The Forgotten Survivors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forgotten Survivors write by Shannon Jaccard. This book was released on 2019-03-21. The Forgotten Survivors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Forgotten Survivors explores the unique experience of siblings who have a brother or sister with a serious mental illness. The book provides insight and guidance in how to move the sibling bond forward even if the relationship has been marred by turmoil and separation. Some siblings just don't know what to do, and often it's easier for them to do nothing. Others are exhausted from balancing the needs of their aging parents, their ill sibling, and raising their own families. Through all of their efforts, no one bothers to ask them how they are doing. No one recognizes the trauma they have experienced each time their sibling was hospitalized, or each time their mother or father fell apart. These siblings hold in their emotions. The Forgotten Survivors will challenge you to forgive, to love, and to unify.Shannon Jaccard is an advocate, entrepreneur, coach, and professional speaker. Shannon Jaccard was the CEO of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) San Diego and Founder of Compeer San Diego. Shannon serves on several boards including RI International and the Meeting Place Clubhouse. Shannon has received numerous awards such as; the Rona and Ken Purdy Award to End Discrimination and the Channel 10 News Leadership Award. She was named one of San Diego's "50 People to Watch" by San Diego Magazine. Shannon has published several articles bringing to light the experiences siblings share when a loved one has a mental illness and is an international speaker on stigma, labels, and mental illness. Shannon earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and her Master's of Business Administration from California State University, San Marcos. Shannon is an Aspen Institute Fellow of the inaugural class of the Health Innovators Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Through her professional work, advocacy, and speaking engagements, Shannon has worked with hundreds of family members around the globe to provide support, education, and hope. You can find more information about Shannon, plus tips and support, at her website: www.shannonjaccard.com or on Instagram @ShannonJaccard
Forgotten Survivors
Forgotten Survivors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forgotten Survivors write by Richard C. Lukas. This book was released on 2004. Forgotten Survivors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Richard Lukas presents the eyewitness accounts of these and other Polish Christians who suffered at the hands of the Germans. They bear witness to unspeakable horrors endured by those who were tortured, forced into slavery, shipped off to concentration camps, and even subjected to medical experiments. Their stories provide a somber reminder that non-Jewish Poles were just as likely as Jews to suffer at the hands of the Nazis, who viewed them with nearly equal contempt.".
The Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence
The Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence write by Loren Kleinman. This book was released on 2023-06-30. The Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The toll of America’s gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost—more than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many more people who are shot every year, and survive. —Shot and Forgotten, The Trace “Nearly 40,000 people die from gun violence in the US every year. This uniquely American crisis leaves no community untouched—but it doesn’t have to be this way.” —Gabrielle Giffords The Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence collects 20 personal essays of survivors’ visible and invisible wounds from school shootings, attempted suicide by firearm, mass shootings, gang violence, and domestic violence. Their stories remind us that these traumatic experiences are not exclusive to combat soldiers but, more notably, suffered by ordinary people during modern life. With this collection, editors Loren Kleinman, Shavaun Scott, Sandy Phillips and Lonnie Phillips expose the true lifecycle of a bullet and the trauma left in its wake. Through personal narratives and select personal photos, the wounded tell a story that’s forgotten when the cameras go away. This collection will be of interest to first responders, officers, therapists, medical practitioners, and educators.
Hidden Children
Hidden Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hidden Children write by André Stein. This book was released on 1994. Hidden Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ten stories of children who experienced the holocaust firsthand.
The Forgotten Mourners
The Forgotten Mourners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forgotten Mourners write by Magdaline Desousa. This book was released on 2011-12-21. The Forgotten Mourners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Laceys Sister, 3/29/13 Davids Sister, 10/26/12 Bella, 8/21/12 A sibling loss to suicide is even more unique because the sibling(s) left behind are often forgotten mourning the loss of their brother or sister alone in the shadows of their parents grief. This book discusses some of the challenges sibling survivors of suicide will face, both individually and as a family unit, including: -- What can I expect during the grieving process as a sibling survivor of suicide? -- How can I set boundaries to take care of myself? -- Will my relationship with my parents change? -- How do I answer questions about my now-departed sibling? -- What can I do to get through the holidays and anniversaries? -- How do I keep my brother or sister alive in my life, without him or her physically present? These questions and more are answered directly from the authors experiences following the loss of her eighteen year-old brother to suicide in November 2001. Hopefully, her experiences will give sibling survivors of suicide a bit of strength, hope, and peace in navigating the long road to healing ahead.
