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When a healthy, happy child suddenly develops anxiety, obsessive behaviors, rage, tics, food restrictions, depression, or other alarming symptoms seemingly overnight, parents are often left searching for answers that conventional medicine struggles to provide. For author and practitioner Erin Paige, that search became deeply personal when her own son began exhibiting dramatic behavioral and neurological changes. In From Hell to Healed, she combines her family's hard-won experience with more than a decade of supporting thousands of families facing the same battle.

During her own year of transition—a milestone birthday, a wedding anniversary, the emptying of the nest—Walrond, in the buoyant and luminous style her listeners have come to love, does a deep dive into dimensions of getting older, including health, beauty, spirituality, connection, adventure, and meaning and purpose. Through conversations with social workers and neurologists, activists and clergy, Walrond satisfies her curiosity about why the dominant culture treats aging as a time of dwindling capacity.

Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books like the New York Times bestsellers Brothers, The Devil's Chessboard, and nationally recognized Season of the Witch. Now...

Join the author as he embarks on a year-long body/mind/spirit journey on the road to age 60. Like life itself, the quest is charged with challenges, vexation, hilarity, poignancy, reflection, and sheer absurdity. Discover whether Rick finds hope and meaning at journey's end, or merely a conglomeration of confounding twinges and pricks, macular puckers, and impending sagginess.

Screw the expectations. You can live a life that is bigger than the little boxes others have tried to put you in. In a world that tells you no, Whatever the Hell You Want is telling you yes. Through personal stories and insights from their international podcast series, The Breakout, Keri Ohlrich, PhD, and Kelly Guenther bring their twenty-plus years of coaching and corporate-change expertise to help you redefine what you want in your life—outside the expectations that have been placed on you by your parents, partners, society, and even yourself.

It's hard. You struggle with your health. People tell you, “It's your genes.” Or they recommend medicine or surgery as your only options. Unfortunately, conventional medicine has ignored the basics of what it takes to build health and reverse disease, offering nothing more than medical interventions to control such problems, and nothing to reverse them. But no longer!

This heart-wrenching story traces the lives of a dementia victim and his caring family as they descend through the devastating journey and ultimate end that is caused by Alzheimer's disease. Using personal experience and that of others, the author explores in graphic detail the pain and confusion of Pat, the victim, and the selfless love of his wife Carol and daughter Mandy. The book is intended to help prepare listeners, who may well become carers, know what to expect and to raise general awareness of a condition that receives little attention compared to its impact on the lives of men and women throughout the world.

And Then All Hell Breaks Loose is a powerful book on the life of one reporter in the Middle East. Richard Engal spent most of his life from 1996 - now in the Middle East covering many different stories. From his time in Cairo with the first al-Qaeda attacks to the Iraqi War and then to Syria, Engal has seen it all. He reminisces what it felt like in Lebanon to go back to a semi-normal life after his intense years living undercover in Baghdad, fearing for his life on a minute-by-minute basis.