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Mindfulness for Carers
How to Manage the Demands of Caregiving While Finding a Place for Yourself
Dr Cheryl Rezek
Discover how simple mindfulness techniques can be used to combat the stress, anxiety and burnout that often accompanies caring for people with physical, psychological or emotional needs. The easy-to-follow exercises will help caregivers to regain control and maintain a positive outlook. Learn More2015, Paperback / softback, 7.72in x 5.04in / 196mm x 128mm, 96pp, CA$17.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-654-02015, Ebook, ePUB, 96pp, CA$17.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-147-1 -
Love and Mayhem
One Big Family's Uplifting Story of Fostering and Adoption
John DeGarmo
Love and Mayhem gives an insight into the inner-workings of a large family with fostered, adopted and birth children. John Degarmo, describes the highs and lows and complete chaos of his family life with warmth and sincerity. Learn More2014, Paperback / softback, 8.50in x 5.51in / 216mm x 140mm, 208pp, CA$26.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-775-22014, Ebook, ePUB, 208pp, CA$26.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-012-2 -
The Looked After Kid, Revised Edition
My Life in a Children’s Home
Paolo Hewitt
Placed in care at an early age, Paolo Hewitt vividly describes his early life spent with an abusive foster family before he is moved to Burbank children's home aged 10. There he meets a gang of inspiring children who are outsiders just like him, and together they struggle to create a life for themselves. Learn More2014, Paperback / softback, 8.46in x 5.51in / 215mm x 140mm, 256pp, CA$22.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-588-82014, Ebook, ePUB, 256pp, CA$22.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-042-9 -
But We All Shine On
The Remarkable Orphans of Burbank Children's Home
Paolo Hewitt
After a childhood spent in care at Burbank Children's Home, Paolo Hewitt embarks upon a personal journey as an adult to discover whatever happened to his close childhood friends. He reveals their stories - from the funny to inspiring to heart-breaking - and makes new discoveries about himself, his friends and the power of the human spirit. Learn More2014, Paperback / softback, 8.46in x 5.43in / 215mm x 138mm, 176pp, CA$15.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-583-32014, Ebook, ePUB, 176pp, CA$15.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-033-7 -
Exploiting Childhood
How Fast Food, Material Obsession and Porn Culture are Creating New Forms of Child Abuse
Edited by Jim Wild
Childhood today is big business. It is impossible for any child growing up to avoid intense marketing and research shows that these commercial pressures affect children's health and wellbeing. Featuring high profile contributors with hard-hitting views, this book argues that these corporate and commercial pressures are new forms of child abuse. Learn More2013, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 6.06in / 229mm x 154mm, 224pp, CA$33.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-368-62013, Ebook, ePUB, 224pp, CA$33.95ISBN: 978-0-85700-742-1 -
No Matter What
An Adoptive Family's Story of Hope, Love and Healing
Sally Donovan
No Matter What is the uplifting true story of an ordinary couple's journey from a diagnosis of infertility to their decision to adopt two children who suffered abuse in their early life. By turns heart-rending, inspiring and hilarious, Sally and Rob's story offers a rare insight into the world of adoptive parents. Learn More2013, Paperback / softback, 8.50in x 5.43in / 216mm x 138mm, 352pp, CA$23.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-431-72013, Ebook, ePUB, 352pp, CA$23.95ISBN: 978-0-85700-781-0 -
Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation
Second Edition
Ellen Sarasohn Glazer and Evelina Weidman Sterling
This is a comprehensive guide for those who are thinking of, or who are having a baby through egg donation. The second edition has been revised to cover fertility tourism and egg freezing and helpful advice is given on the personal and practical challenges involved. Learn More2013, Paperback / softback, 9.13in x 6.14in / 232mm x 156mm, 312pp, CA$30.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-901-52013, Ebook, ePUB, 312pp, CA$30.95ISBN: 978-0-85700-652-3 -
Looking for Oliver
A Mother's Search for the Son She Gave Up for Adoption
Marianne Hancock
Vividly recalling the stigma of her schoolgirl pregnancy and the pain of her separation from the baby, this absorbing and illuminating story follows Emma's search for Oliver, her adopted son. Learn More2003, Paperback / softback, 9.13in x 6.18in / 232mm x 157mm, 224pp, CA$40.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-142-02003, Ebook, PDF, 224pp, CA$40.95ISBN: 978-1-84642-642-1
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