Collection: Self-Development

With 366 days of inspiring prompts, exercises, and tips on self-care, this beautiful gilded journal can help you focus holistically on your journey to become the best you--body, mind, and soul.

When you truly understand yourself and your needs, you've taken the first steps to mastering self-care. This attractive journal, created by self-help author Mary Flannery, offers daily words of wisdom from inspiring figures throughout history--from Virgil to Eleanor Roosevelt--along with reflective prompts, advice, and creative exercises to help you develop mindfulness about your daily habits. Chart the things you can do every day to better love and appreciate yourself--from the simplest, such as embracing movement, repeating an affirmation, or focusing on your breathing, to the more profound, such as journaling to let go of negative thoughts, and making mindful lists of the good things in your life.

Tabletop board games are having a comeback, and especially within a younger, tech-y audience who enjoys the challenge and opportunity to work in an analog sphere. Game design expert Jesse Terrance Daniels teaches all the fundamentals of game design, from rule-setting to physical construction, along with original illustrations that capture the ethos and energy of the young, contemporary gaming community.

Readers will learn the "building blocks" of game design, including game components, rules, and gameplay mechanics, and then how to craft a game, with a variety of examples and design prompts. After completing Make Your Own Board Game, readers are equipped with a broad understanding of game construction and flow and ready to create games that are playable and satisfying, while also expressing the makers' unique creativity and passions.

One of the most famous psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of an interdisciplinary seminar on death, originated and conducted by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. In On Death and Dying, Dr. Kübler-Ross first introduced and explored the now-famous idea of the five stages of dealing with death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. With sample interviews and conversations, she gives the reader a better understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve the patient, and the patient's family, bringing hope, solace, and peace of mind to all involved.

Color Your Own Masterpiece!

Color the Classics lets you put your own creative spin on 30 masterpieces--including Grant Wood's American Gothic and Claude Monet's Water Lilies--from the Art Institute of Chicago's vast collection. Replicate the classics or add your own creative flair to masterpieces admired for centuries.

Featured artists include Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, Katsushika Hokusai, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and many more.

Relieve the stress of your day with this beautiful coloring book, and make your own classics!

The #1 international bestseller from the author of You Are Awesome and The Book of Awesome that "reveals how all of us can live happier lives" (Gretchen Rubin).

What is the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a New York Times-bestselling author, a Walmart executive, a father, a husband. After selling more than a million copies of the Book of Awesome series, wherein he observed the everyday things he thought were awesome, he now shifts his focus to the practicalities of living an awesome life.

In his new book The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing and do anything in order to have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, you simply have yet to unlock the 9 Secrets to Happiness. Each secret takes a piece out of the core of common sense, turns it on its head to present it in a completely new light, and then provides practical and specific guidelines for how to apply this new outlook to lead a fulfilling life.

Once you've unlocked Pasricha's 9 Secrets, you will understand counter intuitive concepts such as: Success Does Not Lead to Happiness, Never Take Advice, and Retirement Is a Broken Theory. You will learn and then master three brand-new fundamental life tests: the Saturday Morning Test, The Bench Test, and the Five People Test. You will know the difference between external goals and internal goals and how to make more money than a Harvard MBA (hint: it has nothing to do with your annual salary). You will discover that true wealth has nothing to do with money, multitasking is a myth, and the elimination of options leads to more choice.

The Happiness Equation is a book that will change how you think about pretty much everything--your time, your career, your relationships, your family, and, ultimately, of course, your happiness.

This book offers therapists an integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work with clients. With clear explanations of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory, this complex theory is translated into clinician and client-friendly language. Using a unique autonomic mapping process along with worksheets designed to effectively track autonomic response patterns, this book presents practical ways to work with clients' experiences of connection. Through exercises that have been specifically created to engage the regulating capacities of the ventral vagal system, therapists are given tools to help clients reshape their autonomic nervous systems.

Adding a polyvagal perspective to clinical practice draws the autonomic nervous system directly into the work of therapy, helping clients re-pattern their nervous systems, build capacities for regulation, and create autonomic pathways of safety and connection. With chapters that build confidence in understanding Polyvagal Theory, chapters that introduce worksheets for mapping, tracking, and practices for re-patterning, as well as a series of autonomic meditations, this book offers therapists a guide to practicing polyvagal-informed therapy.

The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy is essential reading for therapists who work with trauma and those who seek an easy and accessible way of understanding the significance that Polyvagal Theory has to clinical work.

Discover the perennially popular subject of essential oils from A to Z in this small, elegant, and beautifully illustrated mini guidebook.

Essential oils have been around for thousands of years, but what are they and how do you use them? In this adorably small and fully illustrated A to Z primer, explore 100 of the most popular and common essential oils and how to use them, with descriptions of their origin, uses and purpose, connections to spellwork, and possible health and healing benefits. Also included are topical recipes for stress relief.

Whether it's lavender, lemongrass, rosemary, frankincense, or ylang ylang, learn everything you need to know about the most commonly used plant-based essential oils, carrier oils, and fruit essences in this full-color, illustrated mini-book.

Boo! With everything from ghoulish goblins to trick-or-treating, Halloween Mad Libs Junior is a title sure to entertain and educate.

Mad Libs is the world's greatest word game! Follow the ridiculously simple instructions to create 21 hilarious fill-in-the-blank stories that are spooky fun for everyone. Complete with curated word banks to guide their choices, this interactive book will help build language skills for younger readers. Play alone or in a group! Mad Libs are a perfect family fun activity and a great gift for anyone who likes to laugh.

WHY ARE SLOTHS ALWAYS SMILING?

Perhaps it's because they've mastered the art of taking it slow in a world whose frenzied pace is driving the rest of us crazy. Here, in a mindfulness book like no other, heart-tuggingly cute photographs of these always-chill creatures are paired with words of wisdom, all to inspire us to slow down, stop to enjoy the little things, and come up relaxed, centered, and smiling.

From the tips of their perky ears to the ends of their fluffy tails, foxes are among the animal kingdom's cutest creatures. These 31 pages of beguiling animals offer colorists a wonderland of intricate, swirling patterns that are downright foxy. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Fanciful Foxes and other Creative Haven(R) adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions.
　
Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We're overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn't. We get distracted by short-term emotions. When it comes to making choices, it seems, our brains are flawed instruments. Unfortunately, merely being aware of these shortcomings doesn't fix the problem, any more than knowing that we are nearsighted helps us to see. The real question is: How can we do better?

In Decisive, the Heaths, based on an exhaustive study of the decision-making literature, introduce a four-step process designed to counteract these biases. Written in an engaging and compulsively readable style, Decisive takes readers on an unforgettable journey, from a rock star's ingenious decision-making trick to a CEO's disastrous acquisition, to a single question that can often resolve thorny personal decisions.

Along the way, we learn the answers to critical questions like these: How can we stop the cycle of agonizing over our decisions? How can we make group decisions without destructive politics? And how can we ensure that we don't overlook precious opportunities to change our course?　

Decisive is the Heath brothers' most powerful--and important--book yet, offering fresh strategies and practical tools enabling us to make better choices. Because the right decision, at the right moment, can make all the difference.

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Based on the smash #1 New York Times bestselling series Strange Planet, a charming guided journal featuring the fascinating inhabitants of Nathan W. Pyle's colorful world.

The curiously relatable inhabitants of Strange Planet are at it once again! Illustrated with art from the Strange Planet collections, Nathan W. Pyle's guided journal takes a fresh, self-reflective look at the behavior that makes us human. Strange Planet: Existence Chronicle explores favorite themes from the Strange Planet social media stream and books, including emotions, recreation, and cultural traditions. Filled with prompts from the Strange Planet universe, and showcasing the signature Strange Planet characters in pastel hues of pink, blue, green, and purple, this guided journal can help fans explore and better understand the "strange planet" they inhabit.

No need to be overwhelmed the next time you head to the garden center! This handy guide selects the best plant varieties for New Jersey growing conditions, including perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs, vines, climbers, roses, bulbs and herbs. Lots of color photographs and useful information.

Color by numbers book for kids. Animals designs. Large 8.5 x 11 inch size. Printed single side on bright white 50 lb paper. High-quality coloring book for kids. Activity book for kids helps kids learn numbers and have fun too! Provides hours of fun and learning.

A selection of over 300 of the best varieties of garden plants for New England growing conditions. Includes perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs, roses, bulbs, climbers, vines and herbs.

Charge through this magical book with your paintbrush and markers!

If you like to color and paint, try this relaxing painting book where the painting pigment is infused directly into the paper! All it takes is a dab of water on your brush, and colors will magically appear as you swish over each of the 30 vibrant unicorn designs. Finish off your designs with markers or colored pencils for a mystical unicorn masterpiece! The book includes a fine-tip paintbrush and a water-resistant flap to protect your work. This is an easy, portable, convenient way to enjoy painting and coloring fun for hours!