Personal Growths, Inspirations and Motivations
Do the Work. Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work that matters, but don’t know where to start? The answer is Do the Work, a manifesto by bestselling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that it’s [...]
The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life. Take a mini retreat with “The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal.” Reconnect with who you are and learn how to create balance from the “inside out” with this gorgeous, color-illustrated, month-by-month guide. Beautiful photographs, powerful themes and stories, personal vignettes from moms, guided [...]
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others. A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, numb, or like we can never do enough. These, [...]
No more punch lines that just slipped away. No more names on the tip of your tongue. No more senior moments! Drawing on cutting-edge neurological research, how to keep your brain alive: 83 neurobic exercises brings help to everyone whose memory is starting to slip. Devised by Dr. Lawrence Katz, a professor of neurobiology at [...]
The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook. This book excels not only in explaining the cause and nature of anxiety disorders and phobias but also in describing treatments. Director of the Anxiety Treatment Center in Santa Rosa (California), Bourne emphasizes the cognitive-behavioral model of treatment but includes information on biopsychiatry, intense psychotherapy, and spirituality as additional treatment [...]
Overcoming Depression: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques. The Overcoming self-help guides use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to treat disorders by changing unhelpful patterns of behavior and thought. CBT is internationally favored as a practical means of overcoming long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical. This fully revised third edition has been [...]
Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self. More than personal boundaries, this book is really about relationships–healthy and unhealthy ones. Here bestselling author and psychotherapist Charles Whitfield blends theories and dynamics from several disciplines into practical knowledge and actions that your can use in your relationships right now. This comprehensive book opens with [...]
Help Yourself for Teens: Real-Life Advice for Real-Life Challenges. From the preeminent inspirational speaker and memoirist of our time comes a stirring self-help book for teenagers. Dave Pelzer continues his tireless crusade against despair with Help Yourself for Teens, an uplifting new book written specifically for young adults. Sharing stories of his own adolescent struggles—fighting [...]
Beyond the Blues: A Workbook to Help Teens Overcome Depression. Despite what you might have been told, the feelings of sadness and hopelessness you may be struggling with are probably not “just a phase” or “something you’ll grow out of.” As many as 20 percent of people your age have symptoms of serious depression, yet [...]
The ADHD Workbook for Kids: Helping Children Gain Self-Confidence, Social Skills, & Self-control. In The ADHD Workbook for Kids, an internationally-recognized child psychologist presents more than forty ten-minute games and activities children with ADHD can do to learn to make friends, gain confidence, and manage out-of-control behaviors. All kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) want [...]
Stick Up for Yourself: Every Kid’s Guide to Personal Power & Positive Self-Esteem. A self-help guide to positive thinking, high self-esteem, and responsible personal power. Based on a program originally developed for adults, the book’s premise is that all young people can and should be taught the skills necessary to face common issues, such as [...]
Prisoners’ Self Help Litigation Manual. Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual, in its much-anticipated fourth edition, is an indispensable guide for prisoners and prisoner advocates seeking to understand the rights guaranteed to prisoners by law and how to protect those rights. Clear, comprehensive, practical advice provides prisoners with everything they need to know on conditions of confinement, [...]
Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words. An expert recognized for his uncovering the hidden, and often secret meaning of words, Kevin Hall now shares his wisdom with us all. In Aspire! he teaches readers to understand what words mean in their purest sense and unlock their importance as they develop a thoughtful [...]
Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind. The relentless pursuit of high self-esteem has become a virtual religion—and a tyrannical one at that. Our ultracompetitive culture tells us we need to be constantly above average to feel good about ourselves, but there is always someone more attractive, successful, or intelligent than we are. [...]
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. According to Tolle, who assumes the role of narrator as well, humans are on the verge of creating a new world by a personal transformation that shifts our attention away from our ever-expanding egos. This idea is well realized through Tolle’s remarkably well-paced narration. Naturally, the author [...]
Awaken Your Strongest Self. We often make our worst decisions when we act from a weak sense of self, and our best decision when we are confident and self-assured. Using the latest research findings in neuropsychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Peak Performance strategies, Awaken Your Strongest Self shows you how to live with greater joy, [...]
Maximum Confidence: Ten Secrets of Extreme Self-Esteem. Jack Canfield is an internationally known expert in the areas of self-esteem, peak performance and the psychology of achievement. His insights in The Secret have helped millions discover the awesome power of the Law of Attraction. Now, in Maximum Confidence, Jack Canfield will help you to develop winning [...]
Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits. Within the pages of this transformational book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer reveals how to change the self-defeating thinking patterns that have prevented you from living at the highest levels of success, happiness, and health. Even though you may know what to think, actually changing those thinking [...]
Recovery Of Your Self-Esteem: A Guide For Women. With warmth and encouragement, along with her original ten-step process, Carolynn Hillman puts self-esteem and the accomplishments and real satisfaction it engenders within the reach of every woman. Her straightforward approach to conquering feelings of inadequacy and self-defeating behavior include: * Practicing six key ways of nurturing [...]
Your Sacred Self: Making the Decision to Be Free. Every problem, Dyer asserts, has a solution in the “sacred self.” Our sacred, or spiritual, selves, he explains, represent our true natures. But we lose touch with the sacred self through the interference of ego, which produces anxieties and leads us to feel frustration, strife and [...]