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A cross between The Promise of a Pencil and She Means Business, this book from the co-founder of a charity dedicated to bringing education to students in rural Kenya demonstrates how finding your purpose can change the world and change your life.

Based on the self-help hit by Leslie Becker-Phelps, The Insecure in Love Workbook offers engaging activities, tips, and exercises to help you overcome attachment anxiety by developing compassionate self-awareness. You'll learn to recognize physical sensations, negative thoughts, distressing emotions, and unhealthy behavior patterns that underlie your insecurity; and respond to them in a more nurturing way-rather than beating yourself up. You'll also discover how insecurity can overwhelm or paralyze you, negatively affecting the relationship between you and your partner.

From the time we’re born, a litany of do’s and don’ts are placed on us by our families, our communities, and society. We're required to fit into boxes based on our race, gender, sexuality, and other parts of our identities, being told by others how we should behave, who we should date, or what we should be interested in. For so many of us, those boxes begin to feel like shackles when we realize they don’t fit our unique shape, yet we keep trying because we crave acceptance and validation. But is “fitting in” worth the time, energy, and suffering?

Introducing solid foods is a key milestone in your baby's first year of life. The Nourished Baby provides an informative, practical, realistic, and caring guide to introducing your baby to solid foods, removing the worry so you can enjoy this milestone with your baby and watch both baby and family flourish. Lecturer, researcher and mother, Dr. Julie Bhosale, explores the issues, the controversy, and the science, before leading you through the important "when", "what", and "how" of introducing your baby to solids.

Imagine a life where intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors no longer control you. With Master Your OCD: The Easy Six-Step Workbook, you can break free from the relentless cycle of obsessive thoughts and actions. This workbook offers practical, stress-free strategies you can start using today.

Within The Art of Living in Joy: Five Practical Steps to Transform Challenges into Joy and Harmony, Dr. Arayeh Norouzi addresses her various life challenges, and how she overcame them through her introspective endeavors, helping others in their paths, and extensive research. As she traversed this journey, she became certain that while there might not be a magic potion out there to permanently transport humans to the land of joy and freedom, there definitely is a magic formula.

While there are plenty of resources available to establish healthy sleeping patterns for babies and toddlers, there's very little guidance for parents who want to help their preschool and elementary school children (ages 3-10) sleep well. However, parents can be effective sleep coaches for their children once they know what to do. Become Your Child's Sleep Coach meets that need by giving you a simple plan to coach your children to be wonderful sleepers, as well as methods to deal with bed wetting, sleep walking, night terrors, and other sleep issues.

This book is for anyone looking to re-evaluate or improve their intimate relationship. It will help you to consider the place of your relationship in your life as a whole and to think about how it’s been supporting you or otherwise up to this point. If things have not been working as well as you would like, it will give you steps that you can take to get things back on track. And if things have been going well, it will give you ways of taking things to the next level.

Mark Savage found himself in the middle of a mess. One that he created. After twenty years of full-time ministry, Mark had launched his own construction business. His outer world was expanding, but his inner world was crumbling. Another relationship seemed like the answer to his problems, until it wasn’t. When he recommitted to his marriage, that’s when the work of healing really began. This book is not written by a psychologist or a counselor but rather from someone who’s been where you are and found his way out. If you’ve stepped out of your marriage, this book is for you.

More than twenty-five years ago, Kathryn Giusti was diagnosed with multiple myeloma at age thirty-seven and given three years to live. With a young child, a happy marriage, and a successful career, Giusti had too much to live for. An “impatient patient,” she overcame her fear and got to work, learning to advocate for her own care. This book is the result of all she’s learned about how to get the best outcome from America’s opaque and sometimes impossible-to-navigate healthcare system.

How would you feel if you could dodge any distraction, even kitten videos, keeping the focus on the most important tasks of the day, giving them the right priority, eliminating commitments and burdens from your to-do list, ending your day with satisfaction and with a free mind? This book is the recipe that will help you with all this, it will give you the tools to put your life back in order! Listen to find out more....

Based upon research of what successful teams do to overcome severe odds, Do Big Things presents an intuitive, seven-step process that equips teams with how to quickly and consistently operate in a manner necessary for success. Filled with practical tools and engaging stories of teams today, Do Big Things equips leaders with “the how” to quickly identify and activate the behaviors needed to achieve more than you or your team ever thought possible.

Getting through the pain and confusion of a breakup is never easy - recover from the agony fast with easy, practical, and proven steps. Best-selling author Laura Elliott has created a simple and easy way for women to deal with heartbreak, now updated for 2020. Full of practical advice that gets to work immediately, Elliott has distilled and removed all the nonsense out there and brought you the essential guide to getting over a broken relationship.

Every new stepmom finds themselves struggling with these same thoughts. Life is meant to be tough, and joining a new family and assuming the role of "mom" is one of the toughest things imaginable. But I've got good news: All your problems are temporary! If you have an action plan and know what you're doing, you can seamlessly make the transition to stepmom. This book will give you that action plan.

Americans spend more than $11 billion a year on self-help products—everything from books to diet pills to career coaches to seminars. So why—with all this time, money, and energy being spent—are so FEW people living the life they really want? Why are millions of smart, talented, motivated people still going through life with one foot on the brake? Here’s the REAL secret: You don’t need any more how-to-succeed information to reach your full potential.

Christian author and speaker Jill Savage found herself reeling from the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. It was part of one very dark year that included a four-month separation. Their marriage survived and became stronger than before. They now share their story openly as authors, speakers, and marriage coaches to help others who are walking through their own dark season.

Human nature hasn’t changed. Dating has! Dr. Duana Welch and science are back to help. Still the only fact-based book to take men and women from before-you-meet until you commit, Love Factually blends heart, soul, and science in this fully revised and updated edition. Listen to the international best seller Dr. David Buss calls “gripping, science-based, and brimming with actions to improve your love life". In a genre long on opinion and short on proof, Love Factually puts all the evidence in your corner for the most important and daunting task of our lives.

Break free from a narcissist's hold and reclaim your life with this practical guide to navigating divorce and recovery. Understand the stakes and arm yourself with the knowledge needed to regain your peace. This guide doesn't just offer legal advice; it provides a step-by-step path to mend your spirit and rebuild your life. You'll feel lighter and ready to move forward confidently.

If you’re feeling hopeless and running out of patience in dealing with your highly explosive ADHD child, this powerful positive parenting guide is for you! ADHD is one of the most common mental disorders affecting children. And this gets parents frustrated because ADHD kids are often misunderstood by many. These kids are often perceived as having bad attitudes, defiant, or just plain out of control. When your child is struggling to self-regulate, it’s easy to get pulled into power struggles and negative interactions that only make the situation worse.

Edward M. Hallowell, MD, father of three and a clinical psychiatrist, has thought long and hard about what makes children feel good about themselves and the world they live in. Now, in The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, he shares his findings with all of us who care about children. We don't need statistical studies or complicated expert opinions to raise children. What we do need is love, wonder, and the confidence to trust our instincts.