Candace Plattor’s Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself begins inside the disorder created when addiction takes over a relationship. Plattor shows how the loved one can become trapped in secrecy while rescue begins to pass for love. Greg’s cocaine use moves from party behavior into daily...

Leading Without Shrinking by Dr. Jessica Saulsberry is a well-written book that discusses a common challenge most leaders, business professionals, and executives struggle with: a pattern of shrinking themselves and gradually moving away from who they are. These patterns occur in three forms, which include...

Turn self-criticism into self-kindness using V.K. Munn’s Be Kind to You: The Quiet Practice of Self-Compassion. Munn emphasizes that mistakes, grief, and difficult days are part of life and deserve kindness. This guide covers how to forgive yourself, take time to rest, deal with guilt,...

Caregiving Is No Joke: A Caregivers' Guide by Gemaine Owen, MD, is both a practical and heartfelt guide. Owen mixes her professional know-how with honest stories from her own life. It’s a tough job. Caring for someone takes a lot out of you, but there’s...

You Knew Better: Why You Did It Anyway begins at the danger point between activation and commitment, where author Caleb Anthony says a felt future can pass for fact. His answer is The Gap, a repeatable method that places a checkpoint inside that part of...

Today’s world moves fast, but keeping your cool isn’t always easy when instant gratification isn’t possible. Still Not Freaking Out by Mahendra Vadnere explores how Stoic philosophy teaches people to retrain their minds to navigate life’s modern challenges. It features the writings of Stoic thinkers...

After years of trying to make life predictable, Keith Thorn finds that fear keeps returning even after loss has taught him that no amount of planning can stop change. In his book High Intention. Low Attachment, he follows the daily cost of that reflex as...

Agentic Intelligence: Strategy at the Speed of Data by Manish Sood with Venkat Venkatraman examines what companies must put in place before AI agents can handle real business decisions. The authors begin with a familiar problem inside modern organizations: a company can collect enormous amounts...

Dr. James P. Manning’s Deeply Human says that unrecognized emotion continues to shape conduct. He presents the body as the place where emotional information may appear before a person can name it. The book describes therapy as a process in which a person notices a...

Don Yaeger's The Business of Storytelling opens with a scene most readers will recognize—a holiday table, a room full of people, and one voice that holds the room completely still. That Thanksgiving memory of watching his father tell a story is the author's entry point,...