Collection: Self-Development

Step into the eerie world of Wednesday with this book filled with unofficial advice and cryptic counsel for navigating the peculiarities of everyday existence.

Written by a Wednesday expert and in an appropriately sinister style, this captivating and delightfully morbid book is your guide through the shadows of life. From relationships gone awry to embracing your inner darkness, this giftable advice book provides dark wisdom that will leave you both unsettled and entertained. You will learn the most devious of important life skills, including how to:

• Navigate unconventional relationships and dreadful family dynamics
• Find the best outfit for greeting local police officers when they come to inform you of your husband's mysterious demise
• Explore the depths your inner darkness for personal growth
• Defy societal expectations
• Uncover the most effective way to align yourself with the ghastly ghosts haunting your abode
• Identify key poisonous plants and the best tea to pair them with
• Find the most effective way to brood in shadowy corners
• Cultivate a hauntingly fulfilling existence

Whether you're a fan of the Netflix series, movies, TV shows, cartoons, or comics, this book is a must-read for Addams Family enthusiasts and fans of the macabre.

When we count our blessings and think about the beautiful things, life is so good. This book of puzzles is both relaxing and challenging, and each one focuses on positive things to contemplate as you search for words: the beauty of nature, the gifts from a garden, and blessings that come in so many ways-if we only look for them.

Overachiever Joe Theismann had reached the pinnacle of success as an elite NFL quarterback, with a Super Bowl victory and NFL MVP award. But the memory that sticks with many fans is the gruesome injury--his leg was shattered on Monday Night Football--that ended his career. The end of his days on the gridiron wasn't the end of life for Theismann, though. In How to Be a Champion Every Day, Theismann recounts stories from his impressive career, providing an inspirational guide for how to succeed on a team, in your career, and in your everyday life.
Theismann draws on the people who have inspired and motivated him over the years, like head coach Ron Rivera, San Francisco 49ers safety Ronnie Lott, and his own mother. These amazing stories all emphasize a simple yet profound message that with hard work, focus, and belief in yourself, you can achieve greatness.
Organized by themes such as Attitude, Teamwork, and Motivation, Theismann's wise anecdotes highlight his firm belief that positive-thinking, goal-oriented people can achieve anything they set their minds to. See how Theismann's advice can change your life.

Gorgeous beaded jewelry, handcrafted by you―a beginner's guide

Have you ever seen an amazing piece of beaded jewelry and wondered how it was made? Now you have the secrets! This jewelry-making guide for beginners shows you how to create incredible necklaces, earrings, and bracelets that you'll love wearing and sharing.

Master everything from picking the perfect beads to making your own findings (functional pieces, like clasps and earring wires). You'll even get helpful advice for starting your own jewelry line.

• Beading for beginners―Discover various types of beads, the must-have tools, and the beading techniques that every aspiring jeweler needs to know.
• Practice makes perfect―Hone your skills on 21 stylish designs―each featuring detailed instructions that outline the necessary supplies and skills.
• Craft into business―Finished some pieces but not sure what to do with them? This jewelry-making book offers professional advice on how to promote and sell your work.

Whether you want to create great-looking jewelry for yourself or gift giving, this beginner's guide makes it easy.

Make yourself a priority with this self-care journal for women--all you need is 5 minutes

When life gets busy with other people and tasks that need your attention, it's hard to make time for yourself. This journal makes it easier, with short and simple journal prompts that remind you to pause and take care of you. From reflecting on your goals to meditating and seeking support when you need it, this journal explores a variety of practices that help you boost your mood and promote self-compassion so you can truly thrive.

Build self-care skills--Discover 150 uplifting journal prompts for women that inspire you to foster a growth mindset, practice mindfulness, and start each day with positive intentions.

Self-affirmations on every page--Each journal entry includes encouraging affirmations for women for you to keep in mind as you go about your day.

5-minutes a day--With writing prompts designed to take just 5 minutes, you can always carve out a moment for yourself.

Feel your mindset improve with this easy-to-use self-care book for women.

The supportive activities in this book are designed to tackle child anxiety and stress, help the child to work out how and why they feel worried, encourage them to talk to others about their worries (if they want to) and feel calmer.

If you're one of those busy quilters with very little spare time for your favorite craft, this book is the solution! It contains nine gorgeous quilts you can make using 21/2" precut strips, so your project prep is quick and easy! It's not always easy to find the time to select fabric, do the cutting and then actually sit down and stitch the pieces together, and that's exactly why this book is so perfect: The precut-friendly patterns were all designed with busy quilters in mind.

Get inspired -- and prepared -- for your best life at 50+

Living Your Best Life after 50 All-in-One For Dummies is your guide as you explore new opportunities and make the most of your fifties and the decades that follow. Find a new job, travel for weeks or months at a time, boost your health with yoga routines, take up pickleball--whatever it is you want to do, this book will inspire you to improve your life and show you how to get there. You'll also find timely information about planning and budgeting for retirement, withdrawing money from IRAs and 401(k)s, and taking Social Security. With this fun- and information-packed Dummies resource, you can look forward to your future with enthusiasm and purpose.

• Change jobs, move up in your career, or get ready for retirement
• Get tips for travel, living like a nomad, cooking after the kids leave home, downsizing, and other handy topics for this time of your life
• Stay in tip-top shape with fun activities like yoga and pickleball
• Get your finances in order and make sure you can live the life you want on Social Security and retirement income

This book is a great choice for readers looking to make the second half of life the best half.

For years people have been waiting for a book that merges the abstract Eastern philosophy of inner peace with the scientific applications of quantum physics. Well, that book has finally arrived! The Secret of Quantum Living is a straightforward guide that offers profound spiritual insights and a practical, easy-to-apply process for healing and harmonious living.

Join Dr. Frank Kinslow on a journey to deep inner peace through what quantum physics calls the "implicate order." Within the pages of this powerful book, you will learn Dr. Kinslow's process of Quantum Entrainment(R) (QE) and discover how to enrich and enliven all areas of your life. You'll be able to resolve problems or challenges you face by applying QE to your finances, your relationships, your sex life . . . and even your eating, sleeping, and exercising habits. You will also uncover ways to dissolve anger issues, negative thinking, physical pain, and emotional discord. And the great news is that anyone can practice QE! It doesn't require previous training, and it's so simple that a child can do it.

The Secret of Quantum Living is fun to read and exciting to apply. You'll begin seeing results from your very first session. Give it a try . . . you'll be surprised how quickly the process works for you!

In this beautifully written work, one of America's most beloved meditation teachers offers discerning wisdom on understanding faith as a healing quality. Through the teachings of Buddha and insight gained from her lifelong spiritual quest, Salzberg provides us with a road map for cultivating a feeling of peace that can be practiced by anyone of any tradition.

Murder Survivor's Handbook: Real-Life Stories, Tips & Resources provides information, resources, and strategies for learning to live with the aftermath of a homicide, including safety issues, dealing with the criminal justice system, addressing the news media, and coping with traumatic grief, while preserving the memory of a loved one. In the book, Survivor Writers describe their own experiences and, through their tips and suggestions, lend a helping hand to those who follow in their footsteps.

"Body is our first environment," writes Andrea Olsen. "It is the medium through which we know the earth." In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Olsen, a dancer who teaches in the environmental studies program at Middlebury College, offers a guide to a holistic understanding of person and place. Part workbook, part exploration, Body and Earth considers the question of how we can best, most responsibly inhabit both our bodies and our planet. Olsen displays an easy command of fields as diverse as geology, biochemistry, ecology, and anatomy as she explores the ways in which our bodies are derived from and connected to the natural world. But Body and Earth is not just a lesson, it is also an investigation. Arranged as a 31-day program, the book offers not only a wealth of scientific information, but also exercises for both exploring the body and connecting with place; illustrations and works of art that illuminate each chapter's themes; and Olsen's own meditations and reflections, connecting the topics to her personal history and experience. Olsen insists that neither body nor landscape are separate from our fundamental selves, but in a culture which views the body as a mechanism to be trained and the landscape as a resource to be exploited, we need to learn to see again their fundamental wholeness and interconnection. Through hard data, reflection, exercises, and inspiration, Body and Earth offers a guide to responsible stewardship of both our planet and our persons.

As organizations shift to depend more on team-based
structures, the pressure to develop high-performing teams is more critical than
ever. In the modern work environment, teams are expected to embrace change,
navigate complexity, and collaborate well under pressure ―all while delivering
exceptional results and forming productive relationships.

While it is crucial to have talented, bright people within a
team, there is a dynamic that is even more essential to overall team
effectiveness. This dynamic is "Team Emotional Intelligence" (Team EQ). While
most people are familiar with emotional intelligence (EQ) when it comes to
individuals, the power of how EQ relates to the entire team has not been
well-understood until now.

Insights from the latest research on team emotional
intelligence and TalentSmartEQ's research trends from working with over 200
teams (with 2000+ team members) combine to bring EQ know-how to the team level.
Team Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers practical strategies and showcases how
an emotionally intelligent team is far more than the sum of its parts. This
book focuses on the four key skill areas of Team EQ: Team Emotion Awareness,
Team Emotion Management, Internal Team Relationships, and External Team
Relationships, and it delivers 53 strategies and a step-by-step process for
increasing team EQ skills so team leaders and anyone who's a member of a team
can achieve peak performance and reach their goals.

Dr. Greaves, Evan Watkins, and their contributing team of
experts begin with a life and death story of team failure that illustrates how
emotions can drive team decisions and lead to disaster. They share a proven
approach to helping teams understand Team EQ skills, build these skills into
strengths, and use them to sustain positive momentum and achieve peak
performance. Strategies for remote and hybrid teams working virtually offer
targeted approaches to bonding, communicating, tough conversations, and
decision making as modern workplaces transform. Like she did with the best-selling
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 (at 2 million copies sold and counting), Dr. Greaves
and her team take complex concepts and translate them into easy-to-understand
skills that can be used immediately and developed further over time. As
organizations increasingly rely on getting work done through teams, the
understanding and development of team EQ skills is more relevant and impactful
than ever.

An exquisite, full-color guide to sashiko, a simple Japanese stitching technique that uses stunning patterns to decorate or repair clothing, accessories, and home textiles.

Requiring no special equipment other than a sewing needle and thread, Make and Mend introduces the incredibly simple technique of sashiko--a striking hand-sewing method using a running stitch to form pleasing geometric patterns. Sashiko is traditionally used to mend and repair clothing and textiles, but it can just as easily be used to create beautiful, decorative projects for the home. With fifteen projects applying a modern, on-trend aesthetic to this ancient craft, Make and Mend shows readers how to apply sashiko stitching to a variety of craft projects, such as repairing torn jeans, mending a ripped hem, and making decorative pillows, napkins, a tablecloth, and a totebag. Touching on the concepts of beauty in minimalism and resourceful simplicity, as well as a fascination with Japan and Japanese design, this easy and accessible book appeals to both the seasoned maker and total beginner.

The Emerald Tablet--an ancient document that contains the essence of the alchemical teachings--has had an important influence on many Western spiritual and religious traditions. Ostensibly concerned with turning base metals into gold, alchemy was in fact dedicated to transforming the lead of self into the gold of spirit. This brilliant history of alchemy traces its sources back to ancient Egypt, and presents alchemy as a useful, practical system of self-transformation. Each of the seven steps of alchemical transformation is explained, with hands-on techniques and exercises, treating alchemy as a living discipline for achieving a spiritual awakening.

By one of the world's foremost psychologists, a groundbreaking and award-winning study updated for the 20th anniversary with new research that delves into the complex behavior of memory

Twenty years ago, The Seven Sins of Memory offered the first framework that explained common memory vices--and their surprising virtues. Now, in this updated edition, Daniel L. Schacter revisits his groundbreaking research with the twenty-first century's cultural trends and scientific discoveries. How does our ever-increasing reliance on Google, Instagram, and other websites harm our mind's ability to store and retrieve memories? How has repeated exposure to "fake news" and other false statements increased our bias and made it easier for us to think these statements are true? Exploring the memory miscues that occur in everyday life--absentmindedness, transience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence--Schacter delves into the striking scientific research, giving us a glimpse of the fascinating neurology of memory. Together, the stories and the scientific results provide a new look at our brains and at what we more generally think of as our minds.