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An alcoholic mother to three children, Patty Tierney lives a double life as a sex worker for seventeen years, only to realize one day that she has become her own mother-an alcoholic who abandoned her when she was five. But unlike her mother, she's determined to make things right.
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Laurie James spent most of her life wondering what it means to belong; loneliness dictated the choices she made. She rarely shared this secret with others, however; it was always, hidden behind a carefree and can-do attitude.
When she's in her mid-forties, Laurie's mother has a heart attack and her husband's lawyer delivers some shocking news. She suddenly finds herself sandwiched between caring for her parents, managing unruly caregivers, raising...
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How many times have your kids said, "You never listen to me!"? Or a fellow parent alarmingly asked, "You let your kid do what?" Now, Sheila Ellison reminds moms what all the hard work is for. With themes ranging from "Laugh Now, Clean Up Later" to "Bathing Suit Blues" and "The Compliment Cure," Sheila's common sense and warmth shine through in this companion for moms of all ages.
When the laundry looms, the carpool calls, or the fourth-grade science...
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The Tao Te Ching, the classic work of ancient Chinese wisdom, has inspired and guided millions of people over more than a hundred generations. Twenty years ago, Vimala McClure, a mother and teacher of meditation and yoga, was inspired to meditate with each of the concise, profound teachings of the Tao Te Ching and capture its spirit and wisdom in words specifically directed to an audience close to her heart - mothers. The result, a new classic based...
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Her marriage had to end. She'll use the last of her strength to dig herself out of the struggle and hold her child... Sophie did everything she could to hold her family together. Married to an alcoholic, she blamed her husband for the overwhelming pressure she felt and her young daughter's unstable and confusing childhood. Until a fateful spiritual retreat rearranged her perspective and kick-started her journey to transform her life. Finding the courage...
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Mothers are powerful influences on little girls' lives.
Until we have children of our own, we often don't realize just how much our lives are shaped by the women who raised us.
Growing up with a mother who suffered from depression and bipolar disorder shaped me in many ways, and taught me lessons that I carried with me into adulthood. This life experience left me with limiting beliefs that shadowed who I was and prevented me from showing up as my...
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A powerful series of stories, poems and affirmations exploring the raw beauty and challenges of motherhood from pregnancy, through birth and postpartum. Luna Lynn shares her wisdom from her own experiences as a new mother, inspiring all mothers to find the strength to face their fears, embrace the unexpected, surrender to each moment and trust in their intuition during the most challenging moments of motherhood.
“The Strength We Carry” is so...
8) Soul Warrior
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Clarity and calmness is what I needed as a child. I've learned to find it within, and it's now my job to share it. If you are looking for clarity and calmness from a state of being confused, stuck or anxious, let's work together so that I may help guide you back to the Truth of Who You Are.
“Soul Warrior” invites you into my life story and takes you on an emotional ride through honesty, crisis, love, vulnerability, and self-compassion. It tells...
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After three years and a total of nine embryo transfers, Glenn and I are hanging up our saddles...For many, three years might seem an insufficient effort, but I am tired. My body is tired, my mind is tired and most of all my heart is tired. I still believe that IVF is a modern, medical miracle... But I no longer believe it will be our miracle.'
What happens, when the quest for a family seems to bring only tears and despair? As Kylie and her husband...
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What if you could transform your daily life simply by waking up to a word called Grace?
Imagine if every day you could wake up more peaceful, more loved, and more captivated by the ordinary moments in your daily life?
What if you could reject your feelings of 'never good enough', heal your toxic thoughts and wake everyday in great extravagant love?
Grace is one of those words we think we know but when we wake up more aware of our failures than beauty...
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MOTHERHOOD IS A JOURNEY OF BECOMING WHO WE ALREADY ARE.
Why do I feel so lost? Who even am I now? Why do I lose it with my kids? Where did my libido go?
In our always-on, Instagram-worthy world, motherhood is portrayed as a joyous time to soak in the cute baby smell, go on playdates and coffee dates, and take dreamy walks with the pram. But so much of the motherhood experience is unseen and untold. While it makes our lives twice as good, it also...
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"Infertility Saved My Life: Healing PCOS From The Inside Out exposes the raw teaching moments of Sarah Willoughby's journey to self-love through Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and secondary infertility. Within Infertility Saved My Life, Sarah Willoughby addresses the challenges and heartbreak she experienced while becoming a mum to three amazing children. She writes about her multiple miscarriages, as well as the trauma she endured, so that anyone still...
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Readers of Girl, Wash Your Face, Love Warrior, and Wild will love this uplifting memoir of overcoming expectations to find magic, happiness, and healing while being a working mother.
She never expected motherhood to break her. Nor did she expect it to be her salvation.
Like many millennials, Shari Chelack began adulthood trying to live up to the perfect image she saw on her Instagram feed. An overachiever by nature, she set out to create the ideal...
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A modern motherhood book to connect you back to yourself
As we enter into motherhood, we are often given a filtered version of what motherhood will be like with a silent list of expectations on how to be a "good" mother. This outdated story is what sets us on a course where we place pressure on ourselves to be it all and do it all. Ultimately, we lose ourselves.
Worldwide, we have mothers who are surviving instead of thriving. Depleted, unfulfilled...
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Let's be real; life can be hard. It gets messy, gritty, and incredibly tart. Lemonade is a collection of stories written by warrior women who share powerful, vulnerable, and bone-chilling truths that will inspire and empower you to find the lemons in your life, sip some tangy yet sweet lemonade, and unravel your tightly wound self a bit more...until you feel free...bold...courageous...and expansive enough to be who you are...who you are meant to be.
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Thoroughly modern and atypically witty, this keepsake edition overflows with insight that is occasionally time-honored (There is no substitute for baking soda), sometimes tactical (Anytime you are debating whether to shower or not, take the shower), and other times incredibly profound (When something tragic happens to someone you care about, do not ignore them just because you don't know what to say). This primer of 500 lessons, observations, and...
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Set in Seattle, Washington and Westchester County, New York from 1982 to 1987, Dr. Anne McTiernan begins her memoir at age twenty-nine, when she completes her doctoral training in public health research at the University of Washington. She and her husband are parents to four-year-old and three-month old girls. Anne soon realizes that jobs in her field are scarce, especially for women. Racked with feelings of inadequacy, Anne feels that she needs better...
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Impending motherhood serves up a confusing cocktail of heroic strength and terrifying vulnerability. Our culture has seized on the "vulnerability" part of this experience and tends to reinforce a pregnant woman's insecurities instead of encouraging her to embrace this most natural time and trust her body, her intuition, and her own mind. Feng Shui Mommy takes a different approach, helping the expecting mother build her own unique, epic journey to...
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Viewed across an astonishing and colorful spectrum of landscapes, the members of the global youth community are all at first remarkably similar-living, breathing genetic containers of cultural instincts and quirky characteristics. Only as they start to blossom into special individuals can we see their lives slowly drifting down the strikingly different paths that geographical limitations, social circumstances, and serendipitous luck allow. Award-winning...
20) Be Kind
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Unlock the incredible power of kindness with this small book with a huge heart. Packed with inspirational quotes, tips, actions and pearls of wisdom from famous personalities, experts and inspirational leaders alike, each page of this beautiful book will help you be kinder to yourself, to other people, and to the planet. With contributions from Fearne Cotton, Matt Haig, Katie Piper, Melanie B, Holly Willoughby, June Sarpong, Izzy Judd, Beverley Knight,...
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