Collection: Self-Development

Give new life to your beloved quilts! Build a sustainable wardrobe by upcycling vintage textiles into stunning new projects! Kathleen and Dale are expert guides from start to finish. Learn how to source vintage quilts and care for and restore them. Then transform them into a creative and personalized wardrobe full of history. Projects span from simple accessories, such as a tote. Learn garment sewing techniques, from basic construction to specific skills, with step-by-step instructions. Customize your projects by adjusting the patterns to fit your body and choosing unique details for finishing or closing. Transform a vintage quilt into one of eight stunning garments, from a chore coat or a cropped jacket to a quilt top dress or vest. Includes step-by-step instructions from start to finish and tutorials for specific garment techniques, like binding, welt pockets, installing snaps, and finishing seams. Check out guidance on where to source vintage textiles and how to care for and restore them to usable condition.

Learn how to use scraps, odd cuts, and small fabric treasures in unexpected ways to create one-of-a-kind quilts.

Create stunning contemporary abstractions of iconic quilt blocks! With no sewing experience needed, learn how to create stress-free wonky quilt projects with these templates and techniques as your guides. Step-by-step tutorials and detailed layout diagrams will show you how to create wonky quilts that include half-square blocks, curves, slash-and-insert strips, and many more!

Working through each block style will develop your skills by levels until even the most complex blocks make sense and can be achieved with the bridging techniques of this book. Projects are beginner-friendly, allowing access to quilters of all skill levels.

• Explore 13 accessible and beginner-friendly projects to create iconic impressionistic quilt blocks

• Learn how to finish off different block styles with easy-to-follow techniques

• Discover a freeform version of your craft to create modern, impressionistic interpretations of traditional quilt blocks using scraps, odd cuts, and small treasures of fabric

Quilters of every skill level can make the most of their fabric scraps with these stunning and trendy projects. These nine exceptional designs turn scraps into colorful and eye-catching quilts featuring modern versions of classic motifs.

The internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur.

PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?

ME: I don't know, I'm-what's the word-depressed? Do I have to go into detail?

Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her-what to call it?-depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work, but the effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal. But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favorite street food: the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?

Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a twelve-week period, and expanding on each session with her own reflective micro-essays, Baek begins to disentangle the harmful behaviors that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.

Don't throw your fabric scraps away! Kelly Young will teach you how to make structured improvisational quilts. She starts by blending the old concept of an improv quilt with a newer structured way to do it with tips and techniques on how to get started, how to prepare your fabrics and choose which method you would like to use--panel, strip, or block. Then she offers three ways to organize your quilt: by color, grabbing and sewing, and creating your improv as the background. Projects include Grand Bazaar, Precarious, Detour, Bloom Chicka Boom, Regatta and more! Perfect for confident beginners and experienced quilters.

An informative and accessible guide to understanding childhood grief at every age, this empathetic and thoughtful guide will help caretakers to support children mourning after loss.

From Dr. Corinne Masur, an award-winning clinical psychologist specializing in grief and mourning, comes a necessary and impactful guide to understanding children's grief from the inside and to guiding children through loss, from the death of a parent and other family members, to the loss of friends, pets, and even the family home. Dr. Masur describes how to understand, help and guide children at each age and stage of development and uses her own childhood experience with loss through empathetic yet clinically informed advice in this important guide.

When Dr. Masur was fourteen years old, her father died. Like most children and teens facing loss, Masur didn't know how to handle her grief, and she was never encouraged to acknowledge or share what she was feeling with her family, teachers, or friends. Her experience of shock and emotional paralysis around her loss is what led her to become an expert in childhood grief in order to help grieving children and to help others to support the children in their lives who have experienced loss.

As a psychologist and child psychoanalyst, Dr. Masur has helped many children recognize and express their feelings after loss. In How Children Grieve, Masur shares her expertise with caregivers of all kinds, giving them the tools they need to help a child or teenager to mourn, to move forward, and to make meaning of terrible loss.

Terrell and Jarius' are a beautiful couple you see online every day. They met during their freshman year of college at a haunted house, and soon realized they could not live without each other. Soon, the couple became famous for sharing their love story via social media and now, they live and work together as content creators, activists, and social media stars. Before these gorgeous people became highly sought-after brand ambassadors, they kept their whole relationship a secret. Now as major Influencers in the LGBTQ+ space, they are writing a book to show all the major obstacles that have allowed them to achieve their dream life today. Through prejudice, marriage, disappointments, loss, secrecy, parenthood, and adversity, the couple shows that despite what you think, love is what makes all their dreams come true.

Love Out Loud shares the couple's love through their private moments of embracing who they are as individuals, as a couple, and as a family unit, and truly how beautiful those moments can be. Love Out Loud is about love, relationships, and surviving through storms together no matter what is thrown at you. The two men share the life they have dreamed about and how they achieved it despite societal pressures around them. Through personal anecdotes, the two offer the powerful lessons that they only could have learned on their distinct as gay, black men, they have tremendous empathy that comes across on screen that translates to nuclear and alternative families alike.

Wisdom and encouragement from mindfulness, psychology, science, and time-honored traditions.

Featuring 50 practical tools to ease anxiety, overwhelm, and stress by recognizing the enduring sense of love and well-being that's with us regardless of our circumstances.

Enlightenment isn't a lofty and unattainable goal. Real-world enlightenment is always here, and you can find it any time in life's highs, lows, and everything in-between.

Beloved mindfulness teacher, best-selling author, and longtime Buddhist practitioner Susan Kaiser Greenland explores time-honored themes that tap into a sense of love, connection, and well-being that is with us regardless of our circumstances. These universal themes--including Change, Humility, Interdependence, Concentration, Joy, Kindness, and Discernment, among many others--emphasize attitudes and mindsets that lead to emotional and psychological freedom by lessening our reactivity, broadening our perspectives, and deepening our relationships.

Kaiser Greenland draws from science, psychology, Buddhism, wisdom traditions, and personal stories to give us a view of "real-world enlightenment"-- where we shift from a narrow survival-driven frame of mind to one that is grounded and as vast as the sky. When we cultivate this expansive worldview from the inside out, we become more resilient, and that's just the beginning. A view as vast as the sky charts the course for kind, resilient people to build a kinder and more resilient world.

To help us do this, she offers valuable methods and takeaways that allow you to apply these life-changing universal themes every day. They include:

• Practical ways to recognize the basic goodness within and around you by tapping into sensory pleasures like music or nature.
• Robust tools to manage stress and develop attention by focusing on a sight, sound, image, word, or phrase.
• Catchy slogans that promote emotional balance when you feel overwhelmed, like "right now, I'm okay," "drop the baggage," or "don't play the scene before you get there." These and other phrases can interrupt spiraling thoughts and move you back into your comfort zone.
• Accessible meditation methods to experience life with greater equanimity by slowing down your thinking process to heighten awareness of the natural movement of your mind.
• Time-tested life hacks to care for yourself and others with greater kindness and compassion.
• Insightful strategies that bring greater ease and effortlessness into your life and relationships by helping you remain flexible and creative, even in challenging situations.
• And much more.

"Kim Chestney's codes bring you closer to the comprehension of a reality that was wholly hidden prior to the quantum discoveries."
-- Ervin László, author of Science and the Akashic Field

Intuition -- the extraordinary ability to access information from the quantum realms -- is fast becoming humanity's most advanced form of knowledge acquisition. The Illumination Code presents seven keys to unlock your inner dimension so you can access expanded states of awareness that exist beyond the limits of the rational mind. Kim Chestney reveals the deeply personal nature of the universe while offering a new way to know the unknowable and experience the seemingly impossible. As you venture inward on this step-by-step journey, you will gain profound insights and discover the true power of your own inner wisdom.

Part of Pipsticks+Workman's wildly popular So. Many. Stickers. series, So. Many. Snail Mail. Stickers. features 2,500 fun and trendy stickers that celebrate the art of snail mail!

It's a snail mail revolution! This super fun collection of stickers totally delivers with its custom mailing labels, friendly greetings, seasonal stamps, and cute carrier pigeons. Use them to decorate envelopes, greeting cards, packages, and postcards, making all your correspondence extra special!

Empowering, feminist guidance for Black women on living unapologetically and authentically--from the bestselling author of The Sisters Are Alright.

Unshackle your authentic self from the expectations and stereotypes of American culture through the 6 pillars of living free as a Black woman.

Tamara Winfrey Harris harnesses her knowledge as a two-time author and storyteller of the Black femme experience and nationally known expert on the intersections of race and gender to deliver a sharp feminist analysis that is illustrated by real-life stories and examples plucked from popular culture and intimate Black woman-to-Black woman truth-telling.

This book is separated into two parts. First, the meaning of liberation is explored and Black women will be guided in creating sustaining practice to mature their well-being along the freedom journey.

In part two, readers are introduced to the 6 pillars of living free as a Black woman:

• Spot the distortions
• Know your truth
• Celebrate the real you
• Understand the cost of liberation
• Practice freedom
• SEE free Black women everywhere

With the bold, astute writing that you have come to expect from Winfrey-Harris, A Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free urges Black women everywhere to choose themselves, and choose freedom, in a world that would have you chained.

True inclusion happens when leaders stop relying on HR practitioners to own full responsibility for DEI initiatives. The small, intentional daily leadership practices in this book are the key to creating truly inclusive organizations.

Diversity and inclusion training and books have flooded the market, but the gap between what is promised and what is delivered is beginning to undermine the progress that has been made.

There are millions of people who strive to make a difference in workplace diversity and inclusion. And with this practical, leader-friendly framework, Daily Practices of Inclusive Leaders will equip readers with the actionable tools they've been searching for.

Leaders will learn:
● Why they are the key to inclusion
● Insights for the lifelong journey
● Successful practices they can start today
● And more

With the era of big DEI coming to an end, leaders will make big strides through small daily changes in their processes that lead to creating an inclusive workplace culture. With this toolkit of actions, activities, and tactics leaders will become the foundation of diversity and inclusion in their organization.

How to develop a growth mindset, with practical tools to reach your financial goals from the self-development expert and bestselling author of Eat that Frog!

Discover the 32 laws that have helped self-made millionaires with successful goal setting, time management, money saving, and financial investments.

Legendary author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy returns with a series of 32 immutable laws, each one key to developing a mindset necessary for success--while also delivering practical, proven methods and techniques to double and even triple your income.

Spread across a structured two-part framework, this book supplies readers the laws that helped Tracy and other self-made millionaires achieve their success. Inside, you'll learn:

• 32 foundational laws necessary for a growth mindset
• Step-by-step processes for putting the laws into practice
• How to move past self-limiting beliefs
• A time-tested system for setting and attaining goals
• Strategies for saving money and investing in your future
• And more

Achieving financial freedom can seem daunting. But by using the lessons and exercises contained in this book, you too can harness the laws of money and success to reach your full potential.

Have you been showing your "good" side? Do you make sure everyone else is okay, receive praise for your strength, and look like you have it all together whilst secretly hiding your inner anxiety? If this sounds like you, you may be experiencing high-functioning anxiety.

High-functioning anxiety (HFA) is fuelled by the fear of not being "good enough." To cope with this fear, you operate at a very high standard, continually aiming to do whatever you can to show and prove your worth--not to others--but to yourself. Without understanding your high-functioning anxiety, this cycle continues until you break down in exhaustion or burnout. Award-winning psychologist Dr. Lalitaa Suglani is here to tell you that you don't have to live like this anymore. This transformational book will show you how to break the cycle--for good.

High-Functioning Anxiety weaves together scientific research with practical exercises and case studies, and offers a five-step plan that will radically shift how you see yourself. You will learn:

• what high-functioning anxiety is and how its symptoms present
• the main psychological symptoms of high-functioning anxiety and how they emerge in daily behavior
• the two-sides of high-functioning anxiety: how you see yourself vs. how you present yourself to the world
• how to release old modes of thinking and habitual thought patterns, and replace them with fresh attitudes and insights, and the ability to look at life from a different perspective
• practical methods for creating and sustaining long-term lifestyle changes, so that you can heal from your past and live a healthier, happier future

...and so much more.

High-Functioning Anxiety is essential reading for anyone ready to move from disconnection, self-hate, and shame to self-discovery, self-awareness, and self-worth.

Mix and match your very own RPG monster with this interactive, illustrated flip book creating fully functional creatures by piecing together heads, torsos, and legs so GMs have exciting new beasts to unleash!

Is your adventure party tired of the same old boring monsters? Instead of filling your next dungeon with zombies, flip through Düngeonmeister: The Random Monster Generator and create something brand-new.

With each page split into three separate sections (head, torso, and legs), this mix-and-match flip book assembles unique creatures with stats to match each of the beast's body parts. For instance, GMs can create:
-A zombie head kobold with spider legs giving you an unstoppable undead monstrosity that will chase your party across walls and ceilings
-A monster with a snake head and tentacles for legs making an enemy that's resistant to piercing damage with a venomous bite
-A dragon that's more than a dragon when you mix in gelatinous body and a giant's legs, turning your typical fire-breather into an oversized one that's resistant to bludgeoning and slashing

Fully compatible with 5E, this book is perfect for DMs looking for something functional and fun to help them fill out dungeons and encounters with interesting and challenging enemies.

A collection of eye-catching 3D effect crochet patterns for different sized blankets and throws, that all have an optical illusion effect. These cleverly designed geometric blankets look impressive but are actually simple to make because the designer only uses one technique, intarsia crochet, and simple stitches.

There are 15 different designs in a variety of sizes from smaller throws through to large afghans. All of the crochet blanket patterns are written out in full and there are large charts for each of the designs for crocheters who prefer to follow charts.

All of the blankets are made with Scheepjes Truly Scrumptious aran-weight yarn, which is made from recycled plastic bottles. This means that the blankets work up quickly and have a lovely drape as well as being visually striking.

All of the patterns use the crochet intarsia technique and there instructions for how to prepare your yarn in separate balls before you get started so you don't end up in a tangle. There are also step-by-step instructions for how to work crochet intarsia including advice on changing colour.

Please note that the patterns are written using US crochet terms, but there is a conversion table for UK terms, along with US/UK hook sizes, at the front of the book.

The blanket projects include a variety of sizes, with the largest measuring 51 x 36 inches. There are instructions for how to increase the size of the blankets by adding a border as well as decorative details including tassels and pom poms. There are also instructions for how to alter the drape of the blankets by changing the hook size you use.

The 'Getting Started' section explains the concept behind the illusion blanket designs and the importance of colour, with advice on choosing alternative colours. This is illustrated with photos of swatches showing variations of the same design with alternative colour combinations.

The front section includes information about what the best yarns and hooks to use are as well as the other tools and materials featured. The General Techniques includes step-by-step instructions and diagrams for the basic stitches as well as the finishing techniques that will ensure your blankets look their best.