Ergebnis für "Sarah Allen" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

After a decade as a political speechwriter - serving as head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama, a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama, and chief speechwriter for Hillary Clinton on her 2008 presidential campaign - Sarah Hurwitz decided to apply her skills as a communicator to writing a book...about Judaism. And no one is more surprised than she is. Sarah Hurwitz is on a mission to close this gap by sharing the profound insights she discovered on everything from Jewish holidays, ethics, and prayer to Jewish conceptions of God, death, and social justice.

Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a writer, or to find love, but she has let it get in the way of being in the same room with someone chewing food loudly and of cleaning her bathroom sink. In I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, Kurchak examines the Byzantine steps she took to become “an autistic success story”, how the process almost ruined her life, and how she is now trying to recover.

From New York Times best-selling author Rachel Held Evans: a must-listen for anyone on the journey of doubt, deconstruction, and ultimately faith reborn. Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith. Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obsessed with apologetics, struggling as her own faith unraveled one unexpected question at a time.

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.

Both and All is a poetic memoir for the queer canon and all who've mended their own hearts. It is sad and saucy. A sapphic love story that looks at heartbreak and heartmend, parenthood, loverhood, and falling in love with your sweet self. A demonstration of the complexities of motherhood, loverhood, and all of the hardships, sensuality, monotony, and joy that comes with it.

"All the Things" is created by a woman and for women. We aim to showcase the voices and experiences of women from all walks of life, providing a platform for meaningful conversations and discussions on topics that matter most to women today.Each episode brings forth a wide range of perspectives and expertise. From career and entrepreneurship to relationships, wellness, self-care, and personal spiritual growth, we cover an array of subjects that are relevant to the lives of women. Each episode features thought-provoking interviews with inspiring women who have excelled in their fields, overcome...

Burn Bright host their yearly round-up for 2020, their inaugural year, ahead of an anthology of conversations with inspiring creative womxn to follow in 2021. Burn Bright is a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to drive positive change for writers who identify as women in theatre. We aim to level the playing field wherever possible - creating a network and opportunities to build writers up, lobbying for change, and calling out inequality and bad practice where we see it. Burn Bright was born out of a situation in which co-founders Sarah Henley and Tori Allen-Martin's work was erased, in a ...

Life is full of small details that we tuck away somewhere to revisit when we need them most: the calming sound of the sea, that childlike joy when you feel the sun hit your face on an early February morning. These small details knitted together make up our perfect ordinary lives. Few understood the importance of these more than Sarah Hughes, who lived with terminal metastatic cancer for over three years and who died in April 2021.

Thrown Away Child is a memoir covering Louise Allen’s abusive childhood in a foster home, how she survived - using her love of art as a sanctuary - and how she hopes to right old wrongs now by fostering children herself and campaigning for the improvement of foster care services. It is a compelling and inspirational story. This book gives a voice to the many children who grew up unhappily in care.

YouTuber, social media star and real-life teenager Saffron Barker tells it like it is for people her age in this diary of her not so perfect life.... In a world of airbrushing and perfectly constructed social media lives, one girl is battling to make it through completely unfiltered (well, almost). Immerse yourself in Saffron Barker's wonderful, comical and often challenging universe as she slays her teenage years with flair and enthusiasm (sometimes).

Being diagnosed with cancer is perhaps one of the worst things anyone has to deal with. As soon as you hear the word cancer, you automatically think it's a death sentence; however it doesn't need to be, and it should never have to be. Our bodies are amazing mechanisms that can self heal without the need for the toxicity of chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy used in conventional medicine.