Genres : Life Stories

DAUGHTER DAYS spans Julia Wendell’s entire career as a poet writing poems to and about her daughter. Poems selected from her previous six books are combined with newer poems, as well as excerpts from her memoirs, Finding My Distance and Come to the X. With this scope, forty years of writing poems for her daughter are telescoped in this compilation of new and selected poems.

A deeply moving memoir of healing and ancestral reconnection, weaving an intimate personal story with the epic history of Ireland.In 2013, exactly a century after her grandparents emigrated from Ireland to America, Carolyn Brigit Flynn returned to her ancestral homeland in the wake of a family tragedy. Raised in a boisterous Irish Catholic family in 1970s Washington, DC, Flynn grew up amid traditional music, stories, and blarney—but also with silence about the poverty and hardship her grandparents left behind. Her...

A Metaphysical Memoir of Love, Loss, and Lifetimes RememberedWhat if the answers you've been searching for were waiting in another lifetime?Teri Arling appears to have it all: a successful career, intelligence, and a carefully built life. But beneath the surface, a painful divorce and emotional exhaustion have left her questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. She turns to meditation and hypnosis in search of healing. Instead, she uncovers vivid memories of lifetimes spanning ancient civilizations, sacred places, and...

A childhood without a father's presence, marked by a violation that left lasting scars, and a youth spent navigating the cold realities of foster and group homes that offered little comfort. This tumultuous start propelled me into a life where boundaries blurred, leading to brushes with the law and periods of imprisonment. I walked unexpected paths, from the spotlight of performance to the quiet solitude of domestic work, where an insidious act of violence shattered any semblance of peace. The...

The pain of church hurt is different.It is not just an offense. It is a wound that can shake your trust, damage your faith and distort your view of God. Church Hurt Healed was written for the believer who is tired of carrying the weight in silence and is ready to heal, rebuild, and move forward.Lois White defines church hurt plainly: when a visitor, member, volunteer, employee, or leader is wounded by someone in the church through disrespect, verbal attacks,...

My husband and I were sitting in the Woolworths Café after my diagnosis, sharing a chicken mayo sandwich, when he said something that made me realize we'd been married for all these years while speaking completely different languages.My husband is neurotypical and leaves cupboards open, I have ADHD and slam them shut—this is our love story. After my late diagnosis at 50, our 25-year marriage finally made sense: the GPS fights that felt like war, crying over "lost" suitcases circling...

You are not too sensitive. You are not too emotional. You are not a lot. You are, in all likelihood, undiagnosed. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria — RSD — is a feature of the ADHD nervous system that produces intense, overwhelming emotional responses to perceived rejection, criticism, or failure to meet the expectations of people who matter to you. It is not in the DSM-5. It has no formal diagnostic criteria. And it has been quietly running the nervous system of every...

Something has gone wrong with the way we think. Not our intelligence, that is not the problem. Our permeability. Our capacity to genuinely receive new evidence, to sit with uncertainty, to be actually changed by what is real rather than simply confirming what we already believe.Look around. We are living in a moment of profound collective closure. Conversations that once required courage now require armour. Certainty has become identity. Changing your mind has become capitulation. And somewhere in the noise...