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"From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every "recovering perfectionist" to challenge the way they look at perfectionism, and the way they look at themselves. We've been looking at perfectionism all wrong. As psychotherapist and former on-site therapist at Google Katherine Morgan Schafler argues in The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control, you don't have to stop being a perfectionist to be healthy. For women who are sick...
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"Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening-and how to get our attention back. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"From the Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School, Ask for More shows that by asking better questions, you get better answers-and better results from any negotiation"-- Provided by publisher.
5) Start making sense: how existential psychology can help us build meaningful lives in absurd times
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2025.
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335 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In Start Making Sense, psychologist Steven J. Heine shows how to overcome our angst and live life with purpose. Heine uses existential psychology to study the kinds of questions such as Who are we? Why do we seek meaning? How do we connect with one another? Drawing on decades of research, Heine shows that humans evolved to seek meaning: our survival depends on our ability to make sense of an absurd world. Every day, we deploy an arsenal of psychological...
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Sounds True
Pub. Date
2022.
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vii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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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"-- Provided by publisher.
8) Healing through yoga: transform loss into empowerment with more than 75 yoga poses and meditations
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Chronicle Prism
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 volume : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Use yoga movement, breath, and sound to release pain and suffering without expectation or judgment and to reconnect to life, love, and strength. Grief Yoga is a concentrated and gentle opening and stretching of the body with a deep connection to the breath. Through meditations, clear compassionate instruction, and informative photographs, Healing Through Yoga helps readers process their grief and use it as fuel for transformative healing"-- Provided...
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TarcherPerigee, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The Fully Charged Life is Meaghan's practical guide to bringing your best self to every moment, even when the pressures of daily life leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and wallowing in negative thoughts (and a pint of your favorite gelato). Spanning health, work, family time, and more, the book reveals small changes in outlook and habits that yield big results, without ever sacrificing who you are"-- Provided by publisher.
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RP Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
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ix, 158 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"The Junior Astrologer's Handbook is intended for children who are curious about the stars, signs, and the zodiac, and how this might affect their life or can be used to help guide them in friendships, family relationships, and school. This guide will also invoke mindfulness, self-care, creativity, and a connection with nature. It will be fully illustrated like our The Junior Witch's Handbook and speak to a similar audience of new age/spiritual kids...
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W Publishing an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2020.
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273 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Janine Urbaniak Reid didn't want to learn how to live with uncertainty, but when her ten-year-old son was diagnosed with a brain tumor and she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she defied the gravity of her circumstances and emerged transformed"-- Provided by publisher.
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illustrations
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[2020]
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295 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"How to form and maintain genuine friendships in an age of social disconnect"-- Provided by publisher.
We live in an age where you probably have more 'friends' online than in real life. Miller charts a course to kinder, more thoughtful, and more fulfilling relationships. She reminds us that 'you can't show up for others if you aren't showing up for yourself first.' Readers will learn to define their own needs, reclaim their time, and learn to ask...
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National Geographic Partners, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A look at genius, through portraits of 12 iconic figures in fields ranging from music to medicine, to explore what leads certain people to reach their creative heights early in life, whereas others don't uncover their potential until their later years"-- Provided by publisher.
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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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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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his life forever: his son Max's car was found abandoned in a parking next to Lake Ontario. Two months later, Max's body would be found in the lake. I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye is the story of Maisel's love for a son who was so different from him, but who he loved so deeply, and how he came to learn that grief for Max was nothing more than a last, ultimate expression of love. Navigating...
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2022.
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English
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"A simple shift in thinking can change everything you believe about your own happiness. By the time we become adults, most of us have joined the religion of suffering, which preaches that unless circumstances are controlled, life will be a mess. We compare ourselves to others and speculate about an impossible-to-know future, holding out hope for an improved life through getting ahead, fulfilling passion, or finding true love. But the idea that happiness...
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Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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viii, 337 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A new theory of understanding how anxiety manifests in the body and brain, and how it can be treated"-- Provided by publisher.
"Anxiety affects more than forty million Americans, a number that continues to climb in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While conventional medicine tends to view anxiety as a "neck-up" problem - that is, one of brain chemistry and psychology - the truth is that the origins of anxiety are rooted in the body."-- Front flap....
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xxxi, 155 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones we've always been meant to become Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers--through her books of poetry and memoir, bone and The Terrible; through her writing for Beyoncé on Black Is King; and through her always illuminating Instagram posts. Now, in The How, Yrsa encourages readers to begin, as she puts it, the great...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xxii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"It's time to take your personal safety into your own hands. In THE POWER OF AWARENESS, special operations and Combat Control veteran Dan Schilling draws from his extensive knowledge and experience to teach readers how to evaluate threats, remain cognizant of surroundings, trust their instincts, and tailor their behavior to be safer in new situations. To do so, Schilling builds upon 6 core tenets to increase situational awareness and empower readers:...