Life Crisis

In Embrace Discomfort, Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Each of the 10 episodes except for the final one will feature an expert in a discomfort area, including ultra-runner Courtney Dauwalter, survivalist Laura Zerra, nutritionist Dr. Trevor Kashey, and fear expert Dr. Joseph E. LeDoux

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER READ BY THE AUTHOR Jim Collins, international bestselling author of Good to Great, offers transformative lessons on constructing—and reconstructing—a life through the cliff moments and transitions we all will face repeatedly in our lives. What to make of...

Gail Sheehy’s classic bestseller, Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life, is available with a new introduction. For decades, Passages has been inspiring audiences to see the predictable crises of adult life as opportunities for growth. She charts the stages between 18 and 50 as unfolding in a pattern of adult development: once recognized, more easily managed.

Twenty years of Friday coffee. Rosie's Diner on Elm Street. The corner table. The same two chairs. Three years ago, Carla stopped coming. No argument. No fracture. Just silence across eight minutes of small-town road. Andrea replayed their last goodbye a hundred times, looking for what she'd done. Then her fourteen-year-old goes digging in the junk drawer for a phone charger and hands her an old phone instead. It's her husband's. Four text messages. One afternoon. Three years ago — sent while Andrea was at her mother's house, helping with a renovation. The messages aren't cruel. They're ...

“Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won’t want to stop.” —Oprah Winfrey OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly...

She wakes up on her birthday to an empty house. No card. No message. No flowers. Just his coffee mug in the sink and the echo of a door that closed before she opened her eyes. Nina calls him at ten. He answers distracted — voices in the background, papers shuffling. He doesn't mention the date. She doesn't remind him. She waits until dinner. Nothing. So she packs a weekend bag. Drives to a hotel fifteen minutes away. Turns off her phone. And sits in a silence she chose — instead of the one she'd been living inside for years. When Ian comes home to a dark house, he panics. Not because he...

The crisis of unfulfilled lives unfolds gradually, often with acquiesced boredom and a flimsy search for purpose. Our relevancy comes into question, or we succumb to the idea that the future will be one of slow-moving ambition and then an even slower glide into comfort as the flush of freedom fades. We can change this outcome if we want to. We should want to. The 60-Something Crisis: How to Live an Extraordinary Life in Retirement is the first book to circumvent the tired approaches of finding purpose, or using reinvention to discover a path of fulfillment after sixty.

She stepped into the hallway to find the restroom. She found her husband on the phone instead. "She doesn't know. And she doesn't need to. I'll handle it when the time is right." Rachel went back to the table. Finished her wine. Laughed at the right moments. Smiled when Grant caught her eye across the room. Then she went home and started looking. What she found wasn't another woman. It was worse — in a different way. Months of emails. Contract drafts. A folder on his laptop labeled London Housing with school listings for their children. In a city she's never been to. For a move he never ...

Lily, Ana, and Margot have been best friends ever since Hawthorne Res Life assigned them as roommates during their first year of college. Ten years later and Lily is planning her wedding to the endlessly supportive and entirely symmetrical Jack. Ana is a fourth-grade teacher at the prestigious Horizon Academy, alma mater of her long-term boyfriend, who’s finally asked her to move in. Margot is about to land a life-changing promotion at ad agency McQueen O’Doul’s. It all looks good from here.

She made one appointment to save her marriage. Her husband canceled it before she ever got there. Meg Garner has been telling Cole for two years that something is wrong. He hears the groceries. The school schedule. The dentist appointments. The reminders about his mother’s birthday. He does not hear his wife. When Meg finally asks him to go to counseling with her, Cole says they do not need a stranger telling them how to be married. He says they can figure it out themselves. So Meg tries a different way. She makes the appointment alone. For four months, she works up the courage. She ...

She saved the points for their dream anniversary trip. He spent them on another woman. Claire Whitaker is supposed to be celebrating her fiftieth birthday tonight. The room is booked, the cake is ordered, and her husband Grant is ready to toast twenty-five years of marriage in front of family, friends, and half his company. Then the airline app sends her a notification. A completed Italy itinerary. Two passengers. Grant Whitaker and Elise Rowan. Paid for with the loyalty points Claire spent twelve years saving for the trip they were supposed to take together. Grant does not know she has the...

Her father died. Her husband sent flowers. And arrived late. Not hours late — late enough that Grace stood at the graveside with her mother and her brother and no one asked where Graham was. They already knew. He always had somewhere more important to be. She buried her father beside people who showed up. Then she stopped. She stopped managing Graham's schedule. Stopped reminding him about the kids' games and her mother's appointments. Stopped smoothing the space between his absence and their family's needs. Stopped being the woman who held everything together so no one had to notice he ...

BY THE AUTHOR WHO BROUGHT YOU THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA AND THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2! “The Devil Wears Prada’s Emily Charlton gets the spin-off she deserves” (Cosmopolitan) in the New York Times bestseller from Lauren Weisberger in which three women team up to bring a bad man down in the tony...

Through an infinite number of lifetimes—and in the least likely of places—an immortal discovers what they value most in this contemplative fantasy novel. Stuck in a cycle of endless reincarnations, Luri has experienced everything on offer—and more. Whether it's spending decades as a monk...

Thanks to environmental pollutants, iodine deficiency has become a worldwide epidemic. Everybody knows pollutants cause cancer. What they don't know is that these pollutants cause a deficiency that can make us sick, fat, and stupid. Iodized salt - supposedly a solution to iodine deficiency - is actually a nutritional scam that provides a false sense of security. The Iodine Crisis explains how we became so deficient, then shows the time-tested solution to reversing many conditions. 

Just get out and switch off! In a hectic world full of stress, crises and negative influences, it is more important than ever to find moments of peace and relaxation. Music has the power to positively influence our emotions, relieve tension and calm the soul. Particularly gentle sounds in the natural 432 Hz frequency can help to reduce stress, find inner balance and recharge your batteries. My specially composed relaxation music combines gentle piano and harp melodies embedded in the sounds of nature, such as the calming sound of the sea, babbling brooks and birdsong.

Love at first sight. Ten years of a perfect marriage. And then everything falls apart in an instant when, on their wedding anniversary, Bianca’s husband comes home with another woman’s child instead of flowers. “Bianca, there’s something I need to tell you…” Mason’s voice carried from just a few feet away. Bianca turned her head, and the smile on her face dissolved into confusion. Her husband stepped into the kitchen, and behind him came a little girl, limping on her right leg. “Bianca, this is Linda. She’s my daughter, and she’s going to live with us from now on. She ...

She thought Thanksgiving was just dinner. Then her daughter found the voicemail her husband deleted. Adele Hart owns Hart House. Her mother’s historic event home. Her business. Her name on every contract. Damon Kessler calls it family. When Adele’s daughter recovers a deleted voicemail from Adele’s estranged sister, the warning is plain: do not sign anything at Thanksgiving. Damon’s family has a management agreement ready. His sister’s company is named in it. His mother has invited witnesses. And Damon has been quietly building the case that Adele is too tired, too forgetful, and ...

The New York Times bestselling money guide, providing time-tested financial advice on topics like saving, managing debt, investing for the future, and selecting insurance, is now revised and updated with all that Gen Z and millennials need to know now. With over half a million copies sold, this...

A wife wakes from surgery. Her husband’s chair is empty. And the discharge paperwork proves he left before she ever went under. Miriam Weller expected pain after shoulder surgery. She did not expect to wake up asking for her husband and find her adult daughter holding the discharge folder instead. Todd has been making Miriam’s needs negotiable for years. Her schedule. Her care. Her objections. Her place in her own life. This time, there is paperwork. Todd was supposed to be in the waiting room. He was supposed to hear the post-op instructions, sign the forms, and take his wife home. ...