Collection: Self-Development

Guides those in recovery in developing the awareness and skills to deal with life's issues by practicing authentic spirituality and emotional sobriety.

Spirituality is a critical aspect of the Twelve Steps and other recovery programs. Yet, for those of us disposed to addiction, it can be easy to get so caught up in the idea of our Higher Power and the abundant joys of a spiritual life that we experience "spiritual bypass"--the use of spirituality to avoid dealing with ourselves, our emotions, and our unfinished business.In Recovering Spirituality, researcher and clinical psychologist Ingrid Mathieu uses personal stories and practical advice to teach us how to grow up emotionally and take responsibility for ourselves. Without turning away from the true benefits of an active spiritual program, she shows us how to work through life's challenges and periods of pain while evolving and maintaining an authentic relationship with our Higher Power.

From one of the leading grief therapists, this compassionate and accessible guide to grieving offers a new framework for understanding and navigating loss.

An intimate guide to grieving that offers hope and healing within loss from one of the nation's top grief therapists.

Conscious Grieving is a book for anyone seeking guidance and support after loss. Renowned grief therapist Claire Bidwell Smith combines her deeply personal experience of loss with her long career spent working with thousands of people to introduce a new approach to grief, one that promotes hope and even transformation.

What does it mean to grieve consciously? Most of the time, when we lose someone we love, it feels like grief is just happening to us. We feel out of control, and overwhelmed. Claire reminds us that while loss is something that inevitably happens to all of us, how we choose to grieve is up to us. When we can consciously engage with our grief, rather than avoiding it, we can access profound pathways to healing.

Presented in a series of thoughtful, brief vignettes that don't overwhelm the reader, Conscious Grieving offers a new framework for each stage of grief: Entering, Engaging, Surrendering, and Transforming.

• Entering - staying present and taking care of ourselves as we navigate the shock and upheaval of a new loss.
• Engaging - navigating that first year after a loss by staying in tune with our needs as more complicated feelings of depression, guilt or anger surface.
• Surrendering - facing the changes to our identity and who we are becoming in the face of loss.
• Transforming - through ritual, honor, hope, and grace, and learning to carry our grief with intention so that we can continue to grow, heal, and thrive.

Grief asks a lot from us. But the ability to grieve is a birthright. We grieve throughout our lifetimes. We grieve the deaths of loved ones yes, but also moves, divorce, illness, injustice, time lost, changes in the world and healing from these losses requires that we evaluate everything we ever considered meaningful. Healing means making our lives worth the pain we endure when we lose someone we love. And transforming through grief is an opportunity afforded to all.

Learn to tie 21 knots for the outdoors and everyday life!

You never know when you'll need just the right knot. Maybe you want to haul something atop your car. Perhaps you have to stake a tree or tether your dog. From tying a kite string to mooring a boat, Essential Knots has you covered. This pocket-sized booklet contains 21 versatile knots for getting things done at the campsite, on the dock, and at home. Author Karen Berger provides easy-to-follow instructions--supplemented by full-color, step-by-step illustrations--to help you quickly and correctly tie the knots you need. With this guide in hand, you'll always know which knots to use and when, even if you're a beginner. It's conveniently sized to keep in your glove box, backpack, back pocket, or desk drawer, so it's always there when you need it. Get Essential Knots and find a handy spot for it. You'll be surprised how often you use it.

Become a Wildlife Detective!

Spotting animals in the wild is tricky, but they leave plenty of clues behind--especially tracks.

• Examine the evidence.
• Study the animal tracks.
• See if you can guess "Whose track is that?"
• Then turn the page to discover the answer!

This interactive and entertaining picture book features the full-color photography of Stan Tekiela, a professional naturalist and award-winning author. With every reading, children get more familiar with a variety of North American critters. They might soon start seeing animal tracks on every outing!

Do you love riding on planes, trains, and automobiles but get restless on the way? If the answer is yes, take along The Everything Kids' Travel Activity Book and you'll be there before you know it! Packed full of puzzles, activities, quizzes, and games, this book provides hours of nonstop fun that can be done alone or shared with other kids.

There's cool stuff to do, like:
Create your own postcard
Invent a new automobile
Play detective

The Everything Kids' Travel Activity Book also gives you answers to all sorts of crazy questions:
What makes your foot "go to sleep?"
Why does your sister cough?
Why do we daydream?

On top of all that, you can draw caricatures, test your memory, and even keep a weather diary. The traveling fun is so endless you'll never ask "Are we there yet?" again!

From psychologist and children's friendships expert Eileen Kennedy-Moore and parenting and health writer Christine McLaughlin comes a social development primer that gives kids the answers they need to make and keep friends.

Friendships aren't always easy for kids. Almost every child struggles socially at some time, in some way. Having an argument with a friend, getting teased, or even trying to find a buddy in a new classroom...although these are typical problems, they can be tough. Children want to fit in, but sometimes getting along with friends is complicated. Psychologist and children's friendship expert Eileen Kennedy-Moore and parenting and health writer Christine McLaughlin give kids the answers they need to make and keep friends using five essential skills:

-Reaching Out to Make Friends
-Stepping Back to Keep Friends
-Blending In to Join Friends
-Speaking Up to Share With Friends
-Letting Go to Accept Friends

With research-based, practical solutions and plenty of true-to-life-examples of social skills in practice--presented in lighthearted humorous cartoons--Growing Friendships is a toolkit for both boys and girls as they make sense of the social environment around them. They will learn how to be open to friendship, choose kind friends, and most important, be a good friend.

Make Your Gifted Life Meaningful

"This book will make a smart person even smarter." ―Dr. Katharine Brooks, You Majored in What? Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career

#1 Bestseller in Counseling & Psychology, Attention-Deficit Disorder, and Mood Disorders

Overcome your unique challenges. The challenges smart and creative people encounter―from scientific researchers and genius award winners to bestselling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered attorneys, and academics―often include anxiety, overthinking, mania, sadness, and despair. In Why Smart People Hurt, psychology specialist and creativity coach Dr. Eric Maisel draws on his many years of work with the best and the brightest to pinpoint these often devastating challenges and offer solutions based on the groundbreaking principles and practices of natural psychology.

Find meaningful success. Do you understand what meaning is, what it isn't, and how to create it? Do you know how to organize your day around meaning investments and meaning opportunities? Are you still searching for meaning after all these years? Many smart people struggle with reaching for or maintaining success because, after all of the work they put into attaining it, it still seems meaningless. In Why Smart people Hurt, Dr. Maisel teaches you how to stop searching for meaning and create it for yourself.

In Why Smart People Hurt, you will find:

• You are not alone in your struggles with living in a world that wasn't built for you or your intelligence
• Logic- and creativity-based strategies to cope with having a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hat
• Questions that help you create your own personal roadmap to a calm and meaningful life

Readers of true, natural self-help books for gifted people struggling with life, anxiety, and depression, like Living With Intensity, Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults, or Your Rainforest Mind, will learn how to create meaning in their lives with Why Smart People Hurt.

Does your child struggle to control their emotions? Perhaps they get upset easily and find it difficult to calm down? Do they feel out-of-control at times and want to understand why? These are signs that your child is ready to learn more about big feelings and the physical sensations they experience as a result.

This practical guide combines cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness methods with simple activities to help your child develop the skills to articulate their feelings and regulate their moods. It's aimed at children ages 8 to 12 because a lot happens in these years that can impact a child's emotional well-being, not just now but for years to come.

Sometimes I Have Big Feelings is full of great information, fun activities, and top tips to help your child feel happy and balanced. Activities include:

• A whole rainbow of feelings
• Match the feelings to the faces
• Mood tracker
• Draw your feelings
• Flip your thoughts
• Mindful meditation
• When someone else is feeling big feelings
• Seeing the other side
• Five senses check-in
• Positivity word search
• and more!

Your child will be guided, with the help of Pop--a friendly and supportive character they can identify with--through fun and engaging activities interspersed with useful tips, inspirational affirmations, and practical information for parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers of all sorts.

Grandparents can celebrate the arrival of a grandchild with this unique album.

Many grandparents want to chronicle the birth of their grandchild--and capture precious milestones as baby grows. They can record every moment in A Grandparent's Keepsake Album, from the first bath to the first sleepover to the first holidays. Beautifully illustrated, it offers creative prompts and space for new grandparents to add notes, photographs, cards, and other memorabilia. This special book will become a treasured family heirloom that grandparents can share as their grandchild grows, and pass down from generation to generation.

A ten-step guide to reaching your peak potential through the wisdom of Stoic philosophy by entrepreneur and Olympic champion speed skater Mark Tuitert.

For twenty years, Mark Tuitert has used the principles of Stoic philosophy to become a gold-medal winning Olympic champion athlete, successful entrepreneur, as well as to deal with the challenges in his professional and private life. Now, in the internationally-bestselling book The Stoic Mindset, Mark lays out the ten practical lessons through which everyone, in any situation, can develop a Stoic mindset.

Applying the teachings of Stoic masters including Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus to the twenty-first century, Tuitert empowers readers to discover how Stoicism can change their lives and help them reach their full potential. With a gift for breaking down difficult concepts into practical applications, Tuitert distills thousands of years of Stoic philosophy into ten short principles, with an action item at the end of each chapter to help readers actualize theories. One step at a time, readers learn to develop a mindset that is both focused and relaxed, so that they can find fulfillment in a chaotic and unpredictable world.

Long before Sudoku hit the scene, there were Logic Grid Puzzles. Developed by Lewis Carroll, these logic puzzles rely on deducing a complex solution from only a few pieces of information. (Who knew the author of Alice In Wonderland was also a brilliant mathematician and logician?!) Now, you're probably thinking, "Whoa, that all sounds really nerdy!" And you're right. But it's also really addicting. With only a few clues, you'll be able to fill in the entire 6 grid puzzle after you put your brain to work.The puzzles in this book were originally created for the 'Logic Grid Puzzles: Word Games for Brain Training' app and have been downloaded and solved hundreds of thousands of times. But the puzzles are now available for everyone who loves solving them the old fashioned way: with pencil and paper.So grab a cup of coffee, a pencil, and a comfy chair. 210 logic grid puzzles await!

From the bestselling author of Linchpin, Tribes, and The Dip comes an elegant little book that will inspire artists, writers, and entrepreneurs to stretch and commit to putting their best work out into the world.

Creative work doesn't come with a guarantee. But there is a pattern to who succeeds and who doesn't. And engaging in the consistent practice of its pursuit is the best way forward.

Based on the breakthrough Akimbo workshop pioneered by legendary author Seth Godin, The Practice will help you get unstuck and find the courage to make and share creative work. Godin insists that writer's block is a myth, that consistency is far more important than authenticity, and that experiencing the imposter syndrome is a sign that you're a well-adjusted human. Most of all, he shows you what it takes to turn your passion from a private distraction to a productive contribution, the one you've been seeking to share all along.

With this book as your guide, you'll learn to dance with your fear. To take the risks worth taking. And to embrace the empathy required to make work that contributes with authenticity and joy.

Verdura! - Jardinería para tu bienestar celebra la maravilla de añadir más verde a tu vida con 30 proyectos de jardinería simples y económicos que promueven el bienestar a través de las plantas.

De la autora puertorriqueña y celebridad de la jardinería, Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago de Agrochic.com, una plataforma en español sobre estilo de vida basado en la jardinería, llega esta guía para formar un amor de por vida por la naturaleza, las plantas y la jardinería. Verdura, que significa "verdor" en español, pero también se refiere a cualquier planta comestible del jardín. A lo largo de este libro, verdura se usa tanto como una descripción como también una aspiración: se trata de añadir más verdura a tu vida diaria!

Perfecto tanto para principiantes como para jardineros expertos, convertir la práctica de cuidar plantas en un estilo de vida saludable nunca ha sido tan fácil. Algunos expertos señalan que se necesitan alrededor de 30 repeticiones para formar un hábito, y el objetivo es utilizar los 30 proyectos que se encuentran aquí para transformar la chispa inicial de alegría que crean las plantas en un hábito saludable que mejore tu vida de muchas maneras. Se incluyen proyectos de interior y exterior, muchos de los cuales son perfectos para espacios pequeños y entornos urbanos.
Además de ofrecer consejos de bienestar relacionados con las plantas, historias personales de la evolución de su propio jardín y consejos sobre cómo el cuidado de las plantas puede mejorar la salud física y mental, Perla ofrece una guía clara paso a paso sobre la creación de proyectos.
Algunos de los proyectos que encontrarás en el libro incluyen:

• Crear un proyecto en tiesto que sea atractivo a tu versión de 13 años
• Crear un jardín para meditar o una esquina de sanación
• Un jardín para pies descalzos
• Realizar una transformación de jardinería rápida y fácil
• Crear un cajón de entretenimiento verde
• Reusar artefactos comunes y descartados para crear una estación de propagación, un jardín en mecedora, y una bañera para aves
• Una guía básica para organizar tu legado verde

También se incluyen tablas con plantas alternativas si eres el tipo de jardinero al que le gustan muchas opciones de plantas, e introducciones a las secciones que ofrecen una pequeña muestra de la vida jardinera en la isla de Puerto Rico.

Enverdece tu vida para reducir el estrés y añadir alegría con la ayuda de Verdura!

Verdura! - Living a Garden Life celebrates the power of adding more green to your life with 30 simple and budget-friendly gardening projects that promote well-being through plants.

From Puerto Rican author and gardening celebrity, Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago of Agrochic.com, a Spanish-language gardening lifestyle platform, comes this guide to forming a lifelong love of nature, plants, and gardening. Verdura means "greenery" in Spanish, but also refers to any edible plant from the garden.

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all communicated in straightforward language accessible to both client and therapist. Readers will be exposed to a model that emphasizes "resolution"-a transformation in the relationship to one's self, replacing shame, self-loathing, and assumptions of guilt with compassionate acceptance. Its unique interventions have been adapted from a number of cutting-edge therapeutic approaches, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness-based therapies, and clinical hypnosis. Readers will close the pages of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors with a solid grasp of therapeutic approaches to traumatic attachment, working with undiagnosed dissociative symptoms and disorders, integrating "right brain-to-right brain" treatment methods, and much more. Most of all, they will come away with tools for helping clients create an internal sense of safety and compassionate connection to even their most dis-owned selves.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"If you've ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fascinating insights await you in these pages." --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals

As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience.

What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for granted. But the very existence of consciousness raises profound questions: Why would any collection of matter in the universe be conscious? How are we able to think about this? And why should we?

In this wonderfully accessible book, Annaka Harris guides us through the evolving definitions, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited understanding of consciousness. Where does it reside, and what gives rise to it? Could it be an illusion, or a universal property of all matter? As we try to understand consciousness, we must grapple with how to define it and, in the age of artificial intelligence, who or what might possess it.

Conscious offers lively and challenging arguments that alter our ideas about consciousness--allowing us to think freely about it for ourselves, if indeed we can.

Take a look at this boredom buster for adults! Try this game that strengthens the bond and can mentally stimulate. Take "our moment" and focus on your relationship with a quiz book for couples.

About product:

• Inside you'll find 155 questions about both of you, your relationship, your past and future purposes that will allow you to get to know your partner ever better than before.
• You'll spend a great time with your partner playing this game, because you earn points by answering all the questions (rules are described on the first page).
• You don't have to be afraid of questions, all of them are intended to strengthen and energize your relationship.
• No stupid questions that make you feel embarrassed.
• BONUS PART at the end of the book = BONUS FOR YOUR LOVE.
• Activity Book for adult couples.
• GREAT PRIZES AWAIT THE WINNER! You'll find them after summarizing the results.

The product is suitable as a:

• 1st, 2nd, 5th and even 9th anniversary gift for him and her
• Birthday gift for him and her
• Valentine's day gift for him and her
• Romantic gift for him and her for any occasion
• Idea for a date
• Marriage Game
• Couple therapy workbook