A revolution has been quietly taking place in academic psychology, economics, neuroscience, marketing, and business. In study after study, emotional forces massively outweigh human rationality in determining our actual choices and actions. This insight has reshaped both science and industry as its power is harnessed for commercial ends. Those of ......
This collection of 101 true, awe-inspiring stories will renew your faith, reignite your sense of wonder, and remind you that, indeed, there is more to this world than meets the eye. Each of the 101 true stories in this entertaining, inspiring book is a testament to the miraculous moments that grace our lives, inviting us to believe in the ......
A richly twined, multi-generational memoir that explores the complexity of family, the hidden forces of mental illness and trauma, and our struggle as human beings to help the people we love without losing ourselves. Stay: A Story of Family, Love & Other Traumas opens in the spring of 2016, days before Julie Fingersh's fiftieth birthday as she ......
Inspired by his own transformation from feeling left out to leading others while staying true to his shy nature, in Shy by Design, career coach and communications advisor Michale Thompson now shares 12 easy-to-grasp principles that will shy people flip conventional wisdom with the communication skills they need to own their voice.
Put the top down, turn up the radio, and embark on an enchanting journey through these 101 heartwarming tales that celebrate the timeless spirit that keeps us all eternally youthful. In this delightful book, we celebrate the joy of staying young at heart, regardless of how many birthdays have passed us by. This book is not just about growing ......
Breakthrough your limitations and live the life of your dreams
WILD Success is the ultimate resource for those who refuse to settle for mediocrity and are determined to create a life that exceeds their wildest dreams.
Rewire Your Brain, Reduce Anxiety, and Recreate Your Life
Readers want to understand that there is life beyond anxiety. Happiness needs to be within their grasp. The Missing Peace will show them how to touch it, feel it, and nurture their natural desires, not those with which society burdens us. Often said but true, people need to learn to love themselves, but the real question is how to love ......
Accidental injury is the leading cause of death for Americans under forty-five. Those who have caused accidents walk among us. They are us. Episcopal priest David W. Peters unintentionally killed someone in a traffic accident as a young man, and in Accidental, he guides readers through the aftermath of these tragedies toward healing and recovery.
Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell
What if aging is something to aspire to, not to dread? Join Karen Walrond, author of The Lightmaker's Manifesto, as she investigates how we can reclaim aging, cultivate joy, and resist ageism. Walrond does a deep dive into different aspects of getting older, including health, beauty, spirituality, relationships, adventure, activism, and purpose.
In this book, we describe the online world that youth begin to encounter, often without adult oversight. It is a critical time where they are first getting to know both the outside world and form their own identity. We explain the social forces and sways that influence kids' attitudes and choices, from peers in social apps to influencers. We show ......
In this book, we describe the online world that youth begin to encounter, often without adult oversight. It is a critical time where they are first getting to know both the outside world and form their own identity. We explain the social forces and sways that influence kids' attitudes and choices, from peers in social apps to influencers. We show ......
How to embrace change, build unwavering reilience and lead a life you love
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, you’re in the right place. Many of us reach crossroads where we must choose between the familiar and the bold pursuit of a more fulfilling life. You Always Have a Choice offers a powerful message for anyone feeling overwhelmed by the relentless pace of life, addressing the common struggle of feeling like you are just ......
Every Woman's Guide to Finding Your Voice and Using it Fearlessly
Im Speaking is not a book on public speaking. Public speaking is an old white guy, standing in front of a podium, telling you things you dont want to know on a topic youre not interested in. He thinks hes funny. His mustache is funny. This is a book about creating a clear, confident voice that is authentically yours and using it fearlessly.
Awaken Your Purpose, Heal Your Past, and Transform Your Future
"An autopilot lifestyle will no longer suffice. Now is the time to actively pursue the radiance your heart, mind, and body yearn for. This book is a dynamic masterclass guide to self-healing unlike any before. If you are ready to supercharge your commitment to cultivating a life of unimaginable fulfillment and meaning, the key is within these ......
Free Yourself from Body Image Struggles Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Its a common reaction to put things on hold because of how you feel about your body or weight. This guide encourages you to take a step back from harmful social attitudes towards weight, and use ACT to support your journey from shame to meaningful, positive action and compassionate self-understanding.
Andrea Navedo, Latina actress who played Jane's mother on Jane the Virgin, shares the hard-earned and ghetto-honest lessons she learned growing up in the South Bronx to inspire young people from the urban trenches. She helps us see that the challenges we face bring out our superpowers, and that our otherness is our strength.
Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety
Provides a broad and entertaining overview of fear from evolution, to modern day challenges, and how clinicians treat trauma, anxiety, and PTSD today.
About a third of the world population suffers from an anxiety disorder, and half of Americans have had at least one traumatic experience like rape, assault, shooting, or natural ......
The Three Stages of Healthy, Happy, and Meaningful Senior Years
Growing old is challenging. The tendency is to think there is nothing left to live for; no point in defying the looming number on the mortality chart. Embracing Elderhood offers a palliative to the pessimism that leads to 'dying before we die!' It loudly proclaims, being old is about chronology; being an Elder is about attitude.
9 Steps to Cultivating an Opportunity Mindset in a Crisis
Crises of all kinds impact us psychologically, emotionally, and physically. Learning to turn crises into opportunities, however, can lessen the negative impact and help us respond positively and constructively when life turns against us. This book shows us how to let go of a crisis mentality and develop an opportunity mindset in the face of ......
Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies, Each Other, and the Earth
An invitation to explore the wisdom that our bodies long to teach. Embodiment coach Tara Teng helps us untangle ourselves from centuries of body-based oppression built into our societal systems or masquerading as religion by teaching us to slow down and listen to the wisdom that comes through right relationship with our bodies and all things.
A Self-Esteem and Confidence Workbook for Trans People
Understand your values, set career goals, take care of your health and take over the world! With inspiring activities, top tips and soul-searching self-reflection exercises, this workbook is a toolkit for trans-formation
25 Tools to Boost Confidence, Achieve Goals, and Find Happiness
From the author of The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit and The Ultimate Time-Management Toolkit, this book provides practical strategies to help you increase your self-esteem, resilience, and confidence. It includes creative exercises and empowering techniques drawn from CBT, positive psychology and mindfulness.
A practical 10 step process to get you moving and keep you moving, for the rest of your life
Hitting the 40s and 50s is a turning point, it’s decision time. What we do from that moment on will impact the way we live the rest of our life. Rediscover Your Athlete Within is a book about challenging and guiding people through those sticky middle years to help them get off the couch and get active.
A New Approach to Navigating Life's Biggest Changes
Dancing with Disruption reshapes how we understand disruption and offers a proven toolkit for successfully navigating pivotal points in our lives. Readers learn how to make choices that allow us to identify opportunities, pursue dreams that felt previously unattainable, and ultimately live the lives we all imagine.
Denial helps us manage difficult information rather than face the truth--about ourselves, our loved ones, and the world around us. But it can also stymie progress and upend our ability to take action in our lives. Here, Dr. Jane Greer shows us how to recognize, battle, and ultimately conquer denial in our lives, so we may face the truth and move ......
Prescriptions for Lasting Love and Deeper Connection
Relationship Rx tackles the top problems in relationships while offering simple yet effective strategies, grounded in evidence-based relationship science. All couples can benefit from taking their relationship medicine and vitamins to prevent and treat problems or restore a struggling relationship back to health.
A Guide for Advocates and Activitist on Staying Healthy, Inspired and Driven
Being the Change is written for activists who work in organizations with social missions, and those who are involved in social change outside of their jobs. It provides empirically supported strategies from cognitive behavior therapies and other psychological interventions for coping with the challenges of difficult, yet meaningful work.
We spend our day playing whack-a-mole with distracting thoughts. When we need to concentrate we’re taken off-task by the urge to check emails, social media or other trivial things. Even if we can suppress the desire to check, we will soon be distracted by a memory of a conversation from last night, a secret fear we have, or something our inner ......
Unleashing Your Side Hustles for Better Work, Play, and Life
The Freelance Mindset explores the question of what comes next after you start freelancing. Drawing on a decade of freelance experience and interviews with fifty freelancers, Joy Batra shares concrete ways to navigate the uncertainty of freelancing to build a life that is financially and emotionally rewarding.
Audiences are distracted - no matter where they sit or to whom they are listening. More than ever, it's important to hone messages to reach audiences effectively. Here, communications expert Gabe Zichermann helps readers develop techniques to pitch, speak, or lead meetings wit...
Why Talented People Quit and How to Get Them to Stay
We're currently confronting a once-in-a-century opportunity to create a future of work that's better for everyone. The corporate standard of extreme hours, sleep deprivation, and nonstop travel is dead. Tomorrow's successful businesses will be hybrid, flexible, and-as glimpsed in The Brain-Friendly Workplace-optimized for peak performance.
How Social Media is Affecting Your Mental Health and What You Can Do Abo
Logged In and Stressed Out teaches readers to feel happier and more confident by examining the ways in which social media is negatively affecting their lives and determining how they can develop healthier online habits.
HappiNest provides a road map to help parents navigate new paths, evolving relationships and existential challenges when their kids leave home. This book distills the latest research and presents vignettes from interviews with more than 300 experts, including psychologists, sociologists, seasoned empty nesters, and fledglings.
Sweet Sorrow illustrates through story and example, grounded in psychological principles and practices, ways for grief survivors to start over, manage chaos and stress, and heal with new strategies. Sweet Sorrow also provides recommendations for self-care and guidelines for responding to those suffering from heartbreaking losses.
There are many exits in life - from jobs, from relationships, from life itself. Knowing how to do it gracefully can ease the transitions. Using humor, expert advice, and personal experience, Geri Reid Suster walks readers through the most graceful ways of handling goodbyes.
More than 800,000 people each year in the United State get divorced. This book invites the reader into a more meaningful conversation about how to end a marriage with dignity and mutual respect, using the interdisciplinary model called Collaborative Divorce.
