Conquering Your Child's Chronic Pain

Homeless and facing months of difficult recovery, Alan has nowhere to turn—until a mysterious woman enters his life and invites him into her home. Generous and kind, Angel seems almost too good to be true, but all is not as it appears. Alan soon realizes that before he can return to his own journey, he must first help Angel with hers.

From one of America’s most beloved and bestselling storytellers comes an astonishing tale of life and death, love and second chances, and why sometimes the best way to heal your own suffering is by helping to heal someone else’s.

Relapse is about more than drug addiction.
 

"Sometimes I think about angels, and I'm not talking about those man-made, Plaster of Paris knockoffs either "

J has spent too many years living a life of debauchery that has more to do with his own sense of self-loathing than physical addiction, and he has returned to his small hometown to restart his life.

He doesn't need rehab. He's well clean of the hard stuff, the soft stuff, and the things in between that enabled him to bury the fact that he isn't clearly sure just what he is. His gay friend Molly has her opinion. His controlling mother who fills her home with pictures and statues of angels has hers. The gang of drunken thugs who send him to the Emergency Room after an ugly beating certainly has an opinion.

A chance meeting with a charismatic nurse promises a much needed respite until the addict next door puts J on a renewed path of self destruction that threatens to re-ignite all the fears he's spent years trying to manage: his sobriety, his identity, his fragile sense of self.

When his health is endangered, everything J depends on for sanity slips out of his grasp and the very real threat of relapse becomes one that is more psychologically complex than mere drug dependence.

Anomaly is a literary fiction - come - psychological thriller from a Canadian author about addiction and recovery in the seamy world of self discovery and acceptance. It's ultimately about prejudice and bias. It's about labels and fulfillment. More than that, it's about finding a way to make peace with yourself when no one else, not even yourself, understands you.

Olivia needs to escape the abusive same-sex relationship she finds herself in. When her father suffers a stroke and requires 24-hour care, she recognizes an opportunity to start fresh.

The problem is that she must return to a childhood home full of memories that drove her away in the first place, and that sent her brother spiralling into addiction.

What secrets lie at the family homestead that Olivia wants to bury? In order to avoid her own self-destruction, Olivia must find a way to resolve her mother's suicide, her brother's addiction, and her father's need to be understood-- even if it means she must delve into the darkest parts of her own psyche.

When Dr. Herbert Benson introduced this simple, effective, mind/body approach to relieve stress in The Relaxation Response twenty-five years ago, the book became an instant national bestseller. Since that time, millions of people have learned the secret of the relaxation response--without high-priced lectures, drugs, or prescription medicine. The tremendous success of this approach has turned The Relaxation Response into the classic reference recommended by most health care professionals and authorities to treat the harmful effects of stress.

This revitalizing, therapeutic approach, discovered by Dr. Benson and his colleagues in the laboratories of Harvard Medical School and its teaching hospitals, is now routinely recommended to treat patients suffering from heart conditions, high blood pressure, chronic pain, insomnia, and many other physical ailments. Requiring only minutes to learn, and just ten to twenty minutes of practice twice a day, the Relaxation Response has proven to be one of the most effective ways to relieve the tensions of modern-day living for a richer, healthier, more productive life.

From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell--and a special way of telling them.

In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door. Discover what scares them and what moves them to tears. Learn about rookie mistakes and why death sometimes calls for duct tape.

Enjoy tales of the dearly departed spending eternity naked from the waist down and getting bottled and corked--in a wine bottle. And then meet their families--the weepers, the punchers, the stolidly dignified, and the ones who deliver their dead mother in a pickup truck.

If there's one thing undertakers know, it's that death drives people crazy. These are the best "bodies of work" from America's darkest profession.

"Sick, funny, and brilliant! I love this book." --Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of They Bite! and Rot & Ruin