Chapter 1 Lynne Sausse Truxillo, RN October 13, 1962 ~ April 11, 2019 This chapter is dedicated to the memory of Lynne Sausse Truxillo, RN, who died on April 11, 2019 from injuries sustained during a patient assault while on duty at Baton Rouge General Hospital. While my family was engaging in wedding festivities and […]

1: THE DREAM OF HOME OWNERSHIP It was a summer day in 1982 and friends Rowdy and Angela were spending the night in the Bank of America parking lot in south Colorado Springs, Colorado. They arrived right after work with their sleeping bags and lawn chairs and joined a line of people already there, waiting […]

Introduction I have thought about love so much it has become my obsession. I am convinced that defining love is a task so important that if I succeed at it, my life will have been worthwhile. Love has been my life’s ultimate answer—when life is good, of course, but especially during the difficult times. Love […]

I spent so much of my life just hiding the truth from everyone that the lies themselves became more hurtful than some of my actual actions. Mental health is not something anyone ever talked about in my childhood. Even in high school, we had home economics, tech classes, sex education, but never once did a […]

Why Weight I am in an abusive relationship. It is one I cannot control, and from which I cannot escape. Nor do I want to. I am aware of the damage. The endless cycle of harm, misuse and guilt. That inevitable promise of it never happening again, this will be the last time, I love […]

FOREWORD I am grateful for the opportunity to tell my story, and to you, reader, for listening. It took me a great while to find the courage to put my experiences and the related emotions into words. I believe that every one of us has a story to tell because our journeys are uniquely ours, […]

I told the Movie Theater Club about the trouble. They were sympathetic and that was all that they could be. I didn’t expect more. After all, what was there for any of us to do about it? Was it less or more than what I could do without their help? The collective imagination might see […]

5. NEW TECHNOLOGY & EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS Introduction This chapter reveals the alignment of new workplace technologies being introduced and the employment relationships occurring. A combination of existing literature review and qualitative case studies amongst different organisations will be discussed. Technology impacts employees in various ways. Firstly, work difficulty and intensity are often the outcomes of […]

CHAPTER ONE The One Word That changed my life “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” —Aristotle He looked at me with a hint of frustration mixed with genuine concern and when he spoke, his sober tone signaled that I’d better listen. “Don,” he said, “if you learn anything from this weekend, I want […]

As I lay across the chairs in the office, unable to sleep, I found myself sobbing and grieving, as I had done so many times before. I have heard it said by many spiritual leaders with lots of wisdom, that the only way to heal is to go through the pain, no matter how painful […]

Prologue Lying in that detox bed, smelling myself — that combination of alcohol leaching from my pores and the rancid, stale stress sweat, I knew that I wasn’t fooling anyone. I was hurting, wanting to jump out of my skin, but trying to maintain a facade of okay. But I had been stripped of everything […]

Chapter One Hope with Me “Get down there, boy…” Even at four years old, I heard the threat in my dad’s slurred words. He stumbled away, leaving a trail of sour breath in the air, but I knew he’d be back…most likely. If I was lucky, he’d finish the beer in his hand, his sixth […]

Chapter 13 We heard the crowd noise building from our dressing rooms, and it was non-stop screaming. At this point, “Hushabye” was approaching the top 20 spot in Cashbox magazine but was in the top three in Illinois, and number one on two of the Peoria radio and TV stations. “Hushabye” was being played on […]

Introduction The book you are reading arose from my love of teaching and helping people consciously align with their true self, and a meaningful purpose. For many years I’ve been helping people to get out of their own way, so they can align their life with what they truly want. Many of these people struggled with […]

I WAS WRONG ABOUT HEALTHCARE Wholly unprepared… we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve as before. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning—for what was great in the […]