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Love, Hugs, Hope: When Scary Things Happen focuses on how children can cope with significant and traumatic events in their lives.
Children feel fear, sadness, and anger. They become confused and struggle with their feelings. Love, Hugs, and Hope teaches there are ways of dealing with these emotions and helps children reaffirm fundamental truths about the world. In the wake of the tragic killings in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012, family therapist Christy Monson penned her thoughts on how the surviving children could manage emotionally through such a horrific event. Lori Nawyn, an artist and abuse survivor, illustrated the work to help children visually connect with their emotions and help them know what to | |  | | My Gift to You
What if you believed you didn't deserve to be happy?
What if you were wrong?
p style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);" class="MsoNormal">span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Trish Ingram works hard to maintain the perfect suburban household—or, at least, the appearance of one. By managing her outer world with lavish attention and rigid control, she’s able to ignore and conceal the darkness of her inner world, which is plagued by traumatic childhood memories of loss. Her terminally ill sister-in-law, Jamie, sees through the façade and reaches out in love to Trish, inspiring her to seek a more meaningful life |
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