Sometimes the simplest instructions are the best. Too complicated and it becomes highbrow and intimidating. Regardless of your yoga intellect, fundamental and approachable will meet the reader where they are every time. Yoga is designed to encourage and invite, not rebuff through a haughty diatribe of pretentious discourse. Did you see what I just did? […]
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Indestructible: The Hidden Gifts of Trauma
When it comes to uplifting books, Indestructible by Krista Nerestant challenges you to dig deep into the emotional baggage holding you back and encourages you to come out stronger than ever before. Filipino-American, Nerestant is a ‘natural born medium’ and had always been encouraged to keep this side of her hidden. But in time, she […]
The Girl Who Lived
When Faith is released from the psychiatric hospital, she struggles to regain her footing. Despite the fact that her mother has established for her a daily routine, an apartment and scheduled several support groups to keep her focused, she can’t cope with reality. As the guilt-ridden survivor of a horrific crime in which a ‘rat-faced […]
Unsympathetic Victims
Officer Katie Mickey is charged with protecting her arch enemy, defense attorney Ashley Montgomery, who’s life has been threatened after she’s defended a local pedophile, Victor Petrovsky, and won his release. Katie just can’t see past the fact that Ashley would willingly choose to defend such scum. Though it’s Ashley’s job and she’s not sympathetic […]
Return on Ambition: A Radical Approach to Your Achievement, Growth, and Well-Being
If you’re set on achieving big goals, being ropelled by your ambition gets results. And this book offers the definition of ambition as “a powerful yearning and drive to attain a future stat that is different from today and challenging to reach.” While it can be driven by many root factors, it’s the never-ending fuel […]
How To Keep Your Daughter From Slamming The Door
Parents and caregivers, rest easy. Deborah Ann Davis’s book is designed to reduce your headaches, curb your stress and forge a better bond with your teen. I loved the title and was excited to see what the book had in store. And Davis delivered on her promise. Capitalizing on her experience as a mother, teacher and […]
Legacy
The story is primarily about a young girl, Adrian, who’s raised by a mogul and taught to be a superstar. After surviving the abuses of her ex-husband which culminated in a life-threatening attack resulting in his death, her mother Lina becomes ruthless in her pursuit of success. The horrific incident, that Adrian witnessed as a […]
The Manhattan Job: A Spider Heist Thriller
When incriminating tapes are stolen right from underneath their noses, the Sky Thieves team have their new mission. Sterling, Blair, Marco and Alec each have their reasons for wanting to recoup their bounty. The tapes are the key to bringing their enemy, corrupt politician, Jim Jacobson to his knees. A former colleague of Blair’s when […]
How to Build a Smile: 14 Ways to a Better You
If you’re a fan of Books Uplift, you know I’m a sucker for any book that promises a path to more positive outcomes. So, it was only natural that How To Build a Smile by Robert M. Cole, MD made it onto my reading list. And I wasn’t disappointed. Cole has outlined fourteen ways that […]
Deep Kindness: A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk and Act in Kindness
When author Houston Kraft formed the Random Acts of Kindness group in high school, he quickly learned that he wasn’t alone in seeing a need for adopting the habit of sharing kindness in his school and community. He also learned that while we all crave kindness and see the benefits of it, we are not […]