A heart-warming and deliciously funny story about the world’s worst behaved dog and how he trained his human how to love herself again.Through the haze of vodka and self-loathing, Hazel Roundtree saw the poor creature lying in a ditch.One brown eye. One blue.Covered in mud and crying from pain, the puppy was desperately trying to free itself from a hopeless situation.She almost kept walking by. She had her own problems and besides… no one had ever st...

***** 2017 Kindle Book Awards WINNER - Literary Fiction *****New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett has written her most gripping and poignant tale yet. Provocatively heart-breaking, audaciously irreverent and romantically fulfilling, The Hard Truth About Sunshine exposes just how very thin the line is between a full life and an empty existence.Despite having narrowly escaped death's clutches, Christopher Barlow is grateful for nothing. His capacity to lo...

Connecting Paradigms: A Trauma-Informed & Neurobiological Framework for Motivational Interviewing Implementation provides an innovative approach to helping those struggling with past trauma to make critical life changes and heal from their pain and suffering. Scientific understanding of the brain, the impact of trauma, and research around behavioral change has grown exponentially over the last several decades. This knowledge is challenging and transforming thinking around how we provide me...

This book is part of a course that covers hundreds of life-enhancing topics that they don't teach in high-school or most colleges, but should. This is more than a course on self-improvement; it is a course on mastering life. If life had an instruction book... this would be it.This is book seven of the Life Mastery course: Being Diplomatic. The topics include:- Control the Conversational Climate- Three Rejections = Success- Learn How to Say NOBy the end...

Today, something is going to happen to an innocent child. Tomorrow, that child will walk into their school. What happens next will impact the rest of their life.What is this powerful event? Childhood trauma. Most students will experience some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, neglect, family dysfunction, racism, homelessness, or poverty by their eighteenth birthday. If left untreated, their traumatic experience may have lasting implications on ...

“I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow“I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A truly novel, beautifully crafted thesis on what intelligence is and how it has developed since the dawn of life itself."—Angela Duc...

As a follow-up to the successful Connecting Paradigms, Talking about Trauma & Change: A Connecting Paradigms’ Supplement provides analogies and models to help people understand the complexity of changing behavior and healing psychological trauma. Talking about Trauma & Change presents the approaches that Matthew Bennett has used in his training and clinical work in a format that is easily integrated into individual or group conversations. Change and trauma are se...

It's a great blessing when a new mom with postpartum depression (PPD) is fortunate enough to be diagnosed early by a knowledgeable medical practitioner or therapist. But without guidance, it isn't always clear where the boundary between normal baby blues and PPD lies. As with any other illness, the quicker that PPD is identified and treated, the faster the woman will recover.Postpartum Depression For Dummies can help you begin the process of determining what’s going on wit...

Have you ever wondered, Why am I so negative? or Why is my life so chaotic? Whether or not your parent was ever formally diagnosed with depression, you’ve probably always known there was something different about your upbringing. And even though you’ve grown up and moved on, you may still feel the after-effects of living with your parent’s illness.In Children of the Depressed, a depression expert helps adult children understand and overcome common problem...

A single gunshot. A dead teenager. A city ready to explode.When a U.S. Marshal fatally shoots a young suspect during a tense fugitive operation, the city braces for impact. The incident sparks public outrage, political finger-pointing, and a high-profile court case that puts the justice system itself on trial. At the center of the storm: U.S. Marshal Laila Aurora Wright and her partner, Carolyn Pryme - both sworn to uphold the law, both called to testify.But telling the tru...

Gene Lemmings' TIDAL-MANBy E.S. BennettFull Book Description:He was never meant to walk among mortals.He was never meant to care.When a luxury liner sinks under mysterious circumstances, the world blames a freak storm. But beneath the waves, something ancient has awakened. Rising from the depths is Tyvellmian-a man with the blood of Poseidon in his veins and a storm in his soul. ...

Andrea "Andie" Montgomery, a young woman who rises from trauma transformed-and hungry for justice no court could deliver. Years after her assault was ignored and the perpetrators walked free, Andie returns. But she is no longer a victim seeking healing. She is something far more dangerous-a reckoning. As her former classmates begin to die unde mysterious circumstances, FBI profiler Damian Nash is brought in to investigate. What he discovers will challenge everything he believes about guilt...