Abuse Exposed: Identifying Family Secrets That Breed Dysfunction

Christine Hammond is a leading mental health influencer, author, and guest speaker who specializes in treating families of abuse and trauma. Her work is based on her own personal experience. Abuse Exposed explores not just obvious abuse, but less obvious tactics like family secrets, intimidation, and the “Silent Treatment.”

Christine knows that victims often ask “Why did this happen to me?” She also knows that victims can rewrite their stories, improve their relationships, and break the cycle for future generations. While her book focuses on the family, it has information useful for all kinds of relationships, including work and professional relationships.

Abuse Exposed teaches readers about the wide range of abuse, both covert and overt; the generational links to abuse; what to do before, during, and after abuse; how to confront your abuser; finding forgiveness despite the pain; how to re-write your story to avoid future problems; and so much more. It has been praised by neurologists, psychotherapists, wellness specialists, and trauma survivor counselors alike. 

Christine specializes in personality disorders (Narcissism and Borderline), mental health disorders, addictions, ADD, OCD, co-dependency, anxiety, anger, depression, parenting, and marriage. She is also the host of the podcast “Understanding Today’s Narcissist.”

For more information about Christine or her book, visit https://abuseexposed.com/.

Intrinsic Inclusion: Rebooting Your Biased Brain

Dr. Janet B. Reid is an innovative thought leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Vincent Brown is an expert in diversity and inclusion, organizational and team development, and executive coaching. Together they have written an award-winning book, Intrinsic Inclusion: Rebooting Your Biased Brain, to share the secrets of the naturally inclusive and to disrupt unconscious biases, leading to better teamwork, collaboration, and productivity. 

Intrinsic Inclusion is about re-training your brain to make yourself more naturally inclusive. It works at the intersection of diversity, neuroscience, biases, and biology to disrupt implicit unconscious biases and change “default” mindsets. The book asks timely and provocative questions to prompt important discussions for readers to consider in their business and personal lives. Reid and Brown encourage dialogue and discovery, empowered by intrinsic motivation to be more naturally inclusive.

Intrinsic Inclusion has been embraced by experts in diversity and inclusion, civic engagement, global diversity, HR, and more. Through the book and the offered Facilitated Learning Experiences, individuals and groups can engage in respectful empathy, connected understanding, shared trust, and reaction to significant emotional events or relationships. Intrinsic Inclusion can help teams of any size create an inclusive environment for all.

To learn more about intrinsic inclusion, visit https://intrinsicinclusion.com/.

CONNECT: The Ultimate Human Superpower

Sam Beard wants you to connect – to yourself, to others, and to the universe. Connection is behind every good and noble deed, and is the core to creativity and resourcefulness. Connecting is a prerequisite for love and a gateway to spirituality, enlightenment, and higher purpose. It is also one of the key initiatives of Gift Global.

In his book CONNECT: The Ultimate Human Superpower, Beard shares 38 remarkable journeys into the inner realm of mind power. These 38 storytellers work to ignite in us the spark to gaining richer, more fulfilling, and purposeful lives. Each of them has unlocked a way for us all to connect to a greater power within ourselves so we can realize our enlightened human potential.

The stories within the book are told by a range of people from an Aboriginal healer, to a scientist probing the frontiers of higher consciousness, to leaders on the world stage, to people who appear ordinary and everyday but are far from it. CONNECT is part of a global collaborative campaign to engage and invite new people to discover and activate their inbuilt capacities and reach greater happiness

For more information about Gift Global and CONNECT: The Ultimate Human Superpower, see https://giftglobal.org/connect-the-ultimate-human-superpower/.

Building the Skilled Trades Pipeline

 In the 1990s, Connie Valliere created Billy the Builder Bear to teach kids about the knowledge and labor required to build a house. Now, Skilled to Build Michigan Foundation has the chance to introduce 20,000 children to Billy the Builder Bear and interest them in pursuing the skilled trades. This project involves Michigan legislators and adults who work in industry going into classrooms, when possible, to read the book, hand out copies, and answer children’s questions.

Skilled to Build Michigan Foundation works to build awareness of the many career opportunities in the residential construction industry. They are working on a daily basis to fill the labor shortage being felt in the residential construction industry. By sharing Billy the Builder Bear with young elementary students, they want kids to learn about the skilled trades and to see them as an opportunity from an early age. 

For more information about Billy the Builder Bear and Skilled to Build Michigan Foundation, visit https://skilledtobuildmichigan.com/#/billy-the-builder-bear

The Elixir of Life Cookbook – Finding Love and Joy in the Passionate Pursuit of Food

From olives to oils and wine, the art of cooking features a variety of elixirs.

Widely celebrated chef, Lisa Dahl, has published an inspiring cookbook, The Elixir of Life Cookbook – Finding Love and Joy in the Passionate Pursuit of Food, which won an Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal.

Dahl's cookbook brings Italian rustic cuisine to life. The recipes are illuminated and inspired by Dahl's travels to Tuscany, as well the four restaurants in Arizona at which she is executive chef.

The Elixer of Life Cookbook serves as an excellent marketing tool, giving readers a personal stake in Dahl's signature cuisine. Dahl enables readers to turn her recipes into their own source of inspiration as they take her recipes home. Dahl's extraordinary, award-winning cookbook enhances her brand as well as her culinary legacy.