Introduction Some books aim to inspire. Others aim to comfort. Dealer to Healer does neither in the conventional sense. Instead, it confronts. It unsettles. It pulls the reader into a raw, unfiltered journey of a man navigating trauma, addiction, identity, and ultimately, transformation. This is not a polished self-help manual—it is a deeply personal, often chaotic narrative that mirrors the very mind it attempts to heal. From the very first chapter, the tone is set with brutal honesty. The image of a four-year-old child holding a rock, torn between love and fear as domestic violence unfolds, is not just a memory—it becomes the emotional blueprint for everything that follows. This opening is not easy to read, but it is powerful. It establishes a central truth of the book: our earliest wounds often shape the paths we unconsciously walk later in life. A Journey Through Chaos and Escape As the narrative shifts from childhood trauma to adulthood, the reader is taken across continents—...
Introduction Social anxiety is a disorder in which you suffer from a long-term fear of social situations. It is more than just shyness rather it's a fear that affects our everyday activities, relationships, and self-confidence. It does not go away. The spotlight effect is even worse for people with social anxiety as has a huge impact on your ability to work. People feel uncomfortable around others and feel embarrassed all the time. Spotlight effect and its examples The spotlight effect is a cognitive bias in which a person believes that the world is always watching him/her. In it, a person overestimates how much people notice him and thinks that people are paying much more attention to him than they actually do. In the spotlight effect, you feel like every move that you are making is under the microscope of the public eye that highlights your successes and failures, both. Very common examples of the spotlight effect include various situations like when you realize that your zipper ...