Imagine you are backpacking with your daughter in a remote part of the Grand Canyon and a mysterious illness decides to show up just as you are trying to make the climb out. Your chest is pounding, youre having trouble breathing and your legs feel like lead, but theres no one around to help you. You make it out alive only to learn that the climb back to health is going to be even more difficult.One doesnt normally connect humor with healing, but Getting Better is both helpful and, ...

This Is How - Survival Advice for Life's Toughest Challenges from New York Times Bestselling Author Augusten BurroughsIf you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and t...

Radical Love is the debut memoir from actor Zachary Levi (Shazam!,?American Underdog,?The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,?Chuck), which shares his emotional journey through a lifetime of crippling anxiety and depression to find joy, gratitude, and ultimate purpose.Facing the scars of childhood trauma and the voices in his head that told him he would never be enough, Zac recounts the raw yet honest behind-the-scenes story of:his family life,c...

Does it take you a while to fall asleep at night? Do you find your mind dwelling on various thoughts before you're able to finally drift off and relax into sleep? Do you find that you just aren't sleepy enough when it's time for bed?Realize that if it takes you 15 minutes on average to fall asleep each night, that's more than 91 hours per year that you're wasting. This is the equivalent of spending more than two 40-hour workweeks just lying in bed waiting to fall asleep.And...

I like to be high performance. I like to create new things, work hard and see the results. The journey on the road can, however, be quite rough. It looks like, my brain ghosts want to take over. My conscious doesn't always want to give me cred for the results. I usually get thoughts that now I was lucky or soon my colleague will discover the bluff. What I have accomplished is not my merit. What if it's true?

As an expert in chronic illness, author Pamala D. Larsen thought she understood what her patients and families with chronic illness were experiencing. When her husband, Randy, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, however, she realized how little she knew. In Finding a Way through Cancer, Dying, and Widowhood: A Memoir, she presents her journal of dealing with her husbands cancerfrom the first day of diagnosis, through eighteen months of illness, hospice care, his death, and her first long...

Can we uninstall 2020 and install it again? This version has a virus.The Internet has been working overtime with humorous memes, tweets, Facebook postings, Pinterest collections, you name it during the pandemic crisis. This outpouring of gallows humor suggests that we're coping with our profound grief and overcoming our fears, and we're going to eventually make it out of this, with our sense of humor, and self, intact. This book collects the best of funny, non-political memes from the COVI...

A powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic—from feeling afraid and overwhelmed to extraordinary resilient—told through voices of people from all across America • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and author of Rising Out of HatredThe Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow began interviewing a cross-sect...

One night, I sat on the bench by the river and an old man shared his wisdom with me. He told me that I can always hear his voice through that of others. These are his words and what I learned from some of our conversations.

From New York Times bestselling author Kris Carr, comes a transformational book about love, loss, and all the life-changing insights we receive when we embrace them.A few years ago, Kris Carr’s world was falling apart. Her father was dying, she had to pivot her business because of the pandemic, and she was on the verge of reaching her twenty-year milestone of living with an incurable Stage IV cancer diagnosis.While sitting in a CVS parking lot, she...

I have been clinically depressed three times. I’ve also watched more than one person that I love go through the same—watched the people closest to me experience what I would not wish on my worst enemy. I’m not a psychologist, a therapist, or a social worker. I’m just a 30-something woman who’s been through hell and back and lived to talk about it. This book is my attempt to help those who find themselves facing a depressed loved one and feeling completely lost—and to indirectly help those ...

Has potty training you child been a pill for you? Have you been trying to get your little one to use the bathroom, but it’s just not working? Well, you might think you have to resort to weird, odd, or sometimes unconventional methods to help potty train your child. The truth of the matter is though, there are many things that parents overlook when they’re trying to potty train their child. These sorts of things go under the radar, and it’s something that many parents have issues with. This...