Collection: Self-Development

Traumatic life experiences can be devastating and they inevitably shape who you are. Such events can also become a powerful force that awakens you to an undercurrent of your own aliveness. Trauma recovery involves learning to trust in your capacity for new growth. In order to grow, we must make use of our suffering in order to find our happiness.

Within these pages, you will find an invitation to see yourself as the hero or heroine of your own life journey. A hero's journey involves walking into the darkness on a quest for wholeness. This interactive format calls for journaling and self-reflection, with practices that guide you beyond the pain of your past and help you discover a sense of meaning and purpose in your life. Successful navigation of a hero's journey provides opportunities to discover that you are more powerful than you had previously realized.

Written by Dr. Arielle Schwartz, bestselling author of The Complex PTSD Workbook, this healing guide provides a step-by-step approach to trauma recovery that integrates:

• Mindfulness & yoga
• Somatic psychology
• EMDR therapy
• Parts work therapy
• Relational therapy

For women of all ages who love to color. Take time for relaxation with this gorgeous and simple-to-see EASY LARGE PRINT ADULT COLORING BOOK from the Pippa Page Collection.

Simple and beautiful stress relieving designs with bold lines including pretty patterns, flowers, cute animals, mandalas, butterflies and nature scenes. These illustrations have been carefully selected for women of all ages who enjoy less intricate coloring and the opportunity to connect with color and art.

Reasons To Enjoy This Book:

- Simple Beautiful Images. Every page in our collection has been carefully selected and comes within a marked frame making it simple to color, complete and reconnect with art.

- Relaxation. Our books are especially created with relaxation and enjoyment in mind. Each stress-relieving design has been lovingly crafted to enable you to create a beautiful piece of artwork.

- No Bleed-Through. Our books are all printed on single sided pages to ensure no bleed through so that you can color with confidence.

- Coloring For All Ages. We make sure our books contain a wide range of levels to suit all skills and ages.

Escape into a fantastical fairy realm with The Vintage Fairies Coloring Book, including 45 delightfully imaginative illustrations by classic illustrators.

These beautiful vintage illustrations from the early 20th century explore the secret lives of fairies, rendered in soft, luminous colors by foremost fantasy illustrators such as Margaret Tarrant, Rene Cloke, Molly Brett, and Hilda Miller. Each full-color image is accompanied by a line drawing for coloring in, either in shades similar to those used by the artist or in colors of your choice.

The imaginative scenarios in this enchanting book are full of vintage charm and romance and will appeal to any coloring enthusiast.

ABOUT THE SERIES The Arcturus Vintage Coloring series will transport you to a world of vintage charm and nostalgia. These delightful coloring books feature original, full-color illustrations by classic artists and designers along with black and white line versions for you to color in.

An inspirational roadmap to changing yourself--and the world--through self-healing, transformation, and decolonization from artist, poet, and changemaker Jezz Chung.

Artist, poet, and performer Jezz Chung (they/them) focuses on cultural change through personal transformation. In This Way to Change, Jezz shares contemporary poetry, accessible prose, and healing practices from different therapeutic modalities to explore subjects like healing your inner child, nourishing friendships, decolonizing your thinking, deconstructing binaries, and intentional community-making. The interactive healing practices in this book include writing and reflection prompts, somatic exercises, guided meditations, and more to help readers tap into their powers of self-healing on their journey through change.

Perfect for:

• Anyone interested in social justice, racial and disability issues, LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identity issues
• Those seeking guidance in alternative wellness, self-guided healing, intentional community building, and collective care
• AAPI readers interested in Jezz Chung's Korean American perspective on identity, decolonization, and intergenerational trauma
• Readers of Self-Love Poetry, Heart Talk, and such bestselling authors as Alexandra Elle and Yung Pueblo

Whether in the rugged backcountry or a suburban backyard, kids can experience the sense of personal independence and self-confidence that come from outdoor proficiency, while also developing a deeper connection to and understanding of the natural world. With this skills-based book, kids learn essential safety and survival tips and bushcraft that they need to have a safe wilderness experience. Led by outdoor leader Frank Grindrod of Earthwork Programs, every turn of the page takes kids on another stage of the journey. They learn how to pack for the outdoors, navigate using a map and a compass, choose and set up a campsite, handle and use a knife properly, build a fire, tie different types of knots, make a lean-to out of sticks and leaves, and cook over an open fire. This guide teaches more than just outdoor know-how; it fosters appreciation for the natural world and pride in knowing how to use its resources as a tool for survival and adventure.

Craft Lace Masterpieces One Step at a Time

Here is the perfect book for the beginning lace maker. The Torchon Lace Workbook presents the basics, step by step, followed by patterns which employ these new skills. Bridget Cook expertly guides the reader through the basic techniques of Torchon lace, a style which is accessible and rewarding to all levels of ability.

Color photos of bobbins, pillows, and finished lace enhance the clearly written instructions, along with easy-to-understand color-coded diagrams. Exercises include employing the half stitch, whole stitch, diamonds, spiders, rosegrounds, Scandinavian holes, gimps, tallies, leaves, plaits, and picots. Projects go from nursery lace to collars, from frills to handkerchiefs. Ten comprehensive lessons on technique will prepare you for 27 original projects which use them. The projects graduate from basic to more complex, but whether a novice or a seasoned craftsperson, this well-presented compendium belongs in your collection.

Internationally known author and designer Bridget M. Cook has taught legions of aspiring lace makers for decades. She has presented lectures and demonstrations throughout Europe and the United Kingdom.

Be sure to complete your library of lace patterns and methods with Bridget Cook's other lacemaking titles published by Echo Point Books & Media: Russian Lace Making (ISBN 1648370284 hardcover, 1648370292 paperback) and Russian Lace Patterns (ISBN 1648370268 hardcover, 1648370276 paperback).

This book is also available from Echo Point Books in hardcover (ISBN 1648370241).

"Brilliant and provocative, Solo transcends the loneliness narrative surrounding single life. It's not just about being OK with being alone; it's about the incredible freedom and endless opportunities that come with it. McGraw combines science and wisdom to unlock the secrets that Solos have always known: life is richer when you are the hero of your own story."

--Kristin Newman, author of What I was Doing While You Were Breeding

Join the movement that celebrates single living with Peter McGraw's groundbreaking book, Solo.

Amid the complexities of modern relationships, loneliness epidemics, and online dating burnout, there's a refreshing alternative: going Solo. "Solos," as coined by behavioral economist Peter McGraw, are people who choose to lead their lives authentically, purposefully, and passionately outside the confines of traditional relationship labels.

In a world built for two, Solos break the rules and hold space for every type of individual--single and not. Meet the thriving "Just Mays," who welcome romance if it comes their way, the determined "No Ways," who prefer life unpartnered, and the bold "New Ways," who redefine and redesign what relationships even mean.

Which one are you?

In contrast with the "Someday" singles who hang personal fulfilment on the success of a "serious" long-term relationship, McGraw reveals the secrets of happiness that Solos have already unlocked, offering readers a roadmap to reinventing sex, dating, romance, and beyond.

Backed by scientific insights and McGraw's experience as a lifelong bachelor, Solo offers a blueprint for cultivating fulfilling relationships and creating a rich, remarkable life. Solo is your invitation to pursue a life uniquely your own.

Are you tired of being shy and uncertain about yourself? Tired of negative self-talk that makes you feel bad and stops you from living your life to the fullest?

Are you ready to learn how to truly love and accept yourself as the perfectly imperfect person you are now?

Most people nowadays suffer from low self-esteem. And of course we do! We live in a world where we call people who love themselves arrogant, where we encourage children to compete with one another in school, and where we immerse ourselves daily in media of all the millions of things we have to do before we are considered adequately lovable.

Low self-esteem, low confidence, self-doubt, self-hatred, shyness, guilt, shame, soul-crushing depression - call it whatever you want, the idea is the same: You, the person whose opinion should matter to you the most, don't accept yourself.

The 21-Day Self-Love Challenge will help you to:

• Develop self-love and acceptance in an easy step-by-step way
• Realize the importance of taking good care of yourself and your body, and how to bring this in practice
• Let go of self-talk, behaviors, things, and people that do not serve you
• Understand why most self-love books you've heard before didn't work
• Develop new habits that will significantly boost your feelings of self-love on a daily basis
• ...and much more!

Each and every one of us grapples with our own highly personal mythology, the psychic force that allows us to weave the fragments of our experience into coherent story. These mythologies shape our every thought, perception, and action, helping us to feel safe and secure in our identities. But when our personal mythologies do not grow and change along with us, we find ourselves stuck in self-defeating life patterns. In Personal Mythology, David Feinstein, PhD, and Stanley Krippner, PhD, hailed by Jean Houston as "masters of the geography of the inscapes," provide a series of detailed exercises developed over a combined 80 years of clinical practice, personal development workshops, and teaching on psychological topics. Using ritual, dreams, and imagination to liberate you from the mythologies of your childhood and culture, the 12-week course will ignite the mystery of a transformed inner life into authentic outer expression. This third edition of a life-changing classic has been revised to include a new Support Guide combining their groundbreaking model for incorporating Energy Psychology into the process of personal transformation.

A crochet border is the perfect finishing touch on the edges of any fiber project, but creating one often means shaping the edging around an unforgiving 90-degree angle. It's no easy task, but Edie Eckman guides you through it with style and poise. This collection includes 150 vibrant crochet frames to suit every fiber need, with color photographs by John Polak that showcase the beautiful details of each technique. Now painless, marvelous crochet borders are just around the corner!

A collection of 15 graduation speeches and treasured wisdom from the New York Times-bestselling literary icon and author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions

"Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut's crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted."--A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review

Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. His words were unfailingly insightful and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation. Chosen and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, a selection of speeches and essays in this expanded 3rd edition include:

- "What to Do When You Have the Power; In the Meantime, Remember to Skylark!"
- "Why Social Justice Does More Than Art to Nourish the American Dream"
- "How to Make Money and Find Love!"
- "Somebody Should've Told Me Not to Join a Fraternity"
- "How to Have Something Most Billionaires Don't"

Hilarious, razor-sharp, freewheeling, and at times deeply serious, these reflections are ideal not just for graduates but for anyone undergoing what Vonnegut would call their "long-delayed puberty ceremony"--marking the long and challenging passage to full-time adulthood.

The definitive text on Reiki-for students, practitioners, and Masters alike-from one of the most respected Reiki teachers today.

Reiki is a holistic system for balancing, healing, and harmonizing all aspects of the person-body, mind, emotions, and spirit-encouraging deep relaxation and the release of stress and tension, and promoting awareness and spiritual growth. This comprehensive manual provides much-needed support for students and teachers who want to follow the best practices.

Covering Reiki levels 1, 2, and 3, this book conveys information in an accessible, structured, and interactive way to enhance the reader's understanding, knowledge, and experience of the practice. The final section of the manual contains reference material specifically for students who wish to become professional practitioners, and for Masters who want to broaden their training. This section also offers the foundation for additional courses or workshops on topics such as health and safety and managing a successful practice.

The Reiki Manual can be used:

• as student preparation before a Reiki class;
• as a textbook during Reiki courses;
• as post-course reading, or for reviewing what has already been learned (it includes revision questions and revision activities);
• by Reiki practitioners to help them practice in the best, most professional way;
• and by Reiki Masters as a guide to devise and deliver a Reiki course.

  More extensive than any other Reiki book on the market, The Reiki Manual will be referred to by lay readers as well as devoted students for many years to come!

Soul initiation is an essential spiritual adventure that most of the world has forgotten -- or not yet discovered. Here, visionary ecopsychologist Bill Plotkin maps this journey, one that has not been previously illuminated in the contemporary Western world and yet is vital for the future of our species and our planet. Based on the experiences of thousands of people, this book provides phase-by-phase guidance for the descent to soul -- the dissolution of current identity; the encounter with the mythopoetic mysteries of soul; and the metamorphosis of the ego into a cocreator of life-enhancing culture. Plotkin illustrates each phase of this riveting and sometimes hazardous odyssey with fascinating stories from many people, including those he has guided. Throughout he weaves an in-depth exploration of Carl Jung's Red Book -- and an innovative framework for understanding it.

Designed for psychotherapists and their clients, Peter Levine's latest best-seller continues his groundbreaking exploration of the central role of the body in processing--and healing--trauma.

With foreword by Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score

In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist that we absolutely must rely on memory to make sense of past experience. Building on his 45 years of successful treatment of trauma and utilizing case studies from his own practice, Dr. Levine suggests that there are elements of truth in both camps. While acknowledging that memory can be trusted, he argues that the only truly useful memories are those that might initially seem to be the least reliable: memories stored in the body and not necessarily accessible by our conscious mind.

While much work has been done in the field of trauma studies to address "explicit" traumatic memories in the brain (such as intrusive thoughts or flashbacks), much less attention has been paid to how the body itself stores "implicit" memory, and how much of what we think of as "memory" actually comes to us through our (often unconsciously accessed) felt sense. By learning how to better understand this complex interplay of past and present, brain and body, we can adjust our relationship to past trauma and move into a more balanced, relaxed state of being. Written for trauma sufferers as well as mental health care practitioners, Trauma and Memory is a groundbreaking look at how memory is constructed and how influential memories are on our present state of being.

A collection of boro-inspired projects and techniques which celebrates this traditional Japanese textile and its relevance to the modern sewer and quilter.

Learn about the history of boro and how it is being revived for a new audience using contemporary fabrics including denim, linen and shibori tie dye as well as sashiko and other embroidery stitches.

The word boro comes from the Japanese boroboro meaning something tattered or repaired. It refers to textiles that have been mended or patched together for utilitarian, not decorative, purposes to make the fabric stronger and warmer, and to mend torn and threadbare areas.

The techniques section includes a short stitch directory with traditional stitches (running stitch and applique) and contemporary stitches (herringbone stitch, blanket stitch, chain stitch and whipped running stitch). Other techniques include instructions on improvisational patchwork; applique: raw, turned edge and reverse; darning techniques and methods for distressing and ageing fabrics to achieve an authentic boro finish. We also look at how boro is being revived for a new audience using contemporary fabrics including denim, linen and shibori tie dye as well as sashiko and embroidery threads. The techniques section includes a short stitch directory with traditional stitches (running stitch and applique) and contemporary stitches (herringbone stitch, blanket stitch, chain stitch and whipped running stitch). Other techniques include: Instructions on improvisational patchwork Applique: raw and turned edges and reverse Darning Methods for distressing and ageing your finished boro

The seventh coloring book from Sweden's coloring book sensation, Hanna Karlzon.

In Hanna Karlzon's newest coloring book, you have been invited to a midnight masquerade at a grand mansion. Guests in splendid costumes dance and mingle in an atmosphere of music, lighted candles, lanterns, and all kinds of magical and mystical creatures. Drawn in her highly regarded detailed style, coloring book enthusiasts will love this new series and get lost in the 64 pages of Hanna's best and most magical work yet.