There is nothing on earth more powerful than the love of a mother...except drugs.God has a miraculous way of taking our pain and sorrow and making something beautiful and useful. He never wastes anything--even our pain or, in Maria Kouts' case, her worst nightmare. More Americans died last year from drug overdose than the entire Vietnam War. Like war, drugs don't discriminate. Drugs don't care about your age, race, religion, social status, or gender; they're just glad to own you. Addicts come from all walks of life, from all types of families--rich, poor, young, old, people of faith, and those with no faith at all.The message in this book is intended to inspire, educate, strengthen, and comfort its reader. The learning process that those dealing with addiction have to go through is very difficult. The unlearning of how we judge and separate ourselves from addiction is even harder.This book and the trying experiences that surround it were made for "such a time as this" when our world is experiencing the worst drug epidemic of all time. "Josiah: One Family's Journey of Being Broken Together" is a personal story of loss and tragedy, but, as with any story like this, it doesn't need to end there. There is hope, and Maria prays that you will find it in the pages of this book.

Josiah: One Family's Journey of Being Broken Together

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kouts, Maria

Addiction & Recovery

Awaken Village Press

There is no specific guidebook for this adventure called life; it is the journey itself to pay attention and say yes to.Saying Yes to Life is a loving invitation for people who long to live life more fully after spending too much time with their noses in the guidebooks, thinking everyone else knows best, and missing out on the beautiful views all around.In this sensory-filled portrayal of travelling from a place of heavy obligations to a heart-centred life filled with lightness and love, Marjorie Warkentin takes you on a journey to:notice where you have been ignoring your intuition and pushing through at all costs. explore what it looks like to trust more fully, face uncertainty more courageously, live more authentically, and, ultimately, be a true leader of your life.embrace the messy path of adventure full of magical experiences with arms wide open, remembering that you are safe and never alone. By the end of the trail, you will be invited to follow your inner wisdom and be true to yourself; discover you no longer need to depend on external guidance when you come to a crossroads; and see it's possible to live a life filled with love and grace.And it all starts by saying "yes"!

Saying Yes to Life: Embracing the Magic and Messiness of the Journey

Warkentin, Marjorie

Religion & Spirituality

** Winner of the 2020 Nautilus Award in Psychology **Anxiety Is Unavoidable: Suffering Is Optional“Anxiety Rx is unlike any book on anxiety and a must-read for anyone who suffers with chronic worry.” – Nicole LePera, PhD, The Holistic Psychologist 
On February 8, 2013, I was a highly anxious and burned-out fifty-two-year-old physician. That night, as I left my clinic in my usual chronic state of anxiety, I wondered if life was worth living. But I had to be on stage as a stand-up comedian an hour later, so killing myself would have to wait. However, I never got to the comedy club. I suffered an injury that night that would end my medical career. 
I’ve dealt with anxiety since I was a teenager. My father was schizophrenic and bipolar, and the chaos and pain of his illness created tremendous alarm in my system. My mother did her best to love and take care of my brother and me, but she had her own issue with chronic anxiety. I often say my mother was neurotic and my father was psychotic, so my psyche didn’t stand much of a chance! 
I wrote this book to make my father’s eventual suicide and the suffering of my family mean something: to help others like me who experienced chronic worry to understand and fix the pain that was sucking the life out of their lives. I have degrees and advanced training in medicine, neuroscience, and developmental psychology, but much of what I’ll share with you came out of my experiences in very unscientific places. This book is unique in its blend of hard neuroscience and soft spirit. 
For over thirty years, I searched for relief from anxiety and saw over fifty practitioners ranging from Indian shamanic energy healers to highly accomplished psychiatrists. (I was lucky I was a doctor so I could afford to be a patient.) Have you, too, gone to extraordinary lengths to resolve your chronic compulsion to worry and are still suffering? Read on. 
What makes this book different is a relentless focus on calming anxiety at its true source, which I will share with you in detail. That source is in a place most doctors and psychologists fail to explore, and that oversight is why the positive effects of most anxiety therapies tend to wear off over time. 
Although I’ll talk about my patients’ experiences with anxiety as well as my own, everything within these pages has been vetted, explored, and applied to my own life. The ideas and practices are unique, novel, and effective. This is my life’s work and the ultimate book of high-impact solutions for escaping the trap of chronic worry. I truly do not want you to suffer as I have! 
I’ve gone from being a hapless victim of my anxiety, never knowing when it would end, to having a path that helps me every single time anxiety comes up.People with anxiety are confused because they don't know what is happening to them. In this book, I'll show you exactly what is going on in your mind and your body and exactly what you can do about it. 
What is in this book has changed my life very much for the better, and I know it will do the same for you.

Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It

Biographies & Memoirs

Kennedy, Russell

Professionals & Academics

** LITERARY TITAN GOLD BOOK AWARD - February 2021 **The voice of the awakened warrior will be heard by all, and he will be known as The One. For Marcus Ogabi, policing is life, though life hasn't been that great lately. While on a call, he ends up shooting a young man, Dimitri Tanomeo, in the roughest part of town. What he never imagined was that this poor, mute, street kid could change his life, and maybe even the world. Over time, Marcus ends up joining Dimitri and Zach Markland, a technological wunderkind and son of one of the world's richest men, as they spread a new consciousness jump-starting a dynamic global revolution. But what about the mysterious old indigenous woman, Ana, who always seems to be one step ahead? And who's behind the curtain pulling the strings of the so-called leaders, focused on controlling the world, as they stop at nothing to prevent Dimtri from helping free every soul on the planet? From the grim housing projects in the ghetto, to the seats of governmental power, through the depths of prison life to affluent Malibu mansions, The Essential Revolution takes the reader on a journey of inner evolution, friendship, and the struggle with evil.

The Essential Revolution

Literature & Fiction

MCGINNIS, MICHAEL

Literary

Son of a Whore: Forging My Path to Freedom

Self-Help

Isoldi, Demetrye

Isoldi Medici, Elena

Happiness

MY FATHER WAS A SERIAL RAPIST. MY MOTHER WAS A WHORE. MY BROTHER IS A SERIAL KILLER. I ESCAPED THEIR MADNESS AND FORGED MY PATH TO FREEDOM. From the slums of Georgia and the projects of New Jersey, Demetrye Isoldi climbed his way to the top of the world.Son of a Whore is a story of redemption and triumph. A story of how even though we might be broken, neglected, rejected, hurt, and abused, we do not have to struggle with our pain our entire life. We can find the power in us to unleash meaning, purpose, peace, and authenticity. Not despite the pain we lived through, but because of it. In this raw and evocative memoir, Demetrye, a survivor of childhood abuse and trauma, and co-author Elena Isoldi Medici empower you to:? Find freedom from the shadow of someone else's decisions and your own mistakes? Take charge of your emotions? Design your future purposefully? Become the architect of your lifeSo instead of feeling powerless and remaining a victim, you can shed the chains of your pain and trauma and soar to unimaginable heights. With a serial rapist for a father, a serial killer for a brother, and a whore for a mother, Demetrye chose to forge his path to freedom and happiness? and so can you.

Community & Culture

My Brain Matters: The NeuroMetabolic Solution – How to Have More Brain Power for Your Loved Ones and Yourself

Gudrais, Elizabeth

DiDuro, Dr. Joe

Mental Health

Smash: A Memoir

Kampen, Rita

Certain aptitudes are emerging among women across the globe at this time. These unusual propensities come directly from the priestess archetype template. They involve an understanding of deep mysteries that span the unseen elements, energetic and spiritual laws, conscious time travel, various dimensional realities and planes of existence. They connect us deeply with who we really are as humans and beyond, our purpose, and the technologies that we carry within us. Not all women are gifted psychics. Not all are intended mystics. This book opens a portal to priestesshood unlike any other so that these aptitudes may awaken, activate, and cultivate in alignment with y/our mission on Earth.

The Priestess Transmissions

Politics & Social Sciences

Belair, Amy

Bevels, Amron

Women's Studies

True freedom is found when you lay down your shield and live from a place of your true perfection. You are free to be exactly who you are, trusting that what you do is complete—which is always enough. With these words of peace and possibility, Amanda shares her personal journey—unique, empowering, and much like the stories and emotional baggage we all carry around. Amanda’s open-hearted narrative clearly shows the moments when seeds of judgment and ego-confusion were planted by well-meaning parents and mentors. This is a story of courage—that first step into the unknown requiring trust and a deep understanding that after all is said and done, the most perilous pathway is found within all evolving beings. This journey doesn’t end at a roadside snack shack with celebratory icy drinks—when you sign onto this adventure, you sign up for life. Like those beautiful Russian Nesting dolls waiting patiently to be free, Amanda uncovers her inherent wholeness one layer at a time, using her expanding awareness and the wise words of pioneers who have walked before her. With truth often seeming like a sharpened corkscrew digging deeper with every twist, the flow of transformation carries Amanda from one breakthrough to the next—the call of her truest self growing louder and more insistent as she paves her own path. Filled with story and rich with depth, Becoming Enough is a powerful opportunity for seekers everywhere to join her movement of change, shed the protective shield of judgment, and live a life of true wholeness.

Becoming Enough: A Heroine's Journey to the Already Perfect Self

Johnson, Amanda

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