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Tragedy, Trauma, and Loss in Teens and Pre-Teens: A Parent’s Guide to Healing and Support In today’s complex world, teens and pre-teens are facing unprecedented challenges—ranging from school violence and bullying to social media pressure, family instability, and personal loss. This updated and compassionate guide by Dr. Richard L. Travis offers parents, guardians, and educators a roadmap to understanding how young people experience trauma and how to support their emotional healing. With real-life examples, up-to-date research, YouTube and TED Talk links, and practical tools, this ...

**Completely updated December/2016** In today’s world we are faced with wars in the Middle East, terrorist attacks around the world, mass murders and shootings even in the United States. The tragedies and traumas of today are far more violent than what used to shock us. Yet each trauma is felt and responded to differently by different people. This book explains the kinds of tragedies, traumas, and losses that we might experience in our lives. It also spells out the effects these losses have on us, whether physical, emotional, social, or academic. Tragedy, trauma, and loss that are ...

How to be Human Online: A Guide to Digital Etiquette and Empathy in the Age of Screens) We live online now more than ever—but are we really showing up as our best selves? In a world shaped by social media, comment threads, and Zoom calls, it’s easy to forget there’s a human being behind every screen. How to Be Human Online is your essential guide to navigating the digital world with kindness, clarity, and emotional intelligence. Whether you're replying to emails, commenting on posts, dating via apps, or participating in group chats, this book offers practical strategies and thoughtful...

Senior Moments: Embracing Aging with Humor, Grace, and Wisdom By Dr. Richard L. Travis Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you were there? Or told the same story twice—and laughed just as hard the second time? Welcome to the wonderful world of Senior Moments. In this delightful and insightful guide, Dr. Richard L. Travis offers an updated look at the realities of aging—with all its quirks, challenges, and surprising gifts. Blending wit with wisdom, he shares personal stories, psychological insights, and empowering tools to help you navigate everything from forgetfulness ...

*****Completely Updated in 2025***** Breaking the Silence: LGBTQ+ Addiction, Recovery, and Hope is a compassionate and comprehensive guide to understanding addiction through an LGBTQ+ lens. Drawing on current research, real-life stories, and culturally competent practices, this book explores the unique challenges queer individuals face—including trauma, shame, family rejection, and internalized stigma—and how these often fuel addiction. You'll find affirming approaches to treatment, insights on co-occurring disorders, guidance for finding safe recovery spaces, and healing tools such as ...

If you are a parent of a teenager or a teacher of one, you have probably noticed an increase in mood swings exhibited by your teenager or friends of your teen. So many issues in today's society including social media, peer pressure, hormones, and life's complications take a role in this increase. Adults need to have increased awareness of these mood swings, so they can possibly help their teenagers survive and thrive through these very complex years. As adults we need to be identifying troublesome behavior and moods in order to be able to help help teenagers.

**Completely Updated in December/2016** ****A valuable addition to your library of Creative Healing books from Dr T's Living Well Series.**** A Guided Imagery is a technique that is used to take you away into the inner recesses of your mind. It is a technique which, when mastered, can interrupt the stressors of the day, the compulsive worry, or just cleanse yourself of general stress. Using a Guided Imagery could be a part of everyone’s personal treatment plan to promote self-expression, or speed physical or emotional healing. It is a good tool for everyone to learn to use on their own, ...

The Shadow Self: Healing What We Hide by Dr. Richard L. Travis explores the profound yet often hidden aspects of our personalities known as the Shadow. Drawing from Jungian psychology, emotional integration techniques, and holistic healing practices, this book provides readers with practical guidance on uncovering, understanding, and integrating their Shadow self. Dr. Travis illuminates how unaddressed emotions, repressed experiences, and ignored personal truths influence our lives, relationships, and sense of self-worth. Through compassionate insight, real-life examples, and actionable ...

The most amazing encounters of alien abductions, UFO visitations, and government cover ups in history! Eight hours of aliens and UFOs! Aliens and the scalpel: discover the truth about alien implants. The Walton story: the most amazing alien-UFO abduction in history. The Billy Meier case: a Swiss farmer is in contact with an alien race. Ancient archeology: the myth and mystery of Planet X. Alien memories: hypnotherapy reveals encounters with extraterrestrials.

**Completely Updated in December/2016** Seeking validation is a natural and normal part of human behavior. We seek to be validated on what we say, and do, and even how we appear. Children can experience having healthy validation at home and school, or they can have a lack of validation, or even experience being invalidated. The way a child was raised has a huge impact on how he or she seeks validation as an adult. Seeking validation as a young adult or as an adult becomes obsessive when the validation-seeking behavior becomes unconscious and has a pattern, and perhaps a repetition, which ...

This book is for the people who carefully choose their words. They carefully choose words that validate the emotional individual and his/her feelings. They carefully choose words that bring ease to embarrassing, everyday situations, like a friend dripping catsup on his shirt, a companion tripping on the sidewalk, or someone coughing loudly or burping audibly in public. There are many times in our interactions with other people where what we say really matters. From reading this guidebook, perhaps you will gain some new ideas of how and what to say to people in difficult situations. How you ...

This book follows several gay men in a book club over many years of reading spiritual and psycho-spiritual books. In their search for peace and love in this world, they followed many authors and many of the books that they studied and read are discussed within. Also, a brief history of homosexuality in the world and the history of homosexuality in religions across the world are contained within this e-book. Many of the books had a great impact on the lives of the gay men in this book club, and some of the key points to these books can be found within.

Can a gay man find a friend to trust? Can he find a date, or even a partner? Are there healthy gay relationships out there? Are most gay men only partiers and not really emotionally available? What about trans men, bisexuals, and gender fluid people? Gays are entitled to have good, healthy friendships and good healthy relationships. Many gay men have felt they have been perceived as "damaged goods" and therefore act out in self-abusive ways by choosing inappropriate or emotionally unavailable men to date or befriend. This book helps identify personality characteristics or behaviors that get...

Bingo is a game played world-wide by people of all ages. There are many, many adapatations of Bingo, and schools world-wide use it for educational purposes. Besides schools, bingo is played in churches, community centers, for charities and in casinos all across the United States. Would you like to learn more about Bingo; how its played, where its played, where it originated? This ebook has the answers to those questions and more. Learn how Bingo was adapted to use with children in many forms, including using animals, music, and other visuals. How do they play Bingo in other countries? Is it...

In the natural gas industry, knowledge is power. Our podcast is driven by information that will help improve your knowledge of the industry. We will bring in various industry experts that can educate you on operational and cultural challenges affecting the industry. Join us as we discover the technology, equipment, and people that you can deploy to solve your problems.

Legends of Local News 8 is a podcast that highlights prominent public figures who currently work for Local News 8, or who used to work for the TV station. They share their views of how TV and broadcasting, and news and journalism have evolved over the last 30-40 years.