F*** The Black Dog: The Gruelling Journey Back from the Darkest Recesses of Depression and the Coaching System It Generated, So Others May Follow by Neil Geddes

“Coach” Neil Geddes brings decades of personal experience as well as research to the table.

F… the Black Dog communicates hard-won insights from rock-bottom experiences in a direct, no-nonsense voice that will resonate with the reader.

Personal experiences are related vividly in a visceral manner that will help readers connect therapeutic tools to their own lives.

This is a book about adjustments to perception, philosophy, and routine that can be highly effective supplements to therapy in combatting depression. It is aimed squarely at men and women who have had enough of depression ruling their lives and are ready to take on the hard work of managing their mental health.

It will help empower readers to take the necessary steps to treat and manage their depression, especially knowing that others have been where they are, and made it through the darkness…

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Author Bio:
Neil Geddes, a man who sufferers from severe depression but has created systems to manage living with depression without pharmaceuticals.

I am also the founder and CEO of Black Dog Coaching; the only online fitness and nutrition community that works exclusively with people battling mental health, or feeling as though they are living without purpose.

About Clean Your Plate! by Liz Bayardelle, PhD

Parents mean well, we really do.

We want our kids to get good grades, stop hitting their siblings, and, yes, clean their plate at dinnertime. It shouldn’t be that hard, right?

Wrong. Sometimes these harmless sounding statements don’t work. Even worse, they often backfire to cause unexpected and unwelcome side effects for us and for our kids. (Just like your prescription for headache medicine may accidentally cause vomiting or make you spontaneously sprout a leathery tail.)
This book takes 13 of the most common parent-isms and walks you through the ways they can go wrong, why they could negatively impact your kids, and what you should say instead.

Includes parental greatest hits like:
Do You Need Any Money?
Get Straight A’s
Don’t Be a Quitter
Don’t Talk Back (to Your Elders)
Waste Not, Want Not
Be Nice to Your Friends
Give Your Aunt a Hug
Win Your Game Today
Finish Your Homework
Don’t Hit
Sit Still
Don’t Watch TV
Clean Your Plate

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Liz is the happily sleep-deprived mom of a baby boy (and professional raccoon noise impersonator), a sparkle-clad toddlernado, a teenage stepdaughter, two large and bumbling dogs, and a rabbit of unusual size. During nights and naptimes, she uses her PhD in business psychology as an author, a freelance digital consultant, and the co-founder of three different companies with her very patient (and equally exhausted) husband.

Video Game Careers Demystified: Trifecta of Game Makers, Athletes, and Ecosystem in a Thriving Industry by Michael Chang

Written by a video game marketer and consultant who had worked in both AAA game development and indie game studios for over a decade.

Come experience the thrills and the ups and downs of this incredible industry – with an emphasis on first-hand accounts of what IT’S REALLY LIKE to develop, launch, and publish video games.

Hear first-hand accounts and WORDS OF WISDOM – about how THEY got their starts in the video game industry – from celebrated experts who have worked on such iconic games like Pac-Man, Ultima, RuneScape, Dark Age of Camelot, Candy Crush Saga, DungeonKeeper, Dragon Age, Star Wars the Old Republic, ABC Mouse, Halo, Pieces of Flair, Real Racing, FIFA Ultimate Team, and many more.

Together with a framework that allows a young gamer to look inside one’s self; explore one’s unique set of strengths, weaknesses, talents, and values; decide if this industry is right for one’s self, how to stand out, and how to get started…

This book seeks to delight, educate, and inspire the readers by answering three sets of questions:

1. WHAT IS IT REALLY LIKE to create and publish games?

2. Does THE INDUSTRY OFFER VIABLE OPPORTUNITIES for young people? What about teens who are not STEM-inclined or artistic?

3. SHOULD EDUCATORS AND PARENTS FOSTER, CULTIVATE, OR CURE such “dreamers”? And if the former, How?

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An Angel Investor, trained mind reader and brand/category maker, Michael S. Chang loves to tell powerful stories and move hearts and minds. Michael has commercialized emerging technology for Software companies like Autodesk, Pubmatic, and Citrix.

BRANDS & ADVERTISERS which he has worked with as a technologist, marketing practitioner, and/or consultant and agency. He feels especially privileged and challenged, having worked with video game publishers RockYou, Jagex, and EA.

His book “Video Game Careers Demystified: The Trifecta of Creators, Athletes, and Ecosystem in a Thriving Industry” informs and educates young gamers with a “God’s eye view” of what it’s really like to develop and publish games. By quoting experts who worked on icons like Halo, Assassin’s Creed, Battlefield, and ABC mouse – this book encourages young people to look within themselves, and to explore turning their passions into lifelong pursuits in gaming, the arts, technology, and beyond.

In the anthology “Entrepreneur’s Cure: How Entrepreneur’s Cure” Michael also feels honored to be a bullhorn and scribe – telling the stories of world-changing entrepreneurs like Christine Outram of Everydae (who is transforming traditional college and SAT prep into something highly accessible, interactive, and fun), Amir Bozorgzadeh of Virtuleap (who uses virtual reality brain training games to reverse the effects of aging-related cognitive degeneration from Alzheimers, Parkinson’s, and dementia) and Chris Thomas of Fusion Odyssey (who uses sports psychology to help youth athletes take full ownership and hack the emotional, psychological, and intellectual elements of the mental game, in order to execute personal bests on the playing field and in life.)

About Just My Billionaire Boss

He’s my billionaire boss/rockstar, and I’m just the nanny.
We met once in an electrifying night, but the cocky AF bad boy that he is.. doesn’t even remember me. Awkward
His fame has attracted obsessed fans, and he trusts no one.
His focus is to protect and care for his sweet baby girl.
The more we play house, the deeper the intensity gets.
I don’t know what to do.
If he finds out who I really am, will he think I am just a crazy fan?
Will he remember how I took what I wanted and disappeared?
Will he ever be able to forgive me for the mess I’ve made, or will he break my heart again?
This bad boy tattooed rockstar and the nanny he pretends not to remember will keep you turning the pages all night long!
Can be read as a standalone, no cheating and of course one heck of a Happily Ever After!

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Like you, LA loves contemporary romance stories and is an avid reader.
She’s had her heartbroken by her true love, yet is still addicted to happily ever after endings!
When LA is not writing about the next bad boy billionaire, she enjoys a glass of Chianti, raclette with her girlfriends, spin classes, and watching the sunrise every morning!
She is a self-proclaimed desperate housewife and lives in a cul-de-sac of excitement, drama, and love stories. Many of her outlines are inspired here.
LA was given her nickname by one of her teenage daughters, and it stuck with friends and family!
Leanne lives in Canada with her husband, and 4 children!

About TRUST: A Psychological Thriller

Elizabeth thought that after all they’d been through, the bad parts were over.

Guess not.

After saving herself and her little boy from abductors, Elizabeth yearns to put the terror behind them, to cocoon with her son, safe and secure at home.

Court hearings confirm that they suffered the worst betrayal possible. She never dreamed that she’d have to battle the law to protect her medically fragile little boy when his life and sanity are on the line.

When her son is targeted and taken, Elizabeth will do anything to save him.

Ordinary people, thrust into extraordinary circumstances.

Read TRUST, Book Two of the psychological thriller series When Bad Things Happen.

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Dr. Sharon A. Mitchell is author of the psychological thriller series When Bad Things Happen:
GONE
TRUST
SELFISH
A prequel to this series is Anything for Her Son.
She’s also written a series of six novels, each featuring a child or young adult on the autism spectrum:
Autism Goes to School
Autism Runs Away
Autism Belongs
Autism Talks and Talks
Autism Grows Up
Autism Goes to College
Autism Box Set (contains the first five stories in this series)
In addition, there are two nonfiction books:
Autism Questions Parents Ask & the Answers They Seek
Autism Questions Teachers Ask & the Answers They Seek

About Runaway Groom

He’s promising to marry this girl, but he’s running away with me.
The entire City of Angels is hung up on the latest season of their favorite reality show and its star, Rhett Roberts.
The cocky jerk has women throwing themselves at him in every episode, and it looks like he’s loving it.
Well, good for him.
He’s a cocky player with a wild streak ten miles wide.
The man defies death for a living as a stuntman, for heaven’s sake. Well, when he’s not too busy being fed champagne by fifteen different girls on a yacht or breaking the hearts of the ones he sends home.
No thank you. That’s a hard pass from me.
All I want to do is make a name for myself by making sure the flowers on the finale are the best they can possibly be.
Until I meet him.
He’s famous for his gorgeous eyes, daring personality, and doing stunts for some of the biggest celebrities the city has ever seen.
People love this guy.
Men want to be him and women want to be with him, but one wrong move makes him the most hated man in the whole country.
He’s the runaway groom, and his sidekick?
Me. The girl that isn’t supposed to be in love with him.
What could possibly go wrong?

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Author Bio:
Hey there. I’m Weston.
Have we met? No? Well, it’s time to end that tragedy.
I’m a former firefighter/EMS guy who’s picked up the proverbial pen and started writing bad boy romance stories. I co-write with my sister, Ali Parker, but live in Texas with my wife, my two little boys, a baby girl, 2 dogs, 2 cats and a turtle.
Yep. A turtle. You read that right. Don’t be jealous.