Heather Strang

Think true love and spirituality can't be hot? Think again. For 30-year-old Kathryn Casey, merging the two has developed into a lifelong quest. A mind-blowing psychic prophecy sends Kathryn on a journey that melds meditation and wine, the Amazon and New Zealanders, hot sex and dark chocolate, and psychic healings complete with strappy sandals. The Quest delves into the core of one woman's search for great love. This novel follows Kathryn throughout rainy Portland, OR, as she attempts to capture what she desires most, while avoiding the treacherous pitfalls of self-sabotage. When Kathryn assumes she's found "The One" prophesized to enter her life, the Universe works tirelessly to bring her experiences and synchronicities that force her to think for herself. Along the way, she's visited by new and old friends alike who remind her that finding "The One" requires deeper insight into the self. Armed with this knowledge, Kathryn makes a shocking discovery that forces her to reconsider everything she thought to be true -- from her lifelong quest to her desire to bypass motherhood.

A Tale of Desire and Magic

The Quest

Director Centre for Restorative Justice Research School of Social Sciences Heather Strang, (Re

This book addresses the role of victims in our criminal justice system and the shortcomings they perceive in the way they are treated. It examines whether restorative justice can offer them more justice than they receive from the formal court-based system.Research into the shortcomings of the court-based system has identified a number of issues that victims want to address. In brief, they want a less formal process where their views count, more information about both the processing and the outcome of their case, a greater opportunity forparticipation in the way their case is dealt with, fairer and more respectful treatment, and emotional as well as material restoration as an outcome. Over the past three decades, the victim movement worldwide has agitated for an enhanced role for victims in criminal justice. Despite some successes,it appears that structural as well as political factors may mean that victims have won as much as they are likely to gain from formal justice.A series of randomized controlled trials in Canberra, known as the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE), has provided an opportunity to compare rigorously the impact on victims of court-based justice with a restorative justice program known as conferencing. In these experiments, middle-rangeproperty and violent offences committed by young offenders were assigned either to court (as they would normally have been treated) or to a conference. Empirical evidence from RISE examined in this book suggests that the restorative alternative of conferencing more often than court has the capacity to give victims what they say they want in achieving meaningful victim participation and restoration, especially emotional restoration.

Victims and Restorative Justice

Repair Or Revenge

"Anatomy of the Heart" features more than 45 poems chronicling one woman's journey with love. Walk with her through the beginning stages of love, sink into the depths of the experience, reminisce over lost love and join in the heartache of desiring a former lover. You'll also uncover the surprising similarities between the physical heart and the emotional one. The two work together like mirrors, showing us all we need to know about love and ourselves. Ultimately, "Anatomy of the Heart" brings us back to one core truth: true love is a process occurring within each one of us. Love is not an experience happening out there but rather it is an experience we're having inside of ourselves, in our bodies and in our hearts. To have loved - for even a moment - is a beautiful process regardless of the outcome.

Love Poems

Anatomy of the Heart

Ian Loader

Susanne Karstedt

The return of emotions to debates about crime and criminal justice has been a striking development of recent decades across many jurisdictions. This has been registered in the return of shame to justice procedures, a heightened focus on victims and their emotional needs, fear of crime as a major preoccupation of citizens and politicians, and highly emotionalised public discourses on crime and justice. But how can we best make sense of these developments? Do we need to create "emotionally intelligent" justice systems, or are we messing recklessly with the rational foundations of liberal criminal justice? This volume brings together leading criminologists and sociologists from across the world in a much needed conversation about how to re-calibrate reason and emotion in crime and justice today. The contributions range from the micro-analysis of emotions in violent encounters to the paradoxes and tensions that arise from the emotionalisation of criminal justice in the public sphere. They explore the emotional labour of workers in police and penal institutions, the justice experiences of victims and offenders, and the role of vengeance, forgiveness and regret in the aftermath of violence and conflict resolution. The result is a set of original essays which offer a fresh and timely perspective on problems of crime and justice in contemporary liberal democracies.

Emotions, Crime and Justice

Living Like You're On Vacation is the path to both personal and world Peace... Before the hotness of social media and showcasing one's epic adventures, I was the ultimate travel junkie. I worked to vacation. No sooner did I finish one vacation and I had the next in the works. I went on like this for quite some time - even as my understanding of spiritual principles expanded. In fact, I found an old journal where I had written that if it was up to me, I would live like I was on vacation. That actually turned out to be a prophetic statement - although I received a powerful upgrade from Spirit as to what true vacations are truly meant to be! I've spent the past nine years meditating daily and taking every course available to understand the quantum field and energy medicine while going deeper into my connection with Higher Consciousness including expanding into channeling work from my five guides The JOGs and my guide Royal. Through this deep dive with Spirit, I have brought through the transmissions contained in this book which act as healing sessions while also activating your remembrance and ability to live like you're on vacation. Dive into this Oracle daily and you will experience more Love, Peace and Prosperity than you ever thought possible as you co-create a life that feels vibrationally just like true vacations were always intended to feel, and then watch as the ripple effect extends throughout your entire life and the entire world. And so it is. It is so.

Heather Strang

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