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Maria Ghedin | Author

Stories of overcoming, starting over & essential truths 🌿 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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📕 O Preço do Esconderijo: a minha história real (Kindle Unlimited)
 
📖 The Price of Hiding (my true story)
 
The Price of Hiding: One Woman's True Story of Gambling Addiction, Shame, and Reclaiming Her LifeMaria GhedinEbookNobody enters this game thinking they'll lose everything. Everybody enters believing they've found a way out. That's what happened to Maria Ghedin. At the hardest moment of her life, sitting beside her brother's hospital bed as he faced terminal cancer, she found what looked like a distraction, a hope, a relief in the colorful screens of an "investment" app. What she didn't know was that behind those charts there was no financial market at all: there was a system engineered, with surgical precision, to exploit exactly the kind of fragility felt by someone who, like her, just wanted to give the people she loves her best. The Price of Hiding is the brave, unfiltered account of how addiction to gambling disguised as trading can quietly destroy a life, and of how it's possible to rebuild after the fall. In this expanded edition, with eleven chapters and a full set of practical tools, you'll learn: * How "trading" platforms use language, design, and psychology to disguise gambling as investing * Why signal groups and influencers profit directly from your losses * What the science says about dopamine, intermittent reward, and the near-miss mechanism that hooks the brain * How addiction hijacks dignity through shame and silence, and how to break that cycle * How to rebuild your family's trust once the truth is finally spoken * A practical, honest path to rebuilding your financial and emotional life after hitting bottom The book also includes a complete glossary of terms used by these platforms, a practical checklist for the first steps out of the cycle, a progress journal template, a table of warning signs to recognize in daily life, and direct answers to the hardest questions faced by anyone still in the middle of this fight. More than a warning, this is an invitation: if you're hiding your phone or your computer screen, lying about bills, or reading this in the waiting room of your own despair, know that the story doesn't end at the fall. It can, in fact, begin again.
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The Resonance of Edinburgh: A Mystery of Secrets, Faith, and Ancient Lines
 
The Resonance of Edinburgh: A Mystery of Secrets, Faith, and Ancient LinesMaria GhedinEbookEdinburgh keeps its secrets underground. When Anna Santos flees London for a quiet antiquarian bookshop in Stockbridge, she is only looking for somewhere the past cannot find her. Instead, a forgotten crate from a Fife estate pulls her into a hundred-and-thirty-year-old secret: a suppressed gospel, a hidden network of tunnels running beneath the Old Town, and a Society that has spent two centuries deciding who is allowed to know the truth. As the trail leads from a shop doorway on St Stephen Street to the crypt at Rosslyn Chapel, Anna discovers that the ground itself seems to recognize her, in ways she has felt before and never understood, long before she ever set foot in Scotland. A stranger from London wants what she has found. An old bookseller has been waiting eleven years for someone exactly like her. And a secret older than the chapel itself is about to decide which of them it will open its door to. A mystery of ley lines, an ancient anointing, and the quiet, stubborn faith that survives long after the proof runs out. Inspired by real places and real experience, The Resonance of Edinburgh moves between the closes of the Old Town, the harbour at Leith, and a village outside the city where the past has never quite finished arriving. For readers of atmospheric, spiritually curious mysteries in the tradition of The Da Vinci Code, this is a story about the difference between finding proof and finding home.