Collection: Self-Development

Learn the powerful stories behind over 40 goddesses from around the world, and discover how you can embody their power to improve your wellbeing, and live your best life.

From ancient myth to modern day icons, there's a goddess to help you with every situation. Including some of the best and less well-known goddesses throughout mythology, and accompanied by a gorgeous illustration of each, learn the stories of:

- Freya (Norse Goddess of Love, Beauty, and War)
- Eostre (Celtic Goddess of the Dawn and Spring)
- Guan Yin (Buddhist Goddess of Compassion and Mercy)
- Nut (Egyptian Goddess of the Sky)
- Selene (Greek Goddess of the Moon)
- Jaci (Brazilian Moon Goddess)
- Gaia (Greek Goddess of the Earth)
- Pele (Goddess of Fire, Volcanoes, and Dance)
- Inanna (Sumerian Goddess of Love, Fertility, and Sensuality)
- Amaterasu (Shintu Goddess of the Sun)
- Lakshmi (Hindu Goddess of Wealth, Good Fortune, and Success)

...and many more!

With a simple ritual or activity alongside each story to help you channel the iconic energy of each goddess, this is the ultimate book of female empowerment. The perfect self-gift for Valentine's Day.

It's fun to be nature smart! Nature Smarts Workbook, Ages 7-9is packed with interactive learning activities that build knowledge and appreciation of the natural world. Based on the curriculum from the acclaimed outdoor educators at Mass Audubon, the colorful activity pages feature games, puzzles, mazes, and both on-the-page and outdoor activities that teach kids about geology, earth science, wildlife habits, basic botany, and more, along with important concepts such as pattern recognition and classification systems. From understanding how rocks transform to becoming a cloud detective, distinguishing between vertebrates and invertebrates, and identifying types of bird beaks and plant parts, this book expands on the school STEM curriculum to foster growth of the next generation of naturalists and conservationists.

Inspiration and encouragement for cultivating kindness--by embracing the joy, suffering, confusion, and brilliance of our everyday lives--from the author of When Things Fall Apart

Do you want to be a more compassionate person, confident and unafraid to love yourself and the world around you unconditionally, but aren't sure how? We often look far and wide for guidance to become better people, as though the answers were somewhere out there. But Pema Chödrön suggests that the best and most direct teacher for awakening loving-kindness is in fact your very own life.

Based on talks given during a one-month meditation retreat at Gampo Abbey, where Pema lives and teaches, her teachings here focus on learning how to see the events of our lives as the perfect material for learning to love ourselves and our world playfully and wholeheartedly--and to live in our skin fearlessly, without aggression, harshness, or shame. This is instruction for embarking on the greatest adventure of all, to come alive to your inherent human kindness.

"Perhaps what makes Pema's message resonate so strongly with people, no matter what their religion or spiritual path, is its universality." --O, The Oprah Magazine

Now updated with new material throughout, Alicia F. Lieberman's The Emotional Life of the Toddler is the, detailed look into the varied and intense emotional life of children aged one to three.

Anyone who has followed an active toddler around for a day knows that a child of this age is a whirlwind of explosive, contradictory, and ever-changing emotions. Alicia F. Lieberman offers an in-depth examination of toddlers' emotional development and illuminates how to optimize this crucial stage so that toddlers can develop into emotionally healthy children and adults.

Drawing on her lifelong research, Dr. Lieberman addresses commonly asked questions and issues. Why, for example, is "no" often the favorite response of the toddler? How should parents deal with the anger they might feel when their toddler is being aggressively stubborn? Why does a crying toddler run to his mother for a hug only to push himself vigorously away as soon as she begins to embrace him? This updated edition also addresses 21st-century concerns such as how to handle screen time on devices and parenting in a post-internet world.

Hailed as "groundbreaking" by The Boston Globe after its initial publication, the new edition includes the latest research on this crucial stage of development. With the help of numerous examples and vivid cases, Lieberman answers these and other questions, providing, in the process, a rich, insightful profile of the roller coaster emotional world of the toddler.

A New York Times Bestseller!

An illuminating perspective on the science of meditation--and a handbook for transforming our minds, bodies, and lives

In The Joy of Living, world-renowned Buddhist teacher Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche--the "happiest man in the world"--invites us to join him in unlocking the secrets to finding joy and contentment in the everyday. Using the basic meditation practices he provides, we can discover paths through our problems, transforming obstacles into opportunities to recognize the unlimited potential of our own minds.

Make the most of tummy time with your baby with the Nature My Tummy Book from Mudpuppy. Your baby will fall in love with the beautiful artwork in this double-sided accordion book that opens to stand up on the carpet, in the bed or in the crib making it the perfect addition for tummy time. Includes a baby-safe mirror so your baby can see their reflection! The artwork is illustrated by Michéle Brummer Everett from South Africa
- 14 pages
- Trim: 6 x 6", 15.24 x 15.24 cm
- Accordion book stands upright for tummy time
- Baby-safe mirror included!
- All Mudpuppy products adhere to CPSIA, ASTM, and CE Safety Regulations.

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Featured in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story starring Heather Locklear, premiering on Lifetime

In this classic roadmap to managing your high-tension job, Richard Carlson shows how to stop worrying about the aspects of your work beyond your control and interact more fruitfully and joyfully with colleagues, clients, and bosses. His key insights reveal how to:

• How to manage rush deadlines with rushing
• How to transform your outlook and prepare for the day ahead
• How to enjoy corporate travel
• How to have a really bad day . . . and get over it

The Gardener's Guide to Succulents is a stunning visual reference identifying over 125 plants from 40 different genera of succulents and cacti.

Fleshy, spiny, hairy, flowering--and coming in every imaginable shape, color and size--this plant family has captured the affection of plant enthusiasts all over the world. This book provides a beautiful overview of the diversity that succulents have to offer, presenting a wide variety of popular plants to help you create striking, aesthetically pleasing compositions.

This succulent guide includes information about:

• What each variety needs and where it thrives
• Plant characteristics, with ratings on ease of growth and maintenance requirements
• Ideas for group plantings and illustrated tips on indoor planting
• Striking identification photos, rich in color and contrast

This succulent encyclopedia is a useful resource for everyone--from cacti beginners looking to decorate their living space to serious gardeners hoping to expand their succulent plantings.

A unique system for jump-starting artistic creativity, encouraging experimentation and growth, and increasing sales for artists of all levels, from novices to professionals.

Have you landed in a frustrating rut? Are you having trouble selling paintings in galleries, getting bogged down by projects you can't seem to finish or abandon, or finding excuses to avoid working in the studio? Author Carol Marine knows exactly how you feel--she herself suffered from painter's block, until she discovered "daily painting." The idea is simple: do art (usually small) often (how often is up to you), and if you'd like, post and sell it online. Soon you'll find that your block dissolves and you're painting work you love--and more of it than you ever thought possible!

With her encouraging tone and useful exercises, Marine teaches you to:
-Master composition and value
-Become confident in any medium including oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolors, and other media
-Choose subjects wisely
-Stay fresh and loose
-Photograph, post, and sell your art online
-Become connected to the growing movement of daily painters around the world

Is your child ready for kindergarten? Make learning fun with hundreds of illustrated, teacher-approved activities and games in this convenient spiral-bound binder of kindergarten concepts.Get Ready for School: Kindergarten introduces early-learning concepts like the alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes, sight words, and essential math skills and more in 300-plus full-color, fill-it-in activity pages. Created by a teacher for parents to explore with their kids, Get Ready for School: Kindergarten -- complete with an answer key and frameable achievement certificate -- makes learning fun and rewarding while boosting self-confidence and a love of learning.

Whether you're the one who suspects your partner of cheating, or you're the one who's been engaging in a secret affair, Chatting or Cheating, is designed to take you step-by-step through the process of discovery, confrontation, confession, and healing.

In CHATTING OR CHEATING you'll learn how to...
- Become "affair aware," and stop denying what's really going on.
- Identify the most common INFIDELITY warning signs, breeding grounds, and relationship vulnerabilities.
- Gather the proper evidence and recognize the often subtle clues that your partner is cheating, so you can confront them in the right way and get to the truth as quickly as possible.
- Confess the truth without breaking your partner's heart.
- End the Affair, break the addiction, and stop the obsessing--specific, proven tips and strategies for eliminating unwanted thoughts, moving on, forgiving yourself and embarking on reconciliation with your primary partner.
- Survive the betrayal, heal your heart, and restore the trust, no matter how betrayed and angry you feel, or how impossible it may seem right now.
- Repair your relationship, revitalize your romance, create genuine intimacy, and safely love again.
YOU CAN SAVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP AND MAKE IT EVEN BETTER THAN BEFORE!

The good news is that it doesn't have to be the disaster you imagine. Emotional Sex or physical infidelity doesn't need to lead to a break-up or divorce. When handled the right way, the aftermath of cheating can actually strengthen your primary relationship and bring you closer than ever before. Chatting or Cheating, takes you by the hand and guides you through each step required to save your relationship and make it even better than before. You can turn it around and fall in love again. Dr. Sheri Meyers shows you how.

The Instant New York Times Bestseller

A practical guide to taking control of your mental health for today, tomorrow, and the days after, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved entertainer.

'There's a moment at the end of every day, where the world falls away and you are left alone with your thoughts. A reckoning, when the things you have been pushing to the background, come forward and demand your attention.'

Written by Daniel Howell, in consultation with a qualified psychologist, in an entertaining and personal way from the perspective of someone who has been through it all--this no-nonsense book gives you the tools to understand your mind so you can be in control and really live. Split into three chapters for each stage of the journey:

This Night - how to get through your toughest moments and be prepared to face anything.

Tomorrow - small steps to change your thoughts and actions with a big impact on your life.

The Days After - help to look after yourself in the long term and not just survive, but thrive.

You will laugh and learn--but most of all, this book will assure you that even in your darkest times, there is always hope.

You will get through this night.

An engaging, enlightening, and cleverly illustrated guide to product design, written by experienced professional designers and instructors.

Products are in every area of our lives, but just what product designers do and how they think is a mystery to most. Product design is not art, engineering, or craft, even as it calls for skills and understandings in each of these areas--along with psychology, history, cultural anthropology, physics, ergonomics, materials technology, marketing, and manufacturing. This accessible guide provides an entry point into this vast field through 101 brief, illustrated lessons exploring such areas as

- why all design is performed in relation to the body
- why every product is part of a system
- the difference between being clever and being gimmicky
- why notions of beauty are universal across cultures
- how to use both storytelling and argument to effectively persuade

Written by three experienced design instructors and professionals, 101 Things I Learned(R) in Product Design School provides concise, thoughtful touch points for beginning design students, experienced professionals, and anyone else wishing to better understand this complex field that shapes our lives every day.

The perfect adventure book for couples, this beautifully-designed bucket list journal will let you keep track of you and your partner's goals and then record all the memories once you make them happen.

This gorgeous, heirloom-quality bucket list journal from bestselling author and artist Korie Herold provides you with plenty of room to document your life goals, both big and small. Whether you dream of a big trip abroad or doing smaller activities together in your own town, use this journal to keep track of all the things you and your partner hope to do one day. Then, once you've completed an item on your list, record the date and any thoughts or collective memories you want to celebrate from the special experience.

Inside Our Bucket List Adventures, couples will find:

• Plenty of space for brainstorming and planning your adventures together
• Motivating prompts to help couples follow through on goals
• Smaller sections to record the restaurants or foods you both want to try, museums and landmarks you want to visit, and other things you want to see or do
• Extra pages to keep photos, ticket stubs, and other items that commemorate your experiences

A great wedding shower gift or present for an adventurous couple in your life, Our Bucket List Adventures features a beautiful, timeless design that can be cherished for decades to come.

This high-quality book features:

• Sturdy binding and a durable cloth cover
• A layflat design that makes it easy to write in
• Gold foil stickers to celebrate each goal that's accomplished
• Hand-drawn illustrations and tasteful neutral colors that make this journal great for you or any couple on your gift list

Liberate yourself from the tyranny of codependency.

When you are codependent, you are unconscious. You do not know that emotional neglect has caused your brain to believe life is a threatening reality. Instead of believing you are worthy of love, you feel unworthy of love. You do not make choices because they might bring you joy. You play it small, try not to rock the boat, people-please, and focus on what you do not want to happen versus what you would like to happen.

Now, awaken, understand, and learn how to confront the illusionary dragon that codependency is. If you are the adult child of an alcoholic, or have been raised by narcissistic or emotionally immature parents, your childhood conditioning may have programmed you to believe you are unworthy, incapable, and or not enough. Learn how raising your awareness of subconscious patterns can help you heal your life.

The Codependency Manifesto: Clearing the Way Out of the Codependent Mind blends science, psychology, and spirituality to approach healing and wellness from a wholistic approach. Author Lisa A. Romano is a certified life coach, best-selling author, radio-show host, and expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse. Romano is also a recovering codependent.

She wrote The Codependency Manifesto to help bring about peace in the individual, with the hopes of having that individual then bring peace to their part of the world. She wrote this book out of a belief in human potential once awakened.

For the first time ever, the Toltec wisdom from the Ruiz family is bound together in a book of Daily Meditations.

Readers are invited on a six-month journey of daily lessons with don Miguel Ruiz Jr. that are designed to inspire, nourish, and enlighten adherents as they travel along the Toltec path.

Drawing on years of apprenticeship under his father and grandmother, don Miguel Ruiz Jr. shares Toltec lessons on Love, Faith, Agreements, and most importantly: Awareness. The purpose of each meditation is to guide readers into a deeper understanding of his or her self, as well as the world in which we live.

In the introduction to the book, don Miguel Ruiz Jr. reminds readers that progress on the Toltec path is not measured by the acquisition of things, status, or even ideas, but rather the complete and total realization that everything in the world is perfect, exactly the way it is at this moment.

"Love is accepting ourselves just the way we are, with all of our flaws and our ever-changing belief system. You are nothing else but who you are. You are not the person you were a year ago. You are not the person you will be in a year. You aren't even the person you think you are. You simply are, and that must be enough." --don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

This book will have special appeal to those already familiar with his father's books The Four Agreements, The Mastery of Love, and The Fifth Agreement, as well as don Miguel Ruiz Jr.'s own book, The Five Levels of Attachment. It also makes a wonderful gift.