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"For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare. Poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical...
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[2018]
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Describes how Rick Sylvester, after enduring a childhood of poverty and abuse, struggled through adulthood until he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and shares how he was able to overcome the odds to live a rewarding life.
For Rick Sylvester, living in Cloud 9, a American Southwest trailer park, meant enduring his mother's drunken fits and drug-induced stupors-- until she committed suicide. Rick seemed doomed to follow in her footsteps, stumbling...
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[2023]
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"Surviving a traumatic childhood in foster care was difficult enough for Barbara and her sister Kay, but the loss of her nine other sisters was a loss Barbara would not accept. Her quest to solve the mystery of what befell her family of origin and to locate her nine lost sisters took forty-three years. Once reunited, Barbara invested fifteen years to become the voice for all eleven abandoned and abused sisters by capturing each story. What she discovered...
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2019.
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"In this richly depicted story, told in vignettes relative to markers of age and experience, Patricia Eagle reveals the heartbreak and destruction of her sexual abuse, from age four to thirteen, by her father. A victim of her father's anger and her mother's complacency with his abusive behavior, Eagle uses dissociation and numbing in response to the abuse, and as a way to block her own sense of self. How does a child confused by episodes of abuse...
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