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Do you find it challenging to set boundaries and consider your needs? Do you experience self-doubt when you're in conflict?
Show Up for Yourself examines how issues such as past trauma, adult attachment styles, and high sensitivity can impact your ability to navigate conflict and stay grounded, even when you know you're doing the right thing.
Through engaging stories that span the bedroom and the conference room, author Sylvia DeMott, MSW, LICSW...
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Sixteen chapters, three parts, one message: Give a shit about yourself and your mental health.
Every day is a balance between recovering from the past, living in the present, and setting an intentional pathway for the future. In Inner Work that Works, author Arin Forstadt encourages millennials and Gen Zs to think diligently about where they are, where they get stuck, and how they can move forward through exploring traditional and non-traditional...
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Like a skipping stone's impact on water, I have hoped my every act of gratitude causes ripples of appreciation.
Gratitude: A Work in Progress devises a five-phase framework for developing and deploying gratitude in a personal, educational, and business context.
Author Austen Brower often quips that he, "wrote the book by accident." Having started a 365-day thank you note journey in January 2020, writing became a way to reflect and cope with the...
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In the U.S. alone, 7 in 10 people have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lives. Often times they can become stuck emotionally in this event. What the F*ck Is Your Problem?! embraces the side effects of trauma as an individualized journey used to empower others with their healing. You will learn what it means to be an Active Worker on your healing journey, empowering you and leading you to own your own healing.
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Amy McMillen spent her entire life doing what she thought she was supposed to do. As someone from a low-income background, she thought her path to success was set: work really hard to get into a good college to get a high paying job. That is, until she quit everything and spent a year doing nothing across three continents.
In Reclaiming Control: Looking Inward to Recalibrate Your Life, Amy chronicles her journey of uncovering ingrained beliefs...
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Unfocused: The Journey to Self-Actualization is a book that re-conceptualizes success. It explores the capacity in which goal-reliance exists in our mainstream understanding of success. The book will challenge the way you approach life by highlighting the need to focus more on the present, with the past as a gentle guide, and the future as a medium for fueling your curiosity.
In Ester Teper's Unfocused, you'll learn lessons from the stories of over...
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We experience many downfalls as young adults. These bad experiences can derail us off the path to success and happiness...These things can and will affect your entire world, but that's okay.
Often, when you pick up a self-improvement book, you pick up one written by a psychologist or someone with career experience in mental health or therapy. The beauty of All It Takes is One is that when she wrote this book, author Colleen Finney was just a normal...
8) Love, Serica
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What is preventing you from reaching your full bloom?
We are all faced with times in our lives when we feel we cannot see any way to emerge past the darkness. The fear of breaking from our shell and expanding into a new existence can be overwhelming. Love, Serica will open your mind to new perspectives, providing an opportunity for growth, wisdom, and strength to become more in touch with who you are. Filled with inspiring stories of self-discovery...
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Jennifer Plumb Tam MD, is a mother, physician, author, artist and coach. She is an OBGYN and a co-founder of GrooveMDs. Graduating from Brooklyn College and the SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn's BA/MD Program, Jennifer went on to complete her residency in OBGYN at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and has practiced at Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
Jennifer has written Doctors...
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Born and raised in Appalachia, Minna Taylor holds a BFA from NYU Tisch and an MFA in performance from Brooklyn College. She started her company Energize Your Voice when she saw a need for communication and confidence coaching for high performing professionals. She grew her small coaching practice into a global coaching and training firm. Taylor wrote her book, The Confident Body: A Functional Approach to Unlocking Your Full Potential, when she realized...
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Conforming is neither sustainable nor forever as the nature inside of us starts bursting from our ribcages. At some point, the courage arises to forge our own pathways, emerging with its own wildflowers from the terra underneath, sprouting, twisting, and evolving in the most elaborate ways.
Madeleine Rose Olson shares the journey of her tenacity and dedication needed to blaze her own trail after rigorously advocating to college administrators to...
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What really matters to you at the end of the day? What makes your life meaningful? What does happiness mean to you?
Life is all about an endless problem-solving journey, one problem after another. HUMANship - Why Being Human Is Your Superpower contains uncommon philosophy for everyone.
Author Bailey Li sweeps you away on her entrepreneurial journey to make sense of her life adventures. In this book, you'll be invited to:
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When we recognize that we are wounded rather than broken, we can begin the process of healing.
Like nature, you have an amazing capacity to handle the circumstances in your life. Did you know there's a jellyfish that can live forever? Or that there's a seed that requires the heat of a fire to sprout? Wildly Wise: Trust the Nature Within takes you on a journey through a diverse, yet relatable series of stories and creates parallels between our struggles...
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Medical school is hard - but it won't be for you!
The Thriver's Guide to Medical School is a collection of personal stories from an underdog doctor who was once dismissed from medical school, combined with supporting insights from Harvard researchers, world-renowned physicians, TEDx speakers, and much more - on the importance of failure and how to bounce back from any setback.
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• Identify and let go of negative thoughts...
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Have you ever missed a flight? A train? You kick yourself, but there's always the next one. What if you missed an opportunity? You're standing on the platform, only you don't know how to get to your destination. You need direction. You need purpose.
The Purpose Cycle: Unlock the Secrets to Success is a self-improvement tool to help enhance your life through five key stages: aspiration, realization, initiation, creation and fruition. Unlike many self-development...
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Nursing is an exceptional profession that will fill your heart and, at the same time, empty your tank.
Nurses work countless hours forming community bonds and forming lasting relationships. They impact the ones around them with their attention to detail, caregiving, and unwavering advocacy. Nursing tasks are never singular, one-dimensional objectives but rather diverse, multifaceted check boxes nurses work on and implement to improve their patients'...
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The Ironic Link: How Comedy Overcomes Depression explores the intersection between humor and depression by following the psyche of comedians, the ultimate tightrope walkers. They flourish on the fine line between joy and despair, chaos and order, sanity and madness. Those who struggle with mental illnesses often find themselves on that same line.
What can we learn from performers on the brink that can be used by anyone, even introverts, to help alleviate...
18) Creative @ Work
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Creative thinkers are all around us, from creating a cupcake store to founding the world's largest marketplace. Business is more than profit, and entrepreneurship is art.
What do you think of when you hear the words business and entrepreneurship? Does creativity come to mind? Too often, we look at business as a rigid, by-the-books field instead of free-flowing and artistic. But creativity plays a bigger part in business and entrepreneurship than...
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You are a leader.
Even if you don't realize it, you inherently have influence on your world and the people around you. Bigger Than Leadership: Stories of Influence, Intention, and Inspiration explores what it means to be an intentional everyday leader.
Through more than eighty-five individual stories, including those of John Norlin, Houston Kraft, and Drew Dudley, author Brittany Do shows us:
• How being your authentic self, living uncomfortably,...
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Want to reevaluate your perspective on life? Want to know how your relationship with God can help you respond to injustice and hardships? In Reframing the Hyphen: A Christian Perspective on Immigrant Experiences, Christian author Ha Young Shin explains how to harness your difficulties by reassessing immigrant experiences through faith.
By sharing her own experiences as a 1.5 generation Korean-American immigrant, Shin provides her heartfelt testimony...
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