Tell Your Eating Disorder to F**k Off is a self-help book for eating disorders from someone who lives with one. Kate Purcell has spent much of her life in the grips of anorexia nervosa.

Now healthy and happy, she is here to tell you how to separate who you are from your Disorder. In these pages are the tools to start building a life that you are in love with. A life full of

hope and inspiration and without the looming shadow of an eating disorder. Here, in these pages, is your ED's kryptonite.

With empathy and encouragement, Kate leads you to a place where you can confidently stand up and fight. To begin the earth-shattering battle between yourself and your struggles

with food, weight and negative self-perception.

It's time to join the path towards healing. Allow this book to be the light at the end of the tunnel and a powerful declaration to your eating disorder to f**k right off. Your life awaits. Let's do this.

To connect with Kate ....
https://katepurcell.com/about/ 

Creativity Found: Finding Creativity Later in Life.

Claire Waite Brown ... host of Creativity Found is a conversational podcast focused on rediscovering creativity in adulthood.

At its core, the show features real-life stories from people who have found—or re-found their creative side later in life. Claire interviews guests across a wide range of creative fields (art, writing, music, business, and beyond), exploring not just what they create, but how they got there.

A podcast about ordinary people reconnecting with creativity ...and how that changes their lives.

With 145+ episodes in the vault ... there’s genuinely something for everyone.

To connect with Claire ....
https://creativity-found.squarespace.com/
https://www.instagram.com/creativityfoundpodcast/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairewaitebrown/

Good Girl, Goodbye: Rewrite Your Story, Reclaim Your Power, Build a Life You Love 

We’ve spent years being the good girl: saying yes when we mean no, shrinking ourselves to make others comfortable and prioritising everyone else’s needs. Our conditioning to be ‘good’ runs deep. As children, we’re praised for being polite, quiet and well-behaved. In the workplace, we’re rewarded for compliance over confidence. The result? Chronic illness, burnout, buried emotions ― and a feeling that we’re constantly performing for other people, rather than living a life that is true to us.

In Good Girl, Goodbye, Caitlin Judd ... founder of the award-winning lady-brains podcast, offers a bold roadmap to break the patterns keeping us small. Drawing from her work coaching thousands of women, interviewing Australia’s best female founders, and her background in business and positive psychology, Judd shows women how to set fierce boundaries and build a life they love. 

Author Caitlin Judd is a business and brand coach, facilitator and strategist who helps women untangle their ‘good girl’ conditioning so they can design richer, more meaningful lives

To connect with Caitlin .....
https://www.caitlinjudd.com/
https://au.linkedin.com/in/caitlinjudd
https://www.instagram.com/caitjudd/

 A gripping new legal thriller .....

New graduate Fei Fei Chou is an outlier at her prestigious law firm.

She's too quiet.
She wears too much makeup.
She's only here because the boss has a thing for Asians. 

But Fei isn't here to climb the corporate ladder - she's here for revenge.  
Thirty years ago, three schoolgirls were kidnapped and abused by a man who's never been identified. The information Fei needs to find him is buried somewhere in the firm's records. 
Deliberately placing herself in harm's way, Fei will uncover a secret history of power and privilege that haunts not only her firm, but the nation itself. 
Taut, riveting and blackly humorous, The Graduate is a mesmerising legal thriller and a masterfully dark crime debut from a beloved Australian writer Rebecca Lim.

To connect with Rebecca .....
https://www.instagram.com/rebeccalim_writer/ 

Vitalify Unplugged™ blends health, tech and AI, brain rot, brain fog, brain emergence, neurospicy perspectives, parenting, and soul wisdom with zero filters.

Hosted by Steph Liyanage and Gry Stene (aka the quirky twins - 20 years and 15,000kn apart), we talk about the real stuff behind vitality in midlife.

Hosts ... 
Steph — writer, wellness explorer.
 Gry — strategist, speaker, and recovering perfectionist with a deep love for technology and truth.

Episodes explore the intersection of midlife wellness, hormones (perimenopause/menopause), nervous system regulation, ADHD in women/neurodivergence, stress and burnout, brain fog, relationships, and identity shifts — plus how technology, screens, AI, wearables, and wellness tools shape our bodies, brains, and choices.

For perfect show for curious minds, tired bodies, neurodivergent brains ... you’re all welcome here.

To connect to the show ...
https://vitalifyunplugged.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@UC4xqhhL288zcHRApXC0pH2A 
https://www.instagram.com/vitalifyunplugged

When 72-year-old Elizabeth sees a dead body - her own - on a park bench, she knows it's a sign that it's time for her to make some big changes in her life.

She has recently moved into the heavily regimented nursing home The Cloisters and, after becoming a widow, has lost all sense of herself and her life. Jolted suddenly out of the greyness of her life, she performs a daring abscondence from the suffocating Cloisters and sets off in search of a better future - and a reconnection with her past.

Elizabeth's sudden disappearance throws her daughter Ellen's life into disarray - she has to frantically search for her mother while trying to hold her fracturing family together. Overwhelmed and feeling isolated, the two eventually come together to make a series of audacious escapes to better futures. They each discover how easy it is to get lost, and how important it is to be found again.

To connect with Judith ...
https://www.judithkatherine.com.au/
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Simply-Beside-Herself/Judith-Katherine/9781761637841 

Veils of the Fallen by Hannah Kristen is the first instalment in the History of the Fallen series, introducing a richly imagined fantasy world where prophecy, power, and identity collide. The story follows Esme, a woman who has always felt out of place, only to be abruptly torn from Earth and thrust into the mysterious Celestial Plane—a realm filled with ancient creatures, political tension, and looming danger. Stripped of her memories, powers, and sense of belonging, Esme must navigate a hostile world where humans are hunted and survival depends on uncovering hidden truths.

As Esme struggles to piece together her past, she becomes entangled in shifting alliances, betrayals, and a prophecy that may determine the fate of multiple worlds. Alongside the high-stakes tension, a slow-burning and risky romance begins to emerge, offering both hope and potential destruction. Blending epic fantasy with emotional depth, the novel explores themes of identity, resilience, and destiny—raising the question of whether Esme can uncover who she truly is before the fragile boundaries between worlds collapse entirely.

Genre: Dark Romantasy
Ages: 12+ (young adult/adult)
Spice level: No spice in book 1
Key Tropes: Morally grey, slow burn, high stakes, epic fantasy, multiple POV's

To connect with Hannah ....
TikTok: _hannahkristen
Instagram: _hannahkristen
Facebook: Hannah Kristen - Author
Veils of the Fallen is available everywhere, out in soft-cover, hard-cover and eBook!
Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Any bookstore, ask and they can order it in for you
Hannah's website (hannahkristen.com)
EBook is available on KU and Amazon

The Couples Retreat by Mercedes Mercier is a tightly wound destination thriller set on the remote beauty of Kangaroo Island, where three wealthy couples reunite for a weekend of luxury, indulgence, and celebration. 

Beneath the polished surface, however, old friendships are strained by jealousy, buried history, and long-held secrets. When the group wakes to a brutal murder, the glamorous escape quickly turns into a pressure cooker of suspicion, with everyone forced to question how well they really know each other.

Cut off from the mainland by a violent storm, the island becomes a closed circle .....trapping both the survivors and the killer together. Rookie police officer Emily Quinn is thrown into the case, navigating hostile locals and her own complicated past as it collides with the investigation. 

As tensions escalate and truths unravel, the novel explores privilege, identity, and the dangerous weight of history—revealing that no one is as perfect as they seem, and that the past has a way of catching up with deadly consequence

To connect with Mercedes ....
https://mercedesmercier.com/about
https://mercedesmercier.com/books
https://www.instagram.com/mercedes.mercier.writes/

7 Minute Stories is the leading short-form autobiographical storytelling podcast in the world, reaching over 30 million listeners through weekly unscripted personal narratives.

Each episode delivers a true story from Aaron Calafato’s extremely normal yet deeply relatable life in Ohio, told in about seven minutes with no script.This show is quick, immersive, and tinged with nostalgia. Each story feels deeply personal, fits into your day, and leaves you better than it found you. 7MS sounds like a Millennial swapping stories with Jean Shepherd, Spalding Gray, and Paul Harvey at a Midwestern diner.

New episodes every week.

Aaron Calafato is an exceptional storytelling  and narrative designer. His stories have been heard by millions around the globe on his award-winning Podcast 7 Minute Stories, on stage and on YouTube. 

To connect with Aaron ....
https://www.youtube.com/@UCnQrgud3s0Hpe0KWCYSI1xQ 
https://www.7minutestoriespod.com/follow
https://www.7minutestoriespod.com/
https://www.instagram.com/aaronccalafato

Fractured Motherhood: when love, trauma and parenting intertwine 

She never thought she could be a mother.

Not after an abusive childhood. Not with a mind fractured by multiple personality disorder. And not with the fear that she might repeat her parents’ mistakes.

But when Maggie Walters and her partner adopted three children from the Philippines, motherhood became both a reckoning and a revelation. Every tantrum, every silence, every ordinary chaos tested her deepest dread: what if I become them?

To break the cycle, Maggie turned back to her own parents’ hidden histories, uncovering the traumas that had shaped—and broken—generations. In learning their story, she began to rewrite her own.

As her children grew up laughing, quarrelling, and living the carefree childhood she never knew, their wholeness became her healing.

Fractured Motherhood is a raw and lyrical memoir of fear and resilience, love and repair—a story of inherited wounds, and of how family can be both the wound and the cure.

To connect with Maggie ...
https://www.maggie-walters.com/product-page/fractured-motherhood
https://www.maggie-walters.com/
https://www.instagram.com/maggiewalters_writer/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggie-walters-042606289/
https://www.facebook.com/maggie.walters/