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Caregiving can be enormously challenging, terrifically rewarding, and potentially draining. Caregivers often wonder how they will navigate the tumultuous waters of caregiving and not lose themselves completely. The Mindful Caregiver highlights two major approaches to help transform the journey: adopting a practice of mindfulness, which helps caregivers become more self-aware and fully present with the person with whom they are caring, and honoring ?the spirit-side? of caregiving which offers new ways of connecting to one another. These approaches take into account not just the needs of the care recipient, but also the needs of the caregiver and other people in his/her life.

Contains a collection of articles that offer varied perspectives on topics related to America's prisons.

"From journalist Robert Timberg, a memoir of the struggle to reclaim his life after being severely burned as a Marine lieutenant in Vietnam. In January 1967, Robert Timberg was a short-timer, counting down the days until his combat tour ended. He had thirteen days to go when his vehicle struck a Viet Cong land mine, resulting in third-degree burns of his face and much of his body"--Provided by publisher.

Corey Pegues has lived on both sides of the law. At the height of the 1980s crack epidemic, he was a teenager hugging the street corner, selling dope for the notorious Supreme Team gang and watching drugs decimate his stable, working-class neighborhood almost overnight. After a botched murder attempt on a rival gang member, Corey, the only member of his family to graduate from high school, knew he had to get out. Barely eighteen, with two kids by two different women, Corey left under cover of night to enlist in the US Army. After several years in the military, the police academy was a breeze. What is daily life truly like for urban youth in America? What is the one problem endemic in law enforcement that's even more dangerous than rampant racism? There aren't many people who understand both sides of the story. As war rages throughout our nation between police and communities of color, Pegues tears down the blue wall to discuss the discriminatory practices he faced within the NYPD and talks candidly about the distrust between law enforcement and the people.

John Maclean was struck by an eight-ton truck while training for a triathlon at the age of twenty-two. He survived the accident but was left a paraplegic. He insisted that he would walk again but after two years of intense therapy he had to come to terms with his present status. Instead, he became one of the most accomplished wheelchair athletes in the world, becoming the first non-American to be inducted into the Ironman's World Championship Hall of Fame and the first paraplegic to swim the English Channel. He has also won a silver medal for rowing in the Paralympic Games. Always looking to uncover his full potential, John heard of a radical therapy that retrained the mind and body through intense focus and determination to unlock new neural responses. He successfully completed this program and was finally able to stand, walk, and fulfill his dream of walking on the beach holding hands with his wife. Today he is the founder of The John Maclean Foundation, which assists children in wheelchairs and their families.

A near-death experience turned a troubled underachiever into an accomplished English professor. The botched robbery didn't do it. Neither did the three gunshots. It wasn't until he flatlined twice and was administered last rites that David Borkowski finally realized he was about to die, a thug at age fifteen. Convinced the cops were shooting harmless "salt" bullets, David had darted through front lawns as the cops gave chase. It wasn't until much later, when David was bleeding to death, that the cops realized they had hit one of their own---the son of a fellow cop. Funny and poignant, but always honest and reflective, A Shot Story tracks David Borkowski's life before and after the "accident" and tells how his having been a rather unremarkable student early on may have been a blessing in disguise.

Pretending her life is okay is no longer possible for Allison Weiss when she begins to suspect she has an addiction to prescription medication, even as her family faces multiple problems of their own.

Etler's intense, unforgettable memoir uncovers the lies behind Straight, Inc., a teen rehab facility that was supposed to give teens help. Instead, it gave them hell.

The author describes suffering a brain aneurysm and nearly dying, then having multiple brain surgeries that deformed her skull, and losing her sense of smell and the sight in one eye. Discusses how she used her love of cooking to help her recover and create a normal life once again. Features twenty-seven recipes that helped the author on her road to recovery.