Books by Marcy McDonald

Have you ever tried to change but found yourself falling back into the same patterns of behavior?

I created UnBlocks to make real, lasting change possible. You can write on them, wash them, build with them, and move them around. Next I created more than 70 exercises you can do with the UnBlocks. Then I did them all. They changed my life, they've changed my clients' lives, and they will change yours. ORDER THE BOOK. ORDER THE BOOK AND UNBLOCKS SET.

I discovered that when you look at your thoughts and feelings in real space, it's easier to identify  them... and to change the ones that aren't working for you. The UnBlocks help you see that you have a choice in how you perceive any situation. 

The exercises reveal the stories you've been telling yourself about yourself that have actually been harming you and holding you back. And then they offer a way to change those stories, once and for all.

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Marcy McDonald is one of the authors in this internationally bestselling book. 

We all have times where we need support and guidance because life has a way of kicking us down, and then leaving us there. If you need transformational change in your life, this book can give you all the tools that you need, and bring you into the sphere of support that can help lift you up.

The tools and guidance that our expert coaches give away for free here would have cost you thousands of dollars in life coaching sessions, years of training, and many thousands of hours of self-reflection. Anybody who has achieved success can tell you that it's the years of failures that prime you for success, and a good guide or a mentor can help you get there faster by telling you exactly which paths are fruitful.

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Middle school is a critical time in a student’s intellectual development. Writing at this stage should do more than produce assignments—it should train students to think clearly, read attentively, and express ideas with purpose.

From Thought to Page is a classical writing program for grades 6–8, developed by a homeschooling parent and teacher in response to the real challenges of teaching adolescents to write. Rather than relying on rigid formulas or abstract theory, this program builds writing skills organically through the close connection between reading, discussion, and composition.

Students progress step by step:

• From precise word choice
• To strong, flexible sentences
• To cohesive paragraphs
• To well-organized, multi-paragraph compositions

Along the way, students learn to revise thoughtfully, evaluate their own work, and draw insight from what they read.

Written directly to the teacher, From Thought to Page offers practical guidance on how to teach writing effectively while providing engaging, developmentally appropriate exercises that have been tested with real homeschool students.

Ideal for logic-stage learners, this program strengthens writing, reading comprehension, and critical thinking—without reducing writing to mechanical tasks. It offers a humane, intellectually serious alternative for families who want rigor and engagement in their homeschool writing instruction.

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Forrest McDonald, Author; Marcy McDonald, Editor and Foreword.

So often the bits and pieces we learn in school are devoid of the personalities, the dangers, the tenuous threads that led to one resolution instead of another. We take history for granted because it’s already happened. But the things that occurred were not—were never—a fait accompli. Forrest McDonald’s genius was finding the story behind the history, and in this case, that meant unraveling the twists and turns that led to the scrappy, underfunded, American Navy bringing the world’s best navy to its knees.

When in 1812 the country went to war, America was so badly prepared that the war was almost a calamity. The nation avoided ruin only because of the gallantry of the newborn United States Navy. Despite the folly of politicians, despite a perpetual shortage of money, despite the fact that it was starting from scratch, the American Navy came of age during these years, holding its own against powerful enemies and establishing a proud tradition.

There was the frigate Constitution, “Old Ironsides,” which outfought and outsailed whole squadrons. There was U.S.S. President, which restored America’s self-respect at a crucial time by engaging and defeating a British man-of-war. There were the sloops of war Essex and Hornet, which made daring raids into the heart of enemy waters.

There was Captain John Rodgers, who upset the workings of a British fleet of 600 ships with but 5 ships of his own. There was Lieutenant David Porter, who worked out the basic strategy and tactics for the United States Navy while imprisoned in a dungeon in North Africa, the captive of Algerian pirates. There was Midshipman James Jarvis, the thirteen-year-old commander of the main topsail crew on U.S.S. Constellation, killed in action when the guns of H.M.S. Vengeance blasted down the mainmast. There were the teen-aged boys and young black men who were the real heroes of America’s victory in the Battle of Lake Erie. This is the story of these ships and these men and boys, of the American Navy in the age of fighting sail.

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Forrest McDonald, Author; Marcy McDonald, Editor and Foreword.

The trials of the Revolutionary War taught thoughtful Americans that they must bind together the small, weak colonies of the seaboard under a central government if they would retain independence. But surprisingly, not everyone wanted that. We tend to think of the Constitution as something that came together easily due to the efforts of a few brilliant men. In reality, it was anything but easy.

The men who stepped forward to tackle this daunting task--or to prevent it from bearing fruition--ranged from genuinely great to utterly mediocre. They were men who would have found it difficult to work together under the best of circumstances. The conditions were, in fact, rather less than ideal. They worked in a small room with few windows, and the first half of the summer was the hottest and stickiest that even old Benjamin Franklin could remember.

And yet, the delegates in the Philadelphia Convention performed this task so well that, afterward, it became common to think of them as supermen, little less than the gods. But to think of them that way is to belittle them, not to praise them. What they did becomes all the more impressive when you realize that they were ordinary human beings, with ordinary strengths and weaknesses and ordinary human problems. All that was superhuman about them was the size of their job.

Vividly and dramatically, author Forrest McDonald tells the story of a group of extraordinary men—some wise, but others foolish, proud, even selfish. Fortunately there were enough wise men to ultimately bring into being in 1787 that great living document of freedom, the U.S. Constitution. Its creation is perhaps the most exciting event in our history. It could not be matched today.

If you want insights into both our early days as a country as well as the Constitution itself, this riveting story is for you. Originally written for the young adult audience, the book is engaging for all audiences who want to understand and support our Constitution. This version has been lightly edited and updated, with a foreword by the author's daughter, Marcy McDonald.

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