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The Handbook for Highly Sensitive People: How to Transform Feeling Overwhelmed and Frazzled to Empowered and Fulfilled

Mel Collins - Watkins Publishing
Format: Paperback

Are you often told to stop taking things to heart or to toughen up? Do you have a lot of empathy for others? Overanalyze things and get 'stuck in your own head'? Or become easily overwhelmed and frequently need to withdraw? If the answer is YES, you are probably a Highly Sensitive...
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The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Brene Brown - Hazelden Publishing
Format: Paperback

In The Gifts of Imperfection, Bren Brown, a leading expert on shame, authenticity, and belonging, shares ten guideposts on the power of Wholehearted living - a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness. Each day we face a barrage of images and messages from society and the media...
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You Are Not a Rock: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Mental Health

Mark Freeman - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Mental health is . . . being yourself.A prescriptive and positive guide, illustrated with line drawings, making the case that mental well-being, like physical health, can be strengthened over time and with specific techniquesWe all want to feel less anxiety, guilt, anger and sadness. We want...
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How TV Can Make You Smarter

Allison Shoemaker - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

How TV Can Make You Smarter is a lively guide that shows readers the numerous emotional and intellectual benefits of TV. Contrary to conventional wisdom, television can do more than help you veg out, chill, and escape. Author and TV critic Allison Shoemaker rewires our thinking to show...
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Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

Matthew Salesses - Catapult
Format: Paperback

The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural values. In this bold and original examination of elements of writing--including plot, character, conflict, structure, and believability--and aspects of workshop--including...
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Waiting on God: Strength for Today and Hope for Tomorrow

Charles F. Stanley - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover

Trusted Pastor Dr. Charles Stanley offers words of comfort and patience to anyone waiting for answered prayers. Are you waiting for God to answer your prayers? Do the days, weeks and years go by without evidence that your deepest longings could ever come true? If so, youre not alone. In fact,...
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Zen in the Age of Anxiety: Wisdom for Navigating Our Modern Lives

Tim Burkett - Shambhala
Format: Paperback

Zen wisdom for identifying the causes of mental and emotional anxiety epidemic in today's world and for finding the path to a peaceful heart in the midst of them--a path that leads directly though the center of the anxiety we're trying to escape.Wrestling with fear doesn't have to be a negative...
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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Emily Nagoski PhD - Ballantine Books
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" Burnout. Many women...
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How to Be a Rule-Breaking Letterer: A Guide to Making Perfectly Imperfect Art

Huyen Dinh - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback

Break the rules, embrace imperfection, and express your unique self through lettering art!. This book is for anyone who's felt the pressure of perfection. As a schoolgirl in Vietnam and later in online lettering classes, Huyen Dinh was always told to perfect her penmanship. Instead,...
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The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul

LAURA VAN DERNOOT LIPSKY - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback

Whether we are overwhelmed by work or school; our families or communities; caretaking for others or ourselves; or engagement in social justice, environmental advocacy, or civil service, just a few subtle shifts can help us sustain. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, bestselling author of Trauma...
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