Finding Your Smile Again

Using warmth and humor, this book offers techniques for dealing with the everyday stress of being a childcare professional. Written by a caregiver who’s been there, it describes the symptoms and causes of burnout, with advice to get through each challenge.

If you are the hard worker, the grafter, the dedicated, you are more likely to suffer from burnout and breakdown. You are probably more likely to hide your stress, and try to cope silently. If you're used to leading or managing others, if you're used to having others look up to you and rely on you, you are likely to feel more crippled by shame and despair. Stress related to work has taken on pandemic proportions. Burnout and breakdown literally happens to the best of us. What you are experiencing is a perfectly normal reaction to extreme conditions, and you can find a way out of it. This book offers tools to help you recover quickly and thoroughly. It uses simple, but powerful, images to bypass the part of your brain that is hindered by stress, and help you heal again on a deep subconscious level. Even if you feel you're 'broken', you can absolutely repair. If this sounds like you, then this book will help you smile again. This book will be of interest to readers of the following topics: Couples & family therapy, Medicine & psychology, Counseling, Anxieties & phobias, Stress, Psychology.

Filled with warmth, humor, and honesty, Keeping Your Smile is a resource for anyone who cares for children and who wants to manage their own stress, tension, or anxiety before burnout becomes an overarching obstacle in their daily interactions with children. Jeff A. Johnson, a child care professional who wrote about his own burnout in Finding Your Smile Again, offers strategies, activities, tips, and tools help caregivers and educators work with children with passion and maintain a satisfying career in the field. Included are profiles of several professionals who have experienced burnout and survived to become stronger, better care providers.

A holiday story that is sure to warm the hearts and inspire the imaginations of readers of all ages—from the Land of the Lost and Days of Our Lives actor. Set mostly inside of Santa’s magical red sack, the action takes place in a land that most of us would call make-believe. However, for one orphaned boy named Albert, this place becomes very real. Wandering the streets of nineteenth-century London on Christmas Eve, Albert seeks warmth and finds it in a red, velvety sack. When he crawls in to sleep, he expects to dream of happiness and love, but ends up discovering something quite different. Young Albert enters the magical realm of Santa’s great red sack and is welcomed into this fantasy world by a host of happy toys, waiting to be given to grateful children on Christmas Day. However, Albert soon learns that he has not left the danger of the outside world behind. A diabolical toy, known only as No-Name, is determined to stop Christmas. He and the other “Garbles” are snatching the smiles of Albert’s new friends. It’s up to Albert, who is mistaken for a toy, to stop the ever more desperate war. Wesley Eure’s imaginative writing and Ronald G. Paolillo’s full-color artistic renderings give each character a special breath of life as they cross the pages. The Red Wings of Christmas is sure to become a family holiday classic to be shared season after season.

Growing up, we go through many struggles. the manner of which we deal with those struggles differs from person to person. Paul took a different method for overcoming those challenges he faced. for all the negativity, frustration, anger, depression, and the lack of self-worth he had in his life, he looked toward his journal. He wrote in his journal as if having a conversation with himself. Paul dedicated all his writing to coaching himself toward finding a positive perspective and greater understanding of his life experiences. He now seeks to help others through the insights he gained.

When life unexpectedly shatters, it leaves layers of loss. We're left navigating a sea of emotions, unwanted change, and an unknown future all while wondering if we'll ever feel real joy again. In Life Can Be Good Again, discover how to lament what's been lost, brave the broken places, find your footing, and anchor your hope in God's character and promises to flourish. In this book, you will learn how to Depend on your unchanging God, knowing with confidence that it's the best way to live. Unmask your emotions and navigate your pain with God, who welcomes and understands them. Overcome paralyzing fears to move forward well with three scriptural steps. Your unexpected future may feel like Plan B, but it's God's purposeful Chapter Two for you as he reshapes your shattered heart. You need to know that you will not merely survive this, but that life will be good again!

In this sweet and gentle picture book, Bear wakes one day to find his Smile gone and enlists his friends to help him find it. Bear and Smile are always together. They wake up together, swim by the waterfall together, and eat honey together. But one day, Bear wakes up and Smile is nowhere to be found. With the help of his woodland friends, will Bear be able to find his Smile again? This tender and special debut picture book explores sadness with a light touch and shows that sometimes a good friend can make all the difference.

March 31st, a beautiful baby was born, and her name was Latrice Denise Johnson. Shed live a short, but powerful life, and leave an extraordinary impact on her family and friends. I am her mother, I am telling my story to help others know, that even through tragedy, One Day you will smile again.