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At nineteen years old, Nicole C. Kear's biggest concern is choosing a major - until she walks into a doctor's office in midtown Manhattan and gets a life-changing diagnosis. She is going blind, courtesy of an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and has only a decade or so before lights-out. Instead of making preparations as the doctor suggests, Kear decides to carpe diem and make the most of the vision she has left. She joins a circus school, tears through boyfriends, travels the world, and through all these high jinks, she keeps her vision loss a secret.

Born Bright, C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, is a story of reconciliation, constrained choices, and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, California, Mason was raised by a beautiful but volatile 16-year-old single mother. Early on, she learned to navigate between an unpredictable home life and school, where she excelled. By high school, Mason was seamlessly straddling two worlds.

Exhausting schedules and a tumultuous work environment have left many nurses feeling burned out. The COVID-19 pandemic only compounded problems that have been plaguing nurses for decades. How can you take care of others when you don't have the time or energy to take care of yourself? In Courageous Well-Being for Nurses, Advanced Practice Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse, psychotherapist, and educator Donna Gaffney and National Board-certified health and wellness coach Nicole Foster provide essential strategies and resources.

Bobby wants to lose weight, so he’s thrilled when one of the most sought-after personal trainers in town offers him an unbeatable deal. Maeve is determined to whip Bobby into shape using her refined but unorthodox program, which includes her own brand of protein shakes and huge stack of motivational DVDs, which Bobby is supposed to play each night as he goes to sleep. Within weeks, it’s obvious that the program is working. But something else is happening. Bobby’s body is changing—and not just in terms of weight loss.

Michael’s life was normal, until his manager convinced him to dress up as a girl for a promotional TikTok video. It was meant to be silly, and then the video went viral. Michael is the reason for the video’s success; his transformation in that ten-second clip has strangers coming into the store to get selfies with Michael. All over the country, guys are sending pictures of a dolled-up Michael to their friends, trying to prank their buddies into admitting they think he looks ‘hot’.

In the vastness of the human experience, we sometimes overlook the relationships most precious to our hearts. That of our sacred privilege and responsibility to nurture all children. Conscious Brain Training from your heart is a key to cultivating happiness.

When Myles goes to the hospital to get his ankle X-rayed, he doesn’t expect to find a gorgeous blonde young woman sobbing in the cafeteria. He approaches her to see if she’s okay, and then discovers that she was just given six months to live.

Matt has always had a soft spot for his friend, Amanda. She’s struggled a lot in her life, and even though many of her struggles have been self-inflicted, Matt just wants to see her straighten out her life. So he offers to let her stay in his house while she’s in town for a big promising interview. He makes sure she’s rested and fed and comfortable before the big day… But when the day comes, Amanda is nowhere to be found. She decided to go out drinking the night before and never came home.

Birth With Power is the go-to podcast for expecting mothers who want to take charge of their birth experience.Hosted by Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankins, a practicing, board-certified OB/GYN with over 20 years of experience and thousands of births attended, this podcast delivers accurate, expert advice, real birth stories, and honest conversations to get you informed and empowered.Through solo episodes, guest interviews, and inspiring birth stories, you’ll get the tools to navigate pregnancy, labor, and postpartum with calm and confidence.Whether you’re planning your first birth or your fourth,...

Coffin Blossoms. A reminder that hope does spring eternal. In death itself, there is often beauty, life, and on rare occasions, even humor. The 24 stories in this anthology straddle the line between humor and horror in unique ways. Some wearing a wry smile. Others with tongue firmly in cheek. Ghosts, demons, vampires, myths, monsters, and murderers turned on their heads and shaken ‘til dizzy, then presented for you here, in Coffin Blossoms....

Everyone knows about Anika’s Book of Secrets. She’s spent years gaining the trust of her classmates to find out their secrets, which she keeps in her heavily-coded secret-encyclopedia. No one’s ever seen the book, never mind had the opportunity to attempt to crack the code. That is until Keith finds out his secret is catalogued in the book. He will do anything to get that book to stop others from finding out what he did. By some miracle, he gets his hands on it, and he gets right to cracking the code so that he can have his page removed.

This book provides an insightful, sometimes humorous guide to help abolish the notion that you have to be superwoman in order for your life to matter. The idea of being all things to all people could be at least part of the reason why you are not truly happy and healthy. The goal of this book is to help you truly examine the elements in your life that serve as stressors disguised as necessary evils. Let's face it - many of the evils we manage on a day-to-day basis are not necessary.

Letters to Jennifer is intended for mature, responsible, open-minded adults wishing to explore their sexual nature and learn generally hidden knowledge I wish I knew before having sex the first time. This book discusses illegal activities, illicit drugs, sexual behavior, and concepts that are not acceptable to the majority of prurient individuals.

Hamburg 1835. Mit dem Export von Eis sind Katya und die anderen Eisbarone zu Vermögen gekommen. Das Geschäft floriert, doch in Katyas Ehe kriselt es, und ihr Kinderwunsch bleibt unerfüllt. Im Hamburger Gängeviertel trifft sie eines Tages auf die kleine Betje, die sie sofort in ihren Bann zieht - nicht nur wegen ihres brandroten Haars. Das Mädchen ist erstaunlich geschäftstüchtig und stellt sich beim Betteln und Feilschen deutlich geschickter an als die anderen Kinder. Katya beschließt, Betje bei sich aufzunehmen und ihr vielleicht sogar eines Tages das Geschäft zu überlassen.

Use this book as a starting point to find help for yourself or your loved ones. You may not find exactly what you need right away, but be persistent and advocate. There are many effective mental health approaches, and rapid advances are taking place. Find reliable resources, and do your research. I encourage you to use the insights from our authors to spark your own conversations–at home, at work, in your community. Begin the conversation and never stop having it. Find the tribe where you are heard and understood. Let these things keep you hopeful, and leave helplessness in the past. -Dr....

Dr. C. Nicole Swiner---wife, mother, best-selling author and publisher, family doctor and #nosuperwoman expert. Ric Swiner--husband, father, veteran news anchorman and journalist, photographer, videographer and DJ Big Fella NC. ---------- This all began as an Instagram Live series, which was a lot of fun and, hopefully, there are little nuggets that we shared and will share here. We also did this for posterity, so that our kids can watch and read it later, when they grow up, and see how Mom and Dad survived the pandemic. We also wanted to carry on the tradition of what we've been doing for ...

Welcome to my first podcast

- GÜORILA TALENT MANAGEMENT: ^ Nicole C. Page / Model & Actress ^ TWO SIXXX / Spanglish HipHop Artist - GÜORILA MANIFEST PODCAST: Functional training and mindset coach, Fernando Arcia, shares a grounded spiritual guide for men who are non-spiritual. Co-hosted by "Bite-Size Yoga: A Better Way to Beat Burnout" author, Nicole C. Page.

Russland 1822. Katya kann im Eis lesen. Farbe und Klang verraten ihr, wie es beschaffen ist - eine besondere Gabe, die sie mit ihrem Bruder Grischa verbindet. Beide haben große Träume und lassen schließlich die Armut ihres Heimatdorfes hinter sich. Ihre Reise führt sie über die Nordmeere bis nach Hamburg. Zusammen mit den ehrgeizigen Kaufmannsbrüdern Thilo und Christian gründen sie ein Handelsunternehmen. Der kühne Plan: das Eis des Nordens bis in die Tropen zu verschiffen.

Since the release of her first book, How to Avoid the Superwoman Complex: 12 Ways to Balance Mind, Body and Spirit in March 2015, Doctor Swiner has been speaking locally and nationally for organizations, groups, high schools and universities about stress management, health matters and self-care. Along with speaking and teaching, she added self-publishing consulting to her list of duties, as friends and colleagues around her became inspired to write and publish themselves.