Paradigms Lost challenges key paradigms currently held about the prevention or reduction of stigma attached to mental illness using evidence and the experience the authors gathered during the many years of their work in this field. Each chapter examines one currently held paradigm and presents reasons why it should be replaced with a new perspective. The book argues for enlightened opportunism (using every opportunity to fight stigma), rather than more time consuming planning, and...

Is life a game of chance, or what you choose to make it? The small-town romantic comedy with lots of laughs, tears, steam, and a HEA, from the author of the Amazon bestselling romcom The Ticket.Dylan Douglas considers herself unlucky. She lost her job at Edwin Cove's Starry Night Café, she's accident prone, can't land an audition, her roommate's a pyromaniac, and her rent's long overdue.Driving to an audition for a movie role on Sunset Ridge, a piglet leaps off a t...