Light Personal Development

Gessner's world was turned upside down when her beloved, yet complicated, father was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer during her heartbreaking divorce. Struggling with despair, she received an unexpected visit from a mysterious, benevolent guest with the important message: You are not alone! That moment changed the course of her life and her career. At the threshold of death, she found connection, meaning, and depth, which led her to work with dying and bereaved people so they wouldn't feel alone.

"I’m going to be so happy now, just wait and see.” But I left the altar where I met Jesus and walked back into the same patterns of behavior in my life. Indeed he set me free, but it took a long journey down a lighted path before freedom became my reality. Born into abject poverty then adopted into an alcoholic family, by the time she reached 33 her life was shattered. She was alone, broke, rejected again, desperate, out of hope and done with life.

After Rachel and Matthew had their first child, they had a couple of fights. Well, okay, more than a couple - they fought for over three years. They fought about schedules. They fought about bad habits. They even fought about the lawn mower. And besides actually having their child, it was the best thing that could've happened. Chronicling their greatest hits, from the great birth control debate to the divorce joke showdown, Fights You'll Have After Having a Baby is a postpartum story with hope.

Do you have a lady friend who is under stress or even hurting? Inside the Hearts of Bible Women is a series of 12 short stories to help women understand some of the more serious problems and challenges facing us in our modern age, just as women did thousands of years ago. Unbeknown to you, a seemingly stable lady friend may be going through any of these problems right now. Most such problems are not normally discussed openly, but we should not pretend they do not exist.

Practical, proven self-help steps show how to transform common self-defeating behaviors, including self sabotage, self doubt, procrastination, envy, obsession, anger, self-pity, compulsion, neediness, guilt, rebellion, inaction, people pleasing, and more.

When adult Levonne Gaddy returns to the rural North Carolina community where she was born and raised to attend her mother's funeral, the director bars her entry to the viewing room, assuming she is white and therefore not related to the “colored” woman in the coffin. A sad, funny, and poignant story of childhood emerges as memories surface of racism and of the dysfunctional family life she left behind. Turmoil during the 1960s' racial integration of southern schools fill her mind, as do the challenges of her first job, at age 11, as the live-in caregiver for an elderly white woman.

At some point in our lives, we all experience grief: the death of a loved one, a financial catastrophe, a debilitating illness, or the ending of a marriage. In the dark moments that follow these losses, life can seem hopeless and unbearable. Author Therese Tappouni knows this journey all too well. After suffering the devastating loss of her eleven-year-old son, she ultimately came to the realization that it is possible to not only heal from grief, but to find gifts from the deepest places of despair.

Your experience of the outer world is a reflection of your inner reality. Heavy emotions, long-forgotten, are deeply embedded in your subconscious mind. What you choose to believe as resolved and no longer existent may still be present in your reality. Perhaps you realize this. You may even choose to ignore it. In her follow-up to the highly successful You are the Key: 7 Ways to Unlock the Life You Desire, Meera Jhogasundram returns with You Are the Light: 7 Powerful Ways to Illuminate the Darkness Within. Darkness will overwhelm you if you allow it.

If you’re like me, your life hasn’t turned out exactly like you thought it would. Damaged relationships, addictions, missed opportunities, the turbulence of the world, and self-doubt derail our visions. It can be depressing. It’s easy to give up.

Na inspiradora continuação do seu aclamado livro de memórias, o best-seller Minha história, a ex-primeira-dama dos Estados Unidos Michelle Obama compartilha sabedoria prática e estratégias poderosas para manter a esperança e o equilíbrio em um mundo tão incerto como o de hoje.

Shooting Out the Lights unravels like a mystery novel, but Kim Fairley's memoir wrestles with the very real secrets we keep from each other and the roles we play to protect ourselves. Centered around her marriage to a man 32 years older who had lost his son from his first marriage in a gun accident, the story explores the taboo of wide-age-gap love.

"There is really no better indicator you're a mother than acquiring the ability to catch throw-up in a plastic bag, disinfect your hands, and immediately ask your friend to pass the beef jerky as you put on another Taylor Swift song and act as if nothing has happened." This is the type of insight Melanie Shankle offers in this quirky memoir of motherhood.

Amy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. Instead of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents’ generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was marred by empty houses, old strip mines, and vacant lots. The year Burns turned ten, this sleepy town suddenly woke up. Howard Lotte, its beloved piano teacher, was accused of sexually assaulting his female students.

Liberate Yourself: Your Past Is Not Your Prison is about breaking the chain of bad habits, trauma, suffering, and dysfunction. It also intends to broaden the listener's understanding of how to restore or maintain good health and well being through the Plan pLuz; a physical, spiritual, and emotional guide that includes nutrition for both the body and soul in a practical way to build a healthy and successful life.

How do you do justice to your business idea? It's a question that entrepreneurs are always asking, aware that 70% of new businesses fail. Starting a business is scary, especially for first-timers, but there is a safe, Launch in 5 way to do it. If you are launching a new business, this audiobook will improve your chance for success in the most economic, efficient and painless way possible, before you put large amounts of time and money on the line. It provides a comprehensive guide on how to rapidly turn an idea into a money-making machine.

A compelling book about dysfunction, forgiveness, a life-changing transformation, and the key to leaving trails of light. If you've struggled with a dysfunctional family, divorce, having mental illnesses, being overweight, being a single parent, having a life-threatening health issue, or challenged by dating again in mid-life, then you will want to find out how one woman found her way to forgive, survive, and thrive. Told with wit and wisdom, Leaving Trails of Light and Toilet Paper is a journey of discovery toward love and light.

Following the birth of both of her sons, instead of reveling in the most joyous time of her life, Namita fell into the darkest and heaviest of post-natal depressions. She vowed that if she survived and healed through this most harrowing chapter in her life, she would rise up, break the stigma and hold that this has on women, and share her story to inspire and create hope for others and their families navigating their way through this journey.

Today's grandparent needs to understand technology - how it mesmerizes grandchildren but also enhances the opportunities to connect and share life experiences. And while many of the roles grandparents play in the lives of grandchildren have changed, their most important role of influencing with wisdom, faith, and fun remains the same. Author Chrys Howard addresses topics relevant to all grandparents and also looks at the challenges of grandchildren living in single parent or blended families.

Historia intuitiva e introspectiva, motivadora e inspiradora que narra como la protagonista, Alma encuentra su lugar en el mundo con su Propósito de vida, después de varias experiencias de fuertes pérdidas materiales y de una enfermedad de cáncer, que le guían a hacer los cambios necesarios para conseguir sanar y liberar sus emociones a través de la libertad e independencia que le ofrece su amor propio y desarrollo personal.

¿Cuántos de nosotros queremos vivir una vida con propósito pero permitimos que el miedo se interponga en el camino? ¿Con qué frecuencia eres rehén de tus propios pensamientos negativos? ¿Con qué frecuencia te autosaboteas por falta de confianza? ¿Con qué frecuencia te encuentras viviendo a la sombra de las expectativas de los demás? Tu vida personal y profesional dependen de tu capacidad de vivir libremente. Esto requiere que tu luz haga algo más que parpadear; ¡debe brillar con fuerza!