Collection: Self-Development

Simple yoga practices to increase your peace and reduce stress.

For centuries, yoga has provided a path to physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. But modern lifestyles make it difficult to incorporate the practice. Yoga Body and Mind Handbook offers the best of both worlds--essential poses and meditations made easy so you can fit the full benefits of yoga into your busy life.

Virtually anyone can enjoy yoga. By integrating poses and guided meditations into simple routines, you'll learn how to relieve daily stresses and strains. Whether you're new to yoga, or rediscovering the practice, this guide will get you moving, breathing, and meditating your way to a healthier, happier you.

Yoga Body and Mind Handbook includes:

• Complete yoga routines--Step-by-step instructions and illustrations help you enjoy the benefits of yoga anytime, anywhere.
• Easy poses--These yoga essentials are designed for beginners--no contortion necessary.
• Guided meditations--Learn mindful practices that encourage healing and empowerment.

The path to improved health, happiness, and peace of mind is just a few steps away. Begin your journey with the Yoga Body and Mind Handbook.

Improve your personal relationships Most people's lives are complicated by family relationships. Birth order, our parents' relationship, and the "rules" we were brought up with can affect our self-esteem and relationships with spouses, children, and other family members. Family of Origin therapy and techniques can help you create better relationships. This easy-to-read, practical book explains how families function and what you can do to change the way you act in your family and with other people. Exercises show how to apply the principles to your own situation and develop a more positive approach to all aspects of your life. Topics covered include: * What makes it so difficult to be myself with my family? * How is my relationship with my spouse affected by how my family acted when I was a child? * Will my parents still love me if I let them know my real feelings? * How has my birth order and my gender affected my personality? * What birth order in a spouse is the best match for me? * Why do I always feel rejected when my spouse disagrees with me? * How can I change the way I react? * What role does my family history play in my life? * How can I improve my communication skills? Step-by-step exercises show how to make contact with "lost" family members, how to interview relatives to develop a clearer picture of how each member fits into the family tree, and how to find different and better ways of dealing with family relationships. Professionals will also find this book a useful companion to their therapy sessions with clients.

El libro de cabecera para todos aquellos que quieran entender cómo funciona su metabolismo y cómo ponerlo a trabajar a su favor.

A todos nos gusta comer. Pero lo hacemos mal y cada día peor. Engañados por la industria alimentaria, la publicidad, las fake news gastronómicas y los consejos nutricionales de la tía Bertha, con cada bocado tomamos decisiones nefastas que nos enferman, nos engordan y nos roban energía. Cómo detener esta espiral? A quién creerle y a quién no? Cómo cambiar de hábitos sin volvernos rígidos y aburridos?

En este libro, el célebre doctor Carlos Jaramillo ofrece respuestas contundentes a esas preguntas y plantea que la clave para un peso óptimo y una salud plena está en el metabolismo. Entender qué es, cómo opera y qué podemos hacer para que funcione a nuestro favor es fundamental, y es lo que el lector conseguirá en estas páginas.

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A durable, lightweight journal just right for campers to plan trips efficiently, record experiences, and capture priceless memories.

Welcome to your camping journal, a place to prepare for upcoming trips, reflect on your best (and worst) camping experiences, and keep notes for the future.

Camping Logs allow you to keep track of your favorite campsites (or coordinates when you venture off grid), record the weather conditions of your trip, who you were with, and what sights you saw. Each log has a page of prompts to track key information, plus a lined section for additional observations.

A section of blank pages provides space for notes, sketches or etchings--map your favorite trail, keep a running camp-supply list, or just reminisce about a particularly memorable camping adventure.

The final section, Camping Checklists, gives you a place to track your camping bucket list, essential camping gear, favorite outdoor meals, and notable flora and fauna.

DELUXE JOURNAL Rounded corners, ribbon bookmark, elastic-band closure, elastic pen loop, inside pocket for convenient storage, and high-quality paper that ink won't bleed through.

SPECIALIZED PAGES This guided journal gives the writer places to organize their camping trips, with space specialized for recording campsite details, weather, and supplies, as well as space for sketches and other notes.

LIGHTWEIGHT AND PORTABLE The best place to record a memory for a journal is when it happens; this one fits easily into a backpack, tent pocket, or glovebox allowing for quick access for notes on the go.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Literary Hub

From the acclaimed and bestselling writer Nicholson Baker, a deeply personal account of his journey learning how to paint for the first time, and a meditation on the power of art in times of crisis

Nicholson Baker wanted to learn how to paint.

In 2019, after years of researching and writing about secret and often horrible government programs for his book Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act, he was wiped out. Having been steeped for so long in the history of war, violence, and conspiracy, the world had lost some of its brightness. Photography had scratched a creative itch for years, but now, Baker was desperate to squeeze more out of what he saw - he wanted to live, slowly, through the snatches of life he was recording in photos. Maybe, he thought, he could learn to paint? The idea consumed him, but he was nagged by an even more debilitating doubt: What if he failed?

Finding a Likeness is Baker's record of the years he worked to improve his artistic skills, beginning with his first, humble attempts to set paintbrush to paper. Driven by a natural curiosity and a strong desire to paint faces, clouds, and landscapes that actually resemble faces, clouds, and landscapes, he attends classes from local artists, watches YouTube tutorials, and seeks out master painters from the past and present in the hopes of uncovering their secrets. In his inimitable voice, Baker recounts the highs and lows of the creative process, reflects on memories of growing up as the son of two painters, and learns what it means to really see.

Filled with Baker's own art, as well as the work of artists from around the world, Finding a Likeness is a tender and deeply felt testimony to taking a step back and going back to basics. Baker improves dramatically in his craft, but as he considers what it means to try, fail, and try again, he discovers far more than what it takes to paint a cloud - rather, he shows us how to bear witness to the world, to the good and the bad, and to do it all justice with paper and ink.

Help your child learn to read with colorful activities, stickers, and audio read-aloud stories! Strong literacy foundations are an essential part of your child's academic success. Learning phonics and spelling concepts through fun lessons and activities helps boost your child's reading and spelling skills! Stories and colorful pictures make learning phonics and spelling skills meaningful and help children make connections to things they already know.

Favorite features of this activity book:

• Practicing letter sounds helps children become
• readers.
• Learning spelling patterns makes it easy to
• spell word family words.
• Reading word family stories boosts confidence!

What's Inside?

9 units that practice beginning sounds, CVC word families, and spelling patterns Beginning consonant sounds include: b, c, d, f, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, y Word families and spelling patterns include: an, at, en, et, id, ip, od, ot, ug Skills practice includes segmenting, rhyming words, using focus words and sight words to create short stories, and reading short stories. A spelling review for each unit How to Use pages provide support for parents and teachers

This 128-page full-color workbook includes an answer key.

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.

Kumon MathBites Workbooks are meticulously crafted learning resources that aim to boost the confidence of young learners struggling with confidence in math while nurturing their calculation skills and fostering a sense of achievement. These workbooks are thoughtfully designed to contain bite-sized tasks on each page, perfect for children to complete within a few minutes. The scaffolded structure of each page emphasizes perseverance, practice, and effort, which, in turn, fosters a sense of motivation in children to continue learning.

This workbook is designed to help children become independent learners in by providing them with the opportunity to check their answers and correct their errors, these workbooks empower children to master fundamental academic skills while building their confidence and promoting self-reliance. As children work through the pages of the Kumon MathBites workbook, they are encouraged to develop into self-motivated learners, setting a solid foundation for academic success and lifelong learning.

You wake in a cave, with amnesia. While you explore, you slowly discover who you are, and how you became lost. The broken and dangerous cave system reveals part of a temple to a lawful good goddess that befell a calamity. As pieces of your memory return, you realize that you must race against time to help your mentor battle an ancient evil. But, for now, you are alone and Lost in the Dark.

Can't get the group together, but want to play 5th Edition? Grab some dice and get ready to escape mysterious caves in over 200 pages of solo 5E adventure. We've created a complete adventure from character generation to your first boss battle. Suitable for new players who might not have a regular group to play.

Take a transformative journey through the year with this weekly planner designed to help you find purpose and optimism in life.

This unique planner invites you on an illuminated planning and scheduling experience, whether for work, school, or your daily life, from July 2023 through December 2024. Thoughtfully composed to guide you through 18 months led by manifestations, this planner is designed for anyone looking to find purpose and optimism in life.

This planner features:

• Stunning full-page artistic spreads of meditative poems to inspire introspection and perception.
• Weekly poems to inform your week and spark spiritual nourishment.
• 18 full-month calendar spreads, from July 2023 through December 2024.
• 72 weeks with plenty of space to write.
• Convenient size ideal for carrying in a bookbag, briefcase, or purse.
• Elastic band closure to help secure your planner or mark your place inside.

This planner is great for personal use, but also makes an illuminating gift that's perfect for those of all ages who manifest, students, people with busy work schedules, or your industrious friends and family. Amplify your productivity and revitalize your spirit with Manifest Your Dreams 2024 Weekly Planner.

Nautilus Book Award Gold Winner

A psychotherapist offers "crucial" guidance on how to "alter fundamentally our fearful relationship to deep feelings," from depression and anxiety to grief and fear (Los Angeles Times)

We are all touched at some point by the dark emotions of grief, fear, or despair. In an age of global threat, these emotions have become widespread and overwhelming. While conventional wisdom warns us of the harmful effects of "negative" emotions, this revolutionary book offers a more hopeful view: there is a redemptive power in our worst feelings. Seasoned psychotherapist Miriam Greenspan argues that it's the avoidance and denial of the dark emotions that results in the escalating psychological disorders of our time: depression, anxiety, addiction, psychic numbing, and irrational violence. And she shows us how to trust the wisdom of the dark emotions to guide, heal, and transform our lives and our world.

Drawing on inspiring stories from her psychotherapy practice and personal life, and including a complete set of emotional exercises, Greenspan teaches the art of emotional alchemy by which grief turns to gratitude, fear opens the door to joy, and despair becomes the ground of a more resilient faith in life.

"This remarkable book has taught me a whole new way of thinking." --Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

"A beautiful piece of work destined to become a perennial classic." --Martha Beck, author of The Joy Diet

As more and more people join the do-it-yourself revolution, they are breathing new life into many time-honored skills and crafts. Blacksmithing is among the trades that are enjoying a resurgence for both practical and artistic uses, yet there isn't an abundance of readily accessible information available to beginning blacksmiths to help them get started and understand the craft. Author Ryan Ridgway, a veterinarian and blacksmith with more than 15 years of metalworking experience, hopes to fill that void with this comprehensive volume geared toward answering the many questions that new blacksmiths often have. By explaining the physics of moving metal, the different styles of anvils and forges, and alternative fuel sources, Ridgway sets his book apart from less detailed volumes. Forty practical, easy-to-follow projects are presented, showing aspiring blacksmiths how to make tools, such as hammers and chisels; farm implements, such as gate latches and hoof picks; and items for home use, including drawer pulls and candle holders.

Grandchildren bring absolute joy, and your delightful role as a grandparent is simply to love and

cherish them and to show them FUN! Roxy Wiley has been entertaining her grandkids for fifteen years with her annual Camp Grandma three to five days of activities, excitement, and adventures that have created irreplaceable memories for grandchildren and grandparents alike.

In her book DIY Camp Grandma A Handbook to Create an Extraordinary Experience for Grandchildren, Roxy shares tips, tools, and resources to help guide you through the process of launching your own camp and brand of family fun. With suggested ideas for themes, activities, crafts, surprises, recipes, and more. DIY Camp Grandma will inspire you to commence on this special undertaking to connect with your grandkids, establish deep and lasting bonds, and create a lifetime of memories.

Bestselling author Rachel Williams and illustrator Freya Hartas's picture book Slow Down . . . in the Park presents calming nature stories for little ones.

Discover a magical world of nature on your doorstep. Charming rhyming verse introduces six mindful moments--including a squirrel burying a nut, and a rainbow forming on a rainy day--to the youngest readers. A fabulous introduction for first readers, from the team that created international bestseller Slow Down.

A New Way to Enjoy Michigan with Your Family

How do you make the perfect Michigan getaway even better? Supply your kids with the Michigan Activity Book by Paula Ellis for hours of fun! From mazes and word finds to maps and pictures to color, it's a great introduction to the area and is ideal for car rides and quiet time.

Book Features

• Michigan-related illustrations from A to Z for coloring
• Engaging activities that children of all ages can enjoy
• Fascinating information about the region
• Maps to follow along as you travel

If you want to share your favorite things about spending time in the Great Lake State, the Michigan Activity Book is a great way to do it!

Improve your life and your career with some powerful mindset tips for success, positivity, and strong adaptation skills.

You might be in a negative spiral, productively or psychologically, stuck thinking you're just not good enough, you'll never get ahead, and the world is unfair. Or perhaps you feel pretty good about your attitude, but you know there's always room for improvement, and you're curious about what you can tweak to do better.

Whatever your current position, you have the opportunity to take agency at work and in life. You can actively improve your situation because it all comes down to attitude, and your attitude is not set in stone. Even better-you don't need a million training courses or a year-long MBA to adjust it. You can improve your attitude one pep talk and one step at a time.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS BOOK:

Importantly, this book is no list of things to do! You'll learn that attitude is about how others perceive you and how you perceive yourself, how It's separate from your personality and how to completely change and improve your life and career by understanding and managing better your:

• Confidence
• Positivity
• Growth-mindset
• Emotional Intelligence
• Adaptability
• Resilience
• Problem solving mindset

As a bonus the book also includes a set of tips on how to best leverage skills like managing expectations and your drive for excellence to achieve strong success in your career.

It's up to you to think positive about yourself, to work on your self-improvement and motivation so to potentiate your success and happiness in life.

How kindness--and other prosocial behaviors toward others--can help us live longer and healthier lives.

The science is in: being good is actually good for you. In this bracingly original book, The Biology of Kindness--the first in a trilogy on the topic of daily wellness--the science of mindfulness and the findings of biology come together to show how kindness and optimism improve overall well-being in profound, organic, and demonstrable ways. Daniel Lumera, an expert in meditation and mindfulness, and Immaculata De Vivo, a preeminent researcher in molecular epidemiology, outline a revolutionary approach to health, longevity, and quality of life--and explain the scientific evidence that supports their work.

Identifying five fundamental values--kindness, optimism, forgiveness, gratitude, and happiness--and describing six essential strategies for cultivating these values--relationships, nutrition, physical activity, meditation, music, and connection with nature--De Vivo and Lumera chart a practical course for pursuing a long, healthy, and happy life. Along the way they provide the scientific data that reveal the impact such behavior has on biology, particularly on telomeres, the parts of DNA that serve as biomarkers of aging. While DNA is mostly immutable, telomeres are influenced by our choices, and The Biology of Kindness offers incontrovertible evidence that what is commonly ascribed to "spiritual" well-being has a clear and direct impact on physical health, helping to buffer premature aging and decrease the incidence of chronic disease.

At a time when life seems to be ruled by a desire to get "everything and immediately," Lumera observes, there is a compelling case to be made for the discipline of devotion, dedication, and passion--for the good of the body as well as the soul.