Do you go through life feeling like you're doing everything and yet when you look around you feel like nothing is done? Welcome to the world of whelmed. Sure we can be underwhelmed. Many times we're overwhelmed. It feels like our lives can be full of times where we're just plain whelmed. We feel the pressures of life and get bits of anxiety, fear, and stress, but we might not be at overwhelmed just yet. We're whelmed. Take a look at how to get through the whelms of life.

Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by your health, relationships, responsibilities, or all of those, there is a solution. Romans 12:2 exhorts us to "be transformed by the renewing of our minds." Through the pages of this book, Christian Life Coach Lisa Dettinger provides an opportunity for you to allow the Holy Spirit to transform your perspective on your relationship with Jesus and with the circumstances of your life. When you are "fully whelmed," your circumstances may be overwhelming, but you are whelming the Holy Spirit from the inside out.

Dulge, rageous, couth, chalant—we think of prefixes as a few letters that change a word, but what if a word is lost without one? Each prose poem in Whelmed features a word that has been unhinged from its prefix, allowing new meanings—radically unfamiliar, yet uncannily intimate—to emerge from these prefixless word deposits. Part prose-poem sequence and part encyclopedia of unpredictably irregular terms, Whelmed is at times deranging, almost disturbing, sometimes detached, and ultimately joyfully disrupting. Nicole Markotic is a poet, novelist, and critic. She is currently a professor of creative writing, children's literature, and disability studies at the University of Windsor in Ontario.

In 1000 Words to Expand Your Vocabulary, each entry contains outlines of word origins, examples in context and a wealth of word related trivia.