Life Recovery

This is the 1st book in a series about a fictional City and its citizens called Manitou. Manitou is based on the northwestern Michigan county of Manistee. Drew had all that he wanted in life—a beautiful wife, a bright and alert toddler, a successful small business, and then tragedy took it all away. In a freakish accident, he lost his wife, son, and his own will to live. Money was no longer an issue, the insurance company settled in a huge way. Still he couldn’t beat the depression till he sold every thing and took a road trip that ended in his deceased wife’s hometown in northern ...

Dealing with the effects of a toxic relationship is tough. The physical, mental, and emotional toll it causes is enough to make even the strongest person feel weak. What makes matters worse is that everyone around you simply doesn't understand what you are dealing with. "Just move on," they casually advise, as if it's the easiest thing in the world to do… After all, you haven’t healed from past traumas and don’t know how to move forward from this pain. Luckily, you’re in the right place!

Alcohol had a hold on Chris Janssens’s actions and thoughts until she made the life-changing decision to attend a support meeting and realized two truths: it wasn’t her fault and she wasn’t alone. Once she was embraced by a community that offered a nonjudgmental look at her struggles, Chris discovered that if she wanted to have a full and lasting life, alcohol could have no part. In Grace Yourself, a humble account of Chris’s transformation to an alcohol-free life, she offers a hand to others who are experiencing similar struggles, whether their addiction is alcohol or anything else.

This book is focused on healing techniques and how to reclaim your birthright of happiness, peace and love after a toxic relationship. It recounts a spiritual journey of recovery from narcissistic relationships and includes 25 emotional, energetic, and spiritual healing practices the author used to heal from betrayal and trauma. By sharing her experience and research on narcissism, the author will help survivors find a way out of suffering to peace and freedom. The book provides insights and practices to reclaim the lives of survivors and empower them to to heal, forgive the past, and open ...

The role divorce plays on emotional stability can be devastating for many men and women - anger, resentment, and a sense of loss often linger well beyond the life and death of the marriage. Since much of the stigma of the past has been lifted, many are discovering that it is easier to work through these negative emotions, turning this life-altering event into a positive one by creating a better, more fulfilling life after divorce.

Introducing "Unraveling the Mind," an enthralling and insightful new eBook that takes you on a deep dive into the world of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its pervasive effects on the mind, body, and daily life. With 30 comprehensive chapters, this exceptional eBook explores every critical aspect of PTSD and offers crucial knowledge and guidance for a deeper understanding of its inner workings. Through this captivating literary journey, you'll gain riveting knowledge about the neuroscience of trauma, the powerful impact of childhood experiences on adult psychopathology, and the ...

Biff Temperance, a gentle and withdrawn yet brilliant commodity futures trader, experiences a devastating emotional attack triggered by childhood memories. His breakdown is bad enough, but the timing is even worse. It occurs on a chaotic trading floor and leads to a catastrophic financial loss for his firm. His future in shambles, Biff abandons the meticulously structured life disengaged from the world, which he built for himself in New York City. He embarks on a trip to find his estranged father, who he hasn’t seen since he was five. His only clue about him is a recent letter containing ...

Everything changed with the click of a shutter… the difference between life and death. Frankie Taylor has issues. Alcoholism, infidelity, and a divorce have plunged him into a pit so deep, he can see only one way out. But his scheme to end it all unravels after an odd chain of events involving a digital camera. Thwarted and bewildered, Frankie begins to reassemble the pieces of his carefully dismantled life. And God shows up… Cara Alexander is a teen intent on storming into adulthood. Her parents watch helplessly as their rebellious daughter slips away, leaving them reeling after ...

As a child, Steve Palmer never belonged - not in school, not in his troubled home, not with friends. After his father and grandfather passed away, he was sent to a series of rehabs and halfway houses before ending up on the streets. Drugs and alcohol soon became a way of life. Eventually, he would go on to a career running some of the country’s most celebrated and innovative fine dining establishments. But first, he had to learn how to be sober in an industry awash with alcohol and drugs.

The Recovery of Family Life defends marriage and family life while exposing the limits and blind spots in these powerful revolutionary ideologies. After suggesting a general framework within which to understand the ends and means of family policy, Scott Yenor explores what a liberal society should seek to accomplish in marriage and family policy.

When Mallary Tenore Tarpley lost her mother at eleven years old, she wanted to stop time. If growing up meant living without her mother, then she wanted to stay little forever. What started as small acts of food restriction soon turned into a full-blown eating disorder, and a year later, Tarpley was admitted to Boston’s Children’s Hospital. With honesty and grace, Slip chronicles Tarpley’s childhood struggles with anorexia to her present-day experiences grappling with recovery. This book tells Tarpley’s story, but it also transcends her personal narrative.

Adam is your typical entrepreneur, not too flashy or oversexed, no model or sex god, just a nice guy with success enough to afford a life of ease. He didn’t always have it easy and that leaves him with the attitude that he’s fine just skating along in life. That is until a lost omega enters his warehouse looking for directions. Total understatement. Rich has been through hell pretty much his entire life. And while he’s experiencing some success with his self-help book and subsequent lectures, he’s still got that one foot in hell. When he stumbles upon Adam, his life begins to change...

Ascended From Ashes: Life Reset Manual — Volume 1: The Reboot By Rick Cheadle What if the worst thing that ever happened… became the beginning of everything better? This isn’t some hug-it-out self-help fluff. This is a gritty, raw, no-BS manual for survivors, rebuilders, and anyone crawling out of their own wreckage. Rick Cheadle survived a random, near-fatal stabbing. PTSD. “Friends” who vanished. A descent into addiction. He didn’t bounce back—he built back. This book shows you how to do the same. Inside, you’ll learn how to: ✔ Shut down the noise in your head ✔ Get ...

On June 6, 2015, David and Jackie Siegel received the call that no parent should ever get. Their beautiful, vibrant, 18-year-old daughter Victoria had died of a drug overdose. The Siegels vowed to do whatever it takes to prevent this from happening to other parents.

The magic of Christmas can heal even the most broken hearts. When Maggie's Vinson's life is changed forever by an unimaginable tragedy, she flees to Peaktop Dude Ranch, high in the Colorado Rockies, where no one knows her and she can escape her past. For five years, she's able to put her secret and her feelings behind her, content to cook meals for other people enjoying their lives. Christmas is the hardest time of year for her, bringing back memories of the love she lost. Gary Anderson lost his wife to cancer four years ago. He's given up on ever finding romance again, but this holiday ...

Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though, his journey took him where it takes most addicts: into a life of addiction, desperation, deception, and crime.

In "Hope for the Hurting Heart," Tim Sawyer takes readers on a deeply personal journey through loss, healing, and renewal. After experiencing the heart-wrenching deaths of his two sons—one at age five and another at forty-four—along with the losses of numerous family members across generations, Sawyer shares how he discovered hope in life's darkest moments. Through engaging family stories spanning multiple generations, Sawyer weaves together tales of parents, grandparents, siblings, and children who faced profound losses yet found ways to keep living and loving. From the impact of a ...

The weird, wacky and wonderful betting exploits of an unconventional gambler who takes the biggest risk of his life to give up his day job and try to make a living on chance. The Gambler reveals the highs and lows, the joy and despair, and the sheer lunacy of someone willing to risk it all on the most outlandish outcomes, from betting on the winner of Eurovision and Strictly to whether a pair of pandas might mate.

Narcissistic Gaslighting Recovery" Have you ever felt like you're constantly doubting your own feelings or reality? Do you find yourself apologizing too much or questioning your worth after every interaction with someone? Are you seeking ways to escape this invisible trap and reclaim your life? Gaslighting is one of the most insidious forms of psychological manipulation, often leaving its victims emotionally drained and unsure of themselves. In Gaslighting Recovery and Healing, we unpack the layers of this damaging behavior and guide you step by step toward clarity, strength, and freedom. ...

Michael Hogan, as a poet and educator, has been gifted with friendships of fellow writers throughout most of his life. Three of these were Nobel laureates, still others household names: Seamus Heaney, W.S. Merwin, Charles Bukowski, Marge Piercy, Naomi Shihad Nye and Ray Bradbury, among a dozen others . What is surprising is what he manages to do with such experiences in this book. Through a series of narrations centered on wide-ranging episodes with other poets, the author distills a unique kind of ars poetica, one that is tied less to a traditional memoir, than to the impression these men ...