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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) affects up to 1 in 20 people, and is particularly prevalent among young people in the adoption and fostering system. As a hidden brain injury, FASD can manifest in ways that often lead to challenging behaviors, which can feel overwhelming for caregivers...

In Stronger Than Bone, Greg takes listeners on a journey that defies medical odds and redefines resilience. From childhood trauma to hard-won triumphs, his memoir is a testament to the power of determination, joy, compassion and love—even when the world tells you to give up.

The stories in this book are about women who are married to, or were once partnered with, men on the mild end of the autism spectrum, formerly known as Asperger’s syndrome. These women are not autistic, so their relationships are considered neurodiverse (meaning there’s a neurotypical person in a relationship with a neurodivergent person). The focus within the stories is Cassandra Syndrome. A very life-altering phenomenon that often occurs—and usually remains unaddressed—within these relationships.

In West Point to Wall Street, veteran Omar Ritter reveals the lessons he’s learned over two decades of struggle with PTSD. A decorated combat veteran, Omar endured an eighteen-hour surgery for a brain injury and was medically retired from the military. He embarked on a second career as a finance and accounting executive, grappling with mental health challenges and searching for ways to alleviate the debilitating struggle. Now he’s offering powerful insights for confronting these demons and embracing the healing journey.

This memoir was written to honor my youngest brother’s influence over my life—the good, the bad, and the ugly, of living with a Down Syndrome sibling. It tells the story of the children of my family, despite our parents’ frailties, remaining committed to each other through life’s many changes and separations. Who I am today is directly related to who I needed to become.

The moving true story of Linda Crosby, an accident survivor who was left permanently and totally disabled, and Roy Crosby, her devoted husband and caregiver, The Day My Life Changed: An Accident Survivor offers a glimpse into the lives of an everyday couple whose love endured and thrived, even in the most impossible odds.

Born 10 weeks premature and given only a 10 percent chance of survival, Rene entered the world fighting for her life. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy, she grew up navigating a society that often defined her by limitations rather than potential. But this audiobook tells a different story—one of determination, courage, humor, and an unshakable belief in the power of being heard.

Cory Smit never had a chance to grow up as a normal kid. Between the extreme views pushed on him in church to being bullied at a series of schools, it took years to understand the worst of his trouble at home. After surviving physical and psychological trauma at the hands of his adoptive parents, Cory entered custody of the State of Arizona through a series of misunderstandings and misguided interventions.

In the blink of an eye, life can take an unexpected turn. One moment you're a loving mother of four, cherishing the simple joys of the playground, and the next, you find yourself confined to a 12x12 room in a psychiatric hospital. How does one bridge the gap between the mundane and the unimaginable? How does a perfectly healthy pregnancy spiral into a journey through the depths of the human psyche? In "From Playgrounds to Psych Wards," Amanda Taylor takes you on an extraordinary odyssey through the corridors of her mind, from health through a sudden descent into the abyss of psychosis.

This is a seminal work that allows you to see the world from the eyes of a person with muscular dystrophy. It's important to keep your eyes open as you put this book down and start today by making a contribution to those with disabilities so that they too can live life to the fullest. Evin lived his whole life knowing that his days were numbered and that every single event or activity could possibly be his last. I want you to deeply imagine the mental pressures these types of thoughts can cause.

The Light You Don’t See is a candid and personal account of sudden sight loss and the unexpected journey that followed. When Ashley St John’s vision changed without warning, life reshaped itself instantly. What follows is an honest exploration of fear, resilience, and the slow but determined rebuilding of identity. Told with clarity, warmth, and down-to-earth humour, this audiobook reflects on family, independence, the shifting meaning of work, and the quiet strength that often goes unnoticed until life demands it.

One moment can change everything — but it doesn’t have to end the story. In If You Have Five Minutes to Spare , Dominic Hurley BEM shares an honest, often funny, and deeply human memoir of life after a traumatic brain injury. After a life-altering accident at just twenty-one, Dominic was forced to rethink everything he thought he knew about normality, disability, memory, and identity. This is not a polished tale of instant triumph. It’s a real story of recovery — told with humour, frustration, warmth, and unfiltered truth.

Born in 1940, Author Sam McNair always believed that life would never be fair toward black men who struggled to be normal. After years of standing out like a sore thumb, Sam finally met someone who was quite like himself and diagnosed himself with Autism but not long afterwards did regain control of his life and now living his best one at 81 years young. Listen to Sam's experience with how he coped with people around him and all of the beautiful women involved in his transition back to an all time playboy.

While other kids were enjoying the head-bashing pleasures of tackle football, a freshly bar mitzvahed Steven Blier was inhaling operas and getting his first taste of accompanying professional singers. Beginning with impromptu piano gigs in the 1960s, Blier ascended to a dazzling career as an accompanist, teacher, and producer that has taken him to the highest reaches of artistic achievement. Today, Blier has partnered many of the brightest stars in music and thousands have fallen in love with his work via his acclaimed New York Festival of Song.

With style and straight talk, musician and changemaker Lachi flips disability and neurodivergence into an empowering identity, a cultural movement, and an innovation engine What if the most taboo parts of our identity—the parts we’re taught to mask—are exactly the ones that hold our...

MIND ESTRANGED tells the story of Bethany’s life, from her years as a promising university student through her gradual descent into schizophrenia, and unexpected, full recovery. While slowly losing her sanity, she traveled the world. She returned to the U.S. unable to work or study—and soon found herself homeless, delusional, and controlled by voices that talked to her and gave her orders in her mind. Bethany’s memoir enables the listener to enter into the mind of a person with schizophrenia, homeless and roaming the streets.

From an author with a psychology background, a candid memoir about the interior of her own psychotic episode. After the culture shock of moving from a small Wisconsin town to the tumult of Los Angeles in 1967, Linda’s family disintegrates: her parents decide to divorce, and she and her younger brother, Brian, suddenly must fend for themselves. While she finds a foothold in academic pursuits, Brian spirals downward into schizophrenia and, finally, commits an irrevocable act.

Grow Against All Odds, With Unshakeable Confidence is the story of Dr. Anand Modi. It is the tale of a man who worked to have it all and then found himself hanging over the jaws of death after a life altering stroke. Full of details about how he clawed himself out and acquired a new lease on life, the book is a mix of survival, self help and business advice. Its 15 chapters are split in a unique way. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce Anand’s background and the medical drama.

On an island off the coast of Massachusetts, six miles across the cobalt blue Waters of the Nantucket Sound, there is a place where hope flourishes. The island is Martha’s Vineyard. The place is Camp Jabberwocky, a sleepover summer camp for people with a variety of disabilities.

This book is for the girl who disappeared while trying to be everything for everyone — and lived to tell the truth. The Year I Became a Muse is not a memoir written from hindsight. It is a rebirth told in real time. Through raw moments, quiet revelations, and divine interruptions, Diana Zaitseva documents the season when survival became self-knowing — when grief softened into clarity, and chaos gave way to grace. This audiobook captures the unfiltered inner dialogue of a woman learning how to stay, how to listen, and how to rebuild from the inside out.