Download or read book Heartache and Happiness My Memoirs written by CK Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing memoirs are always a work in progress. From birth to present, the book takes you through the good and bad of life. It is a book that describes obstacles of health problems, career climbing, divorce, marriage, and the quest for paradise. This book is one that, once you enter the authors life story, you want to stay with her until the journey finds happily ever after. The book is filled with life lessons that all of us not only relate to but struggle with along lifes precious moments.

Download or read book Letting Go into Perfect Love written by Gwendolyn M Plano and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a college administrator, Gwen Plano lived her professional life in a highly visible and accountable space—but as wife and mother, after hours and behind closed doors, she experienced the daily terror of domestic violence. It was her secret; it was her shame. But when her husband turned his brutality on her son, she could no longer stay quiet. In Letting Go into Perfect Love, Plano recounts her experiences as the victim in a twenty-five-year abusive marriage, and as a survivor who came out of that relationship determined to start over, artfully depicting the challenges and triumphs of balancing the obligations of motherhood and career with her family’s healing process. Alternately heart-wrenching and joyful, this is a story of triumph over adversity—one woman’s inspiring account of learning how to forgive the unforgiveable, recover her sense of self, open her heart, and honor the journey

Download or read book Bringing Lucy Home written by Jennifer Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans resident in Australia, this tells the story of Jennifer and Brian Phillips' struggle to adopt a Chinese orphan. "Bringing Lucy Home shares the compelling drama of one family's relentless pursuit to bring hope into the life of an orphaned baby girl. In itself, this account would merely duplicate the narratives of other adoptive families. However, Jennifer Phillips' journey unexpectedly detoured into heartache, causing indefinite separation from her husband and three biological children. Jennifer's struggle was not merely with an inflexible system, but with trusting God more deeply. In the end, her family was reunited not merely by political and legal pressures, but by God's hand. He was at work, using every disappointment to teach a young mother about His unrelenting love"--Publisher's description.

Download or read book A Manual for Heartache written by Cathy Rentzenbrink and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I devoured A Manual for Heartache in one sitting . . . a kind, honest and wise book about how to make a friend of sadness.' - Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In A Manual for Heartache she describes how she learnt to live with grief and loss and find joy in the world again. She explores how to cope with life at its most difficult and overwhelming and how we can emerge from suffering forever changed, but filled with hope. This is a moving, warm and uplifting book that offers solidarity and comfort to anyone going through a painful time, whatever it might be. It's a book that will help to soothe an aching heart and assure its readers that they're not alone.

Download or read book Breaking Up written by Yolanda Nave and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believing that ending a relationship is too depressing to go through alone, BREAKING UP offers solace, acceptance, several good laughs, and camaraderie to every woman who's been left behind, and is trying to deal with it. Yolanda Nave's little watercolor saga starts the moment what's-his-name walks out the door and ends when that old feeing called loneliness begins to feel like something else-freedom. Meanwhile, revenge is dealt with in page after page of gleeful drawings with wry captions. Including the reminder to agree with him when he stops by and admits he's a cad and the suggestion that his underwear should be returned haphazardly packed, but immaculately starched. BREAKING UP is a true-to-life documentation of the end of a love affair. But suddenly life doesn't seem so bad after all. Excerpted in Cosmopolitan. 133,000 copies in print.

Download or read book Out of Love written by Hazel Hayes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of E! News' 13 Books to Read This September | One of Bookish's Debuts to Read in the Second Half of 2021 | One of Medium's Best Releases Out Today “Hazel Hayes writes with such honesty and casual confidence and flowing dialogue, you feel you are overhearing it rather than reading it. The writing sparkles with wit and a poignant emotional reality. I love it.”—Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight Library “A smart, touching, time-bending romance. Funny and affecting.”—David Nicholls, bestselling author of One Day and Sweet Sorrow For anyone who has loved and lost, and lived to tell the tale, this gorgeously written debut is a love story told in reverse, a modern novel with the heart of a classic: truthful, tragic, and ultimately full of hope. Out of Love begins at the end. A couple call it quits after nearly five years, and while holding a box of her ex-boyfriend’s belongings, the young woman wonders: How could they have spent so long together? When did they fall out of love? Were there good times before the bad? These are the questions we obsess over when a relationship ends, even when obsessing can do no good. But instead of moving forward through the emotional fallout of a break-up, Out of Love moves backward in time, weaving together an already unraveled tapestry, from tragic ending to magical first kiss. Each chapter jumps further into the past, mining their history for the days and details that might help us understand love; how it happens and why it sometimes falls apart. Readers of Normal People; Goodbye, Vitamin; and One Day will adore this bittersweet romance, a sparkling debut that you won’t want to miss.

Download or read book Happy with my heartbreak written by Tanishq Sharma and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Happy with My Heartbreak" is a collection of 13 metrical compositions that trace the journey from falling in love in the most delusional way possible, losing oneself, and ultimately rediscovering self-worth and hope—all while staying unapologetically badass. Dive into the depths of the heart and the resilience of the human spirit, with a touch of Gen Z flair. Enjoy and explore this emotional journey.

Download or read book I ll Be OK It s Just a Hole in My Head written by Mimi Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True story of Hayes sudden brain hemorrhage at twenty-two - and the heartache and strength that it took to overcome it.

Download or read book Secrets To Happiness written by Sarah Dunn and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly Frick just went through the worst kind of divorce: the one where you're still in love with the person divorcing you. Facing up to life on her own, she needs a distraction to keep her mind off her own non-existent love life. Like Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Holly is intimately involved in the lives of those closest to her, and now she feels compelled to give advice with unwavering moral certainty. And, like Emma, she is often completely off the mark. Soon she's in over her head, advising her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend while at the same time falling for her married friend's new lover. Until, happiness arrives from a very unexpected source . . . With a contemporary twist on Woody Allen's Manhattan, Secrets to Happiness is a hilarious look at the things people will do to be happy.

Download or read book Heartbreak and Happiness written by Jonathan Merrick and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To all adoptive parents whose yearning for a child enabled you to persevere, even in your darkest days when you thought it would never happen and the system seemed cold and uncaring. They say what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, but, in our case, it very nearly did—and the ramifications continue. Has this journey been a blessing or a curse? The jury’s still out on that one, as our lives continue to hold pockets of love and joy amid chaos and desperation. Lest you think our experience with the British adoption system was because we were gay, we include our friend’s story at the conclusion of ours; her tale is just as frustrating and gut-wrenching. Though we know there are many inspiring and happy adoption stories out there, we still must say to anyone considering adoption: Be prepared and beware!

Download or read book Heartbreak to Happiness written by Doris Skiles-Fong and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartbreak to Happiness: One Mother's Story is a memoir about my life growing up in the small towns and backwoods of Missouri and the winding path I followed throughout life. This book is a painful and touching remembrance of the struggles I faced being a teenage mother that fled her simple roots to eventually conquer her guilt, find her true love and settle down in happiness.

Download or read book Six Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak written by Larry Smith and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A perfect distraction and inspiration, and a collection that begs to be shared.” — Denver Post Love wounds the heart and soul . . . From the editors of the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning comes another collection of terse true tales—this time simple sagas exploring the complexities of the human heart. Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak contains hundreds of personal stories about the pinnacles and pitfalls of romance. Brilliant in their brevity, these insightful slivers of passion, pain, and connection capture every shade of love and loss—six words at a time.

Download or read book Happiness written by Aminatta Forna and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning author of The Memory of Love investigates London’s hidden nature and marginalized communities in this fascinating novel. London, 2014. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide—Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma, and to contact a friend’s daughter Ama, his “niece” who hasn’t called home in a while. Ama has been swept up in an immigration crackdown, and now her young son Tano is missing. Jean offers to help Attila by mobilizing her network volunteer fox spotters. Soon, rubbish men, security guards, hotel doormen, traffic wardens—mainly West African immigrants who work the myriad streets of London—come together to help. As the search for Tano continues, a deepening friendship between Attila and Jean unfolds. Attila’s time in London causes him to question his own ideas about trauma, the values of the society he finds himself in, and a personal grief of his own. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of thoughtless cruelty and unexpected community, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness.

Download or read book Heartbreak A Personal and Scientific Journey written by Florence Williams and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Five Books "Best Literary Science Writing" Book of 2023 • A Smithsonian Best Science Book of 2022 • A Prospect Magazine Top Memoir of 2022 • A KCRW Life Examined Best Book of 2022 "Keen observer [and] deft writer" (David Quammen) Florence Williams explores the fascinating, cutting-edge science of heartbreak while seeking creative ways to mend her own. When her twenty-five-year marriage suddenly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. But when she starts feeling physically sick, losing weight and sleep, she sets out in pursuit of rational explanation. She travels to the frontiers of the science of "social pain" to learn why heartbreak hurts so much—and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong. Soon Williams finds herself on a surprising path that leads her from neurogenomic research laboratories to trying MDMA in a Portland therapist’s living room, from divorce workshops to the mountains and rivers that restore her. She tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, undergoes electrical shocks while looking at pictures of her ex, and discovers that our immune cells listen to loneliness. Searching for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, she seeks out new relationships and ventures into the wilderness in search of an extraordinary antidote: awe. With warmth, daring, wit, and candor, Williams offers a gripping account of grief and healing. Heartbreak is a remarkable merging of science and self-discovery that will change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love.

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