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The Step-Dad Playbook is a motivational and practical guide for step-dads woven together with an analogy men will understand: sports. From bonding with your partner's kids to combining your finances (or not), you'll learn everything you need to know to establish yourself as a strong, dependable head of household.

Do you want to be able to control your emotions? Are you someone who isn't as self-aware as you should be? Your emotional intelligence is a vital component of who you are and what you do. With this helpful guide, Emotional Intelligence: A Step by Step Guide on How to Master Your Emotions, Raise Your Self Awareness and Improve Your EQ, you can learn the basic steps you need to take to ensure that your emotional intelligence is functioning at its peak.

Bestselling author Leslie Glass and her daughter, award-winning documentarian Lindsey Glass, offer a brand-new kind of interactive self-help book that combines actionable information, compelling storytelling, and writing prompts that are guaranteed to bring awareness, understanding, and compassion to mothers and daughters everywhere.

Renowned as a diversity and inclusion strategist, Michelle Gadsden-Williams held C-Suite positions at major organizations for many years and then took the off-ramp to probe a different career path, launching Ceiling Breakers LLC, with the primary goal to help women and professionals of color reach their full potential. As a woman of color and corporate executive who has worked and traveled the world for several Fortune 500 companies - all while managing a chronic illness - she provides insight into overcoming the barriers facing professionals in today's workplace.

You are not alone if you are struggling to cope with depression and anxiety. The well-known combination affects millions of people around the world, making it the most common mental illness. The good news is that we can eliminate both of these ailments from our lives. Isn't that fantastic? Everyone who suffers from anxiety or depression wishes to live a normal life free of mental stress. But they have no idea that this fantasy is close to becoming a reality. Self-care tips are the only thing that stands between patients and a perfectly healthy life.

Losing weight and successfully maintaining it over the long term is not as much about what you put in your stomach; it's more about what's happening in the brain. In Brain-Powered Weight Loss, psychotherapist and weight management expert Eliza Kingsford shows that more than 90 percent of people who go on diet programs (even healthy ones) fail or eventually regain because they have a dysfunctional relationship with food.

La confianza en uno mismo es quizás el factor más importante a la hora de alcanzar verdadera felicidad, paz interior y satisfacción en la vida. En El poder de creer en ti descubrirás una guía práctica y amena que te ayudará a aumentar tu confianza y autoestima de forma rápida a través de 9 sencillos pasos fáciles de aplicar y mantener.

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.

Eating is an innate skill that has been overcomplicated by marketing schemes and a dieting culture. It’s time to leave the dieting culture behind for the whole family. It starts with the baby’s first bite! When babies show signs of readiness for solid foods, they can eat almost everything the family eats and become healthy, happy eaters in the process. By honoring self-regulation (also an innate skill) and focusing on a whole-food foundation, we can foster healthier children, parents, and families.

One of the hardest times in your life is undoubtedly the breakdown of a relationship. If you were the one to end the partnership or you have been left heartbroken by your ex, the pain that you feel during this time is difficult to deal with. I have been there - where you are right now. I’ve felt the pain, loss and rejection of a break up. I wrote this book to guide you through the break up and offer you advice and the comfort that you can and will get over this; just like I did. From sobbing myself to sleep to now feeling the best version of myself, I tackled my break up head on.

There is a massive amount of shame that comes with negative thinking. You blame yourself for the intrusive thoughts that blindside you. You feel guilty for not being more optimistic. It’s time to stop. Negative thinking isn’t as simple as looking at the glass half empty. It is a debilitating mindset that seeps into every area of your life. Negative thinking happens automatically–it’s not your fault. You tell yourself that today will be a better day, but your brain tells you the opposite, and you slip back into old negative habits.

Flush out negativity and clear a path for new positive habits, behaviors, and emotions with certified energy healer, yoga instructor, and psychology Professor Sherianna Boyle’s emotional detox program, C.L.E.A.N.S.E.

Word Workout is a practical audiobook for building vocabulary - a graduated program featuring thousands of words that begins with those known by most college graduates and ascends to words known only by the most educated, intelligent, and well-read adults. This workout is a comprehensive program, chock-full of information about synonyms, antonyms, and word origins, and replete with advice on proper usage and pronunciation.

If you are interested in becoming the assertive, empowered individual you have always wanted to be, then Assertiveness Training: 10 Simple Steps How to Become an Assertive Leader, Stand Up, Speak up, and Take Control of Your Life is the audiobook for which you have been waiting. Inside you will find real, actionable steps you can take to turn yourself from a timid doormat into the assertive badass you have always dreamed of being. Being assertive is a skill, which means it can be improved like any other; all you need is the tools to help you get started.

If you are considering remarriage and want to do everything you can to ensure a happy and fulfilling union, turn to Ron Deal and the Smart Stepfamily series. This is the ideal book for engaged or pre-engaged couples who have at least one child from a previous relationship, offering premarital counsel about how to prepare to blend family relationships, parenting, finances, rituals, and daily routines for your new life together.

Visionary business leader Greg Brenneman has written the 21st-century companion to Stephen Covey's classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Like Covey before him, Brenneman believes that true business success and personal fulfillment are two sides of the same coin. The techniques that will grow your business will also help you achieve a rich, purposeful, and integrated life.

Our fast-paced world prioritizes the productive busybody—financial security always seems to rule over the insatiable hankering for a Friday night splurge. However, Jamila Souffrant argues that you can in fact spend and save responsibly, all while enjoying that extra side of guacamole.

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get all the good things life offers while others stand on the sidelines and wonder why me? Some people will tell you it's ambition, IQ, and position that determines life's outcomes. What if I told you there was something within each of us that promises greater happiness and success? It's called Emotional Intelligence, and it is available to you by simply listening to this book and following the six steps it presents.

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.

The 9 Steps to Emotional Fitness is far more than a book of inspiration; it is a tool kit for life in the 21st century. Warren Redman has drawn on nearly 30 years' experience as a psychotherapist, personal development trainer, coach, and lifelong learner to produce a book of immense significance and value to people who seek greater personal fulfillment. Influenced by some of the finest teachers and thinkers of the last 50 years, Redman has created a synthesis of nine steps for a new century that has already seen enormous upheaval.