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Books for Getting Life Back — at Every Age
Books for Getting Life Back — at Every Age
Getting your life back can mean many things at different stages of life—regaining strength and independence, finding understanding during cognitive change, building emotional resilience, or developing the skills and confidence to handle everyday challenges. Our books were created to help people and families find practical ways forward at every age.
Getting your life back can mean many things at different stages of life—regaining strength and independence, finding understanding during cognitive change, building emotional resilience, or developing the skills and confidence to handle everyday challenges. Our books were created to help people and families find practical ways forward at every age.
Life Back Wellness Library
Life Back Wellness Library
Practical guides for older adults seeking greater strength, balance, confidence, independence, energy, and engagement in everyday life.
Walking
Walking
Simple Steps Toward Freedom, Confidence, and Independence
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults who want to improve mobility, strength, balance, and confidence. It offers simple walking strategies and everyday steps designed to support independence, reduce fear of falling, and help people stay active in the life they enjoy.
Balance
Balance
Simple Steps Toward Stability, Confidence, and Independence
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults who want to improve stability, move with greater confidence, and stay independent in daily life. It offers simple strategies to support safer movement, reduce fear of falling, and help people continue doing the activities that matter most.
Fear of Falling
Fear of Falling
Simple Steps Toward Confidence, Stability, and Independence
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults whose fear of falling has begun to limit activity, confidence, or independence. It offers simple strategies to support safer movement, rebuild confidence, reduce avoidance, and help people return to the everyday activities they enjoy.
Staying Active
Staying Active
Simple Steps Toward Strength, Mobility, and Independence
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults who want to maintain strength, mobility, balance, and independence as they age. It offers simple strategies to support lifelong movement, build healthy activity habits, and help people continue participating in the everyday activities that matter most.
Confidence
Confidence
Simple Steps Toward Confidence, Courage, and Living Fully
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults who want to rebuild confidence after pain, illness, injury, a fall, or other life changes. It offers simple strategies to reduce fear and self-doubt, build courage through small successes, and regain the confidence to participate more fully in everyday life.
Energy
Energy
Simple Steps Toward Greater Vitality, Strength, and Daily Living
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults who want to improve daily energy, strength, and overall vitality. It offers simple strategies to reduce fatigue, support healthier routines, stay active, and maintain the physical and mental energy needed to participate more fully in everyday life.
Travel
Travel
Simple Steps Toward Exploring, Visiting, and Living Fully
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults who want to keep exploring, visiting family, and enjoying meaningful experiences with confidence. It offers simple strategies to support mobility, preparation, independence, and connection so travel can remain an enjoyable part of everyday life.
Sleep
Sleep
Simple Steps Toward Rest, Recovery, and Renewed Energy
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults who want to improve sleep quality, recovery, energy, and overall well-being. It explains common sleep challenges and offers simple strategies to support healthier sleep habits, better rest, and a more active, engaged daily life.
Driving
Driving
Maintain Your Independence, Confidence, and Safety Behind the Wheel
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults who want to remain safe, confident, and independent behind the wheel for as long as possible. It offers simple strategies to improve awareness, understand age-related changes, navigate common driving challenges, and make thoughtful decisions about continued driving.
Grandchildren
Grandchildren
Simple Steps Toward Family, Connection, and Living Fully
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults who want to stay active, connected, and meaningfully involved in the lives of their grandchildren. It offers simple ideas for strengthening family relationships, creating lasting memories, sharing life experiences, and maintaining the health and independence needed to enjoy time together.
Gardening
Gardening
Simple Steps Toward Growing, Thriving, and Living Fully
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults who want to stay active, independent, and engaged through gardening. It offers simple ideas to support movement, balance, strength, confidence, connection with nature, and the enjoyment that comes from growing and caring for something meaningful.
Finding Direction
Finding Direction
Simple Steps Toward Purpose, Meaning, and Living Fully
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for older adults who want to rediscover purpose, meaning, and direction in everyday life. It offers simple strategies to build confidence, stay engaged, strengthen relationships, develop healthy routines, and create a more intentional and fulfilling next chapter.
Beyond Pain: Simple Steps toward Function, Confidence, and Getting Your Life Back
Beyond Pain: Simple Steps toward Function, Confidence, and Getting Your Life Back
B. Timothy Harcourt
Beyond Pain is a practical guide for moving beyond pain relief and toward meaningful recovery.
Feeling better is important, but recovery is about more than reducing pain. This book helps readers focus on what they want to be able to do again—walk farther, climb stairs, work in the garden, travel, exercise, return to work, or simply move with greater confidence.
The goal is not simply to hurt less. It is to restore function, rebuild confidence, and get your life back.
Getting Active Again: Simple Steps toward Safe Exercise, Strength, and Confidence After Injury
Getting Active Again: Simple Steps toward Safe Exercise, Strength, and Confidence After Injury
B. Timothy Harcourt
Getting Active Again is a practical guide for people who want to return to exercise and everyday activity after an injury has disrupted their normal routine.
Rather than rushing back to where you were before, this book helps you begin where you are today. It explains how to choose an appropriate starting level, recognize the difference between normal exercise effort and signals that deserve attention, monitor how your body responds, and gradually rebuild strength, mobility, endurance, and confidence.
The goal is not simply to exercise again. It is to move forward safely, thoughtfully, and with greater confidence in what your body can do.
The Dementia Caregiver Library
The Dementia Caregiver Library
Practical guides for families and caregivers navigating dementia, memory loss, communication changes, repetition, confusion, and the challenges of everyday care.
Understanding Dementia
Understanding Dementia
A Practical Guide to Memory Changes, Daily Challenges, Care Options, and Helping Someone You Love
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical introduction for families trying to understand dementia, changing memory, everyday challenges, care options, and ways to support someone they love
When They Don't Remember It That Way
When They Don't Remember It That Way
A Practical Guide to Misplaced Things, Conflicting Memories, Denial, and Reducing Everyday Frustration
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for families and caregivers dealing with misplaced belongings, conflicting memories, denial, and accusations that can occur with dementia. It offers calm, dignity-preserving strategies for reducing arguments, solving everyday problems, and responding to the emotion beneath the disagreement.
When They Ask the Same Question Again
When They Ask the Same Question Again
A Practical Guide to Repetition, Memory Loss, Patience, and Redirection
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for families and caregivers coping with repeated questions and memory loss in dementia. It explains why repetition happens and offers simple strategies using reassurance, routines, visual reminders, redirection, and attention to the worry or unmet need beneath the question.
When Reasoning Doesn’t Work Anymore
When Reasoning Doesn’t Work Anymore
A Practical Guide to Communication, Arguments, Confusion, and Keeping the Peace
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical guide for families and caregivers learning how to communicate when reasoning, repeated explanations, and correcting the facts no longer help. It offers calm, dignity-preserving strategies for reducing arguments, recognizing the emotion beneath the words, simplifying communication, and knowing when to redirect or try again later.
Understanding Dementia at Home
Understanding Dementia at Home
A Practical Guide to Brain Changes, Daily Challenges, Caregiver Support, and What You Can Do
B. Timothy Harcourt
A practical, caregiver-focused guide that explains how dementia can affect memory, reasoning, communication, judgment, behavior, movement, and everyday life. Written in clear language, it helps families understand what may be changing in the brain while offering practical ways to simplify communication, reduce confusion, support daily function, and make care at home more manageable.
Children's Life Skills Library
Children's Life Skills Library
Warm, practical books that help children build independence, responsibility, confidence, emotional awareness, and everyday life skills through relatable stories and gentle guidance.
The Savvy Fox Series helps children build practical life skills, independence, responsibility, and good judgment through warm, encouraging stories about everyday challenges.
The Savvy Fox Series helps children build practical life skills, independence, responsibility, and good judgment through warm, encouraging stories about everyday challenges.
Handy Dandy: The children’s book pen name of Dr. B. Timothy Harcourt
Savvy Fox Learns to Do It Myself
Savvy Fox Learns to Do It Myself
A Story About Independence, Trying First, and Asking for Help When Needed
Handy Dandy
A warm, encouraging story about Savvy Fox learning that doing something himself does not mean never needing help. When a problem is more than he knows how to solve, Savvy learns to try first, think carefully, ask a trusted grown-up, and keep learning until he can do more on his own.
Savvy Fox Gets Ready for the Day
Savvy Fox Gets Ready for the Day
A Story About Routines, Responsibility, and Being Prepared
Handy Dandy
A warm, practical story about Savvy Fox learning how a simple morning routine can make the day easier. As he gets dressed, eats breakfast, brushes his teeth, packs what he needs, and checks what comes next, Savvy discovers that being prepared does not mean being perfect—it means learning to take more responsibility for himself one step at a time.
Savvy Fox Takes Care of His Things
Savvy Fox Takes Care of His Things
A Story About Belongings, Organization, and Responsibility
Handy Dandy
A warm, practical story about Savvy Fox learning that caring for his belongings makes everyday life easier. By giving important things a home and putting them back, he builds habits that help him become more organized, independent, and capable.
Savvy Fox Builds Healthy Habits
Savvy Fox Builds Healthy Habits
A Story About Hygiene, Healthy Habits, and Everyday Self-Care
Handy Dandy
A warm, encouraging story about Savvy Fox learning that taking care of his body is part of becoming more independent. Through brushing, washing, drinking water, changing clothes, and getting enough rest, Savvy discovers that healthy habits are small jobs that help him feel better, remember more for himself, and grow more capable each day.
Savvy Fox Helps at Home
Savvy Fox Helps at Home
A Story About Chores, Contribution, and Being Part of a Family
Handy Dandy
A warm, practical story about Savvy Fox learning that helping at home is part of being a family. By setting the table, putting things away, helping with laundry, and noticing small jobs on his own, Savvy discovers that contribution does not mean doing everything perfectly—it means doing what he can, following through, and helping make life easier for everyone.
The Evergreen Moments Series helps children understand big feelings, handle everyday emotional challenges, and build confidence, empathy, resilience, and self-awareness through gentle, reassuring stories.
The Evergreen Moments Series helps children understand big feelings, handle everyday emotional challenges, and build confidence, empathy, resilience, and self-awareness through gentle, reassuring stories.
Barry Evergreen: The children’s book pen name of Dr. B. Timothy Harcourt
The Day I Felt Left Out
The Day I Felt Left Out
A Gentle Story About Friendship and Feeling Left Out
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, reassuring story about a child learning how to handle the painful feeling of being left out. Through a small step, a quiet try, and a little courage, he discovers that one difficult moment does not mean he is alone—and that friendship can begin in unexpected ways.
The Day I Felt Too Shy
The Day I Felt Too Shy
A Story About Shyness, Courage, and Friendship
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, encouraging story about a child who wants to join the fun but feels too shy to step forward. Through one small step, a quiet wave, and a little courage, he discovers that bravery does not have to be loud—and that friendship can begin by simply trying.
The Day I Waited My Turn
The Day I Waited My Turn
A Gentle Picture Book About Patience, Frustration, and Self-Control
Barry Evergreen
A gentle story about a child learning how to handle the frustration of waiting for his turn. As he watches others go first, he practices patience, calming breaths, and self-control—and discovers that waiting feels easier when he knows difficult feelings will pass.
The Day I Felt Scared
The Day I Felt Scared
A Gentle Story About Fear, Courage, and Trying Anyway
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, reassuring story about a child learning that being brave does not mean never feeling afraid. As he faces an unfamiliar new experience, he discovers that courage can be as simple as taking one small step forward even when fear is still there.
The Day I Made a Mistake
The Day I Made a Mistake
A Gentle Story About Mistakes, Learning, and Trying Again
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, reassuring story about a child learning that mistakes are part of learning, not the end of it. After something goes wrong while building a birdhouse, he works through embarrassment and frustration, figures out what happened, and discovers that trying again can build confidence and resilience.
The Day I Told the Truth
The Day I Told the Truth
A Gentle Story About Honesty, Responsibility, and Making Things Right
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, reassuring story about a child learning that telling the truth can take courage, especially after making a mistake. As he admits what happened and works to make things right, he discovers that honesty, responsibility, and repairing harm are important parts of growing up.
The Day I Shared
The Day I Shared
A Gentle Story About Sharing, Generosity, and Thinking of Others
Barry Evergreen
A warm, reassuring story about a child learning that sharing does not have to mean losing something important. When another child asks to use some of his favorite tiles, he discovers that generosity means noticing what others need and realizing there can still be enough for everyone.
The Day I Didn’t Get Picked
The Day I Didn’t Get Picked
A Gentle Story About Disappointment, Rejection, and Finding Your Way Forward
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, reassuring story about a child learning how to handle disappointment when he is not chosen for something he worked hard to earn. With support from a caring adult, he discovers that one rejection does not determine his worth—and that feeling disappointed does not have to stop him from moving forward.
The Day I Felt Jealous
The Day I Felt Jealous
A Gentle Story About Comparison, Envy, and Appreciating What I Have
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, reassuring story about a child learning that jealousy is a feeling—not a sign that he is selfish or bad. With help from a caring adult, he begins to understand what he is really wanting, appreciate what he already has, and remember that someone else’s success does not take away his own possibilities.
The Day Someone Wouldn’t Leave Me Alone
The Day Someone Wouldn’t Leave Me Alone
A Gentle Story About Personal Space, Speaking Up, and Getting Help
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, reassuring story about a child learning that it is okay to want personal space and to speak up when a boundary is not respected. When another child keeps following him, he learns to use clear words, move away, and ask a trusted grown-up for help when needed.
The Day Everything Changed
The Day Everything Changed
A Gentle Story About Family Changes, Big Feelings, and Knowing I’m Still Loved
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, reassuring story about a child learning to cope when his family changes and his parents no longer live together. With love and support from both parents, he begins to understand that the change is not his fault, his feelings are okay, and he is still deeply loved even when family life looks different.
The Day I Lost My Temper
The Day I Lost My Temper
A Gentle Story About Anger, Calming Down, and Making Things Right
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, reassuring story about a child learning that anger is a normal feeling, but hurting others with words or actions is not. After losing his temper, he learns to calm his body, understand what happened, apologize sincerely, and make things right.
The Day My Friend Was Mad at Me
The Day My Friend Was Mad at Me
A Gentle Story About Friendship Conflict, Listening, and Repairing a Friendship
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, reassuring story about a child learning that even strong friendships can have difficult moments. After a joke hurts his friend’s feelings, he slows down, listens, takes responsibility, apologizes sincerely, and discovers that repairing a friendship means caring about how the other person feels.
The Day I Felt Embarrassed
The Day I Felt Embarrassed
A Gentle Story About Embarrassment, Self-Consciousness, and Being Kind to Myself
Barry Evergreen
A gentle, reassuring story about a child learning how to handle an embarrassing moment without letting it define him. With support from a caring adult, he discovers that awkward moments happen to everyone, worries can make them feel bigger than they are, and a little self-kindness can help him move forward.
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