Bücher veröffentlicht von Austin Macauley

At times, we grapple with our own self-worth, seeking validation from those around us.But true belonging stems from self-acceptance and finding the people who truly value us.Each day presents a fresh start: shake off the past, reignite the spark within, and move forward without the weight of regret.

A fertile space for the imaginationBetween abortive romances, disappointment vs. hope, and past vs. present, The Spider Web taps on your experiences and inspires you to live your way; either get stuck in the spider web or cut your way through it.

We need lights in our lives to continue living and have a good time.Lights can be in the form of contentment, which can be derived from a real love or a happy life.Searching for Lights is a book of poems and short stories that will take you on a journey of discovering different kinds of love: soothing love, secret love, unspoken love, and real love.In this book, you are going to see how life is rich in both happiness and sadness, regrets and hopes.There you could be lost and struggle for love which can take you on ups and downs, humps and turbulences.Somehow fantasy is not discounted in this book. Two short stories will drag you into a world of thrills and excitement. Nevertheless, this book carries lots of meaningful, moving sentences that can be used as quotes and deep posts.And not to mention the meaningful drawings that accompanied each poem in order to deepen the meaning and clarify the message of the poem.Dear reader, you may find your story or a situation that has happened to you previously in this book - this life is a set of experiences that we have lived, even if the details differ.I hope you enjoy your journey 'Searching for Lights'.

What is the common root of the most significant crises facing humanity today? And what is a simple, universal tool both individuals and businesses can apply to create the most leverage for positive change?These are the two urgent questions at the heart of this book. Spurred by a turbulent entry into fatherhood, the author walks readers through his rude awakening to the state of the modern world, into the deeper realization of the flawed mindset threatening our future - and the universal system he devised to remedy it.Relevant to both citizens and CEO's, Mindful Futurism offers a critical tool at a time we need it most: a compact and memorable framework to guide our decision-making processes; designed to ensure the security and wellbeing of humanity for centuries to come.

"Burn"Burn in shelter, in escape, in refugeBurn in a sacred secret space of destinyBurn in shame or in contentmentBurn in ecstasyBurn in sweetness or in endeavours of sacrificeBurn layers of ego, shadows, traumas, and hidden viceBurn the falsehood of earthly fightsBurn your depths to screams and achesBurn, your flames will light the way for others to findBurn my loveBurn in delightOn a journey of the self, the seeking for clarity and wisdom, yearning for a connection with the higher self - this comes with highs and lows, pushes and pulls, resistance, liberation, blazing passion, and calm surrender. Sofia's secrets of the blue will take you on a journey, surfing these tides of longing. This collection of poetry is a search for spiritual enrichment in the pursuit of unity.

Reframing Education provides teachers, school leaders, and parents with concise yet reliable ideas at the core of effective teaching. As time marches on, mindsets evolve, and education must keep pace. The students of today need fresh perspectives to navigate a world we cannot yet envision. We must push with them the wheel of progress - not to replicate the past, but to allow the next generation to chart their own course with grit, compassion, and an eye toward posterity.This book will equip teachers to evaluate their skills and experiences in order to best prepare students for uncertain futures, prioritizing resilience over perfectionism. It speaks to the heart of transformative education, exploring new frameworks to empower students while enhancing their well-being - a vital prerequisite for achievement. The insights within will appeal to school leaders and teacher training providers seeking to align learning with the evolving needs of modern students. By reframing education, we can equip young people to pilot humanity a few feet farther.

Living in a world where speed, mobility and movement have become the norm gives rise to uncertainty, diversity, and interconnectivity. Being endowed with a global and flexible mindset allows you to take charge of a sustainable and successful career. The more agile you are, the better you will create and seize opportunities, keep moving, be ready to face instability, and have an entrepreneurial mindset regarding your career plan. No matter your background, your experience, or your curriculum, your perception will help you steer your career smoothly and ride waves of change without losing sight of your vision.Succeeding in Uncertain Times will teach you how to:- Have a global mindset either in learning or at work;- Steer your career;- Be more flexible and open-minded;- Visualize opportunities.

For successful leadership progress, no one should think of, or be put in a position to, start from the top. Leadership development is progressive. It does not mean that if you can walk, you can run! There are six main criteria that individuals should be evaluated on to be pre-qualified for leadership responsibilities. These criteria are:Academic Achievements,Experience,Personal Achievements,Leadership Training,Skills,Loyalty.Sustainable Development Leadership responsibilities necessitate extensive knowledge, experience, and achievements; therefore, the assignment of such responsibilities should be via a vertical movement and not horizontal. Often, Sustainable Development Leadership failure starts from Human Resource Corruption.

Five therapies, a medley of energy healing, and nervous system and body work, which have proven highly effective over the period of four years, in treating emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, along with energy, and childhood disassociations.Body work is the author's self-crafted somatic yoga flow. Yoga poses that target the nervous system, and psoas muscle, releasing deep rooted anger, anxiety, and depression, while promoting flexibility, and helping regulate your nervous system back to a sociable state away from stressful fight, or flight.Ayahuasca, a Brazilian Amazon vine and bark, is used to relieve panic attacks, and depression episodes, releasing your unprocessed cathartic feelings. Trauma releasing exercises by David Berceli are used alongside yoga, to activate an innate shaking reflex, which helps regulate your nervous system back to a relaxed state, releasing hip tightness, and achieving yoga splits in a mere six months.Energy work is a medley of shamanic soul retrievals by Sara Haworth, a London based practitioner trained by Sandra Ingerman, and Tal Shai's Copyrighted Soul Movement Method, a mixture of Jungian, Integral, and Gestalt Psychology. Similar to Shamanic soul retrievals, soul movements help pinpoint energetic, childhood, ancestral blockages, and fears in an attempt to heal them. Bringing back lost soul fragments, and disassociated energy due to childhood sexual, and physical abuse. Energy healing regulates your nervous system, and fragmented auric field back to a state of wholeness, peace, renewed self-worth, and protection.

In the aftermath of a harrowing car accident, Lily physically recovers, but mentally remains ensnared by the trauma.To cope, she gravitates toward self-harming habits from her past. Recognizing the dangers of this path, she courageously seeks help from a therapist. As Lily embarks on a transformative journey of self-discovery, she strives to cultivate self-love, rebuild familial bonds, and foster genuine friendships. But can these newfound connections and revelations truly heal her fragmented spirit? Dive into a poignant tale of resilience, redemption, and the pursuit of inner peace.

Sometimes, the most painful lessons in our lives can be the simple mistakes we encounter each and every day.Being a teenager can be hard but I frankly believe it is one of the important stages in life. Not only am I changing on the outside, but I'm also changing on the inside as well. I meet new people, I take the good and leave the bad; I meet other people, I take the bad and leave the good. At this point, it's just how life is. After developing many friendships, the realization hits: you realize that nobody can be trusted, not your best friend, not your classmate, or even your sister. Therefore I learnt the hard way that writing your thoughts and feelings down is a better way of relaxing than trusting someone will ever be.

Henry Silverstone's life revolves around the promise he made to his father. Haunted by the trauma of the accident, Henry immerses himself in discovering all that technology and medicine can offer him: another chance at survival.By day, he serves as a world-renowned neurosurgeon, saving the lives of his dying patients. But behind the darkness of the night's shadows, he works on fulfilling his promise: to give his father back his hands.Obsessed with the fear of losing all he knows, Henry sets on a journey to preserve everything he has. Henry pursues the idea of immortality, but only with the help of the little friends he creates along the way.These are now dark times, as New York City is experiencing an alarming rate of unexpected murders, all of which appear linked by a mysterious painting of a bloody red palm with trailing fingerprints that belong to someone who shouldn't be alive.Meanwhile, Lieutenant John Duffy sets out to put the pieces of this unnerving puzzle together. But as he does, he finds that the murder he is looking for may not be his biggest problem. For there is now something much more pressing and dangerous threatening the entire world: The Quantum Mind.

Flop is a spirited little rabbit who, together with his friends, goes on wonderful adventures in the woods where they live. From a bad incident to an encounter with a regal creature and chasing treasure at the end of a rainbow, the adventures provide valuable and relatable life lessons for Flop and his friends.

Out of tragedy something beautiful can blossom. We can never be truly prepared for difficult circumstances, but how we react when they disrupt our lives makes all the difference. None of us is exempt from pain and suffering; yet, it is for us to choose whether we allow those burdens to strengthen or weaken us.Echo of Survival offers a wealth of perspective-altering guidance on how to turn your pain into power, your negatives into positives, your losses into wins, and your self-doubt into self-confidence. Whether you are going through a divorce, grieving the loss of a friendship, or nursing broken moments, this book will guide you to a place of confidence, reassurance, positivity, and healing. Overflowing with profound nuggets of wisdom gathered from true life experiences, empathy, admirable and high emotional intelligence, Echo of Survival will inspire you to let go of every crippling, debilitating barrier in your life and rise above it using kindness, generosity, positivity, love, and compassion.It will introduce you to the path of a Free Soul Victory.You deserve a full, healthy, happy life, and it is right there waiting for you to reach out and embrace it.

If you want to know the hottest trend of the decade in the economy, you must read The Ultimate Guide to Cryptocurrency.This book was written to provide a basic, yet comprehensive understanding of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, WEB 3.0, NFTs and DeFi. In this book, you will see the opportunities that exist in this industry, as well as the problems, pitfalls, risks and every essential element that a person needs to know in order to have a comprehensive understanding of this promising new technology.This information has been carefully collected and compiled after tens of thousands of hours of research over the last 10 years. It will help you understand how these new technologies work, what their capabilities are and how you can use them to your advantage.

The Civil War has ended, and McKenna is drawn back to Charleston, the cradle of her childhood and the echoes of a tumultuous past. As she steps into the post-war remnants of her once-beloved city, questions haunt her-does her home endure, or has it succumbed to the ruin? Are the ghosts of her youth lurking in the shadows of devastation, or will the rubble reveal secrets long buried? Returning to the city of her youth, now marred by the tragedy of conflict, McKenna must summon her resilience to confront the Charleston that awaits her, forever altered by the War's relentless tide.

Embrace the golden years with a renewed sense of vigor and understanding in this enlightening exploration of seniority. This book delves deep into the intricate relationship between optimism, health, and aging, drawing from both personal experiences and broad statistical insights. Learn how factors such as one's cultural background, specifically the rise of immigrant seniors in the U.S., shape the aging experience, contrasting them with the socio-politico-economic intricacies of Latin American countries.Uncover the ever-evolving dynamics of senior care, from the intricacies of love relationships among older couples to the stark disparities between genders, both in health risks and societal expectations. This is juxtaposed against the author's empowering journey of proactive healthcare and wellness. Recognize the transformative power of systematic exercising in bolstering self-assurance, happiness, and most importantly, joy. With philosophical insights from the likes of Aristotle and more, discover how inner joy, consistent self-care, and embracing one's strengths and weaknesses play pivotal roles in enriching the experience of seniority.This guide invites you on a journey of self-discovery, offering a fresh perspective on aging with a harmonious blend of optimism, health, and profound happiness.

Mankind is on a crash course with destiny and doesn't seem to have a clue! We are witnessing rapidly accelerating global warming of our own making that could potentially result in species extinctions, including our own. Witness widespread signs of the impending disaster including super storms, record drought, floods, forest fires and climate refugees. Dangerous nuclear saber rattling by Russia and North Korea is on the upswing and the Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens to expand to Western Europe. The increasing number of fascist, autocratic, dictator-run states such as China, North Korea, Turkey, and Brazil are snuffing individual freedoms, denying social justice and fanning the flames of global conflict. The world's population is rapidly approaching eight billion and is well past the point of Earth's ability to sustain us. Crushing poverty, starvation, and dozens of militarized religious and ethnic conflicts. We have polluted our planet with toxic chemicals, oil spills, reckless dumping of trash on land and sea, contaminating the oceans with fish and fowl killing plastic waste.This book is the result of overwhelming outrage and disappointment with our species, our failure to adequately address worldwide problems that threaten our very existence. We (if there is a 'we') should be embarrassed and ashamed. Nature has endowed us with near perfect bodies and amazing brains and for the most part we squander our evolutionary inheritance. And the greatest gift of all, consciousness, is under-developed in most of us. In this collection of essays, the author offers insights into the human condition, the reasons we have run afoul of the natural order, along solutions to alleviate human suffering on an individual and global scale plus some playful jabs at our human folly.

In Danielle, the author invites readers into an intimate journey through the life of her seven-year-old daughter, who courageously battled cancer. Far from being just a heartbreaking narrative, this true story illuminates the transformative power of suffering when united with faith. Danielle, with her extraordinary spiritual maturity, finds strength and inspiration from her favorite saint, St. Therese of Lisieux, while navigating the complexities of illness.This book transcends the usual narratives of tragedy and loss by offering a message of hope and grace. Through sharing the family's experience - Danielle's remarkable perspective on life, her deep relationship with God, and her steadfast resilience - the author aims to reveal the beauty that can be found even in immense suffering. Danielle serves as a poignant reminder that life's hardships and joys are both cradled in the hands of God, and it challenges us to embrace them as such.

Heiress Miranda Howarth-Dunn longs for the things money can't buy. Orphaned and raised by servants, Miranda seeks comfort and companionship at a riding academy. Inspired by her friend whose disabled brother wished to ride, Miranda envisions creating an equine therapeutic program that gives patients and their families opportunities to ride together. All she needs is a genuine cattle ranch to make her dreams come true.Ethan Baldwin, a fourth-generation of throw-back cowboys, values doing things the old way. He finds his family ranch and land of his ancestors, under constant threat. The unpredictable nature of the cattle industry tests the financial stability of all the ranches surrounding the small community of Rambletap Springs, MO, including the Baldwin's ranch, Alma Soñada. Though it could secure the finances, the last thing Ethan wants is for his parents to bring tourists to the ranch for some riding program.Sun-Kissed Mountains of Home brings together two adversaries who, despite their opposite goals and different backgrounds, find mutual understanding as they work together around horses. Learning to communicate using animals as an example, Miranda and Ethan travel on parallel paths seeking a way to bridge the gap created by their differences. Forced into a dangerous situation, they rely on their spiritual connections to the energies around them to cope. Can the ghosts of legends and lore with whom Miranda and Ethan feel a connection be their common ground? Will they discover they might be kindred spirits after all?

In Elodie's Magical Adventures, readers are introduced to a young girl with big dreams and an imagination that knows no bounds. Even with Kindergarten just around the corner, Elodie is already dreaming of magical adventures that may one day come true. With the love and support of those around her, Elodie believes that anything is possible.Follow along as Elodie embarks on a journey of the mind, exploring enchanted forests, meeting mystical creatures, and discovering hidden treasures. With each turn of the page, readers will be captivated by Elodie's boundless imagination and the possibilities that await her.

We all have a part deep within us that is fighting to make its exit. Whether it's hidden secrets, traumatic experiences, or soul wrenching memories, it no longer wants to reside there. Let me introduce you to Grace. She weaves us through the course of her life as she embarks upon this quest for freedom from life's shackles. On this journey, we experience her deeply rooted pain, and her drive towards deliverance. We witness her attempts of resurrection from the dark pits of pain to the moment of her personal triumph.Pursing growth commences through the identification of the who, what, where, when and why's in our lives. Gaining a better understanding of how our past paves our future can help individuals make positive choices that will support authentic healing and restoration.Birthed Anew: From Pain to Passion to Purpose will shed light on commonly hidden skeletons while simultaneously revealing the beauty of what it actually means to transition from a painful situation to a purposeful one and ultimately experience the gift of forgiveness.

What if a little lightning bug loses her light? What happens when a horsefly lands in a giant web? Do bumblebees lose their stings?This book addresses the what ifs of life for everyone! Lexi, Horace, Bella and Gus teach worriers to focus on the positive aspects of life and their friendships in a way that only The Little Worry Warts can.

In October 1851, the bustling harbors of Gloucester, Massachusetts marked the onset of a promising venture as the American fishing fleet set sail towards the bountiful mackerel run in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. However, as they neared the waters off Prince Edward Island, Canada, an unanticipated hurricane engulfed them in a tempest of terror and despair, obliterating over 200 schooners and vessels. The calamity claimed the lives of over 100 seamen, a tragic toll that resonated across the waves.Disasters at Sea unveils the poignant yet inspiring chronicle of the Prince Edward Island residents, who, propelled by compassion, rallied to extend a lifeline to the beleaguered seamen. Their unwavering aid echoed the noble deeds of the Newfoundland residents during the 9/11 crisis. With hearts brimming with empathy, they embarked on a mission of rescue, recovery, and honor for the fallen, manifesting an enduring maritime bond.This narrative reflects on the ethos of neighborly duty prevalent in the 19th-century Maritime Canada, highlighting a stark contrast against the seemingly indifferent response of the vessel owners in the aftermath, who appeared to evade accountability for the lost souls and shattered vessels. Disasters at Sea navigates through the haunting whys of fate's discernment amidst the storm, unearthing the profound human spirit that surges even amidst the darkest squalls, painting a timeless tableau of maritime valor and human resilience.

Uijongbu unfolds in the wake of the Korean War, in a town left ravaged and rebuilding just beginning got recover. At the U.S. Army Base in Uijongbu, just south of the Demilitarized Zone, an unplanned economy emerges, intertwining the lives of American GIs and young Korean women. This delicate and complex connection fuels both romance and disaster, creating a tapestry of relationships that are as hopeful as they are heartbreaking.Through a series of stories that vary from humorous to heartrending, the author captures the resilience, warmth, and humanity of the Korean people. The novel paints an intimate portrait of a time and place marked by love, loss, and cultural connection. Uijongbu is a haunting reminder of war's lasting impact, and a poignant testament to the indomitable human spirit.

Embark on a heartwarming journey with Abby May's First Day, as Abby steps into a new school, eager to make friends despite feeling a tad different.As she hops onto the school bus with hopes soaring high, little does she know, a world of discovery awaits.Through the lens of youthful camaraderie, explore the beautiful tapestry of diversity and the magic that unfolds when children embrace the uniqueness within and around them.Together with her newfound friends, Abby May uncovers that communication, inclusion, and acceptance can unfurl delightful surprises, making the world a smaller, happier place.