This chronic pain tracker is to help you gain awareness of your conditions, and help manage your health care better. Included are sections to record: Basic Info - Date, Energy, Activity, Sleep. Meals - Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks. A space to write what you're eating, and you can include calories or other information. Pain Level / Area - A graph of a body so you can circle or draw in where you feel the pain. This is helpful for health professionals and yourself to see if it's in the same area or changing. Time / Symptoms / Triggers - This is the main area to record your symptoms, what time they happened, and if anything triggered the pain. Pain Progression - A chart you can write in what time of day exactly you feel the pain, and if it gets worse throughout the day, or what the overall trends are.

Better When It Hurts: Stripped Series

Questions, suggestions, and prompts for immortalizing the memories of a loved one who has passed on. Celebrate the life of your loved one. Keep their spirit close in your heart. Remember and cherish your time together. Filled with touching and inspiring prompts, Forever in My Heart is a comforting journal for recording your reflections on your loved one's extraordinary life, their unique traits, and all the many experiences and traditions you shared. This journal will help you explore your emotions, say things that were left unsaid, connect with your loved one's spirit, and find healing through writing.

Meet Ka’lani Brown, better known as Lani, who is married to the one and only Tyrone Brown. They have been married now for two years but that’s been her man since she was in the 6th grade. Lani has already gone through her share of fighting sideline chicks over her man. After all these years of being together, things for them are fine because Ka’lani has made it clear that she will not play about Tyrone! Now meet Tisha Monroe. Tisha was a woman who has been scorned for years due to her previous relationship with her ex Mike. That all changed when she finally gave Otis Jackson a chance. She worships the ground that man walks on. She loves her man and he loves her back. Along with loving him comes a price to pay. There are a few chicks lurking, determined to do anything to take Tisha’s spot, but there just happens to be one in particular that is willing to do anything to have Otis on her side. What happens when other females try to get in the middle of what you and your man are building? Do you let them take him? Do you give up? Or do you still choose him? In this book relationships are tested and you end up asking yourself “Am I making the right choice?” Take a ride with the hood's hottest couples Ka'lani and Tyrone and Tisha and Otis, and their two best friends Tamika and Kyla for a tale filled with drama, thug love, sex, and a little bit more drama.

What if you could see things that no one else could? What if you saw things that would terrify the average person on a daily basis? That's what it's like during a normal day in the life of Maria Patterson, a woman with quite possibly the most unique interpretation of life and death. This particular subject matter is taught by many throughout our lives, yet it is understood by few. Maria, however, has the unfortunate honor of being given a literal, hands-on lesson from one of the few who know most about the subject, and as her knowledge swells, she soon discovers that just like with Pandora's Box, there are some things you just don't really want to really know! Our parents always told us that we were special, but what if you didn't want to be?

"Your life isn't over." My dad says this. "I mean, YOUR life isn't over. Beyond the kids. You'll go on living, doing things. This isn't it." I know, I assure him. I have the kids. They need me. They're my life now. "OK," he replies, then grunts—more of a brief hum. He only hums when he thinks I'm full of shit. Shockingly single. Amy Biancolli's life went off script more dramatically than most after her husband of twenty years jumped off the roof of a parking garage. Left with three children, a three-story house, and a pile of knotty psychological complications, Amy realizes the flooding dishwasher, dead car battery, rapidly growing lawn, basement sump pump, and broken doorknob aren't going to fix themselves. She also realizes that "figuring shit out" means accepting the horrors that came her way, rolling with them, slogging through them, helping others through theirs, and working her way through life with love and laughter. Amy Biancolli is an author and journalist whose column appears in the Albany Times Union. Before that, Amy served as film critic for the Houston Chronicle where her reviews, published around the country, won her the 2007 Comment and Criticism Award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association. Biancolli is the author of House of Holy Fools: A Family Portrait in Six Cracked Parts, which earned her Albany Author of the Year. Amy lives in Albany, New York, with her three children.

William Jackson was an attorney who had previously been a Los Angeles policeman and he loved his grandfather more than he loved his own life. While praying for his recovery from lung cancer, a voice came to him and said, “I haven’t done this in over a billion years.” The voice was God telling him that he had not answered a prayer in over a billion years. Will was stunned to discover that God did not answer prayers. “It’s not so much that I don’t answer prayers as it is I can’t.” Will pointed out, “But you’re God.” “True, but with the mega-trillion prayers coming from throughout the multiverse, it’d be impossible. I once calculated that I receive about ninety-five billion prayers a second.” Will was shocked to learn how his prayer was the one in a mega-trillion to be answered. God informed him that his grandfather had been healed and would be calling him with the news. After Will answered the call from his grandfather, he felt foolish but asked anyway, “What if I…I…” “What if you asked for Alicia Escobar?” Will said, “You truly are God.” Alicia was stunningly beautiful, the product of a Chinese/Mexican father and a Black/Vietnamese mother and had inherited the best from all four worlds. God said, “I’ll clear the way for you.” He deposited millions in Will’s bank accounts and gave him everything he felt he might need to accomplish the impossible. God informed him, “You realize she comes with baggage.” Will nodded, willing to risk doing whatever it took. Alicia’s baggage was matched only by her beauty. With her came a husband who was a mafia assassin, Mexican Drug Enforcement agents, who wanted to kill him, a mafia don from Brooklyn, who wanted him dead, the Ensenada Harbor Patrol, shooting at his yacht and Alicia’s agent attempting extortion; and that did not take into account the Cabo San Lucas Police, who were also after him. God told Will, “It’ll be interesting to watch you two work your way through this.” Interesting did not cover the life and death predicaments Will and Alicia would encounter.