Home Development

In a perfect world, our dreams would have kept us together. "You are my dream," he said to me... But in our world, dreams tore us apart. I ran away from that life. I threw us away... And my choice broke him. A message from beyond the grave would obliterate my world: "You chose wrong." These words would haunt me, telling me that everything I'd worked so hard for was wrong. I chose independence. "You chose wrong." I chose a career. "You chose wrong." And now, how do I keep running...when all roads are leading me home!

Kathy Izard was a graphic designer, wife, mother of four daughters, and volunteer at Charlotte’s Urban Ministry Center when an unlikely meeting with formerly homeless author Denver Moore changed the course of her life. Inspired by Denver’s challenge to do more than serve in this soup kitchen, Kathy quit her job to take on what seemed like an unimaginable task in her second half of life - to build housing for Charlotte’s homeless.

When Michael and Cheryl Morse slowly drifted apart amid an empty nest, her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, his symptoms of PTSD, and the grief of losing their two beloved dogs put down on the same day three years prior, it became apparent their lives were in need of a little joy. Enter an energetic, white ball of fluff known as Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson's story begins in Arkansas, where he was left in a leaky, drafty barn for days.

At 17, Rachel Pope lost her dad to cancer, and eight years later, her eldest brother in a tragic car accident. Little did she know that her grief journey would come full circle with the death of her husband, at the same age and from the same cancer as her dad. Why do we have such a hard time talking about grief and what can we do, as a society, to cope better? As a grieving person, how do we make sense of our new life, post-loss, in a culture that expects us to "move on"? In this book, Rachel Pope dives into those important conversations through her own years of facing grief head-on.

Author, lightworker, mother, and wife, Kelsey Domiana knows all too well what it means to feel unsupported and exhausted with raising a family. As her husband, a professional basketball player, is often traveling, she realized that she needed to reclaim her joy and find a support system. Kelsey knows that it’s not impossible to feel empowered when one’s husband is away. In Help! My Husband Is Hardly Home, she shares her truth of feeling the overwhelm, isolation, and frustration that come with having a partner who works away from home.

Work and life partners Amanda Sudano Ramirez and Abner Ramirez are known for translating the memories and milestones of their journey, as well as the honest realities of marriage, into their spirited and soulful songs. With this audiobook, the duo shares never-before-told stories, recipes, poetry, and more from their life in a deeply engaging experience as they travel on tour around the country with their three young kids, capturing the family’s raw, intimate, and behind-the-scenes life on the road and embracing home no matter where they are.

Phoenix J. Waldren combines expert knowledge with personal empathy, offering a supportive narrative that speaks to adults with ADHD. Whether you're aiming to boost your career, enhance personal life, or find more joy and balance, this audiobook provides the guidance to navigate ADHD and thrive.

Parents have a huge influence on their children. Homeschooling parents have an even larger influence. Often, that is exactly why they are homeschooling their children. The question is: Are they ready for the task? There is more to education than just learning your ABCs.

Marriage was first, God's idea, and your marriage can be even more beautiful than your wedding ceremony if you apply the principles of marriage that God's word teaches. I have experienced firsthand the pain of watching my love slowly "transform" into an enemy, and it is not a good place to be at. I know every doubt and despair you feel because I have been there too. Everything changed when I got hold of the biblical truths in this audiobook. By God’s grace, I was able to turn the tide in my home and found the willpower to make my marriage work again.

Robert Freeman is a Harvard summa, a Princeton PhD, and a Steinway artist. Over 42 years of marriage to his wife, Carol, he has been the proud master of 17 tenured dogs - 11 of them golden retrievers, six of them American dogs. Having made tenure at MIT, he directed the Eastman School of Music for 24 years, presided over the New England Conservatory for three, and served as dean of the College of Fine Arts, at the University of Texas at Austin for seven.

Is it possible to create and keep fulfilling relationships? Relationship coach and #1 Amazon best-selling author Kendana Kay believes so. She invites you to surrender to the stories and solutions within this audiobook. To gently pick up the keys and unravel the hidden drama in your life. You’ll discover what you believe is “fine” in your life will metamorphose into a life that actually feels really good, a life you love living.

This insightful and practical guide will open your eyes to the hidden chaos lurking in the corners of your life, and how it robs you of the joy you deserve. Delve deep into the realms of physical, emotional, and mental clutter, and learn to recognize the patterns and triggers that keep you from reaching your full potential.

Are you spinning multiple plates at once? Mother, wife, employee, cook, cleaner, project manager, taxi driver, homeschool teacher? If it’s actually possible for women to have it all, as society assures us it is, then why do we feel like we are failing? All over the world, women shoulder most of the responsibilities of parenting and managing a home, even when both partners are in paid employment. The better they do this job, the more invisible it becomes. Failure to both recognize and value the Invisible Job is at the heart of today’s gender imbalance.

Suzanne suffered five heart attacks and made it through open heart surgery. But even that pales in comparison to the horrors she faced as a young girl. Her childhood became the ‘stuff of nightmares’ after her father passed away and her mother, unable to get a job in Ireland, had to seek work in London. So ‘Mammy’ was forced into the heart-breaking decision to put Suzanne and her five siblings into church-run orphanages in Dublin while she worked away. It was just meant to be temporary.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more families than ever before are asking questions about homeschooling. Lea Ann Garfias, homeschooling veteran and mom of six, has all the information you need to succeed. In this audiobook, containing content selected and adapted from the comprehensive print edition of Everything You Need to Know about Homeschooling, Lea Ann guides you through your toughest questions about getting started and staying the course.

This book presents five supporting theories: "The Jelly Bean Jar", "The Bridge Builder", "Tolerance", "The Law of Compensation", and "Ego". The five supporting theories are a solid foundation to understand the four bases of the baseball diamond, "First Base: Attraction", "Second Base: Mutual Interest", "Third Base: Respect", and "Home Plate: Trust". The book will explain the reason sex is in the outfield. This relationship book will not pull any punches to difficult existential queries of relationships.

In the midst of carpools and play dates, does the idea of saving the planet feel like something else to feel guilty about not doing? Green Mama puts green living within your reach. Tracey Bianchi offers creative tips, tricks, and resources that will benefit your kids and your community and will draw you closer to God’s heart for this planet.

Sent away to boarding school on his eighth birthday, Mark Stibbe watched his adoptive parents drive down a gravel road, leaving him standing in front of a huge country house with his trunk and his teddy. That night, already confused and frightened, he was given the first of four beatings in his first two weeks. This trauma of abandonment and abuse was to scar Stibbe's life until his 50s, when divorce forced him to deal with his "boarded heart".

The Inner Manager is a complete mind development course, following the journey of a young man looking to start his own business. He visits a powerful woman who takes him on a voyage of self-discovery, where he learns the vast powers of his own mind and is then able to transform his world into any crystallized creation he desires, as long as it benefits humankind.

The sigma personality type--the lone wolf--may comprise only one percent of the population, but that still accounts for 25 million people in the global workforce alone. There are sigmas in every major theater of life: professional, familial, and social. This audiobook is for them and for the other 99 percent.