Collection: Self-Development

A vivid, inspiring look at the role of flowers and plants in interior design through the stunning, wild work of Ariella Chezar.

Home in Bloom celebrates the seamless integration of architecture, light, and natural landscapes into Ariella Chezar's floral designs. Her talent for layering colors and combining improbable wild elements results in arrangements that are as gorgeous as they are dynamic. With each page, Ariella invites us to revel in the inherent drama of nature, encouraging us to infuse our living spaces with beauty and abundance, while fundamentally altering a room's energy through the transformative power of flowers.

Organized into chapters that celebrate every room in the home--Welcome, Nourish, Celebrate, Pause, and Wilding--Home in Bloom takes us on a journey through spaces filled with incredible blooms that spark color and light. The arrangements in each chapter are accompanied by detailed captions that inspire us to walk outside and bring the wilds of nature into our own spaces. Filled with hundreds of gorgeous photographs of inviting spaces, this interior design book is full of unique inspiration for any flower lover.

Del autor bestseller del New York Times Deepak Chopra nos llega una reveladora guía para alcanzar el éxito, la riqueza, la plenitud y la entereza, con recomendaciones prácticas para cultivar el sentido de la abundancia en tiempos de inseguridad y miedo.

"Para obtener la clase de riqueza duradera, la clase que le da a tu vida significado, valor y sustento, basa tu existencia diaria en la generosidad del espíritu." --Deepak Chopra

Muchos de nosotros vivimos y operamos desde una mentalidad de carencia, de escasez y limitación. Nos enfocamos en lo que no tenemos --seguridad económica, confianza, una relación íntima-- y esto nos deja sintiéndonos inseguros e inadecuados. Pensamos, "si tan solo pudiera tener estas cosas, sería feliz". Pero medir la abundancia a través del dinero o de las posesiones materiales nos deja sintiéndonos drenados y espiritualmente vacíos. Estar todo el tiempo buscando más suele significar que nuestro ego maneja nuestros pensamientos, actos y reacciones, lo que nos evita alcanzar algo más grande: una verdadera sensación de paz interior, aceptación y realización.

Sin embargo, hay un camino interno hacia la prosperidad y la riqueza que, una vez trazado y explorado, te da acceso a las riquezas más grandes del universo y a las posibilidades ilimitadas de la vida.

En Abundancia, el autor bestseller internacional Deepak Chopra ilumina este trayecto hacia el éxito y la plenitud, ayudando a los lectores a conectarse con un sentido más profundo de conciencia para convertirse en agentes de cambio de su propia vida. Al mezclar enseñanzas y prácticas espirituales antiguas con la sabiduría que ha recabado a lo largo de cuatro décadas como la figura principal en la medicina de cuerpo y mente, Deepak demuestra cómo podemos trascender los sentimientos autogenerados de limitación y miedo para experimentar la verdadera abundancia en todos los aspectos de la vida. Para ello, nos ofrece un plan de siete pasos, junto con meditaciones y técnicas de mindfulness, que nos ayuda a enfocarnos y dirigir nuestra atención, energía e intuición para poder experimentar estabilidad, afluencia, conciencia, creatividad, amor y un poder real.

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An enlightening guide to success, fulfillment, wholeness, and plenty, offering practical advice on how to cultivate a sense of abundance in times of fear and insecurity, from New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra.

"To attain wealth of the lasting kind, the kind that gives your life meaning, value, and sustenance, base your daily existence on the generosity of spirit."--Deepak Chopra

Many of us live and operate from a mind-set of lack, scarcity, and limitation. We focus on what we don't have--financial security, confidence, an intimate relationship--which keeps us feeling insecure and inadequate. We think "if only I could have those things, I could be happy." But measuring wealth by money or material possessions leaves us feeling drained and spiritually empty. Constantly striving for more often means our ego is driving our thoughts, actions, and reactions, which prevents us from reaching something greater: a true sense of inner peace, acceptance, and fulfillment.

Yet, there is an inner path to prosperity and wealth that, once charted and explored, provides access to the great riches of the universe and life's unbounded possibilities.

In Abundance, international bestselling author Deepak Chopra illuminates this road to success and wholeness, helping readers to tap into a deeper sense of awareness to become agents of change in their own lives. Mixing ancient teachings and spiritual practices with the wisdom he's garnered over four decades as the leading figure in mind-body medicine, Deepak demonstrates how to transcend self-generated feelings of limitation and fear in order to experience true abundance in all aspects of life. To do so, he offers a seven-step plan along with meditations and mindfulness techniques to help you focus and direct your attention, energy, and intuition so you can experience stability, affluence, insight, creativity, love, and true power.

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Finalist in the New Zealand Children & Young Adults Books Awards 2022

Storylines Notable Books 2021 - Non-Fiction Winner

#1 NZ Bestseller

With 60+ definitions to help improve emotional literacy, How Do I Feel?, is all about helping our children learn to recognise and label emotions and feelings.

Join Aroha and her friends as they share how different emotions might feel in the body and how each emotion might be helpful. This emotions dictionary is all about helping children find the words for how they truly feel. Learning to recognise and label our emotions correctly is such an important skill for life.

Giving our children this language helps to build emotional literacy. It is a gift to give children the tools to know how to recognise what they truly feel and that is it okay to feel all emotions. When they know that no emotion is 'good' or 'bad' and that all emotions provide messages, then it takes away any attachment to that emotion being part of who they are.

We may have experienced this ourselves being labelled 'naughty' or 'out of control' due to feeling angry a lot. However, this behaviour is just a way for a child to communicate. Diving deeper into why they are acting that way, why they may be feeling the things they are, can help us find some answers with our child. It can also help us find ways to help them empower themselves with tools to feel better.

Use this book to start conversations about different emotions. If you can, give examples of things you have experienced. When you see a child experiencing an emotion, help your child label it. "Are you feeling ... right now?"

This book can be used with children from 5 years of age up to 100+ as everyone might get something from the book.

There are over 200 emotions and so we couldn't include them all in just one book, however, this book is the most extensive book about emotions for children.

Paperback - full colour

Pages - 142

Size - 216mm x 280mm (Landscape)

Recommended Age - 5 years - 100 years+

100 Blank Handwriting Practice Pages!

Practice makes perfect and, with 100 pages of blank handwriting practice, this workbook will have your child writing perfect sight words in no time.

This large, 8.5"x11" workbook is perfect for kids to practice their tracing at home. Dashed lines and repetitive practice can help children learn pen control and letter consistency. Watch your child's progress as they fill more and more pages and become an expert writer.

Form a stronger bond as a familyFamilies are complicated--and fostering healthy relationships often takes work. This supportive guide provides you and your loved ones with the therapeutic tools you need to strengthen your connection. Guided by simple exercises, your family will learn how to reduce conflict, boost communication, and build deeper connections.

• Focus on core family dynamics--Learn how to improve the eight traits fundamental to healthy families, including mutual respect, affirmation and support, and setting boundaries.
• Explore engaging exercises--Put your newfound knowledge into practice with a range of prompts and activities, such as kindness meditations, conversation calendars, and positive affirmation checklists.
• Try different approaches--Find the right tools for your family, with a range of therapy techniques including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and narrative therapy.

Find fresh perspective and move forward together with help from The Essential Family Therapy Workbook.

When your favorite cup is broken, kitsugi can bring new life. Instead of lamenting the breakage embrace and love the opportunity to create something new and beautiful through mending. This is the appeal of kintsugi.

Kintsugi is the mindful Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics and glassware by appreciating the cracks and chips as design elements--bringing new life to cherished items. Kintsugi: The Wabi Sabi Art of Japanese Ceramic Repair shares traditional methods you can practice in your own home. Step-by-step lessons in repairs suited to every level of experiences--filling cracks to completely rebuilding and finishing a broken piece--fill the pages of this in-depth yet unintimidating guide.

Ceramics and lacquer guru Kaori Mochinaga offers a complete course in using urushi lacquer and metallic powder in the traditional Japanese way. Your broken piece soon becomes whole again, and more meaningful than ever before.

From assessing the damages and selecting the repair methods, to applying the finishing touches, you'll learn all the essential kintsugi techniques, including:

• How to seal a fine crack or repair a chipped rim
• Techniques for rebuilding a shard, restoring a handle, even reconstructing a multi-shard piece
• And much more--and all of it with the use of non-toxic lacquers and powders

There's something here for every type of repair--from clean, simple breaks to more challenging reconstructions as you learn the techniques. Assemble your tools, set up your workspace, and let this book guide you through the mindful art of kintsugi!

Light: Medicine of the Future challenges the modern myth that the sun is dangerous to our well-being and claims that technological advancements, such as most fluorescent lighting, sunglasses, tanning lotions, and our indoor lifestyles, may be more harmful than helpful. Integrating scientific research, clinical experience, and his own insights, Dr. Jacob Liberman has worked effectively with more than 15,000 individuals, from the learning disabled and physically/emotionally traumatized to business executives and Olympic athletes. The book discusses the use of light in the treatment of various cancers, depression, stress, visual problems, PMS, sexual dysfunction, learning disabilities, and the human immune system.

A fantastic write-in book that helps children learn to write their own stories.

Includes lots of different writing activities including a fictional school journal, writing a comic strip, and forming a story around a picture. Packed with writing tips and a "storywriting toolkit" to inspire budding authors. Concealed spiral binding that allows the book to open flat but doesn't get in the way as you write.

Perfectly complemented by Usborne's Write Your Own Story Word Book, an inspiring write-in book that helps children find the right words for engaging stories.

Deck the Halls with Handmade Christmas Decorations.

Get into the Christmas spirit, spruce up your tree, and add some handmade charm to the holiday with the 36 cheerful designs in More Christmas Ornaments to Crochet. Popular author Megan Kreiner is back with a new volume of merry decorations to spread seasonal joy.

With detailed instructions, detailed photographs, and helpful illustrations to guide you, this new collection of Christmas Ornaments to Crochet offers a wide variety of festive projects, including:

• Golden rings, drummers drumming, a partridge in a pear tree, and more from The Twelve Days of Christmas
• The Sugar Plum Fairy and other characters from The Nutcracker
• Gifts from Santa's workshop, like a toy train, rocking horse, or a lump of coal for those on the naughty list.
• Tree lights and sleigh bells to deck the halls
• Winter flora, including mistletoe, a poinsettia, and Christmas pickle

Do one project or do them all...More Christmas Ornaments to Crochet will have you spreading joy this holiday season with charming handmade projects that will be cherished for years to come.

Is your perfectionism causing you anxiety, stress, and worry?

If you identify as a perfectionist, you may not see your perfectionism as a problem. But striving for unrealistic standards, basing your self-worth on meeting those standards, and engaging in persistent self-criticism will ultimately lead to anxiety, stress, worry, burnout, and unhappiness. So, how can you distinguish between "helpful" and "hurtful" perfectionism and stop holding yourself and others to unrealistically high standards?

Written by two clinical psychologists, The Anxious Perfectionist shines a much-needed light on the hidden costs of "being the best," and offers essential skills based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you cope with the anxiety that is driven by your perfectionism. You'll learn how your "need to be perfect" can actually hinder your productivity, and keep you from reaching your goals. You'll also learn skills to help you gain distance from negative self-talk and criticism, let go of unhelpful and self-limiting labels such as "success" or "failure," and give yourself and others permission to make mistakes while still honoring your high aspirations.

If you're struggling with feelings of anxiety and stress, and suspect your perfectionism may be to blame, this guide will show you how to stop getting in the way of your own success, and live a life guided by your deepest values.

Kim Dawson Hodson is an occupational therapist, mother of six, grandmother of four, widow, author, farmer, and animal lover. She has lived on the Big Island of Hawaii for 32 years and a little farm with miniature goats, chickens, dogs, cats, a rabbit, and two rescue potbellied pigs, and one rescue sheep. She is also back in school, getting her certification as an animal-assisted therapist. She has been on a long journey for the past seven years. This journey has been one of painful loss, almost insurmountable grief, coupled with healing and new self-discovery. The healing began when she started to listen to the subtle "promptings" or "gut feelings." As she began to listen to these, she had a deep realization that they are truly a gift providing her with hope. She has had many adventures--large and small--ranging from life and death to saving an animal who is in trouble to witnessing the amazing birth of an animal on her farm. It's as if these "promptings" are bread crumbs to guide her through this thing called life. As she continued on this journey, she knew that she needed to share her true life miracle stories, so she began to write them down. As she started to write them, she began to learn even more about how to really "look" and "listen" to the "promptings" or "gut feelings." These signs are all around us. She has written this book to bring a message of hope to everyone who reads it, and maybe, just maybe, can learn to hear the "promptings" too.

A gardening book that's sure to be your cup of tea

What's more satisfying than brewing the perfect cup of tea? Brewing it from tea you grew yourself! Create your own tea garden with help from this beginner's guide. It walks you through every step of the process, from planning your garden plot to preparing delicious tea blends.

• Know your teas--Become a true devotea as you explore different types of teas and tisanes, along with the best ways to blend and brew them.
• Build your garden--Learn how to choose the best location for your garden, the essential tools you should have on hand, and the proper techniques for pruning and harvesting.
• Dig into plant profiles--From lavender to lemongrass, read quick rundowns of 25 different plants, including their taste profiles, safety considerations, and preservation techniques.

Grow the skills you need to make your own tea blends for increased energy, relaxation, digestion, and just plain enjoyment with Tea Gardening for Beginners.

"Indispensable." --The New York Times Book Review

Piet Oudolf's gardens--unique combinations of long-lived perennials and woody plants that are rich in texture and sophisticated in color--are breathtaking and have deep emotional resonance. With Planting, designers and home gardeners can recreate these plant-rich, beautiful gardens that support biodiversity and nourish the human spirit.
An intimate knowledge of plants is essential to the success of modern landscape design, and Planting shares Oudolf's considerable understanding of plant ecology, explaining how plants behave in different situations, what goes on underground, and which species make good neighbors. Extensive plant charts and planting plans will help you choose plants for their structure, color, and texture. A detailed directory shares details like each plant's life expectancy, the persistence of its seedheads, and its propensity to self-seed.

From the common Barn Swallow and American Goldfinch to the dangerous Australian Cassowary, birds' distinct personalities and colorings make them a favorite fascination of kids of all ages. A bevy of bird species soar across each page of Soaring, Singing Tattoo Birds, which animal-loving kids will love to wear right on their skin! 50 vibrantly colored, illustrative temporary tattoos are scientifically accurate and easy to apply with just a little water. Plus, each bird species is accompanied by fun and fascinating facts. Did you know that the Scarlet Ibis's brilliant color comes from the large amount of shrimp and red shellfish in their diet? Or that the yellow feathers on the Macaroni Penguin's head gave them their name, since "macaroni" is a historical slang term for male fashion? Kids will love quizzing their friends on newly learned avian trivia while showing off their interesting ink.

The Wall Street Journal bestseller--a Financial Times Business Book of the Month and named by The Washington Post as "One of the 11 Leadership Books to Read in 2018"--is "a refreshingly data-based, clearheaded guide" (Publishers Weekly) to individual performance, based on a groundbreaking study.

Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues to confound professionals in all sectors of the workforce. Now, after a unique, five-year study of more than 5,000 managers and employees, Morten Hansen reveals the answers in his "Seven Work Smarter Practices" that can be applied by anyone looking to maximize their time and performance.

Each of Hansen's seven practices is highlighted by inspiring stories from individuals in his comprehensive study. You'll meet a high school principal who engineered a dramatic turnaround of his failing high school; a rural Indian farmer determined to establish a better way of life for women in his village; and a sushi chef, whose simple preparation has led to his unassuming restaurant being awarded the maximum of three Michelin stars. Hansen also explains how the way Alfred Hitchcock filmed Psycho and the 1911 race to become the first explorer to reach the South Pole both illustrate the use of his seven practices.

Each chapter "is intended to inspire people to be better workers...and improve their own work performance" (Booklist) with questions and key insights to allow you to assess your own performance and figure out your work strengths, as well as your weaknesses. Once you understand your individual style, there are mini-quizzes, questionnaires, and clear tips to assist you focus on a strategy to become a more productive worker. Extensive, accessible, and friendly, Great at Work will help us "reengineer our work lives, reduce burnout, and improve performance and job satisfaction" (Psychology Today).

This kindergarten phonics and spelling workbook combines curriculum-based language arts skills practice with puzzles, humor, and playful art in a lightweight, single-subject format designed to make learning phonics and spelling rewarding and fun

Phonics and spelling skills are important building blocks for reading success, and Highlights brings "Fun with a Purpose" to this essential learning activity with this forty-eight-page, full-color activity-based workbook with included achievement certificate. Created with education experts, this book covers consonant blends, rhyming words, vowel sounds, spelling patterns, and more--all designed to help kids improve reading and writing skills and build confidence in the classroom. Hidden Pictures puzzles, mazes, and other fun activities help reinforce the learning and add to the fun.