Starting Again

After a devastating health issue, Macy loses her best friend Henry and finds out that he left the custody of his daughter in her hands. Without any experience, Macy instantly becomes a mother to three-year-old Ally and attempts to put back the pieces in the little one's life. Just when she thinks that she is getting everything under control, she meets her new supervisor, Lynn. Within one meeting with the new woman, the two clash, and to make matters worse, Macy finds out that the woman is a member of her support group. Macy does her best to not mix business with pleasure, but as time goes by, she realizes that she might have a lot more in common with Lynn than she had originally thought.

This book tells the story of her life in Johannesburg and Durban, her return to acting and writing and her subsequent marriage, another child and a short - lived third marriage. She finally returned to the UK in 1999 and wrote her first Memoirs (Beyond White Mischief, The Memoirs of a Tea Planters Wife.)

When a relationship finishes it can feel like the end of the world - but it is also a new beginning. In Starting Again, Sarah Litvinoff looks at the lessons that can be learnt from a relationship that has ended and helps you to deal with your feelings of separation, grief and recovery. Through self-assessment questionnaires, tasks and discussion points you will reach a greater understanding of yourself and your relationships and be able to start looking to a positive future. This book will help you to come to terms with your divorce, separation or break up and assess what went wrong, become aware of and break patterns you have unconsciously repeated, enabling you to move on, meet new people and build a fresh social life.

Starting Over Again was inspired by the true story of one woman's triumphant rise from the devastation of spousal abuse and divorce. This story is for any woman who has suffered pain at the hands of a man. A story of how two people changed the lives of many others who knew them. One man's betrayal cost a man his life, two children their fathers, and two families were destroyed. The price of our decisions and actions can be very costly. The devastation of abuse or divorce does not effect only the people involved, but everyone who enters their lives.

Robin Sabo is one of seven children who began her life in a small rural town in Ohio. Since then she has ventured through life assembling a story she never imagined would be written on the pages of a book. Her story unfolds with the uncertainty of a fourteen year old reminiscing about her childhood as her family prepares to leave Ohio and move to Hawaii. That first move is only the beginning of a life full of changes which includes ten major relocations. Incorporated in these, she candidly shares her experiences involving numerous job and career changes and her poignantly unsuccessful relationships with men; including a marriage to a man she did not love. Woven between these chronicles she exposes her pain as she recalls the deaths of her father to A.L.S. and her brother lost in a plane crash. Her story intertwines the melancholy of her years with an obvious sense of humor and humility. In doing so, she reveals her palpable errors that have influenced her perception of life which then begins another journey to find her true passion.

As I was writing about my surprise, unplanned retirement, I came to realize I needed to go back into my past in order to answer my questions about my present and to move into my future. I needed to find some peace about this latest transition. I had reached the top of the pay scale, and my principal, needing to reinforce her power status, recently pushed me into an early, unplanned retirement, which is the basis of this book. Her constant harassment tore me into pieces, but God was able to use this transition along with some of my others to reassemble the pieces and guide me into a new life. Transitions may involve an end, but they can also usher in a bright new beginning! I hope and pray that experiencing how God and I have faced some of the disturbing transitions in my life might help you or a loved one through some of the challenges you face in life.

What does "Starting Again" mean to the many different people this book reaches out to? This positive title may draw the reader to enquire why an immensely experienced physiotherapist is considering starting again. Perhaps it challenges patients to rethink their own limitations, or therapists to reconsider their own management strategies. Does it refer to a change in life for head-injured patients and their carers, or does it hint at a fresh approach to old problems? Since "Steps to Follow" and "Right in the Middle", Pat Davies has not been idle. She has remained aware of what may be new and worthwile in therapy around the world, incorporated it into her own vast experience and taken ideas, concepts and techniques back to her patients to test their clinical validity. This is, therefore, not a pedestrian text but one brimming with new ideas for immediate use. That in itself should be a message of hope for all involved in the consequences of head injury. The future will always hold new and better management strategies, the understanding of the nature and consequences of head injury will improve, and thus there should never be limits placed on what patients can achieve. Reduced to its simplicity and presented in modem day thinking, the nervous system is a neural network. It requires input for output, yet it possesses a delicate, powerful, inherent feedback system so it can drive itself optimally, test itself out, learn and adapt.