Dec 18, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Philosophy, Psychology \ Mental Health, Queensland
ISBN 978-1-923333-25-3
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Memories full of courage, resilience, love, and joy
A life-story that is captivating, historical and thrilling. A young man torn in wartime Germany during WW2 adapts to a new life with
all its challenges in a strange, far away country, different customs and language.
During this transition he asks poignant questions about life and its meaning not only for himself but for all mankind.
Spurred by the turmoil of his life, excruciating pain and the death of his loved ones, he recalls fears experienced during the Nazis, Gestapo and the SS domination. And the horrific and senseless Allied bombings of his beloved homeland from without.
He examines the psychological aspects of his life and how it has affected his thoughts and responses. Theological avenues surfaced when he endeavoured to search for the higher being and the reason for existence. The good and the bad that haunts all of
us in our To the Edge of Eternity. Philosophical thoughts invaded his mind questioning love, hate and lastly death and what they really mean to us as spirits on a human journey.
Subject to a lifetime of much suffering and doubt, the writer has experienced firsthand the plight of the needy.
The author is now inspired to share his story and deep thoughts on these very contentious issues.
Nov 18, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Health & Wellbeing, Medical, Memoir, Psychology \ Mental Health, Self-help \ Personal Development, South Australia
ISBN 9781923333666
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ISBN 9781923333871
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A True Story Of Resilience, Positivity and Self-Help
AT THE AGE OF 32, STAYING POSITIVE WAS ROB’S BIGGEST HURDLE, WHEN HE FOUND HIMSELF FACE TO FACE WITH STAGE 4 HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA.
While the doctors excelled in diagnosis, surgical procedures and prescribing chemotherapy regimens, when it came to maintaining
optimism or prescribing diets that nourish a body ravaged by cancer and treatment, the advice on hope and healing was scarce.
As Rob’s journey progressed, he seized the unique opportunity to analyse and document his path to maintaining a positive mindset.
Through simple yet powerful ideologies, Rob delves into the importance of perspective and captures deeply vulnerable moments through his journaling. Through the face of uncertainty, the agonising wait for a diagnosis, and the chilling realisation of death’s
veil over his life, Rob offers profound insights into the crucial strategies that enabled him to break free from the grip of negativity.
“I couldn’t escape by travelling overseas or quitting my job, the way most young people deal with their issues. My philosophy was to break the journey down into steps. One by one, there is a step to recognition, to recovery, and to maintain mindfulness and self-strength.”
Your Mate, Hodgkin’s is a compelling and detailed account of Rob’s journey through cancer. This must-read story weaves together extensive research with the firsthand experience of a chemotherapy patient. It offers valuable guidance to patients, support networks, and practitioners alike, providing essential tools for everybody coping with cancer and other life-altering traumatic events.
Nov 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Christian, Education Studies & Teaching, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Memoir, Perth, Psychology \ Mental Health, Western Australia
ISBN 978-1-923265-27-1
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ISBN 978-1923333-65-9
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God’s Love Through ALPHA in Prisons
This book chronicles the extraordinary journey of a retired civil engineer who heeded God’s call to minister to prisoners. After 42 years in engineering, Bernie embraced a new path as a chaplain, running Alpha courses in Prisons. This book recounts his transformation and the profound impact of Alpha on the lives of inmates. Through heartfelt testimonials, prisoners express their gratitude and newfound faith. With over 500 prisoners completing Alpha at six prisons in Western Australia to date, the ministry has witnessed remarkable spiritual awakenings. The narrative also highlights how spiritual transformation can reduce crime and recidivism, advocating for a rehabilitation-focused prison system. Bernie’s story encourages readers to step out in faith, promising an adventurous journey filled with blessings and purpose in serving the Lord.
Enjoy and be transformed!
BERNIE O’LEARY HAS had an amazing and awe-inspiring journey, over the last 10 years, running Alpha in Western Australian Prisons.
The Lord specifically led him into this ministry, after a 42 year career as a Civil and Water Engineer, with nothing to do with Prisons in his life! Bernie is the Alpha Prisons Ambassador – Western Australia, with Alpha Australia.
He has seen about 540 prisoners doing Alpha in WA, so far (at 2024), and seen many prisoners coming to the Lord, and being transformed.
This book has also shown the results of some overseas initiatives, in major focuses on spiritual transformation and rehabilitation, rather than only a custodial focus.
These have shown huge reductions in number of prisoners, and recidivism rates.
He has said that this whole journey continues to be an incredible adventure, with huge eternal impacts!
Sep 24, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Brisbane, Christian, Health & Wellbeing, Self-help \ Personal Development
ISBN 978-1-923333-15-4
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ISBN 978-1-923333-16-1
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Your Guide to Happily Ever After
My Loving Right Bible is a trilogy of feel good, easy-to-relate-to books that explore what you really have to do to finally have the relationship that you’ve been dreaming of but can never find.
Author Julie Reith takes you on a journey of self-discovery, giving your mind a makeover so that you are ready to find the love you deserve. The clever weaving of humour with situations that every woman searching for love can relate to provides a captivating read, guaranteed to leave you more confident, more positive and more inspired! Through this series, the author opens up a new way to land your Mr. Right. This book is a perfect start to understanding real love and the powerful truth for loving right.
Go grab your slippers and the everlasting packet of Tim-Tams. You’re in for a read of fun,
Sep 23, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Health & Wellbeing, Psychology \ Mental Health, Victoria
ISBN 9781923333208
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Ancient Realms New Directions
Imagine that you wake overseas one night and think you are in hell. In this darkness you fight oriental demons and dodge laser beams. You are strapped to the bed of a baffling building, tended by people you don’t recognise. Then imagine you are home again, and that you gradually get better on no medication. You take a year off to travel.
What would you then think and feel? Far from being broken you finish a medical degree and study psychiatry whilst holding on to your secret. Spin forward forty years after a career in community psychiatry. You decide to study and Beyond Bipolar- Ancient Realms New Directions is incepted, about living mood and psychotic disorders from the inside and the outside.
About the Author
Australian born psychiatrist Dr James Le Bas PhD is the author of Beyond Bipolar, Ancient Realms, New Directions. As a sufferer himself, his career was awakened in a basement ward in Manilla, the first of four hospitalisations for psychosis, depression, and mania. His new book explores the role of ostracism in the determination of what he has termed the tripolar disorders and incorporates the models of Jaak Panksepp and Jeffrey Gray. In his new book he deals with the difficult issues – love, addiction, and loss, as he faces up to the mystery of mental illness, both at large and within himself, with his new mode of understanding – the Tesseract.
Aug 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Addiction & Recovery, Australian, New South Wales, Poetry, Psychology \ Mental Health
ISBN 978-1-923265-42-4
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Dive into the raw, unfiltered world of All My Bad Habits. This is a collection all about the chaos and beauty of going through the waves and motions of this crazy, beautiful and complicated world. Whether it’s falling in love so hard you feel your bones crack on the sidewalk
or realising you have an inner child who’s wounds need your attention. Along the way we pick up habits that are a product of this profound, beautiful and utterly scary experience of growing up as a young adult. The people that come through the doors of our life come in so many unexpected forms, and he would change everything.
Join the club and witness the weave of words with a deft hand, exploring themes of love, loss, addiction, and redemption. This collection is a testament to the power of vulnerability, capturing the essence of our most intimate flaws and the redemptive beauty found within
them. Bold, introspective, and profoundly honest, All My Bad Habits is a journey through the heart’s darkest corners and back into the light.
