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Robert Smith

The flaw you are proud of is quietly running your life.Perfectionism is the rare weakness people brag about. We confess it in interviews and wear it like a medal, never noticing the sharp pin on the back. Underneath the competence is a particular exhaustion: the second job of monitoring, polishing, and bracing for judgment that never lets the work, or you, be good enough.PERFECT is a clear-eyed, unsentimental guide to loosening that grip, not by lowering your standards, but...

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Robert Smith

You take care of everyone. Somewhere in there, you disappeared.You are the strong one. The giver. The person who reads every room, manages every mood, and remembers everyone's needs but their own. People call you selfless. What no one can see is that somewhere in all that careful attending to everyone else, you lost track of yourself. Ask what you want for dinner and you genuinely don't know. Ask what you need and the question lands like a foreign language.That isn't selfle...

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Robert Smith

There is a sound in your ears that no one else can hear. You are not imagining it, and you are not without hope.If you have lain awake at two in the morning, listening to a ringing, hissing, or buzzing that will not stop, certain this was the end of your peace, this book was written for you. Tinnitus affects ten to fifteen percent of adults, and almost none of them are told the one thing that changes everything: the loudness of the sound and the suffering it causes are two differen...

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Robert Smith

You were never quite a child, and you have never quite stopped working.If the phrase eldest daughter syndrome landed in your life already attached to a feeling, a tightness in your chest that has been there since you were nine, a list in your head that never stops running, a tiredness no amount of sleep quite touches, this book was written for you.Somewhere between the ages of four and twelve you were handed a job that normally belongs to a parent: emotional regulator, sibl...

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Robert Smith

The medication is doing the easy part. This is the harder part - and the part that determines whether the results last.If you are taking Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound, Saxenda, or any other GLP-1 medication, you already know the drug works. What no one prepared you for is the muscle you are quietly losing, the plateau that arrives around month four, the side effects nobody explained in plain language, and the very large question of what happens when you eventually taper off.

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Robert W. Smith, Allen Pittman

Chinese Internal Boxing: Techniques of Hsing-I and Pa-kua is an illustrated martial arts guide to two soft-style Chinese martial arts.Chinese internal boxing and other internal martial arts do not depend on muscular strength. Instead, their power is drawn from the cultivation and practical application of internal energy, or ch'i, making them perfect for people of all ages and all levels of fitness.With clear, easy-to-follow instructions and over 38...

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Robert Smith

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Nude Angels

Meet Angel, a lovely young lady as she invites you to her bedroom, slowly undresses and entices you to join her.This eBook contains a photo set of fine erotic photography and contains no words or stories. Although it can be enjoyed in its own right, this eBook is a collectible item for people who like erotica, erotic photography and beautiful female form.The photos in this eBook were taken in such way as to stimulate and arouse reader’s mind rather than crossing the line of...

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Robert Smith

Preaching magazine’s 2008 Book of the Year! The theme of doctrinal preaching and teaching comes to life through the enthusiastic and inspired writing of professor Robert Smith in Doctrine That Dances.Advance Praise:“At a time when so much of the conversation on preaching deals with presentation, Robert Smith has reminded us that effective teaching must also take the theological task seriously. He makes his case so well that his book, D...

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Robert Smith

You are not an alcoholic. You are done. There is a difference, and it matters.This one is for the gray-zone drinker: the bottle of wine that turns into two with dinner, the couple of beers most nights, the vodka soda because the day was bad and then a second because the first one helped. You go to work. You pay your bills. You are not in trouble. You are just starting to suspect you might be done.Done Drinking is a direct, unsentimental take on the exact decision the recove...

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Robert W. Smith

In every century there are unique individuals whose fate makes them standing symbols of unique merit and accomplishment. Robert W. Smith's Martial Musings stands out as the sole literary work which offers readers a special perspective of martial arts as they evolved during the 20th century. Smith personally escorts the reader on a martial arts tour. He starts with his own initial involvement in the arts, then launches outward, across the nation, over to Asia, and ...

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Robert Smith

Your friendships didn't end. They just got quieter.Somewhere between the last group house and the second mortgage, your close male friendships went quiet. There was no fight. Nobody moved across the country, nobody got divorced, nobody died. The texts just got shorter. The plans got vaguer. The last time you sat with him for two hours without a screen or a beer or a kid present was a wedding three years ago. You meant to call. You did not. He did not call you either.The Lon...

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Robert Smith

You are not a monster. You have an anxiety disorder.The violent images that arrive uninvited. The sexual thoughts you find disgusting. The harm fantasies about the people you love most. The contamination loops, the religious blasphemies that arrive mid-prayer, the existential what-ifs that hollow out an ordinary Tuesday afternoon. You have not told anyone. You have spent years half-convinced you are a future criminal, a pervert, or a person about to lose your grip on reality. The t...