Life lessons sometime hurt, and sometimes you feel like giving up. Please don't please know that you are loved and that you are a child of God and whatever it is that is going on in your life is meant to happen and that you will have a testimony from it. As long as we are still breathing we have a purpose here on this earth. These poems are just a few of the experiences that I went through that lead to me to the knowledge that I am loved by God and have job to do here on Earth.

Sometimes we have to remind ourselves of God's love and his presence in out lives. Speaking these things are key to living a balanced life. God is always listening!

Prisms is a book for every woman, young or old. As women, we matter, we are beautiful, we are brave and we are bold. No matter your backgrounds, beliefs or differences, you will find yourself somewhere in this book. Never forget how important you are in the prism which makes up this world. Your flaws and imperfections make you unique, vibrant and an intricate part of this universal prism. Society can fracture your self-image, but embracing everything about yourself, loving your self and accepting yourself makes this prism of women shine bright. Pick up the pieces of your fractured image to find the prism which radiates from you. The world needs you in it, you are you, you are brave, you are bold.

What is the most important element to your SUCCESS? You. Reflection to Perfection will help you discover hidden attributes developed within you. As we grow within our profession it is common for an individual to duplicate what others are doing without fully assessing their own talents and abilities. This book is designed to help discover who you are, your strengths, professionalism, and leadership capabilities. Every one of us was born with the gift to lead, but how many of us know how to use it? Leadership is not a role we thrust ourselves into, it is a role we inherit. Reflection to Perfection will teach you how to transition into a leadership role effectively. It begins with interpersonal development, learning about your professional characteristics, discovering your leadership attributes, and being able to duplicate that process to grow other leaders. Growth and development is inevitable, it all begins with the person you see in the mirror.

In Cracked Mirror, Clear Reflection, author and life coach Julie Barbera invites you on a journey from fear and doubt to discover your confidence. After years of struggling with an illusion of whom and what she should be, clear reflections in her cracked mirror gave her the courage to take a chance.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.