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Claudine Gaston started her journey staring at the broken screen door her daddy had just walked out of. Her only memory of her father was him walking out the door, leaving her with a pregnant, drug/alcohol-addicted mother. This has been a tragic yet magical path of success that has led her on an amazing journey. The author courageously strips away your thoughts of a normal childhood and reaches the visceral depths of your soul; once there, she completes your emotional journey with the heartwarming saga of her unbridled success! -Joe Watts, Retired State Trooper The author shared such intense vulnerability that I couldn't help but find myself relating to most of her experiences and feeling her shared emotions. To come out on the other side as such a positive person, who appreciates the wonderful things in life, is a great life lesson. -Lindsay Wilson, NP, Wabash Valley Dermatology and Med Spa Rage of the Unloved is her first book and is a brutally honest look at the tragic life experiences of a child who was abused and abandoned. This is a real chance to look beneath the surface of a successful woman who did not stop and think of her obstacles when she started this journey. She has climbed out of the generational curses, one day at a time. She knew from day one even though life hands you a bucket of lemons doesn't mean you have to make lemonade; you can still choose a different drink. You can pick sweet tea, and that is exactly what she picked after leaving her hometown and moving to Nashville. In order to write, she removed herself from all her comfort zones and focused on healing her heart from the years of abuse and self-destruction. Upon return to her small town in Indiana, she suffered some of the greatest losses of her life. For more information, you can follow her Facebook page.

*A Wall Street Journal, Southern Indie, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller*Stock-car racing star, country singer, and sports broadcaster Kyle Petty shares his familial legacy, intertwined with NASCAR's founding and history, in Swerve or Die-written with Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellis Henican, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of In the Blink of an Eye."Born into racing royalty. The only son of NASCAR's winningest driver ever. The grandson of one of the sport's true pioneers. The nephew of our very first Hall of Fame engine builder. It's quite a family to represent, and through it all, I've somehow managed to keep being Kyle."Kyle Petty won his very first stock-car race, the Daytona ARCA 200, in 1979 when he was eighteen. Hailed as a third-generation professional NASCAR racer, he became an instant celebrity in circles he had been around all his young life. Despite being the grandson and son of racing champions Lee Petty and Richard Petty, Kyle didn't inherit innate talent. Working in his family's North Carolina race shop from an early age, he learned all about car mechanics and maintenance long before he got behind the wheel. And although Kyle continued the family business, driving "Petty blue" colored cars emblazoned with his grandfather's #42-a number once used by Marty Robbins-his career took a different route than his forebears'.In Swerve or Die: Life at My Speed in the First Family of NASCAR Racing, Kyle chronicles his life on and off the racetrack, presenting his insider's perspective of growing up throughout the sport's popular rise in American culture. In between driving and running Petty Enterprises for thirty years, Kyle took some detours into country music, voiced Cal Weathers in Pixar's Cars 3, and started his annual motorcycle Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America. And when his nineteen-year-old son Adam, a fourth-generation racing Petty, tragically lost his life on the track, Kyle founded Victory Junction, a camp for children with chronic and serious medical conditions in Adam's name-with help from Academy Award-winning actor and motorsports enthusiast Paul Newman.Filled with NASCAR history, stories of his family's careers, and anecdotes about some of stock-car racing's most famous drivers, Kyle's memoir also tackles the sport's evolution, discussing how welcoming diverse racers, improving car and track safety features, and integrating green technology will benefit NASCAR's competitors and fans in the future.Includes Photographs

El abuso es ofensivo y duro, pero empeora si se mantiene en secreto o se habla de ello en términos benignos. Ya sea que usted sea el abusado, el abusador, un ser querido o un consejero, aquí encontrará la esperanza. Sexualmente abusada por su padre durante quince años, la autora JoAnn Marie destaca las habilidades para ayudar a los sobrevivientes a lidiar con los efectos posteriores del abuso. Ella alienta a las víctimas a darse cuenta de que el abuso no fue culpa de ellos. Ella da consejos nacidos de sus propias experiencias dolorosas sobre cómo la fe y el gran esfuerzo pueden hacer que los sobrevivientes vuelvan de su quebranto.En este libro encontrarás:¿ Ejemplos de diferentes tipos de abuso¿ Métodos de la preparación por el abusador¿ Malestares físicos que resultan del abuso¿ Métodos para superar la vergüenzaLos sobrevivientes de incesto, abuso sexual infantil, violación, tráfico de personas y de prostitución-tanto los hombres como las mujerespueden encontrar restauración para llevar una vida saludable y productiva a través de la fe en la más completa respuesta para sanar el trauma y el dolor: Jesucristo.

Set in a remote village in the wilds of the Kenyan bush, A Place Beyond Midnight chronicles the exciting and luminous stories from the journal of a young Peace Corps volunteer. Cody Hawks experiences the wonders, challenges, and personal injunctions in East Africa with friends bound together in noble purpose. He has come to Kenya to break from his past and write a new story for himself. A story of service and sacrifice. His indelible often humorous narration recounts the problems he and his friends face as they struggle to navigate an alien landscape, a different culture, and a new language. His journey to reinvent himself is framed by perils at every turn in Kenya's harsh environment. Along the journey, daring misadventures test his resolve while kindness, compassion and the lessons of genuine friendship and self-discovery evolve. He confronts ignorance, tradition and danger when faced with life and death, and discovers unexpected passion in the turbulence that is Africa.

Sobering Thoughts, a memoir about the humor and horror of living with alcoholics.The effects of alcoholism in the family last more than a lifetime. They are passed down to your children even if you, yourself, did not become an alcoholic. Family alcoholism can deeply affect your development, personality, and expectations for life. More than any other wish I could wish, I wish and hope that my experiences and realizations will make you more aware of the beliefs and conclusions you have made about life, about your life, that have their origins in the disease of alcoholism. And, by opening to greater awareness you, too, will move toward healing and freedom.In Sobering Thoughts, through illustrative stories from my family life, from recovering alcoholics, and from people traumatized by alcoholic behavior, I explore a path toward wholeness. Along the way, I found a funny-awful list of words related to drinking and drunkenness; smart people helped me explore U.S. alcoholism by the numbers; I collected quotes from writers and recovering addicts; and offered Al-Anon essays and other tales of redemption. ¿

This true story is a roller coaster ride through the triumphs and tragedies of an undiagnosed autistic woman as she tries to navigate through a world that isn't designed for her. After getting diagnosed at age 57, the author went through her memories with a new lens, finally understanding all her life struggles. This book spans two continents, love, war, abuse, homelessness, and so much more. Throughout the book the author explains many of the key concepts needed to understand autism. If you have an autistic person in your life, have spent your life wondering why you are not like other people, want to gain a better understanding of autism, or just want a riveting story, this book is for you.

VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Shane McCrae was born to a white mother and a Black father. At eighteen months old, he was kidnapped from his parents' house. His maternal grandparents transported him to suburban Texas, wishing to hide his Blackness from him. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, believing they were doing what was best for Shane. While in their house, Blackness would always be the worst thing about him.Pulling the Chariot of the Sun is a revelatory account of what it means to be Black in America, written with virtuosity and heart by one of the finest poets writing today. It illuminates how we all might be made whole again, through a tireless search for the truth and the joyful pursuit of what we love.

Mein Leben gleicht einem Wunder. Es stand anscheinend unter einem besonderen Schutz. Trotz fürchterlicher Erlebnisse konnte ich durch außergewöhnliche Fügungen psychisch überleben und zu einer guten Entwicklung finden. Ohne Gott wäre ich an den schrecklichen Ereignissen zerbrochen. Um die Größe dieses wundersamen Geschehens sichtbar zu machen, reicht es nicht aus, die heilenden Vorgänge darzustellen. Nur wenn ich auch die verstörenden Sachverhalte aufzeige, ist es möglich, das Ausmaß der besonderen Fügungen zu begreifen, das meinem Leben eine unerwartete Wendung gab.

Devastated by the sudden disconnection from the man she thought of as her father, and the rejection from her birth father that followed, a young Acamea Deadwiler finds herself on a lonesome path disturbed by the chaos of mental illness, poverty, and violence. Daddy's Little Stranger delves into the captivating journey of a girl's life, shaped by various forms of neglect. Forced to navigate both tense and tender interactions with her mother's boyfriends, Acamea mourns the idea of a father as much as she does the father figures she once knew. She arms herself with resentment and emotional distance for protection. Acamea tells her story set against the backdrop of Gary, Indiana-a city deemed "the murder capital of the nation." Here she wrestles with the complexities of human connection as she grows into a woman. This touching narrative reveals her road toward self-discovery as, feeling trapped between the worlds of love and obligation, she attempts to set herself free. Daddy's Little Stranger is a profound exploration of longing and our capacity to heal hidden wounds.

For two western women arriving from California via Hong Kong in 1984, China was a sea of BLUE Mao suits. Would you risk your life in a 'communist' territory with only a flimsy guidebook? Eat, laugh, ride with these adventurous women!

Crossing Bridges: What Biking Up the East Coast Taught Me About Life After 60"One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now."-Paulo CoelhoAt fifty-eight, Lisa Watts felt restless. She had built a carefully balanced life of work and play, but it all seemed to add up to a life of mediocrity. She and a dear friend headed out to bike from Key West to Canada, a trip she'd dreamed of taking for decades. Those two months on the road offered a time of transition, teaching her mostly that she doesn't have to live as an armchair traveler through life's third act.In this engaging travel memoir, Watts shares essays about friendship, marriage, self-doubt, and more. Her aim: to nudge others out the door to go do that thing they've always wanted to do.

While searching for the will, courage, and strength that she needed, she found not only all of that within herself but also her relationship with God."If I can help just ONE person sharing my story, then it was worth putting it out there. I believe God put all of these unspeakable acts in my life so that I could write this book and help someone else heal their pain." Kate BradyThis is a book for anyone who has lost their faith or confidence in themselves because of situations beyond their control. It is a story about loss, courage, struggle, and love. The story is an exploration of how we as traumatized adults have grown from our childhood and its many painful scenarios. This is about overcoming the negative ideals of others about you and turning them into positive experiences and opportunities for change and growth. This is for those searching for their true selves all while embracing the pain that we sometimes don't talk about or want to remember. This is a story based on true events and occurrences, but most of all it is a story of survival and strength through adversity. This is a love letter to a tragic childhood draped in fear, sexual abuse, physical and mental abuse, lies; and the growth that flowed through the unimaginable pain. It is one domestic violence survivor's story, the healing process of EMDR therapy and how it can help trauma and PTSD survivors feel whole again, gave her the courage to share.

Would you like to expand your ideas and experiences of creation? This book inspires with stories, messages, inspirational material, and with many higher-dimensional contacts with the light groups of higher dimensions. Those light groups display different dominant colors and frequencies of light. There were also many personal contacts with the author's original light group from the higher dimensions of another galaxy. The ancient mentor of that light group made the most contacts. He gave her experiences of portals to higher dimensions and much information from beyond this world.

Our book "Experiences with Hildegard" is finished! It was created through the joint work of our family and 51 people who contributed their experiences and insights.A book alone can perhaps never do justice to a person. But a book written with the spiritual guidance of Master Dean Li can convey a special energy. Then this spirit can waft between the letters, lines and their contents; a clarity that we, just like Hildegard, seek. This spirit is at the center. Thank you very much, Master Li.Hildegard was once asked about her work in an interview with the Montessori Association:"You are very interested in Chinese medicine. You have already taken part in numerous training and further education courses. What makes it so interesting for you? Were you looking for something there that you felt was missing from Montessori? Or are there connections that we don't know about?Hildegard: I can only give a provisional answer to this question. I have only been studying Original Chinese Medicine for 10 years. Yes, there are connections that we still know little about. Which lead further into areas that Montessori ... addresses in the quote: how being nobody serves as a prerequisite for recognizing the origin of things.Which leads on to the questions whose answers we must seek and find within ourselves: How do you love the universe? How do you recognize the origin of things? How do you become nobody?This is where the trail of ancient wisdom runs, which each individual must decide to follow."Hildegard chose this path and found many answers. This is what this book is about."What does it mean for us to save this winter?Hildegard shows us the path we should continue on.This time of change is very good for this, everyone can save something good.Hildegard is so clear, she shows us how we can move forward."Master Dean Li

What is home? It's a question that has troubled Marchelle Farrell for her entire life. Years ago she left Trinidad and now, uprooted once again, she heads to the peaceful English countryside - the only Black woman in her village.Drawn to her new garden, Marchelle begins to examine the complex and emotional question of home in the context of colonialism. As her relationship with the garden deepens, she discovers that her two conflicting identities are far more intertwined than she had realised. Full of hope and healing, Uprooting is a book about finding home where we least expect it, and which invites us to reconnect to the land - and ourselves.

Author and historian, Elizabeth (Bessie) Webb, traces her family roots growing up in Tallawudjah Creek near Glenreagh, on the Mid North Coast of NSW, between WWI and II. A prolific contributor to the history of the Glenreagh area, evidenced by eight other historical works she has researched and authored, Bessie shares her childhood memories. Her collection of photographs adds authenticity to her stories. Now 101 years of age, her childhood is of a bygone era, characterised by pioneering timber cutters, bullock wagons and a culture of mateship in the community. Those relationships shine through the pages and many photos, a camaraderia which tackled adversity and the hardship of life head on. But the march of progress is also evident as rough cut, bark lined shelters gave way to dressed timber and corrugated iron; horse back communication with the outside world replaced by a single phone line; and educational opportunities blossomed in the small school. Yet in all of the changes of life, Tallawudjah Creek, flowing just outside the family property, whether in flood or drought, became the constant in her life. Bessie tells her story with heart, giving the reader an insight into not only life at the time, but what it was like to be a young girl growing up in the bush. It's a real Australian story told by a real Australian hero. Bessie was honoured to receive the Centenary Medal in 2003 for "service to the community", and the Order of Australia Medal in 2013 for her "service to the community of Glenreagh".

#1 Bestseller?New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA TodayFrom Mountain Pine To Your Morning Drive . . .Millions of radio listeners nationwide tune in every morning to The Bobby Bones Show, the most popular country music show in America. Its host, Bobby Estell, known to music lovers as Bobby Bones, entertains listeners with his witty banter and the easy, everyman rapport he has with stars like Carrie Underwood, Garth Brooks, and Jason Aldean. Despite his fame and success, Bobby has stayed true to his roots and where he came from?the place where he learned that ?Fight. Grind. Repeat.? mantra that makes him one of the busiest guys in the business. Raised by an alcoholic single mother and an enterprising grandmother who taught him to shop at garage sales, play poker, and love music, Bobby spent his childhood in the hills and trailer parks of Mountain Pine, Arkansas. But Bobby refused to limit his dreams, and when he got his first radio as a birthday present, he focused on getting on the air and beyond. Full of stories from his childhood, his brushes with the best and the beautiful of music?hint: not all of them like him (oh well)?the hijinks and danger that have been a part of his journey, and rippling with his self-deprecating humor, Bare Bones is the heartfelt, honest tale of someone who has truly lived the American dream.

A memoir set in the indie/alternative music world of the 1990's and 2000's in the time of Britpop and alternative rock. An underdog story about someone from a provincial town trying to succeed in the music business.

In the summer of 2018, the author returned to the island of Cyprus to walk The Green Line, crossing into Northern and Southern Cyprus several times and taking the reader far from the tourist hordes. A journey back through time, and a discovery of how place and time affect who we will become.

Inspired by Julia Cameron's classic The Artist's Way, Eleanor set out on a project to write every morning, and crucially, to publish it on Substack that same morning; a commitment to press the button as soon as she'd finished, and before she had time to regret it. She set rules: she'd do no forward planning, she'd tell whatever story came to mind, the writing would take no longer than an hour, the reading of it, no longer than a minute. What came was A Memoir In 65 Postcards, the personal story that had been knocking about her system for well over twenty years. Questions were answered, and a puzzle was put together. Using the same rules of engagement, its follow up, The Recovery Diaries, became a deeper exploration of what emerged and how she is now.With humour and honesty, from a pagan commune to sobriety, this collection of essays and stories form a unique exploration of wealth, survival, the questions that haunt us, and what makes us human. It's you and me. It's where our worlds collide.

A memoir of the ups and downs of family life during and just after the Second World War. Gives detail and colour to a period of recent history through the personal experiences and memories of the author. Both informative and amusing in equal measure.