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• You can’t change your childhood. But you can give yourself what you never got. 🌱
• For the adults still carrying wounds they never asked for—this is your roadmap home.
• Raising Yourself — heal the child within while living the life you have.
• If “being strong” was your only option growing up… this book is your permission to finally rest. 💛
• Break the cycle. Reclaim your worth. Start again.
• Parenting. Working. Surviving. Healing doesn’t have to wait until life slows down—it can begin now.
• This is not about blame. This is about becoming who you needed all along.

✨ Unfollow Me: Reclaim Your Attention, Peace, and Presence ✨You weren’t made to be content… and that’s okay.If you’re exhausted by the endless scroll, if your identity feels split between who you are and who you perform online, Unfollow Me is for you.In a world where visibility is currency and privacy feels like failure, this book is a bold, compassionate guide to remembering yourself when no one is watching.Inside, you’ll explore:🌿 The psychology of digital narcissism—and why it’s not your fault🌿 How algorithmic validation hijacks your brain and self-worth🌿 The invisible cost of always being “on”🌿 What you’re passing down to the next generation🌿 How to...

Are you living a life that looks good… but doesn’t feel like yours?You smile. You show up. You hold it all together.But beneath the surface, something feels off. Not broken—just not true. You’ve been living a life that checks all the boxes… except the ones that matter to your soul.The Life You Pretend Not to Want is a bold, intimate guide for anyone quietly asking: Is this all there is? Why does my life look fine but feel false?This isn’t about blowing up your life overnight. It’s about finally listening to your truth, gently unlearning the roles you were trained to play, and stepping into the life that was always meant for you.Inside, you’ll explore:🌿 Why so many high-fun...

You were never too sensitive. You were just never mirrored by a world that knew how to hold you.They called it weakness.They told you to toughen up, quiet down, get over it.You learned to contain your tenderness, to smile when it hurt, to perform peace.But what if the very parts of you you’ve been taught to hide—your depth, your empathy, your feelings—are actually your greatest strength?Soft Is Not Weak is a quiet revolution in book form. Written for those who lead gently, love deeply, and feel everything, even when it’s inconvenient. It’s a mirror for anyone performing strength just to survive, and a permission slip for those ready to show up unarmored.You won’t find formulas he...

How do we listen when the world won’t stop talking?In a culture of endless noise, digital, emotional, internal, silence can feel impossible, even unnatural. But what if silence isn’t emptiness at all? What if it’s where we finally meet what matters?The Silence We Live With is a gentle, poetic invitation to step back from the overwhelm and rediscover the deeper life beneath the noise. Through quiet reflections on solitude, grief, presence, and the sacred stillness woven into ordinary moments, Dave Lawrence explores the spaces we often avoid and why they may be exactly where we’re meant to be.This is not a guidebook. It’s not about fixing or escaping.It’s about remembering.More tha...

In a world where love often battles the storms of life, our journey of fifty-five years together stands as a testament to resilience, faith, and the transformative power of grace. For four decades, we faced the shadow of alcoholism that threatened to tear us apart, yet is waist the darkest moments that we discovered the light of redemption. When may husband surrendered his struggles to Christ, everything changed What followed were fifteen miraculous years~a second chance to truly know each other, to travel, to laugh, and to love deeply, hand in hand with God at the center. But our journey did not end there. In 2021, Honey succumbed to lung cancer, making a second transformation as he now sle...

“The Choice is truly yours”! Considering the consequences helps in making better choices. What’s on your mind?Have you been equipped to apply wisdom when making decisions?Are you conscious of the decisions you make in your life?Ready to embrace empowerment through thoughtful choices In my book, “The Power of Your Choice,”I engage with young women through a 10-step guide, aiding them in comprehending and leveraging the significant influence of their choices. The book offers valuable insights, fostering the courage to forge their unique paths with wisdom. It serves as a guide, addressing parents as well, promoting personal growth and decision-making, with a focus on the tra...

We spend our lives avoiding the one truth we all share: we will die. Yet within that shadow lies the secret to truly living.How to Die is not morbid, it’s liberating. Blending philosophy, personal reflection, and timeless wisdom, this book invites you to face mortality without fear, strip away illusions, and embrace what truly matters.Inside, you’ll explore:🌿 How accepting death transforms the way you live🌿 Emotional, spiritual, and symbolic ways of “dying well”🌿 Ancient and modern perspectives on life’s final chapter🌿 Practical steps to make peace with endings, big and small🌿 The surprising joy that comes from living with nothing to loseGentle yet unflinching, poeti...

Healing from Within is a compassionate, down-to-earth guide that explores the complex emotional landscape of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Rather than offering quick fixes or clinical jargon, the book serves as a gentle companion for those navigating mental health struggles—whether you're experiencing them firsthand, supporting someone you love, or simply seeking to understand.The book begins with a heartfelt Preface and Introduction, which lay the foundation for its purpose: to shed light on the often silent and misunderstood battles of depression and PTSD. It emphasizes that healing is not linear and that real progress comes from honesty, compassion, and small, su...

What if the best you can be isn’t something far off, but is already within your reach? It’s not about being perfect, but about moving forward. If you want to learn more about yourself, connect with people better, or face life’s challenges, personal transformation starts when you take one intentional step.In The Path to Personal Growth: Steps Toward a Better You, Todd P. McAlister mixes useful tips with age-old advice to help you explore yourself. It’s not only about setting goals; this book also helps you change your outlook, develop lasting habits, and handle the hardships that help you grow. In every chapter, you’ll find advice you can use to improve your emotional intelligence a...

Strategic Leadership: Cultivating Emotional Intelligence, Effective Communication, and Leading Remote Teams for Organizational Success is a practical and forward-thinking guide designed for managers and senior leaders navigating the demands of modern leadership. This book equips readers with essential tools to lead with emotional intelligence, make strategic decisions, manage remote teams, and resolve conflicts effectively. Through actionable insights and real-world scenarios, leaders will learn to inspire performance, foster trust, and drive meaningful outcomes across diverse teams and environments. Whether you're guiding a small team or an entire organization, this book empowers you to lea...

This book provides valuable insights into understanding and managing stress effectively. It explains the physiological and psychological effects of stress and offers practical techniques like mindfulness and meditation to reduce its impact. By integrating these strategies into daily life, readers can enhance their emotional resilience, improve overall well-being, and cultivate a greater sense of calm amidst everyday challenges.

In Excessive Flashpoints, Solitary Demands, Darkest Corners: Ian Curtis, Joy Division, Critical Theory, and Me I inquire into issues of fundamental and ultimate concern: the meaning, value, and purpose of existence; our responsibility to and for others; human beings as complex, multiple, contradictory, and dynamic; the challenge of intimacy and the power of love; the quest for authenticity and the struggle for integrity; what it means to be included and excluded along with how as well as why this occurs; how social change happens along with what can be the contribution of artistic and cultural work toward this transformation; and the ethical responsibility to confront myriad metaphorical 'da...

“Let’s talk about Politics & Religion” was written mainly for young adults in compensation for the biased press and the generalized departure from the truth by the educational and political system. The objective is to shed light on the truth about these much-avoided subjects.Under politics the book first defines all the political systems and assigns a few countries that operate under these systems. Then it analyzes each country economic parameters, such as the per capita gross domestic product and a few others, to show how some political systems provide much more wealth for their citizens than others. Because economic well-being is not the entire motivation for people, it also anal...

What if the moments you thought were endings were actually the beginning of who you’re meant to be?Life rarely moves in a straight line; it twists, cracks, and demands we start again. Yet most of us still believe we should have it all mapped out by now. The Art of Starting Over (Again and Again) challenges that myth and redefines what it really means to live a meaningful life.This book is for anyone who’s faced loss, failure, career upheaval, relationship endings, or spiritual shifts and asked themselves, “What now?” With raw honesty and sharp insight, it shows why reinvention isn’t failure; it’s the natural rhythm of human growth.Inside, you’ll uncover:Why the pursuit of a “...