Bøger af Rachel Harris

Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rain forest, the mystical brew ayahuasca is now becoming increasingly popular in the West. Psychologist Rachel Harris here shares her own healing experiences and draws on her original research (the largest study of ayahuasca use in North America) into the powerful medicine¿s effects on depression, addiction, PTSD, and anxiety. In this wide-ranging and personal exploration, Harris details ayahuascäs risks and benefits, helping readers clarify their intentions and giving psychotherapists a template for transformative care and healing.

New York Times BestsellerComplicated, messy, love

One sexy fire captain. One Cajun chef, One combustible kitchen

While learning to count, all children will skip numbers. The opening dialogue illustrates this process: "1, 2, 3, 5." "Where's 4?" "4 went on vacation." With 4 missing, 1, 2, 3, and 5 all speculate as to where 4 is vacationing and what 4 is doing on his vacation. These fantasies range from going to the moon, swimming to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, and running in the Olympics. After 4 returns, 4 tells them all about his camping trip to 4 Rainbow National Park. 4 and his family went hiking, swimming, canoeing, and bicycling before coming home to Numberland. The book's narration is written in a manner that entertains both the child and the adult reading the story, combining both learning and childhood imagination.

This fictional book is based on the author's experience of losing her brother to suicide when she was only 15 years old. Follow Jordyn's journey as she discovers the difficulties of life after a tragedy. Feeling all of the emotions, her faith is tested. Jordyn struggles to come to terms with the "new normal" of life, and processing who she now is becomes a daily challenge. Experience the lows that the loss of a loved one through suicide brings, along with the hope and healing that can come.

Angelle Prejean is in a pickle. Her family is expecting her to come home with a fianc

Arabella Stone, Nashville's darling, is eager to shuck her prim-and-proper rep, and a few wild months spent checking items off her " summer bucket list" is the way to do it. First up: kiss the man she's crushed on since she wore a training bra, the bad boy of country himself, Blue bassist Charlie Tucker. For Charlie, a beautiful woman flirting with him isn't out of the norm-but a beautiful woman bolting after the hottest kiss of his life sure is. And when he finds out his kiss-and-run Cinderella is none other than Arabella Stone, daughter of his label's CEO, he knows he's in trouble. Because not only is she a Stone, she's also his employee for the next few months at the recording studio he just bought.Over the course of one thrilling summer, Arabella and Charlie chip away at her bucket list and fight the simmering attraction between them...knowing that once it's all over, so is their time together.

Soft-spoken and shy Hannah Fisher is determined to make the man she's loved her entire life finally see her as a woman. With the help of a makeover and the convenient forced proximity of a tour bus, she vows to win her best friend Deacon's heart. Former bad boy and current fiddle player Deacon Latrell has the world at his fingertips: a new gig with a famous band, plus his best friend on tour as his son's nanny. Life couldn't get much sweeter. Now if only he could stop imagining kissing the daylights out of his childhood BFF... With one friend set on pushing the boundaries and the other afraid to rock the boat, one thing's for certain-their story would make one heck of a country song.

With the return of material lost for decades, the story of a nearly forgotten Northern California lumber strike is told with immediacy, drama, passion, humor, and relevance to events happening today. The 1935 strike, in which three workers were killed, cast a long shadow over Humboldt County in Northern California. First-person narratives, excerpts from letters and strike bulletins, period photographs, and even a fascinating detour through 1960's San Francisco, make this colorful chapter of American labor history compelling reading.

Mrs. Pearl thought she knew what her greatest treasure was. She couldn't think of anything more precious than the beautiful pink and gold pearl that Uncle Odell had given to her many years before. He had since passed and the "quotes" inscribed on it always gave her comfort. She always kept it close to her heart until it was stolen in the middle of the night! When the Sea Patrol has nothing to go on Mrs. Pearl reaches out to her community. When her story is broadcast via SEA-NN News some amazing things begin to happen as the whole ocean responds to Mrs. Pearl's pleas for help.As the story unfolds, you will find much more mystery surrounding the story of the pearl. And you will learn that wherever your heart is, that's where your treasure is too.

This collection of step-by-step practices from ancient cultures, world religions, and psychological disciplines provides readers with the self-renewing, spiritually, uplifting rewards of retreat anytime, anywhere. We all crave periods of silence and introspection, but with lives lived at an ever-increasing pace most of us find fewer opportunities to fill that need. Now, psychologist Rachel Harris has come to the rescue with this unique collection of 20-, 5- and 1-minute mini-retreats-short periods of meditation, contemplation or self-discovery drawn from traditions and practices as varied as Buddhism, the Quaker faith, Sufism, art therapy, ritual magic, Gestalt therapy, and Jungian dream analysis. Provocative sidebars, stimulating quotes, and touching first-person stories make this book as inviting to read as it is practical to use. With these brief retreats, readers of any age or occupation will be able to catch their emotional breath regardless of what is happening in life, to pause to listen to the sounds of their souls, and to reemerge balanced and refreshed.

Synthesized together, these practices create new forms that facilitate powerful, affective experiences of faith.

Gender in Chinese Music draws together contributions from ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars to explore how music is implicated in changing notions of masculinity, femininity, and genders "in between" in Chinese culture.

Traces the formation the Twelve Muqam, a set of musical suites linked to the Uyghurs, who are one of China's minority nationalities, and culturally Central Asian Muslims.