Collection: Self-Development

In this beautifully illustrated astrology handbook, author and artist Carlota Santos guides readers on an astral journey through the constellations. Included are expansive zodiac sign profiles that cover the important details--personality summaries, compatibility charts, and the structure and story behind each sign--as well as representative tarot cards, amulets to balance each sign's qualities, and rituals to nurture positive traits. For those looking to dig deeper and explore their full astrological chart, Santos shares her celestial knowledge on everything from the relationships between planets and their rulers to the phases of the moon, from ascendents and descendants to the twelve houses. With this valuable material at their disposal, readers are guided to create their own birth charts as a closing ritual, using beautifully illustrated fill-in pages.

Are you feeling emotionally exhausted? Do you worry about being likable (at all cost)? Are you trying to do it all and be it all--all the time? This radically different self-care guide will help you find the courage needed to express your deepest needs, nurture self-awareness, and be yourself in a world that expects you to be everything to everyone.

If you're like countless other women today, you probably feel overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, anxious, stressed, frustrated, or unsatisfied. Or all of the above! In addition to managing your own career and running a household, you may be taking on an abundance of emotional labor--tending to others' needs at the expense of your own. If you've spent your whole life trying to please and manage other peoples' experience, it's time to speak your truth out loud, stand in your own shoes, and live an authentic life--rather than just behave.

Written by therapist and spiritual teacher Nancy Colier, The Emotionally Exhausted Woman offers the validation, emotional support, and empowering skills you've been craving. You'll discover insights grounded in self-respect and awareness, to help you be on your own side and uncover your deepest psychological, spiritual, and emotional needs without feeling guilt, shame, or judgment. You'll learn why you are feeling depleted, why you take care of others at the expense of taking care of yourself, and how to develop a deeper form of self-care beyond the temporary respite of a spa retreat, bubble bath, or manicure. Finally, you'll nurture greater awareness of what you truly need to achieve lasting vitality and fulfillment.

As women, we are culturally conditioned to believe that we should be able to do it all and should be all things to all people--all while smiling, looking perfect, and needing nothing for ourselves. At the end of the day, these pressures can leave us feeling depleted--in body, mind, and spirit. So, how can you start taking care of you in a deeper way? This empowering guide will help you gain a newfound awareness of your own needs, and find the courage to live a life that both nourishes and inspires you.

Keep your brain engaged while creating fun, beautiful art, with this bind up edition of Sticker by Number Under the Sea! As in color or paint-by-number, each design is divided into dozens of spaces. Each space has number that corresponds to a sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, and place it in the right space. Watch as a full colored image emerges from the original unfinished illustration.

• Includes more than 40 sea themed images to sticker.
• Images range in difficulty.
• Spiral binding and perforated pages make it easy to use!
• Made for adults but kids can enjoy as well!
• 8 x 10 inch pages.

** Images from two books have been combined to create this 156 page Sticker by Number: Under the Sea book! **

1. Brain Games - Sticker by Number: Under the Sea, 104 pages - ISBN-13: 9781640301818
2. Brain Games - Sticker by Number: Ocean Treasures, 52 pages - ISBN-13: 9781645580348

The Sentences That Create Us provides a road map for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars-and shared beyond the walls--that draws on the unique insights of more than fifty contributors, most themselves justice-involved, to offer advice, inspiration and resources.

Have you ever wondered about your life's purpose? The next step in the life-changing Human Design system, The Book of Destinies presents in-depth profiles of the 192 Life Themes that encompass humanity. Based on the place, date, and time of your birth, your Life Theme reveals a remarkably detailed portrait of your true nature, allowing you the peace of knowing who you really are so you can live your life with clarity and fulfillment. Instead of struggling to achieve unsuitable goals, you can align yourself with a deeper plan for your relationships, career, and decision making. Many passages include a list of noted people who share that Life Theme. The culmination of the authors' twenty years of research, practice, meditation, and readings, The Book of Destinies is for anyone who has ever stopped to wonder, "What is my life purpose, and how do I realize it?"

The Complete Language of Flowers is a comprehensive encyclopedia providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 1,001 flower species. Now in a pocket-size edition for easy, on-the-go reference.

Along with a beautiful visual depiction, each entry provides the flower's scientific and common names, characteristics, and historic meanings and powers from mythology, medieval legends, folklore, and flower poetry.

For centuries, symbolic flower meanings have fascinated readers, writers, poets, and suddenly smitten couples alike. Extremely popular during the Victorian era, these floriographies flourished and versed the public on the hidden meaning of popular flowers such as:

• Purple Tulip--Eternal love
• Amaryllis--Adventurousness; Enthusiasm; Passion
• Daisy--Beauty and innocence; Cheer; Childlike playfulness
• Sunflower--Ambition; Constancy; Devotion

Together with stunning full-color illustrations and two indexes, one for searching by common flower name and the other organized by meaning, this beautiful reference is a must-have for gardeners, florists, and flower enthusiasts. Whether you're looking to arrange the perfectly bespoken wedding bouquet or to understand what the yellow rose you just received from an admirer means (friendship), this updated floriography is a visual delight.

Take your gaming campaign to the next level with this inspiring, easy-to-use collection of random encounters perfect for any fantasy RPG.

Spark your imagination fast with this collection of fun, engaging, and inspiring random encounter prompts. These expertly written options are organized into popular themes and locations so you can find what you need fast, whether you choose from the list or use the dice to choose randomly. With fantasy hooks to fit every game from Pathfinder to GURPS to D&D, there are options for all of your campaigns.

Whether you're playing from a game book or weaving your own homebrewed adventure, there's always a need for short random encounters in between set pieces. Featuring fun full-color illustrations, you'll engage more in your story and bring your game to life!

"Smart and essential!" --Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid

"They used to tell kids to chant "sticks and stones" or "just ignore it." It didn't work. This book helps kids find the opposite approach: don't ignore it; understand it."--Tom Angleberger, Origami Yoda

Some kids sail through their middle school years without any drama, but most kids get stuck on a rollercoaster of up and down moods. How is it possible to feel sad and happy at the same time? Why is everything so embarrassing? How does one eye-roll from a friend make you suddenly doubt everything about yourself?

The truth is you are growing into the amazing person you are meant to be and your many moods and emotions are helping you figure it all out. Not everyone nerds out on mood and emotions, but this book is packed with cool brain science and info on mental health and wellness, plus real-life stories from kids your age, you'll learn something about yourself without even trying! Soon you'll be an expert on YOU and will figure out what your emotions and feelings are saying. Soon you'll staying cool and calm during really tough moments knowing that you can handle anything. And all that adds up to feeling so much lighter and more confident about yourself and your future.

Kid Confident Book 2: How to Master Your MOOD in Middle School is part of an awesome nonfiction book series developed with expert psychologist and series editor, Bonnie Zucker, PsyD that authentically captures the middle school experience. These books skillfully guide middle schoolers through those tricky years between elementary and high school with a supporting voice of a trusted big sister or a favorite aunt, stealthily offering life lessons and evidence-based coping skills. Readers of Telgemeir's Guts will recognize similar mental health and wellness strategies and fans of Patterson's Middle School series will appreciate the honest look at the uncertainty and chaos that middle graders can bring. Kid Confident offers what kids need to have fun with it all and navigate middle school with confidence, humor, perspective, and feel our mad respect for being the amazing humans they already are.

Books in the series:
Kid Confident (Book #1): How to Manage Your SOCIAL POWER in Middle School by Bonnie Zucker, PsyD
Kid Confident (Book #2): How to Master Your MOOD in Middle School by Lenka Glassman, PsyD
Kid Confident (Book #3): How to Handle STRESS for Middle School Success by Silvi Guerra, PsyD
Kid Confident (Book #4): How to NAVIGATE Middle School by Anna Pozzatti, PhD & Bonnie Massimino, MEd

Unlock your artistic potential and embark on an exciting journey into the captivating world of anime and manga with this comprehensive guide.

Perfect for beginners and aspiring artists of all ages, this book provides step-by-step instructions and expert tips to help you bring your favorite anime characters and your own original characters to life on paper!

How to Draw Anime teaches you the fundamentals of drawing anime-style art with ease and confidence. Learn how to capture the unique expressions, dynamic poses, and adorable features that make anime girls and anime boys so irresistible.

From mastering basic shapes to adding intricate details, each chapter is designed to enhance your skills and fuel your creativity with these features:

• Age-appropriate details: Fully covered and cute characters make for the perfect gift for kids of all age ranges and drawing levels
• Step-by-step examples: Explore a diverse range of characters, from classic anime faces to extra-cute chibi characters, and learn how to draw them from start to finish.
• Gift-worthy presentation: With its stunning artwork and high-quality production, this book makes a perfect gift for aspiring artists, young adults, and anime enthusiasts alike.
• Plenty of practice space: Open pages and large, 8 x 11 format, leave room to test your creativity in the perfect drawing book
• An expert artist: Joseph Stevenson has been teaching kids how to draw for almost ten years, and his drawing techniques really work! With this no-tears strategy, learning how to draw is fun for adults and children as young as 5 years old.

Whether you dream of becoming an anime artist or simply want to enhance your drawing skills, How to Draw Anime is the ultimate resource to kick-start your artistic journey. Unleash your imagination and learn to create captivating anime characters toda

From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes...and feeling them.

The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning...All you have to do is find the song inside.

"The best book on music (and its connection to the mystic laws of life) that I've ever read. I learned so much on every level."--Multiple Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Michael Brecker

With simple visual step-by-step instructions and hand-drawn illustrations, effortlessly create over 50 different paper creations, from sea lions to spinning tops, Christmas decorations and colorful flowers.

This is origami at its most simple and elegant. With a special focus on a very visual method of explanation, this collection brings together 50 traditional origami projects, accessible to experts and beginners alike. The folds are organized from the simplest to the most complex.

The projects range from sea lions to spinning tops, Christmas decorations and colorful flowers, to sailboats. Detailed illustrations show you exactly where to place your hands at every step of the process, and projects are given a difficulty rating for ease of reference. Simply follow the diagrams and watch origami creations of all kinds come to life at your fingertips.

Brought to you from the Parisian boutique of Adeline Klam, this book is full of beautiful designs, fun toys, useful tips and paper surprises of every shape and size.

This raw and relatable guide to radical self-care and self-love empowers readers to embrace the powerful Diosa within.

In this fiercely inspiring book, psychotherapist Christine Gutierrez welcomes women to join her in healing the wounds from past hurt or trauma to reclaim their worth and come back home to their true self and soul.

Diosa is the Spanish word for Goddess. A diosa is anyone who honors the primal feminine energy in the world and within themselves. According to Gutierrez, diosas face obstacles in their lives but are always ready and willing to go to their core to reclaim their inner worth and self-esteem. They are the ones that rise from the ashes and dare to piece themselves back together bone by bone and soul piece by soul piece. From stories of resilience from both Gutierrez and members of her Diosa Tribe, to mantras, meditations, and guided journaling prompts, this book gives women the tools they need to honor their sacred feminine and become who they were always meant to be.

I Am Diosa will inspire women to give themselves permission to feel, to be seen, to be heard, and to return to their truest selves.

An investigation into the mental health crisis affecting young adults today, and an impassioned argument for creating learning environments characterized both by compassion and challenge

Alarming statistics in recent years indicate that mental health problems like depression and anxiety have been skyrocketing among youth. To identify solutions, psychologist and professor Sarah Rose Cavanagh interviews a roster of experts across the country who are dedicating their lives to working with young people to help them actualize their goals, and highlights voices of college students from a range of diverse backgrounds.

Cavanagh also brings the reader on an invigorating tour of pedagogical, neuroscientific, and psychological research on mental health--one that involves her own personal journey from panic to equilibrium.

The result of these combined sources of inquiry indicates that to support youth mental health, we must create what Cavanagh calls compassionate challenge--first, we need to cultivate learning and living environments characterized by compassion, and then, we need to guide our youth into practices that encourage challenge, helping them face their fears in an encouraging, safe, and even playful way.

Mind over Monsters is a must-read for teachers, administrators, parents, and young people themselves.

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems... A.A. members know of Dr. Paul's wisdom through the often-quoted passage from his story in A.A.'s Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous. Dr. Paul continues sharing his astute insight and gentle humor with discussions of the physical, mental, emotional, interpersonal and spiritual aspects of sobriety.

A series of fun and interactive books for toddlers and young children about how great it is to be different.

Every person (and every cat, dog, fairy, and dinosaur) is special and different in their own way - whatever their shape, size, age, or hairstyle! This series of colorful little books brings a fresh, topical approach about how our differences make us special - whether we are talking about dogs, dads, birthdays, bodies, families, or anything else.

Every One is Special: Dogs explains that every dog has different traits which make them unique and special, in a humorous and gentle way. Among the fun, there is a serious point to be made. At the moment, the differences between us can seem wider than ever. This series of bright little books for babies and toddlers aged 0-3 provides a way to encourage young children to accept and embrace the idea of difference.

Celebrate your little one's differences, as they discover:

- The second book in a colorful new series that embraces how great it is to be different, and how differences make us special.
- Adorable illustrated pages accompanied by simple, age-appropriate and warm text.
- Clear and simple read-aloud text will engage young ones as they follow the story.
- A safe and sturdy board book format making it easy for little hands to hold.

This board book series provides a celebration of differences for little readers and will make great little handbooks for every child. There is one for every occasion and every important person in their life. Each one providing a handy little slice of life-affirming positivity and fun!

More in the series

Every One is Special is the perfect first baby board book for early learners and is a wonderful celebration of our differences. With bright illustrations and engaging, easy-to-read text, this awe-inspiring series is sure to delight. If your little one loves Every One is Special: Dogs then why not try Every One is Special: Babies, and celebrate all the different types of babies there are!

When Things Fall Apart, You Don't Have To

Calm is contagious. And courage is contagious. The tools in this book can help you to find calm, purpose, and even joy in hard times. Climate chaos is accelerating, democracy is in peril, species and ecosystems are disappearing, and economic inequality is soaring. These are interconnected parts of a complex and devastating predicament. But you need not respond with denial or despair. You can be the eye of the storm, calm and centered, living your values despite an uncertain future, and helping others to do the same.

Eye of the Storm offers resources and stories from people around the globe that will build your practical and emotional skills to face whatever comes. Engaging and insightful essays, interviews, and reflections invite you to reorient your ideas of what matters, give you perspectives to face fear and loss with courage, and inspire you to live creatively and compassionately in hard times.

"Wise, compassionate, and immensely practical. I know of no better guidebook for living fully and meaningfully in the midst of unfolding biospheric and civilizational decline."

-Michael Dowd, author and speaker, Post-doom.com

"A tour de force, illustrating with elegance and lucidity how we can do the crucial emotional work that equips us to meet and lovingly embrace the challenges of these extreme times."

-Virginia Mallin, psychotherapist (WPF, UKCP, FCP); member, Climate Psychology Alliance.

Chapter one: Facing the storm - What we face, and the emotional impact of realizing what we face, in prose, poem, and story.

Chapter two: Stories shape us - Stories that don't work, and stories that may work, to frame our situation.

Chapter three: Stories for courage in dark times - Three stories to describe our predicament. They do not have happy endings. They have courageous endings.

Chapter four: Practical emotional support - Your toolbox for dealing with difficult emotions.

Chapter five: Befriending grief - Learning the skill of grieving to honor love and loss of all kinds.

Chapter six: Belonging and reverence - Finding meaning and wonder in relationships and in daily living.

Chapter seven: Resigning from the rat race - Slowing down and opting out of industrial consumer busyness and status.

Chapter eight: Connection and compassion - Tools for practicing compassion when it matters most.

Chapter nine: Letting go - Ways people are letting go of industrial consumer society and having fun doing it.

Chapter ten: No more flying solo - Ways people are building relationships for mutual support.

Chapter eleven: Young people and those who care about them - How we might be of service to those who inherit this mess.

Chapter twelve: Planting seeds - Gardening as activism and relationship.

Chapter thirteen: In the meantime - Ways people are living their values now.

Chapter fourteen: Endings are beginnings.