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"Negative self-talk takes a toll on our minds, bodies, relationships, and work. Once freed from the internal tension inherent in self-criticism, people have more energy, enjoyment, and peace. But not all remedies for an unhealthy inner monologue are equal. Based on years of experience working with hundreds of individuals, psychologist and mindfulness teacher Rachel Turow offers the "self-talk workout"-six science-backed exercises that can help you...
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"Cheyenne uses her signature metaphor of "the sugar jar", in which we are the jar and the sugar is our energy, as a tool for helping us protect our energy and identify patterns. In identifying what depletes and what restores us, we can make adjustments to nurture our energy, create more balance, and heal our lives."--
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"Remember Jessamyn Stanley? How could you not? She's the proudly fat, Black, queer yoga teacher and charismatic author of Every Body Yoga, who drops a lot more f-bombs than namastes and refuses to pray at the church of Lululemon. Now she's back, here to take us even further on a personal and provocative journey into what it means to "practice yoga." Where Every Body Yoga, with 59,000 copies in print, taught us how to do yoga, Yoke tells us why. In...
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"After suburban mother of five and former FBI profiler Andie Stern solved a mysterious murder - and unraveled a decades old conspiracy - in her New Jersey town, both her husband and the West Windsor police hope that she will set aside crime-fighting and go back to carpools, changing diapers, and lunches with her group of mom-friends, who she secretly calls The Cellulitists. But Andie can't help but get involved after the husband of Queen Bee Cellulitist...
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Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own. Each chapter begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body...
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"Attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) and self-compassion experts Mark Bertin and Karen Bluth bring teens powerful skills for overcoming self-criticism and building the executive functioning skills they need to become more confident, resilient, and independent. The book includes mindfulness tools to help teens accept the limitations of ADHD, and self-compassion strategies to help them stop beating themselves up and comparing themselves to their...
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Drawing on her twenty-year medical career, the doctor known for her "Menopause Bootcamp" gatherings helps readers not only survive the physiological and psychological transition, but embrace and even celebrate this remarkable developmental phase, which can be the start of something new and wonderful.
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New World Library
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"Outlines daily practices that promote physical, mental, and emotional health for young people making the transition to adulthood. The author covers practices such as journaling, exercise, healthy sleep habits, time management, and mindfulness, with brief discussions of scientific research showing the proven benefits of each practice"--
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"A gripping memoir from a BC Vancouver Sun journalist who was born to a West African mother, and then adopted as a small boy and raised by a white evangelical family. This is his searing account of being raised by fundamentalists. He grows up as a black kid who had his racial identity mocked and derided all the while being made to participate in the religious fervor of his mother's holy roller church. The religious brainwashing is of course dislocating...
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"From Daniel H. Pink, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming power of that crucial and misunderstood emotion, regret. "Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, it is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human," Daniel H. Pink writes in his provocative and eye-opening new book. "Done right, it needn't bring us down; it can lift us up." Drawing from new research in social psychology, neuroscience,...
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"Everyone has a narcissist in their life-and for millions of women, it's their mother. Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers offers proven-effective skills drawn from evidence-based psychology to help readers maintain boundaries, reduce anxiety, build confidence, extinguish their critical internal voice, stop feeling invisible, and live life on their own terms"--
"Were you raised by a narcissist? This essential guide will show you how to stop feeling...
12) Glow in the f*cking dark: simple practices to heal your soul, from someone who learned the hard way
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"For the past decade, Tara Schuster worked like hell to repair the emotional wounds inflicted during what she refers to as her neglected, "mess-wreck disaster" of a childhood. She brought radical self-care, healing rituals, and self-love into her life, and on most days, she was a grateful, happy, and stable adult. She even wrote a book about it! But then she lost her job, the one on which she had staked her entire adult identity. Cue an out-of-body-panic-attack-doom-spiral...
13) Good different
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Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.
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"An original and probing debut work of nonfiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-long quest to study the cultural legacy of the wolf In this enthralling, kaleidoscopic exploration of wolves both real and symbolic, Erica Berry weaves historic and scientific findings alongside criticism, journalism, and memoir to illuminate the strands of our cultural constructions of predator and prey, and what it means to navigate a world in which...
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Sounds True
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[2019]
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This daily reader provides 365 days of inspiration, guidance, self-care strategies, and meditative practices. Each entry ends with an intention for the day. Each season of the year has its own introduction outlining the special gifts and challenges of that time of year.
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"Chances are, you love cheese. It's delicious, indulgent, and never lets you down--it's everything you could want in comfort food. How many of us haven't spent an evening blissed out with a wedge of brie and a glass of wine? Creator of the Instagram sensation @ThatCheesePlate Marissa Mullen takes cheese to a whole new level with her gorgeous, show-stopping cheese plates. With her simple step-by-step Cheese by Numbers method, she breaks down the cheese...
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"The Awesome Human Project is an accessible, super-practical book that teaches the emotional fitness skills so many of us need to struggle less, have more energy, and experience more meaning and joy in life and at work"--
Part of being human is that life is messy and full of challenges. Kogan shows you that the struggle, anxiety, and burnout that accompany these experiences are optional-- if you embrace your awesome human! Her own burnout taught...
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With her acclaimed New York Times bestseller (and Reese's Book Club pick) "Fair Play," Eve Rodsky began a national conversation about greater equality on the home front. But she soon realized that even when the domestic workload becomes more balanced, people still report something missing in their lives -- that is, unless they create and prioritize time for activities that not only fill their calendars but also unleash their creativity. Rodsky calls...
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"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...
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No more hiding or people-pleasing up in here, sisters. No more being sidelined in your own life. It is time for us to be brave, to claim our gifts and quirks and emotions. You are set free and set up and set on fire.
In a world that pushes conformity, it can be hard to stop performing for others -- and start living. Hatmaker shows how to go about searching for value from any source other than your own beautiful soul made piece by piece by God, who...
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