Collection: Self-Development

Learn to make your best decisions in life by letting go of problems, guilt, and remorse while gaining a lasting philosophy to generate your greatest ideas. Are you facing decisions regarding your health, career, finances, relationships, or simply finding more joy in your life? Don't know where to turn for spiritual instruction? From distinguished New Thought Practitioner Dr. Pamela Grey, Power Your Decisions Self-Study Workbook offers readers a personalized roadmap for putting greater wisdom and better ideas into action. This workbook shows you how to:

- Let go of inferior thoughts that hold you back.

- End the cycle of worry and indecision.

- Open your mind to better ideas.

- Evolve spiritually to experience more happiness.

- Expand your consciousness to live more richly.

- Improve your mental and physical well-being to improve your health.

- Awaken your creativity to develop the future you want.

People from all walks of life can follow this sensible, step-by-step program to success. Better decisions will come naturally and with greater impact when you have a cosmic compass to guide you. Stop struggling with inferior thoughts and start practicing refreshing new ideas today!

Working on chess tactics and checkmates will help you win more games. It develops your pattern recognition and your 'board vision' - your ability to capitalize on opportunities. This Workbook features a complete set of fundamental tactics, checkmate patterns, exercises, hints, and solutions.

Peter Giannatos selected 738 exercises based on ten years of experience with thousands of pupils at the prize-winning Charlotte Chess Center. All problems are clean, without unnecessary fluff that detracts from their instructive value. The Workbook has ample room for writing down the solutions to the exercises. This is helpful for both students and coaches, who can assign homework from the book without having to worry about being unable to review the solutions. And writing down the correct chess moves will greatly accelerate your learning process.

Everyone's First Chess Workbook offers you a treasure trove of chess knowledge and more than enough lessons to keep you busy for a year!

Soul Midwives are holistic and spiritual companions to the dying. They draw on traditional skills, applying them to our modern world to ease the passage of those who are dying. Their services are used within people's own homes, in hospices, and care homes. Anyone with an open heart and a desire to help others can become a Soul Midwife. This book will guide you through the principles and techniques that can be used to help anyone, anywhere, to achieve a peaceful and tranquil passing.

Let off steam with this coloring book of cute animals cursing!
What's better than cute cartoon animals? Cute cartoon animals that curse up a storm! Being an adult sucks. So focus on something other than bills and take some of the stress out of adulthood by coloring the hell out of these 50 pages of funny, foul-mouthed animals. Swear away stress, or help out bawdy friends and family by giving them this ideal irreverent gift.

Voyage beneath the waves to realms of beauty and mystery -- ready for you to color! The Smithsonian Institution presents an awe-inspiring new coloring book that explores the diverse biology of our underwater world.

With this meticulously illustrated coloring book, sea-faring fans of all ages can unlock wonders of oceanic depths, interacting with the diverse terrain and species that inhabit these watery spaces.

Guided by experts from the Smithsonian and brought to life by Rachel Curtis (Birds: A Smithsonian Coloring Book), these rich pen and ink illustrations invite you to step into captivating scenes featuring the Giant Squid, Corals, Moray Eel, Giant Isopod, Caribbean Octopus, Orca, Starfish, and more. Fans of coloring books and aquatic life will find an enchanting realm to explore with their own creativity.

Each page of Sea Creatures: A Smithsonian Coloring Book not only stands alone as a work of art, but is also accompanied by brief and fascinating insights from museum experts, ensuring that time spent coloring is also time spent learning.

This book's deluxe ivory paper allows for a variety of artistic media like pen, pencil, or even watercolor, to ensure your creative vision comes to life just the way you want--and lasts for years to come.

Full of empowering wisdom from one of Silicon Valley's first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book--named a Best Business Book of the Year by Fortune and Bloomberg--offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals, now with a bonus chapter-by-chapter planning guide to walk readers through thoughtfully applying its lessons to their own lives in concrete, actionable ways.
Shellye Archambeau recounts how she overcame the challenges she faced as a young black woman, wife, and mother, managing her personal and professional responsibilities while climbing the ranks at IBM and subsequently in her roles as CEO. Through the busts and booms of Silicon Valley in the early 2000s, this bold and inspiring book details the risks she took and the strategies she engaged to steer her family, her career, and her company MetricStream toward success.

Through her journey, Shellye discovered that ambition alone is not enough to achieve success. Here, she shares the practical strategies, tools, and approaches readers can employ right now, including concrete steps to most effectively:

• Dismantle impostor syndrome
• Capitalize on the power of planning
• Take risks
• Developing financial literacy
• Build your network
• Establish your reputation
• Take charge of your career
• Integrate work, marriage, parenthood, and self-care

Each chapter lays out key takeaways and actions to increase the odds of achieving your personal and professional goals, and this paperback edition also includes a new chapter-by-chapter guide to walk readers through building their own ambitious plan for success. Through a series of prompts to direct readers to think more deeply about the book's content, the planning guide will help them apply the lessons to their own life in a concrete and productive way. With relatable personal stories that ground her advice in the real world and a foreword by leading venture capitalist and New York Times bestselling author Ben Horowitz, Unapologetically Ambitious invites readers to move beyond the solely supportive roles others expect them to fill, to learn how to carefully tread the thin line between assertive and aggressive, and to give themselves permission to strive for the top. Make no apologies for the height of your ambitions. Shellye Archambeau will show you how.

Unlock the art of knitting: Expert guidance, easy projects, and essential tips to begin your knitting journey with confidence!

Renowned knitting expert Lynne Rowe will be your trusted mentor, walking you through every step of the way. With Lynne's expert guidance, you'll effortlessly learn how to hold your needles, select the perfect yarn, decipher knitting patterns, execute various stitches, employ seamless sewing techniques, and conquer your very first knitting projects.

Lynne's friendly approach, easy-to-follow advice and clear tutorials will ease you into the welcoming world of knitting. By taking small steps and familiarizing yourself with the knitting terminology and techniques, you'll swiftly grasp the basics and become a confident knitter in no time at all.

There are 8 bright and contemporary projects, each clearly set out with easy-to-follow patterns. Choose from:

• Tranquility spa set
• Cozy scarf
• Hygge headbands
• Color block cushion
• Baby blanket
• Bunting
• Ribbed beanie hat
• Fingerless mittens

What makes this book truly exceptional is that each project progressively builds upon your knitting skills, so you'll soon be creating your own knitted wearable accessories and home décor items with all things bright and woolly!

Whether you aspire to knit heartfelt gifts for loved ones, express your creativity through handmade fashion, or simply find solace in the rhythmic motions of knitting, this book has everything you need to get started.

Is it time for a change? This evidence-based workbook will help you reevaluate your relationship with addictive substances, and offers a powerful alternative to "abstinence-only" approaches.

Do you feel like you're drinking too much or using too much, but you don't necessarily want to give it up for good? A powerful alternative to "abstinence-only" approaches, the "harm reduction" model outlined in this evidence-based workbook draws on practices from motivational interviewing (MI) to help you explore your relationship with substance abuse, and find the motivation needed to create an individualized recovery plan.

In The Harm Reduction Workbook for Addiction, you'll find skills-based exercises to help you focus on self-reflection; identify your strengths; discover common "life themes," values, and goals; and explore different reasons you may have for change. Most importantly, you'll find the tools needed to create your own "action plan" for moving forward and changing your relationship to substances.

This workbook will help you:

• Explore your relationship to substance abuse
• Identify your strengths, values, and goals
• Find your own motivations to change

Change doesn't have to happen overnight--it can happen at your own pace. If you're ready to transform your relationship with addictive substances and change your life for the better, this workbook can help you get started now.

Become more successful in every interaction by learning to read body language

Scientific studies show that people use body language to express their true feelings about a given situation or topic. With Understanding Body Language, you'll discover essential information and how-to guidance for deciphering nonverbal communication so you can make better decisions about the people and situations you approach every day.

Start by learning how to properly observe people so you can uncover their subtle nonverbal cues without drawing attention to yourself. Then, practice on your friends and family with practical advice to help you better read social gatherings and telltale signs of disagreement. Finally, dive deeper with real-life scenarios you'll likely encounter, such as dating, job interviews, and workplace interactions.

Understanding Body Language includes:

• Body language 101--Explore the science and driving forces behind body language, best practices for your own expression, and tips for successful interpretation of others.
  
• In-the-moment guidance--Learn setting-specific how-tos to help you feel physically assured in difficult situations, such as using positive body language while on a date and projecting confidence within the workplace.
• An emotional connection--Discover the link between specific emotions and the associated body language so you can apply that vital knowledge in real time and use it to your advantage.

Learn to decode body language with this complete guide to understanding nonverbal communication.

Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and military members all see the innermost of our dark and fallen world. Jonathan Hickory gives us a veteran police officer's intimate perspective into the struggle that many of our heroes battle in their hearts.

Drowning in the depths of depression and sadness, burning with anger, and chained down by alcoholism, Jonathan couldn't do any more. After the death of his father as a young boy, facing countless horrific death scenes in the line of duty, and the loss of his first son, Jonathan turned to the world for answers--finding only darkness. Facing the threat of losing his job as a police officer, the loss of his wife and daughter, and contemplating suicide, Jonathan turns to the only one who can truly save--Jesus.

Read the powerful true story of how a step into faith saved Jonathan from the clutches of sin and addiction, changing his life forever. This amazing story of grace and the life-changing power of Jesus Christ is guaranteed to encourage everyone who reads it.

Brain Games(R) Stress Free Crossword Puzzlesfeatures a collection of crosswords perfect for whenever you need a puzzle break. The puzzles are designed to be straightforward and relaxing to solve, helping to de-stress your brain.

• Includes a total of 112 crossword puzzles.
• Topics include ice cream, movies and TV shows, pets, games, and holidays.
• Puzzles are presented in an easy-to-read format across 2 pages.
• Answer key found in the back of the book.
• Spiral bound, 256 pages.

Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between "crazy" and "creative" in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.

Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity.

Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the crazy artist, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She also researches the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder, including the strengths and limitations of various treatments and medications, and what studies tell us about the conundrum of attempting to "cure" an otherwise brilliant mind.

Darkly funny and intensely personal, Forney's memoir provides a visceral glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on an artist's work, as she shares her own story through bold black-and-white images and evocative prose.

Has someone you love died? Or have you experienced another kind of loss where you feel like a part of you has died? Do you feel alone in what you're experiencing? You're not alone. When Debbie Augenthaler was 36 years-old, her husband Jim died suddenly and unexpectedly, in her arms, of a heart attack. Debbie thought her life was over and felt hopeless about the future. Yet today she is living a life filled with love, hope, and meaning.

Just as she has helped many grief-stricken people as a psychotherapist specializing in trauma, grief, and loss, Debbie and her wisdom can help you too. In her book. Debbie combines her personal story of devastating loss with practical insights and simple suggestions for healing and hope.

With the connection of a shared experience, 'You Are Not Alone' is a gentle guide through grief, transformation, and a new beginning.

Enjoy your favorite varieties of garden plants year after year with this comprehensive guide to gathering, preparing, and planting seeds. Authors Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough provide simple instructions that clearly explain the whole process, from basic plant biology to proper seed storage and successful propagation. Gardeners of any experience level will find all the information they need to preserve genetic diversity, cut costs, and extend the life of their favorite plants to the next generation and beyond.

The essential gardener's guide to growing native in New England Plants native to New England evolved to thrive in local conditions and survive harsh seasons. Native Plants for New England Gardens culls the expertise of the New England Wild Flower Society to help anyone create lovely, hardy gardens that will tolerate drought, resist disease and encourage biodiversity. This handy guide to 100 great native flowers, ground covers, shrubs, ferns, and grasses that will thrive in New England gardens features practical information accompanied by beautiful color photography. Find and nurture the native plants that your garden is missing--the planet will thank you.