Collection: Self-Development

Looking to jumpstart your GPA?

Most college students believe that straight A's can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don't study harder--they study smarter. A breakthrough approach to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers, How to Become a Straight-A Student reveals for the first time the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaves them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master.

You will learn how to:

- Streamline and maximize your study time
- Conquer procrastination
- Absorb the material quickly and effectively
- Know which reading assignments are critical--and which are not
- Target the paper topics that wow professors
- Provide A+ answers on exams
- Write stellar prose without the agony

A strategic blueprint for success that promises more free time, more fun, and top-tier results, How to Become a Straight-A Student is the only study guide written by students for students--with the insider knowledge and real-world methods to help you master the college system and rise to the top of the class.

By dipping into this little book of simple Zen Buddhist sayings, you can calm your anxiety and return serenity to your soul.

Are you feeling stress and anxiety from the demands of daily life? Do you feel overwhelmed by your to-do list and the constant deluge of information from all quarters? Are you unhappy with your life and envious of those around you? At times like these it's important to step back and take a breath.

Zen meditation may conjure up images of sitting in silence for long hours, but according to Buddhist monk and author Shinsuke Hosokawa, Zen can be summed up as "the knowledge needed for a person to live life with a positive outlook." With this in mind, he has produced this charmingly illustrated collection of thoughts and sayings to help you live life with less stress and anxiety.

The sayings include:

• Pay attention to what is right in front of your eyes
• Nothing happens by chance. Every encounter has its meaning
• Be careful not to confuse the means and the purpose
• Keep flowing just like water
• Nothing will control you
• Even a bad day is a good day
• Check the ground beneath your feet when you're in trouble
• You'll never walk alone

These 52 mindful sayings mirror the 52 steps traditionally taken to achieve Buddhist enlightenment, and they also coincide with the 52 weeks of the year--passing through the seasons, both in the natural world and our lives. Each page has an illustration and a simple, meditative reflection to help you see into your own heart, accept your current state of being, reduce anxiety and find peace.

Whatever the time of year, whatever your time of life, by browsing the pages of this book you are sure to quickly find a piece of universal wisdom that will resonate with your soul.

The death of a spouse or close loved one is one of the most devastating experiences an individual suffers. Whether it is sudden or after a prolonged illness, the death and subsequent grief are life-changing. One day you're together, and the next day you're not. You feel like life will never be "normal" again.

Author Gary Sturgis knows first-hand the pain of grief after becoming a widower in his early 50s. He suffered profound sadness along with anger, guilt, loneliness, confusion, and heartache to name just a few. But Gary found his way from grief to healing and is surviving after his loss. You can too.

In his book, Gary shares intimate details of the personal stages he encountered through his grief journey. Along the way, he learned how to continually move forward and honor his loved one by talking about death, handling his emotions, and sharing special stories and experiences. He reveals how he progressed over time from feeling deep anguish to healing from grief to living a life that has joy, happiness, and peace again. Throughout the book, Gary offers you reassuring guidance and comforting advice as you travel through your personal grief journey. He uses his own path to healing as a reference together with lessons learned as a health care professional and volunteer grief counselor helping others.

In What A Time To Be Alone, The Slumflower will be your life guru, confidante and best friend. She'll show you that being alone is not just okay: it's just about the best freaking thing that's ever happened to you. As she says, 'You're bad as hell and you were made with intention.' It's about time you realized.

Peppered with insightful Igbo proverbs from Chidera's Nigerian mother and full of her own original artwork, What A Time To Be Alone will help you navigate the modern world. We can all decide our own fates and Chidera shows us how, using a three-part approach filled with sass, wisdom, and charm.

1. Learn how to celebrate YOU - decide your self-worth, take time to heal and empower yourself in this messy world.
2. Don't worry about THEM - avoid other people's demons and realize that everyone is protecting themselves from something - no matter how aggressive their method.
3. Feel the togetherness in US - sustain and grow healthy relationships and avoid toxicity in your friendships.

Own your story. Create your own narrative. Read this book. #WATTBA

A non-judgemental guide to becoming "soberish". Helps millennials and Gen Z create a relationship with alcohol that works for them using evidence-based tools and expert advice.

Are you ready to take your power back from alcohol?

Whether you're looking to go booze free or want to make informed adjustments to your drinking habits, this inclusive and non-judgemental guide gives you the scientifically backed tools you need to create a relationship with alcohol that works for you, from cold exposure therapy to sound healing and beyond.

You will explore the roots of your drinking behaviours and triggers, hear from leading industry experts, including addiction and nutrition therapists, learn to overcome backsliding behaviours, receive tips and advice on real-life scenarios, like sticking to your goals in a party environment, get advice on recreating your self-identity, and create a personalized plan of action to guide you on your soberish journey.

A powerful new approach to natural, intuitive whole-body healing.

The Body Code is a truly revolutionary method of holistic healing. Dr. Bradley Nelson, a globally renowned expert in bioenergetic medicine, has spent decades teaching his powerful self-healing method and training practitioners around the globe, but this is the first time his system of healing will be available to the general public in the form of The Body Code.

The Body Code is based on the simple premise that the body is self-healing and knows what it needs in order to thrive and flourish. The Body Code method allows readers to tap into this inner knowing, and find imbalances in 6 key areas--Energies, Circuits and Systems, Toxicity, Nutrition and Lifestyle, Misalignments, and Pathogens--that are the root causes of our physical, mental and emotional issues. By identifying and releasing these imbalances, readers become empowered to activate their body's innate healing power.

Featuring a foreword from George Noory, host of Coast to Coast AM, and filled with powerful first-hand accounts of healing, hundreds of color illustrations, and concrete, actionable steps, The Body Code is a road map to healing based in deep study of the human body, time-proven ancient practices, and the unlimited power of the subconscious mind.

Organized as weekly collections of stories, meditations, and suggestions, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact addresses key self-care issues.

Organized as weekly collections of stories, meditations, and suggestions, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact addresses key self-care issues.

What gets in the way of serenity? For most people, the answer is life--those everyday distractions, obligations, and frustrations that cause chaos and clutter. In her new week-by-week guidebook, best-selling self-help author Melody Beattie brings new hope to individuals longing to lead a more serene life. Organized as weekly collections of stories, meditations, and suggestions, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact addresses key self-care issues, including how to nurture inner peace, when to reach out to others, how to carry through on good intentions, where to make time for fun, and how to cultivate a deeper prayer life. Beattie's thoughtful prose and practical advice provide new opportunities for reflection, affirmation, and change.

As portals between the physical and spiritual planes, the chakras offer unparalleled opportunities for growth, healing, and transformation. Anodea Judith's classic introduction to the chakra system, which has sold over 300,000 copies, has been completely updated and expanded. It includes revised chapters on relationships, evolution, and healing, and a new section on raising children with healthy chakras.

Wheels of Life takes you on a powerful journey through progressively transcendent levels of consciousness. View this ancient metaphysical system through the light of new metaphors, ranging from quantum physics to child development. Learn how to explore and balance your own chakras using poetic meditations and simple yoga movements--along with gaining spiritual wisdom, you'll experience better health, more energy, enhanced creativity, and the ability to manifest your dreams.

Praise:
"Wheels of Life is the most significant and influential book on the chakras ever written."-- John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga

Get ready to explore airports inside and out in this jam-packed activity and sticker book! Design your own passport, get through the runway maze, color in a futuristic airport, unscramble anagrams, fill the skies with airplane stickers and much more. With over 200 stickers, bright illustrations, and awesome facts about airports around the world, this is the perfect way to keep kids occupied whether on your travels or at home!

Flying can be an exciting way to travel, and there's plenty of inspiration throughout this book for learning about airports and air travel. With vivid illustrations by James Gulliver Hancock of baggage systems, in-flight meals and the plane's entertainment systems to name a few, young kids will find plenty to keep them occupied and challenged. They can decorate and design their own airports, and with 48 pages of activities and over 200 stickers, there's plenty of fun to be had at home or in the air!

Activities include:

• Navigating your way through the baggage carousel maze
• Draw your own in-flight entertainment with marker pens
• Spot the two identical airline meals on board the flight
• Color in the airplane and design your own airline logo
• Add stickers to complete the air hangar jigsaw
• Find the odd plane out in the airport scene

And much, much more!

About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!

Follow these practical ways to get your feet out of the mud

Are you dispirited and unfocused?

Do you catch yourself being too harsh of a critic on your own actions?

Do you want to change how you think about yourself but feel lost?

If you found the above questions relatable, then there's a good chance you're stuck in a self-sabotaging mindset - one that revolves around negative thoughts that limit you from growing.

According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has around 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day, most in the form of self-talk, of which 80% are negative and 95% are repetitive.

While this self-talk is completely natural, its negative aspect fails to promote your overall well-being, whether physical or mental.

These negative thoughts can lead to feeling unmotivated to take action, because you don't see your self-worth, which can increase the feeling of being stuck.

As a result, you'll often feel helpless, causing a drop in motivation and a heavy hit to your health - you'll end up becoming your own worst enemy.

But life doesn't have to be this complicated.

Just a shift in your perspective can help you see things differently - not just with what you do, but also how you see yourself.

In fact, you can get out of this mindset of feeling stuck and bring more positivity into your life all by yourself.

All you have to do is follow these 6 simple methods...

In Help Me, I'm Stuck, you will discover:

• 6 proven methods to completely turn your life around and bring a positive change
• How to focus your mind on the task at hand (and feel motivated to do it)
• Gratitude in a Nutshell - build a habit of appreciating what you have (with 5 tips and 3 exercises you can practice every day)
• How to silence the inner critic - use the power of positive thinking to rewire your brain (in just 2 simple steps!)
• The positive impact of food - what you should eat to promote your mental as well as physical well-being (and 10 ways to help you stop eating your emotions)
• A simple yet effective guide to eliminate negative self-talk (small steps to reduce stress and make permanent changes)
• The importance of empathy, and how you can incorporate it into your daily life
• DIY Unstuck Planning - 6 tips to get you started on making a custom "getting unstuck" plan for yourself

And much more.

While it may seem so, it's not the circumstances around you that control the outcome, but the power of your thoughts and how you look at things.

Are you ready to take control of your life?

If you want to get unstuck from a negative mindset and live a rewarding life, then scroll up and click "Add to Cart" right now.

World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers.

- Numerous new and rare color photographs complement the completely revised and updated text.

- Explores the uses of hallucinogenic plants in shamanic rituals throughout the world.

- Cross-referenced by plant, illness, preparation, season of collection, and chemical constituents.

Three scientific titans join forces to completely revise the classic text on the ritual uses of psychoactive plants. They provide a fascinating testimony of these "plants of the gods," tracing their uses throughout the world and their significance in shaping culture and history. In the traditions of every culture, plants have been highly valued for their nourishing, healing, and transformative properties. The most powerful of those plants, which are known to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness, have always been regarded as sacred. The authors detail the uses of hallucinogens in sacred shamanic rites while providing lucid explanations of the biochemistry of these plants and the cultural prayers, songs, and dances associated with them. The text is lavishly illustrated with 400 rare photographs of plants, people, ceremonies, and art related to the ritual use of the world's sacred psychoactive flora.

Learn how to make the most of a beloved seasonal delight: the pumpkin!

As the sun sets on summer, there's no need to be sad. Fall is here, and it's time to carve some gourds!

But pumpkins aren't just for teenagers to smash on Halloween--there are a multitude of uses for this versatile produce, and Oh My Gourd! is your go-to gourd guide, with how-to-carve step-by-step instructions, 20 pumpkin recipes, 9 other uses for pumpkins and gourds, and 2 pumpkin carving stencils.

Get back to the basics with a handy step-by-step for carving a pumpkin that will have your callers commenting on your crafty cutting. Use one of the included templates to carve your creation! Then discover how to turn a simple gourd into a water bottle or a colorful animal feeder that will bring all sorts of critters to your garden. After, why not whip up a batch of smoky pumpkin deviled eggs, pumpkin chips, or a warming pumpkin spiced latte to sip while you watch your favorite holiday movie? And that's just the beginning; you'll find lots of things can be improved with a little sprinkle of pumpkin spice!

Transform your festive fun with 29 ideas that will have you saying, "Oh my Gourd!"

Celebrate the wild wisdom of 36 herbs, fruits, and flowers in this award-winning book by herbalist Maia Toll, featuring rich illustrations by artist Kate O'Hara, and oracle cards for each plant to help guide your personal reflections.

Rosemary is for remembrance; sage is for wisdom. Would meditating on the starflower help heal you? Does the spirit of sweet violet have something to offer you today? Contemporary herbalist Maia Toll, author of The Illustrated Bestiary and The Illustrated Crystallary, profiles the mystical, magical, bewitching personalities of 36 powerful herbs, fruits, and flowers in this stunning volume. The book includes a deck of 36 beautifully illustrated oracle cards -- one for each plant -- and ideas for readings and rituals to help you access your intuition, navigate each day's joys and problems, and tap into each plant's unique powers for healing, guidance, and wisdom.

Also available: The Illustrated Bestiary, The Illustrated Crystallary, Maia Toll's Wild Wisdom Companion, The Illustrated Herbiary Collectible Box Set, The Illustrated Bestiary Collectible Box Set, The Illustrated Herbiary Oracle Cards, The Illustrated Bestiary Oracle Cards, The Illustrated Crystallary Oracle Cards, The Illustrated Herbiary Puzzle, The Illustrated Bestiary Puzzle, The Illustrated Crystallary Puzzle, and Maia Toll's Wild Wisdom Wall Calendar.

The complete guide to balancing your chakras and healing your mind, body, and spirit.

Within all living beings are seven powerful centers of energy called chakras. Every chakra holds the potential for immense healing and restoration. Chakra Healing: A Beginner's Guide can show you how to harness that power with a wide range of simple exercises for beginners.

This book will put you on the path to healing pain, allergies, indigestion, headaches, fatigue, and even emotional turbulence like loneliness to live a happier life. With practical instruction and guidance, you'll learn how to identify what's ailing you and which chakra is causing it.

What sets this meditation book apart from other spiritual books:

• A VARIETY OF TECHNIQUES: Discover daily habits that make a difference. Connect with your chakras using everything from meditation to crystals, essential oils, yoga, focused breathing, and even diet.
• HELPFUL ILLUSTRATIONS: Detailed photos and drawings make the tools and exercises even easier to understand.
• BEGINNER-FRIENDLY APPROACH: Find accessible advice for learning each technique. No previous knowledge or separate yoga book is necessary.

Discover the power of balancing your chakras to help you heal and feel your best.

Named Most Anticipated by: Good Morning America ・ New York ​Post​・Pure Wow ・BuzzFeed ・ ​Los Angeles Times ・ Book Riot・ ​Apple Books

Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived-- and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning.

On paper, Sarah Levy's life was on track. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. But Sarah had a secret: her relationship with alcohol was becoming toxic. And only she could save herself.

Drinking Games explores the role alcohol has in our formative years, and what it means to opt out of a culture completely enmeshed in drinking. It's an examination of what our short-term choices about alcohol do to our long-term selves and how they challenge our ability to be vulnerable enough to discover what we really want in life.

Candid and dynamic, this book speaks to the all-consuming cycle of working hard, playing harder, and trying to look perfect while you're at it. Sarah takes us by the hand through her personal journey with blackouts, dating, relationships, wellness culture, startups, social media, friendship, and self-discovery.

In this intimate and darkly funny memoir, she stumbles through her twenties, explores the impact alcohol has on relationships and identity, and shows us how life's messiest moments can end up being the most profound.

New York Times bestseller

When The Kinfolk Table was published in 2013, it transformed the way readers across the globe thought about small gatherings. In this much-anticipated follow-up, Kinfolk founder Nathan Williams showcases how embracing that same ethos--of slowing down, simplifying your life, and cultivating community--allows you to create a more considered, beautiful, and intimate living space.

The Kinfolk Home takes readers inside 35 homes around the world, from the United States, Scandinavia, Japan, and beyond. Some have constructed modern urban homes from blueprints, while others nurture their home's long history. What all of these spaces have in common is that they've been put together carefully, slowly, and with great intention. Featuring inviting photographs and insightful profiles, interviews, and essays, each home tour is guaranteed to inspire.