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Nourished: Connection, Food, and Caring for Our Kids (And Everyone Else We Love)

Deborah MacNamara PhD - Aona Books
Format: Paperback

What does it mean to be nourished?. Nothing could be more basic than food. However, food is only one part of the concept of nourishment, but it has consumed our focus and eclipsed something far more critical for thriving - connection. We have lost sight of the fact that feeding our families...
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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her "witty...
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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg - Random House Audio
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work - and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life"A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well transform the worst communicators...
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The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions

Dr Michael Norton - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit and Angela Duckworth's Grit, a renowned social psychologist demonstrates the power of small acts - and how a subtle turning of habits into rituals can add purpose and pleasure to life.. Our lives are filled with...
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The Burden of Sports: How and Why Athletes Struggle with Mental Health

John Weston Parry - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

"Timely and important, this title has the potential to change the sports industry worldwide." - Library Journal, Starred Review. A comprehensive examination of the mental health challenges that elite athletes face in America's most popular sports.Athletes that compete at a high...
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The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health

Ellen J. Langer - ‎Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Learn how adjusting your thoughts can change your health - from the "mother of mindfulness" and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard."What matters more: mind or body? Filled with original research and thought-provoking insights, The Mindful Body shows that...
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Raising Mentally Strong Kids: How to Combine the Power of Neuroscience with Love and Logic to Grow Confident, Kind, Responsible, and Resilient Children and Young Adults

Daniel G. Amen, MD - Tyndale Refresh
Format: Hardcover

Parenting is about to get easier--and a whole lot more effective ... .. In a time when so many children and young adults seem to be struggling, parents are looking for help in bringing up mentally healthy kids who are equipped to thrive. Finally, evidence-based help is now available for overwhelmed...
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On Giving Up

Adam Phillips - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive.. To give up or not to give up?. The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple.. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form...
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Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence

Samuel T. Wilkinson - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

By using principles from a variety of scientific disciplines, Yale Professor Samuel Wilkinson provides a framework for human evolution that reveals an overarching purpose to our existence. . Generations have been taught that evolution implies there is no overarching purpose to our existence,...
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The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now

Thich Nhat Hanh - HarperAudio
Format: Paperback

In troubled times there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh - one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today - reveals...
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