Collection: Self-Development

Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? If so, this workbook is for you.

Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? Do you have a rich inner life and intense dreams? Did parents or teachers call you "too shy" or "too sensitive"? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP).

High sensitivity is a trait shared by 20 percent of the population, according to Dr. Elaine Aron, a clinical psychologist and workshop leader and the bestselling author of The Highly Sensitive Person. The enormous response to her book led Dr. Aron to create The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook, designed to honor that long-ignored, trampled-on part of yourself--your sensitivity. A collection of exercises and activities for both individuals and groups, this workbook will help you identify the HSP trait in yourself, nurture the new, positive self-image you deserve, and create a fuller, richer life. You will be able to:

Identify your specific sensitivities with self-assessment tests
Reframe past experiences in a more positive light
Interpret dreams and relate them to your sensitivity
Cope with overarousal through relaxation, breathing, and visualization techniques
Describe your trait in a work interview or to an unsympathetic family member, new friend, doctor, or therapist

An extensive and info-packed bible of home vegetable growing from the editors of the world's most-visited gardening resource, Garden Know How.

With the experts from Gardening Know How at your side, cultivating loads of fresh, homegrown food has never been simpler. This indispensable handbook for vegetable gardeners includes not only the essential information you need to succeed, but also a wealth of expert tips and real-world advice to smooth the many inevitable bumps on the road to a productive edible garden.

Gardening Know How - The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardening is here to answer your every veggie-growing question, from asparagus planting to zucchini pest control--and everything in between. Detailed plant profiles offer specific cultivation information and unique growing tips for each vegetable crop, allowing you to pick and choose which crops to grow based on your climate and personal preference.

Other highlights:

• Planting plans for maximizing succession planting
• Soil-building expertise from the pros
• Budget-friendly garden design ideas and inspiration
• Seed starting and transplanting information
• Know-how on filling raised beds and containers
• Tips for companion planting
• Guidance on feeding, watering, and mulching your veggie plants
• Recommendations on the best varieties to grow
• Harvesting advice for dozens of different vegetables

QR codes throughout the book guide you to even more available resources on the Gardening Know How website. Plus, lush, full-color photos highlight the beauty and value of homegrown harvests from backyard gardens, both large and small.

Welcome to the garden!

A groundbreaking approach to successfully navigating your pregnancy at work

Pregnancy is a profound journey. Navigating it while working--from figuring out how to tell your boss you're pregnant to squeezing in doctors' appointments between meetings, all while working even harder to prove yourself--can be a push and pull between a desire for privacy and the need for support. The good news is, it's possible to thrive in both spaces. Carry Strong offers a new approach that will transform your pregnancy years at work from something to "get through" into a career opportunity to embrace with confidence.

Employing original research, expert advice, and real-life stories from Olympic athletes, CEOs, and hundreds of amazing working mothers across the country, executive and professor Stephanie Kramer outlines essential principles for navigating pregnancy and work simultaneously. She shows you how to embrace a different perspective, find your balance, cultivate community, communicate your needs, and navigate the shift in identity from working woman to working mother. Along the way, you'll identify career considerations to make at each phase of pregnancy, starting with the moment you decide you want to become a working mom-to-be.

In Carry Strong, Kramer flips the script: This isn't about powering through pregnancy at work. It's about being powerful and pregnant at work.

A lot of work goes into a quilting or sewing project, so it's important to finish strong! Ultimate Binding and Edge-Finishing Guide for Quilting and Sewing is a complete, go-to guide on how to ensure your projects are edged perfectly each and every time! Opening with helpful overviews on binding tools, this must-have guide details more than 16 binding techniques and various ways to finish a project, including traditional, bias, pompom, scalloped, chenille binding, invisible faced, and more. With easy-to-follow tutorials, coordinating photography, and video links to further enhance instruction, this guide belongs in every crafter's library to refer to time and time again for finishing and binding every project!

Revised and updated, Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder is a groundbreaking, comprehensive program to help those with bipolar disorder--and those who care about them--gain permanent control over their lives.

Most people diagnosed with bipolar disorder are sent home with the name of a doctor and multiple prescriptions. However, few people with bipolar disorder are able to find long-term stability with medications alone. Bipolar disorder researcher and expert Julie A. Fast, who was diagnosed with the illness at age thirty-one, and specialist John Preston, PsyD, offer the pioneering Take Charge program used around the world to help readers promote stability, reduce mood swings, increase work ability, decrease health care costs, and improve relationships. The book guides those with bipolar disorder and their loved ones toward a comprehensive personal treatment plan by incorporating:

• Medications and bipolar-safe supplements
• Lifestyle changes that help manage bipolar symptoms naturally
• Behavior modifications that reduce and prevent symptoms
• Guidelines on assembling an effective support team

By helping readers gather powerful strategies, Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder delivers a dynamic program to treat this difficult but ultimately manageable illness.

In 2011, Jennifer Dickenson was a busy lawyer when she was diagnosed with grade 4 brain cancer and given scant hope for survival. But she started looking for hope anyway and discovered the magnificent ways in which we can heal through the mind, body and spirit.

As a result of her own healing process, she became compelled to share the information she learned with as many people as possible. The Case for Hope is an encouraging, easy-to-read, informative book, filled with tools in support of those fighting cancer, illness, or those just looking to live a better life.

We can heal. Sometimes we just need a path to follow.

As Semanas Mágicas. Um guia livre de estresse para a saúde mental do seu bebê

Um best-seller mundial que resgatará a sanidade dos pais do mundo todo.

As Semanas Mágicas revela oque está acontecendo na mente do bebê. Capítulo bônus: O sono e a falta de sono são algo com que todos temos que lidar quando temos um bebê. Este capítulo inclui tudo sobre a relação entre sono e saltos, bem como uma visão única sobre o sono do seu bebê. Dica: você sabia que seu bebê aprende (e há muita atividade cerebral) durante essas sonecas?

O livro inclui:

- Guia semanal do comportamento do bebê
- Quando esperar o comportamento difícil, o que ele implica (comportamento choroso, apegamento e irritabilidade, o CAI) e como lidar com esses períodos de regressão (saltos)
- Uma descrição da perspectiva que seu bebê tem do mundo a volta dele e como você pode entender as alterações pelas quais ele está passando
- Jogos divertidos e atividades delicadas para você fazer com sua criança

O livro baseia-se na descoberta científica de um fenômeno que muda o mundo dos pais: todos os bebês normais e saudáveis parecem ficar mais exigentes aproximadamente nas mesmas idades, os períodos de regressão (saltos de desenvolvimento), e dormem menos nestas fases.

Essas flutuações relacionadas à idade de necessidade de contato corporal e atenção (períodos de regressão) estão ligadas a mudanças importantes e bastante dramáticas nos cérebros das crianças. Como consequência, essas mudanças permitem que um bebê entre em um mundo de percepção completamente novo para que ele aprenda várias novas habilidades. Isso deveria ser motivo de celebração, mas para o bebê essas mudanças são desconcertantes. Ele foi pego de surpresa -- tudo mudou durante a noite. É como se ele tivesse acordado em um planeta diferente. Ele precisa de você para guiá-lo e entender o que ele está passando.

Prepare-se para redescobrir o mundo novamente com o seu bebê!

In this book from the best-selling Almost Everything series, kids will find hours of fun, independent drawing practice with tracing and easy steps to learn how to draw almost everything under the sun.

From soccer balls to panda bears and rainbows to racing cars, this book not only makes kids feel successful at drawing, but is fun for all ages. With space to trace then try it freehand right in the pages, learn to draw all types of sweet:

• People, including faces, bodies, and with instructions to make a flip book
• Animals, including pets and wild animals
• Plants, including flowers, leaves, trees, and even insects
• Food, from fruits and vegetables to sweets
• Everyday objects, from kitchen tools to toys and games
• Icons, for special days, special places, and even astrological signs
• Holidays and special occasions

All kids, both young and grown, will enjoy improving their drawing skills with this step-by-step approach.

Each book in the Almost Everything series offers readers a fun, comprehensive, and charmingly illustrated visual directory of ideas to inspire skill building in their creative endeavors.

This excellent, practical, illustrated DIY guide teaches everything from healing common infections of the vagina and bladder to menstruation, birth control, and an understanding of AIDS. Originally published by Profane Existence.

For kids who have mastered hand sewing, machine sewing opens up exciting new possibilities! Sewing School (R)2 offers 20 creative projects designed for children ages 7 and up, including cloth pencil cases, purses, wall pockets, and even a fabric guitar. Illustrated step-by-step instructions show kids how to thread a sewing machine, select an appropriate stitch, and choose fabrics and patterns that evoke their own unique style. Suggestions for creative variations open up endless possibilities for kids to imaginatively personalize their fabric creations.

Also available in this series: Sewing School (R), Sewing School (R) Fashion Design, Sewing School (R) Quilts, and Sewing School (R) Box Set.

This is the only sewing reference you will ever need, with step-by-step photographs to show you how to sew absolutely everything!

Whether you are sewing clothes, making soft furnishings, or doing alterations, master every hand sewing and machine sewing technique with close-up photographs and clear instructions to demystify the trickiest techniques. Choose from 10 stylish projects to practice your skills. With in-depth coverage of tools, techniques, and fabric, this is the ultimate sewing bible for beginners and seasoned stitchers alike.

Fully illustrated and easy to use, this sewing book covers all the essential skills and techniques for successful hand and machine sewing. It's a must-have for beginners and expert stitchers alike.
Comprehensive step-by-step instructions cover everything from cutting out patterns to making sleeves and stitching hems. Accompanied by close-up photographs, clear instructions, and a glossary of sewing terminology to demystify even the trickiest technique. This book will help you advance from a sewing learner to a seasoned stitcher in no time.

Inside the pages of this sewing guide, you'll find:

- Up-to-date techniques to help you master the art of sewing and develop your stitching skills
- How to choose and use today's sewing equipment, fabrics, and paper patterns
- 10 new projects for stylish homeware and clothing
- Step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions.

All the techniques and projects are graded by difficulty level, from the simple and straightforward to the more complex and challenging ones. There are 10 new, stylish projects to help you put into practice what you've learned. Explore in-depth descriptions on more than 100 tools, and 250 techniques, and browse an updated visual directory of more than 50 fabrics. From basic sewing kits and cutting tools, to measuring tools and marking aids, this book will also help you get properly kitted out! Zoomed-in photographs of hand and machine tools show you the best equipment for the job and teaches you exactly how to use it.

We will guide you through every hand stitch, machine stitch, and sewing technique you'll ever need. We've included the best way to seam and hem, and put in linings, fasteners, darts, pleats, and pockets, and how to create necklines, collars, and sleeves, so you can make your favorite bespoke outfits. This is your complete guide to sewing absolutely everything, from altering clothes to home decor.

At DK, we believe in the power of discovery.

So why stop there? If you like The Sewing Book, then why not try The Crochet Book to hone in on your creativity?

From a founding member of the coaching movement comes a detailed guide to mastering one of a coach's toughest skills: thoughtfully reflecting clients' words and expressions back to them so they see themselves and their world through new eyes.

"Coaches rely far too much on asking open-ended questions," says Marcia Reynolds. But questions only seek answers--inquiry provides insight. When, instead of just questions, clients hear their thoughts, opinions, and beliefs spoken by someone else, it prompts them to critically consider how their thinking affects their goals. Reynolds cites the latest brain science to show why reflective inquiry works and provides techniques, tips, and structures for creating breakthrough conversations.

This book will free coaches from the cult of asking the magical question by offering five essential practices of reflective inquiry: focus on the person, not the problem; summarize what is heard and expressed; identify underlying beliefs and assumptions; unwrap the desired outcome; and articulate insights and commitments. Using these practices, combined with a respectful and caring presence, helps create a space where clients feel safe, seen, and valued for who they are. Coaches become change agents who actively recharge the human spirit. And clients naturally dive deeper and develop personalized solutions that may surprise even the coach.

The absolute authority on Third Culture Kids for nearly two decades!In this 3rd edition of the ground-breaking global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original co-author, David C. Pollock, have significantly updated what is widely recognized as "The TCK Bible." Emphasis is on the modern TCK and addressing the impact of technology, cultural complexity, diversity and inclusion and transitions. Includes new advice for parents and others for how to support TCKs as they navigate work, relationships, social settings and their own personal development. New to this edition:

- A second PolVan Cultural Identity diagram to support understanding of cultural identity

- New models for identity formation

- Updated explanation of unresolved grief

- New material on "highly mobile communities" addressing the needs of people who stay put while a community around them moves rapidly

- Revamped Section III so readers can more easily find what is relevant to them as Adult TCKs, parents, counselors, employers, spouses, administrators, etc.

- New "stages and needs" tool that will help families and organizations identify and meet needs

- Greater emphasis on tools for educators as they grapple with demographic shifts in the classroom

Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems on friendship from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition.

For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi--commonly referred to simply as Rumi--has enchanted and enthralled readers from every faith and background with his universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he seamlessly wove into resplendent poetry.

The verses perfectly express the universal importance of friendship in its many forms. A perfect gift to celebrate a special friendship, allow Rumi to exquisitely express the deeper meanings of being, and having, a friend in your life.

With intricately designed and richly colored covers that mirror the beauty of the words within, the Timeless Rumi series presents themed collections of poems from the great Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi that serve as cherished tools for self-reflection.

Find Yourself a Friend

find yourself a friend
who is willing to
tolerated you with patience
put to the test the essence
of the best incense
by putting it in fire
drink a cup of poison
if handed to you by a friend
when filled with love and grace
step into the fire
like the chosen prophet
the secret love will change
hot flames to a garden
covered with blossoms
roses and hyacinths and willow
spinning and throwing you
a true friend can hold you
like God and his universe

Discover the next exciting activity challenge, full of exciting puzzles that dare you to keep connecting the dots!

Fans of adult coloring books, crossword puzzles, and other brain teasers will find their next engrossing activity in these intricate connect-the-dot challenges! Ultimate Dot-to-Dot Animals combines extreme puzzles and your favorite furry friends! Full of captivating animal and pet portraits that will keep you entertained for hours, this book is perfect for anyone who loves to relax with screen-free activities and includes:

• Over 30,000 dots to connect
• 30 stunning animal portraits
• Large, easy-to-use format
• High-quality paper
• Clear connect-the-dot outlines to help you create beautiful artwork

Hours of interactive fun await as you transform blank pages into animal art masterpieces! Ultimate Dot-to-Dot Animals is the perfect self-purchase or a gift for the aspiring artist in your life.

Writer, poet, and spiritual field guide Janet Connors's work Writing Down Your Soul helps fellow writers engage in a vibrant conversation with the wisdom that dwells just below their conscious awareness.