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  • Living with a Primitive Brain

    Understanding Trauma and Recovery
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    Every day we are faced with new experiences, new challenges, and new memories to store. We navigate through the world, attempting to make something of this phenomenon we call ‘life.’ Not so often, however, do we encounter situations and...


  • Stormin Norman: Né pour combattre!

    L'histoire captivante de l'un des héros injustement méconnus de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au Canada, racontée avec fierté par son propre fils
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    "Le caporal N. D. Robson (Stormin Norman), des North Nova Scotia Highlander, a reçu un nouveau paveur à Fort Moore (anciennement Benning) le 26 mai 2025. Il est le seul paveur non américain sur la promenade du patrimoine au Musée National de...


  • The Secret Language of Autism

    Fostering Presence-Based Connection Through Creative Congruence Time (CCT) and Expressive Arts
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    The Secret Language of Autism introduces a compassionate, creative approach to supporting inclusive care of autistic and neurodiverse individuals through Creative Congruence Time (CCT). Centred on presence, emotional attunement, and expressive...


  • Mental(ish)

    A Memoir of Insanity and the Search for Stability
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    Mental(ish) is a raw and unflinching exploration of Melissa Pang Howard’s journey through c-PTSD, chronic illness, and medical negligence. Diagnosed with Bipolar 1 disorder at nineteen, she unravels the experiences that shaped her before and...


  • Adytum

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    Adytum: A place within the soul which should be filled with awe and reverence for being alive. “His sky was growing dark with his own private shadows. It was like watching children playing on a beach and seeing a storm building on the horizon....


  • Stormin Norman: Born to Battle

    The compelling story of one of Canada's unsung World War II heroes as recounted by his own proud son
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    A True-Life Story about a Canadian World War II Veteran, Artillery Soldier and hero who experienced MORE! MORE abuse by growing up in a household filled with PTSD, from a Stepfather who was a poisonous gas scarred World War I Veteran, MORE...


  • The Shell of Me

    A Survivor's Story of Childhood Sexual Abuse
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    “Your life has had and still has beautiful things in it, but there are lots of weeds. You pull the weeds out, and for just a little while, everything is beautiful again. Then come the new weeds, and you must pull those out too.” When Pat Castle...


  • Fiendish Crime

    A True Story of Shell Shock and Murder
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    In 1928, the bodies of two young boys were found in the Indiana Harbor shipping canal of East Chicago, their identities unknown. With no missing children of their age and appearance reported in the city, the police had begun to lose hope until a...


  • Code Blues

    A Surgeon's Journey With Depression
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    Ever since Mel Nutig was a young boy in Coney Island, he knew he was profoundly sad. But for a long time, he hadn’t known the word “depression”— and once he had learned it years later, he had no money with which to seek treatment, nor any...


  • The Chips Are on the Table

    My Journey Towards Recovery
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    With unflinching honesty, Teddy Assaly shares his journey from self-destructive behaviours to sobriety and recovery. The eldest of eight children, Teddy grew up feeling the pressure to be perfect. Feeling that no matter what he did, he could...