Collection: Self-Development

"This journal deepens the father/daughter bond while creating a keepsake for when conversation is no longer possible.

With journaling questions for Dad such as:

"What is a concert you'll never forget?"

"What should I look for in a relationship?"

"When you're gone, what is something you'll want me to remember you saying?"

These questions will transport you from the daily routine into a time when the ordinary has been rendered sacred.

Whether you're a parent looking to leave a legacy to your child, or a child recording memories of your parent, make time for the questions you'll later wish you asked: your future self will thank you.

Commonly asked questions:

Who is this journal for?

The journal provides over 100 questions for a father to answer for his daughter. It makes a perfect baby shower gift for a new father of a baby girl, keepsake gift for an aging father or daughter, and thoughtful present for fathers and daughters of all stages in between.

Some adult children sit with their parents and fill out the journal while asking the questions: this invites thoughtful conversations, generational connection, and intimacy. Others choose to purchase the journal for themselves, fill it out, and later present it as a gift to their children.

This journal can be an especially thoughtful gift for a father who has lost a parent; these fathers often deeply recognize the importance of recording thoughts and memories for their children. This journal is also a thoughtful gift for adult children whose parents may be struggling with early signs of memory loss, dementia, or Alzheimer's; asking these questions can jog a parent's memory, inspire thoughtful conversation, or simply provide a space to appreciate the parent who still remains.

What if I have multiple kids? Do I need multiple journals?

Most of the questions in this journal are about Dad himself, but there are also questions particular to each child. For this reason, most parents choose to have one journal for each child; this also eliminates the need to "choose" who eventually receives the journal. However, it's also possible to answer these particular questions separately for each child within one journal. (One could split an answer on the 6x9 journal page provided, and use the blank pages included at the end of the journal if more room is needed.) "

The author of The Defining Decade explains why the twenties are the most challenging time of life and reveals essential skills for handling the uncertainties surrounding work, love, friendship, mental health, and more during that decade and beyond.

There is a young adult mental health crisis in America. So many twentysomethings are struggling--especially with anxiety, depression, and substance use--yet, as a culture, we are not sure what to think or do about it. Perhaps, it is said, young adults are snowflakes who melt when life turns up the heat. Or maybe, some argue, they're triggered for no reason at all. Yet, even as we trivialize twentysomething struggles, we are quick to pathologize them and to hand out diagnoses and medications.

Medication is sometimes, but not always, the best medicine. For twenty-five years, Meg Jay has worked as a clinical psychologist who specializes in twentysomethings, and here she argues that most don't have disorders that must be treated: they have problems that can be solved. In these pages, she offers a revolutionary remedy that upends the medicalization of twentysomething life and advocates instead for skills over pills.

In The Twentysomething Treatment, Jay teaches us:
-How to think less about "what if" and more about "what is."
-How to feel uncertain without coming undone.
-How to work--at work--toward competence and calm.
-How to be social when social media functions as an evolutionary trap.
-How to befriend someone and why this is more crucial for survival than ever.
-How to love someone even though they may break your heart.
-How to have sex when porn is easier and more available.
-How to move, literally, toward happiness and health.
-How to cook your way into confidence and connection.
-How to change a bad habit you may not know you have.
-How to decide when so much about life is undecided.
-How to choose purpose at work and in love.

The Twentysomething Treatment is a book that offers help and hope to millions of young adults--and to the friends, parents, partners, teachers, and mentors who care about them--just when they need it the most. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to find out how to improve our mental health by improving how we handle the uncertainties of life.

Stop fighting and fall back in love, starting today

If you and your partner are struggling to communicate and connect, you are not alone. The Couples Therapy Workbook for Healing is a helpful toolkit containing expert advice and activities to help both of you cultivate stronger attachment bonds and greater relationship satisfaction through Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is built on practical, concise steps for recognizing and disrupting negative behavior patterns. This couples therapy workbook uses those principles to help you develop the tools to approach your relationship with curiosity, open-mindedness, and readiness to speak, listen, and heal.

The Couples Therapy Workbook for Healing includes:

• A three-part process--Organized to follow the process of EFT, this couples therapy workbook begins by identifying the distress in your relationship, then navigating the emotions that are causing it, and moving toward positive, long-term change.
• Explore your relationship--This couples therapy workbook offers insightful questions, revealing exercises, self-assessments, and even case studies from other couples who have had success with these techniques.
• Beyond EFT--You'll also learn about the different ways people form attachments, the power of intimacy and vulnerability, and ways to savor your best moments.

If you're looking to reconnect emotionally and overcome relationship obstacles, The Couples Therapy Workbook for Healing can help.

Get creative with cool paper crafts for kids ages 4-8!

From an Origami Cat to a Whirling Windmill to Clothespin Pirate Puppets-there are tons of cool crafts that start with just scissors and a piece of paper. Bursting with a variety of colorful, ready-to-cut templates paired with easy-to-follow instructions, these paper crafts for kids ages 4-8 let you cut, fold, color, and get crafty anytime.

Have a blast piecing together a Unicorn Jigsaw Puzzle, creating a magical Balancing Butterfly, or crafting a cool Owl Hat-all with just scissors, glue, and the paper provided. Some of the crafts for kids ages 4-8 like a Paper Roll Hedgehog or Envelope Scarecrows only need a few household materials you likely have on hand, limiting trips to the craft store. Happy crafting!

This book of crafts for kids ages 4-8 includes:

• Cut it out-Get ready to practice scissor skills with 25 awesome ready-to-cut templates.
• Follow the leader-Stay on track from the first snip to the final fold with super simple instructions anyone can follow.
• Crafts in color-Cool, colorful illustrations appeal to kids and parents alike.

Paper has never been so fun with these playful paper crafts for kids ages 4-8.

How to integrate and evolve your inner masculine and feminine

- Explains polarity work as a tool to heal trauma, become less judgmental, and develop a more integrated relationship with ourselves and others

- Explores 44 common traits of mature and immature masculine and feminine expressions, explaining how to evolve unhealthy expressions into healthy ones

- Offers simple yet profound methods for evolving your inner masculine and feminine, as well as healing the shadow

Polarity work allows us to balance, evolve, and integrate the masculine and feminine energies within our personality to create an inner union that supports the release and transformation of trauma on the cellular and soul level. It is a holistic practice that leads to the embodiment of both what we choose and who we really are.

Fusing ancient Vedic knowledge and Western psychology with Tantric and Taoist wisdom, Elliott Saxby offers simple yet profound methods for evolving our inner masculine and feminine as well as healing the shadow side of these expressions. The Inner Marriage explores sexuality and desire through polarity work and the need to realign our physical, mental, and emotional bodies to generate power through our sexuality.

Using the polarity framework in relation to universal laws, this practical guide off ers maps and exercises that invite us to evolve, harmonize, and integrate opposing energies. An invaluable tool in integrative and non-dual therapy and the development of emotional intelligence.

Access high-vibrational Consciousness Codes to heal your body and mind

- Explains how to work with extraterrestrial light frequencies to clear, energize, uplift, and empower your body and mind and speed up the healing process

- Offers basic, intermediate, and advanced ways of healing, with step-by-step illustrations, exercises, meditations, and real-life cases of Star Magic transformations

- Illustrates holograph blueprints, pineal gland activation, and how to work with the Mer-ka-ba field to turbocharge your life, as well as many other powerful techniques

Star Magic Healing aligns you with high-vibrational Consciousness Codes and extraterrestrial light frequencies that expand your consciousness, shift your vibration, and speed up the healing process. Present on Earth in ancient Egyptian times, these Codes will transform your inner world and, in turn, upgrade your external reality. Through a series of major life events, Jerry Sargeant has reawakened this advanced soul technology and shares it here to help unleash the full potential of every living being.

Jerry reveals how to connect with and harness extraterrestrial light frequencies to energize, uplift, and consciously empower your own life, others, and the planet. The author shares practical Star Magic Healing tools with step-by-step illustrations as well as visualizations, exercises, and meditations to shift your vibration and bring about rapid healing that lasts. He discusses holographic blueprints, pineal gland activation, quantum knowledge, parallel realities, shadow parasites, and the impact of crystals and sacred geometry. Offering basic, intermediate, and advanced ways of healing, the author explains how to work at the cellular level, clearly demonstrating how advanced healing is readily available for everyone. Learn how to activate your Mer-ka-ba field and open up to infinite streams of abundance. Jerry also shares real-life case studies, recounting how he has used high-vibrational light frequencies to successfully remove tumors, restore eyesight, heal hearts and relationships, and supercharge businesses for massive success.

Star Magic offers an opportunity to heal at the deepest levels and find alignment with your life purpose. Star Magic Codes of Consciousness will connect you to the frequency of unconditional love, unleashing colossal inner wisdom and super-heightened awareness that enable you to manifest your perfect reality quickly. We each have the ancient power to heal and transform within us, and Star Magic offers the key to unleashing this power.

Show yourself a little TLC with self-love exercises for Black women

As a Black woman, the many roles you fill can leave little room to take care of yourself. Prioritize your own joy, healing, and growth with this self-care workbook for Black women, filled with empowering exercises and affirmations that help you nurture your authentic self and thrive.

• Embrace self-love--Lay the foundation for self-love as you reflect on your identity, explore experiences many modern Black women share, and learn what loving yourself truly means.
• Put it into practice--Discover writing prompts, affirmations, and other simple exercises that help you find inner peace and self-confidence.
• Explore key themes--Learn to love where you're at, practice self-compassion, let go of self-doubt, foster your self-worth, and build a community that empowers you.

Give yourself the gift of self-compassion with this uplifting choice in self-care books for Black women.

Makey Makey is a kit that helps you turn everyday objects into touchpads that control your computer's keyboard. With this book, students learn the art of innovation through detailed explanations and hands-on activities built to foster creativity and problem solving. Fun, engaging text introduces readers to new ideas and builds on maker-related concepts they may already know. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information.

How Much Do You Believe That What Happens to You Is the Result of Your Own Actions-or Do Circumstances Beyond Your Control Largely Determine Your Fate? Locus of Control (LOC) is a phrase used by psychologists to describe a widely effective way of assessing an individual's potential for success-personal, social, and financial.LOC measures how much you believe what happens to you is the result of your own actions or, conversely, of forces and circumstances beyond your control. People who accept that they are largely in control of their lives tend to do better than those who feel that fate or external factors rule what they do, especially in novel and difficult situations. This book explains LOC research, until now mainly confined to academic circles, in terms easily understandable to the average person. The author, a clinical psychologist who has spent nearly five decades investigating and writing about LOC, helps the reader to explore his or her own locus of control and what those orientations might mean for how life is lived. He discusses the extensively documented relationship between LOC and academic achievement, personal and social adjustment, health, and financial success. Dr. Nowicki notes that there has been an increasing tendency among Americans to feel as though their lives are slipping out of their control, and he identifies ways to reverse this negative trend. He describes how the Locus of Control is learned and demonstrates ways in which it can be changed to yield higher levels of achievement, success, personal satisfaction, and better interactions with others.

Divine your destiny with the Pathfinder Harrow Deck, the legendary fortune-telling cards of Pathfinder's Age of Lost Omens setting! With this 54-card, full-color set of fortune-telling cards, you'll learn how to include the harrow in any tabletop RPG game and enhance play with immersive fortune-telling methods and other insights. With vivid all-new art, exciting printing treatments, patterned backing, and a size common to many real-world tarot decks, the Harrow Deck straddles the line between game supplement and storytelling set piece.

Also included is a small booklet that provides details on the history of the harrow, how to simulate fortune-telling readings for your group, and details on the meanings and roles of all 54 cards in the collection! Next time your players encounter a fortune teller at the carnival or a sooth-sayer at the local tavern, don't just tell them their future--show it to them with the Pathfinder Harrow Deck!

A bravely honest and brilliantly comic account of how one mother gave up drinking and started living. This is Bridget Jones Dries Out.

Clare Pooley is a Cambridge graduate and was a Managing Partner at one of the world's biggest advertising agencies, and yet by eighteen months ago she'd become an overweight, depressed, middle-aged mother of three who was drinking more than a bottle of wine a day, and spending her evenings Googling 'Am I an alcoholic?'

In a desperate bid to turn her life around, she quit drinking and started a blog. She called it Mummy Was a Secret Drinker.

This book is the story of a year in Clare's life. A year that started with her quitting booze having been drinking more than a bottle of wine every day. It sees her starting a hugely successful blog, then getting and beating breast cancer. By the end of the year she is booze free and cancer free, two stone lighter and with a life that is so much richer, healthier and more rewarding than ever before. Sober Diaries is an upbeat, funny and positive look at how to live life to the full.

Interwoven within Clare's own very personal and frank story is research and advice, and answers to questions like: How do I know if I'm drinking too much? How will I cope at parties? What do I say to friends and family? How do I cope with cravings? Will I lose weight? What if my partner still drinks? And many more.

Discover a method that lets you get the look of multiple midrow color changes without all the hassle. This technique uses chain spaces to form a lattice to work over. Colors are worked the entire row and color changes are only done at the ends of rows. You will find 20 different granny square patterns, all the same size, plus instructions to join them together, as well as a simple but unique border. For most squares the yarn is carried up the side and worked over when stitching the border.

Even during the carefree months of summer, children can be preparing for the next grade with Daily Summer Activities! It's packed with engaging activities that will build learners' confidence for the next grade level by practicing essential skills. Activities offer practice of essential skills across subject areas, including reading, math, writing, spelling, and geography.

With just one or two activities per day over a 10-week period, Daily Summer Activities helps to keep skills sharp without getting in the way of vacation time.

Recipient of the 2020 Parents' Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids, Daily Summer Activities provides fun skill practice to help children discover a love of learning and reach their educational goals.

Daily Summer Activities reflects grade-level expectations and includes open-ended questions to develop your child's critical thinking skills. Fun reward stickers are also included.

10 weeks of instruction cover the following skills:

Language arts practice:

• a fiction and nonfiction story with comprehension questions each week
• sentences to correct for capitalization, punctuation, and grammar
• 10 spelling words to learn each week
• cursive handwriting practice
• creative writing activities
• alphabetical order
• contractions
• parts of speech
• synonyms, antonyms, and homophones

Mathematics practice:

• multiplication and division facts
• word problems
• two- and three-digit addition and subtraction with borrowing and carrying
• dividing by one digit
• multiplication by one and two digits
• fractions
• graphing

Geography skills:

• map symbols
• map reading

About Evan-Moor

A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is among the most remarkable developments in contemporary psychotherapy. This second edition of the pioneering ACT skills-training manual for clinicians provides a comprehensive update--essential for both experienced practitioners and those new to using ACT and its applications.

ACT is a proven-effective treatment for numerous mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, eating disorders, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and more. With important revisions based on new developments in contextual behavioral science, Learning ACT, Second Edition includes up-to-date exercises and references, as well as material on traditional, evidence-based behavioral techniques for use within the ACT framework.

In this fully revised and updated edition of Learning ACT, you'll find workbook-format exercises to help you understand and take advantage of ACT's unique six process model--both as a tool for diagnosis and case conceptualization, and as a basis for structuring treatments for clients. You'll also find up-to-the-minute information on process coaching, new experiential exercises, an increased focus on functional analysis, and downloadable extras that include role-played examples of the core ACT processes in action. By practicing the exercises in this workbook, you'll learn how this powerful modality can improve clients' psychological flexibility and help them to live better lives.

Whether you're a clinician looking for in-depth training and better treatment outcomes for individual clients, a student seeking a better understanding of this powerful modality, or anyone interested in contextual behavioral science, this second edition provides a comprehensive revision to an important ACT resource.

This workbook for recovering alcoholics is a great resource for anyone who wants to quit drinking alcohol for good! It follows a 12-step program that contains actionable advice, helpful activities, and useful prayers for recovery. This quit lit book is also based on the author's experience recovering and working with Alcoholic Anonymous, an organization devoted to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism.

The Lincoln Memorial. The Washington Monument. The White House. The National Air and Space Museum. Accomplished illustrator Emily Isabella has captured them all--and so much more!--in this one-of-a-kind coloring book celebrating the very best of our nation's capital. Each page is printed on high-quality card stock and designed to detach and fit into a standard 5-by-7-inch picture frame, making it the perfect D.C. keepsake.

With 24 detachable pages to color and frame, including: The Capitol Building - The Jefferson Memorial - The Pentagon - The Supreme Court - The Library of Congress - Union Station - Georgetown - The National Portrait Gallery - Mount Vernon - Ford's Theatre - The U.S. National Arboretum - The National Zoo - and so much more!