Bøger af Jeanne Selander Miller

When your life needs to change- What do you keep and what do you leave behind? When your life and your lifestyle have brought you to this place of illness, pain, and suffering, it is foolish to believe that returning to that which made you ill will ever make you well again . . . This is the time to change everything. -Shaylah Vishnu Jeanne's life had not been a fairytale- not by a long shot. She had survived the devastating loss of her first husband, followed by a litany of lies, betrayal and manipulation by another man who was a husband in name only, her own life-threatening injury and illness, and a grand injustice by the legal system. Bitter and broken this feisty woman decided that her life and her happiness were worth fighting for. So began the adventure, one that forced her to face the world again and find a way to heal all that she had come through. On this rugged path, Jeanne walked out of the darkness and into the light, consciously embracing her own personal wisdom. She found a way to return to health, inner peace and along the way discovered a life of happiness. Come along on the journey as she has much to teach us on- The Healing Path Home.

Behind her are years of emotional abuse. Downriver ... her freedom. Married to Nash for almost 40 years, Amy has dreamt of leaving him almost since the beginning. She stayed to keep things stable for their three, now-grown children.But things have changed.On a hot afternoon while camping by a river with Nash and his friends, she wades into the river's soothing current just to cool off. She could just let herself drift with the water... around the next bend... and the next... until she disappears from a life she wishes she had fled years and years ago.But where will she go? What will she do when she gets there? What kind of new life can she create if she listens to her heart as it begs her to go?Now.In an instant, Amy decides this is her chance. Can she find her way to a new life if she lets the river take her?>A story of courage and daring ... and what it costs to start over.

Choice by choice ... When you ignore your heart's misgivings You may find yourself Somewhere you never intended to be. Jeanne had lost the love of her life when her husband died. Lonely years passed for this single mother with two kids. the bleak world of mid-life dating brought her few prospects. Then paul arrived. he was a successful businessman, promising the young widow a good life and a second chance at happily ever after. So it was that Jeanne took a chance and stepped into his world looking for love and companionship while believing in marriage and family. But what she got was something else entirely-- a marriage filled with betrayal, infidelity, injury and illness. After years of trying to save a marriage that was destined for failure right from the wedding night, Jeanne had a decision to make ... to save the marriage or to save herself. Jeanne was forced to re-examine the traditional rules and values that governed her choices ... choices that set her up for the misery she was living. She struggled with the choice ...to continue to honor longstanding traditions or to listen to the voice from within that was crying out for a new way to be. A Million Miles from Home is the story of a very personal journey through darkness and back. You will laugh, cry, rage at the injustices and cheer at the outcome. Listen to the longings of your heart ... Your heart will lead you home. If I can reclaim my life ... know that you can too.

A journey on the edge of now and eternity where every moment counts . . . what one couple discovers will make your own life shine. Jeanne Selander and Fred Miller had been married less than five years and were deeply entrenched in family life with their infant daughter and precocious four-year-old son when Fred was diagnosed with a terminal illness. His doctors gave him just three months to live. Instead of giving into fear, they chose to live each day in an unrestrained pursuit of life and love. What they discovered during the eight years that Fred survived gives us luminous insights into love and life and the spirit as they learned to live in the present and not to give away the precious moments of this life. This is an uplifting story of a courageous journey where love truly knows no bounds. Along with this couple we experience great joys and great sadness, the healing power of laughter and the amazing strengths of the human spirit. The lessons of love and loss are universal and speak to all of us How do you live fearlessly, joyfully and fully in the face of death? What awaits us beyond this life? How do you love someone so deeply . . . and yet learn to let them go?

When Elise Duncan accepts a position as director of health at the Academy of Halcyon Heights, she's relieved. Working at the prestigious private prep school allows her to be home with her children and critically ill husband during the evenings and over the summer. Elise quickly discovers the Academy has no guidance counselors. After all, the mere presence of a counselor might attract students with issues. So instead students gravitate to Elise with their problems, by default moving her into the role of confidant. Time and again her young charges reveal how the school puts appearance and donations ahead of a safe and just learning environment. Elise begins to understand the dynamics at work when she tries to help a student suffering with schizophrenia. There is no problem so compelling that it cannot be ignored, if the wealthy parents demand it. If a substantial donation is on the table, the Academy is willing to turn a blind eye, but there is a price. When a major scandal hits Halcyon Heights, the school must confront deep-seated assumptions about race, social class, age, and gender. Young lives may be ruined forever in a desperate attempt to preserve the school's prestigious reputation. Privilege, as Elise is about to discover, has rules all its own.

March 2020 New York City is the epicenter of a global pandemic. All non-essential workers have been furloughed by a governmental mandate. Twenty-eight year old Emma Earl, a promising lingerie designer, has been deemed non-essential. Anyone and everyone who has the ability to leave and some place to go is leaving the city as fear of the potentially deadly corona virus escalates and spreads. Emma decides to head north to the Adirondack Mountains to quarantine with her family in her childhood home. But much has changed since Emma left this small mountain hamlet ten years ago.>Some of the changes are in the world she left behind. Emma has always been an outlier, even in her own family. But now the divide has become magnified as her father and some of his associates, who have always been conservative, are now fully enmeshed with the alt-right and white nationalists. Compulsory Stay-at-Home orders have been issued by the Center for Disease Control in an effort to reduce the spread of Covid-19. Across the country everyone is in lockdown. The public health authorities are saying we will be Safer-at-Home. But is this true? What about Emma?