Monday, May 11, 2026

Make Peace With Life — Sneak Peek of What’s Coming

    Strong Man with Make Peace With Life Shirt


Make Peace With Life — Sneak Peek of What’s Coming

Something special is happening… and you’re getting an early look. 👀

Welcome to Make Peace With Life — more than just a brand, it’s a mindset.


✌️ Our Mission

Life isn’t always easy. It throws challenges, chaos, and moments that test us.

Make Peace With Life is about:

  • Accepting the journey
  • Finding strength in the struggle
  • Embracing the outdoors, adventure, and growth
  • Living with intention, gratitude, and peace

Whether you’re hiking a mountain, pushing through a workout, chasing your goals, or just trying to stay grounded — this brand is for you.


👕 Sneak Peek: The Store

We’re getting ready to launch the Make Peace With Life store, and it’s built around:

  • 🌲 Outdoor lifestyle apparel
  • 🏔 Clean, bold logos you’ve already seen
  • 🎒 Gear that represents peace, strength, and adventure

You’ve already seen some early designs — and trust me, this is just the beginning.


Woman in Make Peace With Life Shirt at BeachMan with Make Peace with Life Sweatshirt at waterfall

Older Man at Beach with Make Peace with Life Shirt



🔥 Be One of the First

We’re opening the doors soon, and you have the chance to be:

👉 One of the first people rocking a Make Peace With Life shirt
👉 Part of the founding wave of this brand
👉 Someone who helped bring this vision to life

When you wear this, it’s not just a shirt — it’s a message.


📖 The Book is Already Live

Man on Mountain staring at sun rise

While the store is getting ready, you can dive into the mindset behind everything:

Make Peace With Life — The Book

Available now on:

  • 📚 Amazon
  • 📱 Kindle
  • 🔓 Kindle Unlimited

This is where the philosophy started — the clothing is just an extension of that message.

Click here to get your copy of Make Peace With Life Book


🚀 What’s Next

We’re just getting started:

  • Full product drops
  • More designs (including Bigfoot series 👀)
  • Stickers, gear, and more
  • A growing community around this mindset

💬 Final Thought

Life isn’t about having everything perfect.

It’s about learning to make peace with it anyway.


If you’re reading this… you’re early.
And that’s a pretty cool place to be. ✌️

Click here to Visit The Make Peace With Life Store

Click here to get The Make Peace With Life Book


Visit our Website at MakePeaceWithLife.com

Website is in Construction mode at this point but come watch it grow. 

Sunday, May 10, 2026

Upgrade You: Simple Changes, Powerful Energy, Infinite Potential

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Upgrade You:

Simple Changes, Powerful Energy,

Infinite Potential


Upgrade You This New Year: Why THIS Is the Book You Need to Become Your Best Self (Without Losing Your Mind)

The New Year is here — that magical time when we all suddenly decide we’re going to be better humans. We buy fresh planners, new pens, overpriced water bottles, and tell ourselves things like:

“I will wake up at 5 AM.”
“I’m giving up sugar, dairy, bread, Netflix, and negativity.”
“I’m going to meditate for 45 minutes every morning.”

And by January 14th?
We’re eating cereal in bed, scrolling TikTok, and wondering why self-improvement feels like boot camp for the emotionally exhausted.

But what if upgrading yourself didn’t mean suffering, sacrificing joy, or becoming some robotic version of perfection?

Enter Upgrade You: Simple Changes, Powerful Energy, Infinite Potential — the self-improvement book that actuallygets it.


Why “Upgrade You” Is the New Year Book You Didn’t Know You Needed

Unlike those intense, guilt-inducing “fix your whole life by 5 PM” manuals, Upgrade You shows you how to become your best self through small shifts, big laughs, and actual real-life changes you can stick to.

No gurus.
No pressure.
No shame for choosing tacos over treadmill time.
Just honest, funny, practical wisdom from Dr. Rob Alex.

Inside the pages, you’ll learn how to:

✔ Make simple adjustments that elevate every part of your life
✔ Upgrade your energy without burning out
✔ Add metaphysical magic to everyday actions
✔ Build confidence and self-worth that last
✔ Stop chasing perfection and start celebrating progress
✔ Laugh at your mistakes instead of crying into cheesecake
✔ Create a life you love, without needing a yoga mat made of unicorn fur

This book isn’t here to “fix” you — you’re not broken.
It’s here to help you upgrade you… with humor, heart, and a whole lot of freedom.


New Year, New Energy: Why NOW Is the Perfect Time to Upgrade

January isn’t just a month — it’s a vibe.
It’s a metaphysical reset button wrapped in sparkly energy and fresh-start momentum.

You’re already thinking about changes.
You’re already imagining a better version of yourself.
And “Upgrade You” shows you EXACTLY how to do it without the burnout, shame, or 42-step morning routines that require a small team of assistants.

This New Year, don’t promise yourself you’ll be perfect — promise yourself you’ll be better, a little at a time.

That’s where the magic happens.
That’s where YOUR infinite potential wakes up.


Why Readers Are Loving “Upgrade You”

➡ It’s fun.
➡ It’s relatable.
➡ It’s profoundly honest.
➡ It feels like talking with your funniest, most encouraging friend.
➡ It gives you tools you can use TODAY — not someday.

Readers aren’t just reading the book — they’re laughing, reflecting, clearing out old energy, shedding outdated habits, and upgrading everything from their mindset to their relationships.


What Makes It Different From Every Other New Year “Change Your Life” Book?

Realness. Humor. Humanity. And metaphysical goodness.

This book acknowledges:

  • You’re busy

  • You’re human

  • You’ve tried self-improvement before

  • And you’re tired of feeling like you're “not enough”

Upgrade You flips the script.
It says you are enough — and now it’s time to build on that foundation in small, powerful steps.

Like cleaning your inner energy junk drawer.
Or learning to say “no” without writing a four-paragraph apology.
Or celebrating tiny wins that add up to big transformation.


The New Year Is Coming… and So Is the New YOU

This is the year you stop fixing yourself and start upgrading yourself.
This is the year you accept your quirks, honor your energy, raise your standards, and step into your potential without pressure or perfectionism.

Let the Universe see you shine.
Let your life expand.
Let your spirit recharge.

And let Upgrade You guide you through the journey — with laughter, heart, and a whole lot of “you’ve got this.”


Ready to Begin?

Upgrade You: Simple Changes, Powerful Energy, Infinite Potential
is available now — and it’s the perfect companion for your New Year intentions, vision boards, affirmations, and “I swear this year will be different” pep talks.

👉 Grab your copy today
👉 Prepare to feel energized, inspired, and empowered
👉 Step into the upgraded version of YOU — one small shift at a time

Because the best version of you isn’t out of reach.
It’s already here — waiting for you to hit upgrade.


Always FREE to Read on Kindle Unlimited 


Saturday, May 9, 2026

Make Peace With Life

       Person on a colorful mountain top


Make Peace With Life


What if the meaning of life isn’t something you find…
but something you learn to make peace with?

In Making Peace With Life, Dr. Rob Alex takes you on a deeply human, refreshingly honest, and surprisingly humorous journey through the chaos, beauty, heartbreak, energy, and wonder of being alive.

This isn’t a book about chasing perfection.
It’s about embracing the full spectrum — the ups, the downs, the middle ground, the transitions, the questions, the endings, and the beginnings.

Inside these pages you’ll explore:

  • Why there is no real “finish line” in life — and why that’s good news
  • How life’s hardest moments often become your greatest teachers
  • The metaphysical energy that connects you to every other life on the planet
  • Why your life is both a tiny drop… and an entire universe
  • How music, memories, impact, and love glue everything together
  • Why asking better questions may matter more than finding answers
  • How to stop defining yourself by age, status, or comparison
  • And why your life has unlimited value — even when you forget it does

Blending psychology, personal development, metaphysical insight, and everyday humor, Dr. Rob Alex writes like the friend who hands you cosmic wisdom and a high-five at the same time.

This book will not give you all the answers.
It will give you something far more powerful:

Permission to breathe.
Permission to question.
Permission to adjust.
Permission to live fully.

And most importantly —
Permission to make peace with life exactly as it is… while still growing into what it can become.

If you’re ready to stop racing and start living —
This book is for you.

Click here to get your copy

on Amazon / Kindle / Kindle Unlimited

Make Peace With Life





Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Why Upgrade You is the Self-Help Book That Actually Works

  Well Dressed Man walking through Metaphysical City


Why Upgrade You is the Self-Help Book That Actually Works

Finger Pointing at Reader

Let’s be honest: most self-help books either make you feel guilty for not meditating more, or broke because you don’t have time for a $22 smoothie made of stardust and chia tears.

Enter: Upgrade You by Dr. Rob Alex — the book that doesn’t want to fix you… because you’re not broken. You’re just due for an upgrade, like your phone, your laptop, or your soul when Mercury is in Gatorade.

This isn’t your average “take a deep breath and envision your dream life while ignoring the dirty dishes and existential dread” kind of read. This is real-talk with cosmic flair, a healthy dose of sass, and the kind of motivation that feels like your best friend yelling lovingly at you from across the void.


Your Life. But With More Power and Less Pressure.

Upgrade You is like downloading the latest patch for your life software — except instead of technical jargon, you get laughter, lightbulb moments, and permission to just be a work in progress with style.

Dr. Rob Alex doesn’t preach. He doesn’t shame you for skipping the gym or eating tacos instead of tofu. What he does do is help you:

  • See your habits as magic tricks in disguise

  • Flip your mindset like a pancake, but with less mess

  • Build real confidence (the kind that sticks, not the kind that melts under stress like cheap mascara)

The message is simple but powerful:
Stop “fixing” yourself. You’re not broken.
Start upgrading yourself. You’re becoming.


Small Changes, Big Energy

Let’s face it — you’ve probably tried every “morning routine that will change your life,” only to end up crying in your car at 9:12am wondering if lighting incense counts as self-care.

Good news: Upgrade You doesn’t demand perfection. It invites progress.

Whether you start with cleaning out your closet or cleaning out your inner critic, every small shift adds up to a massive energy reboot.

And we’re not just talking physical energy — we’re talking metaphysical swagger:

  • Saying “no” like a boundary-setting badass

  • Laughing at your flaws instead of hiding them

  • Turning everyday rituals (coffee, brushing your teeth, avoiding your email) into intentional upgrades

It’s part self-help, part soul surgery — and somehow still hilarious.


Metaphysical Magic Without the Mumbo Jumbo

This book manages to tap into deep metaphysical truths — energy, intention, personal power — without sounding like a seminar hosted by someone named Skylar Moonbeam.

It’s practical mysticism.
Grounded spiritual growth.
Alignment with WiFi.
(Okay, maybe not that last one, but who knows?)

Rob Alex teaches you how to:

  • Connect with your energy source (without needing to sit on a mountain or buy a crystal the size of your head)

  • Tune your frequency so you attract better stuff (and people who don't ghost you)

  • Actually enjoy the process of personal growth instead of just white-knuckling it


Real Wisdom, Real Laughs, Real Results

Upgrade You doesn’t take itself too seriously — but don’t let the humor fool you. The insights hit deep. The exercises work. And the overall vibe is something like:

“You’ve got infinite potential. Now let’s unlock it without losing your mind — or your joy.”

It’s the kind of book you’ll read with a highlighter in one hand and a margarita in the other (because balance, baby). It’s also the kind of book you’ll want to gift to that friend who keeps reading sad memes and calling it therapy.


You Don’t Need a New You. You Just Need a Better Signal.

If your life feels like a glitchy app that crashes when things get too real — Upgrade You is your reboot.

So go ahead:

  • Hit refresh on your mindset

  • Delete your inner critic's bad Yelp review

  • And download some divine updates to your confidence, clarity, and cosmic swagger

Because your next level isn’t somewhere far away.
It’s one simple, soulful, slightly hilarious step away.


Get your hands (and heart) on Upgrade You: Simple Changes, Powerful Energy, Infinite Potential today.
The upgrade is optional — but staying stuck? That’s so last season.


CLICK HERE TO GET UPGRADE YOU!

ON AMAZON / KINDLE 

OR READ FOR FREE ON KINDLE UNLIMITED

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Cry for the Children

    3 small children with a crying eye in the back


Cry for the Children

By Donna Deal


When the people meant to protect a child become the source of fear, innocence is forced to grow up too soon.

Cry for the Children opens into a world where family is fragile, security is temporary, and love is often tangled with absence, desperation, and fear. At its center are three young siblings whose lives begin to shift after their mother, burdened by limited means and impossible choices, is forced to place them in the care of others. What follows is not a single home or a single season of hardship, but a passage through places that promise shelter while quietly concealing danger.

The book moves through rural Virginia with a vivid sense of place—farmhouses, cold rooms, kitchen baths, long days of labor, and the rough edges of country living. Yet the landscape is more than backdrop. It becomes part of the emotional weather of the story: isolating, unpredictable, and often haunted by the feeling that childhood can be altered in an instant. In this world, even ordinary things carry tension. A meal, a bedtime, a visit from a parent, a church service, a ride down a driveway—each can turn without warning into something unsettling.

What makes the premise especially compelling is the contrast between appearances and reality. The adults in this story occupy familiar roles—caretakers, churchgoers, relatives, authority figures—yet the children must learn early that safety does not always live where it claims to. The result is a narrative shaped by silence, obedience, and the private logic of survival. For readers drawn to memoir-like emotional intensity, family trauma narratives, and stories that blur the line between personal history and psychological reckoning, Cry for the Children offers a world that is both intimate and deeply unsettling.

But this is not only a story about what happens in childhood. It is also about what remains. The shadows of those early years stretch forward, following these children into adulthood, into memory, into the lives they try to build long after the doors of those homes have closed behind them. The book invites readers into a journey where pain, resilience, and buried truth exist side by side, asking not only what was endured, but what it takes to live beyond it.

For readers who seek stories outside the expected—stories raw with memory, heavy with atmosphere, and fearless in confronting the hidden fractures inside family life—Cry for the Children opens a door into a world that is difficult to enter and even harder to forget.

Some childhoods end in years, but their echoes can last a lifetime.


Click here to get Cry for the Children on Amazon 

Click here to get Cry for the Children on Barnes & Noble 







Monday, May 4, 2026

The Space Between Names: You are not a mask. You are a removal of one.

 Young Person sitting in front of a winged being.



Elia has spent their whole life trying to be someone the world understands. But something has always felt... wrong. When a voice begins speaking from the silence-and a figure with two unmatched wings appears in the mirror-Elia is forced to confront a truth they buried for years. As school becomes a battlefield of whispers and judgment, and home becomes a place of questions instead of answers, Elia must decide: Keep surviving... or finally start living. The Space Between Names is a raw, emotional story about identity, fear, and the courage it takes to exist as your true self-even when the world doesn’t understand.







Sunday, May 3, 2026

99 PROBLEMS, BUT FEAR AIN'T 1 OF THEM.: A Modern Day Self-Help Saga for everyday Courage

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99 PROBLEMS, BUT FEAR AIN'T 1 OF THEM.:

A Modern Day Self-Help Saga for everyday Courage

From a tin-roof home in Decatur to the inner battlefield of belief, 99 Problems, But Fear Ain’t 1 of Them is a true-life self-help saga about choosing courage over fear. Quinton Girtman blends raw story with practical tools—self-awareness as the mirror, critical thinking as the flashlight—to help you see your patterns, update your choices, and steer your life on purpose. You’ll walk through hard-earned lessons on identity, resilience, and clear thinking; you’ll leave with simple practices you can use today—breath-and-journal drills, trigger mapping, values sprints, and decision frameworks that hold under pressure. This isn’t theory from a podium—it’s a field guide written from the middle of the storm and the climb out. If you’re ready to trade crowd-pleasing for clarity and choose courage over fear, this book hands you the keys to your own driver’s seat.

Click here to get

99 PROBLEMS, BUT FEAR AIN'T 1 OF THEM

on Amazon Kindle 


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99 PROBLEMS, BUT FEAR AIN'T 1 OF THEM

on Amazon Paperback





Make Peace With Life — Sneak Peek of What’s Coming

        Make Peace With Life — Sneak Peek of What’s Coming Something special is happening… and you’re getting an early look. 👀 Welcome to  ...