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Publisher's Pride: Books on Bestseller Lists - Breakthrough Alzheimer's Care (Willson)

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  Breakthrough Alzheimer's Care   by Mark Wilson reached  #3 in Alzheimer’s/hot new releases, #12 in aging and longevity/hot new releases, #19 in aging/hot new releases, #33 in diseases and physical ailments/hot new releases, #56 in Alzheimer's, #78 in dementia, and #124 in aging and longevity. Book Description Breakthrough Alzheimer's Care  offers a powerful and practical roadmap for family caregivers who want more than just survival-they want their loved ones to thrive. When leadership expert Mark left a 20-year corporate career to care for his mother with Alzheimer's, he approached caregiving with the same breakthrough mindset that had driven his professional success. The result was nothing short of extraordinary: his mother experienced more joy, better health, and greater longevity than anyone thought possible. Part memoir and part how-to guide, this compelling book blends personal reflection with research-based insights and practical tools that help familie...

Top 10 Blog Posts of April 2026: #5. Publisher's Pride: Books on Bestseller Lists - When Liberty Enslaves (Aveta)

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  Today's Publisher's Pride is  When Liberty Enslaves  by Jerry Aveta, which reached  #1 in campaigns & elections and #1 in abolition history of the US. Book Description There is a common experience between our experiences today and those before the Civil War many years ago.  The effect of the intersection of faith and politics during these two experiences has had on our elections and our governance is uncanny in their similarities.  Both times an election insurrection was stopped by the sitting vice president.  Both times had people of the same faith on both sides of the social issues of the day claiming God’s favor and willing to divide the nation over those competing positions. Part 1 of this writing focuses on the Civil War era and how liberty centered around the issue of equality.  Some people of faith believed all men were equal, some did not. Part 2 focuses on our present times and how liberty centers on the sanctity of life concerning ...

When Knowing Psychology Keeps You From Feeling

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  There is a strange trap that can happen when people learn psychology deeply enough: they become excellent at explaining emotions while losing contact with actually feeling them. They can identify attachment styles, defense mechanisms, trauma responses, cognitive distortions, nervous system states, projection, transference, dissociation, shame cycles, and emotional regulation strategies. They become fluent in the language of inner life. But fluency is not the same thing as experience. And sometimes knowledge becomes a substitute for feeling. The Seduction of Explanation Psychological knowledge offers something deeply attractive: distance. If I can explain my sadness as “an activation of abandonment wounds,” I no longer have to fully sit inside the rawness of grief. If I can classify my anger as “a nervous system response shaped by childhood unpredictability,” I can avoid the terrifying immediacy of rage. If I can analyze my relationship dynamics through attachment theory, I can st...