Nurture Your Body, Mind & Spirit

Life is a series of moments.

Like a heartbeat, those moments go up and down, taking us to the highest peaks and the lowest valleys. Often, we face moments (both good and bad) where we struggle to find words to express our feelings. What happens when we hit a mental block while seeking to provide hope to help ourselves or others?

New Day Inspirations: A Poetry Journey by Rebecca Strobl shares a collection of poems, memories, and inspirations to give words of hope when the world has given us distress. Words of life when we have been presented with death, and words of courage when we face the toughest battles.

It is Rebecca's sincerest desire that as you travel this journey, you are encouraged to believe hope is not lost. Hope may not change your story, but hope can bring back that sense of belief and expectation that something different is coming your way. Thank you for joining her on the journey!

What if the line between mediocre and legendary was literally one inch?

Bear Wilson is tired of being invisible. While star quarterback Tyler Greene throws perfect spirals and gets all the glory, Bear rides the bench, watching his dreams slip away one practice at a time. He's good—but good isn't good enough. Everything changes when Tony, a former state champion, catches Bear taking shortcuts during drills. Instead of another lecture, Tony drops a truth bomb that flips Bear's world upside down: "It's that extra inch between almost and actually. The inch between close enough and excellence." Suddenly Bear isn't just learning football—he's mastering the C.O.M.P.E.T.E. framework, a game-changing system that transforms how he approaches everything. Late-night film sessions become legendary preparation. Extra reps in the rain become his secret weapon. That one additional inch of effort in every single moment becomes his superpower. But when an unexpected opportunity forces Bear off the sidelines, he'll discover that the real competition isn't against Tyler Greene or any other player. It's against the version of himself who settles for "almost."

The Line isn't just about football—it's about the relentless pursuit of becoming unstoppable in every area of your life. Because champions aren't made in the spotlight; they're forged in the margins, one extra inch at a time.

Are you ready to find your extra inch and to cross that line?

Margaret the Pug, a crotchety old dog who happens to be the reincarnation of the brilliant 16th century philosopher Michel de Montaigne, tells her owner how to live a good life. “If you want to be good, do what a dog would do. If you want to be right, I can’t help you.”

Margaret covers topics like friendship, forgetfulness — a dog’s idea of what lying is — and the custom of putting dogs into clothes through humor and stories, all with the wisdom of an old dog.

If you’ve ever wondered what your dog was thinking, this translation of essays from Dog to English is your chance to find out.

This seminal narrative on time is a commentary on strategic ways we all can live meaningful lives. As we all journey as travelers through life, time like a shadow, is our constant companion. It lives in us, as we live in time. It is our most precious unreplenishable commodity that begins its first tick at conception with a terrestrially undetermined expiration date.

How we orchestrate the journey from the cradle to the grave typifies our lifestyle, which reflects and identifies whether meaning and purpose were discovered. When meaning and purpose are discovered, time is prioritized each day and lived with meaningful specificity.

This book is an inspirational and motivational appeal. It depicts how the gift of life intersects poignantly with the gift of time in a purposeful way within each individual. It provides existential strategies on how to live life abundantly between the parameters of our birth and the certainty of our demise.

Each chapter provides pertinent anecdotal descriptives that will captivate your attention and encourage you so that you are equipped with the relevant prescriptions to pull the trigger in the direction of your destiny.

We all have the capacity to live meaningful lives by cultivating a Samaritan spirit because what we do for others and community leaves a legacy and what is done for self you take with you.

A great literary scholar once said that “there are two important days in the life of each individual… the day you were born and the day you figured out why”. This book is a step in that direction.

Being a scoutmaster can be one of the most rewarding things a person can do. But it can be a lot of work!

Ask any scoutmaster what’s the hardest part of the job, and one of the most common responses you will get would be coming up with the scoutmaster’s minutes. Week after week, over fifty times a year, the scoutmaster must come up with an inspiring, educational, and entertainment message for the Scouts.

Let’s face it. Not every scoutmaster is the most gifted public speaker. Research shows that the number one fear of people is speaking in public. Just because a scoutmaster loves to hike, camp, teach, lead, and motivate, doesn’t mean that they are comfortable speaking in front of a group. And how do you come up with inspiring stories, instructional words of wisdom and motivational messages, week after week?

Long-time Scout leader, Larry Carpenter, has written a book that can be a lifesaver for any scoutmaster. This collection of 100 of the best scoutmaster’s minutes offers brief messages that are themed to topics, including the Scout Oath, Law, Motto and Slogan. Additional minutes cover other topics, such as persistence, honesty, leadership, and other positive character traits.

This book makes a perfect gift for your scoutmaster. Or, if you are a scoutmaster who is on the spot once a week, make it a gift to yourself!

Raise your hand if you suspect that you are the only one who struggles with anxiety, doubt, fear, resentment, comparison, jealousy, etc.?

In Soul-Selfie: #NoFilter, Heather turns the camera back on herself, exposing her own battles with those same “plagues of the heart”, as she calls them. She lays bare her raw, unfiltered inner-world and invites you to come along side and walk with her toward hope, healing, and transformation.

Heather shares her experience, strength, and hope with anyone God puts in her path. Much of what she writes about will not be new information for you, but maybe, just maybe, you will finally know that you are not alone as you battle the plagues of the heart that seem to haunt us.

Heather reveals her heart and hope in candid, authentic posts about fear, control, ego, jealousy, greed, worry, doubt, etc. It hasn’t been cleaned up to make her look smart or wise or that she has it all figured out.

It’s real and raw and redemptive.

She shares her messiness, hoping that others will feel comforted and use their own messiness to give hope and comfort to others.

Watch people and see how they show up to their world. More importantly, how do you show up? While most people want to show up as authentic, there seems to be a strong pull to be accepted, fit in, or make a mark in someway that is less than authentic. How we show up flows directly out of our story. The Choice to Show Up will inspire and motivate you to take a deeper look at how your story impacts your life and the choices you make each day to be your authentic self. Even more, you will be challenged to embrace the dignity of your story.

This book is one man’s transformational journey to showing up authentically. Because every person influences their environment, it’s also about being a transformational leader. Transformational leaders distinguish themselves from transactional leaders in life and in business. It’s not about getting from people what you want or focusing on WHAT you do. Rather, beliefs and behaviors first flow from WHO they are: authentic, honest, and humble. When you are around them, there is a strong sense of connection and energy of service.

How do you escape the abusers in your life? Why is leaving them behind while moving forward so difficult?

One woman shares her experiences, as well as powerful and moving stories of others, unraveling the mysterious web of confusion surrounding abuse, and overcoming difficult relationships. Have you ever faced a relationship you felt you couldn’t get out of? Have you ever gotten out of a relationship wondering, what just happened?

In this revealing book, Susan Foster shares lessons learned from surviving years of emotional abuse and isolation. Her story helps women and men understand the dark roots of how relationships turn toxic and the stages they go through. How do you escape the abusers in your life? Some don’t even recognize it when the ones they care about are toxic or abusive and the cycle continues. Author Susan Foster shares her empowering story in hopes that others will see the charming impossibles in their own lives - and do something about it.

Obstacles, setbacks and change are a natural part of life. As the fifth overall pick in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft and the first high school player drafted that year, John Patterson stepped right into the plan he created for himself. The biggest flaw in building dreams is believing we can control the outcome. Sometimes our biggest lessons come when what we planned falls just out of reach.

Injuries and setbacks turned into the loss of John’s baseball career resulting in depression, anxiety and addiction. Failure isn’t what holds you back. Believing you can never recover is. Despite the loss of his dream, John’s journey through Perspective, Perception and Perseverance changed his failures into a new future. Navigating life’s challenges can be difficult, but through his life lessons you will find the courage to understand and use your own challenges as fuel to build a better life. You are more than broken dreams and it is time to take back your life and move into a happier and successful future.

A life well lived is about faith, learning and leadership.

How do you manage the opportunities and challenges that life and the workplace throw at you? The greatest leaders in the world aren’t perfect, but they are resilient and are continuously learning from each experience and setback. No matter what challenges you face, former American Airlines executive Mark Mitchell wants you to know that every day you have a second chance to become the best you. By implementing his lessons and insights on life and leadership, Mitchell looks back on a long and blessed career, a divorce and acceptance and creation of new life, raising beautiful young daughters, and juggling the activities, adventures and leadership victories and struggles that every leader faces.

People change over time. They can’t help it. They either become better people, more admired, and more successful or they slowly become the opposite, and all their wonderful goals slip out of reach. Are you changing into the person you want to be? Or is that better you slipping away?

Virtues Work, a remarkable new book, leads you, step-by-step to become the person you want to be. Virtues have improved lives for millennia. History’s great thinkers have insisted on the virtues’ importance. In this clear, concise volume, the author presents the virtues in a practical way. It is full of entertaining, instructive anecdotes; clear, plain-English explanations; and concrete tips that will get you using the virtues today. This book will change your life. It will help the better you emerge and prevent your dreams from slipping away.

In Absolutely Maybe, Nick's second book, Nick makes serious and insightful inquiries into how we view the dynamics in today's modern relationships. Part tragedy, part comedy and part romance, (with an added bonus in the back) his book speaks to the parts of our heart and soul the thoughts the reader may often think about but just can't put into words. Through his unusual and sometimes enigmatic point of view, Nick offers us a fresh, restorative (and, at times comical) perspective that demands that the reader reconsider how they view the world and who they choose to live in it with.

Former Dallas Cowboy and Denver Bronco player, Steve Wilson was retired from a ten year NFL playing career and a twenty year Hall of Fame college coaching career when he received a call from a former Broncos teammate, quarterback Scott Stankavage. Scott's son Shawn was a star high school quarterback with a bright future, but a torn ACL his junior year and his father's diagnosis with stage 4 leukemia threatened to derail his dreams of a college career. Scott needed help getting Shawn's dreams back on track and the three men set out on a journey to study the science of football and the art of quarterbacking. They ended up discovering life lessons that changed the trajectory of their lives forever. The QB Mentor is about leadership and faith, practice and perseverance and its wisdom is applicable to every reader, football player and non athletes alike. Coaches, parents, players and any fan of the underdog will be inspired to overcome the challenges in their own life in an uplifting and motivational way.

Trim Healthy Mama's new devotional will help motivate you daily to keep both your body healthy and your soul healthy! A unique devotional book written from the heart from three generations--grandmother, daughters, and grand-daughter. The Apostle John wrote in his third letter, "I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers." Not only is this book written from three generations, but it nourishes the whole person--body, soul, and spirit. God's eternal truths which have been embraced and proved by three generations of women will also bring inspiration and life to your whole being.