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Changing Course Gracefully: A Strategic Guide to Building Foundational Self-Trust
What exactly is the PARQS Method? For readers unfamiliar with the concept, the acronym represents preferences, awareness, right action, questions, and self-acceptance. This book traces one woman’s lived experience applying the method as a practical framework for personal growth. Rather than drifting through life on autopilot, she learns to engage more intentionally with her choices. That shift unfolds alongside extensive travel, with journeys through Cambodia, Thailand, Russia, and other destinations serving as both backdrop and catalyst. Along the way, she enters into honest, often probing conversations with herself about what she truly wants. The insights that emerge are thoughtful, relatable, and potentially transformative for readers navigating similar questions.
Changing Course Gracefully: A Strategic Guide to Building Foundational Self-Trust by Elaina Kelly Smith is a work of nonfiction that comfortably resides within the self-help genre while also functioning as a reflective travel narrative. The blend feels organic rather than forced, grounding abstract ideas in lived experience.
Smith begins by acknowledging a sense of disconnection from her own agency. Life felt directed by habit rather than intention. Through the combined practices of travel and the PARQS Method, she gradually examines the gaps in her inner life. Each step invites deeper self-awareness. The goal is not radical upheaval, but clarity. Stress softens. Calm becomes accessible. Direction starts to feel earned rather than imposed.
Exposure to other cultures plays a meaningful role in this evolution. Observing how people live elsewhere sharpens Smith’s understanding of what aligns with her own values. She invites readers to undertake a similar process, offering a structured and approachable path for self-examination. While few will replicate her exact journey, the method she outlines is adaptable. Used thoughtfully, it can help readers clarify their own priorities and move toward a life that feels more authentic, grounded, and purposeful.
What ultimately distinguishes this book is the warmth of Smith’s voice. Her prose is clear without being clinical. She writes as a trusted companion rather than an authority figure. Anecdotes feel intimate. Reflections feel earned. The result is a guide that soothes as much as it instructs, offering readers not just a method, but a sense of reassurance along the way.
Pages: 129 | ASIN : B0G9D8MQL5
The ADHD Awakening: A Woman’s Guide to Thriving After Diagnosis
The ADHD Awakening tells the story of a woman piecing together a lifetime of confusion, emotional intensity, and masked struggle into a clearer picture shaped by a late ADHD diagnosis. The book moves from her childhood experiences of impulsivity, shame, and missed signs into the chaos of undiagnosed adulthood, where relationships, parenting, and self-worth tangled together. It blends research with lived stories from many women, creating a guide that feels both personal and universal. The arc of the book shifts from raw memoir to a practical roadmap for self-understanding. It shows how ADHD weaves itself into every corner of life and how clarity can open the door to self-compassion.
The writing lands with this honest, almost disarming warmth, and I kept feeling like I was eavesdropping on someone telling the truth they never had the chance to say aloud. I liked that the author didn’t try to polish her past into something neat. The stories of hiding in plain sight, of dealing with rejection, of feeling intense emotions that others shrugged off hit with real weight. Some chapters made me stop and think for a moment. The moments about growing up in instability and learning to mask emotions resonated with me. They showed how misunderstood ADHD in girls can be and how easily the real story gets buried under labels like “dramatic” or “too sensitive.”
I also appreciated how the book layered science into the narrative without slipping into cold textbook talk. The explanations of executive dysfunction, emotional flooding, time blindness, and dopamine seeking were human and straightforward and strangely comforting. Sometimes I wished the pacing slowed down so that specific ideas could be explored more deeply, but the emotional honesty kept me hooked. There’s a tenderness in the way the author speaks to her younger self and to the reader. It made the book feel less like advice and more like an invitation to stop fighting your own brain.
I’d recommend this book to women who suspect they might have ADHD or who were diagnosed later in life and are now trying to make sense of the past. It’s also a great read for partners, friends, or anyone who wants to understand the emotional world behind the symptoms. If you like books that explain things with real stories instead of stiff jargon, this one will feel like a warm hand on your shoulder. It’s heartfelt, accessible, and practical, and it gives anyone navigating ADHD a sense that they’re not alone.
Pages: 319 | ASIN : B0G4SP8L38
Anxious Amy: Calming the Worries Within
Anxious Amy: Calming the Worries Within by Deanna Bussadori is a warm, sincere story that speaks to readers of all ages. Centered on Amy, a young girl living with persistent anxious thoughts, the narrative explores the quiet effort of appearing cheerful while feeling overwhelmed inside. Through gentle rhyme, the book captures how ordinary moments can feel unmanageable when anxiety takes hold. With steady support from her mother, Amy begins working with a counselor and learns to talk honestly about her feelings. That encouragement leads her to an important realization: anxiety can be managed, and asking for help is not weakness but growth.
One of the book’s greatest strengths lies in its rhythmic structure. The cadence mirrors Amy’s inner world while remaining accessible to young readers. Difficult emotions are presented with care, never feeling heavy or intimidating. Instead, the language invites empathy and understanding. Equally impactful is the portrayal of supportive adults. Amy’s mother and counselor are patient, attentive, and nonjudgmental. Their presence reinforces the idea that anxiety should not be faced alone and that a strong support system can ease stress, build confidence, and improve overall well-being.
The illustrations deserve special recognition, particularly the thoughtful use of color. Visual storytelling plays a central role in reflecting Amy’s emotional journey. At the beginning, she appears entirely in white, a clear symbol of uncertainty and self-doubt. As she begins to open up, color slowly emerges. Each new shade represents growth, self-expression, and acceptance. By the final pages, the richness of color underscores a powerful message: confronting anxiety allows Amy to feel whole, present, and authentically herself.
Anxious Amy: Calming the Worries Within is thoughtful, reassuring, and visually compelling, this book is an excellent resource for children and teens experiencing anxiety, as well as for the adults who support them. Its gentle message encourages open dialogue about mental health and offers a comforting reminder that no one has to navigate their worries alone.
Pages: 36 | ASIN : B0FQ5Z58NF
Our Soul’s Lens
Unveiled: A Journey to Soul Realization is part memoir, part spiritual roadmap, and part therapeutic manual that weaves together personal stories, neuroscience, energy work, and metaphysical exploration into one cohesive, soul-centered narrative. Why was this an important book for you to write?
In my trauma practice, I work to help people realize what happened to them was not arbitrary but happened for a reason and has meaning. This was the reason for writing this book as well. We can learn from meaning and create new meaning. This is a powerful function of Unveiled.
I appreciated the neuroscience you incorporated into this book rather than just presenting spiritual information; the combination makes it easier to trust the process. Did you find anything in your research for this book that surprised you?
No, I this is basic to trauma therapists. Trauma therapy evolved with the simultaneous evolution of neuroimaging; thus, the practices being developed could be visually measured and understood, accounting for rapid brain changing therapies we do not see in mental health nor addiction.
What were some ideas that were important for you to share in this book?
Placebo as both miraculous and as what we can do with deliberate meaning change. I discuss our need for evidence and Placebo studies provide that in dramatic and stunning ways. The Self-Healing approaches take that idea of what is possible and plug in applications that are amazing. Of course, this book’s goal is to see through our Soul’s lens and Soul connection is perhaps the pinnacle moment in this text.
How has your experience in the mental health field helped you develop this process for healing and awakening?
Yes, my practice and my ascension evolved as one, energetically and that was amazing. My clients presented things I need to learn, not only as a trauma practitioner but as a spiritual practitioner as well. It was and still is an amazing synergy.
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Have you struggled with letting go of past trauma or understanding why certain things have happened in your life? Have you ever considered a spiritual approach to healing? Or have you never even considered the existence of a soul? In Unveiled, licensed Creative Arts Therapist Herb Cohen challenges and guides our discernment about connecting to our soul and using that connection to better grasp the events of our lives.
With almost forty years of experience working with mental health, addiction, and trauma, Herb pondered the questions he repeatedly asked his clients and condensed years of informed practice into a concise approach to his process.
In this book, you will contemplate:
How separateness impacts our world
What role “awareness” plays in our lives
Why we see the world through certain lenses
How to connect to your soul and be guided by the essence of who you are
How to surrender to self-heal
The goal of this book is to take you on a spiritual journey from trauma or atrocity to one of love and bliss.
The Empowerment Revolution
The Empowerment Revolution is a personal-development book that blends memoir, psychology, spirituality, and practical coaching into a clear roadmap for moving from fear and survival into confidence and self-authorship. Dr. Stacey Kevin Frick opens with his own early story of trauma and learned fear, then expands outward into ideas about subconscious programming, emotional survival states, energetic narratives, accountability, and redefining success on your own terms. The book reads like a mix of self-help and narrative psychology, anchored by the author’s belief that empowerment is both a mindset and a lifelong practice of reclaiming your personal agency.
As I moved through the book, I found myself reacting as if in conversation with someone who’s lived the work they’re teaching. Frick’s stories of childhood fear and misaligned beliefs aren’t told for shock value. They serve as the emotional doorway into his central point: most of us inherit limiting stories long before we know we’re allowed to question them. His description of being suffocated as a toddler by his father hit me hard, not because of the event itself, but because of how clearly he connects it to the beliefs he carried into adulthood, beliefs about danger, abandonment, and worthiness. The writing is plainspoken at times, but the honesty gives it weight. I liked that he doesn’t try to sound like a guru. Instead, he sounds like someone who’s been in the dark and is willing to say exactly what it took to find the light.
What surprised me most was how often the book invited me to slow down and check in with myself. There’s a whole section about “old energetic narratives” that blend scientific and spiritual language, but the core idea is relatable: your environment shapes you, and if you’re not careful, it keeps shaping you long after you’ve outgrown it. The story of the CEO who still carried his father’s “you’re not good enough” energy despite having every external marker of success made the point better than any metaphor could. Moments like that made me pause and take stock of which beliefs in my own life were inherited rather than chosen. And even when the book leaned a bit mystical, the practical reminders, like checking where your feet are to remind yourself you’re safe, brought everything back down to earth.
By the time Frick gets to empowerment itself, the tone shifts in a good way. It becomes less about uncovering wounds and more about building something new. The chapter on accountability frames it not as a burden but as a reclaiming of your strength, almost like choosing your life rather than reacting to it. I appreciated that. It felt grounded, not preachy. And the distinction he draws between “proving” and “improving” landed with me. One drains you because you’re performing for someone else. The other fills you because you’re growing for yourself.
The Empowerment Revolution feels best suited for readers who enjoy personal-development books that mix introspection with practical coaching. If you like memoir-styled self-help or transformational psychology, you’ll probably connect with it. The book encourages you to look honestly at the beliefs that built your identity, question the ones that hurt more than they help, and choose new ones with intention.
Pages: 130 | ASIN : B0FNY5VM47
Our Beloved Futures
Our Beloved Futures unfolds as a sweeping spiritual reflection on collapse, rebirth, and our tangled relationship with Earth. The book blends myth, ecology, futurism, and deeply personal experience into a poetic call for awakening. It moves from the author’s own encounters with grief and wonder to a larger vision of humanity rising through crisis into a renewed sense of interbeing. The early chapters weave Venus, Inanna, banyan trees, and butterfly metamorphosis into a single thread about losing the self we cling to and returning to a more ancient, peaceful way of being. It is a book about remembering who we are beneath the noise.
The writing is lush and vivid. Sometimes it feels like prayer, sometimes like myth retold in the glow of a campfire. I loved that softness. It slowed me down and opened space for feelings I usually push aside. The author writes about grief, collapse, and accountability with a kind of tender boldness that made me stop and breathe. I found myself nodding along when she described anxiety as an “animal” roaming at night that looks for a mind to inhabit. I’ve felt exactly that, and seeing it named so plainly surprised and comforted me.
The language can get mystical. I would catch myself wanting something firmer to grab onto. Still, the sincerity kept pulling me back. The book’s belief in our ability to change is infectious. I appreciated how the author doesn’t dodge the hard stuff. She talks about complicity, privilege, and the uncomfortable work of reckoning with modernity’s harms. She calls it the “age of consequence,” and it resonated with me because it feels exactly like where we are. Even when I didn’t fully track every metaphor, I never doubted the heart behind it.
The book invites you to see yourself as part of a larger unfolding, and even if you don’t share every spiritual frame in its pages, the emotional truth still lands. I’d recommend Our Beloved Futures for readers who enjoy poetic nonfiction, mythic storytelling, and spiritually grounded reflections on climate, culture, and personal transformation. It’s especially suited for people who like to sit with big feelings and big ideas at the same time.
Pages: 238 | ASIN : B0FV4NWFGB
True Empowerment
Girl Grit: Savage Not Average is a blazing manifesto that exposes the wounds society inflicts on women and rebuilds them into fierce, unshakable self-worth. What moment or experience first sparked the fire that became Girl Grit?
In August of 2022, I was on vacation in Florida, swimming in a pool by myself, when the idea very suddenly hit me all at once. I came home, put pen to paper, and finished my first book GIRL GRIT: SAVAGE NOT AVERAGE in 5 months.
You write with such raw honesty. Were there parts of your story that were hardest to include or share publicly?
Yes and no. I am a mask-off author. True to my nature, I believe in authenticity and the realness of life. The good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s time we are hit with the truth as a society instead of sweeping real problems under the rug while wearing the façade of our ancestors. We will grow and evolve as a society when we face our problems head-on. As an author, I was never going to transform someone’s life overnight by writing about candy canes and gumdrops; I was going to do it through raw honesty, authenticity, and vulnerability were necessary.
The book moves from pain to power. How did you decide where to draw the line between vulnerability and empowerment?
Vulnerability and empowerment go hand in hand. You cannot access one without the other. Willing to be vulnerable is where true empowerment lies. We diminish our empowerment when we hide behind facades, suppress emotions, and refuse to solve problems head-on. People also usually go the route of drinking, drugs, or other addictions. I wasn’t about to go down those dark paths; I was going to take pain and truly turn it into power in an authentic and meaningful way.
If readers take only one message from Girl Grit, what do you hope it is?
Don’t be afraid of what anyone else thinks of you. Live your life authentically and heal others by refusing to put on the show of being perfect and infallible.
Author Links: GoodReads | X (Twitter) | Facebook | Website | Amazon
In Girl Grit, Dr. Elinsky passionately challenges and dismantles restrictive gender roles, asserting that they limit our potential as women and undermine our purpose as equal human beings. As an expert in gender relationship dynamics, Dr. Elinsky draws on extensive research to critically examine the very fabric of our social conditioning. She urges, “It is time to wise up, rise up, and ascend to your highest potential.” Celebrating the worthiness and grandeur of women’s capacities, Girl Grit will elevate you to unimaginable heights.
Finally, Dr. Elinsky advises, “Do not read this book unless you are ready to revolutionize your life as you know it.” Learn what it means to become a fire woman and unleash your regal authority into the world. Girl Grit will set your self-esteem on fire.
Unveiled, A Journey to Soul Realization
Herb Cohen’s Unveiled: A Journey to Soul Realization is part memoir, part spiritual roadmap, and part therapeutic manual. It weaves together personal stories, neuroscience, energy work, and metaphysical exploration into one cohesive, soul-centered narrative. The book begins with Cohen’s background as a trauma therapist and gradually unfolds into a layered study of consciousness, ego, and the soul. Through detailed examples from his practice, he connects emotional pain and trauma to spiritual evolution. He invites readers to step beyond intellectual understanding and instead experience transformation through awareness, energy, and love. The book blends science and spirituality, often questioning what we believe to be possible while presenting exercises for emotional healing and personal awakening.
The writing has a rhythm that’s equal parts therapy session and spiritual transmission. Cohen’s approach is brave, at times raw, and occasionally unconventional. He doesn’t shy away from merging clinical insight with mystical belief, and that tension between grounded psychology and ethereal spirituality makes the book compelling. I found myself pulled in by his metaphors, especially his “rancid food” analogy for emotional pain. It’s simple and unforgettable. The science sections can get dense, yet they serve a purpose. They anchor the spiritual claims in something familiar, and that balance keeps the material from floating too far into abstraction.
What struck me most, though, was that Cohen’s idea of “unveiling” isn’t only about peeling back old layers over time, but about reaching a single, electrifying moment when the soul is revealed in its fullness. Through his Flow technique and compassionate guidance, he describes how the shift happens all at once, the veil lifts, and in that instant, everything feels wide open, limitless, and vividly alive. It’s not a slow climb toward realization but a sudden, breathtaking recognition of who we truly are. That moment, he says, is available to anyone willing to surrender and allow Flow to move through them, and reading his account made me feel the rush of that possibility.
The book ranges from trauma recovery to near-death experiences, from energy work to quantum consciousness. At times, it reads more like a collection of awakenings. Cohen’s voice carries humility and warmth, and his belief in human potential feels genuine. The way he talks about awareness, about simply noticing, resonated with me. There’s a sense of relief in his words, a reminder that maybe we don’t need to fix ourselves as much as we need to see ourselves clearly.
I’d recommend this book to anyone standing at the edge of their own transformation, therapists, healers, or anyone who’s tired of looping through the same pain and wants to see meaning in it. It’s not light reading. It asks you to think, to feel, and to let go of what you think you know. But if you’re ready for that kind of journey, Unveiled offers a heartfelt and practical guide to becoming whole.
Pages: 158 | ASIN : B0FJYMJFY8
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