a kindness and caring for others that can travel right around the world.
So read this and find your own new and wonderful dreams and achieve amazing things!

Staring Death in the Face

This is a real-life account of a family dealing with anorexia of one of its own. Sarah nearly died. She could have died at any time as her body had begun to shut down. The local medical services said that they had never come across anyone with such a low body mass index (weight) as hers. Sarah was heard screaming out as her body began to close down at death’s door. But by the grace of God, she miraculously survived.

The events are chronicled by the author, Sarah’s father; plus there is a very poignant additional contribution portrayal through the eyes of her sister Olivia too — together these sections paint the picture of what this family had to endure and complement each other.

This is a book which I am sure you will find hard to put down and will educate you not only as far as the illness of anorexia is concerned but also in seeing how it can be transcended.

Soul Divining

Intuition is real. In this book, I wanted to share some of my experiences in order to raise awareness of this much-undervalued sixth sense. It can protect us and bring positivity to our lives. As humans, we rely almost totally on logic to problem solve. Hopefully, this book will give an insight into how important this sense is. Negative experiences very often occur when we ignore our gut feeling. Intuition is a spiritual tool that should be regarded as highly as the other five senses we possess.

Shine

Shine is a journey and a way of life. It is a beautifully written guide for personal empowerment and positive leadership action in every area of your life. If you are looking to create effortless abundance and find unconditional love, this book provides compelling, thought-provoking philosophies for how to get there. Based on a global empowerment programme designed and delivered by the author and co-founder of international award-winning learning and development company, RoundTable Global, Shine is full of tools and techniques for positive mindset change, personal well-being and resilience. Whether you are looking for personal transformation, a change of direction, to set up your own business or find success and discover your passion and purpose, Shine has everything you need. It also includes a step-by-step guide for releasing you from your fears and limiting beliefs and empowers you to step into infinite possibility and unlock your true potential. This book will empower you to 'shine'.

Shine

Ever wondered about the mystery of creation? Do you often feel like there’s more to life than what you’ve been told? There is! Dive deep into the magical stories of love, adversity and adventure. Join the journey of a Sun named Shine as he asks the Very First Question and is presented with a peculiar answer. Follow along with the adventure of a Magician and a Fairy Queen who intend to save their town by reminding the King that love is stronger than fear. Transform with a Secret Keeper who must decide if keeping secrets is his True Purpose and learn, ponder and explore universal concepts such as the Law of Attraction, the Chakras, the Star Signs, Intuition and the Elements as you discover things you didn’t know you knew!
Every single person on the planet has within themselves a unique gift, something valuable and priceless to share with the world. Let these poems remind you of what lies dormant within your heart. Be brave enough to accept your light and let…it…SHINE.
Something magical happens when you let your heart lead the way.

Separation, a Bitter Pill to Swallow

In a world of prenuptial agreements and marital uncertainties, there are those who get married or go into relationships because they genuinely love the person they are with. However, when love falls apart, getting up and getting back on our feet is not as easy as, “Just getting up and getting back into the saddle”. Often there are mountains to climb, and before we get to the foot of each mountain, we will first have to crawl out of our valleys or pits. Truly, being cast aside can make us feel lower than the ground.

This book was birthed out of a failed marriage and was almost named The Reasons I Did Not Die When She Left. However, it was named Separation, a Bitter Pill to Swallow in the end. Somewhere along the way of writing, the author’s perspective and message had changed. The author realised that he had learnt many valuable lessons from the failed attempt at becoming one with another person. He learnt that people can get sick, hate everyone, as well as the world around to the point of contemplating suicide, but in the end and with much grace, they live beyond the tears and heartbreak. Therefore, he wanted to help others using the lessons he had learnt. This is why, although the truths found in this book are blunt, and somewhat hard to swallow, they are covered in a good measure of wisdom.

Sellology: Simplifying the Science of Selling

Everything done well in life has a system, and throughout my long sales career, I’ve seen many so-called sales systems but never an end-to-end system, a complete system and a system which is straightforward and easy to put into practice. Sellology is a sales system, which will improve your all-round sales performance. Whether you’re selling the idea of homework to your five-year-old child or the nuclear waste disposal programme for Shell UK, the principles are the same throughout. They have been gathered together in one place for you to put straight into practice and improve your sales.

Seeing the Unseen - A Guide to Conscious Caregiving

Too often caregivers of children with challenging behaviours feel that the solution to the problem lies outside of them. Yet we all bring past wounding into our relationships.

Drawing on the latest research from both scientific fields and healing modalities, Seeing the Unseen encourages caregivers to recognise how adverse experiences and trauma in childhood lives with them, resulting in whole body dysfunction—activating harmful stress responses that keep them stuck engaging in patterns of behaviour. Unless addressed, these self-sabotaging behaviours can significantly impact vulnerable children in their care. In extreme cases, this can lead to burnout or ‘blocked care’.

In Seeing the Unseen, caregivers are invited to journey through ten steps that will forever change the lens with which they view themselves (and their loved ones), resulting in a more balanced and joyful home environment.

While this workbook is written for caregivers of adopted or fostered children, it may appeal to broader audiences such as kinship providers, stepparents, life coaches, family therapists, and social workers.

Seeing the Unseen

Don’t you wish children really did come with an instruction manual? Caregivers of children with attachment difficulties, who have experienced childhood trauma, often don’t know that they need to parent differently to meet their child’s specific needs and help them to start making sense of the world. Seeing the Unseen is a one-stop-shop for families who are besieged.

• Learn the founding principles of attachment and trauma theory.
• Understand why it’s important to put on your oxygen mask first.
• Discover how to become a trauma detective.
• Access practical strategies to tackle behaviours—from sleep issues to sibling rivalry, manipulation to miscommunication.

Easy to navigate and written in a straightforward style, Seeing the Unseen is a must-have for adoptive and foster caregivers. It will also benefit anyone who has been touched by attachment disruption, including divorce.

Seeing Is Believing

Can a witch’s curse from 1630 force her accuser to haunt the Heath Common?

Can dreams predicting the future come true? Who or what saved a woman trapped in a wrecked vehicle? Is there an angel in the Holy Trinity Church Knaresborough? Do UFOs exist or are they figments of our imagination? Did the children really see the reptilian man in their bedroom? If so, was it linked to their father’s involvement with UFOs and the Ouija board. Is a battle still raging on the Portobella Estate in Wakefield, and who are the ghostly children?

There are many more factual accounts to be discovered in Seeing Is Believing; stories that will make the most sceptical of readers wonder at the mystery that surrounds us.

Elisa believes that all hauntings, poltergeist, ghosts, angels, UFOs etc, are all natural phenomena that have been with us throughout time.

Scoring High Marking Deep

On a foggy Saturday afternoon George Best turned with the ball in the centre circle and ran route one toward the opposition goal. Ron Chopper Harris scythed Best at the knee, but Best rode the tackle and ran on, beating two more defenders and the goalkeeper to score an amazing goal. This quality of action is lost in millennial football as players fall to the ground before contact is made. The taming of football has removed the sporting element from the game as physical contact is deleted from the activity on the pitch. This removal of authenticity is not an accident but is an institutional plan to sanitise the game into a commercial entertainment, suitable only for television, media, and sponsorship. This process of ruin started in the 1980s when the government attempted to control the constructed problem of hooliganism which culminated in the tragedy of Hillsborough. This was the point when people looked at football and planned the elimination of violence but also the destruction of the game as an authentic sport.

Science of Food Nutrition and Health

Diet is one of the important facets of comprehensive approach to good health along with physical, social, emotional, and intellectual well-being. During the second half of the 20th century, we witnessed a dramatic change in our eating patterns and lifestyle aided by agricultural and industrial revolution, globalisation, and urbanisation and emergence of associated diet related chronic diseases such as obesity, coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, some type of cancer, stroke, and degenerative arthritis.

The science of food and nutrition is very complex. Nutrition science like many other fields of science is evolutionary and there are always conflicting research outcomes that need to be carefully evaluated. We ingest hundreds of dietary components every day and understanding various metabolic pathways and the effect of interactions of various dietary components in vivo is rather challenging.

Recent advances in genetic research fostered the emergence of new disciplines such as nutrigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and transcriptomics which can shed light on the molecular level interaction between dietary nutrients and the genome. These technologies provide the vision for future nutrition research that may unravel how the diet/genome interactions modifies the phenotype.

Food may not be the overall cure for the treatment of every possible disease, but the importance of food in both causing and relieving certain problems cannot be neglected. This is one of the most researched topics and there is a lot written about it. However, this book is probably the only text that provides up to date information on the various interrelated topics on food and nutrition that would be of interest to wider community.