Amethyst and Rainbow Island
In this world there are many ways of seeing things, many ways to solve problems, and many, many ways to deal with them. This story offers different ways of looking at some of the issues life has thrown at nine-year-old Amethyst, who quite often feels overwhelmed and alone.
She has issues at home with her two older brothers and at school with a couple of bullies. Things start to get very interesting when a kind teacher offers her an amazing experience that takes her on an adventure of a lifetime to an enchanted and hidden place called Rainbow Island. There, she discovers certain strategies to help turn her life around and show her better ways to cope and enhance her life. Not only that, she also realizes her dreams and fantasies come true by bringing to light real fairies, pixies, nymphs, and the excitement of riding dolphins.
Come along with Amethyst on this incredible journey and get a glimpse of the secrets that lie in the rainbow forest and throughout Rainbow Island.
How Can I Keep Breathing?
One of lifes hardest blows is to suffer the loss of a child. How Can I Keep Breathing? offers insight and validation to the initial feelings and behaviours that arise from such a trauma, including the struggle to keep on going and the various ways family members cope with this kind of tragedy. Author Olivia Sunshine also shows, through her personal experience, a way of turning loss and pain into an ongoing opportunity to becoming a more fully developed and integrated human being. It is the silver lining that seems so impossible to find when ones heart has been so badly shattered. The effect of such a loss resonates throughout the rest of each family members life, even for siblings born after such a tragedy, creating a lifelong relationship with the deceased child. How Can I Keep Breathing? goes into detail the struggle with this and the coming to terms with it.
Death invites examination of our beliefs about it, asking what, if anything, lies after death. Olivia gives a compassionate view of different ways of handling the death of a child, showing how the spiritual path she chose helped her cope with the loss of her son and how it changed her life for the better in more ways than she could have imagined.