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Study with Me: Effective Bullet Journaling Techniques, Habits, and Hacks To Be Successful, Productive, and Organized-With Special Strategies for Mathematics, Science, History, Languages, and More

Jasmine Shao · Quarry Books
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

Inspired by the global "study with me"/#studygram phenomenon: Study smarter, stay motivated, improve your grades - all by taking better, more effective notes! Written by Jasmine Shao, founder of popular YouTube channel and Instagram account @studyquill, and Alyssa Jagan, founder...
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The Alexander Technique Manual: Take Control of Your Posture and Your Life

Richard Brennan · Eddison Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

A favorite of dancers and performers, the Alexander Technique is a simple yet profound way to release muscular tension throughout the body. It teaches us new ways of sitting, standing, and moving that put less stress on the bones and joints and help us move more gracefully. This step-by-step...
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Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

Beth Kempton · Harper Design
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The definitive guide that teaches you how to use the Japanese concept of wabi sabi to reshape every area of your life and find happiness right where you are.

Fed up with the exhausting challenges of our fast-paced, consumption-driven existence, millions of people around the world...

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Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things

Rosemary Davidson · Harper Wave
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Integrating mindfulness, neuroscience, positive psychology, and creativity research, Craftfulness offers a thought-provoking and surprising reconsideration of craft, and how making things with your hands can connect us to our deepest selves and improve our well-being and overall happiness.

We...

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Prepper's Pantry: Build a Nutritious Stockpile to Survive Blizzards, Blackouts, Hurricanes, Pandemics, Economic Collapse, or Any Other Disasters

Daisy Luther · Racehorse
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

A necessary addition to any prepper's or survivalists's shelf! A one-year food supply means freedom. It means that you are less subject to the whims of the economy or personal financial emergencies. You can handle small disasters with aplomb. You aren't reliant on the government...
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HBR Guide to Changing Your Career

Harvard Business Review · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

You're well into your career and yet you're not where you want to be. Perhaps you've done everything you need to do to be named a partner, but your firm has encountered a crisis that's put all promotions on hold. Or perhaps the dream company everyone said you'd be perfect...
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Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya: The Ceremonies and Symbolism of a Living Tradition

Gabriela Jurosz-Landa · Bear & Company
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

An initiate's inside account of ancient Maya spiritual practices alive today* Details the initiation process the author went through to become a Maya shaman-priestess, including rituals, prayers, and ceremonies * Explains the foundational spiritual wisdom of the Maya calendar as a living...
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Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm

Terry M Williams · Columbia University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining...
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Be More Pirate: Or How to Take on the World and Win

Sam Conniff Allende · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Pirates didn't just break the rules, they rewrote them. They didn't just reject society, they reinvented it. Pirates didn't just challenge the status-quo, they changed everyf*ckingthing. Pirates faced a self-interested establishment, a broken system, industrial scale disruption, and an uncertain...
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: The MBSR Program for Enhancing Health and Vitality

Linda Lehrhaupt · New World Library
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

Practicing mindfulness helps us meet life's challenges with gentleness and clarity. By fully engaging in the present moment as best we can, we nurture our capacity to approach difficulties with less judgment and water the seeds of wisdom and openheartedness in ourselves. This book offers...

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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Emily Nagoski PhD · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men - and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.

One of Elle's "Best Books to Read in Spring 2019"

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It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

Hilary Jacobs Hendel · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises that help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self.

In It's Not Always Depression, psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel presents readers with a unique and pragmatic tool...
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Seeking Soulmate: Get out of the Dating Game and Find Real Connection

Chamin Ajjan · Parallax Pr
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Transform dating and the often-fraught search for a fulfilling relationship into a fun, exciting adventure using mindfulness techniques and practices. Dating is a 2 billion dollar industry. Everyone, it seems, is looking for love but for so many it is an endless struggle. In Seeking Soulmate:...
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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,...

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Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food: A Five-Point Plan for Success

Arlene B Englander · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 172
Format: Hardcover

Let Go of Emotional Overeating and Love Your Food is for anyone who would like to eat whatever they like, yet stop just at the point of satisfaction without overeating. Written by a Columbia University trained psychotherapist and former emotional overeater, Let Go of Emotional Overeating...
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