Breakfast at the Good Hope Home

Literature & Fiction

Bayles, Mike

Literary

Legacy Book Press LLC

welcome to the story of my lifethe happiness,the tears,the sadness,and the fears,staring back at me,to slowly reveal.when i look into the mirror,it's a monster.a goblin full of my past mistakes,the past spoken words and screams,the times when my head was foggy not clean.i see the monster and i think that's who i am,as i am realistically just a girl,a girl in a small town,who walks around with a constant frown.my reflection is always staring back at me.

reflections: a teen’s poems about navigating love and heartbreak in the shadow of trauma, mental illness, and a broken family

Foley, Faith

Poetry

Holding Heaven - A Collection of Poems is about all the splendored manifestations of light on Earth. It contains the poems of seekers, those who treasure hope, and those who behold with awe. It also portrays the faces of humankind, how arrogance prevents insight, and how fickleness may be perceived as wisdom. Some interrogate fate and choice and others query the epiphany of our travel through time, what courage means, and what freedom entails.

Holding Heaven: a collection of poems

Mondou, Elsa

Religion & Spirituality

Are You Gregg's Mother? describes the challenges, obstacles, and grace of raising a son who developed paranoid schizophrenia.

Are You Gregg's Mother?

Biographies & Memoirs

Morgan, Charlotte

Community & Culture

A widow’s journey into a new life... My Walk with Grief is a spiritual memoir about Elaine Olson’s obsessive ten-year search for identity and love after living in the shadows as a pastor’s wife for thirty years, eventually marrying an agnostic who embodies Divine grace. When her husband died, part of Elaine died, too. Unimpeded as a widow, her obsessive search for her own identity and love pulled her into soul struggles, grief, world travel, disastrous dating, dog drama, and spiritual surprises. Elaine’s memoir will inspire readers to seek new identities after a significant loss or transition, encouraging them to grieve deeply, live fully, and rediscover love and the largeness of Spirit’s embrace. Elaine tells her story in a way that is candid, entertaining, and easily relatable, addressing at least two topics other books on grief do not: the spiritual struggle to discover a more extensive understanding of Grace while seeking a new identity as well as sexuality and dating.

My Walk with Grief

Olson, Elaine

Parenting & Relationships

Allen Long works as a CNA-certified nursing assistant-at that supposed sanctuary of caring, an inner-city general hospital. What an unforgettable parade of bizarre, needy, abusive, menacing, endearing, and poignant humanity passes through its doors. And those are just the staff and administrators! Meanwhile, the patient population spans the affluent and sophisticated to the homeless, the mentally ill, addicts, gang members, and criminals in custody. Praying for Restraint takes the reader on a journey into the absurd and surreal that is ultimately uplifting and harrowing, both funny and heartbreaking. Long's struggle to survive a relentlessly toxic work environment with body, soul, and marriage intact is as gripping as the battle against childhood abuse in his previous memoir, Less than Human. Reviewers found that book "inspiring, honest, and beautifully written, engaging, and thought-provoking." Praying for Restraint earns that praise and more.

Praying for Restraint

Long, Allen

Professionals & Academics

Chronicling the challenges of life, love, and loss, Kelsey Villeret's Efflorescence is a magnifying glass into the life of a modern teenage girl who has faced some unfortunate circumstances. The loss of a loved one, a painful breakup, a mental illness, body image issues, and how a young woman copes with these obstacles are portrayed throughout these works of poetry. This deeply intimate self-portrait is a testament to one's pain as well as to one's desire to heal. This period of turmoil is captured as a transitional phase in which self-discovery and self-reflection are brilliantly dissected and presented for inspection. As she grows wearier and wearier of her ability to persevere, it is apparent that she is also acquiring the tools she needs to push through the impossible and live to tell the tale.

Efflorescence

Self-Help

Villeret, Kelsey

Relationships

Swimming, Not Drowning is a memoir in verse that takes the reader on the poet's journey through her struggles with an anxiety disorder that often leads to depression. The first part, "Deep Water," explores the author's childhood, family, personality, fears, disappointments, the generalized public unfamiliarity with mental illness, and other factors conducive to the onset of depression. The second part, "Drowning," depicts what it feels like to be trapped in the disabling claws of the depression monster. The last part, "Swimming," is a testament of hope, reassuring the reader that with patience, understanding, and support, everybody can learn how to "swim" the deep waters without drowning.

Swimming, Not Drowning: Poems

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Marin, Mari-Carmen

Mental Health

A Place to Rest is a journey of discovery through the rapidly changing landscape of the post-World War II American South as viewed from the perspective of best friends, Mildred Morgan and Janet Bell. The pair grew up together in rural Grover’s Fork, Alabama, and remained inseparable through college, despite having little in common. Mildred is the classic wallflower—soft-spoken, malleable, and emotionally fraught. Janet is outspoken, iconoclastic, and highly ambitious. After college, the two part ways.\nMildred returns to Grover’s Fork, where she becomes a high school librarian. Living at home and socially adrift, she marries a fellow teacher and starts a family. Her carefully constructed safe harbor is shaken by the mysterious disappearance of her husband, and she turns to her young son, James, for emotional ballast and meaning. Janet lands a job as a reporter for the Montgomery Observer and settles in the state capital where she covers the Civil Rights movement as a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist. Even as her professional career flourishes, she remains vaguely unsatisfied. Despite their geographical separation and different paths, both are buffeted by the winds of change sweeping through the South in the 1950s.\nSharing their hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, triumphs and tragedies in a vivid and unsparing correspondence, Mildred and Janet continue to navigate a journey to find meaning and hope in an indifferent world.

A Place to Rest

Miller, Tom

United States

Product Description One writer’s search for meaning, one family’s journey to healing...Jane Olmsted’s family didn’t adhere to the characteristics that the media portrays for those struggling with mental illness and addiction. Doctors, attorneys, and social workers repeatedly told Jane and her husband that they weren’t used to working with “families like yours.” The Tree You Come Home To tells the story of Jane’s family’s struggle with mental illness, addiction, and the crises that followed the murder of her youngest son. It can provide hope and comfort to those facing similar situations and encourage empathy and compassion in those who haven’t.“Jane Olmsted's meticulously detailed account is a wake-up call for schools, churches, social workers, legislators, psychologists, medical doctors, and all those engaged with the mental and emotional wellness of at-risk youth.”—Sena Jeter Naslund, Ph.D., author of Ahab's Wife and others“Jane Olmsted weaves together life and death, tragedy, and moments of grace in this extraordinary memoir on the murder of her youngest son. In luminous writing, Olmsted plumbs the complex and fluctuating dynamics of family, motherhood, grief, and faith while forging a path towards healing.”—Kristin Czarnecki, author of The First Kristin: The Story of a Naming Review A writer reflects on the violent death of her son. Each of Olmsted's three sons had their problems. The worst came from their youngest, Casey, who was in crisis from the age of 11 until his tragic murder at 20. "Casey's is a story of anguish and struggle for love and self-worth," Olmsted writes, "but it is also one of great personal courage and determination." Working from primary sources, like notes about Casey's institutionalizations, Casey's writings, court statements, and recollections from family and friends, Olmsted reconstructs her son's short, turbulent life—his violent outbursts, struggles with drug addiction, and the birth of his daughter, which marked the beginning of a slow, more hopeful turn toward responsibility and spiritual healing. At the same time, Olmsted narrates the immense grief she, her husband, and her other sons felt after Casey's death, especially as the murder trial looms. A university English professor and poet, Olmsted outlines the various efforts made by her, doctors, therapists, and teachers to intervene in her troubled children's lives, providing meticulous analysis of how to keep moving forward in the face of the seemingly insurmountable. At the same time, she invites readers into her darkest stray thoughts while maintaining a distinct, sharp voice. (She interrupts herself at one point: "Irrational fears: Everyone I love will die. Go away, bad thought.")Most notable, however, is her conclusion, which reflects on the need for an apology from her son's murderer. It's a standout chapter—a stunning and emotional investigation of parenting, grief, and language. An affecting examination of loss and helplessness and how they intersect.--Kirkus Reviews

The Tree You Come Home To

Olmsted, Jane

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