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Life, Camera, Action
by Mitchell BurnsIt took ten years in the coal mines for Mitchell Burns to realise that no pay cheque is worth sacrificing your dreams. Now he&’s making up for lost time. Mitchell Burns never wanted to be a miner. Growing up in a Queensland coal mining town with parents in the industry, pursuing his passion for photography just didn't feel like an option. So, he went in the only direction he knew – straight into the mines. After a decade in a job he hated, Mitch realised that he had put his dreams on hold for too long. With no blueprint for success, he turned away from mining to forge his own path in photography. In a vulnerable moment, he posted online about taking the leap – the now-viral video has inspired millions of people around the world not to give up on their goals. These days, hundreds of thousands of viewers follow Mitch as he travels Australia and abroad, sharing his breathtaking landscape photographs and how he captures them. His story is a compelling call to action for anyone who has ever longed to quit their day job and pursue their passion, proving that some risks are well worth taking – you just need to be brave enough to take the shot.Life, Camera, Action is an inspiring story about choosing your own adventure, and the beauty to be found in following your dreams.
Life, Death and Getting Dressed: How to love your clothes… and yourself
by Rebecca Willis'This book is genius. It pinpoints all the things I have ever felt about my wardrobe... It's funny, charming and brilliantly explained. You'll feel better just reading it!' Emma Forbes'Rebecca's book considers clothes and our attitudes to them from a wildly original and truly kaleidoscopic range of angles.' Alexandra Shulman'A fascinating deep dive that will make you think differently about the clothes you wear and why you bought them.' Lisa Armstrong, The TelegraphNothing to wear? Here's the book that explains why...We've all been there: we stand in front of a wardrobe brimming with clothes, and find that nothing feels quite right, nothing makes us feel OK about ourselves. Although something new might fix it...Rebecca Willis unpicks our love-hate relationship with clothes, exploring the factors from neuroscience to the patriarchy that make us such easy prey for the fashion industry. After reading this book, you will understand why clothes matter and how they define us - and why caring about them doesn't make us vain or materialistic. You'll be able to silence your inner critic, ditch the guilt and open the wardrobe with a newfound sense of calm.
Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust
by Chloe Dulce LouvouezoForeword by Elaine WelterothIn this stunningly illustrated essay collection inspired by the popular podcast Life, I Swear, prominent Black women reflect on self-love and healing, sharing stories of the trials and tribulations they’ve faced and what has helped them confront pain, heal wounds, and find connection. With essays by Eniafebiafe Isis Adewale • Lauren Ash • Gabrielle Williams • Lindsey Farrar • Nneke Julia • Elaine Welteroth • Meryanne Loum-Martin • Lili Lopez • Deun Ivory • Morgan Ashley • Dydine Umunyana • Adriana Parrish • Orixa Jones • Offeibea Obubah • Alex Elle • Kalkidan Gebreyohannes • Esther Boykin • Brooke Hall • Qimmah Saafir • Josefina H. Sanders • Julee Wilson • Shay Jiles • Danasia FantasticA mixture of poignant essays, gorgeous photography, and sophisticated design elements, Life, I Swear is a chronicle of transformation and growth by and for modern-day Black women. Some of today’s most influential Black female voices chronicle their private journeys, offering testimonies of living through pain and joy with raw honesty and unapologetic self-love.In each episode of her podcast, Life, I Swear, emotive storyteller Chloe Dulce Louvouezo explores the nuances of our diverse experiences. In one-on-one interviews and personal prose, the podcast centers on personal stories that offer universal insights into topics relevant to modern women’s lives, from identity and family to trauma and motherhood, told through the lens of Black women. A catalyst for change, this revelatory book builds on the premise of the podcast by diving deeper into themes of mental health, identity and resilience. Life, I Swear is sure to spark lively, thought-provoking, and necessary conversations that encourage Black women to return home to themselves through self-examination and grace. Life, I Swear features 100-125 full-color photographs throughout.
Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous
by Michele Cassou Stewart CubleyLife, Paint And Passion is a deeply involving approach to using the creative process as a tool for self-discovery. With vibrant and contagious enthusiasm, the authors liberate the reader's urge to create freely and spontaneously, as a painter or an artist in another medium, purely for the process of exploration, not for result.With eloquence and simplicity, the authors encourage the reader to journey inward toward his or her authentic self and discover the unique intuition awaiting there. It is this intuition that provides all the tools the reader needs to crumble the barrier between the innermost self and its uncensored manifestation.Through lively interviews with students, the authors explore painting as a practice that facilitates the ecstasy of unfettered expression. With simple brushes, a few dishes of paint, and this book, the reader will be able to coax the hidden self out of the heart and onto a paper.Life, Paint And Passion is the result of nearly thirty years of intensive work with the painting process. It provides powerful insights into the act of creation, a solid base for facing and transcending creative blocks, and brings fresh perceptions and healing to life.
Life-Changing Conversations
by Sarah RozenthulerHow to have the conversations that will move your life forward - with your boss, your partner, your friends and your children.
Life-Changing Love: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart
by John OrtbergHow do you explain a love that has no explanation? What will happen if you let it touch your heart? God loves you not because you are flawless, not because you are a perfect person, but just because you are you.In Life-Changing Love, John Ortberg reveals the God you&’ve longed to encounter: a Father head-over-heels in love with you, his child, and intensely committed to your highest joy. Ortberg takes you to the very focus of who God is to discover a burning, passionate love that gives, and gives, and gives. He explores the life-changing ways this love has expressed itself through Jesus. And he shows how you can love your mate, your family, your friends, and the world around you with the same practical, transforming love.Dispelling your fears and misconceptions of God, Life-Changing Love brings you face-to-face with the Love that frees and empowers you to love.
Life-Changing Synchronicities: A Doctor's Journey of Coincidence and Serendipity
by Bernard Beitman• Tells the author&’s personal stories of unlikely coincidences, showing how synchronicity can be identified and evolve in one&’s own life• Explores how recognizing synchronicity and serendipity can help individuals find their life purpose, accelerate their spiritual and interpersonal development, and positively impact their lives• Builds on the work of Carl Jung on the significance of synchronicityIn Life-Changing Synchronicities, pioneering psychiatrist Bernard Beitman, M.D., explores the experience and ramifications of meaningful coincidences, including how synchronistic happenings came to define his own life. Building on Carl Jung&’s groundbreaking work on this phenomenon, Beitman applies new insights on coincidence, synchronicity, serendipity, and related phenomena to the contemporary age, ultimately helping readers begin to better identify patterns of synchronicity in their own lives, find deeper meaning, and more consciously align with their personal life path and goals.The unlikely trajectory of the author&’s own life reveals the strange and counterintuitive nature of synchronicity. From Wilmington, Delaware, to 1960s-era San Francisco, Beitman explores his experience with precognition and telepathy while playing high school football, his life as a psychiatric medical school student and hippie in Haight-Ashbury, and his rise to become head of psychiatry at University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School while developing The Coincidence Project. As well as providing questions for readers to reflect on, throughout the book Beitman provides additional tools to illustrate synchronicity, offering insightful comments and principles in each section to synthesize useful reflections that serve as a guide for readers&’ own "coincidence diaries."
Life...The Reader's Digest Version
by Peggy NorthropLife... is what you make it Getting the most out of life can be so much easier if you know the coordinates. Whether you want to take the scenic route, make a quick detour, or find the simplest shortcut, there can be no substitute for a good roadmap. Part instruction manual, part GPS, part beloved confidante, Life...The Reader's Digest Version brims with smart ideas to help you navigate those tricky roads you travel each day. Covering key topics, this handy little guide includes advice that spans from surprising tips for dealing with a crisis to surefire suggestions for remembering names. Inside, you'll discover how to: Talk your way out of a traffic ticket Score the best seats Make a great first impression Tie a necktie in 7 easy steps Be the life of the party ...and there's more. Each of the short-but-sweet topics delivers a shot of instant advice, distilled as only Reader's Digest can-a little life lesson that really works.
Life: My Story Through History
by Pope FrancisFor the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today. An extraordinary personal and historical journey, Life is the story of a man and a world in dramatic change. Pope Francis recalls his life through memories and observations of the most significant occurrences of the past eight decades, from the Holocaust to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Videla’s coup in Argentina to the moon landing in 1969, and even the 1986 World Cup in which Maradona scored the unforgettable “hand of God” goal.Here are the frank assessments and intimate insights of a pastor reflecting on the Nazi extermination of the Jews, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the 2001 terrorist attack on America and the collapse of the Twin Towers, the great economic recession of 2008, the Covid-19 pandemic, the retirement of Pope Benedict XVI, and the subsequent conclave that elected him Pontiff. The “pope callejero” recounts these world-changing moments with the candor and compassion that distinguishes him, and offers important messages on major crises confronting us now, including social inequalities, climate change, international war, atomic weapons, racial discrimination, and the battles over social and cultural issues.Translated from the Italian by Aubrey Botsford
LifeForward: Charting the Journey Ahead
by Pamela McLeanA LifeLaunch is the beginning of a new chapter of your life. Each LifeLaunch requires a fresh new vision, new plans, and inner courage as you shift gears from yesterday's commitments to tomorrows possibilities. Each LifeLaunch is a graduation from one era of your life into the next. Society used to tailor our LifeLaunches for us, and guide us down established paths of adult life. No more. Today you must design your own path, and take charge of all your LifeLaunches no matter what your age or situation.
LifePass: A Groundbreaking Approach to Goal Setting
by Payal Kadakia'LifePass is a powerful guide for anyone who wants to take that first step towards achieving their goals.' - JAY SHETTYIntroducing The LifePass Method: A unique method of goal setting from the founder of ClassPass that will help you hone in on your feelings, screen out unnecessary distractions, and live a successful and fulfilling life based on your deepest desires. When Payal Kadakia let go of the pressure to achieve a traditional kind of success, she tuned in to her calling and built ClassPass into a multi-million pound company. In LifePass, she shares the unique how she changed her approach to not just business, but to her life. In LifePass, you will learn how to:- Focus on what's meaningful to you- Embrace all parts of your identity- Push past expectations to hear your own voice- Turn failure into learning opportunities- Make money work for you, instead of working for it- Manage your time guilt-free- Build a supportive tribe of people around you- Set actionable goals aligned to your dream'LifePass is a masterclass on how to live the life you've always wanted and thrive.' - ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
LifePass: Develop the Mindset, Techniques, and Goals to Optimize Your Life
by Payal KadakiaA signature goal-setting method to unlock the life you want, from the founder of ClassPass.Grant yourself permission to plan and prioritize your life in connection to your calling. When Payal Kadakia let go of the pressure to achieve a traditional kind of success, she tuned into her calling and built ClassPass into a billion-dollar business. In LifePass, she shares her signature goal-setting method that not only changed her approach to her career, but her entire life. You will learn to push through limits, fuel your life with purpose, and become an expert at achieving your goals—both professionally and personally. It's time to live by your own rules. LifePass shows you how.
LifeStyled: Your Guide to a More Organized & Intentional LIfe
by Shira Gill"Equal parts pragmatic and inspiring, Shira Gill presents a realistic and empathetic plan for crafting a more intentional life in a chaotic world." - Cal Newport, New York Times-bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Digital Minimalism"Shira Gill is the funniest, wisest, most entertaining writer in the organizing game."- Adam Mansbach, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Go the F**k to SleepTransform your entire life by cutting mental clutter, reducing overwhelm, and simplifying your daily routines with this inspiring and comprehensive guide from the bestselling author of Minimalista and Organized Living.As a professional home organizing expert with a diverse roster of clients ranging from students to CEOs, Shira Gill realized that almost everyone she worked with was overextended, overscheduled, and overwhelmed. So, using her signature blend of practical minimalism and organization, Shira designed a simple tool kit to instantly create more spaciousness, ease, and freedom in every part of your life, regardless of lifestyle or budget. Featuring stunning full-colour photographs throughout, LifeStyled is built around three key steps: adjusting volume, creating systems, and implementing habits. Part One shares the tools to transform your home, life, mindset, and schedule. Part Two will kickstart you into action with real-life examples, actionable prompts, and easy wins-little things you can integrate or practice for quick, transformative results. Chapters include:· Health and Wellness· Home and Environment· Relationships and Community· Career and Finance· Personal Development
LifeStyled: Your Guide to a More Organized & Intentional Life
by Shira GillTransform your entire life by cutting mental clutter, reducing overwhelm, and simplifying your daily routines with this inspiring and comprehensive guide from the bestselling author of Minimalista and Organized Living.As a professional home organizing expert with a diverse roster of clients ranging from students to CEOs, Shira Gill realized that almost everyone she worked with was overextended, overscheduled, and overwhelmed. So, using her signature blend of practical minimalism and organization, Shira designed a game-changing framework to streamline and simplify every part of your life, regardless of lifestyle or budget.LifeStyled is built around three key steps: adjusting volume, creating systems, and implementing habits. Applying these tools, you can transform your home, life, mindset, and schedule with accessible tips and quick wins—little things you can integrate or practice for quick, transformative results.Chapters cover health, home, relationships, career, finance, and personal development with actionable prompts to help you: Learn realistic strategies to optimize your sleep, nutrition, and overall wellness.Implement simple habits and routines to create and maintain a home that feels good.Cut the relationship clutter and invest in meaningful connections and community.Redefine success on your own terms and align your financial strategy with your values.Prioritize activities that help you feel energized, engaged, and fully alive.Disrupt unproductive thought patterns and create motivating new narratives.Shira has dedicated her career to helping people gain clarity and activate their best selves, even when they are short on time or capacity. In LifeStyled, she shows readers how to achieve more ease, alignment, and freedom, one tiny step at a time.
LifeTonic: Power Up Your Brightest, Boldest, Happiest You
by Jody ShieldTHE REFRESHED PAPERBACK EDITION OF LIFETONIC - with an introductory note by Ashley RobertsDo you feel overwhelmed by daily life?Are you tired of feeling like everyone else is further ahead than you?Do you want to reclaim your passion for life and start enjoying the present moment?Do you want to ditch your self-doubt and be fiercely confident?It's time to let Jody Shield change your life.Jody is an accredited success coach, motivational speaker and is globally known as the go-to well being consultant. Having reached burnout in her own life, Jody is committed to helping others overcome the stress, anxiety and fear we are faced with in the modern world; showing us how to reignite the fire in our souls and channel self-care in its truest form.Whether you want to work on yourself, your relationships or simply find balance and fulfil your potential, Jody's revolutionary method and powerful self-help tools will transform the way you think and give you the energy and purpose to power up your happiest, brightest you.If you seek long-lasting positive change, this is the book you need, right now. 'Jody is absolutely amazing, I'm incredibly inspired by her energy. She's kept me grounded and allowed me to let go of things that were holding me back.' - Ella Mills, Founder of Deliciously Ella 'Jody makes meditation cool, spreading her amazing message of self-love and how to reconnect with your true self' - Madeleine Shaw, Bestselling Author, Cook and Nutritional Therapist
LifeTonic: Power Up Your Brightest, Boldest, Happiest You
by Jody ShieldDo you feel disconnected from the life you lead? Are you stuck and unable to move on? Do you want to be free of the endless 'baggage' and go on a powerful healing journey?If so, it's time to let modern spiritual healer Jody Shield into your life. Life Tonic engages you in a revolutionary experience designed to transform your soul at the highest level and shift you up a gear. Let Jody guide you safely through her powerful self-help tools and 'tonics' in order to overcome the negativity, fear and anxiety and issues that are holding you back from fulfilling your true potential. Learn how meditation can change your brain and can be easily integrated into your daily life - even if you've never tried it before. Whether you are a total beginner on your healing journey, or further along and looking for inspiring advice, it is time to let go: to unpack the baggage, open your heart and mind to healing and emerge lighter, happier and more in tune with your vital self.(P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
LifeVesting: Cultivate a Life of Abundance, Impact and Freedom
by Andy WoodLifeVesting empowers readers to create an abundant, impactful future by the choices they make today. Through thoughtful encouragement, biblical teaching, and carefully placed questions, Andy Wood takes readers on a journey to understand, not his book, but their lives. That includes their dreams for the future, their relationships, their challenges, and their growth opportunities, together with their influence, future, legacy, and eternity. For everyone who yearned to know their life counted and who wanted to make a difference in this world that would last beyond their lifetime, LifeVesting offers hope and a roadmap to take them there. It starts with becoming intentional about what a person wants out of life, then shifting their focus from the immediate to the ages. LifeVesting shows how anyone can live–really live–an abundant life, rich in value, love, and great, great joy.
Lifeboat: Navigating Unexpected Career Change and Disruption
by Maggie CraddockToday&’s hardworking professionals are navigating sudden waves of financial stress, management shakeups, and downsizing. Using the experiences of Titanic survivors as a powerful metaphor, executive coach Maggie Craddock offers lessons for a transformative approach to our professional lives, one that recognizes that &“every man for himself&” doesn&’t work long-term. Lifeboat is organized as a series of key questions we all need to ask ourselves when facing unexpected career disruption or difficult changes at our existing jobs. These questions help readers clarify their authentic priorities, assess the group energy that guides a particular workplace, and identify the type of job that will help them reach their true potential.
Lifecraft
by Forrest ChurchThe Art of Meaning in the EverydayA joyous book on the art of finding meaning in daily life. Forrest Church challenges much of the modern search for meaning-indeed, the entire thrust of modern theology.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Lifehacks: Lifehacks, hacks tijdens het reizen, om je geheugen te verbeteren en nog veel meer
by Meg SmolinskiFrustratie over de “kleine dingen” in het leven kan je dag letterlijk om zeep helpen. Je WEET dat er een betere manier is om iets te doen. Daarom heb ik de beste manieren hier voor jou verzameld! Hier zijn meer dan 2000 geheimpjes om je te helpen alles op de beste manier te doen met lifehacks! Lifehacks zijn kleine aanpassingen in je dagelijks leven, zodat je dag beter en vlotter verloopt. Het is geen nieuw concept, maar met de komst van het internet en massacommunicatie zijn deze tips en trucs makkelijker dan ooit te leren. In dit boek staan meer dan 200 geweldige tips om aan de slag te gaan. Hacks op reis, hacks voor je brein, om je geheugen te verbeteren of gewoon om productiever te werken. Met dit boek leer je lifehacks te gebruiken als de beste! In dit boek leer je: 1. trucs om je huis en kantoor te optimaliseren voor maximale efficiëntie 2. waarom nagellak handig is op kantoor (hint: je gebruikt het niet op je nagels!) 3. hoe advies over productiviteit van je baas en collega’s je tegenhoudt op het werk 4. de beste manier om een accurate routebeschrijving te krijgen als je de weg kwijt bent 5. welke rij bij de veiligheidscontrole op de luchthaven ALTIJD het kortst is en waarom 6. en nog VEEL meer! Nog een reden nodig om mijn boek te kopen? Hier heb je er eentje: ik doneer 5% van de opbrengst van mijn boekverkoop aan Reading Is Fundamental, de grootste en meest gerespecteerde non-profit voor geletterdheid bij kinderen in Amerika. Download mijn boek vandaag nog en krijg de insidertips om je leven vlotter en leefbaarder te maken!
Lifelong Love
by Peter Sheras Phyllis Koch-SherasDoes your relationship feel stale, stalled and strained? Have you tried, and failed, to sustain a successful connection with a partner?Clinical psychologists Peter Sheras and Phyllis Koch-Sheras have helped thousands of people rejuvenate their relationships to create a meaningful and deeply fulfilling love. Their effective 4-step "Couple Power" program is based on a dramatic shift in the way in which relationships are viewed-where the couple is seen as an entity in and of itself, greater than the sum of its individual parts.Discover the 4 Cs of Lifelong Love, and learn how to:- Commit by creating a common vision for you and your partner.- Cooperate to achieve the committed vision that you both have for your relationship.- Communicate to serve your common vision, not just to meet your own needs.- Create communities of other couples who can support and help nurture your relationship.Filled with examples based on the authors' experience as clinical psychologists, as well as their 35-year marriage, Lifelong Love provides the tools you and your partner need to create the profoundly satisfying and lasting relationship of your dreams.
Lifelong Yoga: Maximizing Your Balance, Flexibility, and Core Strength in Your 50s, 60s, and Beyond
by Roy Williams Alexandra Desiato Sage RountreeYoga offers vital tools for healthy aging: strength, flexibility, balance, and peace of mind. In this one-of-a-kind book, Sage Rountree and Alexandra DeSiato describe the poses and routines that can help keep people of any age fit and injury free. In addition to demonstrating simple ways to maintain and even increase our ability to be active into our 50s, 60s, and beyond, the authors—both yoga teachers with decades of experience—offer poses and routines aimed toward specific goals, such as improving balance, maintaining strength and flexibility, and recovering properly between workouts. Each fully illustrated sequence is introduced with a brief overview of its benefits, along with modifications and options suited to individual requirements. Rountree and DeSiato also offer sequences that help support specific activities such as running, swimming, or golf, as well as yard work, travel, and caring for grandchildren. An essential and easy-to-follow guide, Lifelong Yoga offers key practices for maintaining and improving physical and mental well-being throughout a lifetime.
Lifeprints: Deciphering Your Life Purpose from Your Fingerprints
by Richard UngerUnique, unchanging, and formed five months before birth, fingerprints have been an accepted and infallible means of personal identification for a century. In LIFEPRINTS, Richard Unger presents a groundbreaking method of self-discovery and offers a daily compass for meaning and fulfillment. Combining the science of dermatoglyphics (the study of fingerprints and related line and hand shape designations) with the ancient wisdom of palmistry, the LifePrints system is a simple yet profoundly accurate means of mapping one's life purpose. Like examining an acorn to know what kind of oak tree may one day emerge, reading our fingerprints reveals who we are meant to become. A guide to discovering one's life purpose by decoding the map revealed in our unique combination of fingerprints. This new system is based on the author's 25 years of research and fingerprint statistics for more than 52,000 hands. Features step-by-step instructions for identifying the fingerprints and mapping the life lessons for reaching our full potential. Includes detailed case studies plus fingerprint readings for Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Amelia Earhart, Walt Disney, Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Charles Manson, and others. Reviews"This 286 page find brings palm-reading to a whole new level. I was impressed and amazed at the way the author could first, present such a difficult concept in an easy manner, and then to explain it in such a way that it made perfect sense. I could just by following along with the simple step by step guidelines learn how a line here, or a length there could truly determine not only the path my life might take, but what means I would use to get it there. The archetypes were majorly fascinating.There were interesting graphs and charts throughout that helped to clarify the concepts being presented and it was done in such a way that just made sense. I will never look at my hands the same way again. The experience was very much like casting a horoscope for my fingers, especially when they gave examples of the lifeprints of famous people. I would recommend this interesting form of self discovery to anyone at any stage of their spiritual journey . Thanks Richard, for helping it all make sense.-Riki Frahmann www.planetstarz.com
Liferider: Heart, Body, Soul, and Life Beyond the Ocean
by Laird Hamilton Julian BorraInternational fitness icon, nutrition expert, and professional big-wave surfer, Laird Hamilton, offers his take on human resilience, relationships, business, technology, risk-taking, and the importance of respecting the natural world, all through the lens of his life both in and beyond the ocean. This inspirational book is perfect for anyone looking to elevate their ordinary, landlocked life to do extraordinary things. While the world increasingly seeks happiness in fads and self-help books—millions of us reaching upward every day toward some enlightened being that we wish to be—surfing icon Laird Hamilton is more intent on looking inward and appreciating the brilliant creature we already are. In LIFERIDER, Laird uses five key pillars – Death & Fear, Heart, Body, Soul, and Everything is Connected – to illustrate his unique worldview and life practices, offering inspiration to anyone who wants to elevate their ordinary, landlocked life to do extraordinary things. This is Laird Hamilton in his own words—raw, honest, and unvarnished--on topics he has rarely explored before. Based on extensive interviews and conversations between Laird and his cowriter, Julian Borra, with additional insights from Laird’s wife, pro-volleyball player Gabby Reece, LIFERIDER takes on human resilience, relationships, business, technology, risk-taking, and the importance of respecting the natural world, all through the lens of Laird’s extraordinary life both in and beyond the ocean.
Lifesaving for Beginners: A Memoir
by Anne Edelstein“[The author] tells the story of how her mother’s unexpected death forced her to come to terms with a tragic family past . . . A poignantly candid memoir.” —Kirkus ReviewsWhen Anne Edelstein was forty-two, her mother, a capable swimmer in good health, drowned while snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef. Caring for two children of her own, Anne suddenly found herself grieving not only for her emotionally distant mother but also for her beloved younger brother Danny, who’d killed himself violently years before—and wrestling with the past and her family’s legacy of mental illness as well as the emotional well-being of her children. Part memoir and part meditation on joy and grief, Lifesaving for Beginners will resonate with anyone who’s struggled to come to terms with their family and their place in the world.“While dramatic events set this memoir in motion, the triumph of Lifesaving for Beginners is that its heart lies not in the large ruptures of life but in the reconciliations that arrive quietly and routinely. I admire—and envy—the writing in this book. Its smooth surface belies its depths, much like the open waters Edelstein swims in as she seeks her own calmness and consolation.” —Kathleen Finneran, author of The Tender Land“An unforgettable—and unputdownable—portrait of a singular American family. Reminiscent of Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments and Daphne Merkin’s This Close to Happy.” —Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year“[This book] is indeed a lifesaver.” —Mark Epstein, author of Going to Pieces without Falling Apart