American companies and institutions pay exponentially more in legal fees and payouts than all other developed countries in the world. With $60 million in average fees among Fortune 500 companies, and average payouts of over $2 million, it's safe to say American institutions have a problem, and to make matters more dire, people who come forward to report claims are being unnecessarily re-traumatized by the process.

In this book, you will learn how to:

• Save your organization time, money, and reputational damage by creating a win-win situation for everyone involved with a claim.
• Provide a trauma-informed response to claimants that avoids escalating the problem.
• Train your team to understand that the current approach is costly and does little to protect the organization's interests.
• Know the signs of trauma and understand how to complete an investigation in a humane and decent manner.

Stop the hemorrhaging of institutional resources and ensure a better, safer workplace that can be celebrated for its humanitarian approach to unfortunate incidents, rather than demonized and damaged because of an old, outdated, and fear-based response to claims.

It's Not Where You Start, but How You Finish

Each of us is dealt a hand of circumstances. Some of us are blessed with great opportunity and ease. Others, not so much. But regardless of where you are in life right now, you have the opportunity to live a life of meaning, purpose, significance, and joy. You can better yourself and make the lives of those around you better as well.

This book will inspire you to do both.

In Untamed, Butler shares with you the key moments in his life that shaped his view of faith, family, service, and the responsibility that comes with success. He writes candidly about his difficult and humble beginnings. He shares with you keys that helped him achieve success and that can help you achieve yours.

But most importantly, Butler reveals his motivators, mentors, and key influencers in his life. Untamed is a refreshing reminder of the enduring power of traditional values, hard work, and faith in God.

Are you desperate for hope? The darkest moment in your life is when you arrive at a point where all hope is gone. Has life drained you dry and left you feeling hopeless? Hope is one of the most essential emotions of life. If you have no hope, you will have nothing to offer anyone else. Yet every day you feel tugged and pulled from every direction. How can you help anyone when you have nothing left to give? This book explains the importance of hope and offers helpful ways to find it, to be filled with it, and to give it away without running out. And if you enjoy barbecue ribs, then all the better. The author cleverly uses one of American's favorite meals to explain hope. Whether you are dealing with a tragic loss, disappointed with life in general, or tired of seeing your favorite sports team defeated every year, hope is vitally important for the enjoyment of life. This book will set you on the right course to finding new hope that never ends because it's not a hope this world can offer. The hope inside the pages of this book will guide you to the eternal Source of hope. How desperate are you to find hope?

God Desires You to Enjoy a Life Free from Pain, Sickness, and Affliction

Sickness, disease, mental torment, and emotional distress hold multitudes of people captive. As believers, we were in captivity to sin, but we've been brought out of that captivity. Now we want to understand what it means to be brought out of death into life, sickness into health, bondage into freedom.

In reading this short book, you will discover what the Bible says about God's plan and desire for you to have a long and satisfying life--a life filled with His blessing not only for you but also your family, community, and beyond.

Discover how to:

• Use your faith to walk in divine health and well-being.

• Activate the most powerful thing that exists.

• Access all the benefits Christ purchased for you.

• Possess your inheritance as a citizen of God's kingdom.

• Experience the fullness of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

God created you and placed you in the earth for such a time as this. It takes a healthy mind, heart, and body to fulfill the divine assignment that God has destined for you. As you read this book, begin today to walk in wholeness--spirit, soul, and body.

Make Sure Your Company Policies and Culture Work For You and Not Against You

This workbook is best used as a companion to the book WIN WIN: Helping Organizations Mitigate Legal Risk for the Common Good.

The questions and applications shared in this resource will help your organization's leaders create a culture that promotes wellbeing and transparency, also helping to reduce the likelihood of legal battles over reports of injury or wrongdoing.

This workbook provides actionable steps you and your team can implement immediately to minimize costly lawsuits stemming from poorly handled claims. Use it as a practical training manual to successfully implement:

• The six key elements of an On-TARGET response that create a win-win and help to minimize litigation.
• Trauma-informed responses that treat claimants in a humane and decent manner so they are less compelled to take more severe measures such as lawsuits and social media attacks.
• Steps to prevent further injury and re-traumatization to already injured claimants.
• Organizational culture that drastically reduces incidents of injury and wrongdoing.

My Daddy is a Firefighter is part of My Parent's Job Children's Series, written by a firefighter's wife in collaboration with her firefighter to portray accurate words and illustrations. The series showcases jobs and explains them on a level that a child can understand. The books are meant to bridge the gap in understanding of why a child's parent leaves for an extended period of time to go to work, and what they are doing during that duration. It parallels what is happening at home and at the firehouse. It is expressed in a way where a child can feel proud of their parent and come to an understanding that it's something they need to do, while loving them all the while. The book is filled with age appropriate rhyming text and colorful illustrations. It is sure to become a favorite bedtime story when daddy is on duty. In addition, this is a wonderful book to teach children who are interested in firefighting about the job, even if daddy is not a firefighter.

Our hope level is an indicator of whether we are believing truth or lies. Truth createshope and freedom, but believing lies brings hopelessness and restriction. We can havegreat theology but still be powerless because of deception about the key issues of life.Many of these self-defeating mindsets exist in our subconscious and have never beenidentified. This book exposes numerous falsehoods and reveals truth that makes usfree. Get ready for a joy-infused adventure into hope-filled living.

Ghosts? Monsters? Warlocks? All in a day's work.

Dean Sherwood likes to think he leads a simple life. He enjoys shopping for vintage clothes, listening to jazz records, and flirting with the owner of his neighborhood coffee shop. He works as a personal assistant for his bad-tempered uncle, and he is pathologically incapable of leaving well enough alone. One morning, while running an errand, Dean stumbles across a beautiful woman trapped in the basement of a local club's lodge. That would be surprising enough, but this woman also has a tail.

Dean's seen this kind of thing before, though. Like his uncle before him, he moonlights as a supernatural investigator, and without a second thought he frees the creature from her enraged-and hungry-captors. Despite his uncle's encouragement to drop the case, Dean's curiosity compels him to find out more. Where did the woman with the tail come from? Who summoned her into our world, and why? He tries to infiltrate the insular world of the club, but gets tangled up with a pair of self-taught wizards. They're hunting the creature themselves, and they aren't pleased to find Dean getting in the way.

Time quickly runs short. The creature's beauty draws people like moths to a flame, and she kills without warning or explanation, guided by her own inexplicable logic. If Dean can't find a way to stop her, more deaths will surely follow. Then, just as he thinks he's found a solution, another monster appears. It's a huge, shapeless thing made of thorns and malice, out of control and commanding a power that no earthly force can match. Dean must juggle both threats, defend the innocent club members, and prevent the two wizards from inflaming the situation. If he fails, dozens of lives will be in danger. But even worse than that, he'll have to admit it all to his uncle!

Are you tired of trying hard to be happy and victorious?Are you tired of working hard at enjoying life? Then this book is for you. Victorious Emotions will help create happiness as your default emotion. Even if we have unhappy circumstances, we can build a system of beliefs that, as effortless as the tides, will always bring us back to joy.Victorious Emotions gives powerful, practical strategies to live out Romans 12:2, which says to be transformed by the renewing of the mind. The word renewing in the Greek means renovation. This book is about renovating and reconstructing the pathways and strongholds of our thinking. It explores how our brains create certain belief systems and how to intentionally create new ones.The goal of this book is not to focus on eliminating negative emotions, but to build a tidal wave of victorious emotions that are pulled into our lives as easily and surely as the ocean tides will appear every day. It is time to be overtaken by emotions that lead us into victory

Whether you work as a plumber or politician, manager or metal-worker--where you work is your mission field. Believe it or not, your business was created for Kingdom business. There is a level of fruitfulness and authority in which God wants you to operate. This life-transforming message has been newly revised and expanded to provide you with fresh insights and revelation on how you can be a person of tremendous influence in the arena where God has placed you. This Kingdom leadership playbook promises to catapult you to the next level of your career, profession, business, or ministry. Learn how to build your faith in God and understand His perfect plan for your life. Your faith was never meant to be separated from your work or business life. Using both scripture and personal stories, Bill Winston will show you how God is restoring this unbeatable team of kings and priests to advance His Kingdom and transform the marketplace through the superior principles of faith and fruitfulness.

In Genesis, God directed Abraham to look around him in every direction and claim the land God was giving him as his own. He wanted Abraham to walk by faith as far as his eyes could see. God wants us to walk this way too. He wants us to view our surroundings with eyes of faith and take the land. He wants us to look at problems with faith-filled hearts and see them differently. He wants to expand our vision and believe for His plans here on earth by faith and through faith. Faith empowers us. Because we are His children, we can look at people and circumstances with God's faith-filled perspective. We don't have to draw from just our own supply of faith either. We can actually draw from God's faith! Seeing with God's faith and believing for the changes He wants is the underlying premise of this book. What fantastic opportunities our lives in Christ grant us!

Galdifort Quillpen has grand dreams of writing epic tales of heroic deeds, just like his famous aunt. Unfortunately, he's been assigned to Tanna the Tendersword, an excruciatingly carefree would-be-champion who can't seem to find a qualifying entry-level quest.

When things are at their most miserable, the young Questers meet an enigmatic old woman who offers Tanna a quest: follow a peg-legged, sword-wielding rooster to help save a crying mushroom lost within a haunted forest. Tanna heroically accepts, regardless of how incredibly unsafe the odd quest seems.

But Galdifort's fears become reality when a sorceress sends her fog monster and lizard henchmen after them. Only a true Champion should confront a sorceress, and, in his eyes, Tanna is not up to the task. But if he wants to write his chronicle, Galdifort must learn to do something he certainly isn't comfortable doing - trust in honest friendship with Tanna the Tendersword.

He's just a chronicler, after all, not a hero!

Discover the magnitude of God's grace and how it can impact your life! Grace is one of the most phenomenal, yet least understood, gifts we receive from God. Grace does more than just allow you to be forgiven of your sin--it empowers you to overcome sin! To many, grace is just a doctrine, a spiritual concept. But as you will discover in reading this book, grace is so much more. Grace is unreasonable; it is so miraculous that we cannot make sense of it intellectually. Instead, we must ask God daily to help us walk in a childlike faith so we can simply receive His grace with a grateful heart. This book will guide you in your discovery of grace to: Live life beyond your natural limitations. Learn the distinction between grace and mercy. Discover seven keys for walking in greater measures of peace. Gain the ability to replace condemnation, shame, anxiety, fear, worry, discouragement, and hopelessness with righteousness, peace, and joy. Learn to see yourself and your calling as God Himself sees you. Let grace enable you to fulfill Romans 8:29 in your life: to be conformed to the image of His Son.

Perhaps you've been to counseling for years - or maybe you've never sought outside help. Either way, you know there are fears, insecurities, emotional blockages that have kept you from living truly free. You're tired of it and want more. Congratulations You hold in your hands a guide to help you on your path to true freedom, a path that can lead you safely into true emotional wholeness. You experience unresolved pain and multiple layers of self-protection called defense mechanisms, that lead to addictions, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties (yes-even with God) with which we all struggle. This book will give you the tools you need from both a clinical and spiritual perspective to become truly free. The resulting peace, love, joy, reconciled marriages and relationships, and sense of positive Christ centered identity, is the fruit of your journey and will come as you lay these protections down that have become your prison. This book is a must read for anyone looking for true lasting change, as well as a role-defining text for counselors and pastors who are looking to integrate cutting-edge clinical counseling with an unwavering faith-based, non-religious approach to working with the brokenhearted.

I have been working on this subject for over 15 years. I am so proud of this series of lectures that if I died tonight, I would feel that I have done my job. If you get this series of lectures, I do not need to ever talk again, for what is in these lectures, which I will condense for you today, be it the Will of Allah (God), will be enough for you to get up out of this condition totally, completely, and forever. - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, August 1987

This book is comprised from edited excerpts from the How to Give Birth to A God lecture series delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on the following dates:
Part 1 July 26, 1987
Part 2 July 29, 1987
Part 3 August 2, 1987
Part 4 August 5, 1987
Part 5 August 10, 1987

the draft had just taken its toll on the American people's lives. Soon, Ryan Hull, Mark Bray, and Alex Hawkins were trained to be Marines, and the fight of their lives was about to take place on the moon of Saturn, Titan.

The young men soon realized that the wars back on their home planet were not the only ones they had to worry about. The people on the Titan moon home base were in jeopardy. It seems as though there is nothing that these men won't endure to ensure the safety of their own people, plus the innocent citizens who call Titan home

You have a story to tell, don't you? Or maybe you simply want to try your hand at fiction writing. Perhaps you've given it your best effort, but simply didn't have enough tools in your tool box to finish that first draft. Wherever you're at with this novel-writing thing, popular bloggers Stephanie Morrill, Jill Williamson, and Shannon Dittemore totally understand.

They know it's hard to finish a first draft. To stay motivated until the end. To feel like a real writer. They know because they've been there too.

In Go Teen Writers: Write Your Novel, you'll learn:

There is no such thing as one right way to write a novel.

How to take an idea and give it a beginning, middle, and end.

What story structure means and how it strengthens a book.

Different approaches to plotting a novel.

How to develop characters worth reading about.

Strategies for creating memorable storyworlds and settings.

What theme is and how to use it to enrich your story.

What to do when your first draft is finished.

There's no doubt about it. Learning to write a novel from beginning to end is a challenge. But with this book as your guide, you'll see that when you're in possession of the right tools, you're capable of finishing what you start. You'll be empowered and encouraged-as if you had a writing coach (or three ) sitting alongside you.

THE STRESS BOOK IS A RECIPIENT OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED (100+) LITERARY AWARDS, Including THE INDEPENDENT AUTHOR NETWORK (IAN) 2022 First-Place Nonfiction Book of The Year, 2023 ERIC HOFFER AWARD Grand Prize Short List of Book of The Year, OUTSTANDING CREATOR AWARD Overall Winner, for Best Nonfiction Book - Spring 2023 & Goody Business Book Awards-Top Impact Author Award-2023.

Listed in Book Authority's Article titled 20 Best Stress Management Books of All Time. - 2023.

SOME OF THE LITERARY AWARDS (WINNERS/GOLD MEDALS) WON BY THE STRESS BOOK

- Best Independent Book Award Winner: Nonfiction - Best Stress Management Book 2023.

- Firebird Book Award Winner December 2023, Best Stress Management & Mental Health.

- BREW Nonfiction Book Excellence Award 2024 Health, Wellness Book of the Year

- Reader Views Literary Awards 2021-2022 Winner: Nonfiction, Self-help

- Chanticleer International Book Awards Winner 2022, Mind & Spirit.

- eLit Literary Global Awards Winner 2022 Nonfiction: Psychology/Mental Health

- International Book Awards - Winner 2022: Psychology/Mental Health.

- Book Excellence Awards Winner 2023, Health.

- Royal Dragonfly Book Award Winner 2022: Nonfiction/Psychology.

A FEW QUOTES FROM SOME OF THE PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS

A self-help book that offers a multipronged approach to stress management....Many readers will find such common-sense, practical wisdom to be invaluable. A highly readable and cleareyed guide to tackling daily anxieties. Kirkus Reviews.

Foster delivers the perfect book for our stressful times. I like the comprehensive approach he gives his readers, with many takeaways and actionable tips...Another positive feature of this book is that you can use it in all aspects of your life, from relationships, to career, to personal care, to community, which can include finances, breakups, grief and bereavement, etc Tammy Ruggles Reader Views- Five Stars.

This book is amazing and simple to understand even if the author explains in detail the science behind stress...Thank you for this gem of a book. Marie-Hélène Fasquel for Readers' Favorite - Five Stars

BOOK SUMMARY

If you or someone you know and honestly care about experiencing so much stress in life that it is so overwhelming, or if you or that person are trying desperately to avoid that condition? Well, look no further!

The Stress Book takes a comprehensive approach to stress management and how modifying your lifestyle and taking practical steps can help significantly reduce the level of stress you are experiencing. This book is intended to help people struggling with challenging situations. For example, those who work in stressful jobs or are involved in complex personal or toxic relationships and many other issues. More than forty approaches to stress reduction and management are covered in this book, giving you practical guidance applicable to most of life's problems and circumstances.

This book's goal, in part, is to help you avoid getting involved in these and other difficult situations that may be stressful before stress is manifested. The Stress Book is intended to significantly improve the lives of people at any level of society who may be experiencing stress in their personal, business, or professional lives. I trust that it will make a difference in yours. Thank you!

Real-life stories about living and growing up in Westchester.

This collection of authentic stories was written by the Westchester Kids-those who lived and grew up in this special South Florida neighborhood at a time when innocence prevailed.

The stories reflect an era from the 1960s through the 1990s and show the bond the individual contributors still have with Westchester and those they grew up with, including friendships spanning over fifty years.

Closely held secrets can have deadly consequences

Family is everything to OZ operative Jazz McAlister, who once lost everyone and everything she loved. The mysterious disappearance of her brother years ago left a deep ache in her heart that she's never forgotten. When circumstances bring him abruptly back into her life, Jazz will do anything to find out the truth of where he's been and what happened to him. Revealing her plans to Xavier Quinn, her OZ partner and best friend, is out of the question. He would never understand. This is something she must do on her own.

Xavier has been in covert ops a long time, but he's never had a partner like Jazz. She's smart, brave, and fiercely loyal, and with one look, she can melt his heart of stone. Together, they make a formidable partnership, and it's one he treasures, which is why he's stunned when she goes out on her own without any explanation.

Jazz thought she had a plan, but how could she forget that life can turn on a dime? When her life is upended once again, Xavier and her OZ teammates are the only ones she trusts to help her. If only her recklessness hadn't put her in the crosshairs of a sadistic predator bent on stealing her life.

As the Option Zero team rush to save Jazz, forces no one could ever have predicted will do everything within their power to see that Jazz and her team are destroyed forever.

But love is stronger than hate, and family is often more of the heart than blood, proving once again that evil cannot win.