Résultats pour "Awakenings" dans Biographies et mémoires

Awakenings - which inspired the major motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and their extraordinary transformations.

AWAKENING... chronicles Cera's life story through her experiences of painful survival, the Law of Attraction, arriving her dream life... spiritual awakening, and Buddhism. Since she's a science lover, many credible sources of fascinating life science discoveries of the world are cited. "The most valuable treasure of this book isn't my stories but those miraculous life science discoveries that inspired me to revisit those ancient religious scripts which I rejected for 56 years. "

What happens when the unseen world reaches into our ordinary lives and changes everything we thought we knew? Three extraordinary encounters. Three spiritual awakenings. One woman's remarkable journey into the mysteries of consciousness, ancient wisdom, and the Divine. In Three Awakenings...

My Unleashing, Memoir of a Queer Dad is a chronicle of my post-divorce journey to find the comfort of self as a “single” person; to find a sense of place, of home, and an inner peace in an increasingly chaotic world; to tap into the core elements of my strength and dissolve deep-seeded fears...

FINALIST FOR THE 2026 KIRKUS PRIZE “Defiance takes my breath away. A nail-biting tale of astonishing courage.” —Jeannette Walls #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle “A heartbreaking account of a young woman’s struggle for freedom against the rampaging forces of...

If you're looking for a way to make a positive impact on the world, Matthew S. Friedman's inspiring book is the perfect guide. Through his incredible experiences and tireless activism over 35 years, he shows us that one person truly can create a ripple effect that leads to global change. As you...

Who are we beneath the masks we wear? Beneath the surface lie buried memories, silent battles, hidden fears, and truths we spend a lifetime avoiding. But what happens when we dare to look deeper? When we strip away the layers and examine who we really are… While the heart is still beating. The...

In a world drowning in noise and illusion, Awakening Beyond is a call to return to clarity, presence, and truth. Nick Shane leads listeners through a powerful odyssey — from emotional chaos to still awareness, from shadow into radiance, from self-forgetting into divine remembrance. Through chapters of reflection, revelation, and lived testimony, he unveils the process of awakening as both a science of consciousness and a sacred art of the soul.

Part memoir, part recovery guide, Darrin Ford weaves his professional experience as a therapist of 19 years with personal lessons gained as an addict in recovery. His journey has resulted in a mindfulness practice that benefits all those who believe they have been left fundamentally broken because they are addicts. This book helps the addict gain a compassionate awareness that they are not "broken".

Updated with new exercises to deepen your spiritual journey, this powerful debut from one of the world's most respected shamanic teachers leads you through healing rites and initiations along the Andean Medicine Wheel This book follows the Shamanic journey specifically through the rites of...

A healing resource that blends practical plant-based knowledge with spiritual reconnection to show how respect for and communion with our natural world guides us toward healing. Combining Vanessa's story of her own healing journey with practical plant-based knowledge, Awakening Artemis is rooted...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “When I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth. I didn't know how much I needed someone else to validate what I was going through. The sense that I had lost my curiosity, my imagination, my ability to make meaning.” –...

Everything seen and unseen that exists in our universe consists of pure energy, light which resonates as vibratory frequency. We are light beings; our energy is something we put out into the world. When we notice and become one with this sacred interconnectedness of all things, we begin to take more responsibility for the energy we radiate. The sheer bliss of discovering your oneness with Source is inherent and magical, and the rise of kundalini which enables it is a most precious blessing.

In August 2006, many senior U.S. officials thought America had lost the war in Iraq, as the senior U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer there wrote that control of al Anbar Province, the seat of the raging Sunni insurgency, was irrevocably lost to the insurgents. In January 2007, the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment deployed to Ramadi as part of the 3rd Infantry Division, the first regular Army unit to deploy to Iraq for a third time. The battalion and its went to work in a campaign that will be seen as the D-Day of the Global War on Terror.

An American Awakening offers a rare, courageous look into the misunderstood phenomenon of Spiritual Emergency—a term first coined by Stanislav and Christina Grof in the 1970s to describe a transformational crisis with profound psychological and spiritual implications. Though recognized in some therapeutic and indigenous circles, this experience remains widely overlooked—and often mishandled—in modern American culture.

If you enjoy engrossing and thought-provoking stories full of humor, adventure, and intrigue, then you should listen to this book. Although the biography spans 60 years, the core of the story takes place in a remote fly-in location in Canada's Northwest Territories, where Alastair, discontented with the passivity of early retirement, went to live with a small First Nations band in search of adventure and a deeper meaning to life. He found what he was looking for.

From the outside, Vince Kramer looked like he had it all. He was a commercial airline pilot, happily married, owned a beautiful home, and treated himself to the finer things in life. With so much in his life, why was he feeling like there should be more? Why wasn’t he happier? Fulfilled? As his days unfolded, he came to the uncomfortable realization that searching for satisfaction from the outside world wasn’t going to fill the void within himself.

“A vital, inspiring book” (O, The Oprah Magazine)—a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that won Saudi women the right to drive. Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter...

Are you controlled by fear? Does anxiety have you paralyzed? A life free of fear and anxiety is not only possible, it is your birthright. This is the brave and brutally honest story of one woman’s journey from surviving a lonely and perilous childhood to awakening to the truth of who she is and who we all are: the power, the creativity, and the loving essence that exists in each of us.

Written over the course of several years, Awakening to Me is a story of personal metamorphosis. Kerri Hummingbird shares her intimate and difficult journey to identify and express her authentic being into the world. It documents how alternative healing methods and mindfulness practices led to an amazing transformation. Her story is engaging, sometimes disturbing, yet with a clear underlying thread of compassion for herself and others also engaged in their own struggle with borderline personality disorder. In her words, she seeks to give voice to those who have no voice.