Peaceful Pieces

A collection of poems about peace by Anna Grossnickle Hines, accompanied by illustrations that feature quilts made by the poet.

A sensitive approach to overcoming loss! Behind every tragedy and loss lies a tranquil reality just waiting to be found. Finding Peace When Your Heart Is in Pieces shows you how to use the Four Paths of Transformation--acceptance, inspiration, release, and compassion--to move past your suffering and discover inner peace. Author Paul Coleman, PsyD, guides you through every chapter with powerful exercises that help you evaluate your current emotional state and how the hardship has impacted your life. With his guidance and insight, you will learn how to transform your pain into positive thinking, find perspective through charitable acts, and hone in on what you need to do to step into a brighter future. Whether mourning the loss of a romance, health, a loved one, or coping with any of life's upheavals, Finding Peace When Your Heart Is in Pieces will help you overcome your pain and finally find peace within yourself.

Two definitions of peace underlie this major work. The first definition of peace is dynamic: 'the state of affairs that makes the nonviolent and creative handling of conflict possible'. The second definition is static: 'an absence of direct, structural, and cultural violence'.

A compilation of the poetry by Maxwell J. Asciutto while still a student in high school. From "DNA" to "Future Love" this is a must read!

The award-winning poet weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the ongoing mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss. In this powerful gathering of poems about her own "influencers," as well as poems on Dadaist artist Méret Oppenheim and the young choreographer Lauren Lovette, Brenda Shaughnessy dwells in memories of the women who set her on her artistic path. In the title poem, she explores the eternal quality of an intense touchstone relationship with Tanya, about whom she writes, "Everyone's not you to me . . . Worth loving once, why not now?" We all have our own Tanya, and in this book we meet friends, mentors, sisters, lovers, who inhabit a verse classroom where Shaughnessy's passion for literature—forged in her own formative studies, as in the poem "Coursework"—is our teacher. In flowing stair-step tercets, Shaughnessy leads us down into her generative core, exposing moments of spiritual and intellectual awakening, her love of art and the written word, and her sense of the life force itself, which is ignited by the conversation—across time and space—with other women.

Leaders are trying to bring their best while organizations often put emphasis on results, before people. It doesn’t have to be this way and the answer is here! Becoming a Peaceful Powered Leader provides tools, research, and experienced advice provided to demolish the slag weighing leaders down and become a truly peaceful powered version of themselves. Becoming a Peaceful Powered Leader shares six actionable steps that help individuals own their peace. In this journey, leaders will dive into reflection, exercises and application in the six areas of Becoming A Peaceful Powered Leader. While Becoming a Peaceful Powered Leader is written to connect primarily with those in leadership roles, it is also built to connect to any individual seeking inner peace in their life and provides a method for leaders to transfer the process to their team members. It aims to, and delivers on, solving the problem of needing more time, struggling to stay connected to values, and building engagement in the workplace and beyond!