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Dr. Nicole Martinez received her Masters and her Doctorate from Illinois School of Professional Psychology, and completed her pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowship at Gateway Foundation in Lake Villa, Illinois. She is a Professional Psychologist, an Adjunct Professor for 2 graduate programs, a Blogger for the Huffington Post, Every day Power Blog, and is a Contributor to the Chicago Tribune. She is sharing her years of experience writing about, and working with couples to help you avoid common pitfalls, and have a loving and mutual relationship.

A sparkling compilation of insightful, breathtaking, thought provoking, sensational and inspiring poetry that adopts psychological mechanisms of healing through creative expression and spoken word. Nicole Martinez chooses to penetrate issues relating to love, relationships, faith, betrayal, self-esteem, infidelity, humor, hope, denial, loss, adventure, addiction, passion, success, illness, family, salvation, entertainment, birth, culture, depression, eliminating ineffective behaviors from your daily diet, and commitment. Martinez illuminates a delicious charm with the experience of life, love, acceptance, and the pursuit of happiness. As the Heart Blooms is a rich and intimate portrait of love that takes a telescopic snapshot of the hearts core and where it chooses to survive. It provokes self-examination, laughter, joy, and tears as the Author examines the gifts, miracles, reality, and obstacles of everyday situations, as well as the pleasures of life when it is infused with love. The read easily becomes a sit down breakthrough intervention without having to pay for a scheduled therapy session. Whether you are a preacher or teacher, a home-maker or a maid, a doctor or a lawyer, a model or an artist, a billionaire or a blue-collar worker, young or old, woman or man, each can easily relate to and identify with more than one voice that is captured so eloquently in this sensational absorbing page-turner of poetry. Martinezs writing is stylish, graceful, intelligent, and comical. It becomes an elegant bouquet of beauty and wonder, a garden of delightful expressions that promotes strength, growth, and an awakening of the spirit. Get ready to fall in love all over again, or for the very first time as your heart blooms!

Kink and BDSM (bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism) have long been stigmatized and pathologized, even in the psychological community. Much of the older literature and research reflects a negative perspective that informed detrimental pathologizing of this population. Using hermeneutic and alchemical hermeneutic methodologies, this thesis aims to provide an alternative view, shedding light on the role kink/BDSM may play in individuation, journey into Self, and growth. Using psychological literature, new research on kink/BDSM, and depth psychological theories, this thesis focuses on the landscape that kink/BDSM creates in the psyche of practitioners. By examining components of kink/BDSM such as the shadow and unconscious, fantasy and the imaginal, vulnerability, connection, community, and somatic theory this thesis explores what contributes to opportunities for growth for individuals in this community.

a memoir in essays and poems: on growing up in Puerto Rico, on wounds reopened after a crisis, on finding yourself even when you feel like you don't belong

Make time each day to get alone with God through his Word. Early morning is a great choice, but Midday Meditations gives you an opportunity to put your afternoon on hold and gain insight on everyday life lessons from God's perspective. You'll learn: -How to be a light in a dark world. -How to be a victor instead on a victim. -How to be a good steward of your time. -How to feed your spirit and starve your doubt. -How to live by God's Standards instead of the world's. -And so much more. God has a plan for you and desires your attention. Purpose that you will make time each day to draw near to Him. Make His principles your Midday Meditations.

"In 2016 the Indiana Historical Society initiated three multicultural collecting projects to begin filling in the gap of historically underrepresented voices in the IHS's archives, including those of Asian American Hoosiers. Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, curator of IHS's multicultural collections and coauthor of Asian American Voices in Indiana combed through the IHS collection for records about and/or donated by Indiana's Asian American residents or those with connections to them. She subsequently interviewed and recorded the life stories of twenty-one individuals, who also generously donated photographs and other items to the IHS collection. Using the interviews and archived materials, the IHS opened its exhibition, Be Heard: Asian Experiences in Indiana, in 2019. The exhibit shared the geographic heritage of the various Asian American groups in Indiana and also brought to light experiences of these groups as foreign nationals, native-born U.S. citizens, and Hoosiers. Asian American Voices in Indiana, like the exhibit, is organized by the most prevalent Asian cultural communities in Indiana. The foreword by Nancy Nakano Conner places the groups within the context of American history. Each chapter about a particular Asian community starts with an overview, including the group's migration story, settlement experiences, types of work performed, and cultural institutions founded. The chapters are replete with individual anecdotes and interview excerpts that tell us what it has been like to be Asian in the Hoosier State and share the contributions of Asian Americans to Indiana and beyond. The Indiana Historical Society hopes this anthology will serve as the basis for future scholarship"--

Subtly approaching the topics of racism, sexism, and culture amongst the backdrop of sweet childhood memories. Stories like these belong to everyone and uniquely one girl simultaneously. San Antonio natives will enjoy the cameos of places forgotten and events long gone, and appreciate the simple storytelling style of this lovingly- crafted memoir.

some days you feel like you're living with a hole inside of you. on those days, it helps to ask yourself: what makes you soft? this is a a manifesto for radical self love, a guide for your journey towards discovering your self.

A bad decision can be recovered from or it can linger until it tangles your whole life. What if you were unaware that the decision was a bad one; what would it take for you to pull it back together and find yourself? ThatA[a¬a[s the journey Hennessy Byrd takes in this spirit-lifting story about a young ladyA[a¬a[s ability to overcome hardship and find her own way through this web we call life.

Dr. Nikki Martinez decided to make this series of books, as individuals often come to here with issues of organization, procrastination, and frustration with what needs to be done and how. She has taken the guess work out of that process, and provided you all the information and forms you never knew you needed, but will be SO grateful you have. They will come up more often than you can ever guess.