Wednesday, August 5, 2026

A Road Built By Many Hands: A Long Journey Home

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A Road Built By Many Hands:

A Long Journey Home


Raw, gritty, and deeply human, A Road Built by Many Hands: A Long Journey Home is a powerful story of Opioid addiction recovery, family, community, and the grace found when broken people choose to keep going.

In Pine Hollow, Michigan—where rusted trucks outnumber second chances—mechanic Josh Granger is fighting for his life one sober sunrise at a time. Once the man everyone relied on, Josh is now clawing his way out of the wreckage left by Opioid addiction, shame, and a town that never forgets a mistake.

With his sister Rachel’s unshakable faith, Maria’s quiet strength, hard-earned truth from Hank, and the steady pull of a recovery group, Josh begins the brutal climb toward redemption. But healing isn’t neat. Old wounds reopen. Ghosts demand payment. And when a storm slams into Pine Hollow—both literal and emotional—Josh is forced to confront the hardest truth of all: forgiveness isn’t granted once. It’s earned daily, breath by breath.







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Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology: A Dream Officer's Playbook for Tech Equity in Disability and Aging Services

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Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology:

A Dream Officer's Playbook for Tech Equity in Disability and Aging Services

by Precious "Preciosa" Myers-Brown

What does freedom actually look like for someone who has been told what they cannot do their whole life?

That question lives at the heart of Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology by Precious "Preciosa" Myers-Brown. It is a book about what becomes possible when a whole community -- providers, families, Direct Support Professionals, policymakers, and the people being served -- decides that the way things have always been done is not good enough anymore.

The care system we are working inside was built in the 80s, way before we had the tools we have today. Imagine finding a pager from that era and thinking it still works -- then spending years looking for the payphone you need to go with it. We honor what was built with what we had. And now it is time for all of us to move forward together.

This is not a book about technology replacing people. It is about technology giving people back their time, their dignity, and their choices -- and giving the communities around them the tools to actually support that. DSPs who are burned out. Families who are exhausted. People with disabilities who deserve more than a system running on assumptions from 40 years ago. The blueprint is here. The community that changes this already exists. This book is for all of you.

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Monday, August 3, 2026

Make Peace With Life

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What Will Make Peace With Life Do For You?

What if the life you've been searching for isn't waiting somewhere in the future? What if happiness isn't hidden behind a bigger paycheck, a perfect relationship, or some magical moment when everything finally falls into place? In Making Peace With Life, Dr. Rob Alex invites you to step off the endless treadmill of "someday" and discover something far more powerful—the ability to find meaning, purpose, and peace right where you are. Through humor, honesty, personal insight, and metaphysical wisdom, this book helps you see that life isn't something to conquer or perfect. It's something to experience, learn from, and ultimately embrace.

Inside these pages, you'll explore the lessons hidden within life's greatest challenges and its most beautiful moments. You'll discover why there is no finish line to chase, why comparison steals joy, how energy connects us all, and why asking better questions may be more important than finding perfect answers. Whether you're navigating change, searching for direction, recovering from setbacks, or simply trying to understand your place in the world, this book offers a refreshing perspective that reminds you your life already has incredible value. It's not about becoming someone else—it's about understanding the incredible person you already are.

Most self-help books promise to give you answers. Making Peace With Life offers something even more valuable: permission. Permission to breathe when life feels overwhelming. Permission to grow without demanding perfection from yourself. Permission to appreciate your journey without comparing it to everyone else's. And most importantly, permission to make peace with life exactly as it is while still creating the future you desire. If you're ready to stop racing, stop chasing, and start truly living, then this book may be exactly what you've been looking for.

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Sunday, August 2, 2026

Why All Of Your What Ifs Are Holding You Back

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A simple framework to break free from the 'What If Loop.' Practical exercises to calm your anxious mind and stop overthinking. Reflection prompts to uncover the patterns behind your fears. Values-based tools for making confident, intentional decisions. Nervous system techniques to quiet anxious thoughts. Small daily actions that build lasting self-trust. A repeatable Six-Step What If Loop Exit Plan. A FREE 30-Day What If Reset to turn insight into lasting change. Guided worksheets and decision templates for everyday life.




 
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Saturday, August 1, 2026

MIND: PSYCHOLOGY, THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW YOUR MIND WORKS...

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MIND: PSYCHOLOGY, THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW YOUR MIND WORKS...


https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736002554

This is a book about the most important discoveries in psychology. Not just the gnawed bones of the studies in a textbook, but what has been left out of what you think you know. From Genius to Suicide Bombers, from Science to Sex, all the best they never told you in school. 362 Pages, 7.5X9, fully illustrated

• The Brain: How experience controls the biology of the brain: Adrenalin, Cortisol, and Neurotransmitters flood the brain in response to words, Hollywood horror movies, anxiety-producing thoughts, and the girls shrieking “Witch, Witch!” at the Salem witch trial...

• Quest for the Mind Code; how the mind is programmed by the environment.

• New Evidence: How learning "hardwires" the brain for language, emotion, culture, sex....

• MInd Control is an everyday occurrence. Psychology’s General Theory of Relativity; Kamikaze pilots, suicide bombers, celebrity, Tank Killing dogs, sex, and Sacred Cows.  

•The success of Genius is not about the brain, it is about learning how to think. How the greatest minds in history made their discoveries, in their own words.

• Cogito, ergo, cogito cogito: I think, therefore, I think, I think. The fact that we can think has created the illusion that we do think. Test yourself.  Perception determines our reality.

• What the greatest minds in psychology know about how the mind works. Understanding how the mind works gives us the potential to control our own mind, just as Einstein’s understanding of the atom gave us the potential to control the atom. We are far behind in that understanding.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. OUTSIDE THE BOX: Genius is from the MIND, not the Brain. 

 Learned programs of thinking make Genius possible.  Genius, in their own words.

2. INSIDE THE BOX: Quest For The Mind Code

"The obscure we see eventually, the completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." The Dean of news, Edward R. Murrow.  Psychology’s Special and General Theories of Relativity

3. PEEKING OVER THE EDGE The Conscious Mind: Assembly Required: The new evidence. The Brain itself cannot develop without experience.  Experience “hardwires” the brain; from language to sex.

4. CULTURE AND ATTRACTION: THE "WOW" FACTOR:  ANY STIMULUS—ANY EMOTION

5. THE MYSTERY OF INSTINCTS THE NATURE VS NURTURE CONTROVERSY The Real Story.

6. ORIGIN OF THE INDIVIDUAL Forget the Theories, this is the Hard Evidence

7. DNA: THE GREAT MYSTERY OF BIOLOGICAL PROGRAMS IN OUR BRAIN

“...instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way especially apparent when its function goes wrong.” 

8 THE ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE:  COGNITION AND CREATIVITY Experience Becomes Cognition.

9. PERSONALITY "Never forget that each of you is a distinctly different individual, just like everyone else."   Margaret Mead

10. WHAT INTELLIGENCE REALLY IS “If people knew how hard I had to work to obtain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful after all.”  Michelangelo 

25 POINTS:  IMPORTANT GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES:






Friday, July 31, 2026

Echoes of the Unseen: A Memoir of Life, Love, and the Presence of the Dead

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Viola Chancellor was born into a world that told her who she had to be. But the spirit world showed her who she truly was. Born in 1942 in Gadsden, Alabama, during the height of segregation, Viola was raised by a powerful matriarch whose faith, discipline, and strength shaped her foundation. From an early age, she learned to survive through racism, hardship, love, motherhood, and the constant demands of a world that rarely made space for Black Women to rest. But survival was only part of her story. Hidden beneath her everyday life was a terrifying, undeniable truth: She could see and sense the dead. What her mother called "haints" became a lifelong burden, one that followed her through love, marriage, military life, motherhood, and a decades-long career in the U.S. Postal Service. For years, she wrestled with fear, silence, and isolation... until her gift forced her into a deeper spiritual awakening. Her journey led her through: The structure of the Catholic Church The social and spiritual reckoning of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising The rediscovery of African spiritual systems and Kemetic wisdom A powerful reclamation of ancestral knowledge, identity, and divine self Through the sacred teachings of Auset, Ausar, and Heru, she uncovers a truth long hidden beneath history-that transformation, resurrection, and divine power have always lived within her. "Echoes of the Unseen" is more than a memoir. It is a testimony of spiritual awakening, generational healing, and the courage to embrace a gift the world doesn't understand. This book is for readers who are drawn to: Spiritual memoirs and true life stories African spirituality and ancestral healing Psychic and intuitive experiences Black history and generational resilience Stories of faith, transformation, and self-discovery Some gifts are given. Others are inherited. But the most powerful ones are the ones we finally accept. Echoes of the Unseen: A Memoir of Life, Love, and the Presence of the Dead offers a radical vision of self-love, demonstrating that true spiritual awakening requires confronting personal history, challenging institutionalized belief, and ultimately, accepting the divine spirit that resides within.




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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

The Ego Wears a Safety Vest : A Dialogue Between Fear and Peace

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The Ego Wears a Safety Vest :

A Dialogue Between Fear and Peace


What if the loudest voice in your head is not your enemy — but an old protector who has never learned that the war is over?

The Ego Wears a Safety Vest – A Dialogue Between Fear and Peace is a warm, honest, and deeply human book about the inner voice that judges, defends, worries, compares, and keeps careful records of every hurt we have ever experienced. Written as a dialogue between the part of us that is tired, skeptical, wounded, and afraid — and a quieter voice of peace — this book gently explores why we suffer, why guilt feels so convincing, why criticism hurts so much, why conflicts repeat themselves, and why forgiveness is often misunderstood. With humor, clarity, and emotional depth, Jürgen Rosenthal invites readers to look at the Ego not as an enemy, but as a protection system that once made sense — and may now be ready to soften. This is not a book of quick fixes or spiritual clichés. It does not ask you to deny pain, excuse harmful behavior, or force forgiveness before you are ready. Instead, it offers a compassionate path toward greater self-understanding, inner freedom, and a different way of seeing yourself, others, and the world. For anyone who has ever felt trapped in old patterns, exhausted by inner conflict, or ready to stop fighting with themselves, this book offers a quiet but powerful invitation: You do not have to silence the noise in your mind. But you can begin to understand who is making it. And that changes everything.