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*Canada Reads 2019 Longlist *Winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Do no harm is our most important rule, but we break it all the time trying to do good. In this deeply personal book, winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction...

From the Edge of the Cliff: Understanding the Two Phases of Recovery and Becoming the Person You're Meant to Be provides addicts with practical lessons on how to understand and successfully navigate the two phases of recovery from drug and/or alcohol addiction. However, it is also a remarkably touching, real-life story of someone who has used these same lessons to maintain 28 years of successful recovery. This audiobook contains an entire section on the hazards of drugs prescribed by physicians not well versed in addiction recovery.

Welcome to UNBROKEN: Rise From the Edge — the podcast where Adriene Caldwell flips trauma into triumph and teaches you how to turn life’s brutal blows into your greatest power plays.Every episode, Adriene pulls back the curtain on real pain, hard lessons, bad breaks turned breakthroughs, and the unshakable belief that you’re stronger than whatever tried to break you. No fluff. No sugar-coat. Just raw resilience, unfiltered wisdom, and actionable insight from a woman who lived the story she now tells.

In the wake of a global pandemic and enduring stresses on the health care environment, nursing professionals need a different leadership capacity – one that challenges the historical industrial underpinnings of nursing leadership. Three of the nation’s leading thought leaders in nursing have joined together to address this topic during a new webinar series, “Conversations from the Edge: Ending Blue Collar Nurse Leadership.” Linda McCauley, PhD, RN, FAAN, FRCN, dean of the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Sharon Pappas, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, chief nurse ...

A podcast delving into the highs and lows, challenges, stigma and everything in between of living with bipolar disorder, for bipolar sufferers and their support networks

"Gripping . . . the narrative is smooth and immediate, almost effortless in its detail, if occasionally breathless, like a good fast run . . ." --The New York Times Book Review Visionary American running coach Bob Larsen assembled a mismatched team of elite California runners . . . the start of...

After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was determined to take back control of his life from the clutches of depression. With only a pair of walking boots and a backpack, he left his home town of Maldon and began a 3,000-mile walk around the British mainland. In documenting every step of his adventure, Jake shares the ways in which his road to recovery was enhanced by the kindness of strangers, who helped him to better understand himself and the power of human connection.

Shane Carthy writes frankly and eloquently about his journey over the last five years. He details, without overdramatising, the downward spiral which, days after producing a man-of-the-match display in Dublin’s 2014 Leinster under-21 final win over Meath, saw him wake up in St Patrick’s Mental Hospital. Carthy also explains what ultimately brought him back to where he is now, discovering a path where life is worth living.

An irresistibly moving, funny and urgent memoir about the reality of caring for your parents, when you can barely care for yourself. 'Moving and real, as well as splutter-your-tea funny' – Miranda Sawyer It was the kind of phone call we all dread. Your elderly father has been admitted to...

You’re listening to THRIVE - conversations from the fertile edges with me, Pollyanna Darling.The edge is where different ecosystems meet. It’s the place where the tended meets the untended, where field meets forest. Edges are diverse, abundant with life, and a little unruly.In this first series of conversations, to celebrate the launch of my new book - Bedridden to Buff - you will hear the stories and wisdom of people who have direct experience of living through, with and beyond pain - sharing the information and ideas that open portals to new possibilities.Cover artwork by Kathleen ...

Professor Angela Gallop has been at the forefront of forensics for more than 45 years. During her remarkable career, she has established and run forensic science laboratories and has worked on thousands of cases in the UK and across the world. In How to Solve a Crime, she describes some of her own and her colleagues most intriguing cases and the wide range of skills and techniques used to solve them.

The authors of Healed, Dr. Robin Miller and Dave Kahn, understand that health and happiness are linked absolutely: You can't have one without the other. Healed reveals essential information for your mind and body - your keys to happiness and well-being. This book opens the door and quickly puts you on the path to feeling good and becoming the person you want to be.