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Chef de groupe dans l’antenne GIGN de Guyane (ex GI2G), le major Franck Robin est un gendarme d’élite. Dans ce livre, il nous relate ses missions d’infiltration périlleuses au coeur de l’enfer vert de la jungle guyanaise pour traquer les garimpeiros, ces chercheurs d’or clandestins sans foi ni loi. Au cours d’une mission, il est blessé par balle et devient paraplégique. Désormais en fauteuil roulant, il refuse que ses enfants le voient comme un handicapé, eux qui le considéraient jusqu’alors comme une sorte de super-héros.

In West Point to Wall Street, veteran Omar Ritter reveals the lessons he’s learned over two decades of struggle with PTSD. A decorated combat veteran, Omar endured an eighteen-hour surgery for a brain injury and was medically retired from the military. He embarked on a second career as a finance and accounting executive, grappling with mental health challenges and searching for ways to alleviate the debilitating struggle. Now he’s offering powerful insights for confronting these demons and embracing the healing journey.

When Valerie Maidment was a baby, doctors diagnosed her with hydrocephalus, a condition that causes excess fluid to build in the brain. After the second surgery at age 9, she was declared healthy; she lived a happy, normal life, graduating from high school and college, having children, and buying and managing her own convenience store. Until one day, when everything changed. Fluid began to build once again in Valerie’s brain, causing immense pressure that—due to misdiagnosis on the part of multiple doctors—caused her optic nerves to break down.

Imbalanced traces Sheri Thomas' remarkable journey from a front-page headline in 1962 to her current role as an advocate fighting to remove the stigmas surrounding physical disabilities and mental health.

Part one of Three Years With A Monster comes to you in real time as Dennis scribbled it down in his journal and recapped the events every few months in blog form. You will experience the heartbreaking daily struggle as it unfolds. Eating disorders are nearly impossible to understand unless you come face-to-face with them. This book brings you so close you can smell the monster’s breath. The Wilkinsons were directed to use family-based therapy and dialectical behavioural therapy. Helpful explanations and observations of these tools are contained in this section.

Known and loved by his family and friends as quirky and different, Travis is a man on a mission to find his purpose in a world that often throws him grenades. Through the pitfalls of high school, the workplace and dating scene, he shares an honest account of his personal struggles with undiagnosed autism, ADHD and dyslexia. Written with dark humour and powerful reflection, Stairway to the Spectrum is an entertaining and thought-provoking memoir which will appeal to anybody who has ever felt uncomfortable in their own skin.

A journey through rare disease, a dream of flying, and the gratitude found in acceptance. When Jonathan first threw his parachute—in that instant—the rushing air was still, the falling stopped, and a dream of flying began to take shape: soaring, free from the burdens he carried, held in the sky by a fabric wing. But a cancer diagnosis began a cascade—surgeries, treatments, recurrences, and life-altering side effects. Learning to fly felt impossible.

Helen Keller’s name is forever linked with courage, perseverance, and the power of education. In Midstream: My Later Life, she picks up where The Story of My Life left off, offering a rare look at her journey beyond her early triumphs. Here, Keller recounts the challenges and victories of adulthood—her advocacy for people with disabilities, her international travels, her friendships with world leaders and artists, and her tireless fight for social change. She writes candidly about setbacks, loneliness, and the weight of public life, but also about the deep sense of purpose that guided her.

Damiano e Margherita sono due fratelli che hanno molte cose in comune: la voglia di mettersi in gioco, la caparbietà e la tenacia nel voler inseguire i propri sogni, e l'autismo. Insieme si sono esibiti in televisione e, mano nella mano sul palcoscenico, sembrano finalmente aver trovato il loro posto nel mondo. Già dalla mattina successiva, però, i due sono obbligati a tornare alla realtà. Damiano vive a Rimini e ha le idee molto chiare sul futuro: una moglie – "l'altra metà della mela" – con cui avere dai dodici ai venti figli, milioni di dischi venduti, concerti in tutto il mondo.

How I Own Cerebral Palsy is a captivating look into the life of Carmen Lebron, a young woman set on living a life of positive impact free from physical and mental barriers. Heartfelt, honest, and full of liberating moments for the soul, Carmen's story is a riveting testament to why we should never, under any circumstances, consider giving up.

Philippe Croizon roi de l'humour ! Philippe Croizon n'est pas un être comme les autres ! Son histoire dramatique est devenue sa force, son moteur, sa raison de vivre. Amputé des bras et des jambes, il a pourtant décidé de rire de tout, et tout le temps ! Si ses exploits sont régulièrement les "Unes" de la presse (Dakar, traversée de la Manche...), Philippe est connu pour son humour sans limite et sans filtre ! Cet humour, il nous le livre pour la première fois dans ce livre qui va mettre à rude épreuve vos zygomatiques.

Annie and Rolf Lulloff were entering an exciting stage of life in 1976 when the first signs of health issues that lie ahead for Annie began to emerge. A sudden loss of sense of smell, severe anxiety attacks, vision issues, and other neurological challenges piled up, eventually culminating in a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease on New Year’s Eve, 1989. But the Lulloffs were not about to let Parkinson’s get the best of them.

From childhood stutterer to inspirational speaker! The Courage to Shine is a powerful and inspirational memoir by Eileen Forrestal, a former anesthesiologist who transformed her life. After a lifetime of "putting people to sleep", Eileen is now in the business of "waking people up" as a writer, speaker, and coach. In The Courage to Shine, Eileen retraces her journey. She shares her childhood trauma of an accidental overdose of junior aspirin that led to her subsequent speech impediment, the embarrassment of which caused her to hide her voice in silent shame.

In this inspiring memoir, Emily Falcon chronicles her lifelong journey with a congenital cardiac condition. In 1982, at seven weeks old, she had a heart attack that destroyed 40 percent of the left side of her heart. This was her entry into a world of multiple cardiac procedures, surgeries, hospitalizations, and a later diagnosis of glaucoma. Balancing these serious conditions defined her life.

A sudden rise in opioid addicts coinciding with a sudden drop in legally available opioids, created a desperation for prescription drugs never seen before in this country. Physicians shut down their previous practice of repeated refills, once the death toll was too high to ignore. As hospitals and rehab facilities instituted drug testing and CORI checks to ensure employees were clean, one health-care option stood alone as a place to easily obtain painkillers. That place was home health care.

A forthright, honest and rousingly triumphant memoir from a woman who has to live with a highly visible different appearancedue to a rare skin condition. Say hello to Carly. 'In fairytales,the characters who look different are often castas the villain or monsters. It's only when they shed their...

Why the Cane? is a personal memoir which recounts the true story of a man’s regaining a level of activity he thought would not be possible after a devastating injury. It chronicles his medical journey, the upheaval suffered by his family, and the counsel and support which shifted his focus and provided a framework to make thoughtful decisions for the long term.

Life is difficult for many people who face great dilemmas. For them, life can be a blur. However, this statement will be quite literal when you only put yourself in my shoes. For years now, I have suffered. During my teenage years, I was diagnosed with an untreatable nerve condition that tragically made me lose my sight within a speck of time. Since then, I had to learn and adapt to my new way of living—as a young blind adult.

In Turning Tragedy Into Triumph, Michael Bush fearlessly opens up about his extraordinary battle with both mental health challenges and the harrowing ordeal of fighting and surviving stage 4 cancer. Through gripping honesty and unwavering vulnerability, Bush takes listeners on an emotional rollercoaster, from the depths of despair to the pinnacle of triumph, demonstrating the indomitable human spirit's capacity for resilience and transformation.

Acclaimed Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger shares the moving and uplifting tale of his cross-country journey with his adult savant son who suffered brain damage at birth. Buzz Bissinger’s twin sons were born three minutes—and a world—apart. Gerry, the older one, is a graduate...