{"product_id":"pudgy-a-bahamian-parable-9780984166909","title":"Pudgy: A Bahamian Parable","description":"Pudgy is more than a children's story. It is a modern parable about the courage to seek help and the grace to help others. The title character, Pudgy, is a beautiful little fish who is beached on the sands of a Bahamian island. His pleas for help are heard by different passers-by. Each has a different response to Pudgy's cry of desperation.As the story unfolds, young children will grow to love Pudgy. But just as importantly, the child in each of us will know from our own experience what it means to be \"beached\". As the author writes in his preface, \"Pudgy is us. All of us can identify with being beached, in need of a helping hand. It is a powerful metaphor giving voice to our own inner pain.\"It is a story about being \"beached\", about needing each other, and ultimately about feeling safe. In his reflections on Pudgy, Dr. Allen writes: \"In a society where only the strong are safe, no one is safe because no one is strong forever. We are part of the whole. We need each other. If we create a community where even the weakest among us is safe, then we are all safe.\"In the story of Pudgy we encounter the love that will never let us go and the face that never turns away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Curt Ashburn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Eleuthera Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780984166909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. David Allen and his wife, Victoria, live in their beloved native Bahamas where the story of Pudgy was conceived and written. Dr. Allen studied medicine at St. Andrews University Medical School in Scotland, and Psychiatry and Public Health at Harvard Medical School where he was a Kennedy Fellow. He did further work in religion, psychiatry and ethics at Harvard Divinity School. Since then, Dr. Allen has taught psychiatry and religion at Harvard, Yale and Georgetown Medical School. He was mentored in theology by Dr. Francis Schaeffer at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland, in psychiatry and spirituality by Fr. Henri Nouwen at Yale Divinity School, and in contemplative psychology by Dr. Gerald May at the Shalem Institute, Washington, DC. In 1987 Dr. Allen was featured in a PBS special on the drug wars which documented his groundbreaking identification of the looming crack cocaine epidemic. He was awarded the Bennet Commonwealth Prize by the Royal Society of Arts in London for his pioneering work in cocaine addiction. In 2008 Dr. Allen was made a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Allen has established drug and alcohol treatment clinics in Nassau, Bahamas and Washington, DC. He is a popular conference speaker and has an international private practice in the Bahamas. His television show, \"People Helping People\" and his radio show, \"Coming Home to Face Our Heart\", are seen and heard weekly in the Bahamas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eleuthera Publications","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45461393440883,"sku":"9780984166909","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f19abc43-1047-4491-a3c7-255524cd825d.jpg?v=1788866405","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/pudgy-a-bahamian-parable-9780984166909","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}