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Product: Bent But Not Broken
Description: Life can be relentlessly cruel! It would be a serious understatement to say that the foundation of my life was shaky. It would be closer to the truth to say that I had no foundation. Why? Well, because you see, my foundation was built on loss, abandonment, rejection and abuse that wreaked havoc throughout my life starting as far back as I can remember. That havoc continued throughout my life like a chronic illness. As this dis-ease continuously caused confusion, pain and destruction over and over again, I dealt with it and moved on from one problem to the next. One day, as a single mother of three young children, I finally decided that I could no longer ignore the way that I was living my life and the effect that my choices would eventually have on the true “LOVES” of my life, my babies. Because of them, I made life changes that ultimately improved the quality of all our lives.

Today, I am healing from a lifetime of scars. I am proud of my children and all that they are and will be in this world. As I share my story with you, it is my sincere hope/intention to encourage anyone who is going through troubled times. TRUST me, no matter what you have been through you can be healed. It won’t be easy but if you put in the work and hold true to yourself, you too will break the cycle and cure the dis-ease of dysfunction is your life. Remember this, because you are alive and still breathing there is hope!

YOU and I are still standing – WE are “BENT BUT NOT BROKEN”.
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Product: Bent but not broken Writing Journal
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Product: Bent but not Broken: 21 day Healing Journey Journal
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Product: BENT BUT NOT BROKEN: Help and Hope for Marriage Restoration
Description: A transparent story of a prodigal husband who left his family- and the unconditional love and perseverance that led to his return home, healing and deliverance, and the true restoration of everything they once lost.
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Product: Bent But Not Broken: Notebook Lined Paper 6x9 | Spinal Scoliosis Awareness Surgery Gift
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Product: Bent but Not Broken
Description: Life is full of ups and downs. Indeed, they say that the colour of life is the colour of music – black and white; evocative of piano keys.

King Solomon in Ecclesiastes 3 captures the changing of scenes of life as applicable to all. However, if life throws you a curve or you fall or are bent, be rest assured that you are not alone. Surely, there lies a blessed hope in Jesus Christ that even though you fall, you will not fall head long or be broken because He is the pillar that holds your life, a sure anchor for the soul.

Bent but not Broken is a classic that throws up the experiences of people who though tossed about by the storms of life, were able, by God’s grace, to hold their heads up and dared to trust the God who changes times and seasons and ensures that after all said and done, all wayfarers can raise a shout of victory because “Igbeyin Adun” (the end will be glorious].
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Product: Bent But Not Broken: I had to Yield for his Will
Description: Have you had a plan for your life? I Did!! Needless to say, my life has taken a trajectory that I could never have envisioned. God’s plan was totally different than my plan. I had so many disappointments and obstacles, yet I chose to fight! I’ve had 27 surgeries, loss my baby sister, and some more disappointments but I chose to LIVE. My life has been bent, but I’m not BROKEN!
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Product: Bent but Not Broken
Description: Walking through the darkness into the marvelous light of victory and serenity. The quality of prayer, love, and unity demonstrate the Encouragement from women to women. Together through love, betrayal, lust, and death came life.
For these four women, Vanessa transitioning to her new home and career, Kelly's struggle with her husband's betrayal and infidelity, Kim's coveting in lust, and Roberta's battle with physical abuse brings them together through sexual abuse. The struggle to raise above t
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Product: Bent But Not Broken
Description: Bent But Not Broken is an unflinchingly honest memoir about the onset of Peyronie’s disease, a painful and sexually limiting condition that is estimated to affect more than 5% of the worldwide adult male population. Don Cummings writes humorously about the emotional and collateral damage brought on by a suddenly curved penis as he struggles to maintain his sense of sex and self. He openly details the doctor visits, the excruciating treatments, and the acute anxiety over the state of his long-term relationship with a man who is supportive but often helpless in the face of nature’s whims. Discordant domestic life, a harrowing kidnapping by a handsome stranger, and reminiscences of a hyper-active sexual past are woven into the single-minded quest to minimize the effects of this deforming disorder. Brace yourself for a daring, heartfelt and beautifully twisted story of love and survival.

“Cummings’ prose is effortlessly clever, finding the entertaining medium between lyricism and sass. The frankness with which he discusses his problem, the treatment, and his sex life makes for an oddly shocking book—one rarely reads quite so much about penises, as central as they often are to literature. He manages to demystify and destigmatize Peyronie’s, which though obscure is not completely uncommon. More than that, he makes the most of an undignified opportunity to examine his own masculinity.” —Kirkus Reviews

"Cummings’s book (dubbed a “phallic memoir” by Permanent Midnight author Jerry Stahl) joins the ranks of other great gay medical memoirs (think Augusten Burroughs’s).” —The Advocate

“To the world-class pantheon of memoirists like David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs and Jonathan Ames, let us now add Don Cummings, who has single-handedly invented a new genre: the phallic memoir. Like all great personal essayists, the author mines his private torments — and tormented privates — transforming them, with wit, grace and weirdness, into a riveting, original story of triumph and transcendence.”
—Jerry Stahl, Author of Permanent Midnight and Bad Sex on Speed

“Daring, funny, candid, tender, Bent But Not Broken reveals the paradoxical truth about manhood: our strength as men is our weakness, and vice versa. Don Cummings is a witty, insightful writer, and this book is a marvel.”
—John Sedgwick, author of In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family

“Bent But Not Broken is a hilarious and deeply moving memoir about a penis and its owner. But more than that it’s about the nature of love, the flux of relationships, and how bodies betray us all. Cummings is a stunning writer and excellent travel guide for this journey through his life.”
—Maggie Rowe, Author of Sin Bravely and writer on Arrested Development

“Like his penis, Cummings gets bent out of shape, and not only on account of his condition: also just by being human, a man, a gay man who wants what he wants, as most of us do: love, intimacy, sex, money, fame, and sex. Cummings can’t help but be funny, but he also can’t stop being honest, and his writing achieves real poignancy that will grab you by the heart and penetrate deep into your soul, if you’re the soulful type. If not, your mind, and definitely your memory. It’s an unforgettable, beautiful book.”
—Rick Whitaker, Author of Assuming the Position and An Honest Ghost
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Product: Bent but Not Broken: Survival Guide for the Soul
Description: The storms of life will blow and at times make us feel all alone and ready to give up. With encouraging words and knowing youre not in this alone, that feeling can make you strive to make it through another day. We are all a little bent, but thank God, we are not broken to the point of unrepair. Through the forty-day reading and using the reflection pages, I believe you will discover how strong you are and know that youre not on this ride alone. I been there and understand and sharing what I faced with you. We are bent but not broken.
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Product: Bent but Not Broken: Prayer Changes Things
Description: When Jakia found out she had to have spinal surgery, she didnt have any idea how momentous her surgery would be. Not only did it change her life, but it changed the lives of the people around her as well. She realized nothing in life is permanent. In this book Jakia reveals her secrets to coping with scoliosis. She talks about how her condition turned her life upside down and tested her faith. Through scriptures and prayer Jakia emphasizes that scoliosis can only bend you, but never break you.

Do you have scoliosis, or do you know someone with it? Do you have a condition and you need help coping? Are you a teen and society has you questioning life? This book can lift your spirit, change your heart, and encourage you to exercise your faith. This book aims to inspire the whole family.
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Product: Bent But Not Broken: One Family's Scoliosis Journey
Description: For the Butters family, the punch that knocked the wind out of their lungs was a diagnosis of severe idiopathic scoliosis for their twelve-year-old daughter, Avery. The only viable treatment option was spinal fusion surgery.

It was a terrifying prospect to stare down, and one that even after several months of appointments, research, and internet searches did not yield much information about what they could expect. Four months after they knew that surgery was in Avery’s future, and frustrated with the lack of information on what the family would actually experience, Avery’s mother, Jodi, started a family blog.

It was there that Avery, Jodi, and Andrew would share their thoughts and experiences about the journey in real time—or as close to real time as they could get. Jodi was determined that if there were other families searching for this information, they would be able to provide it.

When it was all said and done and the blog came to its rightful conclusion, the writer in Andrew couldn’t leave it alone. If the blog was so successful at spreading the message, then surely there were other ways to help spread the word. Surely there were experiences they lived through that taught them lessons that applied beyond Avery’s scoliosis. Surely there was a bigger story to tell.

Bent But Not Broken is a heartfelt journey of a girl and her family as they navigate the healthcare system from diagnosis to surgery and beyond. Follow them as they use their own words in blog posts and through an emotional and gripping narrative that puts you by their side through all the ups and downs, challenges and successes, of an experience that changed their lives and taught them that compassion and love builds strong communities, even stronger families, and that true strength comes from the most unlikely sources.
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Product: Bent But Not Broken
Description: No one is so blind as he who will not see. I've spent 15 years in a marriage that taught me the meaning of strength, patience and resilence. I did bend but I did not break. I hope reading this will help someone on their journey and give them the strength they need to be happy.
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Product: Love Forever: Poems to Open Your Heart and Free Your Emotions
Description: Poetry on love, loss, life, and the promise for tomorrow

Open your heart and free your emotions with this uplifting and thought-provoking collection of poems. Rollins’ prose will free your deepest loving thoughts as you explore your highest, most meaningful, and most tender feelings of love in its many different dimensions and forms.

Much, much more than a book of poetry on love, loss, and dreams forever.

These poems, complemented by supporting illustrations, were crafted to set you free to journey down your own broadening road of mindfulness, introspection, and renewal. Take a few small steps sideways from your daily routine to be reminded of the importance of love in your life; of family; and even of your furry friends who model daily, love and devotion.

Hope and dreams

Come and go

With the young

Never to really know

Why read these poems?

All poetry stems from different events in a poet’s life. The resulting poems reflect various rhythms and styles from wide-ranging experiences. (Wentworth Rollins is no different.) These verses, like all poetry, do not have a definitive meaning. Rather, they were penned with the intention of arousing thoughts and ideas to ponder with the hope of kindling growth for the reader.

As you walk along the twisted lanes of love and life, these verses will be there again and again, like a warm hand to hold. Rollins’ words bring you a unique blend of happiness, loss, strife, and splendor that will set your thoughts free to wander. Begin in an instant to experience the touch and fullness of your senses. Blend your reflections and imagination into a future bursting with unexpected benefits as you linger on each poetic line.

Unions, short or long

Ring out a beckoning song

Wave not this worthy endeavor

Trust fast to … always and forever

Savor these poems to get lost in yourself. Search with a transformative passion to find the special part of you and your greatest “forever” loves. There is wondrous promise in your creative visions, tempered by experience. Pass on your way with no regrets. Don’t miss any opportunity to foster new beneficial approaches to all of life’s emotionally mixed aspects and expectations.

Are you ready to open closed or new doors? Scroll up to get a digital or print copy of these poems for yourself or someone you love or click the “Look Inside” feature to start reading the first few poems today.
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