Showing results by publisher "Luminare Press" in Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development

Have you been told that you’re too sensitive, too dramatic, too verbal, too smart, too curious, and too intense? Do you feel like not enough and too much at the same time? Do you ask yourself: If I’m so smart, why am I so dumb? Yes? Then, chances are, you have a rainforest mind. A mind that runs faster, wider, and deeper than most. A personhood that is highly sensitive, perceptive, and empathetic. Like the tropical rainforest, you’re extremely complex, full of life, and misunderstood.

Mud Flower: Surviving Schizophrenia and Suicide Through Art shows the perspective of a person who has a serious mental illness, who survives extreme treatments, whose family and the health system have given up on, but who defies all expectations and common beliefs of what is possible. Along the way, the author describes the role of art in her survival, grappling with how the lifeforce can be either nurtured or destroyed by elements in our environment, such as nature, beauty, and art versus dehumanization and coercion.

Did I Do the Right Thing? Relationships is a collection of romantic relationship tales and dilemmas shared by more than 80 men and women. From the poignant to the humorous, these real-life characters look back and second-guess the decisions they made. Now they're asking you, did they do the right thing? In short story form, the listener hears how love was found, lost, faked, eluded, hidden, and even betrayed from the grave. Dating, married, or one side of the triangle in an affair, they stuck it out, worked it out, or walked out. Now they've moved on. Or have they?