Bøger af Jay Parker

Sex and love addiction blows up lives in brutal ways, but there is hope for recovery for those who seek it. Jay Parker, professional Recovery Coach and founder of No More Secrets, provides a look inside a very unique approach to recovery with powerful stories of heartbreak, betrayal, hard work, forgiveness and restoration. Jay shares experiences and observations that are surprising, poignant, encouraging and inspiring. "Jay Parker takes us on a journey that is enlightening, inspirational and highly informative. His contribution in the field of sex and love addiction is the most cutting edge work I've seen to date. It is a must read for anyone dealing with the effects of this pervasive addiction and any clinician treating these individuals!" - Rokelle Lerner, Clinical Director of InnerPath Retreats, Cottonwood Tucson, Author of: The Object of My Affection is in My Reflection: Coping With Narcissists, Daily Affirmations for Adult Children of Alcoholics, Affirmations for the Inner Child and Living in the Comfort Zone: The Gift of Boundaries in Relationship. "Let's thank Jay Parker and his forward thinking in recovery for writing a diary of a year's accounting of what actually happens while people are getting help versus just telling a story about what's on the other side. We can begin to learn to shed our secrets and get clear and deeper as we go into sobriety. It's a must read!" - John Lucas, former NBA All-Star and NBA Coach, Author of Winning One Day At a Time. "This is a book that is hard to put down! It reveals a revolutionary way for sex and love addicts to recover. It is filled with stories of heartache and healing." - Dr. Hilarie Cash, PhD, LMHC, Co-author of Video Games and Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control. "I am privileged to have experienced the positive results of Jay's work in both being a therapist who has worked closely with him in the treatment and continuing care relationship and in being able to experience his community of recovery and see the positive results achieved with even the most broken of lives and relationships as a result of sexual addiction." - Michael Morton, MA, LMFT, KeyStone Center Extended Care Unit Jay Parker is a native of New York City who ran a successful basketball talent scouting service in Texas until his own struggles with addiction took his life in another direction. He lost his business and career. Through his professional association with the former pro basketball all-star, John Lucas, Mr. Parker entered the John Lucas Treatment and Recovery Center in Houston and dealt with his addiction, turning his experience into his expertise. Mr. Parker completed counseling course work and became a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC) in Texas in 1994. He began a new career in mental health as the director of education at West Oaks Hospital in Houston before moving to the private alcohol and drug treatment center, The Right Step. He moved to the Pacific Northwest to take an administrative position with Lakeside-Milam Recovery Centers in Kirkland, Washington. He met Dr. Hilarie Cash, who was at work developing observations about computer and Internet addiction. In 1999, they co-founded Internet/Computer Addiction Services (I/CAS) in Redmond Washington. As a byproduct of his work in I/CAS Mr. Parker started No More Secrets in 2000. He has appeared on ABC News, CNN, the BBC, and PBS, and been interviewed by publications including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and U.S. News and World Report. In 2013 Mr. Parker left the field of counseling to become a recovery life coach. He is happily married with two adult children. He recently celebrated his twenty second year of personal sobriety. His commitment to his own recovery is unwavering. Mr. Parker takes particular delight in dancing at the weddings of his clients who, like him, have turned their lives around.

Katana-Ra is a new and unique RPG that brings cyberpunk and the ancient Japanese world together in an amazing experience you won't find anywhere else. Inspired by feudal Japan, Kanata-Ra is ruled by clans and factions, split by their differences over classic beliefs and futuristic technology.In Katana-Ra, you can explore a rich and detailed world where anything is possible. Customize your samurai with powerful augmentations, choose your allies from among the many factions vying for control, and master magic to unleash devastating attacks on your enemies. You can be whoever you want to be in Katana-Ra. With so many choices for how to play, there's something for everyone. Will you follow the traditional samurai path or will you enhance your body and mind? Be careful how far on any chosen path you tread, for in Katana-Ra ancient demons haunt the most cutting-edge tech.For 2-5 players, led by a Shujin (game master), the Katana-Ra Role-Playing Game is both a campaign setting and a ruleset in one book. Easy to learn, this Core Rule Book includes all the details needed to create multi-layered characters and engage in campaigns with elaborate aims. Whether you trust in the sword or augment yourself into something more than human, Katana-Ra offers players a variety of gameplay styles.

This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad's central texts, including Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and Lord Jim. Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and demystifying, postcritique ascribes positive value to the knowledge, affect, ethics, and politics that emerge from literature. The essays in this collection recognize the dark elements in Conrad's fiction-deceit, vanity, avarice, lust, cynicism, and cruelty-yet they perceive hopefulness as well. Conrad's skepticism unveils the dark heart of politics, and his critical heritage can feed our fear that humanity is incapable of improving. This Conrad is a well-known figure, but there is another, neglected Conrad that this book aims to bring to light, one who delves into the politics of hope as well as the politics of fear. Chapters 1 and 2 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

Investigates the sexual behavior and relationships of prison inmates and examines the attitudes of officials and guards toward sex in prison"By far the best book on the subject. Painfully accurate. This book far surpasses other studies of male sex in prison."--Laud Humphreys, PhD, Pitzer College, author of Tearoom Trade"It expands the existing literature into a realm not previously addressed. . . . No one book will answer all questions about sex in prison, but what impresses me about [the authors'] work is that it answers some questions most people have not even yet thought of asking . . . a pioneering work."--A. Nicholas Groth, PhD, Director, Sex Offender Program, State of Connecticut Department of Corrections