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Ruth Klein gives you proven strategies for overcoming seventy-seven common stressors, with practical tips and techniques that you can put to work immediately to rebalance and re-energize your life.
This book covers everything you need to know to take the sting out of those monthly repayments, offering strategies for coping with personal loans, car loans, mortgages, home equity loans, and beyond.
The author shares her own personal debt story and how she accumulated over $105,000 in credit card debt through tiny, seemingly insignificant, actions. She also demonstrates how equally small steps—when taken intentionally—can help you climb your way out of debt and into a place of financial security.
Perfect for men, women, parents, and young adults hoping to make meaningful changes in their lives in the face of challenging obstacles, Be One is an empowering and inspiring guide for self-transformation that's accessible to everyone.
The book elaborates on three major areas, which include what you can do to live a long life, what your doctor should be doing to help you achieve this goal, and what society, of which we are all part, should be doing to better accommodate a growing number of older people in the coming decades.
.Based on the author's 30+ years of experience as a trained physical therapist treating musculoskeletal conditions, this book's nonpharmacological and nonsurgical focus allows clients to feel empowered in taking charge of their health through a plethora of resources and techniques.
Sharing personal stories and best practices he's learned along the way; Henderson eloquently and practically guides you through the minefield of knowing what's next by helping you:Take the Career Risk Calculator and discover if you're ready for change
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent, but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
Based on highly effective therapeutic practices, this interactive journal guides you on an exploration through the hidden aspects of your psyche, to help you confront and embrace your shadow self. Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, loneliness, or confusion, you’ll find plenty of tools to help you here. Using insightful prompts, thought-provoking exercises, and reflections, you’ll discover a path to develop greater self-awareness, cultivate self-love and acceptance, and find a deeper connection with your authentic self.
A riveting book filled with unexpected twists and powerful life lessons. Through her mother’s fierce and courageous love, Gwen was granted the tools not only to move through grief but to cherish life. For as her mother says in one of her letters: “love is stronger than death.”
An intimate, original, and profoundly generous look at its power to nurture life amid the wreckage of grief. Dialogues do not end when a friendship or person is gone; instead, they accrue new layers of meaning, showing how the conversations we share with those we love continue after them, and will continue after us.
Discover all the life hacks you’ve been missing with this perfect compendium of skills to answer all of life’s most asked questions from BuzzFeed’s popular lifestyle destination Tasty Home.
A complete roadmap for women to set boundaries and move past guilt, treat themselves with compassion, get closer to themselves, and assert their power.
Chef, recipe developer, and video producer Sohla El-Waylly reimagines what a cookbook can be, teaching home cooks of all skill levels how cooking really works.
A guide that helps overwhelmed students manage their mental, physical, and social health, and reach and maintain a healthy balance in their college lives.
English Grammar All-In-One For Dummies is an excellent resource for students, professionals, job seekers, non-native-English learners, and anyone who wants to brush up on using this crazy language we call English.
Personal Finance For Dummies offers sound advice for all ages and levels of personal money management. It’s never too early or too late to start making sense of your finances.
From basic life and household tasks to managing your finances and health, you’ll learn how to achieve your goals in each area of your life that matters to you. You’ll also discover how to balance the different parts of your life so you don’t get overwhelmed in any one area.
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. This memoir attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?
Gambuto gives us a blueprint for the ways we can take a deep breath, renew and commit to a life that we really want from unsubscribing to emails and automated subscriptions to reevaluating the presence of people and ideas and habits that no longer serve us or make us happy.
High conflict is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them. Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict and how they break free.
With this guide, you will learn not only about the benefits of Yoga but also about various techniques and training that you could apply in your leisure time to promote ultimate calmness and serenity.
Empowered refusal is a unique, positive, and meaning-filled approach to managing your energy and ambition effectively, allowing you to make lasting, positive changes in your life.
This revolutionary approach to cleaning and organizing helps free you from feeling ashamed or overwhelmed by a messy home. You will move with ease, and peace and calm will edge out guilt, self-criticism, and endless checklists.
An inspiring, money-saving, environmentally responsible, A-to-Z collection of simple recipes that utilize all kinds of leftovers—perfect for solo meals or for feeding the whole family.
Dr. Felder shows exactly how creative, thoughtful, unique individuals can survive and thrive in situations that used to make them shut down or retreat into a shell.
Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Brené Brown PhD, LMSW, dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.
Drawing from new research in social psychology, neuroscience, biology, and more, as well as from more than ten thousand people in thirty-five countries around the world who responded to his World Regret Survey-the largest of its kind ever conducted-Pink challenges the idea of regret being a drag on our self-esteem and outlook.
Complete with guided introspection, personal experiences, client stories, frameworks for having difficult conversations, and worksheets to complement each chapter, The Origins of You will teach you how to break family patterns and help you liberate the way you live and love.
A comprehensive, visual collection of more than 80 master recipes (with variations) for gluten- and allergen-free breads, muffins, scones, cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, and more, developed and refined by a baking instructor/pastry chef to achieve stellar results every time.
This offers powerful, habit-building tips across subjects ranging from mental health, careers, relationships, confidence, and physical health in 100 fun-to-read, easy-to-digest parts that provide highly actionable tools and mindset-shifting ideas that will change every part of your life.
Nearly 1 in 3 people have the genes to be more sensitive than others—both physically and emotionally. A powerfully validating, destigmatizing, and practical book, Sensitive plants a gently fluttering flag in the ground for sensitive people everywhere.
Jeremy Nobel unpacks our personal and national experiences of loneliness to discover its roots and to show how we can take steps to find comfort and connection.
A rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman’s perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime.
This offers a time-tested, proven method for reclaiming your unlimited power of creation. Learn step by step how to reawaken your magic, discover how far you’ve already come, and accelerate your journey with purpose and intention.
Different ways and methods can be used to help relieve stress as no one person is like the other, and different things work for different people. Exercise, deep breathing, journaling, yoga, and resting are some ways to relieve stress, but meditation, no doubt, comes at the top of the list.
Simple daily practices to strengthen your mind, memory, moods, focus, energy, habits, and relationships. In the pages of Change Your Brain Every Day, you'll get a year's worth of life-changing daily wisdom from Dr. Amen, one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists.
These classic segments are taken from 11 different audio programs offering several key ideas concerning wisdom about money, wealth, success and achievement that they contain.
Millions of people try and fail to stay fit. Motivation scientist and behavior expert Michelle Segar translates years of research on exercise and motivation into a simple four-point program that will empower you to break the cycle of exercise failure once and for all.
Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his career flying some of the Air Force’s most advanced aircraft to change how you interact with the world around you.
Cara Romero, in her mid-50s, loses her job in the Great Recession and is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight.
Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. We actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
Profiling people from around the world who have overcome learning limitations of all kinds, Dr. Oakley shows us how we can turn perceived weaknesses, such as impostor syndrome and advancing age, into strengths.
Man’s Search for Meaning is the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl’s struggle to hold on to hope during the unspeakable horrors of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. As a result of these experiences, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy.
The author offers compassion, personal experience, and practical strategies for living a more authentic adulthood, as well as inspiration through interviews with dozens of voices from the rich diversity of the human population who have successfully launched their adult lives.
TED talks have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking around the world. Public speaking coach Carmine Gallo has broken down the top TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology and communications to get their cutting-edge insights and to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations.
With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself.
Good Morning Monster offers an almost novelistic, behind-the-scenes look into the therapist's office, illustrating how the process can heal even the most unimaginable wounds.
The author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear.
Step-by-step exercises that illustrate exactly how the tools in this book can help you make positive changes. Over time, negative thoughts can become so frequent that the individual ends up living them as facts. It creates a real vicious circle that is difficult to stop and can prove itself to be dangerous.Nobody is born with high self-esteem: we have to build it.
Conversations on Letting Go is an original audio experience that guides listeners through authentically letting go and the path to forgiveness, with a combination of prescriptive advice and practical tools.
Packed with true stories of people's regrets as well as practical takeaways for re-imagining regret as a positive force, The Power of Regret shows how we can live richer, more engaged lives.
Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, science, and his own experiences, Haig offers warmth and reassurance, reminding us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence.
Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
It all starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard. The effortless way isn't the lazy way. It's the smart way. It may even be the only way. Not every hard thing in life can be made easy. But we can make it easier to do more of what matters most.
At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work.
The Alter Ego Effect is not about creating a false mask — it’s about finding the hero already inside you. It’s a proven way of overcoming the self-doubt, negativity, and insecurity that hold you back and empowering you to ultimately become your best self.
Much of the advice we've been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it.
In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.M.C. keeps it a hundred percent, speaking out about his battle with depression and overcoming suicidal thoughts—one of the most devastating yet little known health issues plaguing the black community today.
Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,”A Grief Observed an unflinchingly truthful account of how loss can lead even a stalwart believer to lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and the inspirational tale of how he can possibly regain his bearings.