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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

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 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

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...

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Robert Smith

Their past is over. So why can't your mind stop replaying it?You are in a good relationship with someone who has done nothing wrong. And yet your mind keeps screening a film of a past you never witnessed -- the people who came before you, what they did, how it must have felt. You ask questions you have already asked. You check, you compare, you replay. The answers help for an hour, and then the next thought arrives, slightly worse. If this is you, you are not a bad partner and you ...

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Robert Smith

You don't throw the phone. You turn the storm inward -- and smile, and say you're fine.Most people picture borderline personality disorder as something loud: the screaming, the scene, the relationship that burns down in public. That was never you. When the wave hits, you go still. You arrange your face. You aim the rage at your own chest instead of across the room, and you whisper the cruelest verdict to yourself in the dark: you're too much, you ruined it again, they're already le...

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Robert Smith

The sound of chewing fills you with rage. You are not broken, and you are not alone.If a sniff, a slurp, a tapping pen, or someone simply breathing has ever flooded you with a wave of anger, disgust, or panic so sudden and so out of proportion that it frightened you - and then left you wondering what kind of person reacts like this - this book was written for you. The reaction has a name. It is called misophonia, and it is not an anger problem, not oversensitivity, and not a failur...

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Robert Smith

Christianity Today 2025 Book Award Winner in Apologetics & Evangelism and Book of the Year Award of Merit**"Joins conviction and compassion in a sober, cogent analysis."--**Christianity TodayWhat is the relationship between sex and gender?In The Body God Gives: A Biblical Response to Transgender Theory, Robert S. Smith argues that God intends a person's gender to be grounded in the reality...

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Robert Smith

You don't have an anger problem. You have a swallowing problem.You have felt the flash of heat and swallowed it. You have ended a conversation agreeing with someone you did not agree with. You have been called mature, easy, sweet, low-maintenance, the calm one, the one who never makes a fuss - and worn those words like medals while something inside you went quietly numb. And every so often, the numbness fails, and a year of swallowed anger comes up sideways and too hard, at the wro...

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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

There was a time, before you were busy, when a certain slant of afternoon light could stop you where you stood. That capacity did not die. It went quiet, and it can be trained back.Adults lose the capacity for wonder slowly, the way they lose almost everything important, without ever quite noticing. The cost shows up where you would not think to look for it: the flat afternoons, the chronic mild dread, the sense that the years are running together, the feeling that whatever you are...