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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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Avery
Pub. Date
[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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"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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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
Pub. Date
[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
Pub. Date
[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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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...
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2023.
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271 pages ; 20 cm
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Provides advice on how to achieve a state of well-being, no matter what that means for any particular individual, or what stresses a person may face at any given moment, by strengthening positive emotions, keeping hope active, forgiving oneself, and beingresiliant.
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Bloom Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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271 pages
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Break free from anxiety and manage stress with simple strategies and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques in this straightforward and encouraging handbook. Keeping up with friendships, relationships, school, extracurriculars, and social media is already a lot of work. And when anxiety spikes, it sometimes feels like it's impossible to keep your life on track. You might feel like you're in a never-ending downward spiral. That's where this...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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xxvi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Almost everyone feels stuck in some way. Whether youre muddling through a midlife crisis, wrestling writers block, trapped in a thankless job, or trying to remedy a fraying friendship, the resulting emotion is usually a mix of anxiety, uncertainty, fear, anger, and numbness. But it doesnt have to be this way. Anatomy of a Breakthrough is the roadmap we all need to escape our inertia and flourish in the face of friction."--
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