Heroes, Villains, and Healing allow survivors to view their thoughts and actions through the lens of Marvel heroes and villains they love and hate. Characters such as Wolverine demonstrate how trauma can cause the strongest to forget and block out the pain of the past, while powerful characters such as the Hulk and Thing view themselves as monsters, using their anger and strength to mask their pain, fear, and sense of loneliness. While filled with fantastic radioactive mutations, arch-nemesis, and super soldiers, the realm of superheroes and villains provides survivors the ability to safely explore the theories and applications of …

In this gripping narrative, Dr. Daniel William Lawrence explores humanity’s troubled relationship with truth, from the propaganda tactics of King Sargon of Akkadia to the sophistication of present day hyper-targeted political advertising on social media. Spanning thousands of years of human history, Dr. Lawrence urges us to fight against disinformation and wrest back control of our minds using the critical toolbox of rhetoric: the ancient, lost art of persuasion laid down long ago by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. From the first known author, the High Priestess Enheduanna, to the modern-day developments of social media and algorithmic and procedural communication and …

Faith of the Butterfly is Susannah’s two-year journey of reinvention and overcoming the pains of her past while, in her own words, deciding to be “done with boxes.” It’s a story that begins with that first day in Sephora, and follows the transition from her painful closet into a cocoon from which she was finally able to reemerge into the world. It was not an easy journey, with deep and emotionally painful valleys scattered along her path, yet her path also included some amazing miracles, and her faith only grew during her travels. One of the key aspects of her …

This book shows the world of feelings of the affected person. Selva captures it finely in its pages and tells it chronologically from the most incipient steps in the reception of a diagnosis to the full assumption of a reality.To be able to access this knowledge is a jewel not to be missed by anyone interested in Lewy Body Disease: professionals, people affected, carers. But this is not the greatest achievement of the writing; the book manages to pierce the layer of general ignorance on the subject, allowing to know, raise awareness and assume the existence of this disease, unknown …

Author Robert Francis has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia for longer than a quarter century. Over the many years, Robert has been intimately familiar with the commonly tempered expectations and diminished hopes for those living with schizophrenia to live a full and abundant life, similar to others. In his now third book on living with schizophrenia, Robert was driven to literary action, to flip the schizophrenia narrative from one of abundant deficits to one of abundant strengths. In A Strength’s Perspective; Life Lessons Learned from Living with Schizophrenia, Robert details personal strengths and life lessons learned from living with schizophrenia …

LESSONS ON LEADERSHIP AND POWER TO WIN THE SECOND HALF OF THE GAME.One never knows when you are going to find your true vocation, but if there is one thing I have learned, it is to not accept things as they are presented to us and to always be open. This is like love; it is a vibration you only feel in your heart. We should never resign ourselves to living without love or not finding our vocation. They are out there, waiting for us. It is about finding them. They are our what for.This book is about the mysterious …

Freedom with Food and Fitness will be the first book about intuitive eating that actually provides focus on intuitive movement and fitness, the ninth principle of the intuitive eating philosophy. It will guide readers through the core principles of intuitive eating, how and why diet culture leads us to become disordered dieters, and how we can rebuild our relationship with our minds and bodies through mindset work and practical advice around food and fitness. There is a hole in the intuitive eating book market where there should be one that focuses on how to incorporate exercise into eating disorder recovery; …

On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran’s most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Incarcerated in Tehran’s Evin and Qarchak prisons for 804 days, this is the full and gripping account of her harrowing ordeal. Held in a filthy solitary confinement cell for months, and subjected to relentless interrogation, Kylie was pushed to the limits of her endurance by extreme physical and psychological deprivation. Kylie’s only lifeline was the covert friendships she …

Undressed: An Invitation to Claim Your Erotic Nature is a spiritual and erotic awakening of one woman. Each of her six lovers and one night of unforgettable self-pleasuring correlate with the seven chakras―the body’s energetic centers. Starting from the root all the way up to the crown, Kagan mastered these centers through her erotic encounters with each of the exceptional lovers and through these juicy fresh stories, readers will learn first-hand about the seven power centers (aka chakras) and how they relate to embodiment and orgasm. This connection of life force and erotic nature create a modern-day recipe for women …