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The Cortisol Connection: Why Stress Makes You Fat and Ruins Your Health - And What You Can Do about It

Shawn M Talbott · Hunter House
Pages: 320
Format: Book

The hormone cortisol, activated by the fight-or-flight (stress) response, is emerging as a major culprit in a variety of health problems. The Cortisol Connection explores the documented relationship between elevated levels of this hormone, chronic stress, and such health conditions as obesity,...
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Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

BREN BROWN · Random House
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection "True...
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How Healing Works: Get Well and Stay Well Using Your Hidden Power to Heal

WAYNE MD JONAS · Lorena Jones Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Drawing on 40 years of research and patient care, Dr. Wayne Jonas explains how 80 percent of healing occurs organically and how to activate the healing process.In How Healing Works, Dr. Wayne Jonas lays out a revolutionary new way to approach injury, illness, and wellness. Dr. Jonas explains...
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The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing: How to Write, Work, and Thrive on Your Own Terms

Zachary Petit · Writer's Digest Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Prime Your Freelance Writing Career for Success!So you want to be a freelance writer. Great! But now you're faced with a laundry list of questions: Should I freelance full time or part time? Should I write for magazines, newspapers, or online markets? How do I dream up the perfect article...
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Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers

Jack Canfield · Health Communications
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Being a writer can be a lonely and frustrating experience. The stories in this book-by a wide range of professional writers, novelists, journalists, freelancers, poets and screenwriters-will give readers insight into the human trials, tribulations and triumphs of writers, and writers a source...
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Lose the Resume, Land the Job

Gary Burnison · Wiley
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Lose the resume and land that coveted job Gone are the days of polishing up your resume and sending it out at random. At every level today, you need to "lose the resume" in order to land the right job. In other words, you have to learn to tell a story about yourself that speaks...
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Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance

Rosie Molinary · Seal
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Every day, American women and girls are besieged by images and messages that suggest their beauty is inadequate - inflicting immeasurable harm upon their confidence and sense of wellbeing. In Beautiful You, author Rosie Molinary - in no uncertain terms - encourages women, whatever their...
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10 Keys to Happier Living

Vanessa King · Headline
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

'Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions' The Dalai Lama, patron of Action for Happiness. Vanessa King, positive psychology expert for Action for Happiness has created 10 key evidence-based actions that have been shown to increase happiness and wellbeing - at home,...
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

Johann Hari · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.What really causes depression and anxiety--and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered...
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Ageless Soul: The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy

THOMAS MOORE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Thomas Moore is the renowned author of Care of the Soul, the classic #1 New York Times bestseller. In Ageless Soul, Moore reveals a fresh, optimistic, and rewarding path toward aging, one that need not be feared, but rather embraced and cherished. In Moore's view, aging is the process by which...
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