Writing as part of recovery. Authors who turned illness, fear, or a diagnosis into a book, and what the writing did for them beyond the publishing.
HealingOctober 1, 2026
Writing a memoir can wear you down physically and emotionally, even decades after the events. A client who had to stop three chapters in, my own experience, and how to protect yourself.
Book ReviewsSeptember 7, 2026
Some of your deepest fears may not be yours at all. Mark Wolynn argues that trauma leaves marks across generations, and teaches a technique for listening to the sentences people repeat about their worst catastrophes, then tracing them back through…
Book ReviewsSeptember 7, 2026
Louise Hay's "You Can Heal Your Life" contains a real insight about self-criticism alongside a claim about illness that does harm, and both need saying in the same breath. This review covers what's actually useful in the book, where it…
Business ContinuityJuly 4, 2026
Lightning fried a computer room around me. Backhoes cut my DR links. A tabletop exercise with a truck bomb and an active shooter taught a room of professionals that half of them could not authorize anything. Twenty years of disaster…
Business ContinuityJuly 4, 2026
A DR plan is a set of precise claims about a specific environment. A transformation is the deliberate, wholesale changing of that environment. Put those two sentences together and you see the problem most transformation programs never address.
HealingFebruary 9, 2026
National Nurses Day tribute to the 4.2 million people who hold the healthcare system together. Their stories deserve to be books.
Case StudyJune 5, 2025
This partially completed memoir shares the incredible journey of a woman and offers hope and healing to others trapped in similar circumstances.
HealingMarch 27, 2025
Deanna Farnell joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to share how she left a 30-year corporate CPA career after an autoimmune diagnosis, opened a first-of-its-kind healing center, and now helps people eliminate stress at its root through daily…
HealingJanuary 21, 2025
It was during one of the darkest stretches of my life, not long after my wife Claudia died following a nine-year illness, that I wandered up to two enormous wooden rocking horses at a Renaissance fair
HealingJanuary 20, 2025
It was either the third or fourth weekend of seven at the Irwindale Renaissance Faire when a life-changing event occurred. One seemingly minor incident led to eight years of beauty, photography, frien
HealingJanuary 19, 2025
The Faire After visiting Skull Rock, I decided to pick up the camera and photograph anything that seemed appropriate. I visited the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden and the Huntington L
Author TalksSeptember 25, 2023
Carolyn Deck joins Author Talks to discuss Above the Turbulence, choices, healing, and a travel-themed guide out of pain to purpose.
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