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| WELCOME! 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.
| 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.
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
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USA Book News -2006 Best Book for Christian Inspiration 
| "A Cry for Light: A Journey into Love" is an electric, page-turner---a fascinating memoir of how Janet Alston Jackson learned how to (live in the present moment (Mindfulness) to find inner peace amid chaos. She healed her broken heart, and regained her detached son. Her profound and insightful journey is inspiration and support for readers from someone who has been there.
A Hollywood publicist seeking help for her emotionally-disturbed adopted son, finds herself on a heart-pounding journey that leads her to a surprising destination. It doesn't matter if you're a parent or not, this book is for anyone who needs to learn how to take care of themselves when dealing with difficult people. No matter what crisis you are going through. You can still find inner peace and the answers.
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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."
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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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