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The Invisible Soul Anthology: Healing With Words
The Invisible Soul Anthology, by George Beasley, is a deeply personal and inspirational Christian memoir built from nearly fifty stories, reflections, memories, and poems about trauma, faith, family, grief, mental health, and healing. Beasley describes the collection as a journey from hidden struggles toward emotional healing and redemption, and that idea gives the book its shape. Readers are led through memories as they surface, taking them from childhood abuse and group homes to marriage, fatherhood, ministry, therapy, loss, and the quieter moments that have helped him make sense of it all. As a faith-based memoir, the book feels personal in the way a long conversation with someone can be personal. Beasley isn’t standing at a distance from these experiences. He’s writing from inside them.
One of the most compelling parts of this trauma recovery memoir is the way ordinary places and objects become containers for much larger emotions. A sandbar becomes a place of belonging, a river becomes an image of grief and the undertow of despair, a childhood closet holds both terror and an imagined fire of hope, and a catfish pond becomes a mental refuge first learned in a group home and rediscovered decades later through therapy. These recurring images give the book its own language. Beasley also writes openly about suicidal thoughts, childhood trauma, triggers, therapy, and the difficult work of recognizing emotions he spent much of his life avoiding. That makes The Invisible Soul Anthology as much a mental health memoir as it is a Christian testimony. Faith and professional help aren’t treated as competing ideas here. They become parts of the same healing journey.
The heart of the collection, though, is connection. Beasley returns again and again to the people who helped him survive and grow: his wife Lisa, his daughters and grandchildren, his brothers, old friends, therapists, house parents, ministry partners, and even people encountered briefly along the way. Some of the strongest pieces look at relationships from the distance of many years and allow an old memory to take on a different meaning. In “Was It Love or Was It…,” for example, what he carried as childhood betrayal gradually becomes an understanding of his mother’s desperate attempt to protect him. That willingness to revisit the past is central to this Christian healing book. The prose is direct, emotionally exposed, and often devotional, with scripture and faith woven naturally into the author’s interpretation of what happened and why those experiences still matter.
What stayed with me most is the book’s conviction that words can become part of the healing process. Beasley repeatedly shows writing as a way of bringing buried memories into the light, giving language to pain, and leaving something useful for the people who come afterward. Late in the collection, he writes about opening himself to emotions while spending time with his grandchildren and discovering that something as simple as giving them his time can become an expression of love and a repair of what was missing in his own childhood. That captures The Invisible Soul Anthology well. It’s a Christian memoir about healing, but it’s also an anthology about being seen, listening closely, loving people while there’s still time, and finding meaning in memories that once seemed too painful to revisit. Readers drawn to inspirational Christian books, spiritual memoirs, and trauma recovery stories will find plenty here to sit with long after the final page.
Pages: 275 | ASIN : B0HD3W8G2V
Within and Without
Within and Without, by James Richard Hansen, is a compact poetry collection built around attention to: morning light, ocean sounds, music, dreams, grief, love, and the strange private weather of the mind. The book begins in quiet observation, with poems that often use nature as a doorway into reflection. In “Dawn,” Hansen writes, “Every nuance of tree and flower, / breeze and glittering light, / shows the way to freedom,” and that line captures much of the collection’s spirit. These poems are less about dramatic turns than about noticing what’s already there and letting it open into feeling.
The first half of the book moves between landscape and inner life with a steady, meditative rhythm. The Pacific, rain, moonlight, fire, trees, and stars appear again and again, not as decoration, but as companions to thought. In poems like “Oceanic Events,” “Finding My Stride,” “Catharsis,” and “Peace,” Hansen uses the natural world to describe the self coming into focus. His images are clear and accessible, and the poems often feel like moments from a walk, a window, or a quiet evening that slowly become something more personal.
There’s also a recurring sense of struggle in the collection, but it’s handled with restraint. “Serpent,” “Reconciliation,” “Night,” and “Internal Itinerary” bring in fear, loneliness, frustration, and spiritual searching, yet the book keeps returning to renewal. Hansen’s speakers look inward without getting stuck there. Even when a poem begins in heaviness, it often finds a small source of steadiness: dawn, music, rain, or the act of looking closely. That makes the collection feel honest without becoming bleak.
The second section, Love Poems to Kristen, gives the book a more intimate center. These poems are direct, affectionate, and openly devoted, moving from desire to gratitude to long-term commitment. The language is sometimes grand, but it’s grounded by the sense that these are poems written for a real person over real years, including birthdays, anniversaries, and Valentine’s Day. One of the loveliest moments comes in “Reverie,” where the speaker misses the green flash at sunset and concludes, “But the idea was enough.” That small realization says a lot about the section’s emotional world: memory, love, and anticipation can be as vivid as the event itself.
Within and Without is a sincere and reflective collection about perception, healing, wonder, and devotion. Hansen’s poems are plainspoken in a way that makes them easy to enter, and their best moments come when a natural image and an inward feeling meet cleanly on the page. It’s a book for readers who enjoy poetry that’s contemplative, emotionally open, and rooted in everyday encounters with beauty. The title fits well, since the collection keeps moving between the outer world of sky, sea, rain, and light, and the inner world of memory, longing, faith, and love.
Pages: 64 | ASIN : B0794GLD97
I Am My Biggest Stranger
I Am My Biggest Stranger, by Mike Dee, is a personal spiritual journey that uses Dante’s Inferno as a map for self-confrontation, healing, and Christian renewal. Dee begins in his own “dark wood,” shaped by loss, a car accident, broken direction, and the ache of becoming unfamiliar to himself, then moves through the circles of lust, comfort, greed, anger, pride, violence, fraud, and betrayal as mirrors for the modern soul. The book gradually shifts from descent to rebuilding, from naming the giants to mastering the mind, living with integrity, aligning with purpose, and finally inviting the reader to write the unwritten chapter of their own life.
Dee isn’t writing from a polished distance, and that gives the strongest passages their pulse. When he describes hearing Dante’s famous line while watching Patch Adams after the accident, I could feel the strange grace of that moment, the way a single sentence can suddenly give shape to years of confusion. I also found the shelter scene especially affecting. The image of him on his eighteenth birthday with a backpack, a Bible, and fear he doesn’t want to admit has a rawness that lingers. Those moments cut through the more instructional sections and let the book breathe as testimony. I liked Dee best when he trusted story, silence, and image, because his writing has a natural intensity when he lets memory do the talking.
The ideas in the book are earnest, ambitious, and at times genuinely stirring. I appreciated the way Dee reframes inner struggle without softening it: Limbo becomes the slow death of “almost,” lust becomes desire without direction, anger becomes a swamp that traps both the loud and the silent, and treachery becomes a frozen condition of the heart. That structure gives the book a strong spiritual architecture. The language can circle back on itself, especially around purpose, giants, alignment, and victory. Still, that repetition also comes from conviction. Dee clearly believes these truths were hard-won, and there’s something moving about the urgency with which he wants the reader not to waste pain, not to settle, not to drift through life half-awake.
I felt that I Am My Biggest Stranger is less a conventional self-help book than a devotional pilgrimage through the bruised places of the self. Its best qualities are its faith, vulnerability, and insistence that transformation is not cosmetic but costly. The conclusion, with its unwritten final chapter, works because the whole book has been pushing toward that handoff: now the reader has to move. I’d recommend this book to Christian readers who like reflective, spiritually charged personal growth books, especially those wrestling with grief, stagnation, identity, or the uneasy sense that they’ve been living as a stranger to themselves.
Pages: 512 | ASIN : B0GYQYBBF2
Dog Tags and Ghost Roads
Dog Tags and Ghost Roads is a poetry collection about military service as both a calling and a haunting, moving from enlistment and duty into combat, homecoming, healing, and legacy. D.C. “Buddy” Lee writes from a place of deep reverence for veterans, families, faith, brotherhood, and the invisible weight that follows people long after the uniform comes off. The book begins with the solemnity of “The Oath” and “For God and Country,” then widens into the dust, salt, fear, and fellowship of service before settling into some of its most affecting terrain: the kitchen-table quiet of coming home, the startled body that still hears war in a slammed door, and the slow mercy of therapy, love, and ordinary mornings.
What moved me most was the book’s emotional honesty about what service costs. Lee doesn’t treat sacrifice as a clean, polished word. He lets it drag sand into the house. In “The Echoes of Service,” honor becomes heavy enough to make breathing hurt, and in “Where Shadows Wait,” home is warm but not simple, because safety feels like a language the veteran has forgotten. Those moments stayed with me because they feel intimate rather than ceremonial. I believed the wife’s hand on the shoulder, the daughter’s laughter in the kitchen, the veteran sitting on the edge of the bed watching the dark. The best pieces in the collection understand that war doesn’t always announce itself with gunfire. Sometimes it lives in a hallway, a cup of coffee, a flinch.
The writing has a strong, thunderous pulse, full of flags, storms, steel, salt, sacred vows, and ghosts. At times, that grand register gives the poems real force, especially in the sea poems like “Underway,” “Run Silent, Run Deep,” and “A Life in Salt and Wind,” where Lee’s Navy background brings texture and authority. I loved those sensory touches: brine, deck, whistle, harbor, anchor, tide. The collection uses repeated images of fire, bone, flame, honor, and eternal watchfulness. When Lee lets the poem breathe in a specific room with a specific person, the book becomes richer and more piercing.
I felt that Dog Tags and Ghost Roads is interested in bearing witness, and there’s something earnest and worthy in that. Its ideas are rooted in respect, resilience, faith, service, and the conviction that healing is not weakness but another form of courage. This is a heartfelt, reverent book with its strongest power in the places where public honor meets private pain, and I’d recommend it especially to veterans, military families, caregivers, and readers who want poetry that speaks openly about duty, trauma, love, and the long road home.
Pages: 92 | ASIN : B0DST3795Y
Becoming a Divine Messiah ~ The Day of Becoming and Remembrance, Book 1: New Earth Golden Age Trilogy
Becoming a Divine Messiah, written by Kerie Logan, is a spiritual fantasy framed as an awakening narrative, following Danica and her twin brother Ryan on their twenty-fifth birthday as they enter their “Becoming” and begin learning the hidden history of New Earth. Through the sacred library, Paula’s orientation, the Fields of Time, Tobias the white lion, Archangel Metatron, and the remembered legacy of Aislinn, the novel blends family inheritance, metaphysical instruction, galactic mythology, and a vision of humanity transformed beyond fear, money, hierarchy, and spiritual amnesia.
This book is most compelling when its cosmic scale softens into intimacy. Danica feeding goats, Ryan joking his way through heavy revelations, their mother buying cupcakes after the ceremony, and the tropical sunset room inside the library all give the story a tenderness that keeps its vast theology from floating away into abstraction. The ideas are earnest and enormous, sometimes overwhelmingly so, but there’s genuine emotional heat beneath them. The book is asking, with real ache, what kind of world might be possible if trauma were no longer treated as destiny. Its vision of money disappearing, medicine becoming more intuitive, and community replacing punishment can feel idealized, yet I appreciated that the author doesn’t present ascension as escape. Again and again, the book returns to shadow work, grief, forgiveness, and the body. That insistence gives the spirituality more weight than simple wishfulness.
The writing is lush, devotional, and unguarded. At its best, the writing feels luminous and prayerful, especially in the scenes with Tobias and in the later revelations about Aislinn. I was moved by the way the book ties personal pain to collective healing, particularly in the final chapters, when Danica’s understanding of Aislinn becomes less like family pride and more like awe. The dialogue carries long passages of teaching, and recurring ideas of 3D fear, 5D consciousness, remembrance, and divine purpose sometimes give the story a more meditative rhythm than a fast-moving narrative pace. Yet even when the prose becomes emphatic, it rarely feels cynical or calculated. It feels deeply believed, and that sincerity is the book’s most persuasive quality.
I came away from Becoming a Divine Messiah feeling that it’s less a conventional fantasy novel than a visionary spiritual testament shaped into a story. Its strongest moments return to a simple emotional center: the longing to feel loved, guided, healed, and awake to one’s own sacred purpose. That’s where the novel lands best, not merely in its expansive mythology, but in its compassionate insistence that no one is beyond becoming. I’d recommend it to readers who are drawn to New Earth spirituality, channeled wisdom, ascension themes, angelic cosmology, and reflective fiction that values healing and transformation over plot-driven suspense.
Pages: 371 | ASIN : B0GVDFVCLH
Generational Curses
Release & Be Free is an erotic anthology where desire becomes a gateway to healing, self-discovery, and freedom. Did you set out to write erotica with a spiritual dimension, or did that emerge naturally?
Great question. The answer is both. I was introduced to erotica writing by WAPUnleashed Publishing’s Facebook group years ago. I remember reading people’s stories and a comment, a woman said that they were just about sex, nothing else. And I was like, hmm. So I prayed on it and allowed God to work through me so we could create an erotic story with meaning, depth, and purpose. Which was very natural to me because all my writings have that spiritual element in them, no matter the genre I’m writing in. It’s intentional. Release & Be Free: An Enlightening Erotic Anthology was no different, the way it came out though, each story or scene was different, though, and inspired by my imagination, my life, personal experiences, and observation, all with divine assistance of course. For instance, “Mow Me Down,” I enjoy mowing lawns, and I started to connect with how lawn mowers cut grass that continuously needs to be cut, and that reminded me of generational curses, because I was going through learning and breaking some of my own at the time.
What did “liberation” mean to you when you began writing this collection?
Since Release & Be Free: An Enlightening Erotic Anthology is a collection of works written over numerous years, they all stem from my journey of wanting to be free to be me, like I was when I was in middle school before the noise, distractions, choices, and changes that growing up brought. Freeing myself from old habits, mindsets, and choices so that I could be the best Mother to my children, a good wife, focused on fulfilling my purpose without getting distracted, and loving myself in the way of support and encouragement that I’ve done for others for decades. Liberation also meant healing and forgiving, too. Ultimately, liberation meant I already have divine permission to be. Who I was. Who I am now. And who I am becoming. Daily.
The collection often treats body and spirit as inseparable. Were there specific experiences or influences that shaped that perspective?
I love this question. From my studying of the definition and etymology of spirit, along with years of living my life, helping others, and most importantly being open to higher learning from God. I’ve been shown that they are not separate. Spirit is inside of us, it is us, and one of the things that I was shown and that I teach is that the spirit is just one of our human functions, so to speak, that the body listens to, or follows, or chooses from. Our body follows the direction of our brain with our thoughts, our “heart” with our emotions (feelings), and our soul or spirit. The two need to be aligned, like one in thought, feeling, words, and spirit. When you are, your body follows, and that means less confusion, internal battles, or wars within yourself. More purposeful, intentional, and balanced living, from the head to the feet. We have our own spirit, or I should say the Creator’s spirit in us, which is why we can connect, sense, or see the spirit of others.
How has this book changed you as a writer, or what did you learn about yourself through writing it?
Release & Be Free: An Enlightening Erotic Anthology has joined the journey of me owning myself, being proud, and authentic about who I am and the work God has given me to do when it comes to intimacy. To help people remember and understand that sex is more than just sex. It is an exchange of energy; it has purpose, value, and importance. Therefore, it should be respected and talked about as such more, so that it won’t be abused anymore and used to hurt others.
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Unleashing The Power Within: A Journey of Self-Discovery Through Poetry
Unleashing the Power Within is a short, heartfelt collection of inspirational poems that moves through self-worth, recovery, faith, gratitude, nature, and personal renewal. Lisa McCarthy writes as someone who has suffered, endured, and come out the other side determined to speak encouragement over both herself and her reader. The book’s emotional arc gathers force as recurring ideas echo across the collection: breaking free from harm, setting boundaries, trusting intuition, reclaiming one’s voice, and finally rooting identity in God. What gives it shape beyond affirmation is the sense that these poems arise from lived experience, especially when the book turns personal in pieces like “My Freedom Day” and “From Silence to Self-Acceptance,” where liberation stops being an abstract slogan and starts to feel earned.
McCarthy isn’t trying to be sly or ironic, and that lack of distance gives the collection a disarming openness. When she writes about blooming “beneath the ashes and dirt,” or compares healing to pushing toward light, the imagery is simple, but it lands because she means it. I felt that again in the poems about the natural world, especially the red cedar trees, the Gulf of Mexico beach, the lavender fields, and those bright little “Golden Finches in the Rain.” Those poems briefly loosen the book’s grip on exhortation and let it breathe. They offer a quieter kind of restoration, and I found myself wishing there were even more of them, because McCarthy’s voice is often at its most vivid when she pauses long enough to really look.
McCarthy returns to the language of empowerment, destiny, courage, and self-belief. I respected the clarity of the ideas. This is a book deeply invested in healthy boundaries, in refusing negativity, in choosing gratitude, and in seeing survival not just as escape but as transformation. Even when the phrasing is familiar, the conviction behind it feels real, and that reality matters.
I read Unleashing the Power Within less as a formally ambitious poetry collection than as a personal testament shaped into verse, and on those terms it has genuine warmth and purpose. It’s a book about speaking kindly to the bruised parts of the self until they begin to believe they deserve light. I would recommend it to readers who want accessible, faith-tinged, emotionally direct poetry about healing, resilience, and beginning again. For someone coming through loss, self-doubt, or a hard season of change, this book could feel like a companionable hand on the shoulder.
Pages: 96 | ASIN : B0DBVC33S5
Sacred Geometry for Healing: MANTRAS AND MANDALAS FOR MEDITATION
The concept of the mandala has appeared across cultures for centuries, carrying with it a long tradition of symbolism, reflection, and spiritual focus. Mandalas are intricate works of art, rich in detail and visual harmony. More than decorative images, they are designed to evoke expansive, universal ideas and invite contemplation. To study a mandala is to enter a quieter mental space, one where negative thoughts recede and more restorative, life-affirming ones can take root.
When meditation joins with sustained focus on a mandala, the effect can feel deeply renewing. Add the repetition of a simple mantra, and the practice becomes even more centering. Together, these elements create room for reflection, sharpen concentration, and help restore a sense of inner balance. They encourage the mind to return to what matters most.
In Sacred Geometry for Healing: Mantras and Mandalas for Meditation, Adria Chalfin presents a nonfiction collection devoted to that very experience. The book features a series of mandalas, each paired with an explanation of its intended purpose and a short mantra for meditation. The format is accessible. The effect is immersive.
The appeal of the mandala lies in its elegant simplicity, even as the artwork itself remains highly intricate. Each design reflects the idea of sacred or universal geometry, the belief that certain shapes carry a transcendent quality. These forms are not merely beautiful. They are meant to focus attention, deepen awareness, and awaken a sense of connection that feels larger than the self.
Chalfin’s collection draws on this tradition with care and intention. Her mandalas represent themes such as aura, nature, holy light, and more. Some carry clear Christian associations. Others feel open-ended and nondenominational, making the book accessible to readers from a range of spiritual backgrounds.
Skeptics may not accept the healing power often attributed to mandalas or mantras, yet that does not diminish the book’s value. Belief is not the only point. The real benefit may lie in the practice itself: choosing an image that resonates, sitting with it, breathing deeply, and allowing the mind to settle. In that stillness, readers may find clarity, calm, and a renewed sense of energy.
That may be this book’s greatest strength. In a culture dominated by technology, immediacy, and material distraction, the act of stepping away becomes more than refreshing; it becomes necessary. Sacred Geometry for Healing offers a simple means of doing exactly that. It provides a space for pause, for inward listening, and for temporary escape from the noise. For readers seeking a meditative aid or a gentle spiritual reset, Chalfin’s book offers both beauty and purpose.
Pages: 114 | ASIN : B086Q7T2PB
