Title: FIGHT LIKE A GIRL : AN EMPOWERING SELF DEFENCE GUIDE FOR ALL WOMEN (Paperback Book)
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Title: FLIP THINKING : THE LIFE-CHANGING ART OF TURNING PROBLEMS INTO OPPORTUNITIES (Hardcover Book)
Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success
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Change your mindset from problem-focused ("yes, but") to opportunistic ("yes, and") using omdenken, the Dutch art of flip thinking - from the bestselling author and founder of the omdenken philosophy.
Imagine this: You've got a great idea, and all you hear are the yes-buts.
"Yes, but that's been tried before, and it didn't work."
"Yes, but shouldn't we just let it sit for a while?"
"Yes, but what if it doesn't work?"
Published in English for the first time, this international bestseller introduces the power of omdenken - or flip thinking - to transform stuck-in-the-mud, pessimistic thought into an inventive, curious mindset, so you can stop saying "yes, but" to life, and start saying "yes, and."
In this riveting book, Berthold Gunster presents fifteen strategies to transform your thoughts away from limitations and negativities and towards possibilities and opportunities. From disrupting (turn all the rules upside down) to flaunting (play up what you want to hide), from importing (get the enemy on board) to amplifying (do more of what works), Gunster's strategies and stories will have you approaching even the most challenging problems - whether an annoying neighbor or an angry colleague or an unhappy partner - in a whole new way.
Title: FLUKE : CHANCE , CHAOS AND WHY EVERYTHING WE DO MATTERS (Hardcover Book)
Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success
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If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and then press play, would everything turn out the same? Or could making an accidental phone call or missing an exit off the highway change not just your life, but history itself? And would you remain blind to the radically different possible world you unknowingly left behind?
In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas dives deeply into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people's neat and tidy storybook version of reality. The book's argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives - and our societies - could be radically different.
Offering an entirely new lens, Fluke explores how our world really works, driven by strange interactions and apparently random events. How did one couple's vacation cause 100,000 people to die? Does our decision to hit the snooze button in the morning radically alter the trajectory of our lives? And has the evolution of humans been inevitable, or are we simply the product of a series of freak accidents?
Drawing on social science, chaos theory, history, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Klaas provides a brilliantly fresh look at why things happen - all while providing mind-bending lessons on how we can live smarter, be happier, and lead more fulfilling lives.
Title: FUTURE TENSE (Paperback Book)
Psychology / Psychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias
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A psychologist confronts our pervasive misunderstanding of anxiety and presents a powerful new framework for reimagining and reclaiming the confounding emotion as the advantage it evolved to be.
We taught people that anxiety is dangerous and damaging, and that the solution to its pain is to eradicate it like we do any disease - prevent it, avoid it, and stamp it out at all costs. Yet cutting-edge therapies, hundreds of self-help books, and a panoply of medications have failed to keep debilitating anxiety at bay. A third of us will struggle with anxiety disorders in our lifetime and rates in children and adults continue to skyrocket.
That's because the anxiety-as-disease story is false - and it's harming us.
In this radical reinterpretation, Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary argues that anxiety is an evolved advantage that protects us and strengthens our creative and productive powers. Although it's related to stress and fear, it's uniquely valuable - allowing us to imagine the uncertain future and compelling us to make that future better. That's why anxiety is inextricably linked to hope.
By distilling the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, including her own, combining it with real-world stories and personal narrative, Dennis-Tiwary shows how we can acknowledge the discomfort of anxiety and see it as a tool, rather than something to be feared and reviled. Detailing the terrible cost of our misunderstanding of anxiety, while celebrating the lives of people who harness it to their advantage, she argues that we can - and must - learn to be anxious in the right way.
Future Tense blazes the way for a paradigm shift in how we relate to and understand anxiety in our day-to-day lives - a fresh set of beliefs and insights that allow us to explore and leverage even very distressing anxiety rather than to be overwhelmed by it. Through this new prism of thinking, even anxiety disorders can be alleviated. Achieving a new mindset will not fix anxiety itself - because the emotion of anxiety is not broken; the way we cope with it is. By challenging our long-held assumptions about anxiety, this book provides a concrete framework for how to reclaim it for what it has always been - a gift rather than a curse, and a source of inner strength, joy, and ingenuity.
Title: GRATITUDE REVEALED (Paperback Book)
Self-Help / Personal Growth / Happiness
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Inspired by Director Louie Schwartzberg's documentary Gratitude Revealed, this guided journal explores the science, mystery, and pursuit of being grateful. Increasing gratitude is a proven pathway toward healing not only from the disconnection we feel in our lives, but also from ourselves, our planet, and each other.
The Gratitude Revealed Journal is organized into fifteen principles of gratitude. In each section, you'll learn the science behind each principle, complete exercises to fully experience that facet of gratitude, and reflect on the principle in relation to your gratitude journey.
15 PRINCIPLES: From wonder to curiosity to courage and generosity, explore what gratitude is, why it's important, and what you can do to live a more gracious life
LEARN THE SCIENCE: Each principle is supported with evidence from UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center
26 EXERCISES: Jump start your gratitude into practice with exercises such as mindful breathing, goal visualization, and steps to forgiveness
TRAVEL-FRIENDLY PACKAGING: Practice gratitude anywhere with the journal that contains a pen loop and pocket to journal in nature or wherever you need it
GIFT OF GRATITUDE: This is the perfect gift for anyone hoping to live a more gracious life and cultivate gratitude
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND HUMANITARIAN: Louie Schwartzberg, the director of the critically acclaimed film Fantastic Fungi, guides you through thought-provoking practices that help you celebrate life and become more grateful
Title: HAPPIER HOUR (Hardcover Book)
Self-Help / Time Management
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Our most precious resource isn't money. It's time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling "time poor." Since we can't add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives as richer?
Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Professor Cassie Holmes demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Happier Hour provides empirically based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to:
-Optimally spend your hours and feel confident in those choices
-Sidestep distractions
-Create and savor moments of joy
-Design your schedule with purpose
-Look back on your years without regrets
Enlivened by Holmes's upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research, Happier Hour "is filled with loads and loads of practical, evidence-based advice for how to live better by investing in what really matters. It's the kind of book that can change your life for the better" (Laurie Santos, Yale professor and host of The Happiness Lab podcast).
Title: HEALING THROUGH INDIGENOUS WISDOM (Paperback Book)
Body, Mind & Spirit / Healing / Prayer & Spiritual
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Learn to walk in two worlds: the Western world and your inner Indigenous cosmos.
Through a 52-week journey of reflections, practical exercises, Indigenous storytelling and knowledge-sharing, this guide will support you to respectfully connect with your own ancestors as well as ancestors of the lands where you live, whether you identify as Indigenous or not.
There are stories to inspire you and help you feel seen, exercises to illuminate blind spots and tools to heal individual and intergenerational wounds. You will learn to divine and work within your own medicine wheel and to enrich your spirit by integrating authentic earth-based rituals and ceremonies into your life.
Title: HEALING THROUGH WORDS (Hardcover Book)
Poetry / Women Authors
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Healing Through Words is a guided tour on the journey back to the self, a cathartic and mindful exploration through writing.
This carefully curated collection of exercises asks only that you be vulnerable and honest, both with yourself and the page.
You don't need to be a writer to take this walk; you just need to write - that's all.
Title: IF ONLY : FINDING FREEDOM FROM REGRET (Paperback Book)
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Title: IT'S ON ME : ACCEPT HARD TRUTHS, DISCOVER YOUR SELF, AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE (Hardcover Book)
Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational
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A revolutionary guide to identifying self-loss - that feeling of being adrift, disconnected from your true Self - and discovering the freedom that comes from taking responsibility for how we live and who we become, from an existential psychotherapist, USA Today columnist, and Instagram's popular "Millennial Therapist"
So many of us feel lonely, unfulfilled, or trapped - in our roles and relationships, in cycles of self-sabotage and bad decisions, by our patterns and misguided attempts to feel happy or to feel something. According to existential psychotherapist Sara Kuburic, it doesn't have to be so difficult. Really.
The answer is found in facing ourselves - whatever version that might be, regardless of whether we like the person we see reflected back to us. It's about accepting full responsibility for the choices and actions that create our reality. It's about finally taking ownership of this person we call our "Self." It's about realizing that it's on us to figure out the two most essential questions: "Who am I" and "Why am I here?" and then to live accordingly.
In It's on Me, Kuburic unpacks "self-loss," giving us new vocabulary to understand this rarely talked about experience and offers tools she's used for years to help clients recover. Self-loss becomes apparent when we do not recognize ourselves in our actions, words, or relationships; when we lose sight of who we truly are, and feel the pain and emptiness from performing or observing life, rather than living it. Guiding us through her unique process of self-reflection, acceptance, and discovery, Kuburic proves that we can
" experience but not feel overpowered by our emotions
" establish a healthy connection to our bodies
" set loving boundaries to define ourselves and heal our relationships
" declutter our physical and mental environments to create space for our true Self to thrive
" find meaning and purpose in a seemingly meaningless world
Revelatory and empowering, Kuburic shows how we can stop sleepwalking our way through the lives we don't want and step into our most vibrant, authentic, and meaningful Self. In doing so, we unlock a deep sense of connection to our innermost being, and to those around us.