Collection: Self-Development

This is a book for anyone that has lost their person.

(Or for people supporting those who have lost their person.)

In this book, Dr Linda Shanti McCabe shares with you the paintings she made the first year after her husband died, as an invitation for you to see how you can create new meaning while traveling with loss. Tackling such difficult topics such as anger, grief waves, the nonlinear experience of grief, and the things your person leaves behind, Dr. Linda provides a compassionate hand to hold while traveling the journey of grief. She invites you to build a new home inside yourself, develop new capacities, find meaning, and live your life as if it were a series of questions. She encourages you to become a phoenix. She shows you what it could look like to carry grief with grace.

After your person dies you may experience numbness, anger, overwhelming sadness, or regret. You may have the experience of not being in your body or as if the world is continuing and you are an observer, watching it go on without you. You may feel like you "should" be an inspirational sunflower or look strong in your grief. You might try to put on a bright face, so that others aren't uncomfortable. We don't live in a grief literate culture.

You may feel angry at stupid things people say to you. You may feel angry at people trying you console you. You may feel that it is unfair that your loved one died. Anger is a normal part of grief.

You may say "I don't know who I am now, without my person. My person was with me for so long! My person was with me forever. I don't know how to be a person, separate from my person." If that is the case, now is the time for you to discover, and uncover, who You are. This is the opportunity now staring you in the face, every day.

When monarch caterpillars are getting ready to turn into cocoons, they find a place to attach themselves and become still. Then they split their old skin open and wriggle into a cocoon. They literally build a new home for themselves from the inside out. Do that with your grief. Make a safe space for it, so you can transform.

From there, you will be able to ask yourself, what do I want to do and who do I want to become, with the time I have? Please ask this question with fierce kindness, without regret, and with a vast amount of compassion.

*15% of all proceeds from this book go to Dreams From Drake (supporting children's grief), Soaring Spirits International (widow support), and Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

From the author of Hold On, But Don't Hold Still, the emotionally charged and eye-opening account of a mother who navigates the cacophony of best practices and urgent advice from parenting authorities in search of a way to support her teen as he maps his own path to mental health.

When Kristina Kuzmič started to see signs that her otherwise sunny, resilient teenage son was struggling, she was sure a few simple fixes could right the ship. But over the following months, the issues her family faced became more nuanced, complicated, and pervasive than she could've predicted--and what began as a clear to do list spiraled into an emotionally fraught and seemingly endless push and pull between signs of progress and overwhelming fear.

Despite her best efforts, Kuzmič had internalized a set of obligations, ideas, and unrealistic standards from parenting culture and social media that left her unprepared to guide her child when he needed her most. Featuring an urgent and affirming foreword by renowned and New York Times bestselling clinician Dr. Shefali Tsabary--Kuzmič's new book debunks ten "parenting truths" that kept her in crisis, and delves into her insecurities and the mistakes she made to reveal invaluable lessons and transformative approaches that worked.

While her family stands on the other side now stronger than ever, Kuzmič's journey calls to parents who have felt the instinct to say "I can fix this" in situations where good intentions far exceed our abilities to enact change.

The New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs invites men everywhere on a journey of honesty and healing through this book of moving letters to his sons--one whom he is raising and the other whose childhood took place during Senghor's nineteen-year incarceration.

"A visceral and visual journey for the ages . . . the perfect road map for us to remove the barriers and obstacles against our true feelings."--Kenya Barris, creator of black-ish

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022--Essence

Shaka Senghor has lived the life of two fathers. With his first son, Jay, born shortly after Senghor was incarcerated for second-degree murder, he experienced the regret of his own mistakes and the disconnection caused by a society that sees Black lives as disposable. With his second, Sekou, born after Senghor's release, he has experienced healing, transformation, intimacy, and the possibilities of a world where men and boys can openly show one another affection, support, and love.

In this collection of beautifully written letters to Jay and Sekou, Senghor traces his journey as a Black man in America and unpacks the toxic and misguided messages about masculinity, mental health, love, and success that boys learn from an early age. He issues a passionate call to all fathers and sons--fathers who don't know how to show their sons love, sons who are navigating a fatherless world, boys who have been forced to grow up before their time--to cultivate positive relationships with other men, seek healing, tend to mental health, grow from pain, and rewrite the story that has been told about them.

Letters to the Sons of Society is a soulful examination of the bond between father and sons, and a touchstone for anyone seeking a kinder, more just world.

A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol─its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devasting impact on Indigenous people. Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many names─booze, hooch, spirits, sauce, and the evocative "firewater." Confronting the harmful stereotype of the "lazy, drunken Indian," and rejecting medical, social and psychological explanations of the roots of alcoholism, Johnson cries out for solutions, not diagnoses, and shows how alcoholism continues to kill so many. Provocative, irreverent, and keenly aware of the power of stories, Firewater calls for people to make decisions about their communities and their lives on their own terms.

At the age of 23, pioneering reporter Nellie Bly faked dementia in order to expose abuses of patients in Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum in New York City. Such investigative journalism was unusual in 1887 -- almost as rare as women reporters. Bly's subsequent articles created a sensation, exposing the rampant psychological and physical mistreatment of inmates, many of whom were not mentally ill but simply recent immigrants and other impoverished individuals without social support. Her accounts led directly to significant increases in funding and improvements in asylum management.
Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly (1864-1922) reported on inequalities women faced in the workplace and in the legal system, and she served as a foreign correspondent in Mexico. Two years after her undercover work at Blackwell's Island Asylum, Bly circled the globe to test the feasibility of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days -- and beat the fictional record by eight days. This new edition of her groundbreaking reports from the asylum features 17 period illustrations from the original publication.

An essential guide for any kid who wants to connect with natural magic, learn more about herbalism, and become more confident as they embrace their power with activities that support mindfulness and self-love.

Green witches often start their journey by deciding to become best friends with one plant at a time. That plant becomes your ally. You come to know them, and in doing so, to know more about yourself. The plant will offer you teachings of physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional healing on the deepest levels to help you to grow, to feel safe in your body, and to become ever more joyful. In this book, readers will learn about nine plants that inspire wellness and self-care, as well as follow herbal recipes, start a green witch journal, practice magical rituals, and more. Whether you are making a body oil, a facial steam, or drinking a delicious tea in a moon ritual, the plants will awaken your magic and open you up to the joy and healing of the green world!

An introduction to people who don't identify as their birth gender.

What does being non-binary mean? For some people, the question and its answer may be new or a little confusing. It's okay to not know what it means! That's where all good conversations start. The journey to understanding starts with an open mind and an open heart.

Meet A Kids Co., a new kind of media company with a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups. Learn more about us at akidsco.com.

Beach Word Searches!

Celebrate the Summer season with this collection of large print beach word searches. From building sandcastles to beach volleyball. Surfing to flying kites. All of your favorite things about the beach are here!

• 40 themed puzzles
• 600 words to find
• Large print
• Answers included
• Hours of fun!

These puzzles are fun for all ages. This book makes a great gift for anyone this Summer!

The ultimate winner's handbook for mastering Scrabble(R) and other word games--for players of all backgrounds and skill levels.Become a master of Scrabble(R) with this essential guide to top-scoring game play. You'll discover: -The more than 100 crucial two-letter words in one handy list -A section of independent three-letter words that cannot be built from two-letter words -All of the three-letter words which can be formed from two-letter words -All eight-letter words that can be formed from seven-letter words -Every word up to seven letters you can play Keep this invaluable reference at your fingertips to increase your word-building power, achieve the highest score, settle word disputes, and win every game of Scrabble(R) you play.

The tenets of Nonviolent Communication are applied to a variety of settings, including the classroom and the home, in these booklets on how to resolve conflict peacefully. Illustrative exercises, sample stories, and role-playing activities offer the opportunity for self-evaluation, discovery, and application.

Applying the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process to conflict resolution inspires peaceful collaboration by focusing on the unmet needs that lie at the root of any given conflict. Practical techniques help mediators and participants to find the heart of the conflict and use genuine cooperation to reach resolutions that meet everyone's needs.

Ponder, investigate, and create with these 365 STEM-inspired activities, one for each day of the year. There's space to record your ingenious ideas, wild theories, and original designs, so give your imagination free rein!

This book is the ideal workbook to help practice and learn cursive handwriting in a fun way. Suitable for kids, teens and beginners to jumpstart their learning curve and help develop writing skills with this beautifully illustrated and simply structured workbook. Beginners can gain mastery and confidence with cursive writing using this easy tracing method.

- 3 in 1 (Letters, Words and Sentence Practice)

- Easy and simple writing structure to follow

- Full Alphabet

- Uppercase and Lowercase Characters

- Lined pages with guides

- Large size - 8.5" x 11"

- Develop hand and eye coordination for writing

- Additional pages for free practice

- Premium cover design

- Illustrated

"Told with authenticity, Troy's book isn't about vanity, it's about your total health, wellbeing and real living. Read it and practice!" -Michael Beckwith, Best-Selling Author and Founder of Agape International Spiritual Center in Beverly Hills, CA

A Journey to Self Love. Designed for men or women, young or old, healthy or sick. It's the owner's manual for the human body temple/spiritual spacesuit and it details our symbiotic relationship with the earth. As above, so below. Healthy me = healthy planet.

Like Neo in "The Matrix," most of the people on this planet spend their days in a prison of their own minds. They are controlled by powerful and nefarious forces whose goal is to enrich themselves at any cost. But at the end of the day, no one can really tell you any of that. You have to experience it for yourself.

Chock full of strong language, adult situations and mind-bending "out of the mainstream" ideas, #RIPPEDAT50 will challenge you to think for yourself and restructure your beliefs around life, relationships, and personal health to lead you in the direction of your highest and greatest good, to achieve true Self Love.

The Easter Bunny is no ordinary bunny. It is a symbol of Easter, of new life. But did you know that Easter is a celebration of Jesus' resurrection? Yes, it is a religious celebration that warrants understanding and appreciation. The many symbols presented in this coloring book might make your child all the more curious. Be ready to answer questions. Encourage coloring today.

Help girls ages 8 to 12 grow their skills and boost their confidence

When young girls believe that they can do anything they dream of, every new situation becomes an opportunity to learn and grow! This confidence-building journal helps any girl embrace a growth mindset and discover how smart and capable she truly is. With a range of insightful writing prompts and exercises, this kids journal for girls can help her become braver and happier every day.

What sets this growth mindset journal for kids apart from the rest:

• Empowering advice--Girls will explore how a growth mindset can give them a healthy self-esteem and the power to control their own success.
• A growth mindset for life--This journal shows girls how change can be a good thing, how to think positive in spite of obstacles, and how to face the future with curiosity and optimism.
• Hands-on inspiration--Fun challenges like writing a motivational letter to themselves or creating a vision board of their goals will help girls practice what they've learned.

Encourage any girl to develop a growth mindset with the journal that helps her tackle any challenge.

Discover the secret to business success and transform your career--starting today

Success requires more than hard work and good ideas: you need to be able to understand, inspire, and motivate those around you. Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader helps you hone your emotional intelligence (EQ)--the ability to be aware of, control, and express your emotions, as well as handle interpersonal relationships empathetically--and enhance your ability to lead.

Building off proven research, this user-friendly guide teaches you the pillars of high-EQ leadership. Whether it's developing self-awareness or bolstering empathy, discover simple and easy-to-use exercises that you can make use of on your own. You'll even learn about emotionally intelligent leaders and how they've utilized this skill as part of their successes.

Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader includes:

• Emotionally intelligent leadership--Find out what it means to lead with high EQ and how you can make it part of your organization's culture.
  
• Your leadership style--Determine what your professional leadership style is and how that affects the people around you.
  
• Growing your emotional intelligence--Take advantage of exercises and self-assessment tools that allow you to effectively and efficiently improve your abilities.
  

Become the leader you've always wanted to be with this emotional intelligence enhancing guide.