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Living Differently Resources
Life doesn't always unfold the way we imagined. Sometimes we're navigating trauma, grief, neurodiversity, mental health challenges, difficult relationships, parenting, or simply trying to find our place in a world that often expects everyone to be the same.
Living Differently Resources is a growing collection of practical tools, encouragement, and educational materials designed to help you move from surviving to thriving. Whether you're looking for books, downloadable guides, worksheets, podcast episodes, recommended resources, or practical strategies, you'll find support created with one purpose in mind: helping you embrace who you are and build a life that works for you.
Here, different isn't something to overcome. It's something to understand, celebrate, and use as a strength.
No matter where you've been or what you're facing today, there is hope. You don't have to become someone else to live a meaningful life. Sometimes the greatest transformation begins when we stop trying to fit into someone else's definition of normal and start living differently.
Welcome to a place where healing, resilience, and authentic living come together—because there is purpose in the pain, hope in the journey, and room for every story.
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The Living Differently Series
First of a Series Available on Kindle and paperback
First of a Series Available on Kindle and paperback
The Little Bird Who Flew Differently is a heartwarming children's story about discovering that being different isn't something to hide—it's something to embrace.
When a little bird struggles to fly like the others, it begins to wonder if it will ever belong. Along the way, the bird learns that everyone h
The Little Bird Who Flew Differently is a heartwarming children's story about discovering that being different isn't something to hide—it's something to embrace.
When a little bird struggles to fly like the others, it begins to wonder if it will ever belong. Along the way, the bird learns that everyone has unique strengths, challenges, and their own path to follow. What once seemed like a weakness becomes the very thing that makes the little bird special.
Filled with encouragement, hope, and gentle life lessons, this beautifully illustrated story helps children understand that differences don't diminish their worth. Whether a child is navigating neurodiversity, learning differences, disabilities, anxiety, or simply feeling like they don't fit in, this book reminds them that they are seen, valued, and capable of soaring in their own way.
Perfect for families, classrooms, counselors, and anyone who wants to help children build confidence, empathy, resilience, and self-acceptance.
Because the world doesn't need every bird to fly the same way—it needs every bird to discover how beautifully it was created to fly!
Available on Kindle and paperback
First of a Series Available on Kindle and paperback
Loving Differently is a memoir about finding hope in the places we least expect it. Through deeply personal stories of trauma, adoption, neurodiversity, motherhood, loss, faith, and healing, Ann Kagarise invites readers into a journey that proves our greatest struggles do not have to define our future.
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Loving Differently is a memoir about finding hope in the places we least expect it. Through deeply personal stories of trauma, adoption, neurodiversity, motherhood, loss, faith, and healing, Ann Kagarise invites readers into a journey that proves our greatest struggles do not have to define our future.
Growing up feeling different, Ann spent much of her life believing she had to adapt to a world that wasn't built for the way she thought, learned, and experienced life. As she navigated abuse, grief, parenting children with complex needs, and uncovering long-hidden truths about her own story, she discovered that healing wasn't about becoming someone new—it was about learning to love, accept, and live differently.
With honesty, vulnerability, and compassion, Loving Differently explores what it means to break generational cycles, reclaim your voice, redefine success, and find purpose in life's most painful experiences. Rather than offering easy answers, it provides hope, practical wisdom, and the reminder that every person has inherent value, no matter where their journey begins.
This is more than a memoir. It is an invitation to anyone who has ever felt unseen, misunderstood, or like they didn't quite fit in. Your story matters. Your differences have value. And even after unimaginable pain, healing, connection, and hope are still possible.
Because sometimes the greatest act of courage isn't becoming someone else—it's finally embracing who you've been all along..
Meet Lark: Coming Soon
Meet Lark: Coming Soon
The Little Bird Who Found Her Voice
Every bird has a song to sing—but sometimes fear, uncertainty, or feeling different can make that song hard to find.
The Little Bird Who Found Her Voice is a gentle, inspiring story about a little bird who believes she has nothing important to say. Quiet and unsure of herself, she watches the other birds
The Little Bird Who Found Her Voice
Every bird has a song to sing—but sometimes fear, uncertainty, or feeling different can make that song hard to find.
The Little Bird Who Found Her Voice is a gentle, inspiring story about a little bird who believes she has nothing important to say. Quiet and unsure of herself, she watches the other birds confidently fill the sky with their songs while she wonders if she will ever find the courage to use her own voice.
Through friendship, encouragement, and the discovery that every voice is unique, the little bird learns that she doesn't have to be the loudest or the strongest to make a difference. She simply has to be herself.
This beautifully illustrated story helps children understand that their thoughts, feelings, and ideas matter. It encourages confidence, kindness, resilience, and the courage to speak up, whether they're finding their voice at school, at home, with friends, or simply learning to believe in themselves.
Perfect for families, classrooms, counselors, and libraries, The Little Bird Who Found Her Voice reminds readers of every age that the world doesn't need another copy of someone else—it needs the unique voice that only they can share.
Because when one little bird finds her voice, she gives others the courage to find theirs.
Review of Ann's book from someone living with FASD and Trauma.
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