Showing results for "Blindsided" in Biographies & Memoirs

In 1996, an unprecedented decade-long courtroom battle was waged in Florida to help bring justice and hope to the family of a young boy born with no eyes after his mother was doused outside of a local u-pick farm by a chemical fungicide believed to have caused his birth defect and the birth defects of many other children. It was a battle that nearly everyone but attorney Jim Ferraro deemed unwinnable. After all, it involved one of the world's most powerful industrial giants.

When life blindsides you, how do you respond? J. Scott George, in this heartfelt and impacting book, shares his intimate and personal journey of facing head-on one of life's hardest battles, when heartache touches your children. Join J. Scott George on this inspiring story of tragedy, triumph and life-changing principles that will equip you to face life with faith and courage instead of fear and doubt. You will be encouraged and motivated to face life's toughest challenges by experiencing hope that the George family lives by and shares with the world.

A hopeful look at coping with the ravages of serious chronic illness by an accomplished journalist, a contributing columnist for the New York Times, and former senior producer of the CBS Evening News Richard Cohen, a veteran journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for 30 years. Diagnosed...

We strive for authenticity, but expediency often demands we suppress our true feelings. Dawn Downey struggles to find her genuine self, as she navigates her white surroundings. She wages an internal war, her intuition recognizing bigotry and her intellect wanting - needing - to deny it. At the end of any given day, she is angry. She is weary. She despairs.

"The girls are worried about Lauren. She’s saying things that are scaring them.” These two text messages from my best friends began a chain of events that led to us being blindsided by suicide. Our 14-year-old daughter made her attempt at ending her life in our bedroom and succumbed to her injuries seven hours later. My bright, beautiful, talented, brave, funny, and serious daughter was gone. No one saw it coming.

Podcast and related blog discussing my journey through diagnosis and learning to live with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (Aka Pseudotumor Cerebri) and papilledema that has left me blind in one eye and visually impaired in the other with the risk of blindness looming around the corner.

Women's basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell walks listeners through her bout with acute myeloid leukemia at age 61, one of the most serious forms of cancer for a woman of her age. Throughout the book, Hatchell discusses the factors that helped her remain positive and continue to fight, no matter what unfolded in her treatments. Her story challenges listeners to examine how they are using their hearts and minds in the eye of the storm, inspiring all to keep fighting and press on instead of sinking into despair or negativity.