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Lasting Happiness: A Guide for Teens and Young Adults

by Doug Carnine

Lasting Happiness: A Guide for Teens and Young Adults, is a practical template for the development of kindful habits that nurture happiness in individuals and their communities. Using personal narratives from youth in diverse circumstances, who have found kindfulness to be an asset and including incarcerated, homeless and LGBTQ voices, all readers will recognize the emotional and social dynamics that are affecting their lives. This book gives youth the opportunity to change their sel... more

Like a Spark from Fire

by Debra Berndt Maldonado

If you are feeling stuck in life but know somehow you were meant for more, this book is an invitation for women to finally break free. Over the course of your life, you developed an identity that helped you function and survive in the world but also covered up your true power. The flame of passion and limitless possibility of your true nature is still there as brilliant as ever waiting to be rediscovered. Like a Spark From Fire, inspired by the psychology of Carl Jung and Eastern spirituality,... more

The Precipice of Mental Health: Becoming Your Own Safe Space

by Achea Redd

In The Precipice of Mental Health, Achea Redd shares her personal battle with mental illness and helps readers understand that there is a path to help and healing for those who are suffering, struggling, and stressed. The mental health crisis is worse than ever: In an age of increasing isolation, insecurity, and loss, people are suffering, and not everyone is able to afford or access the help that they need. Mental health activist Achea Redd wants to change that, because for her, it’s person... more

The Voice in My Head Is an Asshole

by Darryl Blake

Are you living your life, or acting out your story?

Do you have an inner critic? One that misguides, bullies and torments? Giving voice to bad habits and disabling beliefs, fears, or regrets?

If so, you’ve met the inner asshole, and this book is for you. Especially if -

Dealing with your inner critic resembles an insane, never-ending game of whack-a-mole. A stream of consciousness that just won’t stop.
You get stuck in “replay”—lost in old arguments, insults sti... more

YOU ARE THE LIGHT

by Meera Jhogasundram

Your experience of the outer world is a reflection of your inner reality. Heavy emotions long-forgotten, are deeply embedded in your subconscious mind. Are you aware of their existence? Do you understand the extent of harm that can be caused by harbouring and nurturing dark energies? What you choose to believe as resolved and no longer existent, may still be present in your reality. Perhaps you realise this. You may even choose to ignore it. Darkness will overwhelm you if you allow it. While ... more

YOU ARE THE KEY

by Meera Jhogasundram

Do you find yourself encountering one block after another in various aspects of your life? Are you unable to move forward despite doing whatever it takes? Do you tell yourself exactly what others tell you or do you make it a point to listen to that wise inner voice which you so often ignore? Meera asks thought-provoking questions that will make you reconsider and redefine what’s truly important to you. In a world where meeting others’ expectations has stealthily become a way of life, it is i... more

Great Work

by Amanda Crowell, PhD

Why is it that our Great Work—the work that matters the most to us—is the first thing to go when we get busy? How can we finally prioritize our Great Work? And, most importantly, how can we do our Great Work without sacrificing everything else that matters? Dr. Amanda Crowell combines cutting-edge cognitive psychology with years of experience coaching, to distill a simple process that anyone can use. Refreshingly hopeful, the Great Work method will help you: Make time and space for the wo... more

The Sober Addict

by DC Hyden, CASAC-ADV

Addiction is a terminal disease if left untreated... If you can imagine having 50% of who you are actively trying to kill you then you have an idea of what it is like living with this disease. The Sober Addict is a book for all those impacted by the disease addiction. Within the pages of DC Hyden's book, addicts, family members, enablers, and helpers will find unconventional ways to combat addiction from Onset to Remission. This guide will help you learn how to function with this dysfunct... more

Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words. Change Your Life.

by Randye Kaye

Do you spend too much time and energy worrying about things that never even happen? Tried meditation but can’t sit still? Do negative thoughts intrude on your happiest moments? Would you rather share a good laugh than complete another gratitude list? Then this book is for you. Let professional speaker and mental health advocate Randye Kaye introduce you to a method of harnessing the power of words – shortcuts your brain already knows well – to be happier right away. Happier Made Simple will hel... more

Happiness is an Inside Job

by Saantis Fenmu Davis

This book is for every person who wants to define their own life of happiness, a life where happiness is 100 percent under your control; a life where we don't have to wait for success and material gain to be happy but instead are happy because we understand it attracts success and material gain. In this book you will learn the tools to implement this. Learn tools to assist us physically, mentally and emotionally to be happy. Much success with the teachings in this book and I know they will help ... more

The Big Power of Tiny Connections: How Small Interactions Spark Awesome Outcomes

by Jen Nash

The Big Power of Tiny Connections—How Small Interactions Spark Awesome Outcomes, is a book about how small interactions truly can be the catalyst for unexpected and powerful opportunities. Now more than ever, in the middle of a pandemic, people NEED to feel connected to the world and the people all around. Using true-life stories and scientific research on how we listen, talk, and crave connection Jen Nash demonstrates that making time to connect is the most productive thing ... more

Your Sleep Map: Navigating Your Own Path to Relief from Insomnia

by Thad Harshbarger, Ph.D.

You are already aware of your history, present circumstances, and difficulties with insomnia. This book helps you use that information to make effective changes in your life that lead to better sleep. A wide range of insomnia sources are presented, along with a structure that organizes them so you can more easily find and address the ones that are bothering you.

Like a road map, Your Sleep Map helps you get to your destination as efficiently as possible. Once you decide wha... more

Wisdom's Foresight: From Cataracts to Pandemic Vaccines

by Preston Love Jr.

Preston Love, Jr. is an advocate and activist in Omaha, Nebraska. He frequently presents to groups on topics from voting to business, to community involvement and philanthropy. He was a candidate for Senate in the 2020 Nebraska elections.

The articles in this book have been collected from my columns and other sources to provide a single book containing his last few years of contributions to the Omaha World-Herald and others.

The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life

by D TERRENCE FOSTER, MD

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE STRESS BOOK FORTY-PLUS WAYS TO MANAGE STRESS & ENJOY YOUR LIFE

This book takes a comprehensive approach to stress management & prevention and how modifying our lifestyles and taking practical steps can significantly reduce the stress level we are experiencing.

More than forty approaches to stress reduction, management, and prevention are covered in this book, giving you practical guidance applicable to most lives’ issues and circumstances.

Th... more

Warrior Sister, Cut Yourself Free From Your Assault

by Jenifer DeBellis

Warrior Sister, Cut Yourself Free from Your Assault is a vital and timely self-help tool for teen girls, young women, or anyone working to overcome physical and sexual assault trauma, as well as the professionals who serve them. The pages within are designed specifically for teen girls and young women for two reasons. First, they’re collectively the largest demographic impacted by physical violence with the least recovery resources. Second, as fellow survivors, they should know where to find the... more

Passport 2 Purpose: Journeys of Self-Discovery

by Martha Toth

Are you searching for life’s meaning and path, or feeling uprooted from home, family, marriage, or job? This book provides no answers. We believe that what you are searching for was always there, inside you, and that only you can find your personal answers. There is no easy recipe to follow. It will take time and introspection to uncover exactly who you are and were meant to become. Passport 2 Purpose is intended as a sort of guidebook on your life journey. Instead of telling you what sights to... more

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