Articles
Healing with Gold: Dr Charlotte Wang’s Journey Through Scars
On World Mental Health Day, Dr Charlotte Wang’s ‘The Kintsugi Way’ reframes healing with honesty, urging resilience, vulnerability and shared stories.
Weekend Bookshelf- If You Think It, You Can Ink It
Explore The Maple Staple’s Spotlight Shelf: poetry, memoir and children’s stories that nurture mindfulness, emotional wellbeing and everyday imagination.
How to Preserve Your Identity: Rediscovering Roots in a Story of Loss and Love
A time-slip love story unites Sioux warrior and man, reframing Little Big Horn through Indigenous eyes as DNA tests and hidden heritage reshape identity.
When Fantasy Heals: Finding Magic in Broken Places
Crystal J.N. Willix’s debut fantasy romance blends magic and trauma recovery, following a scarred heroine and a cursed prince as emotional healing unfolds.
When Success Becomes a Prison– The Hidden Courage Behind The Big Dark
Healthcare professional Pamela Elaine Telford reveals decades of domestic abuse in memoir ‘The Big Dark’ – exposing why leaving is perilous and healing.
Finding Poetry in Survival: How to Built a Life and a Home at Alaska’s Edge
A fearless memoir of Alaska’s off-grid living where science meets remote wilderness, charting faith and survival and a woman’s search for authentic purpose.
A Grandmother’s Handwritten Gift of Gentle Wisdom For All: Musings For Madie- Quotes to Live By When Life Gives Us Life
Stephanie Malbasa’s ‘Musings for Madie’ turns a handwritten gift into a book of wisdom, gratitude and daily joy honouring family bonds and mindful reflection.
‘Australia’s To Kill a Mockingbird?’: Why ‘Outback Odyssey’ Is Sparking Conversations
‘Outback Odyssey’ echoes ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in Australia, a First Nations-centred historical fiction that probes prejudice and identity for book clubs.
Questions To Ask Yourself: ‘Fool for Thought’ Feels Like the Conversation You Need
David Vega’s ‘Fool for Thought’ is an essay collection that swaps fixes for questions, blending leadership insight with self-reflection and mental wellbeing.
Finding Your Way Forward- How One Woman’s Story of Grief Became a Guiding Light for Others
Laurie Robinson Sammons’ ‘From Mourning to Dancing’ reframes grief and loss through shared stories with guided journaling for wellbeing and book-club support.
Your Reading Roadmap: The Nonfiction Books That Help Through Divorce, Grief and Caregiving
Brittany Snow shares non-fiction books that steadied her after divorce and her father’s Alzheimer’s – from grief and trauma to mindfulness and self-therapy.
Everyone Has Secrets: ‘The Good Wife’ Taps into Survival and Identity
B.M. Roberts’s debut ‘The Good Wife’ is a taut psychological thriller as Claire Holloway’s life unravels, exposing domestic secrets, survival and identity.