When 17-year-old Gina Taylor is given a writing project as part of her English class, she begins to write down everything. Through her words, she tells a dark story. The story of a secret that she never intended to tell - the story of her secret battle with a monster. A monster that lives inside her head. Gina's monster is evil and dark, it dictates how she lives and what she feels. It's called anxiety. Slowly, it's beginning to tear her apart and there's only one way out; let the monster win.As Gina's life crumbles around her, the mysterious and handsome Flynn McArthur appears in her life. He's determined to break down all of Gina's walls and help her fight her monster. But Flynn has his own secrets that are threatening everything that he and Gina have built together. Can they overcome their demons together?

"The monsters inside my head" is all about facing yourself. These monsters aren't the ones we grew up being scared of; they are not the ones that we saw in movies or the ones we thought lived under our bed, but yes, the ones who live in our minds. They are the voices we hear that create fear and insecurity inside us. The doubt preventing us from accomplishing our goals and desires and consequently keeps us from pursuing things in life, such as starting that business or inviting that person out. Most of the time, these monsters are what holds us back from what we want. The purpose of this book is to acknowledge these monsters and facing them.

Book 2 of The Monsters You Know Trilogy. Now that I’ve gained the help of the drake king, I will have to keep it and convince the rest of the drakes that I’m worth fighting for. All of that doesn’t matter if I can’t keep my despicable betrothed from tearing the kingdom apart trying to find me. The longer I’m here with the drakes the more I’m finding I might just like the monsters in my head. CW: book contains dark themes that may be triggering for some individuals.

"I Have a Green Monster Who Lives in My Brain" is a picture book to help young children with stress, fear and anxiety. It is a fun rhyming book which gives children the tools to overcome their fears. Emma's Story - Emma is our granddaughter and suffered from anxiety last year. With the help of a good counselor she has been working to overcome her fears and inspired us to write this story. Emma learned to fight the fears (green monster) by physically attacking the fears as we wrote in this book. Some of our Christian friends found the book to be a little too violent, so we also wrote a Christian version based on trust in God to overcome the fear also available on Amazon named "I Have A Green Monster Who Lives In My Brain - The Christian Answer." The therapists we have talked to love the concept of this book and believe children need a strong approach to "fight the monster". Our Christian friends love the concept of trusting God with our fears. Which way do you lean?

How To Tame My Anxiety Monster is about a child with a monster that no one else can see but him. He doesn't like when his monster comes around because it makes his stomach hurt, or makes it hard to concentrate or sleep. It makes him feel lots of other upsetting and uncomfortable things as well. He decided to talk to his parents about it and his mom told him that she had one too. He learned that his monster's name was Anxiety. Throughout the book the child talks about the ways that he can tame his anxiety monster. He can play sports, do yoga, art, or talk to a therapist to help calm him among other things. He then discovers the good ways that his anxiety monster can help him; during a test, a report, or riding a big scary-fun rollercoaster! He may not be able to make his monster go away, but he can learn to tame him! In the back of this book are some parent helps that can be great conversation starters for children that deal with anxiety.

Prepare to be captivated by Monster in My Mind, an enthralling journey into the world of a tormented child. Alison’s harrowing truth unfolds within the pages, exposing the depths of her troubled upbringing. Step into her shoes as she navigates a harsh reality, locked away within her own mind. Through resilience and determination, she eventually finds the strength to break free from her confines and soar to new heights. This poignant tale will leave you spellbound, shedding light on the indomitable spirit that can emerge from even the darkest of circumstances.

Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It enables readers to gain increased imaginative access to the works in question through seeing how they have intensely affected equivalent readers—a novelist, a poet, a doctor, a teacher, an anthologist, but also non-specialists, ordinary people within shared reading groups in many different settings, finding help from literary texts in times of often painful personal need. It is the story of the work done by Philip Davis' research unit, the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS), at the University of Liverpool, in a ten-year partnership with the outreach charity The Reader, taking serious literature to often neglected communities and struggling individuals through the shared reading—alive and aloud—of literature from all ages. Reading for Life is a detailed account of what reading literature can do for a wide variety of individuals in relation to a wide variety of texts: it will be of interest to serious readers in the wider world as much as to scholars working within literary studies, and to all those involved in thinking about the therapeutic interactions of literature and life in psychology, medicine, and mental health support settings.