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"No one ever told me how incredibly gratifying and beautiful it can be to grow. Since no one ever told me, I am here to tell you."When I Became Light is Ilana Weinstein's debut book. In a collection of 60 poems, she explores a bumpy coming of age and journey to confidence - just a little differently than the world around her might have expected. Her pieces comment on loneliness, growing up, a first real relationship, finding her own self-worth, and more, all wrapped up into scenes of her home; New York City. See how beautiful it is to grow into who you are through Ilana's eyes and maybe, just maybe...you'll find your light too.

In life, there are choices. There is therapy, and there are other drugs.Therapy and Other Drugs provides a first-hand look at mental health, substance abuse, and healing...from the therapist's perspective. Readers will experience the raw emotions of working in the field of addiction; from relapse and overdose, to sobriety and survival.Author Christina Brown explores the intersection between familial and professional experiences with mental health and substance abuse. Readers will gain understanding on how therapists have to simultaneously balance between taking care of others and prioritizing their own mental health. Stories of loss, heartbreak, and the perseverance of those struggling are highlighted throughout this eye-opening memoir. Therapy and Other Drugs introduces the conversation of asking for help, even when you are the helper.

Trust is the glue making communication possible, and a tool leaders must use to expand their skills and grow their businesses.In The Language of Trust: Communicate to Build Meaningful Relationships in Business and Life, Ingrid Christensen provides an impactful and essential guide to the crucial ingredient that makes relationships, businesses, and communication tick: trust.This book deep dives into the precise practice of taking meaning from one language and translating it into another, proliferating your ability to connect with people all over the world, no matter what language they speak. Throughout The Language of Trust, you will learn how to nourish relationships and communicate authentically to build confidence and deepen human connection.Once you learn about developing an organizational identity, cultivating trust with others, and prioritizing time for personal development, you'll get to do the work for yourself. As a leader, your ability to cultivate trust both at work and home will have a profound impact on your personal and professional life.Trust directly impacts everything-it's the key to unlocking one's purpose, connection, resilience, and growth. Trust is a practice that offers transformation and The Language of Trust shows you how.

Throughout Mayden's 20+ year career as an award-winning designer, lecturer, entrepreneur, and academic, he learned the power of addressing my inner pain. As a result, he successfully healed the hurt of personal and professional disappointment and unleashed his creativity through the filters of immersive empathy, introspective curiosity, and emotional neutrality.The Speed of Grace is not intended to be a perfect book. Instead, this collection of deeply personal reflections guides the reader through the behaviors and principles Mayden used to pursue creative, physical, professional, personal, and emotional growth. Through vulnerability, transparency, and authenticity, Mayden seeks to inspire the reader, to conquer the fears and insecurities they have yet to confront. To heal from the wounds of the past that block your blessings in present reality. To view creativity as a form of altruistic rebellion.In this moment, the power and potential of creativity in marginalized communities breaks the binds of economic disparagement, toxic environments, food insecurity, and destructive narratives.We are learning. We are healing. We are rising. We are the ones we have been waiting for. Our time is now.

Have you ever left a meeting wishing you had said something different? Maybe you wonder why speaking comes so easily to others? Meghan Dotter has made a career of helping clients elevate their speaking and storytelling skills. In her book, The Reluctant Presenter: Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Speaking, Meghan reveals the science and art behind creating and giving compelling presentations. She challenges the biggest assumptions you've been led to believe, including: Don't fake it 'til you make it; use confidence as a guide.The success of your presentation has very little to do with PowerPoint.The real potential of storytelling goes beyond entertaining.Great speakers aren't naturally charismatic-they do the work to connect to audiences.Through stories and research, Meghan shows you how to do the work (and avoid steps that aren't worth spending time on). In reading this book, you'll do more than transcend from being a reluctant presenter. You might even enjoy speaking up.

"I devoured this book. My very favorite phrase in the book (and one that I have adopted in my own head now), is 'self-care isn't going to fix this."-Laura H."This was one of the most honest, raw books I've read in the last 5 years. The exercises in the book were so thought-provoking. Each one made me think about HOW I want to live my life and WHAT the next steps are to reach the life I WANT. Finally, a self-help book that actually HELPS!"- Susan B.Are you tired of holding it together on the outside, only to end up feeling more unfulfilled and uninspired on the inside?If you're ready for a breakthrough, 'Hello, Head, Meet Heart' will be your ultimate guide to breaking up with burnout and tapping into the most extraordinary version of your life.Written by a corporate leader and anti-burnout expert Hannah Morgan Austin, this book is full of personal insights straight from the fire.Inside this book, you will learn: What burnout really looks like, and how you can recognize it in yourself.How to chart a course toward a new life beyond burnout, based on hundreds of stories from powerhouse professionals.How to turn towards yourself and discover who you are and who you want to beYour most extraordinary life is waiting for you beyond these pages. This raw and engaging book will leave you feeling truly hopeful and inspired.

Everyone knows about postpartum depression these days, but what about the opposite? What about when giving birth leads to paranoia, delusions, rage, and a whole range of other symptoms that none of the baby books prepare you for? In Super Sad Unicorn: A Memoir of Mania, author Jessica Ekhoff describes her experience with postpartum-onset bipolar disorder, mania, and psychosis, rare - and even more rarely discussed - mental health complications of having a baby. Taking readers directly inside the mind of someone experiencing a break from reality, Ekhoff recounts her harrowing first two weeks of motherhood, complete with a stay in a psychiatric ward she was convinced was really an escape room. The ways in which the experience changed her are as surprising as they are hopeful.

Poetry is a form of expression but, for people dealing with mental illness, expression is often a luxury they can't afford. Sometimes it takes encouragement to help someone shed their mask and allow others to understand their struggles.A Reason to Look for Tomorrow, by Saad Manasterli, is a collection of over 140 poems written for those who suffer from mental illness and for others who are curious to know their struggles. These poems delve into themes of mental health, love and friendship, society, and identity.They provide comfort to those struggling with their own self-worth and need help turning negativity into positivity. We are stronger together, and together we can overcome by providing support and lifting one another. A Reason to Look for Tomorrow is a conversation starter for readers who want to open up, unburden themselves and start healing.

Have you ever felt inspired to introduce a new business idea within your organization? Maybe you see new market opportunities or ways to improve existing operations, but you struggle to find your voice.This book contains inspirational stories about everyday people who work inside of existing organizations. While behaving like entrepreneurs, they managed to navigate corporate roadblocks to bring ideas to fruition. Here you will learn about:The importance of framing ideas in ways that make sense to decision makers.Impactful approaches for obtaining buy-in from key stakeholders.Effective strategies for implementing your project.Entrepreneurship represents a mindset anyone can learn to cultivate. These amazing stories will inspire you to seek challenges and identify opportunities to make the entrepreneurship experience a reality in your life. Become a difference maker in your organization and successfully build your career along the way!

Everyone thinks the pandemic caused a terrible work experience for employees. In The Office is Dead, Now What? A Post-Pandemic Field Guide for Leadership, Maryanne Spatola makes the compelling case that the pandemic actually put the spotlight on and amplified the faulty leadership practices we've endured in the workplace for decades. The pandemic showed us new ways to lead, to both treat people as whole human beings and achieve the organizational results we seek. Three overarching themes pulsate throughout this book: Changing workforce expectations for life and workEvolving workplace designs that invite people to do their best workLeadership practices learned from the pandemicWritten through the lens of a coach, this field guide includes coaching questions, models, tools, reflective exercises, and shared stories from interviews. Coupled with relevant research to inspire new approaches, The Office is Dead, Now What? will challenge your thinking and invite new perspectives, prompting you to discover actionable insights to prevent us from slipping "back to the way it was" and lead us to a better future for work and life.

What unique opportunities and challenges do the young people of today face? Anna Rodin tackles that question in For Your Twenties: A Guide to Staying Connected Amidst the Chaos through her own experiences, the stories of others, and research. We are living in a time of change, and the new generation is leading us through it. Anna writes candidly about the importance of health and building key tools like self-awareness and confidence in one's early years. For Your Twenties is a vulnerable telling of what life today is like for those in their twenties, diving into careers, relationships, and connection to self. If you are a twenty-something, someone who's grown up in the digital age, or a parent or educator of someone who is, this book is a valuable tool for you. Young people today are in this pivotal moment; there is the opportunity to build a strong connection with oneself while succeeding in a world so focused on the external-it's possible to have both.

What happens when soldiers who survived overseas military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan come home? We might believe that once they get home, everything will be fine. Life will go on like it was before the war, back to normal. That's what the soldiers thought, and that's what their spouses and families thought. The reality is different, because war changes everything. Returning soldiers are different. Spouses are changed. Children grow up and leave home. Then it's the next deployment, and they do it all again. Bulletproof Vows: Stories of Couples Navigating Military Deployments and Life's Battles tells the stories of eight post-9/11 Army couples, exploring the challenges and demands of combat deployments, as well as the resilience of the human spirit. This book is intended to shatter our assumptions about war, combat, and PTSD. Everyone who has served-and anyone who loves someone who has served-knows that war changes people, whether overseas or back at home. These eight couples navigated military deployments and life's battles, demonstrating their resilience and reinforcing their bulletproof vows.

Wild Rose, Jennifer Merschdorf's debut novel, will forever alter your beliefs of what happens after someone dies.The year is 2021 when Julia, alone and grieving, purchases an abandoned hotel named Wild Rose. After an unspeakable tragedy, Julia throws her soul into renovating the hotel and uncovers its mysterious secrets.Over 175 years, three women perish within the luxurious Wild Rose hotel. Each finding their ghosts trapped within its walls by their own secrets. Through the decades they watch the living and witness their sins, never seen or heard. Until Julia steps through the doors.As Julia brings light into the deserted hotel, she learns that she is the only person that can see the trapped spirits. For the first time a living person can see these three women born a century apart from each other, together.Can Julia free these three tortured souls from eternal imprisonment? Time may tell.

There is one word that can make consumers clamber, manipulate stock markets, and excite employees to come to work-Innovation. It has grown in popularity over the last half-century with over 2,000 books and reports arising annually. Philosophies and frameworks are released faster than iPhone models. And mantras like "innovate or die" and "fail fast" are pounded into company cultures. It is an arms race to get ahead. But what does innovation mean in these days of a post-COVID world, where results are needed instantaneously.Companies today move at high speeds innovating just for the sake of innovating, generating concepts that have us scratching our heads in frustration, rather than focusing on creating strategic change. Matt Mueller's The Mindful Innovator deploys awareness to uncover the secret formula to business success. The journey begins by slowing down to reflect on one question-What was innovation like before there was a book or a process? The Mindful Innovator strips the industry to its foundation and shows how to build a powerful structure that will turn you into a change agent. You will be able to:identify real problemssupercharge your creativitycollaborate like a probecome a mindful Jedi getting others to adapt easilyAfter reading The Mindful Innovator you will become a beacon of clarity and purpose, creating meaningful change within your company, business, or entrepreneurship.

Anything and everything is now called art. The Art Market is global, and some people make millions while others never find their footing. With changing algorithms and a cryptic Art World, how do you stand out as an artist? The Artist's Creative Vision: How to Create Art that Makes Change and Earns a Living teaches how to make unique art that makes you proud and earns a living. The book aims to eliminate the phrase "starving artist" by helping people create more interesting art, more sustainably, regardless of location. We will answer questions like:Why is originality not such a good thing?What can different professions teach us?How do you build marketing into the subject matter of your art?Kamar Thomas' The Artist's Creative Vision teaches us how to bring humanity and creativity to our art and pay our bills.

Imagine going to war for a year with no assurance that you would ever return. In Dr. Robert Elliott's Citizen Soldier: From the Land of Lincoln to Iraq and Back, readers learn what it is like to say goodbye to a wife and three children and then travel across Iraq by convoy and helicopters. You'll learn about the stressors, the dangers, and the risks taken and retaken.The author gives vivid accounts of:Walking the ancient ruins of BabylonTransporting detainees to Abu Ghraib PrisonMeeting with Ukrainian soldiers near the Iranian borderCalling in a medevac after a roadside bomb attackSustaining a mortar attackCitizen Soldier: From the Land of Lincoln to Iraq and Back is written from a soldier's perspective, inviting you to experience the emotional roller coaster that service members and their families voluntarily endure to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

How have you dealt with those unexpected curve balls life has thrown at you? Because how we deal with them can greatly impact our life, relationships, happiness and peace.A Million Little Miracles: A Common Sense Intro to the Law of Attraction seeks to guide you in creating the life of your dreams. Author Lisa Kentner shares stories of how she manifested things and people into her life while going through an unplanned divorce. She provides exercises to help train your brain to look at things from a positive mindset, and details how she was able to navigate her divorce and come out better on the other side. In this book you will:Learn how to focus on the positiveRedirect your thoughts and perspective in potentially negative situationsManifest things and peopleImprove your love of yourselfLearn to create and live the life of your dreamsA Million Little Miracles is your loving nudge to start living a joyful life by loving yourself and retraining your brain to think positively. Practice the exercises and know the universe is abundant and provides what you ask for. Dream big!

Gratitude is more than a buzz word.Do you want to feel emotionally balanced, have better relationships, be more successful, but above all- feel healthier and happier? Gratitude is a superpower we all have that can be activated like flipping a switch to generate feel-good chemicals. In The Habit of Grateful: a Handbook for Gratitude, author Kristine Newell shares her journey from broken single mom to successful businesswoman with a life she now describes as, "WOW." Her stories are humorous, relatable and, at times, heart-wrenching, as she takes us on a journey of discovery and redemption. Through the highs and lows, we learn valuable lessons about the science of gratitude, as well as the Four Habits Of Grateful - simple daily actions that are life-changing. Part memoir, part handbook, learn to "follow the breadcrumbs" from experts that have used gratitude as a life raft and daily vitamin to be more balanced, happier, and healthier.

How can you make a greater impact?Why Change Dies: Unleashing Your Potential for Social Impact is for changemakers determined to make a difference. It traces the stories of past change efforts to better understand why some have succeeded and others have failed. The book analyzes power structures across the three common domains of social change - the private sector, public sector, and social sector - to illuminate opportunities for individuals to operate effectively within those systems. It includes frameworks, tools, and discussion guides to help you along your own journey in overcoming the barriers that are holding you back. Insightful, cutting, and funny, Why Change Dies doesn't shy away from the complex questions individuals must face in their dreams of social progress. Whether you are starting out in your career, feeling unsatisfied in your current role, or just want to get better at separating the facade of change from the real thing, this book is for you.

When ignoring her intuition resulted in fearing for her life at the edge of Niagara Falls, award-winning Silicon Valley CEO and entrepreneur Hilary DeCesare was shocked into realizing she needed a deep reassessment of who she was and why. The answers surfaced where she least expected. In reLAUNCH! Spark Your Heart to Ignite Your Life, Hilary immerses the reader in the world of neuroscience, to uncover a powerful secret that we all harbor: the 3HQuotient. This is the power to leverage the three H's-the Heart, the Head and the Higher Self. Be enlightened by personal stories from Hilary as well as from other experts:John Gray, of the iconic book, Men are from Mars and Women are from VenusJohn Assaraf, a leading mindset and behavior expertJim Fortin, world leader in subconscious self-transformationHilary DeCesare's reLAUNCH! guides us in deconstructing and mastering the calibration of this finely-tuned trio, the 3HQ, removing us from the autopilot rut to create a powerhouse of transformation and possibility.

You Are the Prize: Seeing Yourself Beyond the Imperfections of Your Trauma explores the journey and struggles in author Amnoni Myers' life. She learned to succeed in a world full of intricacies and survive through dark moments as a child growing up in the foster care system. Despite negative statistics, Amnoni was always determined to create a different story than the one that was written about her.This is a must-read if you are interested in learning more about the personal experiences of children in the foster care system. Myers challenges the reader:How do I help young people navigate difficult transitions?What sustainable methods can I employ to help young people thrive in spite of their trauma?This book is a personal mantra and a reminder that we all deserve to understand our worth regardless of what we've experienced. You Are the Prize speaks to young people who are currently in the system and thought leaders who want to grapple with transforming the child welfare system in order to help foster children find their voice.

"We struggle together and we recover together . . . I promise you. You are not alone."Healing Words: My Journey to Contentment chronicles the real and difficult conversations between author Krish Shah and his friends, family members, professors, and counselors that profoundly humbled, motivated, and enlightened him. These introspections offer more than simple advice. With the incorporation of credible research and methods from philosophy and psychology, they pull back the curtain on mental health and challenge conventional thinking about happiness, success, love, belonging, and more.Shah's vulnerability and affability make his plight all the more relatable and his guidance more welcoming. It is with his sincerest hope these Healing Words have the same effect on you as they did for him.

WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLER"Pick up this book now! Every woman wants to believe she is on the precipice of something major and this book gives you the tools to get yourself there. Randi Braun has created a fun and practical way forward for women who are looking to channel their inner bad-ass, crack the leadership code, and soar!" - Jen Mormile, Chief Business Officer of Condé NastShe's changing women's lives, one play at a time.Women are natural leaders but they've been taught to play the game by an outdated set of rules. So certified executive coach, Randi Braun, wrote them a new playbook.In Braun's book, Something Major: The New Playbook for Women at Work, women will discover how to play the leadership game on their own terms and win when it comes to achieving their goals: whether it's cracking the code on your self-doubt by ditching perfectionism, external validation, and the tyranny of your inner critic, or learning new tactics for owning your message (don't miss 16 things she forbids you to say at work). Braun's book provides a fresh take on one of the most tremendous challenges of our time: empowering women at work to chart their own course to the top - dialing up confidence and fulfillment, and dialing down burnout in the process.In Something Major: The New Playbook for Women at Work, Braun takes the field and re-writes the plays of the game. She is a sought-after thought leader, speaker, and CEO of the women's leadership firm, Something Major. Her book delivers stories for today's women leaders in a conversational style that's packed with sage advice and wildly entertaining.