Life Crisis

“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 takes off her wedding ring. Not dramatically. Not after a fight. Not as a statement. She sets it on the nightstand one morning the way you'd set down a glass of water — without thinking, without ceremony, without weight. Then she waits. She makes dinner. She passes the bread basket. She lies in the same bed. She reaches across the same table, bare hand against white surfaces, ring finger empty for anyone who cares to look. Her best friend sees it in ten seconds. Her daughter sees it over breakfast and says nothing. Her husband sleeps beside her for six nights and doesn't notice a ...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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. 

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 ...

A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good. There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a...

His phone was on the counter. The screen lit up while she was making dinner. One text. His sister's name. One sentence: "She's not going anywhere. Stop worrying and focus on the deal." Justin didn't correct her. Didn't push back. Didn't defend his wife or their marriage. He read it and kept working. Simone wasn't snooping. She was chopping onions. And in six seconds, she understood something about her marriage that had taken twelve years to see: his entire family had built a strategy around her patience. She was the one who stayed. The one who adjusted. The one who showed up to every Sunday...

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.

You’ve read the productivity hacks. You’ve journaled, vision-boarded, manifested. And yet here you are: 40-something (or close enough), still asking the question no one seems to have a real answer to… “What am I doing with my life?” In What to Do With Your Life When You're 40 and Still Unsure, Jake Morimoto hands you something rare in the self-help world: relief. Relief from the timelines, the pressure, the performative ambition. And in its place? Perspective, clarity, and calm. Through 14 smart, funny, and gently provocative essays, this book helps you zoom out, reset, and ...

He never raised his voice. He never stayed out late. He never gave her a reason to check. But Claire checked. $3,200 a month. Every month. For years. Sent to a woman she has never heard of. Every time he said we can't afford that — every sacrifice she made, every vacation they skipped, every couch she sat on because replacing it wasn't in the budget — all of it was built on a number he controlled and a truth he kept locked away. She doesn't scream. She doesn't cry. She stops. She stops managing his calendar. Stops packing lunches. Stops smoothing the silence between him and their ...

Are you experiencing physical or emotional symptoms that no one is able to explain? If so, you may be suffering a traumatic reaction to a past event, teaches Dr. Peter A. Levine. Medical researchers have known for decades that survivors of accidents, disaster, and childhood trauma often endure...

An exuberant, hilarious, and profound memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was, gave him purpose, and educated him deeply about a country he loves but had lost touch with. Steve Grant was laid...

She found the lump on a Tuesday. Owen was packing for San Francisco. She could have called down the stairs. Could have said his name and watched him set down the suitcase. Instead she scheduled the appointment, wrote it on the kitchen calendar in her handwriting, and made one cup of coffee the next morning. The imaging. The waiting room. The biopsy consent form with his name listed as emergency contact — a man who didn't know she was sitting in a paper gown in a room that smelled like clean linoleum and quiet fear. She signed it alone. She drove home alone. She made dinner. He called from...

Five words. That's all it takes to crack open a marriage Jenna thought was solid. A woman approaches their table at a work dinner — warm, familiar, beautiful — and says: "You must be the new wife." She laughs like it's a compliment. Nate goes pale. Jenna didn't know there was an old wife. Not a brief thing. Not a youthful mistake. Three years. A real marriage. A woman his parents still invite to dinner. A woman his brother still talks to. A woman everyone in Nate's life apparently knew about — except the woman he married next. He didn't cheat. He didn't overlap. But he erased someone....

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Whether you are forced to negotiate a high-pressure business deal or confront an angry family member, within the chapters of this book you will learn how to manage your emotions and quickly process information during stressful situations. You will learn how to effectively read your counterparts and how to decipher their words and body language. This book will properly prepare you for conflict and how to effectively use these skills in multiple real-world situations.