The unplanned journey is a book about a journey I never imagined. I often wonder why God allows certain things to happen in my life. I have often heard the term that God will not give you more than you can handle. If anyone had told me that I would spend almost two decades in prison, I would have thought they had lost their mind. It was one thing to be accused of such a horrific crime, but to be charged and sent away for it, that was another thing. I thought there is no way I could ever make it through such an ordeal. I thought I would lose my mind. I surprised myself and many others. Not only did I serve each day of the seventeen years, but I did it with dignity and integrity. I grew. My faith grew, and I am a better person because of it. I must admit it was not easy at all. I was upset with God that he would allow such a thing to happen to me. His word says in Romans 11, "God treats everyone the same." Job was a man who was righteous in the sight of God, so if God would allow him to go through hard trials, why would it be any different for me? So I used this experience to make me better, not bitter.

The author shares her journey from Planned Parenthood director to anti-abortion activist.

“I found a lump in my right breast. I assumed it was a cyst, but to be sure the doc wanted me to get checked out. I trotted off for my mammogram and ultrasound like an obedient lamb. When the radiographer said he was going to take a biopsy I chirped ‘What a good idea. As I’m here.’ It was only when a woman took my hand and looked at me with her kindly yet sad face that I thought, ‘SHIT. They think it’s cancer.’ Within fifteen minutes I knew that it was.” Unplanned Journey is a breast cancer diary with candid and beautifully observed photography by award-winning photographer, Bella West. It shows the 18-month period in the life of a middle-aged woman, Tiggy Walker (who happens to be married to BBC Radio 2’s Johnnie Walker), undergoing her breast cancer treatment and reconstruction. What seemed a cruel sentence ends up with Tiggy having neater breasts than she could ever have hoped for, and a renewed outlook on her life. The journey may have been unplanned, but it is the most important one she has taken. Tiggy does not hold back in this book; she openly discusses the challenges she faced, her hatred of chemo and her relationship with Johnnie. She bravely exposes her voluptuous body for the photos, as she documents what physical changes occur. This book is essential reading for anyone who has been through cancer – as a patient or a carer – and for anyone about to go through treatment for breast cancer. Royalties from the book will be going to Carers UK.

A wife and medical professional reflects on the loss of her husband in a series of reflections that reveal the emotional stages of grief and healing. Although grief and loss are universal human conditions, the idea of losing those we love is still greatly feared, largely undiscussed, and certainly not prepared for. It is no wonder people feel alone and isolated in their feelings and thoughts when loss comes to them. Longtime nurse and Red Cross volunteer Susan Beth Hassmiller is no stranger to death. Not only has she experienced the suffering of death alongside her patients, but she was blindsided by the physical and emotional toll of loss in her personal life when her husband was fatally injured in an accident. Resetting is written in a daily diary format in which Susan opens a very private window to the actual feelings and thoughts she lived through during her grief process. Raw and gripping, Resetting reveals a profound understanding of the human experience of death. By sharing her perspective as a wife, widow and medical professional, Susan helps those who going through grief gain a new perspective and a greater understanding of death, while also offering ideas on how to help those who are experiencing bereavement—from words to say to providing support.

It seems nothing about the life of Roger Badesch has been planned. Nearly killed as a child when he was run over by a VW minibus, losing his older brother to a drunk driver, surviving an invasive cancer, getting stuck in a blizzard, and winning an Emmy award are just some of the life-changing stories you'll share with him.His story-telling may bring a tear to your eyes, a smile to your face, and you might even shake your head in disbelief at his stupidity, but The Unplanned Life will also make you examine your life in a new light.

A Wellspring of Hope in a Hopeless Place At 16 years old, Donna Grisham was raped. Left violated, broken, and pregnant, she had an abortion. Her life quickly became a downward spiral of hopelessness and fear. Many who receive news of an unplanned pregnancy can relate. Finding yourself in a similar situation, you may feel robbed of your freedom to chooseas though every decision has already been made, leaving you without a voice, paralyzed by fear. But dear friend, fear is a liar. Through the darkest time in her life, God revealed Himself to Donna as the Great Redeemer, and He can do the same for you. In Journeys of Choice, Donna shares her own story, along with inspiring testimonies from Abby Johnson (Unplanned), Jeri Hill (widow of Evangelist Steve Hill, Together in the Harvest), Jessi Green (Saturate OC), and many others. Journeys of Choice offers wisdom for making godly decisions in the midst of trauma and crisis, and hope for supernatural redemption from a broken past. Discover the Wellspring of Hope in the midst of your hopelessness. Meet the Author of new beginnings! Take heart! All is not lost.

A moving memoir about finding and adopting a son from the foster care system with Down syndrome and realizing that life is best lived by expecting the unplanned. As time passes, the author and her husband become less aware they are raising an atypical or adopted child. They are raising their child, no different than any other family.

After the death of her husband, Tanya Unkovich knew that holding on to her faith in God would be vital for her healing process. In this workbook she shares the tools, favorite scriptures, prayers and readings that she used regularly when darkness enveloped her. In addition to assisting the reader through the grieving process many of the strategies outlined are to do with moving forward on many levels during a life transition and once again finding some meaning and purpose in your life and creating a vision for your future. Areas covered are strategies for coping with the everydayness of grief, the loneliness, re-identifying with who you are now with the change in status as a result of this life transition. Also included are behavioral changes that the reader would like to make, financial concerns, possible future relationship issues, areas to be cautious of when becoming a new widow or widower. This workbook provides some life coaching and cognitive behavioral techniques for the reader to learn and place into everyday practice. This book can be used for a considerable period of time and revisited many times as the life tools provided are such that you do not have to be in the early days of your grieving process in order to receive benefit from this material. Anyone who is currently going through the grieving process after losing someone they love can benefit from this workbook as well as counselors, therapists or life coaches. Through a series of well-placed questions for the reader, this workbook demonstrates to you in a simple and direct means how you too can embark on this life transforming process by methodically following each chapter. If you have a strong desire for what you want in your life, truly believe that it is possible and in yourself, then with faith, it is yours.

An Unplanned Life is the scintillating memoir of George Elsey, a small-town kid from western Pennsylvania who, at age twenty-four, was assigned to Franklin Roosevelt's top-secret intelligence and communications center in the White House. As an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, Elsey helped brief the president and his senior associates on war events. He and his map room colleagues acted as the secretariat for Roosevelt's cabled exchanges with Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Chiang Kai-shek; filed records of "summit conferences"; and stored in safes plans for future operations. He also traveled with the president in order to code and decode the classified messages that flowed between the presidential train or ship and the White House. Elsey's duties continued with Harry Truman's succession to the presidency. He decoded the famous message from Secretary of War Henry Stimson reporting the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and carried it to President Truman. In 1947, he shed his Naval Reserve uniform and joined the White House's civilian staff as assistant to the special counsel to the president. In 1949, he became administrative assistant to the president, and, in 1952, he became a member of the Mutual Security Agency staff. During those years, he grew very close to Harry Truman, and thus, a major portion of An Unplanned Life relates to his experiences then. In the first postwar winter, Elsey was frequently the only staff member who accompanied President Truman on the USS Williamsburg. In September 1946, Elsey submitted a report to Truman on U.S.-Soviet relations, which came to be well known as the "Clifford-Elsey Report." Providing Truman with notes for some two hundred of his "back-of-the-train" informal talks, Elsey played a part in the best remembered feature of the "Whistle-Stop Campaign" that resulted in "the political upset of the century." In addition to his years at the White House, Elsey also touches on his post-White House years-his time in private industry, his months with Clark Clifford when Clifford was trying unsuccessfully to extricate America from Vietnam, and his long association with the American Red Cross. An Unplanned Life is a fascinating look at the life of an extraordinary individual who played an important and unprecedented part in two different presidents' decisions and affected the course of our nation. Anyone with an interest in history will find this memoir fascinating and invaluable.

When a women receives an unexpected positive pregnancy test, abortion often seems like the best or only option for a fulfilling future. Unplanned Grace beautifully challenges that myth, equipping readers to support abortion-vulnerable women with love that values life in every way. Writing for the nonprofit organization Save the Storks, Natasha and Brittany draw on personal interviews, inspiring stories, and eye-opening facts to help readers understand: How economics, relationships, and health affect a woman's pregnancy decision The value of having empathy for women facing unplanned pregnancies The enormous potential churches have to support women in crisis Writing not just from a "pro-birth" perspective but from a "pro-abundant life" prospective, Unplanned Grace is an ideal resource for churches and individuals who want to make a difference in the pro-life movement.