Armless Hugs

By Jim Meehan

“Armless Hugs” is a collection of poems which tries to capture and communicate strong feelings and interesting thoughts about human relationships and key ideas that people have about the world and their place within it.

The lead poem “Armless Hugs” is particularly relevant today as many people are isolated from their loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic and have to hug them with their arms by their sides, even for some at the time of the death of their loved ones. The words sound like harmless hugs which suggests a link to the phrase “do no harm” which so many of our carers abide by as an ethical or moral principle when devoting themselves to healing others.

Part One focuses on human relationships while Part Two is more general in its scope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Sep 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781663207449

Jim Meehan

Jim Meehan is a British Chartered Psychologist and poet. During a fifty year career split equally between the United Kingdom and the United States he specialized in leader selection and development. Currently he lives in England. His main interests lie in exploring how positive human relationships bring out the best in people.

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Armless

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JIM MEEHAN

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ARMLESS HUGS

Copyright © 2020 Jim Meehan.

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ISBN: 978-1-6632-0743-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6632-0744-9 (e)

iUniverse rev. date:06/08/2023

Contents

Preface

Armless Hugs

Enough is Enough

Empathy

Total Mutual Trust

Belonging

Lost and Found

Empathy or Sympathy

Missing You

Love Donors

Growth

Significance

Love in Words and Numbers

Three’s A Crowd

Love in Action

The Lonely World of I – Me

The Breath of Life

Free Flow

Trust or Bust

Show Your Hand

Teenagers are Tops

Obsessed

Compassion

Another’s Shoes

About Relating

Partial Pictures

Roses in December

Valentine Time

Making Up

Love

Counting Some of the Ways

There’s More

Beyond Loving

A Relative Dimension

Spending Time

Reality

Smile Inside

Attitudes

Outcomes

Emotion’s Parent

Autumn’s Renewal

Opposites

A Time Machine

A Humanistic Creed

Priceless Values

Before After Before

Insight

Picture A World

Strength to Strength

A Most Remarkable Man

An Ideal Citizen

Questions of Life and Love

Pray Hear

United We Stand

Now or Never

More or Less

Whole-ness

What’s Our Life Coming To?

Human Becomings

Acknowledgements

About the Author

OTHER BOOKS BY JIM MEEHAN

Hearts Have Reasons

(UK Outword Trust 1995; USA Thomas Moor 2000)

Reasons Have Hearts Too

(UK Outword Trust 1997; USA Thomas Moore 2000)

Sugar Free Sweet Talk

(USA Talent Plus 2009)

Hallways to Success and Significance

(USA Talent Plus 2013)

I Mean You No Harm; I Seek Your Greatest Good

– Reflections on Trust (USA I Universe