Creative Development

Journey through the archetypal wisdom of the divine feminine to reclaim your authentic self and to follow your soul’s longing. Embodiment teacher Mara Branscombe takes an intriguing look at the seven feminine archetypes that prevail in the modern psyche—Maiden, Mother, Sage, Huntress, Lover, Mystic, and Queen—and traces their continuing influence throughout different stages of our life, sometimes dormant, sometimes prominent.

In Book Yourself Solid for Creatives, bestselling author Michael Port and Joana Galvao deliver a game-changing and super-specific playbook for creative professionals seeking to fill their pipeline with dozens or hundreds of qualified leads and convert them into paying clients. The authors explain how to achieve your business goals, pack your calendar with high-value clients, and increase your top- and bottom-lines.

Let’s say you see a familiar musician from a globe-trotting, touring band hanging out at your local coffee shop, reading the newspaper and typing away on his laptop. This doesn’t look like a musician at work. He seems approachable enough, so you ask him what exactly he does all day. With a grin on his face, he admits the job might not be what you think. So you take a seat, and ask him every question you’ve ever had about how it all works: the nuts and bolts of writing a song, preparing for a show, marketing a band, and the day-to-day business of a creative life.

In Write It Down, Make It Happen, Henriette Anne Klauser, PhD, explains how simply writing down your goals in life is the first step toward achieving them. Writing can even help you understand what you want. In this book, you will hear stories about ordinary people who witnessed miracles large and small unfold in their lives after they performed the basic act of putting their dreams on paper. Klauser's down-to-earth tips and easy exercises are sure to get your creative juices flowing. Before you know it, you'll be writing your own ticket to success.

Piensa rápido: sé calmado, divertido e ingenioso, ¡todo a la vez! Adiós silencios incómodos, hola agilidad conversacional.Con cualquier interacción, la charla ocurrente es casi siempre la meta final. Te permite (1) conectarte con quien sea, (2) escapar inmediatamente del modo charla aburrida y (3) fomentar un rápido entendimiento como si fuesen viejos amigos.Fluye como el agua con los giros conversacionales.

Buyers are smart. They've caught onto our marketing tricks and strategies, and what used to work isn't working anymore. To survive and thrive in the new era of calculated spending, you must be able to help customers define who they are and deeply connect their identity to your brand. In Identity Marketing, master Marketer and CEO, Veronica Romney, leads marketers, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and sales people through a 4-step framework that will show you how to stop asking your customers to "buy this" and instead extend the powerful invitation to "be this."

Ultimate Course Formula is for coaches, authors, speakers, and consultants (often referred to as “experts”) who want to make a difference in the world. This book is for people who are sharing their knowledge and expertise and want to make money by selling their content. As Iman Aghay expertly teaches audiences around the world how to create a vital impact on our world, expand their reach and touch the lives of those who want and need to hear the message only they are meant to share, he provides a system that has led to many of his students to incredible success.

Each of us was created for something great - we just need to figure out what it is and find the courage to do it. Whether it's writing the next great American novel, starting a business, or joining a band, Rob Bell wants to help us make those dreams become reality. Our path is ours and ours alone to pursue, he reminds us, and in doing so we derive great joy because we are living our passions.

In Ask Powerful Questions, Will Wise explains how the questions we traditionally ask are virtually meaningless when it comes to establishing connection. Introducing a set of practical tools for accessing and understanding others by changing the way we ask questions, Will shows how to transform "How are you? I'm fine, thanks" into a conversation that changes not only how you lead, but who you are as a person.

Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz, one of the art world’s most celebrated and passionate voices, offers an indispensable handbook for creative people of all kinds. From the first sparks of inspiration - and how to pursue them without giving in to self-doubt - Saltz offers invaluable insight into what really matters to emerging artists: originality, persistence, a balance between knowledge and intuition, and that most precious of qualities, self-belief.

Are you currently pregnant or considering having a family? Do you want your baby to have the best start possible before you give birth? There is no doubt that learning begins long before a child is born and that they are able to pick up on a variety of emotions, as well as your moods and other aspects of the world around them. Newborn children welcome those really focusing on them to join as partners on an extraordinary excursion. A helpful guide to that journey is Infant and Toddler Development from Conception to Age 3. To shed light on babies' amazing competence as active participants in ...

Internationally acclaimed author and teacher Gary Zukav shares a new vision of power and hope in this time of extraordinary transformation. Universal Human gives us new tools to grow spiritually and shows us how to transform everyday experiences of hopelessness, emptiness, and pain into fulfillment, meaning, and joy. It points us toward a startling new destination - a species that is beyond culture, religion, nation, ethnic group, and gender, a species whose allegiance is to life first and all else second - and shows us how to get there.

Es una guía clásica de meditaciones y ejercicios que te ayudan a usar el poder de tu imaginación para crear todo aquello que quieres en tu vida: Cambiar hábitos negativos, Aumentar la autoestima, Experimentar relajaciones profundas, Alcanzar tu metas profesionales, Incrementar tu vitalidad, Mejorar tu salud y mucho más.

There's a mantra real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this: "Nobody wants to read your shit." Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional.

In this honest discussion of mental health, the founder of Therapy for Women explores our reasons for drinking alcohol - and the benefits of taking a break.

On our artist's journey, we move past resistance and past self-sabotage. We discover our true selves and our authentic calling, and we produce the works we were born to create. You are an artist too - whether you realize it or not, whether you like it or not - and you have an artist's journey. Will you live it out? Will you follow your muse and do the work you were born to do?

Whether you're about to walk down the aisle or you've been married for decades, this revised and expanded edition of The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex by popular blogger and award-winning author Sheila Wray Gregoire will lead you on a wonderful journey of discovery toward the amazing sex life God designed you for.

For over a decade, Jesse Cannon has been pushing creative ideas in music. Processing Creativity: The Tools, Practices and Habits Used to Make Music You're Happy With is the culmination of four years of poring over scientific studies, books and thoughts from top creators as well as his own experience to write a book every musician should listen to about what goes into making great music versus what bands do when they make a bad album.

How working parents can lead more purposeful lives, characterized by harmony, connection, and impact.

We've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless, all-consuming, and fun. But as Dr. Stuart Brown illustrates, play is anything but trivial. It is a biological drive as integral to our health as sleep or nutrition. We are designed by nature to flourish through play.