Whether losing a job by layoff or by choice, this memoir and guide offers solace, insights, and actions to navigate a transition that can be traumatic, turbulent, and triumphant. Reading Nancy's story is like having a conversation with a trusted confidant and coach.

An eloquent book that explores the impact on one's life of losing a parent as an adult, and the effect it has on families, careers, and friendships -- now in paperback. Losing a parent is an event that happens, sooner or later, to nearly everyone. Yet seldom has the impact of parental death on the identities of adult offspring been examined. This book fills that gap. Backed by her original study and filled with compelling case histories, Secunda's book explores what happens to men and women when they are on their own in ways they have never been before. She addresses myriad issues, including: What does it mean to be living without parents to please or rebel against? How does adult "orphanhood" alter relationships with one's siblings, partner, friends, children, or one's career choices? How does it reshape one's sense of self? Losing Your Parents, Finding Your Self offers the assurance that out of loss can come unforeseen gain -- that on the other side of sorrow, we can discover new hope, wisdom, and strength.

When everything sucks, change everything . . . And that's exactly what Hannah Friedman set out to do in an ambitious attempt to bust out of a life of obscurity and absurdity and into an alternate world of glamour, wealth, and popularity. Being dubbed 'That Monkey Girl' by middle school bullies and being pulled out of sixth grade to live on a tour bus with her agoraphobic mother, her smelly little brother, and her father's hippie band mates convinces Hannah that she is destined for a life of freakdom. But when she enters one of the country's most prestigious boarding schools on scholarship, Hannah transforms herself into everything she is not: cool. By senior year, she has a perfect millionaire boyfriend, a perfect GPA, a perfect designer wardrobe, and is part of the most popular clique in school, but somehow everything begins to suck far worse than when she first started. Her newfound costly drug habit, eating disorder, identity crisis, and Queen-Bee attitude lead to the unraveling of Hannah's very unusual life. Putting her life back together will take more than a few clicks of her heels, or the perfect fit of a glass slipper, in this not-so-fairy tale of going from rock bottom to head of the class and back again.

Do you ever feel like self-help gurus are...lying to you?You want a better life. You know it's possible, but the promises you see most self-help books make just seem too good to be true, right?"Work 4 hours a week and make millions?""Quit your job in six months!""Follow these ten steps to become rich, famous, and everlastingly happy!"Is there a better alternative? Is there a way to learn how to live a better life without all the extra hype, fake-promises, and B.S.? Real Help: An Honest Guide to Self-Improvement details the in-depth self-improvement knowledge and wisdom from Ayodeji Awosika -- a self-taught 3-time author, TEDx speaker, and top writer on medium.com with over 50,000 followers who helps millions of readers per year with wisdom and insights to change their life.This book won't guarantee any of the following: You'll make millions of dollars You'll build a life-changing business that helps you quit your job overnight You'll find perfect, peace, happiness, and contentment It will, however, teach you everything you need to know to help you: Discover your life purpose (without needing an "exact match") Develop the mental toughness you need to thrive in an unfair world Start your first passion project or side business (without needing to be an expert) Dramatically increase your odds of living a successful life (even though this can't be guaranteed) Build life-changing habits and execute them on auto-pilot (even if you've tried and failed before) This is a book that tells you what you need to know, not what you want to hear. This is a book that tells you how the world actually works, not how you think it should work.Aren't you tired of being told you can "succeed no matter what!"? It's almost insulting. You live in the real world. If you want to succeed in the real world, you have to understand how to be optimistic and realistic at the same time. With Real Help, you'll get a no-holds-barred field guide to improving your life with the circumstances you've been given. It will help you build a tailor-made path to a successful life based on your definition of the word.

Who am I? The answer seems like it should come quick and easy. But in reality, this is one of the most difficult questions ever asked. Society deludes us, family can misguide us, and the little we do know about ourselves we lose in the pursuit of unfulfilling goals. If you're reading this, it's because you are ready to discover the real you. The you that cries out for nurturing. The you that leads to true satisfaction and real fulfillment. Whether career, relationships, or family, you have the power to create the life you want. You can learn to take charge of your thoughts and shape your reality. You can learn to embrace and live in the present moment. This book will give you the tools to find your authentic self, define success, achieve your goals, and live a fulfilling life. Nobody can give you the answer, but someone can help you find them.

The Journey to Finding to Yourself is a self-help book that offers life skills advice on ones personal journey in over-coming low self esteem. The book is geared towards the new adults, but speaks to the highs and lows, of all ages. There are many different attributes, that may enhance the negativity that we at some point may feel about ourselves. This book is a tool that will help rebuild your inner self as we go on this journey together.

Losing a Loved One, Finding Yourself: Voices of Hope is a stirring anthology of love, loss, grief, recovery, and hope written by the people who experienced the loss themselves. Each story describes the tragedy suffered by the individuals and their families, how they grieved, and how they survived. Every author offers a unique perspective on loss, grief, mourning and recovery. Together they generously offer the reader insights on how they moved forward with hope for tomorrow. Edited by Dr. Linda Barboa, Kristina Pfennig, and Jan Luck.

Feeling lost is an unwelcome feeling. We become more anxious and wary of our surroundings as we make our way through unfamiliar territories and uncharted places. We feel desperate. And this is understandable. After all, you're not likely to survive in a place which you have little knowledge of. You can't make a living if you have no idea how the systems and entities around you interact. This is one of the reasons why feeling lost in life is a really unsettling feeling. It fuels our negative self-thoughts and keeps us on edge. It can compromise our relationships with others and even with our own selves. It's a dark and dreary place to be in, we know and understand, but it doesn't have to be that way. Our own internal compass is not as jeopardized as we think it is. And if we look closer, we would see that we have all the means to find our way back. This is the aim of this book. It's meant to help you clear the fog that obscures the view of the path you wish to take. And it's also meant to be a great companion you can refer back to at any point in your life.

This Road I Ride is the remarkable story of one woman’s solo journey around the world by bicycle. Juliana Buhring had been mired in a dark hole of depression after the death of a man she loved, and when an acquaintance suggested they honor his memory by biking across Canada, she thought, “Canada? Why not the world?” And why not alone. She had never seriously ridden a bicycle before. She had no athletic experience or corporate sponsorship, but with just eight months of preparation, Juliana Buhring departed from Naples, Italy, in July 2012 aiming to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. She set out believing she might not ever return, but that she had nothing to lose. Over 152 days, Juliana’s ride spanned four continents and 18,060 miles. She traversed small-town and big-mountain America, Australian desert expanses, South Asian rainforests and villages, and Turkish plains. She suffered innumerable breakdowns, severe food poisoning, hostile pursuers, and the international longing for a good Italian espresso. When she crossed the finish line into Naples before the end of the year, she officially became the fastest woman to cycle the world (beating prior men’s records, to boot). Accomplishing what she never thought she could, buoyed by the outpouring of support from friends and strangers, Juliana rediscovered herself. In the process she proved that there are no extraordinary people—there are only people who decide to do extraordinary things.