Do you need a breather? A few minutes to slow your heart rate, settle your mind? Welcome to life in the 21st century...If you are one of the countless people who have pinned on a long tail to chase the elusive "cheese" in the cultural rat race, Living in Harmony is for you! Ask yourself some hard questions: Are you practicing the rhythm of life, that delicate harmony between work and rest, worship and play? Are you fulfilled? Are the most important relationships in you life in good repair? Do you take time for yourself? For God? What about play? Are you fun to live with? These are among the questions bestselling author Richard Exley asks in this timely book. Answer them carefully for yourself and change your emotional address!

Everyone would love to live in Harmony -- that quaint little town of peace, quiet, no stress, and a slower pace of life. It's not impossible to move there, and this book is your ticket. "Living in Harmony is for the overachiever, the workaholic, the person who pushes himself in pursuit of excellence. Stressville is not the place where any of us want to live, with no time for family, friends, self, or God. Most people don't realize they are getting their priorities out of balance, but once you recognize the symptoms and accept the solution, you can begin moving from Stress Avenue to Easy Street. "Living in Harmony will show you how to harmonize the struggles within your life to achieve that perfect balance of work, rest, play, family, and worship.

"[A] provocative page-turner." —People “In Parkhurst’s deft treatment, Harmony becomes a story of our time. . . Parkhurst cements herself as a writer capable of astonishing humanity and exquisite prose.” —Washington Post “Gorgeously written and patently original.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel, a taut, emotionally wrenching story of how a seemingly "normal" family could become desperate enough to leave everything behind and move to a "family camp" in New Hampshire--a life-changing experience that alters them forever. How far will a mother go to save her family? The Hammond family is living in DC, where everything seems to be going just fine, until it becomes clear that the oldest daughter, Tilly, is developing abnormally--a mix of off-the-charts genius and social incompetence. Once Tilly--whose condition is deemed undiagnosable--is kicked out of the last school in the area, her mother Alexandra is out of ideas. The family turns to Camp Harmony and the wisdom of child behavior guru Scott Bean for a solution. But what they discover in the woods of New Hampshire will push them to the very limit. Told from the alternating perspectives of both Alexandra and her younger daughter Iris (the book's Nick Carraway), this is a unputdownable story about the strength of love, the bonds of family, and how you survive the unthinkable.

Medicine and astronomy are the oldest of all the sciences. They appear at first glance to be the original "odd couple." Their union gave birth to a progeny that populated the Western world for more than two millennia. From an historical perspective, their marriage and mutual influence is undeniable. Cosmology and cosmogony, as natural philosophical aspects of astronomy, have gone hand in hand with the science of medicine from time immemorial. Indeed, medicine and the pseudoscience of astrology were for centuries inseparable. The ancients began the embryonic search for answers to questions that had puzzled humans for eons. No systematic approach to the nature of the universe was undertaken until the Sumerians, the Babylonians, and the Greeks began the quest for wisdom. The Greeks, beginning with Thales in the 6th century B.C.E., sought a unifying principle to explain the world as a whole. Because cosmology and medicine were among the few known sciences in ancient times, it was natural that these two apparently disparate disciplines should be combined to provide the theoretical basis of medicine--foundations that were to survive for nearly 2,400 years. This scientific structure rested firmly on the ancient principles of cosmology, astronomy, and the concept of universal harmony. This book tells the tale of these theoretical underpinnings and how they influenced humankind's efforts to maintain health and fight disease. Ultimately, the system was fundamentally flawed. Nonetheless, it lingered on for centuries beyond what common sense tells us it should have. Few comprehensive analyses of the relationship between cosmology and medicine have been undertaken in the astronomical or medical literature. For better or for worse, cosmological principles have had profound effects on the theory and practice of medicine over the centuries. It is time for historians, astronomers, physicians, and philosophers to acquaint themselves with the impact early cosmology has had on medicine. Awareness of this linkage can help us better understand not only past but present-day medicine. This book is a fascinating review of the historical roots of the medical tradition.

This book is my gift to you. My goal is to have everyone make sense of their lives. My hope is that you will find harmony, acceptance, love, contentment, as well as enthusiasm on a daily basis. We are not on earth to merely suffer, or to put up with wrongful pain, nor are we here to be victims. We are all here to find peace and spread love wherever we go. I speak to you about my past and all the pain that has gone with it to show you we can overcome almost anything. We must have the willingness to do the necessary work to make changes in our lives. If you follow this book, chapter by chapter, step-by-step, you can live your "life In Harmony". Understand who you are and why you are here in the first place. Take control of your own actions, and stop blaming everyone else around you. Be responsible in doing the work to get to a better place within yourself. Making the effort is essential and vital to your progress. The goal is having peace of mind, managing daily tasks, and spreading love wherever we go. We must accept our work and not be resentful. Conquer one challenge at a time and stand proudly. Don't be ashamed of who you are, or where you have come from, nor what you have done in the past. Now is the time to move forward in your life. It is important to make changes in yourself, in order to triumph, prevail, and over come despair, trauma, dejection, torment and/or many other past mistakes. After this, you will be able to live your life in the now and keep moving forward. making the necessary changes is at times, hard work. But once you commit to the work, the outcome will be worth it. You can either spend your energy destroying your life, or use it to build a better one. The choice is yours. Both choices take a great deal of energy. For the first time in your life, you can choose to "LIVE YOUR LIFE IN HARMONY"! (You don't have to be perfect to be loved, you're worth it.)

"In Harmony...gives a voice to the voiceless..." The root of all madness is an unbearable truth... At seventeen, Willow Holloway's life was torn apart. The happy, driven girl is gone, and she is left wracked by post-traumatic stress her body remembers even if she does not. When her father suddenly uproots the family from their posh penthouse in New York City to the tiny town of Harmony, Indiana, Willow becomes more untethered and lost under the weight of her secret. On a whim, she auditions for a part in the community theater's production of Hamlet and unexpectedly wins the role of Ophelia-the girl who is undone by madness, and her love of Hamlet... Isaac Pearce is from the 'wrong side of the tracks.' The town bad boy. Girls pine for his attention and guys are in awe of him. That he's an acting prodigy only adds to his charisma. Isaac utterly disappears into his characters; the stage is the only place he feels safe from his own traumatic home life. He wants nothing more than to escape to Broadway or Hollywood and leave Harmony behind for good. No one can play Hamlet but Isaac, and when the director pairs him with Willow in acting class, they clash again and again-neither willing to open their hearts to anyone. But clashing leads to breaking, breaking leads to the spilling of terrible secrets, and soon Isaac and Willow find Shakespeare's words mirroring their lives. When they are cruelly torn apart, neither know how this play will end-with madness and heartache? Or healing, love, and the discovery of who they are truly meant to be. In Harmony is a standalone YOUNG ADULT/NEW ADULT love story, and is intended for readers 18 and up. PLEASE NOTE, this book contains sensitive material such as physical abuse, and the aftermath of sexual assault (off the page). Reader discretion is advised.