My name is Sharol Mason. My autobiography will walk you through my life from infancy to retirement. Due to COVID-19 and retiring simultaneously, time was on my side. I will give updates on COVID-19 as it affected our and many others' lives during the three years writing my book. My life starts out with a bang--in fact an explosion--as a baby! On my fourteenth birthday, an announcement came over the loudspeaker at school: "Sharol Curfman, please come to the principal's office immediately." I was thinking it's a birthday gift or something of that order. To my surprise, all my brothers and sisters were there too. The tragedy of that day--being told we all had to go say our goodbyes to Daddy at the hospital--changed our lives forever. Losing track of each other and tearing us apart was just the beginning of a new life. My siblings had filled in some of the gaps in my book that I didn't realize were missing until they shared their stories with me. I will share two more brushes with death along with a life filled with faith, hope, and love. I have also included stories from our family's past that have been in the public eye. I am hoping my family and friends enjoy taking one step back and one step forward, as I truly believe life is a dance, specifically the cha-cha. 70 70

SYNOPSISIt was a typical day in late March 2020 when on a routine journey to work Hakeem began to experience an unusual splitting headache. His administration of normal conventional pain relief medication had been woefully ineffective in rectifying his condition.Days later, the situation exacerbated with bouts of persistent intensive coughing adding to his predicament.His worse fears were confirmed, when his initial suspicion of malaria after an earlier trip to Nigeria was dismissed upon his admission to the Royal London Hospital.The post-diagnostic era systematically set him on an unusual path and a way of life he fastidiously adapted.His miraculous recovery and rejoining his family in the course of this fascinating biographical experience will give readers an instructive insight into life as a survivor of COVID-19.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build. Option B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart—and her journal—to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl’s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy. Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. “I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend replied, “Option A is not available,” and then promised to help her make the most of Option B. We all live some form of Option B. This book will help us all make the most of it.

Now in a revised and expanded third edition, the aims of The Active Female are threefold: first, to increase the awareness of wellness and fitness issues for active females and their family members; second, to provide an avenue for medical practitioners, allied health professionals, health educators/providers, and certified individuals in sports medicine/athletics to gain critical, updated knowledge of a field specific to active females; and third, to introduce the concept of obesity as a growing health concern even for normal weight individuals. Part I of the book offers a foundation for understanding the interrelationships between female physiology, body image and other psychological issues, the female reproductive cycle, and the musculoskeletal anatomy and physiology of females that makes their health risks and concerns unique. In Part II, the concepts of eating disorders from a global perspective and the health disparities and inequities in women’s health are discussed in detail. Part III describes the prevention and management of common musculoskeletal injuries in active females across the lifespan, including the management of osteoporosis. Appropriate exercise and nutritional guidelines and recommendations for active females are discussed in detail in Parts IV and V. Part VI is a new addition to the book and highlights the obesity epidemic and co-morbid diseases associated with obesity even for normal weight obese individuals. Each chapter is bookended by clear learning objectives and review questions for additional pedagogical appeal. An invaluable addition to the literature, The Active Female: Health Issues throughout the Lifespan, 3e will be of great interest to all clinicians and allied health care professionals concerned with women’s health and related issues, from sports medicine and family practitioners to endocrinologists, gynecologists and orthopedic surgeons.

Life After Cancer I immediately wanted to recommAnd this book to my patients. [It]will serve as a roadmap to help cancer patients anticipate feelingsand stages of the coping process. It will help demystify thecomplex and often baffling set of experiences on the uncertain pathof cancer survivorship. --Elisabeth Targ, M.D., Geraldine Brush Cancer Research Institute,California Pacific Medical Center An intimate and inspiring account of the authors' real-lifeexperiences of surviving cancer. The authors provide astraightforward account of what life is like after the whirlwind ofdoctors' visits and radical treatments comes to an And.

A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

What good is a seven-figure portfolio if you’re buried six feet underground? Between recessions, inflation, market fluctuations, and the advancing ages of the Boomers and Gen X, many Americans are concerned about their retirement savings and wealth management for their children and grandchildren. How much will I need to save? What investment vehicles are best? What will my income be after I stop working? Is it too late to start building generational wealth? Those are all excellent questions, but none of the answers address your core values. In The Balanced Wealth Approach, CFP® and wealth manager Tom Hine reframes the retirement discussion by emphasizing healthcare as well as wealthcare. Tom invites readers to reconsider what living a rich life truly means. Combining his four decades of experience in finance with his lifetime of passion for martial arts, health, and fitness, Tom challenges his clients and readers to make wellness their number-one investment. He shares the latest research and medical practices focused on longevity, provides tips for improving and tracking your health, and offers encouragement for mental healthcare and spiritual practice. The Balanced Wealth Approach is a lifestyle that ties financial wealth to overall well-being so you can live a long, healthy, prosperous life. Think bigger with your wealth and your health, and set your sights on a vibrant, active, enriching life well into your nineties and beyond!

Admitting to being a confirmed cynic, the author presents contemporary issues from the perspectives of an old man who has seen it all: from “a world war, regional war, coup d’états, war on organized crime, war on drugs, an endless war on terror, eliminating the threat of al-Qaeda and then ISIS, etc.” to “protection from epidemics, pandemic, including swine flu, avian flu, West Nile virus, Ebola, and different generations of the coronavirus.” Time revealed that many of the world events are associated with slogans such as globalization, world order, the world as one village, and the formation of world organizations such as the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO, and a myriad of W?Os. All those wars and trends are orchestrated by centers of power such as the Bilderberg group, the Carlyle group, the Koch brothers, and George Soros alliance. Those who created ISIS overnight launched the endless war against international terror by a fiery speech that can easily synthesize a killer virus in a few minutes. Pejorative terms are often used to discredit freethinkers who have the guts to see things as they are and develop scenarios to stop destructive trends. A case in point, describing environmentalists as tree huggers, universal healthcare advocates as radicals or socialists, and philosophers who talk about manufacturing public consent as a crazy jihadist and an anarchist. The war against dissent and historians who talk about the history of ordinary people started by burning the writings of famous historians and progressed to launching a defamation campaign against them and a war of deprivation against their livelihood. Fear of the spread of a mere revolutionary ideology, a malicious unfamiliar disease, an unpredictable terrorist attack, a fictitious enemy is enough to control the masses like herds of blind animals. It is enough warning to say “The Russians are coming,” “ISIS is moving its targets to the heart of the USA,” the “Virus is sweeping the land” to exercise control over everyone under lockdown emergencies. No one will no longer be worried about dissent or revolt. The funny thing is that you can arm them in their locked abodes without fear of them fighting to regain their freedom. At the risk of being called a conspiracy theorist, he goes beyond analytics to prescribe vaccines and treatments for the glary infectious financial and freedom maladies that will surely follow the war against the hard to see, hear, or reckon with COVID-19. The author provides perspectives on the vast evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic leading to the TRUMPVID-20 pandemic (not to be confused with a new wave of COVID-19).

As we have learned with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a major disaster can strike anywhere, anytime, and in any form. Survival depends as much on what we know as what we do. Learn the skills you need to survive. This book explores everything that man and Mother Nature can unleash, from hurricanes to blizzards, shark attacks to plane crashes, even mass shootings, nuclear assault, and pandemics. With practical advice from leading experts, how-to tips and important tasks to do right now, plus real-life stories from people who endured catastrophe and lived to tell about it, this book is a comprehensive guide on what to do before, during and after disaster. Owning this book could mean the difference between life and losing it all.

Learn how to be a leader in your own life and career with expert advice from one of the Navy's elite TOPGUN instructors. During a twenty-year career in uniform, Guy Snodgrass became one of the most skilled fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy, commanding combat jets over some of the most dangerous war zones in the world -- and he did it all using the lessons he learned at the Navy's Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). The real-life inspiration for the blockbuster films Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick, the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School trains the top one percent of our nation's fighter pilots. Over the course of twelve weeks, these pilots are drilled on aerial tactics, combat, and skills required to win in any organization. Ordinary people are transformed into world-class leaders. Pilots, like Commander Snodgrass, who remain on staff as TOPGUN instructors, are held to even higher and more demanding standards. In TOPGUN's Top 10, Commander Snodgrass distills some of the most important lessons he's learned and taught over the course of his career into a taut, engaging book for readers of all ages and experience levels. It's the perfect gift for anyone looking to change careers, excel in the workplace, or find their way in the world after college graduation. Smart, practical, and direct, Snodgrass's account of real TOPGUN experience will inspire a new generation of leaders.