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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and...
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"Written in sync with the progression of the seasons, A Year in Practice is a program of holistic techniques and journaling prompts to nurture the creative seeker all year long. Four seasonally themed chapters keep you connected to natural phases of creative contraction and expansion, from the quiet hibernation of winter to the jubilant and expressive communing of summer. Used regularly, you will move through artistic blocks, deepen your capacity...
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Avery
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[2019]
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xvi, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Life is not a problem to be solved. ACT shows how we can live full and meaningful lives by embracing our vulnerability and turning toward what hurts. In this landmark book, the originator and pioneering researcher into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) lays out the psychological flexibility skills that make it one of the most powerful approaches research has yet to offer. These skills have been shown to help even where other approaches have...
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"Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey combine their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle to show readers how to improve their lives right now, instead of waiting for the outside world to change. They offer a research-based work plan that shows the reader how to manage their emotions so they no longer control their outlook and behavior; turn life's inevitable difficulties and challenges into opportunities for growth; strengthen their...
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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An eye-opening journey into the power of human movement and how we can harness it to optimize our brain health, boost our mood and improve every aspect of our lives. For our earliest ancestors who hunted and gathered, movement meant survival. Our brains evolved to reward physical activity. Moving, thinking and feeling have always been inextricably linked. Yet what happens when we stop moving? Today, on average, we spend around 70 percent of our lives...
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Penguin Compass
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[2005]
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xxviii, 240 pages ; 19 cm
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This book will speak to anyone who's ever experienced being stuck in life. With her signature clarity, wisdom, and wit and her trademark blend of psychological and spiritual insight, Charlotte Kasl presents seven simple yet profound steps on the path to change. Full of insight from Buddhist and other teachings that emphasize the joy that comes with letting go of fears and attachments. If the Buddha Got Stuck is an inspirational and practical roadmap...
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In our modern society there are lots of pressures to succeed. Whatever that means. Most of us absorb the idea that we need to succeed in life and thus they have the corollary fear of failure.
One of my favorite movies is "The Razor's Edge" with Tyrone Powell. It is the story of a young man in the 1920s who has the opportunity to make it big in conventional jobs, but he isn't interested. Instead, he follows an alternative path which leads him to India...
10) Make Sh*t Happen
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This volume of Deborah LeBlanc's Make Sh** Happen Series is a wry yet insightful guide to cleaning your closet . . .and very existence. It isn't time to just tidy up. It's time to completely transform-together. From physical mounds and digital masses to crippling mental sloppiness, Deborah has tactics proven to help break free of all disorder.
Framed correctly, making a game plan isn't dull-it's revolutionary. With LeBlanc's unique blend of psychological...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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xv, 240 pages ; 24 cm.
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Dr. Gladys McGarey, cofounder of the American Holistic Medical Association, began her medical practice at a time when women couldn’t even own their own bank accounts. Over the past sixty years, she has pioneered a new way of thinking about disease and health that has transformed the way we imagine health care and self-care around the world. In a voice that is both practical and inspiring, Dr. McGarey shares her own extraordinary stories and eternal...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2024].
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xi, 241 pages ; 22 cm
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"'America's Mom' Tabitha Brown presents an inspirational guide for encouraging positive changes in your life— one day and one challenge at a time. I did a new thing today! Years ago, Tabitha Brown started a 30-day personal challenge that she called 'I Did a New Thing!' The challenge was simple. Every day she would do something she'd never done before. Sometimes it was something small like trying a new food. Other times, she'd step it up a bit...
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Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2021.
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411 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"For over twenty-five years, leadership legend and personal-mastery path-blazer Robin Sharma has mentored billionaires, business titans, professional-sports superstars and entertainment royalty. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Sharma makes his transformational system available to anyone who is ready for undefeatable positivity, monumental productivity, deep spiritual freedom and a life of helping others"--
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Viking
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[2023].
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212 pages ; 19 cm
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"On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly began to write down for his young adult children some things he had learned about life that he wished he had known earlier. To his surprise, Kelly had more to say than he thought, and kept adding to the advice over the years, compiling a life's wisdom into these pages. Kelly's timeless advice covers an astonishing range, from right living to setting ambitious goals, optimizing generosity, and cultivating compassion....
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"This book could not come at a better time for the many American college students who struggle with mental health issues. Mia Nosanow's decades of experience, graceful prose, and easy-to-follow format make this the perfect companion for any student heading off to or already in college."
- Dan Buettner, #1 New York Times bestselling author, National Geographic Fellow, and founder of Blue Zones
"Students and the parents who love them will find...
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Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2022.
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187 pages ; 22 cm
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"There are times in life when we just want to give up. We feel drained, unsatisfied with our reality, discouraged by our surroundings. We start a tempest in a teapot. We can't seem to find a solution for our distress, even though it is right in front of us. Ferran Cases, author of The Brain of Happy People, has written an inspiring, simple, exquisite fable that gives you the clues to understanding what is happening to you, so you may live in peace,...
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Planeta
Pub. Date
2022.
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282 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
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"Lety Sahagún and Ashley Frangie, the voices of Se Regalan Dudas, one of the most successful podcasts in Spanish, have created Despertando to help you give an intention to your day, and to help you connect with yourself... in only five minutes! In these pages you will find tools, reflections, phrases and exercises that will help you discover the very best version of yourself. Within each chapter, you will find the guidance to connect with self-love,...
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2022.
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201 pages ; 19 cm.
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En este nuevo libro del reconocido psiquiatra Luis Rojas Marcos... - Aprenderemos que sentir y pensar en positivo es una inversión sumamente rentable para desarrollar al máximo las posibilidades de vivir sanos y felices. - Conoceremos los ingredientes que distinguen el optimismo del pesimismo, e identificaremos los venenos más dañinos para el optimismo. - Exploraremos las fuerzas que forjan nuestro temperamento. - Y aprenderemos eficaces estrategias...
20) Aging Wisely
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Growing older brings many thoughts of "I wish I knew that before" This book provides information to help us age as well as possible. Surprisingly, our feelings do not age. Pleasure and contentment interface loneliness, loss, fears and sorrow. At a time when life is thought easier, new problems and situations that are challenging arise. Four stages of aging include the initiation to aging at about fifty years of age, changes in life following retirement,...
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