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This book is for you if:You grew up in the church and still live with the consequences of early childhood trauma.You believe that you are the exception to the rule that Jesus loves everyone.You tried to pray away your mental illness and trauma and it didn't work.Someone you care about shares a similar story and deserves validation and understanding.You are not alone. Hope exists and healing is possible, and this story can help you find them.In this raw and revealing memoir, Lisa LeBlanc pulls back the curtain on her life as the youngest child growing up in a large farm family, influenced by religious legalism. A victim of abuse and sexual molestation by a deacon, Lisa was trapped by a code of silence and constricting religious rules. Even as people in her life disappointed her, God pursued her, and her depression and suicide ideation continued to collide with hope until she found healing through neurofeedback brain training. As a mental health advocate and ministry leader in her church, Lisa now uses her story to help others find hope in their journey of mental illness and trauma recovery.

This is the story of one woman's journey through grief after the tragic and sudden death of her son that led to a profound spiritual awakening. In the aftermath of his death, Rebecca J. Brock had a complete paradigm shift in her understanding of how the Universe functions shifted. She was determined to heal and overcome her grief, and discovered she could communicate with not only her son, but with other spirit guides as well. Through this experience, she transformed from a broken, persecuted, and grief stricken mother to a healed, glorious, and triumphant love-filled Goddess. With her new found knowledge of how we are all connected by the Divine Matrix, she set off on a new journey to manifest the life she always desired.In Transcendence, Rebecca declares no topic to be off limits and courageously shares her story of finding the path that brought her back to God-and to anything that embodies Love, Unity, Compassion, Peace, and Truth. Along the way, she discovered how to heal herself and overcome any obstacle and challenge that life could throw her way.Once you read her brazen story, you may never see the world in the same way again.

D.J. Coster describes his life journey against the background of profound socioeconomic change in Australia in the 80 years since the end of WWII. Coster is a perceptive observer of what has gone on around him and acknowledges the impact of national and international events on his life - and everyone else's. He describes the transitions that have tested him - from a working-class home into elite educational institutions, from medical student to junior doctor and the metamorphosis into a clinician scientist, and the tricky transition from doctor to patient. The story is told honestly and reflectively by someone not afraid to provoke. It is not a story of personal achievement against the odds, but a description of factors that made the baby boomer generation more privileged than any other generation before or since, and the way national and global events, chance encounters, and luck, shape lives.

Any mother would die for their child. She would do anything to take away their pain. In the case of suicide, the mother keeps the pain and loses the child. On 5 July 2020, Jessica Revill took on her son's agony and had to learn to live as an "emotional amputee". She couldn't grow her son back. She had to navigate the world without her beautiful, funny, musical, autistic boy. So, if you can't die for your child, how do you live for them? Over the year following Gregory's death, his mother went on an intense journey of grief and post-traumatic growth as she did a deep dive into Australia's fractured mental health system. With her background as a clinician and an academic, Dr Revill investigates how poor medical training, ill-equipped emergency rooms, ineffective prevention programs and the bias against the disabled and mentally ill fail to save over 3000 lives a year. The book is framed by Revill's daily connection to a child who continues to guide his mother's prevention work as she finds him among the living.

Life, times, travails, joys and sorrows compel Bill to discover who he is. And what makes him fail.

LIFE & LEGACY OF A VOLUNTEER provides ten tips for volunteer organizations and ten for volunteers based upon 20 real-life experiences over 60 years of a dedicated volunteer. It will hopefully help organizations recruit volunteers, nurture and keep them happy while serving the organization. It will also help volunteers recognize some of the pitfalls of volunteering as well as the many substantial rewards.

This book will entertain, inform, and emotionally move its reader and provide healing. It certainly is not a lecture but a look at a survivor's struggle with certain areas in life that are not so easy for an abuse victim. It is a look at a person's career in a very competitive job and spiritual growth. This is a troubling subject treated with sensitivity along with down-to-earth humour along the way. It would clear some of our jails and make a safer world, for our children. We've recognised, more or less, the existence of institutional abuse of children, but have a long way to go on the subject of familial abuse. It is prevalent and it won't leave our lives unless light is shone on this subject, which nobody really wants to look at. We will, I'm sure.

This is the story of a young man who went from the back seat of the police car, to being the driver of the car-an inspirational story of how God's grace brought a young man who was destined for prison, or the grave, to triumph over his circumstances and defeat all odds. This is the story of a kid who went through so much rejection and pain that he contemplated suicide yet found redemption in the arms of a loving God. Witness how the Lord's mercy is strong enough to stop a habitual violator and equip him with the necessary tools to reach other juvenile delinquents. This is the story of Benjamin Wright's life and how God's power set him free.

In early 2020, amid the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenton Moore discovered the hobby of homebrewing humanity's oldest fermentable beverage: Mead.What follows is a passionate exploration into the art of mead-making as Kenton recounts the story how he came from homebrewing in a small apartment on British Columbia's West Coast, to being on the precipice of starting a commercial Meadery alongside his parents on their farm. It is a brave tale filled with personal triumph, loss, heartbreak, and perseverance that ultimately leads to a lesson worth learning: sometimes passion isn't meant to become a career.Part memoir, and part instruction manual, The Road to Bone Hill is a worthy addition to your library if you're a fan of homebrewing or just want to read a compelling story. Includes some of Kenton's favourite recipes that become more complex as his skill evolved within the story.

"Turn your back and run," they told her. But how does a mother turn her back on her son? The advice was always the same, "Don't do it!" She did it anyway. Early October 2019, Stephanie Hammond received the call she'd dreaded for years. Her son, Charlie, had been arrested. He had been addicted to one substance or another since he was 14-years-old. It became his response to emotional trauma, and Charlie had had an extraordinary share of trauma.>An Addict in the Family is an intimate memoir of a mother's love as she endeavours to reconnect with her son and navigate the maze of justice and drug rehabilitation services. In this heart-breaking example of how addiction affects not just the addict but also their families, there is a reminder that you are not alone, and you can find peace again.

The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie“A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual quest to retain some kind of artistic integrity.”—The New York TimesIn the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood at the vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother, Evan, in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. Now Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he developed his artistic soul over the course of the decade and came into orbit with all the prominent artists of that time and place, including Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Boris Policeband, and, especially, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the enigmatic prodigy who spent a year sleeping on the floor of Lurie’s East Third Street apartment.  It may feel like Disney World now, but in The History of Bones, the East Village, through Lurie’s clear-eyed reminiscence, comes to teeming, gritty life. The book is full of grime and frank humor—Lurie holds nothing back in this journey to one of the most significant moments in our cultural history, one whose reverberations are still strongly felt today.  History may repeat itself, but the way downtown New York happened in the 1980s will never happen again. Luckily, through this beautiful memoir, we all have a front-row seat.

"From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance."--Publisher's description.

"Angel, everything will be fine."Words spoken by the man she loved and trusted her whole life.Moments later, Ally would face a new reality that "blew up" her life forever.In the summer of 2009, her high school sweetheart and husband was sentenced to prison and the truth upon which her very existence was built began to shatter.And that was just the beginning...Each day she would discover a new lie, a new revelation of betrayal; a new challenge. Each day the obstacles grew larger.She had trusted those around her and did things without question.As repayment for that loyalty and trust, she would soon be standing, legs shoulder-width apart, frantic and scared, while a U.S. Probation Officer tethered the now single mother to her home for the next 6 months.Blast Radius is a real-life story of how a life built on deception brought profound consequences engulfing not only Ally, but her children, her family, friends, and so many more. It is the story of how trying to be the perfect wife, daughter, and friend makes you ignore your internal turmoil and blinds you to the deception, abuse, and fraud surrounding you. It is a story about persevering and putting the pieces of your life back together when life throws you curveballs - even your own family is trying to stop you.Experience the journey from deception to discovery and the scars that remain.

Arnold Marsh, son of Belfast tin-factory owner born in 1890, is best remembered as an educationist and headmaster of Newtown Quaker School in Waterford, Ireland.

Hell in Paradise is a personal account of my quest to find my friends after the Tsunami in the South of Thailand in 2004. A long time expat in Thailand, it tells my tale of spending 3 days in the aftermath of the devastating tsunami putting the clues together trying to determine if they are still alive. An emotional, thought-provoking book describing horrific events that touched me to my core. Even now, after 18 years, those 3 days spent in hell are still with me so vividly that it needed to be written. The story starts with how we became close friends in a very short time, and what drove me to the decision to go find them.

Gerald McCarthy enlisted in the Marines at 17 and volunteered for Vietnam. After the war he went AWOL, then to civilian jails and military brigs and finally to a Navy psychiatric ward, where he witnessed patient-attempted suicides. Medically discharged, he returned home to upstate New York and piecework in shoe factories. Written in two voices--one lucid, one dreamlike--his memoir delivers a jump-cut narrative of his troubled adolescence, his wartime experiences and his struggle to come unstuck from his own life.

Judi‿s parents were on a mission to remake the world. These were the Cold War years of the 1950s and ‿60s, following a catastrophic world war and the breaking up of colonial empires

The wartime correspondence which first warmed people's hearts in Simon Garfield's To the Letter, now available in a single volume for readers to follow their wonderful and life-changing journey

Fosston, northern Minnesota, my hometown, I was 20 years old when I received the registered letter from Uncle Sam and then I was off to Basic Training in Fort Hood, Texas. They soon molded me into a Foot Soldier for the Infantry, and I experienced a horrible tragedy while there. Next, I was on a troop ship and a miserable ride across the Pond to Bamberg, Germany, and my new home. A Company of the elite 15th infantry and all its history. I was one of the 26 young men in the 2nd Platoon and we were from all parts of American and of different nationalities. We were a Band of Brothers, just following orders on Uncle's mundane training and marking the days off our calendars. Maneuvers in the boondocks, wandering around for miles and then dig foxholes, and take cat naps in them. And then spend days cleaning our gear, getting ready for the Saturday morning inspection, Border Guard, and the Alerts.... was this practice or did the Cold war suddenly become another Pearl Harbor? And Holts, our mascot in the 2nd Platoon, with his bad attitude being forced to work for Uncle and his hyena laugh. Hohelfels twice a year for intense training, the Wild Pigs and then the Trek back to A Company. Six weeks of leave at different times, from Oslo to Rome. East and West Berlin and talking to the people that went through WW2. And it was déjà vu that I went TDY in the Post Band. Then it was another rough ride back across the Pond and finally it was 260 miles hitchhiking back home. The two-year adventure and the intermission in my life was one I will never forget, and it make me really appreciate that I was born in America.

Until We Meet Again is an artistic memoir in which KD Massi shares parts of her life and work through poetry, stories, and songs.

Leaving a toxic unstable relationship can be challenging at times. In most cases, we have already fallen in love with the individual before we realize that their manipulative behaviors are not healthy for us. Emotional abuse is invisible, but intentional to cause harm to you. Instead of using their fist to punch you; They will use their words to tear you down. The Escape will focus on how Ashley overlooked the toxicity of a relationship because she was blinded by the excitement that came along with it. She accepted the verbal attacks about her character because she didn't want to sit alone with herself when "loneliness" kicked in. Ashley eventually began showing more love and respect to herself and was able to overcome what once defeated her.

Hearing Peter discuss his life at a long lunch, Gary Regoli, CEO of Achieva Credit Union said, "Peter, you need to write a book." With a lot of time and help from his dear friend, Candy Christensen-Barker, Peter Kreuziger's life story is now in the pages of Fernweh.As a young boy, growing up in Austria, Peter was fascinated with the idea of traveling. In his teens, he quickly realized that the hospitality industry was a way to travel while working at luxury hotels with all the perks. Live well and eat well, was his plan. That ambition eventually led him to America where he graduated from Cornell University. After opening many hotels and restaurants, he settled in the town of Dunedin, Florida on the Gulf of Mexico, where he still resides with his wife, Mary. Peter's contribution to the growth of Dunedin started by renovating a waterfront beach bar into the popular restaurant, Bon Appetit, upgrading the hotel next door, and adding retail space to downtown. His story spans several decades and takes us all over the world on his adventures. While Peter is a local icon to the people of his community, he has made friends and colleagues worldwide. Wherever you're from, his story will delight you.

Those who live by the sword may also find themselves dying by it... In Living by the Sword, Volume 1, author Caya Lenay describes the trials and tribulations of his younger years-as a kid who grew up getting picked on and being the outcast. Even as young as middle school, Caya got involved with drug use and reckless choices, then it quickly escalated to drug dealing and criminal activity. As he tells his harrowing story, you will get an inside look at what led him to the streets and the decisions he made along the way. Volume 1 covers the true events of his life from age ten to fifteen. Note: This book contains detailed information about subjects such as gun violence, drug use, sexual encounters, and language. For mature audiences.

Dances with Dogs describes a spiritual journey toward extravagant joy. Author Bonnie Rose once struggled with insecurity and shame. When she learned to view the human-divine condition with comedic compassion, everything changed. This book offers a new view, plus specific tools for the head, heart, and hands-all designed to help us find the mystical love that embraces life's weirdness, woes, and wonders. Bonnie's ability to effortlessly tell a story while dropping deep wisdom onto the page is nothing short of genius. She suggests unconventional spiritual practices-befriending imperfections, practicing small-yet-mighty acts of kindness, and living in unconditional joy. Central to this book is Bonnie's desire to help you recognize heaven on earth; to celebrate the glory of your true divine nature; and most of all to fall in love with your whole life-for your whole life loves you more than you can imagine.