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In Rootwork: Triumph Over Trauma, holistic wellness life coach C. Imani Williams uses creative arts, including poetry, short stories, and personal essays, to help women overcome trauma and years of self-doubt. Unresolved trauma often leads to substance abuse, unhealthy relationships, and promiscuity. She believes we must be about the business of breaking generational cycles of dysfunction. She knows what it feels like to hit emotional rock bottom as a survivor. But, through self-work and deeper faith, she found the way back to self-love.

Honor hin'Bellvue is a young lady from a minor noble house - with a newly-discovered submissive streak that aches to be satisfied. Natasha Volkova is an army veteran, a commoner, a foreigner - and a sexual dominant, whose commanding persona can reduce Honor to a quivering puddle of need. Thrown together by a twist of fate, these two very different women surprised and delighted each other with their unexpected liaison - but they never thought it would be more than a fling.

Honor hin'Bellvue, a young lady from a minor noble house, has found her life changing in ways she never could have expected. Her companion and bodyguard, Natasha Volkova, is a powerful sexual dominant who has awakened Honor's need for submission and service. Their new friend Alix, a noble scion and asexual romantic, may offer the perfect chance for them to continue their "arrangement" under a cover of social respectability. And by joining a new women's rights movement among Metamor's nobility, Honor is staking a claim for control over her own destiny.

What does it mean to create a “model”? First, we naturally tune our attention toward role models during early childhood and take data to form an accurate model of our world. And from there, we model and remodel ourselves to become more like the ideal person we conceptualize in our imagination. Business Model gives listeners a front-row view of Williams’ own life experiences that gave rise to his unique business model. Listeners will be treated to countless inspiring perspectives on self-transformation, business success, and transcending adversity.

Eleven-year-old Lady Wynn Hoppringle longs to be free from rules and duty of her family home at Smailholm Tower. Whilst out exploring on the wild moors, she comes across a big secret of the smallest kind, hidden beneath the prickly brambles. What will she find? And will she keep it a secret?

Until quite recently, Ben Parker was considered, by many, one of the finest bakers on the Isle of Man. Indeed, his wife was once the first to concur with that accolade, directly attributing his culinary skills to her expanding waistline, in fact. So it was ironic, Ben couldn’t help but consider, that she ran off with the dietician he’d hired at her behest. And soon, despite having his wonderful daughter Ruby, whom he adored, by his side, he struggled to adjust to life being suddenly and unceremoniously single.

This is the Myths Your Teach Hated, a bi-weekly podcast where I tell the stories of cultures around the world in all of their original, bloody, uncensored glory. Modern tellings of these stories have become dry and dusty, but I’ll be trying to breathe new life into them.

After waking up with no memories of his past, Azuelo finds some sanctuary in Stormhold, a city defended by the Promenauts from the vicious Gurgans lurking right outside its walls. Safety is not Azuelo's only concern, though. Soon after joining the Promenauts, he finds a strange necklace marked with an unknown avarune. Believing it to be the key to discovering who he is, Azuelo sets out to solve the mystery of the avarune necklace.

La vida en la jungla nunca es aburrida. Desde el momento en que nació, la curiosidad de Jasper lo ha consumido. Con su hermano Willie, hicieron nuevos amigos y aprendieron más sobre la selva amazónica. Los jóvenes se han acercado. El trabajo principal de Jasper es asegurarse de que su hermano esté a salvo, pero es más fácil decirlo que hacerlo: la jungla está llena de peligros, y si no tienen cuidado, las cosas pueden salirse de control rápidamente. Siempre hay nuevos desafíos a la vuelta de la esquina.

The services of the Eyes Peeled Detective Agency are secured by Sir Barrington Hedley-Smythe following the theft of four rare and exceptionally valuable bronze busts. Sam and the team are soon hot on the case, also happening upon a mysterious spate of missing pets in the process. Then, if their caseload wasn’t busy enough, the shocking theft of the iconic Isle of Man Senior TT Trophy is making global headlines, meaning even more potential work for our intrepid team. Overall, ideal business conditions for an expanding firm of private detectives, you’d imagine? Not so much….

Tom is a bit of a waster...Turning the wrong side of t30 hit him pretty hard, and what with having no money, no love life, no decent job prospects to speak of, and with debt coming out of his ears, well, the future wasn’t exactly looking too rosy. Tom knew he wanted more out of life and now was the right time to make a fresh start, but, in typical fashion, he didn't have a plan or even the faintest idea of where to begin. So, logically, he'd start by quitting his current job and see what turned up in the process!

Libby Tebbit had absolutely had her fill of big-city life. So, when presented with the opportunity to take over her gran’s shop, The Bookshop by the Beach, she’d have been crazy to turn it down, right? Idyllic notions of lazy days by the ocean shore, shooing away the surplus eligible bachelors circling around her like squawking gulls, filled her head. These things were certain to await her, she felt confident, in this next glorious chapter of her life - this wonderful seaside adventure on the Isle of Man.

A podcast dedicated to exploring topics and issues that enhance the lives and relationships of listeners. Calvin Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 25 years of experience helping clients overcome difficult challenges associated with mental health, addiction, and emotional wellness. Calvin enjoys working with people and has a desire to empower clients on their road to personal growth and development. This is a personal journey of living intentionally, sharing life stories, embracing vulnerability and the universal truth that we are not alone. Calvin is not your traditional ...

In wild, medieval Britain, 13-year-old Wynn Hoppringle has a big secret of the smallest kind. She has discovered a miniature village hidden close to her family home of Smailholm Tower. When tales of merciless border raiders reach the small folk, they realize they are in danger and must seek a cure to their strange predicament. Can Wynn help her tiny friends, or will the scheming King quog have other ideas? Heroes, it seems, come in all sizes.

It’s that time of year again. In the shadows, otherworldly creatures lurk, under the gravestones, the dead begin to rise, and in that old house down the lane, ghosts rattle their chains. For once more, Trick or Treat Thrillers brings you our pick of the best Indie-paranormal short stories for 2020! Before you begin listening to our selection of 13 stories, however, we recommend you first check under your bed, in your closet, and outside of your window. You never know what may be coming your way.

The daughters of the merchants are dying. Panic has spread, and they are more than content to let their children be taken by this investigator from the mountains, for, they think it to be a hemorrhagic fever from the south. They are afraid of what might be brought into their doily parlors if "vigil for the dead" should be held in their homes. It is not a fever as I am given to understand, though he burns them anyway as is the mountain custom which we can all agree is a more poetic end.

Palawan is an adventure story that has it all. There is an exotic tropical island location. There are Muslim terrorists, missionary hostages, a millionaire’s daughter, mercenaries, Borneo pirates and a struggle for survival. It’s a story of friendship, courage, life, death and love played out under extreme conditions. The story begins half a world away in the Philippine jungle, continues in Las Vegas and has its unexpected climax on a ranch in the Arizona High desert.

From the moment he was born, Jasper’s curiosity has consumed him. With his brother Willie, they’ve made new friends and learned more about the Amazon rainforest. The youngsters have grown close and make the most of any situation they find themselves in. Jasper’s main job is to make sure his brother stays safe, but that’s easier said than done. The jungle is full of dangers, and if they’re not careful, things can quickly get out of hand.

Realm of the Golden Dragon is a sea story. On 17 August 1967, after many years of being home ported in Hawaii, the 180-foot Coast Guard Cutter Basswood set sail for her new home port on Guam in the Marianas Islands. During her travels, she would unleash sixty fun-loving, frolicking, fornicating, fighting, young Coasties on forty-seven Pacific Islands and five Asian Nations. This epic voyage would take them to the hooker bars and short-time hotels of Olongapo in the Philippines, the Vietcong infested bays and rivers of Vietnam, and the vaunted Namenoue Red Light District in Naha, Okinawa. ...

Life rarely stands still when you find yourself surrounded by a bunch of loveable crackpots. Certainly, that was the case for Frank and Stan. With their hugely successful "Le Mans" TT now behind them, thoughts turned to their next adventure and, inevitably, also to the topic of their own mortality.