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Even when life's storms beat you down, there is hope.

For Mark J. Armstrong, Hurricane Katrina changed everything. After the fury of the storm, he was hit with a series of nine other life-changing events in a ten-month span. Through this difficult time, he learned how to weather the storm and find promise again. You may be in the midst of your own private storm, and see no relief in sight. Read this compelling account of one man's journey, and be encouraged to find your own rainbow at the end of the storm. "I have learned that without the storm there can be no rainbow." Please visit the book's website at: www.hurricanesandrainbows.com.

My life was perfect until August 5, 2005. Or at least I thought it was. I had convinced myself it was. But it wasn't perfect. Because life never is. I got over my first six depressions on my own, not to mention all the near-misses in between! I didn't do anything special. I didn't see a shrink. I didn't take any pills. I just got over it. I got on with life. I thought that's what you were supposed to do with depression. And I thought that right up until number seven hit me like a ton of bricks! Number seven was anything but lucky; it was the worst one ever and it lasted ten months before I finally began to get a handle on it.