A Purposeful Life
A Purposeful Life is the inspiring personal story of author, Agitu Wodajo, detailing her life and extraordinary accomplishments growing up in the 60s in Ethiopia, studying and working in both Ethiopia and the United States, her services to others while raising five well accomplished children as a single mom, and traveling the world. The author takes readers through her various tribulations and the incredible perseverance, optimism, and faith she sustained through it all in order to find and heed her call to empower underprivileged women to become self-reliant and bring a positive change to their family lives and their communities.
Keep Your Fork! Something Sweet is Coming
Keep Your Fork: Something Sweet Is Coming is an inspiring and motivating guide for anyone experiencing a challenge, whether it’s addiction, cancer, sexuality, depression, long-term readjustments from the global pandemic, or trauma. Chapter by chapter, Bill Kavanagh offers concrete help using his personal experiences and professional training to lead readers in examining their past, present, and future through exercises, writing prompts, and meditations.There is always light, always hope, and always love. If you are currently struggling with a challenge in your life, keep your fork. Something in this book will lead you to a sweet dessert.
LOVES Betrayal
It takes only a moment to say you love someone, but a lifetime of regret when they break your heart. Would she survive his abuse, or will her heart die trying? A young, naïve girl convinces herself that her love for him would make all well. Cara wanted to be loved, while Paul took her innocence and treated her like trash. Because she loved him above all else, she ignored the warnings, excusing his selfish desires. She overlooked his bullying and control. She ignored his sardonic family members, who encouraged him to ill-treat her further. She felt powerless to stand against the persecution. What would become of her? Where could she go or turn for help? Read one woman’s journey through years of torment.
Me and My Shadow: Memoirs of a Cancer Survivor
Me and My Shadow – Memoirs of a Cancer Survivor is a brutally honest account of one teenager’s struggle to understand and deal with the most feared diagnosis known to society: cancer.
At 18 years of age, John Walker Pattison was thrust onto a roller coaster ride of emotional turbulence – his innocence cruelly stripped from him; his fate woven into the tapestry of life.
After years of failed chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments that ravaged his physical frame and almost destroyed his psychological stability – his parents were told that he would not survive. Yet, today, he is one of the longest surviving cancer patients in the UK.
Eight years after his unexpected recovery, the news that all parents fear, his daughter is diagnosed with terminal leukaemia. Yet like her father, she too would defy the odds and go on to become an international swimmer.
Pattison turned his life full circle and became a cancer nurse specialist at the same hospital that made his diagnosis decades earlier. He prescribes chemotherapy and cares for individuals with the same cancers experienced by both him and his daughter.
Throughout his journey, Pattison’s inspirations were the space rock legends, Hawkwind. He would get to play on stage with his heroes at the Donnington Festival in 2007.
More significantly, he found solace throughout his cancer journey in the history and spirituality of the Lakota Sioux Nation. In 2018, he would spend time on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with the indigenous people of South Dakota. The same people who, unknowingly, supported him through life’s greatest challenge: cancer.