Surviving Recovery

A personal account of the stroke experience and the recovery and rehabilitation process. A guide for stroke victims, family and caregivers on what to expect immediately following a stroke, and during the recovery and rehabilitation process.

Surviving trauma and recovery is not a straight line, and it should not require readers to push themselves harder just to feel okay. This book offers calm, practical support for people living with the emotional aftershocks of trauma, including fear, exhaustion, numbness, anxiety, and self-doubt. With a gentle, encouraging approach, Lena Hart helps readers understand what trauma can do to the mind and body while showing how real healing begins through safety, self-compassion, and small consistent steps.

This book is both a participant and group leader guide! The group leader guide is found in the back of the book. The Christian Codependence Recovery Workbook: From Surviving to Significance takes you through a truth-finding journey to reveal your system of love, life and relationships. It practically addresses the manifest behaviors, emotions and needs of the codependent, while simultaneously introducing the precious truths of God’s love. This workbook doesn’t just diagnose the problem, but offers the healing principles of the Lord Jesus Christ in a fresh and profound way. When applied,...

Unlock the secrets to healing after infidelity. Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to truly rebuild trust and find peace after the devastating experience of being cheated on? Are you reeling from the pain of betrayal? Discover a path to healing and reclaim your life with our exclusive bonus guide. Infidelity can shatter your world, leaving you engulfed in confusion, anger, and heartache. The whirlwind of emotions may make it feel impossible to envision a future free from pain. But you’re not alone—many have walked this path and emerged stronger, more self-aware, and ready to ...

This is a personal story of generational trauma, a mother's debilitating paranoid schizophrenia and a daughter who was thrust into foster care, homelessness, drug addiction, and was sexually abused and neglected. This book Discovers the strength of the human spirit and the power of love that defies all odds, a story of resilience and hope. Beautifully written as a heartfelt memoir that invites readers to discover Lorie’s profound journey, The Voices We Couldn’t Hear is a transformative coming-of-age story that delves into poignant themes including abuse, mental illness, and the ...

The Book That's Transforming How We Heal Our Most Fundamental Relationship Have you ever felt that, despite your mother's love, something essential was missing? There are truths we whisper, uncomfortable secrets we keep. Perhaps none is as difficult to voice as this: sometimes, our mothers didn't know how to love us in the ways we desperately needed. For many of us, questioning maternal love feels almost sacrilegious. But if you've found yourself here, you likely sense that something fundamental was missing from this core relationship – and that recognition, however painful, is your first...

Transform a shocking prostate cancer diagnosis into an empowered, practical roadmap for healing and resilience. When facing a sudden medical crisis, having a steady, reassuring voice to guide your choices makes all the difference. This audio companion cuts through the clinical jargon, offering a...

How to Help My Wife Heal After Infidelity. A Practical SAFE Framework to Rebuild Emotional Safety, Restore Trust, Navigate Trauma Triggers, and Create a Stronger Marriage One Day at a Time. Your affair broke something. This book shows you how to help rebuild it — one honest day at a time. If you're reading this, you already know an apology isn't enough. You've said sorry. You've promised it will never happen again. And yet your wife still cries at unexpected moments, still asks the same question for the fifth time, still flinches when your phone buzzes. You want to help her heal, but ...

He's gone — and it's the worst pain you've ever felt. You're not unlovable, you're not "too much," and you will survive this. The sleepless nights. The ache that lives in your chest. The way his name, a song, a smell can level you without warning. The silence where a whole shared life used to be. Maybe he left and the ground vanished; maybe it died slowly; maybe you ended it and still can't breathe. However it happened, you're in a pain you didn't know was possible — and you may be carrying it behind a competent face, holding everything together for everyone while quietly coming apart. ...

Surviving My Covert Narcissist Husband: A Courageous Journey of Love, Empowerment, and Overcoming Adversity Jennifer Iolite’s memoir, "The Wolf Blogs," is a raw and unfiltered account of her experience with narcissistic abuse. She candidly shares her journey of surviving emotional, verbal, and psychological abuse from her husband, who used manipulation, gaslighting, control, and fear to alter her sparkling and energetic nature. Raw and Powerful: Uncover the unfiltered story of surviving a covert narcissist husband through the captivating pages of Wolf Blogs. Empowering Narration: ...

BOOK 1: 'WHEN BETRAYAL CHANGES EVERYTHING: Your Essential Guide to the First Six Months After Infidelity and Betrayal Trauma' You found out. Now what? The discovery of a partner's affair doesn't just cause pain, it reorganises reality. The world you were living in five minutes ago no longer exists. The one you are now in hasn't yet taken a shape you can understand. When Betrayal Changes Everything is the guide for the first six months: the shock, the sleepless nights, the questions that circle without resolution, and the impossible decisions that arrive before you are in any state to make ...

What happens when the person you once loved turns your child against you? When your identity as a parent is erased through lies, manipulation, and a court system that doesn’t understand emotional abuse? This book is for every mother or father who woke up one day and realized they were no longer seen by their own child. It’s for those who have been called “high-conflict” for telling the truth, who have been painted as the villain while the narcissist plays the victim, and for those who are fighting for their child’s heart in silence. Melissa Rymer, a certified recovery and divorce ...

Pathological mind games. Covert and overt put-downs. Triangulation. Gaslighting. Projection. These are the manipulative tactics survivors of malignant narcissists are unfortunately all too familiar with. As victims of silent crimes where the perpetrators are rarely held accountable, survivors of narcissistic abuse have lived in a war zone of epic proportions, enduring an abuse cycle of love-bombing and devaluation - psychological violence on steroids.

A powerfully inspirational and healing book for anyone who has suffered a loss that seems unendurable. The reader walks hand in hand through the darkest places of grief and emerges from being tattered and broken to a new kind of healing. This book is sad and funny and inspires all of us dare to dance through the pain. "Endings rarely arrive on the same sunbeam as dreams; the kind we imagine have passed through the darkness, filtered through the clouds, mingled with starlight, and found its way to our heart on the path of a sunbeam" begins the journey to cementing the pieces of your broken ...

In the house where she grew up, everything bad was her fault by decree. If she got sick, her fault. If she was robbed, her fault. If a storm knocked out the television signal, somehow that traced back to her too. There was never a trial — only a verdict, handed down before she could speak, and a lifetime spent serving it. The Scapegoat is the true story of a woman who survived a narcissistic family from her first breath to deep into adulthood — and the quiet, final day she chose to walk away to save her own life. Told in unflinching first person, this is the memoir of a daughter raised ...

For men over fifty navigating gray divorce, the hardest part is rarely the legal paperwork alone, it is the compounding collision of three pressures that hit all at once: a financial rebuild with far less time than a younger man would have, a social network that often collapses overnight because it was built and maintained largely by his wife, and a relationship with his adult children that must be quietly renegotiated through unfamiliar territory of loyalty, holidays, and changed family dynamics. Starting Over After 50 is the first comprehensive, heartfelt guide built specifically for this...

He cheated — and your world fell apart. You are not weak, it was not your fault, and you will get through this. Being betrayed by the man you trusted is one of the most painful things you can go through. The obsessive thoughts that won’t switch off. The rage. The endless replaying, the need to know, the agonising comparison to the other woman, the question of whether you were ever enough. And on top of it, the cruel lie that a woman who is hurt this badly — or who stays to rebuild — must somehow be weak. If that’s where you are right now, this book was written for you. After He ...

You weren’t crazy. You were conditioned. If you’ve ever been love-bombed, gaslit, discarded, and then replaced like you never mattered—this book is for you. How to Spot a Narcissist Before He Destroys You is a brutally honest, empowering guide for women who are tired of being emotionally manipulated, silenced, and broken by men who pretend to love them. Whether you’re stuck in a trauma bond, constantly questioning your worth, or trying to understand what the hell just happened, this book will wake you up—and walk you out. Through 11 deeply revealing chapters, Astrid Star breaks ...

She's gone — and it's the worst pain you've ever felt. You're not weak, and you will survive this. The sleepless nights. The gut that won't unclench. The way her name detonates something in your chest. The silence where a whole life used to be. Maybe she left and you never saw it coming; maybe it fell apart slowly; maybe you ended it and still can't breathe. However it happened, you're in the kind of pain you didn't know was possible — and you're probably going through it alone, because a man isn't supposed to admit he's this destroyed. This book is for you. Surviving the Heartbreak is ...

YOUR WORLD IS GONE. YOUR TRUST IS SHATTERED. YOU ARE NOT GOING CRAZY—YOU ARE AT WAR. When infidelity strikes, the world as you know it ends. You are plunged into a disorienting and terrifying new reality of lies, gaslighting, and a pain so profound it feels physical. You are not just heartbroken; you are a victim of betrayal trauma. But this is not a book about being a victim. This is a book about becoming a warrior. I am not a therapist, a doctor, or a relationship coach. I am a wife who, after nineteen years of a happy marriage, discovered the man I loved was lost in the fog of an ...