Bøker utgitt av Karen Mc Dermott Publishing

We live in a world where we are taught to resist our pain. There's a subtle expectation that we will push it aside or squash it down, so we can get back to striving towards the "good life" - an imaginary place free of disappointment, regret, insecurity, or any other uncomfortable emotion.Pain is part of the human experience. We all have challenges, setbacks and tough times. By denying or resisting it we are also robbing ourselves of the deeper lessons these experiences have for us. A happy life is not found in the absence of pain but rather, in being with these moments with such curiosity, courage, and compassion that they transform into our greatest teachers. When we take these lessons into our ordinary everyday lives, our days feel more interesting and meaningful. We feel more vibrant and alive.Fleur Chambers is a multi-award-winning, internationally-recognised meditation teacher and creator of The Happy Habit App. Her offerings have been downloaded close to three million times in 45 different countries around the world.In this uplifting and life-changing guide, Fleur reveals her ten pathway framework for re-defining happiness in a way that will allow you to safely meet your pain, access its wisdom, and embrace all of life - including the parts which caught you by surprise!Fleur's gentle and down-to-earth style combined with her ability to laugh at herself and the human experience has encouraged people all across the globe to befriend themselves and their lives. Come take a walk to a new version of happiness."Happiness is not the absence of pain but rather, a willingness to meet these experiences with such a level of curiosity, courage, and compassion that they transform into great teachers. When we cultivate our capacity to be with and learn from our challenges, we are rewarded with a life that appears to be in high definition." Fleur Chambers

Naomi was born a bold and free spirit who loved to entertain people with stories. From knocking about the outskirts of Melbourne's northern suburbs until the late 1990s to finding herself enrolled at a socially uncomfortable elite private girls' college, she developed some increasingly problematic coping strategies for life's challenges. Determined to outrun these issues, her dalliance as country waitress concluded with further heartbreak. Then, while living it up on Melbourne's iconic Chapel Street and editing her university newspaper, her university degree concluded but her buried accumulative volatility did not. Simmering with increasing complexity, her challenges eventually culminated in Naomi's dramatic nervous breakdown. Her rock bottom climaxed with her riding in the back of a divisional van and being locked up in a psychiatric ward. Her ongoing confusion and indirection, coupled with suppressed trauma, eventually almost costing her life. In the decade subsequent, however, she learned to embrace a comeback journey that involved personal development, advocacy and ultimately rediscovering her bold and free-spirited inner self. Far richer for the diverse lived experience, this book reinforces the fact that with hope, grit and determination, the human spirit can indeed take us A Very Long Way.

Do you feel trapped in your work and life?Do you feel empty and unfulfilled?Do you see happiness as something you will achieve “one day”?The sad truth is, achieving society’s definition of success – an impressive career, status and wealth – can be a hollow victory.Yu Dan Shi knows this all too well. A lifetime spent chasing endless goals and the appearance of success came at a huge personal cost: a punishing workload while raising a family, a daily battle devoid of meaning, failing health and misery.Facing the truth was a painful yet life-changing experience. It had been a long, difficult journey from her underprivileged beginning in remote China. But the void Yu Dan felt at the height of her corporate career was a gift. With a new vision of success and clarity about what truly mattered to her, she transitioned to a path of passion, joy and meaning. Her book will show you how you can do the same.Change doesn’t have to be daunting. You don’t have to upend your life and throw away everything you have achieved. In this transformative book, Yu Dan explores the conflict faced by the high achievers and guides you through her four proven and research-based principles, giving you the practical steps to make real, sustainable changes to your life.You can be happy now. You can transform your life. You already have everything you need to get started, right now.So, are you ready to come alive?

Nobody knows what lies Beneath the Veil. Clara grows up haunted by the dark secrets of her past: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable. Clara is too scared to speak her truth, knowing she will be condemned and punished by her brother or Father Stanley or Padraig McDermott. Her silence a betrayal of her soul. As she listens through the silence that surrounds her, the blood-stained truth engulfs her and her family. She must symbolically cleanse herself of her sins while the endless penance to God continues through abuse, humiliation and beatings, is anyone listening to her? Will Clara rise from the darkness of her past and free herself from the indoctrination of her remote Irish Catholic village? Can her gypsy soul awaken and ascend the power of her feminine?