Thrive Through Tears is about commitment to creating the best life possible. It's about honoring "This Life" despite the shock of human loss. To arriving at a space of grieving to surrendering grace. Misty recounts her son's inspirational and brave life living with the muscle disease, Duchenne-Muscular- Dystrophy and how her connection with him drives her forward. AND ultimately the signs and ah-ha moments that uplifts her dreams and every waking moment. Truly a story for anyone wanting to Thrive Through Tears Anyway...

Through any struggle you can stand firm! Believe ANYWAY is a colorful hands-on workbook that will empower you to remain steadfast through every difficult season. This inspiring six-week devotional will encourage you to dream again, to see people through the eyes of hope, and to choose faith in the midst of doubt. The fresh, creative activities in this one-of-a-kind devotional will equip you to plant unshakable roots in God's Word. The daily BELIEVE process will guide you as you dig deep into Scripture, and the many inspiring personal stories will ignite your heart with expectation. Before long, you will find yourself doubting less and trusting more, having a hopeful perspective rather than a defeated one. You will walk away with the ability to overcome worry, anxiety, and the pains of the past. The truths within these pages will revolutionize your life, if you let them. So grab a warm mug of coffee or tea, sit down with this book, and start believing!

Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn—individually, uniquely, and with advantages and upshots to every type of brain and body. As a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realization that that he wasn’t the problem—the system and the concept of normal were—saved Mooney’s life and fundamentally changed his outlook. Here he explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when they’re trapped in environments that label them, shame them, and tell them, even in subtle ways, that they are the problem. But, he argues, if we can reorient the ways in which we think about diversity, abilities, and disabilities, we can start a revolution. A highly sought after public speaker, Mooney has been inspiring audiences with his story and his message for nearly two decades. Now he’s ready to share what he’s learned from parents, educators, researchers, and kids in a book that is as much a survival guide as it is a call to action. Whip-smart, insightful, and utterly inspiring—and movingly framed as a letter to his own young sons, as they work to find their ways in the world—this book will upend what we call normal and empower us all.

These ten principles were first articulated by Kent Keith as a student at Harvard in the 1960s. Since then, unbeknownst to him, they were quoted, circulated, and appropriated by countless people around the world and back again. They even served as a source of inspiration for Mother Teresa. Now, here are his commandments, the philosophy behind them, and the stories that bring them to life. The first five Paradoxical Commandments: People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.