How people deal with emotional trauma can vary. Following traumatic experiences, people may feel unable to function properly, and, most of the time, are unable to process challenges that lie ahead. The good news is that there are effective ways to cope with the stressful...

Wanderer’s Journey by Vedran Dedić is a moving and emotionally charged memoir that skillfully melds the universal appeal of football with the personal struggles and triumphs of a refugee searching for a new home. Dedić's journey from Bosnia to Germany and eventually to the United...

Wolff's Law: A Memoir by Brian Harrison is a profound reflection on resilience, self-discovery, and the emotional complexities of life. Harrison’s narrative weaves through a lifetime of personal trials, from family struggles and relationship challenges to career setbacks and self-reinvention. Each chapter unearths formative memories,...

Wake Up! Change Up! Rise Up! by Lynn Lok-Payne takes a look at how gratitude, joy, and love influence overcoming personal and emotional obstacles. She recounts her experiences with grief, such as the loss of her husband and a house fire, speaking on how gratitude,...

Welcome to Katie's Brain: A Brain Cancer Survivor's Story by Katie Kaiser Smith chronicles the author’s journey after being diagnosed with inoperable, terminal brain cancer at 41. Through a daily diary that began as a way to update friends and family, Katie documents her four-year...

In Where the Shadows Dance, Dana Killion chronicles her experiences living with her husband's alcoholism and their eventual divorce. The memoir leans into Killion's emotional struggles from living with an alcoholic, marked by feelings of emptiness and helplessness. Initial signs of trouble included an incident...

In Wishing on Rainbows, Laura Silveira takes readers on an emotionally raw and transformative journey through grief, loss, and unexpected renewal. This memoir is not just a story of surviving the unimaginable pain of losing a child; it's a testament to the indomitable resilience of...

Welcome Home: My Journey Back to Myself is a work of non-fiction by author Sara LaRiviere in the autobiographical, motivational writing, and slice-of-life genres. In this heartfelt, honest work, the author shares her poignant journey of self-discovery amidst the influences of family, friends, and societal...

Women of the Wind tells a fascinating and heartbreaking true story of neglect, abandonment, abuse, and abduction. Angela Gail Griffin shares her mother's family's childhood memories and tales that she passed down to her. The recollections span three generations of women intertwined with 19th- and...

Welcome to the Bright details Lisa Febre's journey through colorectal cancer and the aftermath marked by surgeries, including a successful colostomy reversal, and subsequent discoveries of residual cancer in her ovary, which required further procedures. Febre credits music as playing a crucial role in her...