The bestselling and ABIA Award shortlisted memoir from Osher Gunsberg, one of Australia's most loved celebrities, about life, love and living with mental illness - powerful, dark, funny and heartwrenching. It's hard to remember a time when Osher Gunsberg (or Andrew G as he was then) wasn't on TV - he's just always been there, looking at ease in the spotlight, beaming a big smile, with a questionable haircut. He was there hanging out with The Offspring backstage at the Warped Tour on Channel V; announcing to a national audience of three million people that Guy Sebastian was our first Australian Idol; and later capturing the heart of the nation by hosting every season of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and now Bachelor in Paradise. But while everything looks great from the outside, the real picture has not always been quite so rosy. Osher has always known he's different to most other people. Struggling with anxiety, panic attacks and weight issues since he was young, he tried for years to drink away the anxiety and depression. He ended up unemployed, divorced, suicidal and certifiable on the other side of the world, yet somehow he managed to put the broken pieces of his mind back together and make a life for himself again. He lives with a mental illness - and he's come to terms with it to live an authentic, rich and fulfilling life. An honest, revealing, raw, funny and heartfelt memoir from one of Australia's most well-known and well-liked celebrities - now with two new, additional chapters.
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness - D.H. Lawrence If you're going through the agony of a break up and you long, desperately, to reunite with your partner - this book is for you. Perhaps you're still with your partner but they're losing interest or pulling away - this book is also for you. Not all relationships can be saved. However, given the right inner conditions, some relationships can - and do - heal. Here you will learn precisely how to cultivate those conditions. Author, Louisa Jackson, describes how her life spiralled downwards after the break-up of a relationship. This triggered a long and intense period of study. Immersed in quantum physics, spirituality and Law of Attraction principles, she started to experiment with these concepts in her day-to-day life. Slowly, her intense suffering transformed into deep peace and happiness. A completely new way of living emerged and miraculous changes to all areas of her life then followed. Her long-term battle with depression, social anxiety and bulimia came to an end. Financial and family difficulties also resolved. So, too, did the cycle of toxic and dysfunctional relationships that she kept repeating over and over. Louisa now enjoys a happy, long-term, relationship - one which was successfully rekindled after applying the techniques and principles outlined in this book. The focus here is what's going on inside you, rather than on the outer circumstances of your life. For when you transform your inner world, you'll find that your outer world transforms in equal measure - sometimes in miraculous ways. As you'll see, this isn't merely a spiritual concept but is backed up by quantum physics principles. This book gets right to the heart of your beliefs about love, happiness and the fundamental nature of reality. It's faulty beliefs in these areas which are so often at the root of dysfunctional relationships. You'll learn what real happiness is, and how to cultivate it. You'll also discover techniques for sustaining the honeymoon period and how to prevent a repeating pattern of heartbreak. With practice, you'll stop needing love and instead start to radiate love. When this happens, you cannot help but attract love, whether that's from your existing partner or a new one. This is a new way of 'being' which will radiate out into all areas of your life. Whether you want to save a long-term marriage or a short-term romance, the same formula applies. You may even find after reading this book that you no longer want, or need, your partner to return.
Healing a Broken Heart: A Proven Guide to Break Up Recovery for Men - How to Move On with Your Life After a Split & Get Back on the Dating Scene to Meet the One FASTER Breakups suck. How are you supposed to let go of that one person who you had planned your future with? But, no matter how painful it is to choose to go separate ways, sometimes it's the best solution. Even if you're well aware of this fact, it's not really consoling, isn't it? The same question remains unanswered: how do I move on with my life? Contrary to popular belief, men take breakups tougher than women do. If you're heartbroken, lost, and powerless because of a breakup, this powerful book will help you heal! While there's no magic formula to help you forget about the split, having healthy and strong coping mechanism in place will skyrocket your attempts at getting over your ex. That's where this book takes the scene! Would you like to: Discover a proven approach to dealing with breakups and build an awesome single life for yourself? Eliminate negative thinking and avoid depression but instead focus on improving and becoming the best version of yourself? Boost your self-confidence after a bad breakup and get back in the dating world stronger, better, and irresistible? Make your peace with the past and accept the breakup as the best think that could've happen to you? This unique break up book for men offers a helping hand with all this, and much more! Treating yourself correctly and with respect in the post-breakup period - whether the break up was your idea or you were on the receiving end - is crucial! Sure, you can leave it to time to heal your wounds, but wouldn't it be better to take charge of the healing process and be back on your feet faster? You're right, it is; and here's exactly how this life-changing book will help you! In The Bad Break Up Book For Men, you'll find support, guidance, and invaluable advice such as: How to handle your emotions with ease and be in charge of how you react to different situations; A specific recovery regime and how to effectively get over a breakup in no time; What to do when you cannot stop thinking about her, texting, calling, checking social media, driving by the house; An insider view into what women expect after a breakup and a better understanding of what causes women to leave men; Fundamental mistakes you might be making without knowing it and how to avoid them in the future; Eliminate feelings of "neediness" and build an awesome single life for yourself and become a man that women constantly describe as their "ideal man"; How to eliminate negative thinking and reprogram your mind; The main reasons why we feel negative emotional states, and how to influence them almost instantly; How to get your confidence back and attracts new, better women; Mistakes that can make a breakup worse and what to do instead; How to let go of false hope you'll get back with her and move on; And more! As hopeless as you may feel right now, this book will prove to you that there's a light at the end of the tunnel! Based on over a decade of research and practice combined with feedback from hundreds of men, The Bad Break Up Book For Men will free you from pain and suffering. This stage of your life will pass. But, not unless you stop moping around and start the healing process today. You will get better. At some point, you'll laugh again. Soon enough, you'll start dating. Break up recovery is possible; this extraordinary book shows you how to move on with your life in almost no time! Scroll up, click on "Buy Now with 1-click", and Get Your Copy Now!
A reporter uncovers the rest of the story In More After the Break, Jen Maxfield revisits ten memorable stories from her career as a TV news reporter, describing in heart-pounding detail how the events unfolded and revealing what happened after the cameras went away. She introduces readers to unforgettable people who will inspire you with their hopefulness, even when confronting life’s greatest heartbreaks: a young man who lost both legs in a ferry crash, an endurance athlete with stage-four lung cancer, a fifth grader on a doomed field trip, an Ivy League undergrad sentenced to decades in prison, a young woman who gave her life for an animal, a Wall Street executive on an ill-fated bike ride, a preschooler whose health hinged on an immigration battle, a family who lost everything in a hurricane, a mother who fought back against domestic violence, and a man who stood up for his rights while seated in his wheelchair. Returning to find these people years—even decades—after she featured their stories on the news gives Maxfield an opportunity to ask the burning questions she had always pondered: What happened after the live truck pulled away? What is the rest of the story?
“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.
“Newly single straight women will find an ample supply of practical ideas here for making a gradual and successful transition to flying solo again.” —Publishers Weekly Starting over doesn’t have to be so hard. After the shock of a relationship change it can be tough to get out of bed in the morning, much less be at your best. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With a realistic and proven game plan to help you get where you want to be, The New Single is the essential roadmap to surviving the split-up and starting over, ninety days at a time: - Embracing the person you are today - Radiating confidence - Taking better care of yourself inside and out, from career and finances, to home, health, and fitness - Avoiding toxic patterns and dangerous missteps Tamsen Fadal is empathetic and incisive about relationships and breakups: she learned many of the lessons in The New Single the hard way. Now, with candor and humor, she’s sharing her secrets, stories, and sometimes painful lessons.
A “clear-eyed, carefully researched but nonetheless passionate book” that is “rich with the closely observed details of internment camp life” (Lauren Kessler, author of Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family). During World War II, 110,000 Japanese Americans were removed from their homes and incarcerated by the US government. In Looking After Minidoka, the “internment camp” years become a prism for understanding three generations of Japanese-American life, from immigration to the end of the twentieth century. Nakadate blends history, poetry, rescued memory, and family stories in an American narrative of hope and disappointment, language and education, employment and social standing, prejudice and pain, communal values and personal dreams. “Poetic yet sharply honest, the family story unfolds within the larger context of the national saga. You’ll wince but read it anyway. Your soul will be better for it.” —Nuvo “This book is highly readable and contains fascinating details not usually covered in other books on Japanese-American history.” —Oregon Historical Quarterly
Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
Being a creative with a job-to-pay-the-bills is not easy. Between the lack of consideration from society in general, the ever-growing costs of living, and the demands of adulthood, it is more and more difficult to find time and energy to create.Have you ever been super excited for a project, only to lose all motivation before you finished? Have you felt so tired that you could not bring yourself to do anything artistic? Have you felt so down on yourself about not doing anything that you started to doubt you had any talents in the first place?I know these feelings, because I've had them too! I am a writer, and all along my career I've tried to find a good balance so that I could keep writing while earning a living. It was a difficult battle. I've had day jobs in several different industries, from science to theatre. I've been so burned out at times that I didn't write for months. I've felt so low about my writing that I didn't perform well in my job. I've had so little free time that I neglected my relationships and my mental health.Thankfully, these years of struggle have taught me a lot, and I decided that I should share that knowledge and experience with other artists. This is why I have decided to write this book, The Part-Time Artist.In my book, I talk about my experience and all the lessons I've learned on my path to becoming a writer. I strongly believe that these lessons can be valuable to all of you. It doesn't matter if you are a writer like me, or a painter, or an actor, or a musician, or a designer, or any other type of artists. I know we all face the same struggles!When you get a copy of the book, here are some of the things you'll get: * An easy way to build productive habits to do more art on a daily basis* The common myth about the tortured artist, and why you don't have to be one* A step-by-step guide to build a business plan for your artistic career* The best way to set goals for your creativity* A strategy to make your day job work with your art (instead of the other way around!)* And much more!Not only that, but you will also benefit from several resources and useful tools, such as a weekly planner, a budget tool, a business spreadsheet and a FREE workbook
