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

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.

He broke his vow without ever touching another woman. Lorraine Devereaux built beautiful spaces for her husband’s luxury hotel empire, but behind the chandeliers and champagne, Aiden has been letting another woman too close. Brittany Chase calls him late at night. Touches him like she belongs. Cries when Lorraine objects. And at their fifteenth anniversary party, when Brittany humiliates Lorraine in front of everyone, Aiden chooses the wrong woman’s tears over his wife’s truth. So Lorraine takes off her ring and walks out. Now Aiden is left with an empty penthouse, a marriage in ruins...

For twenty-five years, Cheryl has laughed off the fact that her husband's family still seats her at the kids' table. Then one empty chair makes the joke impossible to tell. Every holiday, Cheryl arrives with the dishes everyone expects, the things everyone forgot, and the answers everyone assumes she'll have. Then she takes her usual seat twelve feet away from her husband. She has never made a scene about it. Until Thanksgiving. There is an empty chair beside Tom. He sees it. He sees her. And he sits down anyway. For the first time in twenty-five years, Cheryl stops smoothing things over. ...

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His family always wanted the other woman. Now she's pouring the wine at Nora's own table. For six years Nora kept the Whitakers running: the dinners, the donors, her billionaire husband's ailing father and all his pills. All while Adrian learned to call her worries dramatic. So when his mother's hand-picked golden girl moves home, takes a key to the house, and slides into Nora's chair, he doesn't see the trap closing. Then the other woman stages a scene in front of every donor they have, and Adrian makes his choice. He picks wrong. Nora doesn't scream. She doesn't beg. She just stops, and ...

A Kirkus Earphones Award Winner A TOP TEN LIBRARY READS PICK “So smart, so funny, so moving. I absolutely loved it.”—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry The “brilliant” (Ann Patchett) and much beloved author of the critically acclaimed Sorrow and...

Angela Hunter warned her husband. Lily Saint was too close. Blake called it jealousy. Then Angela found Lily in their bed. Blake didn't physically cheat, but Angela is done pretending the only betrayal that counts happens under the sheets. The late-night texts counted. The private confidences counted. Every time he defended Lily and dismissed his wife counted. When Lily claims she’s pregnant, Angela’s private heartbreak becomes a public scandal. But Lily chose the wrong wife to humiliate. Angela has a gallery to reclaim, an old flame offering peace, a husband learning how to grovel, and...

She’s being neglected by her billionaire husband. Then she overhears him tell his best friend the truth: “I didn’t marry her because I loved her. I married her because I felt like I owed her.” And she just found out she’s pregnant. Hannah built her husband’s company. She wrote his speeches. She ran his whole life. She made Griffin a billionaire. In return? He neglected her and made her feel invisable. Then, at the launch she spent two years building, in the very speech she wrote for him, Griffin hands her work to Julie, the woman who wants everything Hannah has. He praises Julie...

He called it her "little hobby." He never bothered to learn the password. Julie set up the family photo cloud one rainy Sunday, because somebody had to. Fifteen years later, it quietly backed up her husband's affair — with her best friend — straight to the iPad she teaches fractions on. Other women would've thrown a fit. Julie threw a party. Now there's forty guests and one big surprise for her no-good cheating husband. He told her not to make it a thing. She's going to make it a thing.

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...

“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...

He realized he loved her the summer she walked away... Violet Howard has spent her entire marriage loving a man who never asked her to come second. He just always made sure she did. While billionaire CEO Jake Howard built an empire, Violet quietly built everything else—the perfect home, the perfect life, the perfect marriage... or so she kept telling herself. But when Jake forgets her birthday yet again, Violet packs a suitcase and drives to the beach house where they once dreamed of spending every summer together. Only this time... she's not waiting for him to come back. As long, sun-...

At her son's engagement dinner, Carol smiled, raised her glass, and realized the bride was sleeping with her husband. She could've flipped the table. Screamed. Burned it all down right there between the toast and the cake. Instead? She smiled wider. Poured the wine. And offered to plan the wedding herself. Big mistake — theirs. Because Carol's spent thirty years making people look good while she quietly pulls every string in the room. Her husband thinks she's clueless. The other woman thinks she's harmless. Her cheating, smug little world thinks it's already won. They're about to find out...

She spent two years loving her husband who neglected her. He was never cruel. Just never there. They were in love once. She thought it was forever. Until after they got married, the love faded. He'd vanish into work for weeks and forget she was waiting. Then he let his cruel family pick her apart, and never once put his hand on the table and said enough. So she filed for divorce. But years later, on her arranged wedding day with another man- she sends her ex a text: “I’m getting married today and I can’t do it. If you still want me, please come over and talk.” Her ex never answers. ...

Gwen has spent twenty-nine years being the flexible one. This summer, she finally has something that belongs to her. At fifty-four, after four years of predawn swims, Gwen has qualified for the state masters open-water championship. August twenty-first is circled on her calendar. The race can't be postponed. The qualification can't be saved for later. Then her daughter casually mentions the family schedule for Grandma's recovery. Gwen's name is written into every weekday from June through August. Her husband, Wade, has already told everyone yes. He says his mother needs someone. Gwen works ...

My husband is sleeping with a woman our daughter’s age. That alone would be a midlife crisis, but doing it in the apartment his mistress shares with her, right across the hall from Megan’s bedroom, makes it a betrayal that I’m about to make damn sure he pays for in full. He calls it a second chance at happiness. I call it a bill he has no idea is coming. Now the scheming roommate who lied to both me and my daughter is about to get what she’s earned, and my cheating husband is going to wish getting caught had been the worst thing that happened to him. ✔ Cheating husband revenge ✔...

Her vacuum cleaner found out her husband was cheating before she did. When Nell Ridley hears something rattling around in the Roomba, she pops the bin expecting a dime. She finds a diamond earring. It isn't hers. No other woman has set foot in that house in months. And the Roomba runs every single day — which means it got under her bed since Tuesday. When she asks her mother whether Tom seems off lately, Diane Whitlock reaches across the table, takes her hand, and says all the kindest things. You've never grieved your father. You've always been sensitive. Tom's the only one who's shown up...

Naomi Hale knows exactly what public humiliation feels like. The night her husband’s betrayal becomes gossip before it becomes truth, she walks away from the marriage she thought would last forever. She builds a new life in Chicago, pours everything she has into her rising design career, and swears she will never again confuse love with losing herself. Julian Cross had everything a man could want. Success. Influence. A beautiful wife who believed in him before the world ever did. Then one reckless act destroys the only thing that ever truly mattered. Now the woman he still loves wants ...

She’s about to tell her husband she’s pregnant - until her mother-in-law corners her at a dress fitting and plays her a recording. His voice: “She’s not forever material. I need someone like Pippa.” Pippa - her sister. Stefan Graham was the perfect husband. He crossed a ballroom the night they met and swore he’d marry her. Two years into their marriage, he still looked at her like she was the only woman alive. Layla drives to his office, praying it isn’t true. Through the glass, she sees Pippa’s hand on his shoulder. Her husband and her sister. She doesn’t scream. She ...