Healing, the Way Home to Ourselves

In Healing, the Way Home to Ourselves, embark on a transformative expedition, navigating the shadows that house our deepest traumas and guiding us towards the radiant light of joy. Within the pages of this book, dear souls, lies a heartfelt invitation to reclaim our lives from the icy grip of pain and ignite the healing flame within.

Together, we embark on an intimate voyage, delving into the intricate landscapes of our emotions, relationships, and the profound journey back to self-love. Beneath the weight of our buried anguish, we discover the truth of our authentic selves, longing to be unveiled from the ruins of our past. Embracing the power of healing, we welcome every fragment of our being with open arms, like a beloved friend returning home.

Through the depths of our anguish and towards the pinnacle of bliss, we travel hand in hand, uncovering the answers to our prayers and the pathways to our personal restoration. Within these pages, a compassionate soul traverses the tapestry of human existence, leading us from estrangement to a sense of belonging. Piece by piece, feeling by feeling, a broken heart begins to mend, restoring the lost fragments of our identity.

How Have I Cheated Death? A Short and Merry Life With Cystic Fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the UK's most common life-threatening diseases, affecting over 10,000 people. There's currently no cure.

Not all that long ago, a CF diagnosis meant an early death. Tim Wotton is one such sufferer, who was told from an early age that he would not live beyond his 17th birthday. One of the oldest survivors of this crippling disease, How Have I Cheated Death? is a diary of his 39th year, a countdown to the illusive 40.
A story of triumph over adversity, this compelling chronicle, the first book written by a CF sufferer at 40, offers hope and inspiration, demonstrating what cannot be cured needs to be endured. Written with great honesty and humour with an enlightening Foreword by the actress Jenny Agutter, this profound account is a testament to the daily dedication required to deal with CF and recently diagnosed diabetes while managing a normal family life.

It Is My Garden! So, I shall Tend to It Myself

Have you ever wondered who you are? 

Or, if you could be exactly who you want to be?

All too often people present to the world, a representation of themselves which has been constructed from others‘ agendas!

How would it feel to go on a journey of self-discovery, and connect with your authentic self? And so become the person you were meant to be. 

You are entitled to prioritise your own wants and needs!

This book will encourage you to discover and connect with all elements of your being, the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, enabling you to reach enlightenment of self.

Ivf and Infertility, Our Journey: A True Story Of One Couple's Struggle Against The Odds'

Experiencing infertility is a challenge that can deeply overshadow a person’s life. It affects one in six couples. And yet, it is still a taboo subject.

When Verity and her husband, Paul, found themselves plunged into that uncertain world, and the pain of experiencing miscarriages along the way, they discovered it to be a world that no one discusses. They couldn’t even find books written by anyone who had actually experienced it themselves.

That’s when Verity, calling upon her experience as a journalist and magazine editor, decided to keep a diary of events that unfolded upon their traumatic journey of trying for a baby in the hope that one day, as a book, it would help rid the taboo shroud that surrounds infertility as a subject and help people on their emotional journeys.

If you are experiencing infertility and don’t know which way to turn, then reading this book about one couple’s journey first-hand may be just the support and inspiration that you need.

“I believe that this book has a rich and detailed description of emotional and physical constraints that came with this journey easily described in a natural way without any artificial make-up or masks.” 

—Mr Raef Faris, MSc FRCOG

“This book should also be read by all the team involved in care. It will give them an in-depth understanding of the often very rough seas that the couple have to endure. Verity, a big thank you from me for helping other patients!”

—Mr Michael Dooley, MMS FFSRH FRCOG

Joseph

Joseph is a book that tells the real-life story of a single mother coping with the pressures of life and bringing up a child with autism. The author, Philomena Scully, captures a world that is relatable to other parents – the main audience that the book has been written for.

It shares a variety of honest and funny stories, covering common topics that she has struggled with over the years while supporting and loving her son despite the extreme differences that her new life entailed. It also illustrates simple techniques and tips to help ordinary parents who are finding themselves in same situation.

Its written from the heart with a simple structure that people can learn from. It lays bare the trials and tribulations she encountered and how she accepted that autism is a different way of life through the love of her son.    

Keep Stepping - A Step-By-Step Journey to a Clearer View of Mental Well-Being

Mike Owen, born with two congenital heart defects, battled with cardiac issues until the age of seven, when he underwent open heart surgery that changed his life.

For the following 31 years, Mike was plagued with intense and disabling heart palpitations. In 2004, the cause of the palpitations was diagnosed and, after a short cardiac procedure, for the first time in 38 years his heart was stable.

Life became easier. His confidence grew. But so did his workload. After three years of work-related stress, his heart succumbed to a new type of palpitation which would blight his life for the next four years. After taking steps to reduce the frequency and intensity of his cardiac problems, Mike finally felt like he had turned a corner. However, in 2017, he was plunged back into despair following a series of dramatic events.

When his Occupational Health Doctor gave him an unexpected Mental Illness diagnosis, Mike embarked on a new path. He now had to deal with psychological issues, learn mindfulness techniques and work through the trauma of his childhood and the uncertainty of having spent so many years living with his heart problems.

With his faithful dog, Coco, always by his side, Mike confronted the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness, in his own way. He found physical, emotional, and mental stability thanks to his diagnosis, and this is his uplifting story.

The Seven Gates: Seven Steps Beyond Self-Awareness

This book is a 7-step model that teaches you how to take your power back. Unknowingly, we give away our power day in and out due to subconscious programs inherited since conception. Any situation can be worked through with these steps. The model provides an understanding why you attract patterns in your life and explicit steps on how to shift the subconscious so you stop repeating unhealthy subconscious patterns you probably aren’t even aware of!

When Sleeping Women Awaken

What if you could discover a hidden part of yourself that is waiting to express your true voice and vision?

What if you could challenge the beliefs and norms that have shaped your identity and limited your potential?

What if you could embark on a journey of self-discovery that would empower you to be who you really are?

This book invites you to take a walk with me and explore these questions. It might just change your life! If not, don’t give up. Keep reading, keep searching for your own truth. You deserve it!

The Mama Sutras

The Mama Sutras is a practical, spiritual, psychological and emotional toolbox for modern mothering. Threaded with ancient wisdom and magnified within a contemporary context, the words within these pages are a doorway into the unspoken challenges and complimentary bliss faced by modern mothers. It dares to bring to the surface the deepest fears we carry and gently addresses them with a bold yet forgiving voice. This is the handbook for opening your heart, growing your soul and healing your mind.

As modern mamas, we can gain a lot of insight from ancient traditions and theories. The Mama Sutras serves as a present-day contemplation and translation of these. This book is for you if you’ve ever felt that mothering is like battling an inner demon (or two) or you feel exhausted from the endless giving and the aspects of motherhood which live alone in your mind and need a friend to hold hands with. Within these pages are a retreat, a non-judgemental place to turn, the wisdom you wish you had and a place to ground and regather when everything around is spinning. Come and catch your breath within these pages.

The Maternal Mindset

A journal for all mums going through the postnatal journey
Conceived and compiled by new mum Annie Humphris, The Maternal Mindset is a journal for anyone navigating the trials and tribulations of motherhood.  It aims to create a safe space for readers to release their thoughts and feelings without any judgement.
Simple to read and to navigate, this book uses minimalist graphics and limited colours to avoid overwhelming even the most burnt-out or sleep-deprived mum.
As well as offering advice and support on topics such as Overwhelm, Burnout, Expectations vs Reality and Identity, The Maternal Mindset includes many contributions from ‘Real Life Mums’.

Change

Change happens outside the comfort zone circle.

This manual is written in order to help guide teachers through the practicalities and skills of actual teaching which can often get over looked. Change: A Book for Yoga Teachers helps to guide you in the skills of becoming a great teacher.

This manual steps away from the standard teaching aspect around the history and philosophy of yoga and focuses on actual teaching skills such as dialogue, tone of voice, how to sequence, where to stand, how to teach online and much more.

Yoga teaching has changed so much over the last 20 years. If you are new to teaching or have been teaching a long time this book will help you refresh your teaching skills to adapt to what is needed in this new world of yoga. If you want to be a great teacher then this is the book for you!

Paul Vitz: Psychological Mythbuster

American psychologist, Paul Vitz, was a pioneer critic of the ‘me, me, me’ generation and humanistic psychology which flourished alongside it. He stands out because of the cultural, psychological and spiritual depth of his critique. Mythbusters are rare and Vitz is a mythbuster par excellence, tearing apart several generations of selfism with insight, wisdom and wit. Other critiques came much later. He saw it all at the time.

This book takes the reader on a journey into the life and thought of a rare thinker, a questioner of ideological sacred cows, and one of the most original and gifted psychologists of the past century.

Paul Vitz was a visionary for his time in confronting and mythbusting humanistic psychology amidst ‘a tsunami of humanistic adulation.’ This book gives perceptive insights into Vitz's thought and times. Well worth reading!

– Catherine MacLaurin, Psychologist, Senior Wellbeing Advisor (SWA), Health and Safety Directorate, NSW Department of Education and Training, Australia

The American psychologist, Paul Vitz, has been a remarkably prescient and courageous critic of the humanist psychology movement, headlined by Carl Rogers. In this book, Wanda Skowronska has provided a thorough and convincing account of Vitz’s work. Her book deserves a wide readership.

– Colin Patterson STD, Dean and Permanent Fellow of the former John Paul II Institute, Melbourne, Australia.

In her book, Wanda Skowronska masterfully narrates the philosophical, theological, and historical context of the development of humanistic psychology, especially that of Carl Rogers, through the lens of Paul C. Vitz’s life and publications. This work critiques the influences of contemporary psychology’s humanistic origins of self-fulfilment theories and cultural Marxism and honours the lifelong work of Paul Vitz, who is undoubtedly one of the most significant Catholic psychologists of our times.

– Professor Craig Steven Titus, S.Th.D./Ph.D. Divine Word University, USA.