Collection: Self-Development

"Susan's approach to Ayurveda is simplicity itself. In Ayurveda Beginners Guide she has described the complex network of Ayurvedic information in a very practical, straightforward way so that every person can understand the healing modality of Ayurveda."-Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, Ayurvedic Physician Founder of the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico, advisor for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, and author of numerous books including Ayurveda: Science of Self-Healing and The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies

Ayurveda is a profound science with wisdom spanning so wide that it can be difficult to know exactly where to begin. As an Ayurvedic consultant, Susan Weis-Bohlen helps those who are new to Ayurveda address this exact issue. In Ayurveda Beginners Guide Susan explains of the holistic principles behind Ayurveda, and offers gentle guidance for incorporating its restorative practices in your everyday life.

Designed with the newcomer in mind, Ayurveda Beginner's Guide presents:

• A concise overview of Ayurveda that covers its historical roots, concepts, and various healing methods
• A 3-week Ayurveda plan for beginners to introduce Ayurvedic concepts into one's lifestyle gently and practically
• A wide range of Ayurveda techniques such as recipes, yoga, aromatherapy, meditation, seasonal cleanses, and more
• A simple dosha quiz and in-depth descriptions of each dosha

Ayurveda Beginner's Guide will show you how to unlock the transformative powers of Ayurveda and move forward in your journey towards a healthier state of mind, body, and spirit.

Fun activities to teach kids ages 3 to 4 to love learning

Bursting with interactive lessons, this standout among preschool workbooks makes learning fun. From connecting dots and matching pictures to following paths and tracing shapes, this preschool activity book helps kids build the skill they'll need as they begin school.

Go beyond other preschool workbooks with:

• Preschool preparation―Get kids ready for school with exercises that teach them colors, letters, shapes, numbers, and words.
• Various games―Keep kids from getting bored with a mix of activities, including puzzles, coloring pages, and mazes.
• Supportive structure-Prevent frustration with lessons that progress from easier to more challenging.

Kick-start your little one's education and provide hours of fun with this preschool workbook.

Decorate your junk journal and relieve stress at the same time with these 300 vintage-inspired cutouts.

Relieve stress and express your creative side with junk journaling! Decorate your junk journal with more than 300 vintage-inspired cut outs with categories such as botanicals, nature, space and the moon, words and phrases, neutrals and borders, and more! Create your own journal for traveling, writing, or just inspiration with all the themes, colors, and aesthetics you love! This collection has everything you need to create the junk journal of your dreams.

A lovely collection of 20 original hand-drawn illustrations featuring the majestic sea turtle and other marine animals in their tranquil habitats. With a focus on beauty and variety, this book will delight and entertain beginners to advanced colorists. Each unique illustration is separated with a blank page in order to prevent coloring bleed.

Color and Save a Sea Turtle

A portion of all proceeds are donated to sea turtle patrol organizations.

Relax and enjoy with these 75 easy New York Times crossword puzzles!

Easy puzzles are the best! They offer the intellectual challenge, vocabulary building, and sheer fun of solving, but won't have you tearing your hair out. Enjoy the thrill of filling in that last little box!

Featuring:
- 75 easy Times crosswords
- Puzzles edited by Will Shortz
- Convenient, travel-size volume: portable and affordable

The Same but Different offers insights on and solutions to the challenges that arise when young adult twins are expected to be independent, self-assured "singletons" after having been raised as twins.

Written for twins, their families, and significant others, this book

-Instructs twins how to have an honest, authentic relationship

-Explains why twins may feel disappointed about friendships that don't match the twin connection

-Teaches twins how to work through their guilt about wanting more space

-Discusses why some twins are afraid they might never love anyone else as much as they love their twin

-Reveals how influential twin connections are in choosing a spouse, a profession, and a place to live

-Offers tips and strategies to navigate the issues of separation, individuality, and codependence

-Provides insight and understanding to families and significant others coping with twin struggles

Journey into the world of textile collage with collage quilt artist & educator Emily Taylor! In her second book, Emily demonstrates how to make a collage quilt, embroidered wall art and a decorative pillow with six bird templates included in the book. Bird templates included are a Crane, Duck, Owl, Quail, Raven and Swallow, along with complementary elements. Over 100 step-by-step photos & illustrations open up a world of creative fun with fabric as Emily shares her new & innovative method of textile collage. Emily also explains in simple terms how to apply color theory to the selection of fabric, how to create a pleasing composition, and the recommended supplies for success.

The dumpster fire of life rages on, but you got this. Practice six rules to keep you grounded, weather the storm, and actually be a decent person.

It may seem like the world is going to hell in a hand basket right now. Whether it's big stuff like politics and climate change, or just the daily spin of paying your bills, getting to work on time, and fending off social media trolls, we can all admit, modern life ain't easy. Here are six really good guiding principles, inspired from the ancient wisdom of Buddhism and mindfulness practice, to keep you anchored and steady amidst the chaos.

Though our understanding of autism has greatly expanded, many autistic individuals are still missed or misdiagnosed. This highly accessible book clarifies many ways that autism can present, particularly in people who camouflage to hide their autistic traits.

The authors take the reader step by step through the diagnostic criteria, incorporating the latest research as well as quotes from over 100 autistic contributors that bring that research to life. They also describe many aspects of autism that are not included in the current diagnostic criteria, such as autistic strengths and co-occurring disorders. Readers will learn about highly relevant topics, such as different types of empathy, sensory systems that are not well known, neuro-crash and burn out, and relative versus absolute thinking.

This book provides a deep, current, and neurodiversity-affirmative understanding of the less obvious presentations of autism. It is relevant to all healthcare professionals, educators, family members, autistic individuals, and anyone who is curious about autism. A clinical companion guide, Is This Autism? A Companion Guide for Diagnosing, is available for clinicians who make mental health diagnoses.

Jaiya John follows up his books Daughter Drink This Water, and, Freedom, with this aromatic delight for your soul. Fragrance After Rain is a sensitive, hopeful, intimate movement through your many seasons of tenderness, and the beautiful meaning and grace that grow from that fertile ground. If you love Rumi, Hafez, Gibran, and other classic mystic poets, here is your honey jar. This book is pregnant with balm and salve so personal and intuitively attuned, you will be certain the words were birthed just for you. Sustenance as you live through your personal moments, and through the collective moods of the world.

Fragrance is a free flowing melody of petite stories and mystic whispers, a wildflower meadow you may enjoy wherever you lay yourself within it for a moment and breathe beautifully. These inspirational pieces are entirely liberated from chapters and sections, freely roaming, drifting on spirit breeze as they wish. Each word-bouquet is gathered and growing according to the sunlight, soil, and water of Love's orchestral conducting. Open this book, turn to a page, let your eyes arrive to any brief orchard of words, and allow your heart to taste the fruit and meet its craving. Whatever words you meet are the words you need in the moment. In this Fragrance story, the one who speaks, is spoken to, and is spoken about is you, BeLoved. All of this is you.

This is a book of bright clouds in the sky of your life. Bringing you beauty, meaning, the downy reflection of sunlight, life-replenishing rain, and a sweet fragrance thereafter. Walk, dance, sing, and repose yourself through this aromatic pasture, and feel a peace that is both medicine and music for your soul. Be careful, dear Lover. If you sip these words slowly and savor their essence, you may become a mystic.

From the author of the wildly popular bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens comes the go-to guide that helps teens cope with major challenges they face in their lives--now updated for today's social media age.In this newly revised edition, Sean Covey helps teens figure out how to approach the six major challenges they face: gaining self-esteem, dealing with their parents, making friends, being wise about sex, coping with substances, and succeeding at school and planning a career. Covey understands the pain and confusion that teens and their parents experience in the face of these weighty, life-changing, and common difficulties. He shows readers how to use the 7 Habits to cope with, manage, and ultimately conquer each challenge--and become happier and more productive. Now updated for the digital and social media age, Covey covers how technology affects these six decisions, keeping the information and advice relevant to today's teenagers.

Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness--be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases. Never one to shy away from controversy, Miller urges society as a whole to jettison its belief in the Fourth Commandment and not to extend forgiveness to parents whose tyrannical childrearing methods have resulted in unhappy, and often ruined, adult lives. In this empowering work, writes Rutgers professor Philip Greven, "readers will learn how to confront the overt and covert traumas of their own childhoods with the enlightened guidance of Alice Miller."

A fully revised and updated edition of the quintessential guide to learning to negotiate effectively in every part of your life

"A must read for everyone seeking to master negotiation. This newly updated classic just got even better."--Robert Cialdini, bestselling author of Influence and Pre-Suasion

As director of the world-renowned Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop, Professor G. Richard Shell has taught thousands of business leaders, lawyers, administrators, and other professionals how to survive and thrive in the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of negotiation. In the third edition of this internationally acclaimed book, he brings to life his systematic, step-by-step approach, built around negotiating effectively as who you are, not who you think you need to be. Shell combines lively stories about world-class negotiators from J. P. Morgan to Mahatma Gandhi with proven bargaining advice based on the latest research into negotiation and neuroscience. This updated edition includes

This updated edition includes:
- An easy-to-take "Negotiation I.Q." test that reveals your unique strengths as a negotiator
- A brand new chapter on reliable moves to use when you are short on bargaining power or stuck at an impasse
- Insights on how to succeed when you negotiate online
- Research on how gender and cultural differences can derail negotiations, and advice for putting relationships back on track

Leadership isn't what you think it is.

First, leadership and authority are two different things. That means that anyone can lead, and leadership starts with you and must engage others. Leadership is mobilizing people to make progress on complex challenges. Helping, motivating and inspiring people to change is what leadership is about. Because when everyone leads, we untap the full potential to solve the toughest challenges.

In Your Leadership Edge, Ed O'Malley and Amanda Cebula provide a practical, comprehensive guide designed to help you hone the behaviors, attitudes and mindset necessary to create lasting impact for yourself, your organization and your community. The book describes four competences--Diagnose Situation, Manage Self, Energize Others, and Intervene Skillfully--and dives deeply into each one with a list of skills and tactics that can help you lead anytime, anywhere.

The TQI Diet (short for To Quiet Inflammation) was known as The Abascal Way back in 2007. This simple but sophisticated diet quickly reduces aches and pains, improves the symptoms of chronic illnesses, helps with weight issues, and increases wellbeing.

In Michael Overlake's words: "I came to class overweight, my joints ached, I had psoriasis, IBS, and my blood pressure was out of control even on medication. Two months later, I have lost 22 pounds, I am pain free, my IBS is gone, my skin is clearing, and I am off hypertensive medication and my blood pressure is normal." Rex is an inspiration: "I weighed over 300 pounds, was a type 2 diabetic on over 100 units of insulin a day and could not exercise. Today, my doctor says I am no longer diabetic, I no longer use insulin or any other medication. I have lost 85 pounds and am able to exercise again."

Dr. Ronald Singler MD, Medical director of the Highline Medical Group recommends Abascal Way classes: "Kathy Abascal teaches evidence-based, well -researched classes on the nourishment human bodies and minds need. The facts, strategies, recipes, and shopping hints are practical and well-prepared. This is the best nutrition class I have ever experienced. I recommend the classes to family, friends, colleagues, co-workers, and patients. All who have taken the class have thanked me. For some particularly stubborn, medically needy friends, I promised to pay for the class if they were dissatisfied. So far, I have not had to pay up."

The TQI Diet fits all: It works for carnivores and vegans, for mainstream American and traditional ethnic diets. Calories are not counted and portions are not limited. Instead, it offers an incredibly satisfying, effective, and healthy way to quickly improve both health and appearance.

This planbook was written to accompany these extraordinary classes but soon proved useful for those not ready to take a class. In the past, the planbook was only available in a set with its cookbook but can now be purchased separately.