The story begins with a phone call from Robin. She and I had been working together in therapy for almost ten years. She usually didn’t call between sessions, partly because she was very aware of and careful about boundaries, but also because severe anxiety about making phone calls was one of her symptoms.

The story that follows this phone call is one of courage and determination. Despair to Deliverance is a memoir — one unique in its perspective from both client and psychotherapist — that uncovers the harrowing experience of recovering from mental illness.

Robin Personette’s descent into a severe mental health breakdown is not an experience she goes through alone. With her longtime psychotherapist, Sharon DeVinney, Ph.D. at her side, Robin must first learn to see the value in life before she can continue living.

With touching transparency and a courageous examination of what it means to fight for a stable and healthy life, both Robin and Sharon welcome readers to follow them on their unique journey together.

For anyone who has ever struggled with life’s challenges — or who has had a loved one dealing with mental illness — Despair to Deliverance is a comforting message of perseverance and hope.

Wonderful book! Very interesting and engaging. I feel more empowered just reading it. :) There are so many passages that I have been reading out loud to my students and then we have been talking about them as a class. The pictures are gorgeous as well and I love how colorful the book is. I’m going to buy a few extra to keep in my classroom library for kids to check out.

Though it’s a potentially lucrative enterprise, the reality of independent consulting seldom matches the dream. Most solo consultants and boutique consulting firms are perpetually within six months of bankruptcy due to the sputtering unreliability of their new business engines.

The problem, according to international consulting expert David A. Fields, is twofold: 1) lack of a consistent, proven plan, and 2) fundamental misunderstanding about what clients want in a consultant. Fields, who has helped hundreds of consultants and boutique firms worldwide build lucrative, sustainable practices, replaces the typical consultant’s mindset of emphasizing expertise and differentiated processes with a focus on building relationships, engendering trust, and solving clients’ existing problems.

In The Irresistible Consultant’s Guide to Winning Clients: Six Steps to Unlimited Clients and Financial Freedom, Fields synthesizes his decades of experience into a step-by-step approach to winning more projects from more clients at higher fees.

From nuts-and-bolts business advice and tactics to a deeply insightful breakdown of the human side of a very human profession, Fields delivers a comprehensive guidebook that is at once highly approachable and satisfyingly detailed.

The Problem with Networking

Remember setting up face-to-face meetings to network? Now, most networking is done online, haphazardly, trying to connect on a one-to-many basis. But this isn’t working for most people.

The Solution

“Making Your Net Work: Mastering the Art and Science of Career and Business Networking,” gives you both a time-tested process and hundreds of tips from two veteran networking experts to help you get the best results from your networking.

Learn from Billy Dexter who has created one successful leadership network after another as a Fortune 500 executive. and Melissa G Wilson, author of three best sellers on the subject, who has spent 20+ years teaching professionals, entrepreneurs, and top corporate executives the science of networking.

Both authors have spent thousands of hours figuring out how to network more effectively and now they want to give back in the best way possible by sharing their time-tested secrets with you.

Get answers to questions, such as:

• What is a network?
• Why do I dislike or even hate networking?
• Can I change my attitude?
• Isn’t this mostly a big time waster?
• Where are the best places to network?
• Who should I bring into my network?

Bonus:
Billy and Melissa will share with you:

• a networking hierarchy for optimum results.
• a time-tested assessment that will reveal your networking strengths and weaknesses.
• how to network.
• a free copy of Melissa’s networking guidebook (upon request).

This book is great! It has everything you need to successfully follow the Whole30. It outlines the program, answers questions, gives an good overview of the why and science behind the whole30 and has menu plans, grocery lists, and great recipes. It’s very up to date with social media links and web information. I was really impressed. It’s fun and easy to read and gets you excited to make a big change in your diet and life.

It would definitely seem like a very dumb theory but it is astounding how much people and organizations operate on the superficial level because it is easier but when you operate as the book suggests, you start seeing everything from a completely different perspective, and you start finding the small and tiny cracks in you competitions’ armours so you can benefit from that, the WHY you exist is what inspires people/customers around you.

I purchased this book on a whim, but also because of that ‘tickle’, the intuition of knowing that things simply are not as they should be in my life. If you have any doubts that your life may not be as tidy or orderly as it should be, read this book. It is not only fascinating, but inspirational. The very process of reading it is transformative. My tidying process had already begun before I started reading it, but this book offers a clear level of guidance I had been missing. I hope to continue and leap into the full blown process of organizing my life. Anyone who is considering the ‘tiny home’ concept absolutely needs this book.