Life Recovery

Imagine only seeing a single number. Everywhere you look, all you can see is eight. You can’t spell your name. You can only draw a circle. You can’t add two plus three. This was Nathalie Jacob’s life after an invasive brain surgery. Nathalie hadn’t realized anything was wrong. She held a high-level job as a marketing executive and was discussing beginning a family with her husband when the doctors gave her the bad news. She had an intraventricular meningioma. She would need brain surgery. In the aftermath of the operation, Nathalie experienced everything like a small child. She had ...

When Sally is badly beaten by her boyfriend, Malcolm, she takes advantage of an escape route for victims of abuse. Six months later, and thousands of miles away, her new life is shattered when Malcolm tracks her down.

The Four-Bed Method: A Garden for Rebuilding When Life Doesn’t Go Back to Normal is not a self-help book pretending to offer quick fixes or miraculous turnarounds. It’s a deeply lived, narratively precise exploration of how real healing—messy, cyclical, and unglamorous—can unfold in the act of tending a modest garden. Written by a clear-eyed friend who doesn’t flinch from the truth, this book introduces the reader to four symbolic garden beds: Grief, Growth, Boundaries, and Belonging. Each chapter functions as both a literal and metaphorical inquiry into how to live alongside ...

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 ...

Do you want to break free from your addictions? If so, you need to optimize your brain. The brain plays a central role in your vulnerability to addiction and your ability to recover. Brain dysfunction is the number one reason people fall victim to addiction, why they can't break the chains of addiction, and why they relapse.

The house is the place where a person must be able to feel at ease is the place to relax leaving all the hassles and problems of the outside life outside the door, but if the environments do not reflect their personal tastes and / or objects they are not well organized can become a place that arouses oppression and discontent, so it is important to understand what your style of furniture is and to avoid disorder from taking over. Thanks to these two books you can: ★ Acquire the main notions on how to best design and organize the rooms in your home ★ Learn the basics of Interior Design...

Welcoming the Dawn: Reclaiming Joy and Purpose after Loss by Marlene Shiple, Ph.D. If you're a high-achieving professional navigating the depths of intense grief, Welcoming the Dawn: Reclaiming Joy and Purpose After Loss is your lifeline – a compassionate guide to help you rise from sorrow and reclaim the joy, meaning, and peace you deserve. Loss can make you feel broken, directionless, or stuck in a fog of sadness. But you don’t have to stay there. This book offers a powerful and practical roadmap through grief, combining deep psychological insight with action-oriented healing ...

Toxic relationships exert a power over us like few things in life can, but that doesn’t mean you have to settle for them. In fact, by simply deciding you want more from life, you can start to reclaim your worth and take action. The problem is that this is so much easier said than done. If only you could stumble across a step-by-step guide that would show you how to reclaim your life and rebuild from the ground up.

You didn’t leave your job to become your own worst boss. Most entrepreneurs start their business chasing freedom — only to find themselves drowning in client demands, late-night emails, last-minute requests, and non-stop availability that leaves them exhausted and resentful. The real secret to a profitable, sustainable, and joyful business isn’t working harder or saying yes to everything. It’s mastering gentle boundaries — clear, compassionate limits that protect your time, energy, and value without burning bridges or turning you into a robot. In The Art of Gentle Boundaries, real...

A Story of Unwavering Love, Unthinkable Loss, and Unshakable Faith For 25 years, Pastor John E. Miller and his wife, Carla, devoted their lives to caring for their son, Peter Flint Miller—a child with special needs who depended on them for everything. Every four hours, every single day, their love took the form of feeding, bathing, dressing, and comforting their son. But on March 8, 2025, Peter took his final breath, and their world changed forever. In Grace in the Hard Places, John and Carla share their raw, personal journey through caregiving, grief, and the faith that sustained them. ...

Surviving My Covert Narcissist Husband: A Courageous Journey of Love, Empowerment, and Overcoming Adversity Jennifer Iolite’s memoir, "The Wolf Blogs," is a raw and unfiltered account of her experience with narcissistic abuse. She candidly shares her journey of surviving emotional, verbal, and psychological abuse from her husband, who used manipulation, gaslighting, control, and fear to alter her sparkling and energetic nature. Raw and Powerful: Uncover the unfiltered story of surviving a covert narcissist husband through the captivating pages of Wolf Blogs. Empowering Narration: ...

World-renowned Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology, David Nutt, breaks down the science and effect of alcohol on our health, mood, sleep and productivity how it travels through our bodies and brains and explains on a practical level how we can make changes to positively impact our relationship with it and understanding of it, thereby improving our quality of life for the long-term. He examines what the future holds for this normalised drug that governs our society and lives but is becoming increasingly unpopular due to its detrimental impact on our well-being.

In this unforgettable multicultural coming-of-age narrative - based on the author's childhood in the 1960s - a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is suddenly derailed. Ruthie's plight will intrigue listeners, and her powerful story of strength and resilience, full of color, light, and poignancy, will stay with them for a long time.

Are you ready to transform your life through the power of gratitude and resilience? Dive into "Healing with Gratitude: Resilience Practices for Recovery and Growth" and embark on a journey of self-discovery, strength, and positivity. This book is your ultimate guide to harnessing the incredible benefits of gratitude and resilience, helping you navigate life's challenges with grace and appear stronger than ever.

After years of working as an image-obsessed actress in Hollywood, Roxanne finds herself at rock bottom from a disease that is anything but glamorous. In her first year of recovery, Roxanne has to take accountability for her past. From tales of being mistaken for a prostitute at the Hotel Bel-Air to botching a threesome attempt with an A-list celebrity, she must face the truth about herself and stop playing the victim.

This inclusive resource is designed for professionals and parents to understand each group's unique challenges. It's here to help you revive and nurture the inner child to flourish amid life's chaos. Together, we can heal emotional wounds and improve relationships, even if past attempts have faltered.

Many Christians have the belief and trust in their salvation, but seem to struggle to truly experience and sense God’s presence on an intimate level in their everyday lives. This is what Rory MaGrath experienced for nearly twenty-six years of his life, and his obsessive pursuit for genuine intimacy with his creator took him on a long and painful journey. Through an inadvertent miracle, Rory was introduced to a solution in the most unlikely of places, which opened the door to a relationship with God that was so naturally real that it appeared almost tangible; like God was actually there in...

In an age where the familiar structures of identity, community, and certainty crumble into chaos, The Avatar Within: Designing Your Mythic Self in an Age of Chaos is an empowering guide for those ready to reclaim their power, authenticity, and purpose. Drawing from timeless myths, archetypal psychology, and transformational storytelling, Joseph Crown invites you on a profound journey inward to rediscover your mythic self—your Avatar. Far from a mere persona, this Avatar serves as your inner compass, guiding you toward wholeness and resilience amidst uncertainty and upheaval. Through ...

Drifting Between Empty Tramlines is a novel about quietly desperate – and not-so-quietly desperate – women. A moral and social satire in the tradition of Jane Austen, it focuses on the lives of a group of twenty-something women in the fictional town of Bridchester near Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the 1970s. It was written in 1972 by Susan Noble, who died in 1974 at the age of 31. The atmosphere of the fictional records office in the novel, with its gossip and backbiting, was almost certainly based on that of Susan’s daily working life; the office forms the backdrop to the ...

It is said that once the pain of the addiction is greater than the reward, that is when change occurs. Sex addiction is a shameful topic. There are some books written for male sex addicts, but few from a female sex addict’s point of view. I am an American middle-class mom who works as a physician.