Identity Loss

Lose Weight The Mental Way: Choose Your Healthy Weight Identity and Allow The Weight To Go Diets. Meal plans. Gym memberships. Surgery. If you’ve tried them all and nothing has lasted, you’re not alone. The truth is, weight loss doesn’t start with food, exercise, or willpower. It starts with identity. If you see yourself as someone who always struggles, you’ll keep struggling. If you label yourself as addicted, lazy, or hopeless, your choices will match that story. If you shift into the identity of your healthy-weight self, everything changes. In this compassionate, practical guide,...

Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But...

Hannah doesn’t remember her life before Peter. And in this quiet Victorian neighborhood, that’s exactly how he wants it. The house is charming. The marriage seems perfect. The neighbors are polite in a way that feels rehearsed. But inside this carefully controlled world, one thing stands out—the locked upstairs room Peter insists she never open. He tells her it’s a utility space with dangerous wiring. He tells her her memory loss comes from “a traumatic past” she’s not ready to face. He tells her she’s safe now, that he’s the only one she can trust. But the late-night ...

She looks exactly like me. Same face, same scar, same life. And now she's stealing everything that's mine. When Madisyn Holmes moves in across the street, I can't shake the feeling that this isn't coincidence. She copies my garden design, my home décor, even my professional strategies. It's like watching someone erase me in real time. My husband thinks I'm paranoid. My neighbors think I'm losing it. But I know what I'm seeing. I start gathering evidence—photos, notes, proof of her systematic theft. Because someone has to stop her before she takes everything. The question is: how far will...

Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party—attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been chatting her up at the bar—her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor.

A grief reversed. A hope deferred. Mistaken Identity tells the unprecedented story of Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak: one buried under the wrong name, and the other in a coma being cared for by the wrong family. Five lives were lost in a tragic car accident, and the sole survivor was rushed to...

Why Betrayal Hurts More Than Loss The Psychology of Betrayal, Trust, Identity Collapse, Emotional Trauma, and Relationship Control. After the Knife It is a book about what happens when reality collapses. Loss removes something from your life. Betrayal rewrites the life you thought you were living. This book examines why betrayal triggers deeper psychological damage than death, separation, or abandonment - and why its effects linger long after the relationship ends. Through unsentimental psychological insight and lived human dynamics, it reveals how trust functions as power, how loyalty ...

Read by the author. “There’s someone else.” “We found something on the X-ray we didn’t expect.” “We’ve eliminated your position.” When our circumstances unravel, how do we hold on to truth, to hope, to who we’re meant to be? After Carole Holiday experienced a series of...

When someone deeply important leaves your life—through death, separation, or sudden change—it can feel as if part of your identity disappears with them. The routines you shared, the roles you played, and the future you imagined together may suddenly feel uncertain. Who Am I Without You? is a compassionate guide for anyone navigating the painful and confusing process of identity reconstruction after loss. Rather than focusing only on grief, this book explores the deeper question many people quietly ask themselves: Who am I now? Through thoughtful reflection, emotional insight, and ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] outstanding debut."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother’s abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own...

Thursday, January 17 — 2019. Pacific International Airlines Flight PI019 leaves Honolulu on a routine trip to Los Angeles. Two hours later, the aircraft disappears without a trace. No debris. No distress call. 210 people—gone. After an exhaustive international search, Flight 19 becomes aviation’s greatest unsolved mystery. Five years later… Air Traffic Control at LAX receives a routine request to enter airspace. The caller? Pacific International Flight 19. When the plane lands, every passenger and crew member is alive—believing only minutes have passed since take-off. But for ...

In wrestling, you learn early that effort doesn’t guarantee victory. You can train. You can sacrifice. You can do everything right— and still lose by a point. Life works the same way. I FIGHT EVERY DAY is a short, disciplined book about pain, loss, and what happens when your idea of winning is no longer possible. It is about the moment after loss— when quitting would be understandable, discipline feels optional, and one defeat threatens to become two. This is not a motivational book. It does not promise success or closure. It is a book about refusing to let one loss beat you twice. ...

From international bestselling author Courtney Peppernell comes The Last Poem, a heartfelt exploration of grief that follows celebrated poet Wren Paisley as she escapes to a new town where no one knows the life she is running from as she hopes to grieve the unexpected loss of her fiancée, find...

In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people”, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.

Although a mother's mortality is inevitable, no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters. More than 20 years later, it is still the go-to book that women of all ages look to for comfort, help, and understanding when their mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother-loss survivors, Edelman's personal story of losing her mother, and recent research in grief and psychology, Motherless Daughters reveals the shared experiences and core identity issues of motherless women.

After the Breaking — Book II: Identity Collapse A Companion for the Life That Comes After Everything Changes What happens when the emergency ends… but you don’t go back to who you were? After the hospital. After the diagnosis. After the loss. After the collapse. This is the part most stories skip. Identity Collapse is not about inspiration. It is about aftermath. It is about living inside a body you no longer fully trust, about exhaustion that is not fixed by rest, about public panic with no visible cause, and about the quiet grief of losing your old stamina, your old personality, ...

Sun Shining on Morning Snow is a fearless and deeply moving memoir that celebrates the power of authenticity, love, and resilience. Ingrid Hu Dahl, a mixed-race, queer woman, takes listeners on an intimate journey through the challenges of self-discovery—navigating the weight of social, cultural, and familial expectations.

A love letter to the healing power of collaboration and feeling seen, The People's Purge: Words of a Goat Princess Vol II is a must-read for anyone looking to rid themselves of the guilt of existing and get lost in the razor sharp mind of Jessie Reyez. Born from a popular long-running series on...

2010 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections Thirteen “dazzling” (Associated Press) and “wonderfully wicked” (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in...

What happens when “forever” stops meaning what you were promised it would? The Death of Forever is not a book about starting over. It’s about what happens when the idea of permanence quietly collapses—and no one hands you a script for what comes next. This book lives in the aftermath. After belief systems fracture. After certainty dissolves. After the versions of yourself you thought would last are suddenly gone. With lyrical precision, dark humor, and unsentimental honesty, Cory B. Scott explores the moment when forever dies—and how life continues anyway. Not cleaner. Not easier....