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UPDATE:   Amazon Prime members can now download a free Kindle version of RTS Vol. IV, No. 2 (April 2012).  On May 6-7, 2012 the issue will be free to all Kindle reading people.  Don’t have a Kindle? You can get free software to read on your PC, Mac, iPad, or mobile phone!

The coming issue of Recovering the Self (April 2012) takes the theme of “Starting Over”

thorough the writings of people had those hard times in their personal and/or professional lives and had those “awakening moments” whereby we receive the gift of valuing life in the present as we have it in and around us.

This issue features the following articles:

• Taking the Opportunity by Ken La Salle
• The Woman Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming by Dinah Dietrich
• The Blue Dots by Nancy-Gail Burns
• Forgiveness Is Not A One-Time Act by Rosana Brasil
• Starting Over by Kat Fasano-Nicotera
• Take Pride, Not Sorrow by Sarah Jane Conteh… and many others.

Also included in the issue will be a special interview with psychologist Steve Taylor of the Leeds Metropolitan University, author of the recent book Out of the Darkness, which explores the subject of how people transform spiritually after turmoil or hitting rock bottom at some point in their lives.

Inspirational, healing, and empowering, the April 2012 issue is all you want to read for your life to come live again!

For ordering copies in advance with special discount, write to editor@recoveringself.com.  

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UPDATE:  RTS Journal Volume IV, Number 2 has been delayed until May 1st, 2012 due to unforseen editorial and publication problems.  We apologize for the delay.

The coming issue of Recovering the Self (April 2012) takes the theme of “Starting Over” thorough the writings of people had those hard times in their personal and/or professional lives and had those “awakening moments” whereby we receive the gift of valuing life in the present as we have it in and around us.

This issue features the following articles:

• Taking the Opportunity by Ken La Salle
• The Woman Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming by Dinah Dietrich
• The Blue Dots by Nancy-Gail Burns
• Forgiveness Is Not A One-Time Act by Rosana Brasil
• Starting Over by Kat Fasano-Nicotera
• Take Pride, Not Sorrow by Sarah Jane Conteh… and many others.

Also included in the issue will be a special interview with psychologist Steve Taylor of the Leeds Metropolitan University, author of the recent book Out of the Darkness, which explores the subject of how people transform spiritually after turmoil or hitting rock bottom at some point in their lives.

Inspirational, healing, and empowering, the April 2012 issue is all you want to read for your life to come live again!

For ordering copies in advance with special discount, write to editor@recoveringself.com.  

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Recovering The Self : A Journal of Hope and Healing is actively seeking submissions of previously unpublished material in the form of informative articles, poetry, artwork, short stories, memoir, film and book reviews, opinion, and commentary. Article lengths are suggested to be from 750 to 2,500 words although we do make exceptions when the situation demands it.

Subjects

We are tracking the following subject areas with respect to adults, children and elders in America and abroad:

• Personal growth,
• Relationships and family
• Trauma recovery
• Living with disabilities
• Proactive measures to improve health (lifestyle, diet, mind/body)
• Substance abuse recovery, co-dependence, and addiction
• Military veterans’ issues
• The struggle for cultural or gender identity, and
• Bereavement

Submission Details

Articles should be submitted in Microsoft Word 2003 format (or something equivalent) with as little formatting as possible.  It is not necessary to write a query letter in advance. We do accept work that has appeared before on the web, but generally are not interested in reprinting work that is already published in print. You will receive an email acknowledgment within a few days that your item was received. Please direct all inquiries to editor@recoveringself.com

Rights Requested

RTS requests only First English Anthology Rights.  That is, we want to be the first anthology to publish a submitted piece of work.  We also reserve the right to reprint in a special “Best of Recovering The Self” anthology at an undetermined date. You retain all other rights to your work including the right to self-publish, submit to other journals, and so on.  We ask that you abstain from having the article published in another anthology (journal or magazine) within three months of appearing in RTS, but this is not strictly required.

Editorial Deadlines

In general, the submission deadline is 60 days prior to publication.