Collection: Self-Development

Part of the Mindfuless Moments for Kids series, this mindful meditation exercise featuring a sweet bear cub helps kids feel calm, wherever they are.

With this board book, kids will learn to control their breathing and soothe themselves slowly to sleep, just like a bear in hibernation! Best of all, it can be performed anywhere: in the backseat of a car, at home, or even at a child's desk at school. Based on Kira Willey's Parents' Choice GOLD Award-winning writing, this board book series (Listen like an Elephant and the upcoming Bunny Breaths) is the first of its kind and is the perfect tool to help children and parents develop a fun and consistent mindfulness practice.

Adapted from the successful Breathe like a Bear hardcover/trade paperback--a collection of mindful moments and exercises for kids--this board book is an easy-to-follow breathing exercise kids can use to manage their bodies, breath, and emotions.

"A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, and a devastating portrait of the ways our society fails to protect the bodies of its most vulnerable members." --Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

"Erin Williams' What's Wrong? is an utterly riveting, deeply moving, absolutely molecule-rearranging exploration of pain--individual and collective--suffused with wit, wonder, and mourning; textured by compassion and curiosity, and vibrating with the humanity of its dynamic subjects. Williams' sharp, nimble, tender prose, and her searing art--humming with insight and imagination--speak to veins of human experience so difficult to articulate we often shy away from speaking them at all. But in these dark places, she finds vitality, collectivity, and hope. This book and its subjects will live inside me forever." Leslie Jamison, author The Empathy Exams

What's Wrong? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams's graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams's own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like:

• immunodeficiency
• cancer
• endometriosis
• alcoholism
• severe depression
• PTSD

Western medicine, which intends to cure illness and minimize pain, often causes more loss, abuse, and suffering for those Americans who don't fit within the narrow definition of who the system was built to serve--cis, white, heterosexual men. The book explores the many ways in which those receiving medical care are often overlooked, unseen, and doubted by the very clinicians who are supposed to heal them. What's Wrong? is also a beautiful celebration of nontraditional modes of healing, of how we become whole not because of health care but despite it.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the New York Times bestselling author of I'm Judging You, a hilarious and transformational book about how to tackle fear--that everlasting hater--and audaciously step into lives, careers, and legacies that go beyond even our wildest dreams

Luvvie Ajayi Jones is known for her trademark wit, warmth, and perpetual truth-telling. But even she's been challenged by the enemy of progress known as fear. She was once afraid to call herself a writer, and nearly skipped out on doing a TED talk that changed her life because of imposter syndrome. As she shares in Professional Troublemaker, she's not alone.

We're all afraid. We're afraid of asking for what we want because we're afraid of hearing "no." We're afraid of being different, of being too much or not enough. We're afraid of leaving behind the known for the unknown. But in order to do the things that will truly, meaningfully change our lives, we have to become professional troublemakers: people who are committed to not letting fear talk them out of the things they need to do or say to live free.

With humor and honesty, and guided by the influence of her professional troublemaking Nigerian grandmother, Funmilayo Faloyin, Luvvie walks us through what we must get right within ourselves before we can do the things that scare us; how to use our voice for a greater good; and how to put movement to the voice we've been silencing--because truth-telling is a muscle.

The point is not to be fearless, but to know we are afraid and charge forward regardless. It is to recognize that the things we must do are more significant than our fears. This book is about how to live boldly in spite of all the reasons we have to cower. Let's go!

Brain Games Large Print Bible Word Search: Psalms presents an educational and meaningful way to look at the Bible.

• Discover more than 80 large print word search puzzles that contain prayers from the book of Psalms.
• T​his inspirational puzzle book gives you a new way to learn about the Bible.
• Answer key in the back of the book.
• Spiral bound, 192 pages

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives.

In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life. Using the psychological insights and the practical techniques of the Stoics, Irvine offers a roadmap for anyone seeking to avoid the feelings of chronic dissatisfaction that plague so many of us. Irvine looks at various Stoic techniques for attaining tranquility and shows how to put these techniques to work in our own life. As he does so, he describes his own experiences practicing Stoicism and offers valuable first-hand advice for anyone wishing to live better by following in the footsteps of these ancient philosophers. Readers learn how to minimize worry, how to let go of the past and focus our efforts on the things we can control, and how to deal with insults, grief, old age, and the distracting temptations of fame and fortune. We learn from Marcus Aurelius the importance of prizing only things of true value, and from Epictetus we learn how to be more content with what we have.

Finally, A Guide to the Good Life shows readers how to become thoughtful observers of their own lives. If we watch ourselves as we go about our daily business and later reflect on what we saw, we can better identify the sources of distress and eventually avoid that pain in our life. By doing this, the Stoics thought, we can hope to attain a truly joyful life.

Relieve stress through coloring! Enjoy this beautiful collection of butterflies, dragonflies and flowers. Over 30 designs ranging in detail and difficulty for both beginners and experts.

Over 60 Gorgeous Designs to Color!

Not Sure What Theme To Start Coloring? Grab One That Has Everything.

Incredible Artwork With the Largest Variety of Animals, Mandalas and Paisley Designs.

Join the hundreds of thousands of happy colorists that really appreciate good quality artwork.

• Various Levels Of Intricacy Keeping You Excited and Inspired To Color!
• So Many Different Themes To Choose From: Garden Designs, Animals, Mandalas, and Paisley Patterns, Decorative Art.
• Perfect For Every Skill Level: Great For Growing Your Skills.
• Perfect With Your Choice Of Coloring Tools (Crayon, Gel Pens, Markers, Colored Pencils).
• High Resolution Crisp Clean Printing Of Illustrations.
• Each Coloring Page Is On One Sheet. Printed One Sided. Don't Worry About Bleed Through.
• Frequently Gifted. This Book Makes The Perfect Gift For Christmas Holidays, Birthday and More. Grab a Set of Pencils To Go With It!

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We all want to get to yes, but what happens when the other person keeps saying no?

How can you negotiate successfully with a stubborn boss, an irate customer, or a deceitful coworker?

In Getting Past No, William Ury of Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation offers a proven breakthrough strategy for turning adversaries into negotiating partners. You'll learn how to:

- Stay in control under pressure
- Defuse anger and hostility
- Find out what the other side really wants
- Counter dirty tricks
- Use power to bring the other side back to the table
- Reach agreements that satisfies both sides' needs

Getting Past No is the state-of-the-art book on negotiation for the twenty-first century. It will help you deal with tough times, tough people, and tough negotiations. You don't have to get mad or get even. Instead, you can get what you want!

This adorable cross-stitch kit gives kawaii fans everywhere all the materials they need to stitch super-cute designs!

Few can resist the charm of kawaii style (the Japanese word for "cute"). This kit includes everything you need to cross-stitch kawaii masterpieces including:

• 32-page book with cross-stitching instructions and patterns (pretty pineapple, blushing berry, mellow melon, sour lemon)
• 3 pieces of 4" x 4" cotton Aida cloth
• 3-inch embroidery hoop
• 2 tapestry needles
• 4 skeins of embroidery thread
  

Verbal Judo is the martial art of the mind and mouth that can show you how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter. Listen and speak more effectively, engage people through empathy (the most powerful word in the English language), avoid the most common conversational disasters, and use proven strategies that allow you to successfully communicate your point of view and take the upper hand in most disputes.

Verbal Judo offers a creative look at conflict that will help you defuse confrontations and generate cooperation from your spouse, your boss, and even your teenager. As the author says, "when you react, the event controls you. When you respond, you're in control."

This new edition features a fresh new cover and a foreword demonstrating the legacy of Verbal Judo founder and author George Thompson, as well as a never-before-published final chapter presenting Thompson's "Five Universal Truths" of human interaction.

Power up kids' kindergarten skills! Filled with fun puzzle-based activities including ever-popular Hidden Pictures, this kindergarten activity book offers 256 pages of age-appropriate practice covering the alphabet, sight words, handwriting, counting, patterns, opposites and more fundamental skills.

Developed with teachers and aligned with kindergarten curriculum standards, this workbook will help kindergartners get excited to learn! Imaginative puzzles, silly poems and colorful illustrations create positive learning experiences for little ones while keeping them engaged for hours. This big kindergarten workbook also includes tips for grown-ups to help guide kids through each activity and maximize learning.

With a wide variety of activities like mazes, matching games, That's Silly scenes and scavenger hunts, there's something for every learning style. The activities mix and match skills and puzzle types to create a fresh approach to school readiness and success. Plus, the book includes an adorable certificate to reward kids when they've finished all the pages.

The Kindergarten Big Fun Workbook is a Family Choice Award Winner, PAL (Play Advances Language) Award Winner, a Parents' Choice Recommended Book and a PAL Top Ten Pick.

An essential resource that addresses the unique experiences of trauma, healing, and mental health in Asian and Asian American communities.

Coauthors Soo Jin Lee and Linda Yoon are professional therapists who witnessed firsthand how mental health issues often went unaddressed not only in their own immigrant families, but in Asian and Asian American communities. Where I Belong shows us how the cycle of trauma can play out in our relationships, placing Asian American experiences front and center to help us process and heal from racial and intergenerational trauma.
This book validates our experiences and helps us understand how they fit into the broader context of our family history and the trauma experienced by previous generations. Lee and Yoon draw on their own stories, as well as those of a diverse segment of the Asian diaspora, to help us feel seen and connected to our wider community. They provide essential therapeutic tools, reflection questions, journal prompts, and grounding exercises to empower readers to identify their strengths and resilience across generations and to embrace the beauty and fullness of their own identity and culture.

A road map for dismantling the fear and shame that keep you from living a free and authentic life

In the aftermath of stress, disappointment, and trauma, people often fall into survival mode, even while a part of them longs for more. Juggling multiple demands and responsibilities keeps them busy, but not healed. As a survivor of sexual assault, racism, and evacuation from a civil war in Liberia, Dr. Thema Bryant knows intimately the work involved in healing. Having made the journey herself, in addition to guiding others as a clinical psychologist and ordained minister, Dr. Thema shows you how to reconnect with your authentic self and reclaim your time, your voice, your life.

Signs of disconnection from self can take many forms, including people-pleasing, depression, anxiety, and resentment. Healing starts with recognizing and expressing emotions in an honest way and reconnecting with the neglected parts of yourself, but it can't be done in a vacuum. Dr. Thema gives you the tools to meaningfully connect with your larger community, even if you face racism and sexism, heartbreak, grief, and trauma. Rather than shrinking in the face of life's difficulties, you will discover in Homecoming the therapeutic approaches and spiritual practices to live a more expansive life characterized by empowerment, healthier relationships, gratitude, and a deeper sense of purpose.

Always wanted to know how to help your body, mind, & spirit with simple somatic techniques but don't know where to start?

Have you suffered trauma in the past? Have you been wanting to relieve unusual symptoms but can't seem to get to the bottom of it? Stored trauma can often lead to physical pain and the psychological anguish that comes along with it. Trauma can be defined as anything that results in us being stuck in a physical, emotional, or behavioral pattern.

Want to say goodbye to all of the overwhelming & complex info out there & discover what easily works for you? You see, using somatic healing to your benefit doesn't have to be difficult, even if you feel like you've already tried everything. You don't need to spend thousands on therapy sessions either.

In fact, it's easier than you think.

Cross your hands over your chest, so you are making a butterfly shape with your fingers pointing up. Then, link your two thumbs together. Use your hands to tap alternately on your chest's left and right sides. This forms a connection between the left and right sides of your brain. Take note of your surroundings and anything going on. This should help calm you, give you a feeling of peace, & help you process whatever current issue causing you stress might be.

A study in 2020 focused on how social pain, i.e., isolating yourself or negative experiences of interaction, can result in physical pain. Something like trauma, often seen as a mental aspect, can manifest itself in physical reactions such as headaches, muscle tension, fatigue, and stomach trouble.

You'll discover:

• What must be cleared within you to avert chronic illness
• The real reason you may be suffering from auto-immune disorders
• Why your posture, facial expressions, & body language may be in rapid decline
• The cause of digestion issues, hormonal problems, or sexual dysfunction you won't believe
• An arsenal of powerful somatic hacks to unleash easily at home
• The attention diversion trick to calm the crashing waves of past trauma
• The "horn" trick to easily bring your mind & body into harmony
• The amazingly easy way to positively impact your blood pressure, heart rate & arteries
• The mood & sleep enhancer you can do from literally anywhere
• The forgotten element that could be causing your fear of relationships & sense of shame
• The secret to evaporate your fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses
• The body-to-brain method for guru-level calmness
• How an item from your freezer can snap you out of fight or flight
• Which attachment trauma style you could be exhibiting that is wreaking havoc in your relationships
• The real reason parts of your body have become shuddery & jerky
• The natural, nervous system recalibration way out of pain
• How moving your eyes can reprogram old trauma into positivity
• The amazingly effective energy-shaking techniques to open chakras & release baggage
• The benefits to how an artistic flare could connect to your subconscious
• Recognizing overlooked personality types & how to heal from encounters with them
• Why talk therapy may not be getting to the true crux of your trauma
• A done-for-you Somatic Daily Ritual for Empowered Healing
• A *Bonus* energy healing guided meditation download

& much more.

Imagine how you'll feel once you're able to easily use the magic of somatic therapy to reach your full potential. How will your body, mind, & soul feel once you release what no longer serves you & step into your true self?

So, if you have a burning desire to easily use somatic techniques to your benefit, then buy now.

Say Goodbye to Your Yarn Stash Woes -- Forever

Every knitter knows the innate joy of purchasing yarn, and many also know the stress and shame that comes with an out-of-control stash. No longer! Let bestselling author, designer and educator Marie Greene change your outlook on buying, organizing and using your yarn for good. With this tried-and-true guide, you'll rediscover the joy in your stash--no yarn diets necessary!--as you learn to find inspiration in the yarn you already have, shop for skeins you'll actually use and organize it all for maximum creativity.

Best of all, Marie has designed 10 brand-new patterns to help you use your existing yarn in exciting ways, so you can work through your stash with ease and continue to curate your yarn collection with purpose. Use the color wheel to whip up creative combos in the Color Theory Socks or Shawl. Make leftovers look intentional with the Block Party Beanie or Pullover, or double your strands for double the fun in the Marled Stripe Mittens or Mini Mohair Cowl. Soon you'll not only have a satisfying stash system that is clear, tidy and inspirational, but an assortment of gorgeous knitted projects to remind you how truly joyful yarn can be.

Helping your child learn to read is easier with our fun filled LEARN TO READ PHONIC ACTIVITY WORKBOOK SERIES

Is your child in kindergarten, first grade, Second grade etc. and still unable to read?, Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading?, Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll get it wrong?

This workbook Series is best for children of all ages who need to discover ways to Read and write. The Worbook Series contains over 300+ sight words that kids learn through the photograph of the word instead of sounding letters out. These words make up nearly half of of most children's books which ends up in a much easier experience in studying other words.

The Learn To Read Phonic Activity Workbook Series is a complete, step-by-step workbook that shows parents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read. Thirty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level.

The Learn to Read Phonic Activity Workbook Series includes:

• Play-motivated learning―Interactive activities for each section help your child stay interested while they learn to read.
• Resources for parents and teachers―Handy scripts tell you exactly what to say so your child is focused and motivated, plus you'll find a list of additional teaching references.
• Effective teaching strategies―The "She is up, I go up" lesson format emphasizes practice and independence with helpful guidance from you.

The Book Contains:

• Premium matte cover design
• Printed on high quality 60# interior stock
• Perfectly sized at 8.5" x 11" glossy Paper.