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The Enneagram-a universal symbol of human purpose and possibility-is an excellent tool for doing the hardest part of consciousness work: realizing, owning, and accepting your strengths and weaknesses. In this comprehensive handbook, Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, traces the development of the personality as it relates to the nine types of the Enneagram, the three different subtype forms each type can take, and the path each of us can take toward liberation. With her guidance, readers will learn to observe themselves, face their fears and disowned Shadow aspects, and work to manifest their highest potential.

In this engaging follow-up to her first book, Travel Mania, Karen Gershowitz reflects on the unusual places she's visited (in more than ninety countries!). Along the way, readers will be introduced to the unconventional people she's met, and weird-and often wonderful?food she's tasted, transporting readers deep into the richness of other cultures and inspiring them to set out on their own journeys.

A funny, moving memoir of a sweet and awkward misfit who loses her battle with puberty but somehow grows into a tall, dapper adult with great hair, a cartoonish sex life, and an unlikely relationship with George Michael, Handsome will make you laugh; make you cry; and make you want to buy better hair products.

Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson¿the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants¿who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America.

Imagine growing up smart, ambitious, and queer in a home where your father Sigmund Freud thinks that women should aspire to be wives and calls lesbianism a gateway to mental illness. He also says that lesbianism is always caused by the father, and is usually curable by psychoanalysis.Then he analyzes you.Ultimately Anna Freud loved Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham (heir to the Tiffany fortune) for 54 years. They raised a family together and became psychoanalysts in their own right, specializing in work with children. But first Anna had to navigate childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood in a famous family where her kind of romantic longings were considered dangerous.What was it like to grow up the lesbian daughter of ¿the great Sigmund Freud¿? Aside from Annäs sexuality and from her father¿s intrusive psychoanalysis of her, what were the Freud family's most closely closeted skeletons? What is it about the birth of psychoanalysis that even today's psychoanalysts would prefer to keep secret? How did Anna defy her father so thoroughly while continuing to love him and learn from him?Weaving a grand tale out of a pile of crazy facts, Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story lets the pioneering child psychologist freely examine the forces that shaped her life.

A bisexual young man grapples with questions of integrity and masculinity as he and his unconventional sister and enslaved brother struggle for respect and a future between dark secrets and unbridled passions of two plantation dynasties.

Fresh, insightful, and grounded in academic research, this cheeky, no-nonsense manifesto offers practical strategies and easy-to-follow exercises for flexing your happiness muscle and maximizing your potential-essentially laying out the blueprint for how to be happy AF and live your best life.

A bartender. An environmentalist. A fishmonger. An orphan. A love letter to a Montauk under threat.

Born during WWII, Deborah Kasdan's sister Rachel spent a transformative year in Israel-after which she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent to the first of many psychiatric hospitals. It was there she languished until a mental health worker gave her a chance at freedom. A searing look at the impact of severe mental illness on a Jewish family in mid-century America, this memoir will resonate with anyone who has struggled to help a loved one in crisis.

It started with Eve-countless tellings that perpetuated shame instead of celebrating a woman's desire, wisdom, and choice. In Rewriting Eve, Ronna Detrick boldly reimagines, redeems, even rewrites Eve's story and nine more-removing doctrine and dogma, inviting us to hear their powerful voices, and calling women of today to claim the sacred lineage that has always been ours.

Catching the travel bug at age twenty, Terry Repak longed to live overseas someday. She didn¿t foresee spending fifteen years in countries like Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Switzerland; nor did she guess that living abroad would transform her and her family into global citizens and gift them with resilience, perspective, and a profound sense of home.

This cross-cultural, Arab/American story-an optimistic tale of joy, renewal, and the power of love, music, and dance?explores how a young girl growing up in Tehran and Kuwait experiences the loss of her American mother and her brother, yet is lifted from grief through the love of her devoted Arab father and her strong women relatives.

Perfect for readers inspired by Between Two Kingdoms, this inspirational memoir of a twenty-two-year-old woman¿s sudden autoimmune kidney failure details a resilient journey of chronic illness, unfailing love, and moving forward with joy.

Dayna's father committed a murder-suicide when she was just two years old, shrouding their family in grief, mystery, and trauma. What could cause him to take such drastic action, ending the course of his life? Twenty years later, Dayna is determined to find out.

The Marie Kondo Method for the mind, body, heart, and soul, this eight-step process is designed to clear out the clutter of your past and make space for joy, hope, and possibility-erasing heartbreak, trauma, and grief so you can find the courage to create the purpose-filled life that was meant for you.

Dennis Griffin will do whatever it takes to belong. The Handyman follows his obsession with Brenna Riley and the lengths he goes to insert himself into her life and her family-at any cost.

This is the story of my search for truth—first, the truth of a childhood with a sexually abusive, alcoholic father and an emotionally absent mother; then, a search for truth as a journalist and a grown woman.

Nearing fifty and grieving the death of her husband, Judy Reeves sells everything, buys an around-the-world airline ticket, and sets off on a solo journey. Months of solitude and loneliness in foreign countries challenge her to examine her old ideas and explore her heart¿s deepest longings as she searches for who she might become in her new life.

The Broken Hummingbird explores a woman¿s struggle to truly know her new country and her own heart. Jane—mother, lawyer, enthusiastic expat, and fatally unhappy wife—sets out to save two little girls but must also save herself and her own sons while navigating the parallel worlds of wealth and poverty in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

In this retelling of ancient Greek myth, Circe seeks a new lover, amphibian Glaucus, after Odysseus¿s departure from the island of Aeaea—but in a twist of fortune, mortal Skylla complicates her plans, leading to an adventure threaded with friendship, jealousy, revenge, and redemption . . . and filled with divine interventions, shape-shifting, and magic.

In this series of interwoven stories, Glenda Goodrich chronicles her path toward healing through wilderness quests in the Pacific Northwest and Central California. Through her connection to nature, Goodrich rediscovers the importance of self-esteem, forgiveness, acceptance, and standing in her own truth.

Jackie has known tumultuous times: she escaped war-torn China as a toddler with her medical missionary parents, grew up with emotional abuse, and came of age in the 1960s. But after returning to China at thirty-eight with her aging parents and being stunned by a revelation about their past, she begins an unexpected quest—for forgiveness, self-fulfillment, and the authentic life she craves.

In 1660 Amsterdam, Anneke longs to create a new map, but cartography is the domain of men. Still, she persists, and eventually it seems her goal may actually be in sight—until family secrets, infidelity, and even murder threaten her dream.

Felise¿s debtor father has disappeared on a merchant journey; her guardian is plotting to marry her to a stranger; and the Hundred Years¿ War rages all around her. She fears that France will soon be held captive, just as she is¿but when Joan of Arc blazes into history and Felise¿s life, everything changes.

At once a breathless narrative and toolbox of insights and resources, Tinderbox offers hope to desperate parents, their children, and the providers who seek to support them through its often harrowing, but ultimately uplifting, story of one adoptive mom¿s search for the cause—and means of addressing—her child¿s violence, chaos, and confusion.

The fallout from the pandemic has yet to be measured, but the way we work will never be the same again. In this accessible, interactive guide, longtime organizational coach and consultant Sharon Darmody reveals what a unique opportunity this has presented to rebuild our working lives from the ground up—to make work work again—and shows readers how to do just that.

When a lonely young girl meets a teacher twice her age, she is seduced into a web of deceit and secrecy—an experience that teaches her that sex in exchange for attention feels like love, even as it destroys her self-worth. Here, Liz Kinchen offers a detailed view of exactly how this abusive experience influenced her adult relationships, and how her eventual healing unfolded.

A mother and daughter at odds for years try and patch things up before it¿s too late—only to uncover secrets between them that could destroy all that is left.

A memoir that shares what happens when Kathy Elkind, a curious woman about to enter the last third of her life, decides to take a long walk— 1,400 miles—across Europe with her husband of almost thirty years. Will her body and relationship make it to the end?

Scientist Will Dalal wrestles with his morals and ambitions as he strives to eclipse academic rivals and make his mark on the world. With the ability to literally ¿change minds,¿ how far will he go to cement his legacy? This hauntingly plausible debut novel explores the unpredictable nature of technology and the global power of one person¿s emotions.