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Breaking Through Survival Mode
Miyoki Chan
The book is a heart-centered lifeline for families navigating the beautiful, often isolating journey of parenting a child with disabilities or someone dealing with sudden identity shifts. As a coach and a parent who has walked this exact path, I share my vulnerable story alongside the structured Break Through framework to help parents heal their own unaddressed wounds. Instead of clinical advice, this guide provides an encouraging, compassionate community space and actionable coaching tools. Learning to heal their own inner world, parents gain the emotional resilience to break generational cycles, overcome burnout, and show up fully for their children with deep joy. This book turns personal survival into shared community healing, proving that a parent's self-care is the greatest gift they can give their family.
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From Self-Neglect to Self-Compassion: A compassionate guide to creating a thriving life
Hayley D Quinn
This book helps people understand themselves better, cultivate a compassionate mind and change the relationship they have with themselves so they make choices that allow them to live a thriving life and avoid burnout. It is a gentle, powerful book for anyone who has spent too long putting their own needs last. With evidence-based advice and practical steps it offers a roadmap to recognise the habits, unhelpful stories and cyclical beliefs that hold you back and keep you stuck in exhaustion, burnout, guilt and self-criticism, while guiding you to cultivate self-compassion and a new way of relating to yourself. Through four parts, this book invites you to:
Start Where You Are: get to know all parts of who you are
Explore the Possibilities: reconnect with your dreams, values and future self
Learn to Do It Differently: practise courage, self-compassion and boundaries
Find Your New Way of Being: create a values-aligned life that supports your wellbeing
Finalist
Dear Carer,
Sarah Martin
When someone you love is struggling with their mental health, life can shift in an instant. Suddenly you’re searching for answers you never imagined needing. Trying to hold your world together and at the same time helping someone find their way through the dark. Sarah sits alongside carers, psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, nurses, police, paramedics, and clinicians to unravel the topics carers are so often left to navigate alone. She explores emergency care, recovery care and more, and shows in small but powerful ways, how carers can use tools to support and advocate for their loved ones, while still caring for themselves.
Dear Carer, is not just a book. It’s a hand to hold, a breath of reassurance, and a reminder that love, steady, imperfect, or determined, can light even the darkest moments.