FOR SURVIVORS WHO ARE DONE WITH TEA AND SYMPATHYThis is not a gentle guide to self-care.This is a forensic manual for dismantling the prison you've been living in.Based on the explosive memoir Bella's Truth, this workbook is for those who have endured coercive control, reproductive domination, triadic abuse, or child erasure, and are ready to move from victim to sovereign analyst.Inside, you will not find affirmations.

This is Bella's truth. To erase it is to repeat it. To read it is to witness it:For ten years, Bella lived under the control of a married doctor who exploited her body, erased her existence, and silenced her truth. She bore his child, suffered miscarriages, carried his secrets, and endured a cycle of abandonment, cruelty, and betrayal. His wife knew and chose silence, complicity, and erasure.This memoir is not written to beautify suffering. It is a raw reco...

"Somewhere in the middle of my seventies, I realised that I liked being old."So begins this set of engaging stories and thoughts on growing older by someone with a vast range of life experience to share. Part memoir and part reflection on the joys and challenges of modern life, this book explores the nature of old age and how it compares to what came before. The author argues that being older does not have to be feared. Even better, it can be fun.This kalei...

***THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER******'The most raw, funny and liberating look at what it is to be a woman.' – FEARNE COTTON‘Paloma is a storyteller like no other. Empowering and healing – a whole generation of women are about to feel SEEN!’ – GIOVANNA FLETCHER*'Gritty, funny, poetic and freeing.' – ANNA MATHUR, Psychotherapist and bestselling author'A tremendous book, both entertain...

For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are bald, fat and washed-up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age should come dignity and respect, but instead everyone makes tired jokes about buying a motorbike.Marcus Berkmann isn't having it. Having marked his fiftieth birthday by hiding under the duvet for six weeks, the author of the cricket classics Rain Men ...

There are lots of books about parenthood. But if you look closely most of them are about motherhood. Fathers get brief paragraphs about needing the odd cuddle themselves and being helpful for carrying the heavier elements of baby kit, but that's it.Fatherhood - The Truth, on the other hand, is a shed-friendly man's guide to the whole scary, life-changing business. One that looks beyond the happy-clappy cliches into the fiery hell of night feeds and projectile vomiting. 'Sh...

This is how we really communicate. Subconscious signals are talking to us all the time. Everyone is speaking to you and you are speaking to everybody. Fortunately, hardly anybody understands you! All you have to do to gain the high ground in life is learn to understand how body signals work. You can then generally take charge because you know whats really going on behind the scenes. You will be able to speed-read the people you meet and use your own body signals to influence their opinion of ...

I stand in front of the mirror as I remind myself that I no longer have to wear the 'uniform'. I can grow my nails, and paint them. I am free, finally, to have my ears pierced. I can use the voice that I've spent so many hours meticulously cultivating with my speech therapist. I no longer have to hide my disgust at being called boet or sir, or tolerate any references to my deadname. I have fought hard, held back for decades by a body that did not fit and an identity that did not belong. At...

How to get your child from nappies and diapers into using the toilet themselves, written by a leading expert. An explanation of the process children go through when they learn how to use the toilet by themselves. Once you understand this process, you'll be able to help them learn to go by themselves. The books also has excellent advice on bedwetting issues with older children and it Includes frequently asked questions with sensible and helpful advice.

Drinking alcohol from the age of 13 and spending the next 40 years consistently drinking meant that alcohol was as natural a part of my life as breathing. Following a series of difficult times I realised that alcohol was the one thing that was preventing me from living my most authentic life. I stopped drinking for 30 days and at the end of it I already knew I would never drink again. This is a short story about how I knew I wasn't an alcoholic, about how I stopped and what I found out in ...

This book is for those of us who are looking into a huge black hole and feeling that life is not worth living. It might also help those who love someone who is feeling that way.For 20 years Gareth Edwards worked in mental health and suicide prevention as a government advisor, university researcher and designer of innovative services.In The Procrastinator's Guide to Killing Yourself he shares how he found his own 'suicide prevention' came from a place of 'suicide procrastina...

A true story of vulnerability and self-acceptance. Captivating, thought-provoking and a damn good read.Sometimes we long to step off the merry-go-round but few have the courage to take the leap. For 40-something Fiona that leap becomes an imperative. In Drink the Wild Air, she chronicles the unravelling of her life with an arresting and confronting candour.When the story opens, she is a successful professional who cannot abide the thought of failur...