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What Resilience Really Looks Like After Adversity

I used to think resilience was the moment you finally reach the mountaintop, arms open wide, looking back at all it took to get there, yelling, “I did it!” Or standing on a podium with medals around your neck, celebrating what it looks like to not give up even when…

Amy PurdyJune 12, 2026

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A Practical Path to Peace in an Unsettled World

Co-authored by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman, The Peace Guidebook is for anyone who has ever wondered how to find stillness in the middle of a storm and how to stay there.

BookTribJune 11, 2026

Better Self Hidden Gems Nonfiction

Shifting Out of Autopilot: Wayne Williams’ Call to Live With Intention

Wayne Williams' Grab Another Gear is a motivating guide to living with intention rather than drifting through life on autopilot.

BookTribMay 28, 2026

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Finding One’s Function in a Fractured World

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.

BookTribMay 11, 2026

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A Christian Framework That Digs to the Roots of Anxiety

Dawn Isler Cox’s The Root of All Fear takes a familiar therapeutic idea — that thoughts shape feelings and behavior — and asks what happens when the thought beneath anxiety is not only “I’m not enough,” but something much deeper: our beliefs about the nature of God. That shift gives…

BookTribMay 19, 2026

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Turning the Page: Books to Gift 2026 Graduates

Graduation marks both an ending and a beginning — a moment filled with possibility, pressure and no small amount of uncertainty. As the Class of 2026 steps into a rapidly changing world, the path forward may feel less defined than ever before. These books speak directly to that in-between space,…

BookTribMay 1, 2026

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“Crazy”: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory

In Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory, author Lyn Barrett shatters misconceptions by offering a deeply personal, first-hand account of living with DID and healing from the trauma that caused it. This award-winning memoir invites readers into Barrett’s world, demystifying a disorder too often sensationalized and instead…

BookTribJanuary 5, 2026

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Staying Afloat: A Mother’s Grief and Healing

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.

BookTribApril 21, 2026

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A Faith-Filled Guide for Teens Finding Purpose and Identity

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.

BookTribApril 20, 2026

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From Town Clown to Tech Titan in Jeff Burgess’s Hard-Earned Rise

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.

BookTribApril 10, 2026

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A Wise Meditation on the Freedom to Choose

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.

BookTribApril 9, 2026

Better Self Nonfiction

The People Who Shape Us: Finding Meaning, Healing and Connection in Other People

What if the story of your life isn’t really about you? In Other People: A Memoir and Reflections on Trauma, Connection, Meaning, and the Neuroscience of Healing, Michael S. Piraino makes a quiet but persistent case that who we become is shaped, piece by piece, by those around us. It’s…

BookTribMarch 31, 2026

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A Proactive Path Through the Teen Mental Health Crisis

In recent years, rates of anxiety, depression and other forms of emotional distress among teens have risen significantly, while access to qualified mental health professionals remains uneven at best. For many families, the question is no longer whether support is needed, but where to find it. Into this gap steps…

BookTribMarch 19, 2026

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A Smart “Emotionary” for Anyone Who Wants Better Words for What They Feel

In Choosing Emotions, D. Earl Johnston offers a fresh “emotionary” that defines 272 emotional states through direct language, everyday phrases, and quotes spanning 3,000 years. Both entertaining and deeply researched, it gives readers a rare tool for naming what they feel with clarity and purpose.

BookTribMarch 5, 2026

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A Practical Guide to Staying Alert in an Unpredictable World

A calm, practical safety guide that favors awareness over fear. Tim Beard’s Look Twice, Volume I offers simple decision tools, scenario-based advice, and checklists that help readers stay alert at home, at work, out in town, and on the move.

BookTribFebruary 25, 2026

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Divorcee Speaks Out About Marriage Trauma in “They Get Your Highs (I Get Your Lows)”

Alcoholism. Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Bipolar Disorder. ADHD. Any one of these conditions is a challenge to forming and maintaining a healthy relationship with others. Anna Knight's husband had all four. In her enlightening and harrowing memoir, They Get Your Highs (I Get Your Lows): A Story of Survival and New…

Cynthia ConradMay 12, 2021

What Resilience Really Looks Like After Adversity

A Practical Path to Peace in an Unsettled World

Shifting Out of Autopilot: Wayne Williams’ Call to Live With Intention

Finding One’s Function in a Fractured World

A Christian Framework That Digs to the Roots of Anxiety

“Crazy”: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory

Staying Afloat: A Mother’s Grief and Healing

A Faith-Filled Guide for Teens Finding Purpose and Identity

From Town Clown to Tech Titan in Jeff Burgess’s Hard-Earned Rise

A Wise Meditation on the Freedom to Choose

The People Who Shape Us: Finding Meaning, Healing and Connection in Other People

A Proactive Path Through the Teen Mental Health Crisis

A Smart “Emotionary” for Anyone Who Wants Better Words for What They Feel

A Practical Guide to Staying Alert in an Unpredictable World

Divorcee Speaks Out About Marriage Trauma in “They Get Your Highs (I Get Your Lows)”

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