Two longtime lovers: spray paint artist, Chor Boogie, and yogini and performance artist, Bast.

One shocking drug relapse--after more than a decade clean.

Then the disheartening discovery: 90% of narcotics addicts relapse in the first year with standard models of treatment.

The lovers navigate the treacherous labyrinth of addiction and ultimately chose to pursue treatment with an obscure indigenous African sacred plant medicine called iboga, used since ancient times for shamanic initiation and spiritual healing, and proven to have powerful addiction breaking effects. It sounds too good to be true, but it's seems to be worth the try, considering the alternatives.

This medicine is only available well beyond the borders of the United States. There is hope for healing, if they can both make it to the shaman in time.

The Two Week Wait is absolute torture.

But does it have to be?

The Two Week Wait Challenge is a humorous guide for women trying to conceive, navigating the time between potential conception and administering a pregnancy test. Chock-full for easy, inexpensive self-care practices and positive affirmations, the challenge encourages women to preserve their sanity by taking brief moments for themselves each day. Plus, there is a quick way for partners to get involved in the goodness, reconnecting couples who are struggling to cope with infertility.

The Two Week Wait Challenge includes:

• Self-care challenges to own each day of the TWW and beyond, including activities for your mind, body and spirit
• Tone-setting positive affirmations, specifically selected for women who are trying to conceive
• Sections dedicated to daily reflection and note-taking
• An infertility dictionary with commonly used acronyms
• Places for your partner to show you love (and finally feel involved)

˃˃˃ It's funny, it's easy, and it's undeniably needed.

Get yours today!

Designed to help caregivers understand how to cope with and overcome the overwhelming challenges that arise while caregiving for a loved one―especially an aging parent―Role Reversal is a comprehensive guide to navigating the enormous daily challenges faced by caregivers. In these pages, Waichler blends her personal experience caring for her beloved father with her forty years of expertise as a patient advocate and clinical social worker. The result is a book offering invaluable information on topics ranging from estate planning to grief and anger to building a support network and finding the right level of care for your elderly parent.

Motherhood: Lost and Found takes the reader on a journey where Alzheimer’s disease and infertility intersect. At age 33, award-winning author and poet Ann Campanella returns to her home state of North Carolina ready to build a horse farm and start a family. Ann’s foundation is shaken when she experiences multiple miscarriages at the same time her mother spirals into Alzheimer’s. The author’s devotion to her family and her horse Crimson sustain her as her mother’s illness progresses and her own window of potential motherhood begins to close.
The voice in Ann’s memoir has been called constant and abiding, her imagery indelible. Her graceful, exacting language rises above the grief of infertility and the struggle to care for aging parents, connecting the reader ultimately to the heartbeat and resilience of the human experience.
This memoir was a finalist in the Next Generation Independent Book Awards, the world’s largest not-for-profit independent book awards.

Praise for Motherhood: Lost and Found:
“Ann Campanella’s Motherhood: Lost and Found is a chronicle of family tragedy and triumph told in some of the most truly lyrical writing you’ll ever encounter. She writes of grief and loss with heart wrenching honesty but without sentimentality then adds humor in such unexpected places I found myself laughing and crying all on the same page. This is the best memoir I’ve read in years....”- Judith Minthorn Stacy, author of Maggie Sweet, winner of the Carolina Novel Award

“The book is about ... the love of a family ... and how that love sustained them during a long and painful crisis, and how Ann’s relationship with her husband Joel was deepened and enriched by that crisis, and how three generations are better than two. Motherhood: Lost and Found has much to teach us all as human beings.”- Anthony (Tony) Abbott, Professor Emeritus at Davidson College, author of Leaving Maggie Hope, winner of the Novello Festival Press Book Award

“A sensitive, in-depth study of one woman’s slow descent into Alzheimer’s as detailed by her daughter, Motherhood: Lost and Found involves us in the dynamic of a multi-generational family as well as the author’s own story: horses, poetry, three terrible miscarriages, and in her 41st year, a final miracle.” - Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize winning poet

“Ann Campanella’s Motherhood: Lost and Found records the ordinary and extraordinary courage of those who must endure debilitating, even crushing illness and those who must suffer with them while they do so. Here is bravery, patience, reconciliation, and -- at long last -- hope. I found this story valuable in an intensely personal way. I think others readers will find it so too.”- Fred Chappell, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina

“I was so deeply touched by this memoir. Anyone with children or aging parents will be moved by this searingly honest story. Ann struggled with infertility at the same time she was trying to care for her mother with Alzheimer's. In a clear-eyed way, she explores how her family navigated the suffering caused by her mother's illness, and her own heartbreak of multiple miscarriages. Every sentence is beautifully crafted, with a poet's attention to detail. The images are indelible, and in the end, the reader is completely uplifted by love and hope.” - Lisa Willliams Kline, award-winning author

About the Author
Formerly a magazine and newspaper editor, Ann Campanella writes creative nonfiction and poetry. After a chain of personal hardships, including a series of miscarriages and her mother becoming ill with Alzheimer’s, she felt compelled to share her story. She is the author of several collections of poetry including the award-winning What Flies Away. Her work has been published in local and national journals and anthologies. She lives on a small horse farm in North Carolina with her family and animals. To learn more about the author, visit her website at www.anncampanella.com and at Amazon Author page.

Hatching Charlie is the odyssey of psychotherapist Charles McCormack that begins in episodic violence and the segregationist South then moves to a boarding school in France where he is abandoned. Unable to speak the language Charlie is isolated and bullied. Without the love and protection of family or friends, he becomes anxious and depressed. He begins a desperate quest to make sense of a world that has gone mad and of the relationships that allowed it to happen, a drive for understanding that will shape the rest of his life. He wonders about things most people take for granted: love, loving, life, death, family, son-hood, spouse-hood, fatherhood and grand fatherhood. Charlie strives to understand "How to create a life worth living: a personally meaningful life?" The going is not easy. Charlie encounters many failures in his life before discovering his calling. Then, while working blue-collar jobs to support his family he obtains degrees in psychology and social work. Then, as a therapist, he suffers PTSD following a patient’s suicide, begins writing, is published, and invited to join the faculty of a prestigious psychoanalytically oriented training institute. Subsequently, he is named Clinical Social Worker of the Year in Maryland and promoted to Senior Social Worker of Adult Long-Term Inpatient Services at a renowned psychiatric hospital. Finally, he writes a book entitled “Treating Borderline States in Marriage: Dealing with Oppositionalism, Ruthless Aggression, and Severe Resistance”. Yet, as his career trajectory rises his personal life plummets. He is confronted by mental illness in his own family, becomes a single-parent father and divorces, all the while continuing to struggle to answer those early questions. Now, armed by decades of thinking, training, and helping others Charlie confronts the impact of his childhood traumas on his personal capacity for love and loving, and of creating a personally meaningful life. As you read "Hatching Charlie" you'll find elements of your own journey in his and his answers will surprise yet resonate. What people are saying: ..."Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Hatching Charlie: A Psychotherapist's Tale" is an inherently fascinating, thoughtful, and thought-provoking read from beginning to end. While unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Contemporary American Biography collections, “Hatching Charlie” will also prove to be of immense interest to the supplemental studies reading lists of psychology students as well.” Midwest Book Review ..."You’ll read your story in this beautiful book. Then you’ll wake up, determined to embrace life, your life, broken as it is, and to make some meaning out of the broken pieces." Reader's Favorite ..."...compelling. If I’d had more time, I’d probably have read it in one sitting...the book truly covers the full gamut of human experience – warmth, love, friendship, loneliness, unhappiness, violence, despair: life and death." Literary Titan ... "Socrates famously said that the unexamined life is not worth living. By reading about how others, such as McCormack, have examined their lives, perhaps this task is made a little easier for the rest of us." Portland Book Review. … It was amazing. Intriguing, Powerful, Insightful, Compelling, Fantastic Read! I Loved It!" Goodreads Review. …"I purchased it in audio formats and I have listened to it twice. It is insightful and well written... I found it inspirational!" Facebook Comment. … “Hatching Charlie” brought me to the edge of the storm. My congratulations and love to Charles McCormack for his perseverance, tenacity and fine, fine authentic work. What a weighted puzzle, what a multi-headed monster, an endless confronting and grappling, which he tells us all about in such fabulously clear and uncompromised language.” Goodreads Review …A 2017 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Book Awards Finalist. ...Silver Award Winner, Literary Titan Awards

For twenty years, I thought that I had been marching through the stages of grief in a straight line. I had been following the formula, crossing each processed grief experience off my list. Except that I was totally deluded. And I didn’t discover that until Jim, my beloved father-in-law, died. I found myself drying off from my shower the morning after his death, really hoping he couldn’t see me naked. Or, if he could, that he was averting his eyes. From that moment, my path through grief resembled a roller coaster, spiraling and twisting and turning, circling back around. Echoes of past trauma, including childhood abuse and cheating death, would no longer be ignored. I somehow needed to get from the beginning to the end of this grief adventure, and I don’t have a good sense of direction. But what is always present during a journey through grief, regardless of the path chosen? Hope. Caskets From Costco is a funny book about grief that demonstrates the certainty of hope and healing in an uncertain and painful world.

On a cold April day, Ben Hylden tried on his suit coat for the upcoming school prom, then sped toward nearby Park River, ND, for an appointment. Running late and driving too fast, he lost control of his car on ice, flipped the car and was thrown out the passenger's door-plunging face first into an icy field. Ben's face and body were crushed, along with his dreams of being a basketball star. As his battered body lay in the field, Ben's life seemed to be coming to an end. However, it turned out to only be the beginning of a remarkable journey of faith that showed him glimpses of life beyond this world, and gave him a new perspective on what matters most.

With parents tormented by secrets, guilt, and shame, Jo Dibblee quickly learned to protect herself. Faced with her parents' alcoholism, drug abuse, and depression, along with the sexual assault and stalking of an "upstanding" foster parent, Jo began, early in life, to use a coping strategy she now calls frocking. With humor and hope, Jo shares the harrowing rollercoaster of her life story and gives the low-down on frocking—how she learned it and used it to survive, how she found it holding her back and what she had to do to, once and for all, Frock Off. Despite harsh truths, brushes with death and agonizing betrayals, Jo’s heart shines through these pages, offering promise, wisdom and inspiration to any reader who has learned to hide and longs to be free.

"I've come to think that grief is two-fold. It's the painful longing for the physical presence of our loved one and it's the emotional heartache we feel as we disengage from these unfulfilled dreams, the sorrows of what could have been. The stories of a life un-lived." Della Temple

Winner of the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award.