The author relates the circumstances surrounding her diagnosis with multiple scherosis, her struggle to learn to live with the illness, and her work to raise money for MS research.

A poignant, heart-lifting graphic memoir about anorexia, eating disorders and the journey to recovery Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She’d sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she’d have to eat it for breakfast. But in any life a set of circumstance can collide, and normal behaviour might soon shade into something sinister, something deadly. Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness, an exposure of those who are so weak as to prey on the vulnerable, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure towards happiness. ‘Even at its most heartbreaking it never feels sombre ... Inspiring, plucky and, in the end, consoling, it’s hard to put down’ Observer

"This book is a testament to the power we have in the creation of our own lives and the lives of all living things in the world around us. Every step we take, we are on an unconscious quest for the pieces of our selves that we left behind so long ago. We have allowed our inner wisdom to be overshadowed by those who we choose to vies as the directors or authorities in our lives. The release of our own power, in favor of what we believe is expected of us by whomever we label our authority, binds us in chains. Our torment and suffering become far reaching and can actually destroy us, leaving us ablivious to the true reality in our own lives and teh role we play in its creation. On our path to wholeness we are unaware that we first seek that which we deny in ourselves, leaving us in pain or numb, longing for the fullness of love. It is only when we embrace every piece of ourselves that we will rediscover that from the beginning, we were always whole and complete and we need not journey away from ourselves to find peace. This book defines one person's journey inward, leading to teh enlightened path where relentless suffering comes to an end, and reveals the key to living a life fully free from Fear and Control. This revelation...forever allows us to experience the Love and Freedom that has always been awaiting us. In finding our sholeness and freedom within ourselves, we discover something even more powerful; we realize that each of us as individuals is a reflection of the world as a whole. It is our decision to remain asleep, unconscious to the abuse we allow in our lives, that keeps us fragmented and wounded. It is time to awaken to all pieces of ourselves, and unite them in wholeness to rediscover that omnipotent power within us, and remember how to ignite that power to create an entire world-at peace."--back cover.

From the classrooms of Yale and Harvard comes Deb Sofield's inspirational, instructional guide to help you conquer your fear of public speaking. Speak Without Fear transforms our old ways of thinking about public speaking and provides the reader with the necessary tools to move beyond the fe

I had to do something to escape Hitler's clutches, writes Esti Freud. Yet she waits with her then-16-year-old daughter, Sophie in Paris until German canons can be heard in the distance before deciding to escape by bicycle across France, as Sophie keeps looking back to see whether German tanks will overtake them. Both women survive and, in their own ways, come to feel a need to keep a personal record of those tumultuous times. Thus, in a memoir written at age 79, Esti Fraud, daughter-in-law of Sigmund Freud and wife of his oldest son, Martin, looks back on her life starting before the 20th century, lived on three continents, and stretched through two world wars and the Holocaust. Twenty years after her mothers' death, daughter Sophie turned to Esti's memoir as the scaffold for this book, expanding it through family letters, archival material, and her own diary penned as a teenager. Out of these documents, Sophie Freud has created a many-voiced mosaic, including letters and insights from a wide cast of characters who tell the story of a famous family—and of a century. This work gives an insider's, in-law view of the family Freud, its foundations, and flaws. The relationship between Esti, daughter of a wealthy Vienna attorney and her husband Martin Freud is foreshadowed by the young lovers' fathers. At first meeting Esti, Sigmund told his son the glamorous woman was too beautiful for the clan, meaning her splendor belied a lifestyle not conducive to the frugal Freud ways. And Esti's father, on hearing of her love for Martin, expressed regret she was involved with a man who was not a financially favorable linkage, and that his family was not respectable since patriarch Sigmund was just another psychiatrist, and one who writes pornography books at that. Thus begins the ill-fated relationship that would rock two families and a generation of children to come. Sophie weaves into the text letters she inherited, including letters from Martin while he was a prisoner of war, and excerpts from her own diary, kept as an adolescent. The resulting mosaic will fascinate—and perhaps disturb—readers interested in Freud and psychoanalysis, as well as those intrigued by relationships and family.

My Dad has a shadow that's blue as a berry, and my Mum's is as pink as a blossoming cherry.There's only those choices, a 2 or a 1. But mine is quite different, it's both and it's none.A heartwarming and inspiring book about being true to yourself and moving beyond the gender binary, by best-selling children's book creator Scott Stuart.