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Dealing with children can often be stressful. You can easily lose yourself trying to help them. It doesn’t matter if you are a parent, or child professional, it’s important when caring for, and working with children, to take care of yourself too.
So many wonderful people have found themselves saying and doing things they thought they would never do to a child, or to themselves, because they forgot the most important rule when trying to help someone else—love yourself. For years I heard this, but I didn’t know how to love myself until I discovered Mindfulness---an ancient practice of how to live in the moment. It taught me to nurture my own hurt and damaged child who lived inside of me.
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I found that I had more compassion, patience, and understanding for my children, especially my adopted son who suffered Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)--- a condition that won’t let children love and trust others, especially adults. But through mindfulness, I nurtured myself, and the healing for me, and---and my son began.
I invite you to explore this website and find out how to live in the here and now ( Mindfulness), and know that taking care of yourself, is taking care of others too.
Love, Light and Peace
Janet |
" Award-Winner
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USA Book News “2006 Best Books”
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A Hollywood publicist seeking help for her
emotionally-disturbed adopted son, finds herself
on a challenging journey that leads her to a
surprising destination - self-love.
"A
Cry for Light: Janet Alston Jackson unveils
Reactive Attachment Disorder "RAD", and
shares the process of mindfulness to successfully
heal her broken heart, move on with her life, and
at last regain her detached adopted son..
Her profound and insightful journey
provides inspiration and support from someone who
has been there.
It doesn't matter if you're
a parent or not, reading this book and identifying
"RAD" symptoms in your relationships is for
anyone who needs to learn an important rule in
dealing with someone who is detached: take care of
yourself, too..
Order
The Book from Paypal
Or Purchase the
book from Amazon
Read an excerpt
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What they are saying
about A CRY FOR LIGHT:
"An amazing book filled
with love, power and mindfulness of how each and
every one of us can make a difference in this
world!"
-USABookNews.com
"What a Journey! I think that "A CRY FOR
LIGHT" will help prepare families who choose to
embark on helping hurt children. It will provide a great
reality check for those families already in the middle
of something they had no idea they would be facing.
Professionals who place disturbed children in families
will get an inside look as to why so many families
adopting children with high levels of disturbance look
so crazy AFTER a placement has been made. I've heard so
many professionals say, "These people looked great while
we were studying their home. I wonder what happened to
them?" Well, join Janet, Walt, Ryan, Devon, and Jada on
their journey into love. I know that you will wonder no
more."
Read
Full Foreword
Gregory C.
Keck,Ph.D.
Founder, Director Attachment and Bonding
Center of Ohio
Co-author of "Adopting the Hurt Child"
& "Parenting the Hurt Child"
"This is a beautiful book about the profound
transformation that is possible when we ground our lives
in mindfulness, the awareness of what is happening in
the present moment. The author is truly skilled in the
practice of recognizing and embracing her thoughts and
feelings, even in the midst of extremely painful and
frustrating situations. She shows us how to love and
also how to let go. This allows us to remain in control
of our own minds instead of trying to control what is
outside of us. This is a book for everyone; we can all
grow in our capacity of loving and
understanding-especially the very difficult people in
our lives. And all of us need to see that we are
connected to the many hurt and neglected children who
are still stuck in situations of despair and
injustice."
Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Master and Peace
Activist nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for the
Nobel Peace Prize. "Among Buddhist leaders influential
in the West, Thich Nhat Hanh ranks second only to the
Dalai Lama." The New York Times.
"This book reads like a novel. It touched my
heart in so many ways!
Stacy Miller, Vice
President, Child Care Resource Center
"A CRY FOR LIGHT" is so important for all of
us who have lived through similar challenges being the
parents of children who have been hurt and damaged, and
for all of us who work in "the system."
This is not
just another adoption book!"
Barb Holtan,
MA,MSW
Executive Director
Adoption Exchange
Association
Project Director, Collaboration to
AdoptUSKids
"A CRY FOR LIGHT" offers a rare perspective
into the world of foster care - that of an adoptive
family who never faltered in their love and dedication
to their son who, by no fault of his own, was damaged by
the abuse and neglect he suffered as a young
child.
"The Jackson family's prolonged odyssey into
the education and mental health systems exemplifies one
of the best kept secrets of the child welfare system:
rather than developing services to fit the individual
child, we try to fit the child into existing and often
ineffectual service systems.
Janet Jackson's book
leaves you with hope rather than despair and illustrates
the resilience of children and the need for dedicated
adoptive families."
Amy M. Pellman
Legal
Director
The Alliance for Children's
Rights
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