Do you struggle in your relationships? Do your relationships have more hurt than happiness, and you're not sure why? Do you want to find more happiness in your life as a whole? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, From Hurt to Happiness is for you.

When you meet author Mike Van today, you would never imagine the pain he experienced in his past. From fleeing a war-ravaged country as a boy, to years of being bullied and finding himself on the brink of suicide at nineteen, to overcoming the lingering depression that plagued him from childhood.

With heart-wrenching candor, Van shares his many challenges and the path he found to ultimately overcome them. He takes us inside his personal road to rebuilding his inner strength, his identity, and his life. These are trials we all may have experienced in one way or another.

Through relaying his personal strife, Van shares the many pitfalls of relationships and the secrets to their success. In From Hurt to Happiness, he lays out the twenty-five secrets he's learned about connecting with people, how to get others to willingly comply with our needs, and why it can be a struggle being understood and accepted. Van gives readers the secrets that help replace the hurt in our lives and relationships so that happiness and joy can flourish.

In From Hurt to Happiness, walk through Mike Van's path to transformation and joy, and find answers to improving your own relationships—and your life.

Mike Van lives in Sydney, Australia. He hopes to see personal development such as conflict resolution taught in schools and to young adults, equipping our children and future leaders with the necessary tools to make positive differences for generations to come.

Among the many evening classes starting all over Dublin is an 'Introduction to Italian'. On the surface, it could be just one of hundreds in which some students will succeed and some will fall along the way. However, the hopes and dreams of so many people are tied up in the twice-weekly lessons.

They are ready to set off on the promised trip to Italy at the end of the year, and everyone's destiny has changed utterly. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, and a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teacher, an Irish woman who followed a married man to Italy and returned to Ireland on his death. A tale of one woman's gift for helping others.

The Italian evening class at Mountainview School is like hundreds of others starting up all over the city. But this class has its own special quality - as the focus for the varied hopes and dreams of teacher and pupils alike.

Aidan Dunne needs his new evening class project to succeed almost as much as his pupils do. They too are looking for something more: Bill to find a way to keep spendthrift Lizzie at his side, and Fran to make sure that young Kathy finds her way out from behind the kitchen sink. The key to their success lies with the Signora. Her passion has drawn her from Ireland to Italy and back home again with a burning desire to share her love of all things Italian.