Identity Loss

How Loss Unravels Who You Were — and What Comes After Grief does not only take what you loved. It takes who you were when that life made sense. Many people expect grief to feel like sadness, tears, or longing. But what often arrives instead is something quieter and more disorienting: a loss of self. You may still function. You may still work, care for others, and meet expectations. Yet internally, something no longer aligns. Motivation fades. Meaning feels distant. The future you once assumed quietly collapses. And no one explains why. Grief and the Loss of Identity gives language to an ...

Losing a Parent as an Adult Is One of the Most Disorienting Losses You Can Face - and If You Were Your Parent's Caregiver, Your Grief Started Long Before the Death Itself. Your grief is real - even if no one around you seems to notice. The world moved on. You haven't. This book was written for that. Maybe people said "At least they lived a long life." Maybe you were back at work within days, holding everything together. Maybe you spent months or years as your parent's caregiver - managing appointments, absorbing fear, reversing roles - and now that they are gone, you are not sure who you ...

‘A gripping legal thriller that will leave you reeling. A book that will stay with you long after the last page. The ending is a stunner!’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This was a roller coaster of a book, an immersive read, a sublime plot with very open and direct dialogue. Expertly...

"Interesting characters, a chilling plot, lots of suspense and well read by January LaVoy make Identity a good listen!"—Toronto.com on Identity "Narrator January LaVoy brings a richly layered performance to a story.... She expertly handles the large cast of multigenerational characters"...

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 ...

Suspenseful and hilarious, this novel is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime. 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...

No one prepares you for losing the version of yourself that loss, trauma, and major life changes took. This book helps you discover who you are when life rewrites your identity. The Identity Reset: A Guide to Discovering Yourself After Loss, Change, and Survival is a lifeline for those...

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...

Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga...

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...

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...

She ruined her reputation with a single leap. Now, only a fake engagement to a dangerous earl can save her family. Lady Eliza Fairchild has spent years crafting a perfect facade to hide her merchant roots. That facade shatters the night she leaps from her opera box to save a poisoned tenor—her secret half-brother. Now branded a scandal by the gossip sheets and facing a ruthless ultimatum to remarry or lose her fortune, Eliza finds herself cornered. She needs a shield, but she refuses to be controlled. A Spymaster with a mission. Sebastian Hawke, the Earl of Ravenswood, deals in secrets, ...

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,...

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.

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.

You lost the weight. But no one prepared you for what comes next. The silence. The shifting identity. The unexpected fear of gaining it back. The question you can’t quite answer: Now what? If you’ve used GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, or Zepbound, you already know they can change your body. This book is about what happens after that. Because long-term success isn’t just about weight loss. It’s about learning how to live in a body — and a life — that no longer revolves around food. Inside Life After the Shot, you’ll learn how to: • Navigate the emotional ...

She woke up with no memory. But someone out there knows exactly who she is. Tiffany Wells doesn’t remember her past. Not her name. Not her life. Not the reason her hands don’t shake when she picks up a gun. But her body remembers. It remembers how to disappear in a crowd. How to break into locked systems. How to run when someone is hunting her. And someone is. Watching. Tracking. Closing in. Desperate for answers, Tiffany turns to a reluctant investigator and a woman who seems to know far more than she should. What they uncover is bigger—and far more dangerous—than any of them ...

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...

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...

Nine days after burying his wife, Evan receives a voicemail from her phone. Claire is dead. He signed the papers. He chose the urn. He sat through the funeral while everyone told him to take all the time he needed. Then her voice comes through the speaker at 2:17 in the morning. Her warning is impossible: a man will come to his building claiming to be from the gas company. Do not let him in. When the warning comes true, Evan is pulled into a quiet nightmare of hidden recordings, missing memories, false identities, and secrets Claire took to her grave. Each message leads him deeper into a ...