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Up until her 40's, Sheila's life was like that of any other suburban wife and mother. Married for twenty years to the same man, she found great success balancing a career in advertising with raising two beautiful children. She also lived up to her own very high standards as a quintessential homemaker, gourmet cook, world traveler, public speaker, cyclist, marathoner, and a trainer for other athletes. Those around Sheila were amazed by her ability to juggle her seemingly perfect life. In this book, Ms. Joy candidly reveals that behind her mask of perfection was a life filled with turbulence and pain. Always working hard to cover up her insecurities and feelings of not being good enough, she n...
America’s #1 true-crime writer fulfills a murder victim’s desperate plea with this shattering New York Times bestseller. “If anything ever happens to me…find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story.” In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim's request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush—a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished candor. Although happily ensconced in a loving second marriage, and a new family of quadruplets, Sheila never truly escaped the vicious enslavement of her ex-husband, multi-millionaire Allen Blackthorne, a handsome charmer— and a violent, controlling sociopath who subjected Sheila to unthinkable abuse in their marriage, and terrorized her for a decade after their divorce. When Sheila was slain in her home, in the presence of her four toddlers, authorities raced to link the crime to Blackthorne, the man who vowed to monitor Sheila's every move in his obsessive quest for power and revenge.
My book covers my life and times and is replete with confidences and revelations both political and personal.
This enlightening book integrates humanistic and transpersonal psychotherapy principles with family systems work. Transforming the Inner and Outer Family discusses a wide range of creative methodologies, such as the use of meditation, guided imagery, and energy centers in the body to bridge the inner and outer experiences of the individual and family members. Chapters explore the healing capacity of intense affect to unify significant others through the transformation of fear, anger, and grief to understanding, compassion, love, and forgiveness. The book is practical as well as theoretical, containing many case studies focusing on individual, couples, and family therapy. In addition, a speci...
Read the Review! This is a book about relationships. It's the tale of one woman's slow awakening to what she's done to herself in allowing her relationship with her overly possessive mother to dictate the course of her life. It's about the mother whose manipulation pushed her daughter into marriage with a man she did not love, the husband who is a victim of that union, the precious children who suffer but eventually thrive, and the handsome southerner who sets the change in motion. Anyone who has ever resented a parent's manipulation or, even once, thought about leaving a marriage will find Sheila's dilemma a compelling one. Harried career women. sandwich generation moms, and anyone wondering how they strayed so far from their real selves will identify with Sheila's long-repressed spirit as it embarks on the slow dance of connecting with the person she once was.
"The Torch Bearer" is Reina Melcher Marquis's first and only book, published in 1914. This insightful work explores the question of how a woman can be a wife and mother and simultaneously be faithful to her art.
Millionaire security expert and rancher Zeke Travers always separates emotion from work until a case leads him to Sheila Hopkins--and the immediate, scorching heat between them. Suddenly, Zeke is tempted to break the rules. And it's only a matter of time before he gives in....
How does a mother guide her children to love and serve God at every age? Sheila Keckler Butt knows! Her work is biblically based and contains many examples of mother-child relationships. Great for personal and group study; great for gifts. Chapter questions.
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