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                      Recently released: the audio book edition  Harnessing the Power of Grief  (Potter):     BEST INDIE BOOK AWARD For more posts about Julie and her book, click  HERE .  To purchase copies of this book at 25% discount, use code FF25 at  MSI Press webstore . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top 100 list, author advice, and more -- stay up to date)   Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC?  We help writers become award-winning published authors. One writer at a time. We are a family, not a factory. Do you have a future with us? Turned away by other publishers because you are a first-time author and/or do not have a strong platform yet? If you have a strong manuscript, San Juan Books, our hybrid publishing division, may be able to help. Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Planning on self-publishing and don't

  Excerpt from Harnessing the Power of Grief  (Potter): What Grief Is and Why It Is Important   “We have all come through it or we will all come to it.” —Elizabeth Alexander [ Alexander ] [1]             Grief is a natural human response.   Most of us can adjust and adapt to life’s daily changes and losses. We have goals in mind, and we have an idea of how life is going to go. We have a level of comfort about our skills as each day proceeds. We rapidly adjust to the little changes of life—the traffic jam, the toddler’s tantrum, the meeting that goes on and on, the unidentified noise in the night, the forgotten item at the grocery store.   Think of how many times in the day we have to take a deep breath, mutter some exasperated words, say a prayer, try to be patient and loving, or try to be strong in the face of our goals and dreams being thwarted or challenged by life’s little changes. Loss is present but not overwhelming, and we easily manage to do what we must to sta

  MSI Press books have, historically, won many awards from a wide range of competitions. This is the first in a series of sharing the various awards that our books have earned. The first category is Best Indie Book Award. The following MSI Press books have been Best Indie Book Award Winners to date: A Theology for the Rest of Us (Arthur Yavelberg).  If God exists and is good, why is there evil? Avoiding such questions underlies the spiritual emptiness and anxiety in today's world. A Theology for the Rest of Us explores how to approach the divine through Eastern and Western religious traditions without dogma, challenging readers to "be you lamps unto yourselves."  This book also won the Literary Titan Silver Award. Read more about this book and its author  HERE . Andrew's Awesome Adventures with His ADHD Brai n (Kristin Wilcox & Andrew Wilcox).  T his book provides unique insights into ADHD behaviors and suggests highly pragmatic and successfully implemented stra