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The popularity of energy healing is surging as people seek out alternative means of healing and wellness. While popular, energy healing can be intimidating to many, as it sits at the intersection of the scientific and the spiritual. The Ultimate Guide to Energy Healing offers an understandable and practical approach to energy healing. Techniques for the beginner, intermediate, and more advanced practitioners are included. Detailed information on chakras and energetic anatomy is covered as well as supplemental tools and techniques such as color healing and using crystals, pendulums, and sound.

Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have been close since her father bought the boy after his forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion. But as Tsito looks forward to the bright promise of freedom and Fara, backward to a dark, long-denied family history, a rift opens between them just as British Christian missionaries and French industrialists arrive and violence erupts across the country.

It Began with a Dream is the story of Dr. Gladys B. West, who played an integral role in the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS) as a mathematician with navy. Born in 1930, in the poor farming community of Sutherland, Virginia, she rose from poverty despite segregation, The Great Depression, and Jim Crow laws to become one of the first professional black women hired at the Dahlgren Naval Proving Grounds in Virginia (now Dahlgren Surface Naval Warfare Center). Dr. West takes us on her incredible life journey in this heartwarming and unforgettable memoir.

Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem - patriarchy - is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. In Vexy Thing Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target of critique, re-centering it to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifacts from the Enlightenment to the present.

Looking back is often like looking in a mirror - all the imperfections are obvious. This is the journey of how two women look back saw their past reflections and use them to do good. How they managed to smooth out the path ahead. How they reconcile themselves with who they are and who they will be. Every path has a crossroad and finding the peace to be satisfied with the choices is part of every journey.

Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the Black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland", a Black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the Black middle class.

Earning money, paying bills, finding your Prince Charming, discovering your happiness - it looked so easy when you were young. You thought you had it all figured out. Little did you know life throws you curveballs. And you thought grown-ups had it easy! So did these ladies. Follow their journeys while getting lost in the grown-up world.

When your life changes where do you find yourself? How do you find yourself? This is a collection of short stories and poems describing the journeys of these women as they cope with life, accept the changes, and discover their new selves.