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It’s Over Now is an honest and deeply personal account of Karrine’s life-changing and challenging circumstances. It will touch your heart, and will leave you filled with hope. After being abandoned by her mother whilst she lay sleeping, Karrine was raised by a queen—her great-grandmother. The queen of her life instilled invaluable life lessons and taught her the true meaning of love. However, as life unfolds, Karrine faces unimaginable loss and pain. She is dealt blow after blow, and must fight to save not only her family, but her life.

Lolo Jones' path to becoming a world champion and an Olympian began in childhood with a single mother who worked multiple jobs to support a family of six and a father who was serving time in prison. These early years instilled in Lolo an overcomer's mindset that gave her the strength she needed to rise above an unstable and impoverished background, to earn an economics degree at LSU, and then to establish herself as the best women's hurdler in the world.

In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with debilitating chronic illness, and faced death itself when seriously unwell in hospital. In spite of this he has survived, and has even learned to find joy in life in the aftermath of tragedy. In Getting Better, he shares his story and the lessons he has learned along the way. Exploring the roles that trauma and grief have played in his own life, Michael investigates the road to recovery.

Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said “next year.” Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James’s soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4 p.m., right when she is on the air on NPR’s All Things Considered, talking to millions of listeners). Drive carpool for her son Alexander? Not if she wants to do that story about Ukraine and interview the secretary of state. Like millions of parents who wrestle with raising children while pursuing a career, she has never been cavalier about these decisions.

Be encouraged by this amazing personal account of Marilyn Hickey’s extraordinary life of miracles with God. You will get a glimpse of the intimate details of her childhood, young adulthood, and ministry as she shares with extreme transparency the process God used to mold her into His servant, and you will peer into the unique struggles and personal adversities she had to overcome throughout that process. Walk with this unbelievable woman of God and experience the heartaches and the successes she has seen as she ministered to thousands of people in hundreds of nations.

At age fourteen, Laura Delano's parents took her to her first psychiatrist. At school, she was the model student, but at home Laura felt a rage that she unleashed on family, friends and herself. She was promptly diagnosed with bipolar disorder and started on a course of mood stabilizers and antidepressants. It was to mark the beginning of a painful and relentless journey. Weaving together Laura's medical records and doctors' notes with illuminating research on the drugs she was prescribed, Unshrunk is the powerful memoir of one woman's battle against the commercial psychiatric industry.

One romantic hopeful had greeted Lester Fabian Brathwaite on a dating app with this gem: “You into race play?” Being young, queer, gifted, and Black, Lester has found that his best tool for navigating American life is gallows humor. If you don’t laugh, you cry—or, you summon your inner rage. With biting wit, Lester’s book Rage interrogates all the ways that systemic racism and homophobia have shaped our society. All to pose that proverbial question: Can a gurl live?

This is an autobiography that takes the listener on a journey—a three-book series, starting with the author’s memoir and motivational copy, which is this book. The book collection is an inspiration to the world at large. You are living in a place where people are in despair, unable to feel hope and the positive energy it gives. In this situation, God wants you to know he is in control of your life, therefore, it cannot be over yet. He has the last word.

This podcast is based on mental health and overall tips to navigate life in teen years or your early 20s. Episodes will include open and positive conversation on research based topics, some of my personal experiences, and bringing awareness to difficult conversations that are commonly associated with bad sigmas. I mention ideals from major philosophers while collaborating them to present day research from creditable psychologists around the world, while keeping the perspective captivating (in other words “Gen-Z” vibes lol). This podcast is to break society’s “norms”. We talk about ...

A healthy pregnancy over forty is possible. I made it my mission to bring hope to women. I conceived naturally at 46 & had my first baby at 47! There is nothing geriatric about my experience. I conceived naturally without any external assistance like IVF or frozen eggs. My pregnancy has been without complications, and my baby girl is healthy. Despite all the fears and concerns surrounding #pregnancyover40, the one thing that should never be lost is hope. It is my wish that women see my journey as a nice contrast to what is promoted and discussed in the medical world. Follow my journey😍🙌...

A new one-hour podcast is set to debut Tuesday, December 15 th , 2020, where celebrated creative force, Lisa F Pliner offers an intimate, heartfelt and addictive glimpse into her world. The podcast, entitled “Over 40 & Loving Every Minute of It” is a celebration of not only the many facets of this jewel of a human being, but also the world that awaits women and men when they turn 40 and progress beyond. Over 40 was once considered “mid-life” or “downhill” but, as viewers will learn during Lisa’s shows, nothing could be further from the truth. Over 40 represents the beginning of ...

The middle class is over. It was a lie. We have the 1%...and then everyone else. Does this explain your life? My middle class life was actually working class. My problem is that it's taken me years to learn the difference.Your host Frank Simon has 40 years of work experience from white collar to blue collar, in the public sector, private sector, GIG worker, and business owner.Perspective from someone having lived in all three provinces of Western Canada, and what makes us different.