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This memoir shines a light on the epidemic of physician burnout, depression and suicide, offering the author's journey of practicing medicine without losing heart and showing her medical students and residents how to do the same. As a doctor, mother and immigrant, Dr. Mukta Panda models how to thrive by creating community and self-awareness.
# Textured Threads Mastering the Art of Embroidery Unlock the secrets to a world of stunning, elevated embroidery with *Textured Threads*. This comprehensive guide lays out a masterful journey through the realms of fabric art, providing both beginners and seasoned stitchers a roadmap to creating textured masterpieces. ### Highlights of What Awaits You Inside **1. Elevated Embroidery Foundations** Explore the rich history and evolution of fabric art. Understand the importance of advanced stitching techniques, and get acquainted with the essential tools and materials to elevate your craft to new heights. **2. The Right Fabric for Your Art** Distinguish between natural and synthetic fabrics, unravel the intricacies of weaves and textures, and learn how to choose the perfect fabric to bring your textured visions to life. **3. Essential and Advanced Stitches** Begin with the core stitches, master tension and consistency, then progress to three-dimensional effects with raised and padded stitch techniques. Enhance plain stitches and delve into variegated thread methods to create unparalleled depth. **4. Flourish with Embellishments** Discover the flair of knot stitches, delve into the fundamentals of couching, and learn how to incorporate beads and sequins seamlessly into your work for an extra touch of sophistication. **5. Explore, Innovate, and Personalize** Venture into surface embroidery, trapunto, and silk ribbon techniques. Understand how to mix media, utilize specialty threads, and apply texture-rich patterns and motifs to make each piece uniquely yours. **6. Projects, Practice & Perfecting Your Craft** Engage with sample projects that reinforce your learning, help you develop your style, and ensure your finished works shine with professionalism. Troubleshoot common issues and refine your techniques with the expert guidance provided. *Textured Threads* isn’t just a guide; it’s a companion for your embroidery journey. Packed with detailed instructions, innovative techniques, and creative inspiration, this eBook is your gateway to mastering the mesmerizing world of textured embroidery. Embark on this artistic voyage and transform simple stitches into extraordinary works of art. Discover the art. Embody the texture. Create with *Textured Threads*.
A near-death experience in a car with her Mother; running from tear gas at a Vietnam War rally hand-in-hand with her Pop; a year in India learning side-by-side the country's 'untouchables;' the highs and lows of living on a rural Pennsylvania commune...and all before Fiona Sprechelbach's thirteenth birthday. Set during one of the most politically divisive eras in American history, Thread for Pearls is a coming of age tale that takes us on a young heroine's journey to faith and freedom amidst a turbulent family dynamic. It's a story of resilient hope that questions whether it's the events of our lives that define us, or the thread on which we choose to string them.
Read on about specific "threads" to: - Learn how to access greater joy today, even during your most challenging trials. - Discover how to gain more abundance with less money. - Feel confident and prepared to face hard situations that everyone will inevitably face.
For readers of Together and The Art of Gathering How moving from transactional to transformational relationships and organizations can save our democracy, nurture our connections, and make us happier and healthier. Powerful institutions, from schools to tech and social media companies, create breeding grounds for isolation by failing to invest in relational work. This obstacle stands in the way of our fight for racial equity, economic justice, and climate resilience. In Relationality, leading asexuality and relationship activist David Jay brings clarity to the crisis with a fresh perspective that expands upon the fundamental idea that all entities in the universe are connected. Jay draws from a range of vivid personal experiences, including his time spent helping tech workers and policymakers reform social media. This book is for people who believe in the power of relationships and want to see increased investment in relational work. Its scientifically grounded framework will help readers foster conversations about relational work, establish conditions for relationships to thrive, and quantify the impact of them. Equipping professionals and activists involved in nonprofit, political, and other types of relational work with the knowledge they need to fight for and utilize resources, Relationality shares valuable insight on: The history of why institutions fail to invest in relationships Reimagining ROI calculations to account for relational work Using tools of prediction and emergence theory to build communities How stories and data about relationships can help us direct resources toward relational work Relational economics and the redistribution of wealth With isolation and loneliness on the rise in a post-lockdown world, Relationality offers a roadmap to nourish our connections toward a better, more liberated world—personally, organizationally, and in community.
"A cornerstone publication that covers the basic principles and practical considerations of design methodology for joints held by rivets, bolts, weld seams, and adhesive materials, Design of Mechanical Joints gives engineers the practical results and formulas they need for the preliminary design of mechanical joints, combining the essential topics of joint mechanics...strength of materials...and fracture control to provide a complete treatment of problems pertinent to the field of mechanical connections. "
Physician burnout, depression, and suicide are tearing at the fabric of our health care system, which Mukta Panda has witnessed firsthand. In a culture that privileges evidence over empathy, technology over touch, and what's measurable over what's meaningful, many of us--no matter our profession--feel more fragmented and isolated than ever. In Resilient Threads: Weaving Joy and Meaning into Well-Being, Dr. Panda gives voice to the exhaustion and gives courage for another way. As a physician and medical educator, she has fought to return human touch to healthcare. As a mother, she has committed--and sometimes failed--to balance the personal with the professional. And as an immigrant, she has clung to the wisdom of her family and faith in the face of discrimination and fear. By weaving stories of connecting to her patients, students, and colleagues with her own stories of belonging, she models how we can each thrive by creating community and self-awareness. "Ritual, relationships, and reflection are key threads in how I learned to thrive," Dr. Panda writes in the introduction. So, too, are they key for the thriving of our world. The well-being of our clinicians and patients, teachers and students, parents and children depends on integrating these threads into a new social fabric, one that honors the whole of who we are with what we do.
