Personal Memoirs Women

A raw, often wry, memoir of mothers, mysteries, and miracles. Surrendered at birth in a closed adoption, Candi Byrne’s biology and ethnicity is a secret. The impending arrival of her first grandchild ignites an urgency to identify potential genetic time bombs and confirm her ancestry. Due to arcane privacy laws, Candi is repeatedly denied access to the one person who could provide that information—her biological mother.

Life happens. We make mistakes, and maybe we know that we are not showing up as our best selves. The question is not whether you will be knocked down by life. That is inevitable. The question is, how do you get back up again? Oh God of Second Chances, Here I Am Again is a book about what it takes to get back up again and again.

Lynn Young’s Red Hot Living is part joyride, part memoir, part zesty recipe, part anthem, and part love letter to life. Discovering wild joy in the most unlikely places, Young connects us to our own desires and yes, to finding unimaginable joy no matter what life dishes up. Laugh-out-loud funny, Red Hot Living is a rollicking, unabashed, irresistible listen that leads us straight home to our joyful selves.

This is a story of hope. Of profound, personal change from a life of obesity and depression to a life of love and freedom.

Covering seven decades of living, traveling, and growing, Does My Voice Matter? follows James’ journey of self-discovery and authenticity as she gradually recognizes that she has a voice—and learns how to use it. She uses her own life experiences as a backdrop for her exploration of how the voice is used as a tool of engagement.

Sarah’s story is one for any parent; it is not just about the highs and lows of having a child with additional needs, but also simply as a mum of three. She talks candidly about coming to terms with the decision to move Oscar to a SEN (Special Educational Needs) school, another big milestone in Oscar’s young life. Whilst Sarah may have found herself on a different path to the one she’d imagined for herself, it has not been a bad one. There is sadness, certainly; and there have been struggles along the way; but there has been so much laughter and happiness, too.

Reality, as Eileen Robertson Hamra perceived it, was instantly altered the moment authorities confirmed that the plane her husband was piloting had crashed and he had not survived. With her three young children, Eileen entered the desolate world of grief and loss, but where she arrived was nothing short of miraculous. Between the valleys of grief and the peaks of hope, she discovered that keeping promises to the dead is a lifelong act, and honoring one love does not mean forgoing the freedom and joy that is found in reopening your heart.

From childhood stutterer to inspirational speaker! The Courage to Shine is a powerful and inspirational memoir by Eileen Forrestal, a former anesthesiologist who transformed her life. After a lifetime of "putting people to sleep", Eileen is now in the business of "waking people up" as a writer, speaker, and coach. In The Courage to Shine, Eileen retraces her journey. She shares her childhood trauma of an accidental overdose of junior aspirin that led to her subsequent speech impediment, the embarrassment of which caused her to hide her voice in silent shame.

An Uncompromised Life takes listeners through Colleen Gallagher’s past unhealthy relationship which led her to compromise her soul. From this relationship, an unplanned pregnancy was created. Faced with a life-changing decision, and shocked because western medical doctors told Colleen it would be challenging for her to get pregnant after being diagnosed with cancer at age 14, she chose to let her child go.

Um dos nomes mais representativos no mundo corporativo e na promoção da igualdade racial no Brasil, Luana Génot compartilha reflexões e episódios de sua trajetória para falar de temas fundamentais para a nossa sociedade. Sincero e direto ao ponto, este livro nos convoca a ser mais solidários e conscientes do lugar que ocupamos, ou que gostaríamos de ocupar.

Whilst learning to fly, Amanda Harrison discovered a beautiful vintage Tiger Moth. After researching the amazing pioneers who flew this fragile aircraft, a spark was ignited, and Amanda dreamed of emulating their adventures. On May 11, 2019, she made that dream a reality, taking off from Biggin Hill with the aim of flying to Darwin, Australia in twenty days-just as her idol Amy Johnson had done in 1930.

If Crazy Rich Asians and a Greek tragedy had a literary offspring, it would be the spitting image of Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? The true story of resolute immigration lawyer and activist Loida Lewis, Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? begins with Loida's adventure-packed Philippine upbringing. A torrid love affair with brilliant, irascible financier Reginald Lewis follows, as does regal living in Manhattan and Paris, and gut-wrenching loss, all before Loida shockingly commandeers a multibillion-dollar, multinational conglomerate and leads it with aplomb.

After witnessing the brutal, fatal stabbing of her mother and surviving being stabbed herself during the same attack at the age of nine, a young African-American woman’s struggle to live continues. Diamond shares the mental, physical, and emotional effects she has suffered and the challenges she has faced, including alcohol abuse, emotional detachment, suicidal thoughts and panic attacks stemming from post-traumatic stress disorders.

At 15, I killed someone. This was just one of many secrets that my brain hid from me. For most of my life, I had barely any memories of my childhood. Except for a few snippets, I lived in the dark. It wasn’t until I turned 36 that my world began to unravel. Slow at first, and then suddenly, all at once, long-buried memories that had been concealed in the depths of my mind for survival now surfaced, shooting to the forefront of my mind.

At eight years old, I never imagined my entire world was about to implode. Follow along as I retell the sad and dark turn my life took, and ensuing years working through more betrayal and abuse. I thought I’d never get out of the madness or ever find myself. It turned out to be a lesson because God wanted me to use my experiences as a way to inspire others. This is the tale of decades of my nightmare life and how I made it out on top.

In haar bestseller Mijn leven in de hel vertelde Sarah Forsyth hoe ze als jong meisje uit Engeland in de gedwongen prostitutie belandde in de rosse buurt van Amsterdam, en uiteindelijk over haar dramatische ontsnapping. Maar Sarahs donkere jaren waren toen nog niet voorbij. Ze was nog steeds verslaafd aan drugs en drank, en worstelde met het leven, met de liefde en het huwelijk waarvan ze verwachtte dat het haar gelukkig zou maken. Het zou nog drie lange, zware jaren duren voordat ze voorgoed afscheid kon nemen van de verschrikkelijke gevolgen van haar gevangenschap.

Shattered Pieces Everywhere tells the story of a woman totally transformed--physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Now a wife and mother, Christina draws courage from her scars, wearing them like a warrior. She’s spoken and sung before huge crowds and been the public face of multiple companies she and her husband have built. When she steps into the spotlight, she remembers her scars, knowing she is a better person for them.

Tiffany Barnes is a young girl who grows up in a small town outside Salt Lake City, where behind closed doors, she lives in an abusive home. After her parents divorce, Tiffany is abused by her stepfather and a family friend. When she speaks up about what happened, she is not validated or supported. A bouncing period begins, and Tiffany moves multiple times, trying to find safety, but is unable to gain consistency. At age 15, she makes the decision to be emancipated, and this begins a new stage in her life where she's forced to make adult decisions in order to survive.

Emily was in a restaurant, having lunch with her father – the next thing she remembers is waking up, naked, in a strange hotel room, next to a man she did not know. She suspected she had been drugged and raped. She later found out she had been filmed without her consent. What happened to her that night could have happened to anyone. What came next happens to far too many victims, as failures by the police, CPS and other parts of the system, led to Emily doubting she would ever find justice.

"Liminal" means threshold, and we find thresholds all day long if we have the eyes to see. Thresholds are not just a transitionary place, they are opportunities for discovery, awareness, and choice. We are at a fascinating place now in the history of the human experience, at the threshold of the next paradigm place. By all measures, our world is changing, and this requires us all to be prepared by building capacity to contribute to its ease.