Healing Storytelling

This book identifies seven stages of therapy that provide a framework for working with client's emotional, cognitive, somatic, and sensory experiences to heal from trauma. Through composite case illustrations, practitioners will learn how to safely mitigate a range of trauma content, including complicated grief, natural disaster, children in foster care, aggression, toxic divorce, traumatized infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome, and young mothers recovering from opioid addiction.

Reframe your story—and reclaim your life—through writing and storytelling in this “invaluable guide” (Danielle Ofri, MD, PHD, author of What Doctors Feel). A Harvard-trained doctor draws on narrative therapy and her own multiple sclerosis diagnosis to offer chronic illness patients a way...

Discover the healing power of DBT through the eyes of Dr. John Watson. Guided by Sherlock Holmes, Watson confronts trauma, grief, and emotional chaos—not just with courage, but with skills. Each case is a mystery. Each mystery holds a lesson. Each lesson can help you heal. What You'll Find Inside: Five gripping Sherlock Holmes mysteries Deep emotional healing through Watson’s CPTSD journey DBT skills like mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation Written in Watson’s voice, styled like classic Conan Doyle Perfect for readers who want therapy tools without feeling like ...

Uncover the healing power of your story, express your authentic voice, and find connection with this positive holistic guide to writing and creativity. Lisa Weinert’s work is based on the premise that we hold our stories in our bodies. The extent that we learn how to release them affects how...

An ambitious memoir in essays by beloved bestselling author Reyna Grande that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. Reyna Grande has spent her career powerfully capturing the raw reality of life across borders. Her memoirs...

A groundbreaking guide showing us how being “out of control” (and admitting it) is the first step to living a truly better, more meaningful life. This program is read by the author. Raise your hand if you’ve ever wanted to “self-improve” but, for some reason, you just can’t follow...

In this poignant and deeply moving memoir, Sigal Magen reflects on her life as a second-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors. Through vivid recollections and heartfelt introspection, she weaves together stories of childhood fears, inherited trauma, and the resilience that shaped her into a beacon of hope and connection. From climbing a playground slide to carrying the weight of generational fears, Sigal shares how her father’s unspoken pain and her grandfather’s symbolic train journeys shaped her view of the world. Her journey takes her from moments of personal struggle to a ...

Crowded in the Middle of Nowhere: Tales of Humor and Healing from Rural America is a collection of humorous and poignant stories from a veterinarian in a small, dusty farming and ranching community in rural West Texas. Dr. Brock gives you an intimate look into his small-town and big-hearted perspective on life, animals, and their owners. His unique perspective and tales of doctoring beloved pets, cantankerous livestock, and occasionally their owners will make you smile, laugh, cry, and evoke every other emotion under the sun.

Following the New York Times bestseller The Road to Grace, Richard Paul Evans’s hero Alan Christoffersen faces a life-changing crisis on his journey of redemption and faith. After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after...

Heartbreak, healing, and a dash of revenge come together in this soul-searching, spice-filled journey through India from beloved author Arielle Ford. When chef Holly’s carefully built life unravels—first through a painful betrayal, then a near-fatal accident—she’s left reeling, uncertain...

What if your life were a building—and the people you love lived on the ground floor? YOUR EMOTIONAL BUILDING is a powerful illustrated fable for adults navigating the silent cracks of modern life. Inspired by a viral LinkedIn post seen by over a million readers, this book guides you through the hidden floors of your emotional world—from work and friends to dreams, health, and family. In a voice that doesn’t judge but invites reflection, author Nacho Caballero blends storytelling, vulnerability, and striking metaphors to ask one essential question: Are you ready to renovate your ...

All the Way Back Home and A Small Sea Rises: A Rain Press Double Two powerful tales of loss, redemption, and the long road home. All the Way Back Home Shaye Fox has fallen as far as a man can fall. Once a respected dentist with a family and a future, he’s now a drunk living alone in a mountainside cabin—until a bloodied, dying white dog stumbles into his path on a rain-slick highway. The dog, War Daddy, has survived the unthinkable. Smuggled across the world and left for dead, he’s a fighter with a past as extraordinary as his will to live. Saving him gives Shaye one last purpose—...

In an age where the familiar structures of identity, community, and certainty crumble into chaos, The Avatar Within: Designing Your Mythic Self in an Age of Chaos is an empowering guide for those ready to reclaim their power, authenticity, and purpose. Drawing from timeless myths, archetypal psychology, and transformational storytelling, Joseph Crown invites you on a profound journey inward to rediscover your mythic self—your Avatar. Far from a mere persona, this Avatar serves as your inner compass, guiding you toward wholeness and resilience amidst uncertainty and upheaval. Through ...

The Apron and the Pen is a deeply moving love story about second chances, healing through creativity, and the quiet power of connection. When Alan, a middle-aged gay writer, begins baking to soothe his soul, he doesn't expect the act of creating cookies to open the door to a powerful new story—both on the page and in his heart. As past love, memory, and unspoken truths rise like dough in a warm kitchen, Alan discovers that the most beautiful relationships don’t always follow a recipe. Tender, wise, and full of emotional resonance, this is a story for anyone who’s ever baked through ...

A resonant and timely story about love, loss, and forging a path forward in the aftermath of grief. After tragedy upended the contours of her life, Lauren Kessler, an unflinching immersion journalist, felt compelled to move—to do something, to be somewhere else. So she set out alone on the...

Benjamin "Hawk" Hawkthorne made a deathbed promise to his brother-in-arms on the night fire consumed the battlefield. Bound by grief, survivor's guilt, and a vow he will not break, Hawk has learned to live behind walls of silence—sealing his heart off to hope and keeping God at arm's length. When he leaves Louisiana before Christmas for the frozen mountains of Snowfall Ridge, Colorado, he isn't running from his past. He's honoring it. Even if it costs him everything. But winter has a way of revealing what refuses to stay buried. MacKenzie "Mac" Stone has survived the past year by holding ...

“Beyond the Breach” is a sweeping four-act theatrical fresco that crosses time and borders, connecting the small Hasidic town of Berdichev to the contemporary world. Moving fluidly between the 18th century and the present day, the play weaves together the destinies of two men linked by the same breath: Rabbi Lévy Yitzhak of Berditchev, Hasidic master, kabbalist, and passionate defender of his people, and David, his descendant and spiritual heir, reluctantly called to carry a healer’s gift. In this intense narrative, epochs echo one another and locations overlap, as readers witness ...

Every child on Earth deserves the chance to paint a perfect picture of their lives - Shobana GomesWhat would you say in a letter to yourself? Do you believe that life is what you make of it? Life is much like a jigsaw puzzle, with tiny fragments and pieces divided into segments that you must discover, discern, unearth and fit in the right perspective to survive. It is like a maze one strives to uncover so that you arrive at your destination safely. To do that, there are things to consider, like fate which lies in the hands of those who birthed us, and our destiny which relies on our battles...

Sublime Funeral is a brief, serene, and powerful story about how family becomes support, guidance, and meaning. Beyond the loss that sets the journey in motion, what truly shines is the way familial bonds hold, structure, and dignify life, even in its most difficult moments. With sober and sensitive prose, G. G. Melies portrays the silent path of a community that needs no words to express the essential. In every gesture, in every shared glance, a way of being in the world is revealed: through presence, support, and care. Sublime Funeral is a delicate portrait of a culture where familial ...

Omnibus is an engrossing ride through Jo’s wacky world. There are articles and stories on ski jumps, drumming, music and dogs; even Mary Poppins gets a mention. There’s a friend lost, then found, then slowly lost again as his mind begins to crumble – thank goodness we shared some laughs in days gone by. There’s even a set of Antlers and my favourite aeroplane, the S71 Blackbird at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England. And then there’s the odd ride on a bus! No ordinary journey this. Many years ago, following some dire health issues, Jo and wife Jan discarded their long-term ...