Modern Relationships

In his best-selling memoir, On The Road Less Traveled, Ed Hajim told the story of how he went from being a 3 year-old-boy kidnapped by his father (and then abandoned to foster care), to becoming a successful Wall Street executive and family man. The Island of the Four Ps, is a story told in two parts. The first is a modern fable, inspired by that experience, and the second is the author's personal story, which draws upon his own hard-won life lessons.

Unveiling "The Mindful Path to Balance," your ultimate gateway to deciphering the depths of mindfulness and learning how to embark on a journey of harmonious life-balance. This comprehensive resource breaks from the conventional mold with an incredibly rich, step-by-step guide to seamlessly incorporate mindfulness into every aspect of your day-to-day life. From unveiling the science and history of mindfulness, to demonstrating the necessity of its practice in the stress-fraught environment of the modern world, the primary chapters provide a delightful foundation for beginners and experts ...

"We all know bad manners when we see them," Henry Alford observes at the beginning of his new book. But what, he asks, do good manners look like in our day and age? When someone answers their cell phone in the middle of dining with you, or runs you off the sidewalk with their doublewide stroller, or you enter a postapocalyptic public restroom, the long-revered wisdom of Emily Post can seem downright prehistoric. Alford embarks on a journey to find out how things might look if people were on their best behavior a tad more often.

If you’ve found yourself confused by men’s behaviors, Becoming the Female Hunter: The Modern Woman’s Guide to Inner Healing and Lasting Love will offer you helpful insight into the male psyche. This will hopefully ease your confusion and minimize your questions, allowing you to avoid getting overly emotionally invested in men who are not willing to commit to you. The goal is to help you overcome your insecurities, improve your sense of self-worth, and generate attraction to have the lasting satisfying love you crave!

Part memoir, part stereotype-defying manifesto, Namaste Motherf*ckers is a funny, empowering, practical book that takes an irreverent look at the author's own story of radical midlife reinvention - taking her from meetings in the boardroom to becoming a stand-up comedian - thanks to a chance conversation with the late, great Joan Rivers encouraging her to make change happen.

Africa Brooke is an internationally recognised consultant, accredited coach, public speaker and podcaster. Her 2021 open letter, 'Why I'm leaving the cult of wokeness', has been read and shared by more than 12 million people. Through her work, she has helped thousands of people, including many high-profile clients, who are struggling with personal and professional manifestations of self-sabotage and self-censorship. The Third Perspective is Africa's transformative self-help framework to do the same for you - sharing her three-part process to move from self-censorship into mindful expression.

Strong, powerful, independent Liz has a plan for her life but keeps looking for something more. Upcoming young lawyer Cam owns a good heart and a good head but lacks direction. From the first time they meet, the two of them are enthralled, Liz with Cam's kindness and seeming innocence, and Cam with the confident, beautiful redhead a few years his senior. For Liz, the magic ends when they sleep together…. What could have been the end of their relationship evolves into something more profound, as Liz and Cam – or is it, Candi? -- begin a journey into pleasure, sexuality, and gender in ...

In this fun and interestingly informative listen, the dos and don’ts of potty training will be explained, and the highs and the lows will be discussed. This will assist you in making a few good moves in the process of teaching your child the basics of using the loo. Whether your child is considered a “quick learner” or not, these fun steps have been proven to assist well and make it a playful and fun process for your toddler too. The following guidelines will help you to gain some perspective and think before you act on frustrating impulses.

Do you feel like you could be living a happier life? Though many of us might answer "yes" to that question, attracting more joy into our lives is not always easy - life and stress can seem to hinder our well-being, despite our best efforts. As it turns out, happiness is not as elusive a goal as it seems...There are proven methods to increase your happiness, break down the hold of negative emotions, and increase self-love, to live your best and most joyful life. Hack your happiness hormones and start experiencing massive positive changes by rebalancing your inner chemistry!

Get ready to be swept away in a raw and powerful collection of modern poetry. "Walking Toward The Noise" by Bowie is a journey through life's complexities, inspired by the likes of Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Rupi Kaur, Sarah Kane, and Ted Hughes. As the words on the page come to life, the setting shifts from gritty city streets to quiet, contemplative moments in nature. Through it all, we follow the main character, a complex and relatable individual navigating the ups and downs of life. But just when we think we know where the journey is headed, a twist sends us reeling and questioning...

In India, two out of every three people are under the age of thirty-five. These are men and women who grew up with the internet and the advent of smartphones and social media. But when it comes to love and marriage, they’re expected to adhere to thousands of years of tradition. It’s that conflict between obeying convention and embracing modernity that drives journalist Mansi Choksi’s The Newlyweds. Choksi shines a light on three young couples who buck against arranged marriages in the pursuit of true love, illustrating the challenges, shame, anger, triumph, and loss their actions set in play.

Being a true modern gentleman and a genuine class act is increasingly rare. It is also more important now than ever before. What worked for the rat pack and the brat pack won’t work for you, and truth be told, it won’t work for anyone because that is old school. Manliness in the modern era is worth learning about, and the dividends will pay off for a lifetime. Not only will you bring joy to all those around you, you’ll be happier, too. Once you master this, you’ll live the good life.

We live in a fast-paced world that has come to characterize the 21st century. We are bombarded with constant distractions, and silence has all but vanished from our daily schedule and practice. We are collectively exhausted, but we don’t really realize it. The exhaustion manifests in sicknesses we can’t identify, and if we can, it’s something we can’t pronounce. We batter ourselves against the daily onslaught that has become our lives.

The media is full of mixed signals about what is expected of women. The news is filled with stories about the poor behavior, bad attitudes, and entitled outlook of young women. But, at the same time pop culture is filled with messages aimed at women about empowerment, taking what you want, and not putting up with sexism. The truth is being a lady isn’t about letting people walk all over you. The modern lady is a woman who has class and manners and knows how to get what she wants.

“The Thirst For Knowledge Must Be Accompanied By The Thirst For Action. Why? Because A Thirst For Knowledge Without The Thirst For Action Is A Formula For Gluttony” Bro Get Your Shit Together is a roadmap to becoming the highest version of yourself. In the world we live in, there’s so many distractions that come in the form of flashy things, so it can be hard to truly focus on one direction in life. But this is the struggle of all great men. You are not alone in your worries, your fears, or your insecurities about the future, this is part of the necessary process of becoming a man. ...

Tired of bros and do-nothing daddys, sick of misogynistic behavior in the boardroom, and frankly dreading yet another bachelorette party with a stripper, Dalal Khajah and Josephine Wai Lin founded the service company ManServants Inc. What is a ManServant, you ask? The ManServants are “chivalrous gentlemen for nonsexual service,” who treat women like queens for a day. The ManServant Guide to Modern Chivalry is the gift that every woman with a well-intentioned but clueless husband, boyfriend, guy friend, or son should buy for all the women in their life.

Life be Life-ing! While adversity, losses and setbacks are unavoidable in this human experience, Take This L is a profoundly brilliant reminder to anyone at any stage of life experiencing an L that it's just a season, and this, too, shall pass. Through vivid testimonial storytelling, the author helps the listener understand how a new generation is able to find balance between the fragility naturally brought on by L's and the resilience eventually gained in coping with adversity and loss.

This book gives you some fundamental, practical steps that you can ease into, creating new habits to lower your risks of burnout causing serious health issues in the future so you can stay productive while bringing back your sparkle, your joie de vivre and feel like you again!

Emotional energy is, in many ways, our most precious resource. Emotions are the fuel for absolutely everything we say, do, and create, and emotions are directly responsible for the degree of personal and professional success that we enjoy in life. Imagine what you would be able to accomplish by freeing up our most powerful resource - our emotions - and using them to our advantage!

A joyful collection of the most popular, provocative and unforgettable essays from the New York Times 'Modern Love' column. A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man's promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer with bipolar disorder experiences the highs and lows of dating. A widower hesitates about introducing his children to his new girlfriend. A divorcée in her 70s looks back at the beauty and rubble of past relationships.