Family Healing

Sweet Potato Jones has been on the move her entire life—toting her siblings from one abandoned train car to the next, following her father’s broken dreams, and trying not to hope for more. But when they land a spot at The Home, a Christian shelter that offers families just twenty weeks before the clock runs out, Sweet Potato dares to believe this might be different. Still, she’s not expecting Soul Food... Not the kind you eat—though collards and hoecakes come with the deal—but the kind that changes everything. The kind served up in a purpled-up diner, run by a faith-filled woman ...

Adoption is often framed by happy narratives, but the reality is that many adoptees struggle with unaddressed trauma and issues of identity and belonging. Adoptees often spend the majority of their youth without the language to explore the grief related to adoption or the permission to legitimize their conflicting emotions. Adoptee and counselor Cameron Lee Small names the realities of the adoptee's journey, narrating his own and other adoptees' stories in all their complexity.

Fairytale romances can’t happen in real life. Or can they? It’s love at first sight when reclusive inventor Jesse Buckley meets unemployed music teacher Bronte, moonlighting as a take-out delivery driver. Okay, so splattering guacamole and sour cream over them both wasn’t the best way to impress the woman he hopes to make his wife, but from here on the only way is up, right? Still, maybe offering her a job as his chauffeur and personal assistant wasn’t one of his best ideas. It means he’ll see her almost every day, sure. It also means, as one of his employees, she’s out-of-...

Childhood wounds create low self-esteem, unhealthy relationships, and fear of vulnerability. Your inner child yearns for love and authentic life. This guide offers practical solutions that have helped thousands.

He’s grumpy, filthy rich, and so damn tempting… I should hate him. But every time he looks at me, I lose my mind. Cole Harrison thinks he can waltz into Cedar Falls, flash his checkbook, and take over my family’s inn. I don’t care how tall, dark, and broody he is—I’m not letting that happen. I should despise him for trying to take my family’s legacy. Instead, I’m losing myself in his bed. Developers start sabotaging me and my ex shows up spreading lies. My life is unraveling and Cole is suddenly the only person I can trust. His touch is fire, his kiss is addictive, and his ...

One morning, Jenny McCarthy sensed something was wrong and ran into her two-year-old son Evan's room to discover he was having a seizure. In that moment, Jenny was thrust into the midst of a medical odyssey. After numerous misdiagnoses and many harrowing, life-threatening episodes, Evan was finally diagnosed with autism. Jenny didn't know what to do next and found herself alone, without any resources except for her determination to help her son.

Based on true events, this author/narrator takes you on a disturbing ride as she shares her story of generational trauma and dysfunction. Presented in a matter of fact approach, this weave of tales is understandable and unbelievable. The behaviors of her siblings, parents and grandparents sets the stage as we are introduced to her family’s manipulation and continuous plotting and truth twisting. Each character gives the listener an inside view of how they embraced and expressed their emotional and social deficiencies and used them as a method of control, abuse, and extreme cruelty.

I became obsessed with mum hacks when a friend showed me a game-changing tip during my baby days - that baby vests can be pulled down (not up) in the event of an explosive poo. I couldn't believe I had been a mum for so long and not known! Things I Wish I'd Known will bring you hundreds of quick and clever solutions, just like this, all to make the parenting juggle easier.

Discover a story of healing and personal transformation. Marlena’s childhood was full of contradictions. Her father was both a heroic doctor for people with leprosy and an abusive parent. Her Mennonite missionary community was both a devoted tribe and a controlling society. And Marlena longed to both be accepted in Paraguay and escape to somewhere new. In Nothing Bad Between Us, follow Marlena’s journey as she takes control of her life and learns to be her authentic self, scars and imperfections included.

Addiction seldom starts with the first drink, pill, or needle; it starts with silence at the dinner table, unspoken trauma, and family myths that turn chaos into “normal.” Breaking the Cycle of Generational Addiction exposes those invisible scripts—and shows readers exactly how to rewrite them. Drawing on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and family-systems theory, Southerland traces the arc of inherited dependence from grandfather’s flask to today’s fentanyl crisis, revealing why genetics alone never seal anyone’s fate and why detox without relational repair so ...

A steamy, heart-mending single-dad, grumpy-sunshine, marriage-of-convenience romance—complete with slow-burn heat, found-family feels, and one fiercely protective alpha hero. Aadhaya Mehra never planned on an arranged match, but a schoolteacher with a sunshine smile can’t ignore a child in pain. When the icy billionaire widower across town offers marriage so his lonely little girl can have a mother’s love, Aadhaya says yes—even though her heart still dreams of a love match. Aryan Nanda lives for duty and for his daughter, Mia. Cold, composed, and haunted by loss, he vows never to ...

Donny and Bree are living the good life. He runs a very successful business. She's a happy stay-at-home mom. They own a beautiful house in a safe neighborhood and are still very much in love. With a precious toddler son and twin baby girls on the way, surely their life can't get any better than this. Then the housing market crashes and the economy starts to flounder. Gas prices are on the rise and nobody is buying anything. The income that sustains their happy little family dries up and Donny has to lay people off. After one last failed attempt to sell the business, he dreads telling his ...

Lena Sharma is a successful San Francisco restaurateur. An immigrant, she’s cultivated an image of conservatism and tradition in her close-knit Indian community. But when Lena’s carefully constructed world begins to crumble, her ties to her daughter, Maya, and son, Sameer - both raised in thoroughly modern California - slip further away.

The first time Dieter Schmidt meets Mad Maggie is at a blockade on a logging road. He’s there to threaten the local First Nations band with court action if they don’t allow his client’s heavy equipment access to Deadman’s Island. Maggie emerges from the forest, but rather than chastise the lawyer for his part in trying to replace this unique ecosystem of magnificent old-growth trees with a housing development, she gives him an ultimatum. She will cure his yet-to-be-diagnosed terminal cancer if he saves the trees. Dieter dismisses Maggie's prediction as the delusions of someone ...

Harper hates crowds and has a strong distaste for humanity in general. A summer spent in the bustling city of London was not on her bucket list—especially not tagging along behind her nagging mother. But when a teen from the Greek Dark Ages mysteriously appears in the very crowded British Museum, Harper decides to rescue the boy who’s even more out of place—and time—than she is. With the help of her uncle, they’ll need to keep Homer away from the British authorities, evade a tomb-robbing ex-archeologist, and figure out how to get this Palikari man back to his own time before ...

🌟 Kisses at Sundown: A Tale of Love, Healing, and Montana Cowboys 🌟 In the heart of Montana's sprawling Double Horseshoe Ranch, where love unfolds like the vast prairie, comes a story of two souls navigating the winds of change. "Kisses at Sundown" is the fifth installment in the enchanting Unbridled Hearts series, where romance ignites against the backdrop of rugged landscapes and untamed hearts. Meet Aurora Dupree, a petite and smart med student, who finds herself entangled in the charming chaos of ranch life during a Christmas break visit. Her heart is torn between the allure of ...

Romance. Loss. Second chances. When Crisa’s husband dies, he leaves behind devastating secrets. Her beliefs about love are shattered. Grieving and unmoored, she searches for comfort in empty encounters—until a chance meeting with Slade sparks something long buried. Slade’s been on plenty of dates and has no intention of sacrificing independence without love. But when Crisa steals the last corned beef sandwich in the office cafeteria and flashes him a smile, everything shifts. Her warmth and quiet strength draw him in, challenging the way he sees the world—and himself. As their ...

In Shadows of Sobriety, Keith Burton pulls back the curtain on his journey through a childhood marked by alcoholism, family dysfunction, and emotional scars that lasted a lifetime. Raised in a household where love was often confused with pain, Keith reflects on his relationships with an alcoholic father and a controlling mother, and how their struggles set the stage for his own battles with identity, faith, and a fractured family legacy.

Some hearts need renovation before they can find their way home again. When architectural editor Emma Claire Winters returns to Riverstone to renovate her grandmother's crumbling cottage, she plans to finish the job quickly and escape back to her ordered city life. But when the roof literally collapses around her, she finds herself reluctantly accepting help from the one person she hoped to avoid—Jackson Hayes, the handyman with a complex past and a daughter who sees through Emma's carefully constructed walls. As Emma navigates small town gossip, family secrets hidden in the walls, and ...

A story-driven, integrative, and practical book to help families heal from the effects of a loved one’s addiction and move forward into a healthy future.