Personal Crisis

Each phase of life brings with it its own set of challenges, and the average middle-aged person is busier than ever. Whether it's career changes, raising children, caring for elderly parents, dealing with loss, loneliness, navigating divorce, tempering hot flushes or keeping up with fast-paced societal changes (or all of the above), we have a lot on our plate.

What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. For the first time in American history, our sons will have less education than their dads. It's a crisis of mental health. As boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It's a crisis of sexuality. Sex is a minefield for our sons. They're bombarded with mixed messages, afraid of being either too sensitive or not sensitive enough.

In popular memory, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the quintessential political “natural.” Born in 1882 to a wealthy, influential family and blessed with an abundance of charm and charisma, he seemed destined for high office. Yet for all his gifts, the young Roosevelt nonetheless lacked depth, empathy, and an ability to think strategically. Those qualities, so essential to his success as president, were skills he acquired during his seven-year journey through illness and recovery.

Frank highlights three “tenants of consciousness” from where to re-discover professional and personal happiness: Expectation, Responsibility, and Mindful Activity, without so much of the noise and hype that traditionally surround the “self-help” space.

La guía para fortalecerse con las crisis, haciendo lo que sabes, mientras disfrutas tu vida. Por Carlos Devis, autor bestseller de Un inmueble al año no hace daño En un mundo donde los problemas nos abruman, este libro te enseña a verlos como escalones para crear la vida que quieres. ¡No leas este libro… vívelo! No está diseñado para darte respuestas rápidas, sino para ayudarte a hacerte las preguntas que realmente importan. No te dice cuánto vales, te muestra cómo reconocerlo cada día.

If you’re going through a rough time and feel at a loss, this book is for you! Finding Your Way presents Drake Taylor’s unique perspective on life, encompassing lessons he learned over years of experience. Out of his “darkest days” came a wealth of tools for navigating through stormy waters and difficult times. Here you will find encouragement as well as tips for improving your life and relationships. Designed to pick people up, this book lays out principles for changing your thinking, setting goals, and planning for ultimate success.

Aggression touches all of our lives. Whether it is a customer or angry coworker, an upset family member, a fellow student at school or college, or a stranger we bump into on the street, all of us, at times, must deal with aggressive people. Ellis Amdur has become well-known for his series of profession-specific books on dealing with aggressive and emotionally disturbed individuals. Words of Power is different. It is written for ordinary people who may, on occasion, have to deal with an angry, even enraged person.

¿Es posible ser feliz? Sí, pero con dos condiciones fundamentales: una actitud positiva, que es necesaria pero no suficiente, y actuar en consecuencia. La vida feliz no se da tan sólo con desearla intensamente; hay que construirla. La casi totalidad de la literatura respecto del éxito o la felicidad enfatiza y se limita a señalar la actitud, equivalente a querer, pero deja a un lado el actuar; que es decidirse y comprometerse. No se trata solamente de asumir una actitud, sino que se requiere de voluntad para abordar los problemas con valentía y decisión.

This book serves as a comprehensive guide to navigating life's most challenging circumstances. It provides practical strategies and actionable insights, offering a new perspective on adversity as a powerful means to unlock hidden potential. More than a guide, "Crisis = Opportunity" is a manifesto for those who seek not merely to survive but to thrive in the face of adversity.

Cindy Couyoumjian’s third book explores the silent retirement crisis that will impact millions of Americans. She uses the term silent to convey the idea that the majority of those who are about to retire, or are in retirement, share a common and unspoken fear—running out of money.

Stress is an unfortunate fact of modern life, and when those stressors are catastrophic - divorce, illness, caregiving, loss - a brain under stress becomes a brain in crisis. In this invaluable guide, award-winning psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Love and neuropsychologist Dr. Kjell Hovik explore how to heal the damage that prolonged stress can do to your brain and your health. In When Crisis Strikes you'll learn how to prevent these side effects from hijacking your daily life.

The American mental health system is in crisis, and those affected by its shortcomings are drowning without the tools and resources they deserve and need to thrive. In Born into Crisis, author Kenneth Nixon shares his story of growing up with a mother with severe mental illness and a family stuck in an enduring cycle of trauma. He knows firsthand the impact trauma can have on a person's life. Kenneth not only takes you on a powerful journey through his stories, he provides cogent and practical strategies for creating lasting change in our mental health system.

Hay un momento en la vida en que hay que detenerse a reflexionar: ¿quién soy?, ¿a dónde voy?, y sobre todo, ¿soy feliz? En La crisis de la mitad de la vida, Hugo Cuesta nos invita a abordar estas preguntas, nos habla de su camino y nos convoca a hacer una pausa para diseñar la mejor versión de nosotros mismos.

If you access the web from a smartphone, tablet, or computer, this audiobook will add to your knowledge about social network risks, online trust and privacy, content oversharing, and smartphone addiction. Written in plain English (not geek-speak), Cyber Crisis also offers easy-to-follow steps you can take to improve your personal cyber security. You will learn at least one new thing you can do that will lower your risk of being hacked or harmed online.

In his newest book, Courage in Crisis, executive coach, pastor, and humanitarian Maksim Asenov shares his own unique story of overcoming crisis and poverty. He explains to listeners that despite how tough the battle you are in might be, you must never give up, never give in, and never surrender.

Nina Restieri was a wife, a mom of four young kids, and a successful entrepreneur. Despite having what most people would consider “it all”, happiness eluded her. She beat herself up daily for not being grateful. But as she looked around, she realized most of the moms she knew shared that same sense of sadness, stress, and feeling of being overwhelmed, all while working hard to keep up the “perfect mom” appearance.

Fights at school, sexual abuse, eating disorders, school crises … the list goes on and on. Hardly a day passes without a local crisis at involving junior highers or high schoolers. This practical resource covers the whole continuum of private and public crisis, equipping parents to work with their kids to deal with any crisis in a way that helps the individual and helps the family stay intact.

Peter Foggin offers a fresh, actionable framework for resilience, crafted from personal experience and decades of mentoring global leaders. This powerful guide helps you overcome feelings of stuckness and overwhelm and transform life's setbacks into catalysts for growth. Peter intimately understands resilience—not just intellectually but personally, having faced bankruptcy, loss, and profound uncertainty.

In Parenting the Crisis Generation, Dr. Jean Young Bai, a highly respected child and adolescent psychiatrist, combines her professional expertise and personal insights to deliver a compassionate guide for navigating today’s youth mental health crisis. As both a practitioner and the mother of two children, Dr. Bai offers a unique perspective on the challenges families face, making this book an indispensable resource for parents.

Evelyn Amdur, a hospice social worker, began to write these stories midway through her career, collaborating with her daughter, Shelley. Many traditional cultures have a custom of "death songs", which rest on the idea that at one's last moment, one somehow sums up the essence of one's life in a phrase or a song. Woven into these stories are instructions on how to die well, not only in what spirit we face death itself, but also through instructions on what is necessary to prepare our families, to ready our estates, and to manage all the players who may be involved in our deaths.