Self Change

Cultivate a life of purpose and positivity with The Appreciation Habit, a transformative self-help book designed for adults seeking deeper fulfillment. This short, insightful guide navigates the practicalities of gratitude, illustrating how daily journaling can serve as a powerful tool for recognizing life's blessings and enhancing personal well-being. Discover strategies to weave appreciation into your everyday routine while fostering connections within your community. As you embark on this journey, you'll learn to shift perspectives, ignite joy, and inspire others through the simple yet ...

On April 20, 1999, Billy Epperhart was taking a break to go fishing. That's when he received the call that two students had opened fire at Columbine High School. As the pastor of the nearest church to the school, Billy found himself thrust to the forefront of tragedy, broken people with lots of questions, and a whirlwind of media attention.

The Little Book of Therapeutic Rationality provides 300 quotations to help people improve their mental health in small 'bite-sized' chunks. The book is divided into four parts. The first part focuses on what Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) has to contribute to mental well-being. The second part provides brief reflections on common emotional problems and how they can be addressed. The third part focuses on the therapeutic change process and provides encouragement to people who have embarked on this process to stay the course. The final part of the book covers a variety of general ...

If Atomic Habits met You Are a Badass at a party, you'd get Buy the DAMN Shoes. In this funny, straight-talking guide, bestselling author and breast cancer survivor Stephanie Ewing strips away the fluff and offers a practical, approach to creating a life full of health, joy, and moments that matter. Perfect for anyone who feels stuck, tired of the endless “shoulds,” or ready to start living now, this book breaks down the steps to: ✓ Build habits that stick (without overhauling your entire life) ✓ Get moving every day with fun, realistic goals that improve both your mood and your ...

Leadership coach, lawyer, photographer, and activist Karen Walrond knows that when you care deeply about the world, light can seem hard to find. But when your activism grows out of your joy - and vice versa - you begin to see light everywhere.

Create the Life You Want and Live with Purpose and Intention. The Hall of Records can be used to gain insight and understanding, to access past lives, and to gain guidance on one's life path. Learn the Law of free will and how it can be harnessed to overcome obstacles and achieve personal goals. It offers practical advice and techniques for making conscious choices and taking control of one's life. When accessed, the Records allow individuals to tap into their own personal history and gain insights into their lives, relationships, and purpose. These Records hold information about all ...

As human beings, we are prone to having doubts and small moments where we lack confidence. You will not be able to run away from these weaknesses. There will be days when you are not feeling good about yourself, and there will be days when you will feel like you can conquer the world. Your doubts and insecurities will never really go away, but the question is: Will you allow them to win over you? Are they going to have a major influence on your life? This book can help you to build what is necessary to overcome those problems: confidence and self-esteem.

Everyone knows that regular exercise and weight training lead to physical strength. But how do we strengthen ourselves mentally for the truly tough times? And what should we do when we face these challenges? Or as psychotherapist Amy Morin asks, what should we avoid when we encounter adversity? Through her years counseling others and her own experiences navigating personal loss, Morin realized it is often the habits we cannot break that are holding us back from true success and happiness.

This book is for you if you want to do meaningful work that pays well. If you want to make a big career change without going back to school or taking a step down. If you’ve often wondered if there could be more out there for you. Spoiler alert: There is!

Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.

Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at the aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (Mountain Dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeño). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro's last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager.

Not as patient as you think you are? Surprised by how quickly you lose your cool when someone shows you an imagined show of disrespect? All we can do in those situations is react. But why do we do what we do? How can we improve our actions? Repeated bad behavior becomes a bad habit. How can we break this vicious cycle? Often we know what’s wrong in our behavior, we even know how could we fix it, but somehow we never take action to change. Some mental triggers stay hidden from our conscious mind. This book bridges the gap between those two by introducing you to gears of human behavior.

With a mix of compelling stories, research from the social sciences and psychology, and real-world insights, Make Change Work for You shows how to reignite your career, rekindle creativity, and fearlessly innovate your way to success by providing the tools needed to master uncertainty and conquer every challenge in life or business.

Psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman, one of the world's experts on motivation, shows you how to chart a new approach to living with "flexible optimism." Dr. Seligman's principles of reasoned, flexible optimism will help you rise above pessimism and the depression that accompanies negative thoughts.

Jess Johnston used to feel alone in her mess. In a random burst of courage, she started sharing those insecurities and struggles out loud, and what she found shocked her. Again and again, people replied, “Me too! I thought I was the only one!” Over the past decade she’s reached hundreds of thousands of women with her messages of authenticity and refreshing realness, and this is what she’s found: Women are really, really hard on themselves, and we should stop it.

★★★★★ "Should be assigned reading for all humans!" - Amazon Customer ______________ "Who Are You Being? is an important book that should be required reading for everyone at this time in our history. It emphasizes the value of the choices we make and their impact on the world at large. I highly recommend it." - Jack Canfield (Coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul (R) series and The Success PrinciplesTM: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be) Who Are You Being? is the perfect guide to understanding our current American culture and ...

With the third refreshed edition of 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, Steve Chandler helps you create an action plan for living your vision, in business and in life. It features 100 proven methods to positively change the way you think and act - methods based on feedback from the hundreds of thousands of corporate and public seminar attendees Chandler speaks to each year. The book now also includes techniques and breakthroughs he has created for individual coaching clients.

Feeling burned-out by your business? Sick of the 'hustle and grind' culture of your industry? There's a better way. Get over your perfectionism, chill, and prosper! With her trademark humor and down-to-earth wisdom, money mindset coach Denise Duffield-Thomas shares the invaluable business and counterintuitive millionaire mindset lessons (no blood, sweat or tears necessary) that will set you on the path of abundance - without all the hard work.

Artist, poet, and performer Jezz Chung (they/them) focuses on cultural change through personal transformation. In This Way to Change, Jezz shares contemporary poetry, accessible prose, and healing practices from different therapeutic modalities to explore subjects like healing your inner child, nourishing friendships, decolonizing your thinking, deconstructing binaries, and intentional community-making.

The world has changed, our lives have changed, and in recent years, our work has changed. Despite the disruption, our relationship and understanding of self-care have remained the same as we still see it as something fluffy or a perfect list of habits that we "do" alone outside of work to recover. But what if self-care wasn't something we "do"? What if self-care is a mindset that allows us to achieve peak performance, engagement, and growth without burning out and sacrificing our health and joy?