Collection: Self-Development

An accessible user's guide to overcoming trauma from the creator of a scientifically proven form of psychotherapy that has successfully treated millions of people worldwide.

Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by our memories and by experiences we may not remember or fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical techniques that demystify the human condition and empower readers looking to take charge of their lives.

Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), explains how our personalities develop and why we become trapped into feeling, believing and acting in ways that don't serve us. Through detailed examples and exercises readers will learn to understand themselves, and why the people in their lives act the way they do. Most importantly, readers will also learn techniques to improve their relationships, break through emotional barriers, overcome limitations, and excel in ways taught to Olympic athletes, successful executives, and performers.

An easy conversational style, humor, and fascinating real life stories make it simple to understand the brain science, why we get stuck in various ways and how to achieve real change.

From fiber artist Toni Lipsey of TL Yarn Craft, an introduction to the craft of Tunisian crochet--a unique crochet style that looks more like knitting--with 20 projects for beginners.

There are hundreds of books that explore traditional crochet, but there are few that reference the concept of Tunisian crochet or present it in a modern, approachable way. The Tunisian Crochet Handbook introduces this fascinating and rewarding technique with a wide array of stitches and design possibilities. The goal of this book is to guide crocheters step-by-step through Tunisian crochet, starting with tools and yarns, transitioning into how-to's and stitches, and finishing with easy but engaging patterns.

Every shawl, garment, and accessory featured takes makers beyond the basics, introducing new stitches to expand their skill sets. In this way, author Toni Lipsey is reintroducing crochet and encouraging makers to explore the craft further with each new design. Crochet continues to grow in popularity, and this guidebook offers a new take on the timeless classic, one that readers won't be able to find anywhere else.

Includes instructional sections and patterns, complete with the necessary schematics and styled, chic photographs.

The joy and wonder of a garden-inspired lifestyle is captured in this colorfully photographed, through-the-seasons sourcebook filled with recipes, gardening wisdom, craft and wellness projects, and nature-based activities.

Each season in the garden brings new joy and fresh inspiration for connecting with the wonders of the natural world. In The Garden Maker's Book of Wonder, popular gardening lifestyle influencer Allison Vallin Kostovick (Finch + Folly) invites fans of cottagecore, gardening, and nature-based living to share her journey as she crafts, cooks, dreams, and creates. Drawing on decades of gardening experience, and illustrated with vibrant photography from her own home and garden, The Garden Maker's Book of Wonder offers sage advice on growing bountiful harvests of favorite vegetables, herbs, and flowers. All levels of gardeners, from dreamers to the experienced, will delight in the variety and creativity of Kostovick's projects, activities, and recipes for enjoying the magic and whimsy of the natural world--no matter what season. From planting a pollinator playground to building a rustic trellis from tree branches, cooking with freshly picked peas and mint to making a sweet viola tub soak, and growing a bird seed mix to crafting one-of-a-kind jewelry beads from the husks of the Job's Tears plant, the inventive ideas in this rich treasury are sure to make it a favorite to keep and to give to anyone who aspires to a more nature-connected lifestyle.

Dive into science with these fun and simple experiments for children to do at home.

This fun, activity-filled book is brimming with home experiments to help budding scientists aged 8-14 explore different projects. Using household items, combine science with art and craft, and make an erupting volcano, design rubber band planets, sail a soap-powered boat, and race car balloons.

Packed with photography, easy-to-follow instructions, and attention to detail, Home Activity Lab will excite young scientists from the get-go! Each of the super-fun make-and-do projects in this book comes with simple step-by-step photographs and instructions that will inspire children's imagination and teach STEM topics.

This children's craft book on space offers:

- 28 hands-on projects that appeals to kids aged 8-14.
- Materials easily found around the home with no specialist equipment needed.
- Information boxes full of fascinating facts and panel stories that explain the science throughout the book.
- A clear explanation how STEM is involved in creating the project or the results of the experiment.

Ideal for kids who are interested in STEM, Home Activity Lab features a collection of science projects with easy-to-follow instructions and everyday ingredients that can be found around the house. Each experiment describes the science behind the project, highlighting STEM facts with STEM icons pointing out the key science, technology, engineering, and maths learning involved in each one.

More in the series

The Activity Lab series inspires children to get hands-on with learning by creating exciting STEM projects in their favorite subject. If you liked Home Activity Lab, then why not try Dinosaur Activity Lab for budding paleontologists, Cardboard Activity Lab for eco-friendly recycling fun, Space Activity Lab for aspiring astrologists, or Great STEM Projects experiments for all budding scientists?

Chronicle life in your garden with this elegant 5-year journal full of tracking tools, planning space, gardening guidance, and inspiration.

Compiled by garden personality Linda Vater, The Garden Journal is an essential record-keeping tool for every gardener, no matter what you grow. From daily happenings and garden successes to plant lists, variety names, and seasonal to-dos, you'll be able to stay organized and keep a carefully curated record of current activities and future tasks. This gorgeous, heirloom-quality journal acts as a logbook and guide through 5 years of your garden's life. Keeping track of success and failures, wishes and wants, has never been more beautiful! The special lay-flat binding allows the book to stay open on a table or potting bench, making it easy to write in without having to hold the pages open.

Sprinkled with season-by-season guidance, inspirational words of wisdom, and growing tips from Linda, this tastefully illustrated journal is bursting with dozens of useful charts and tables to track everything from planting dates to weather events, right along with all of the other pertinent details you need to make the most of your passion for the garden. An interior cover pocket for keeping plant tags or seed packets and a ribbon page marker further serve to help you stay organized and on task.

Included in this indispensable garden planner:

• Inventory charts for plants, seeds, and tools
• Garden planning and design pages with plenty of room for sketching
• A year-at-a-glance calendar for essential notes
• Tracking pages for pest controls, soil test results, and harvest yields
• Places to record planting dates, bloom times, and personal reminders
• Pages for noting garden measurements and dimensions, bulb-planting locations, and other tough-to-remember info
• Budget planning pages to organize garden purchases and expenses
• Daily weather and activity logs for 5 years

The Garden Journal is sure to become a treasured garden companion. With time and curation, it will hold not just precious information, but also personal thoughts and missives about all the pains and pleasures of a life spent in the garden.

It's time to heal the invisible wounds of complex trauma and reclaim your mind, body, and spirit.

If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma--such as discrimination, race-related verbal assault, racial stigmatization, poverty, sexual trauma, or interpersonal violence--you may struggle with intense feelings of anger, mistrust, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or struggle with building and keeping close relationships. Sometimes you may feel very alone in your pain. But you are not alone. This groundbreaking work illuminates the phenomena of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) as it is uniquely experienced by people of color, and provides a much-needed path to health and wholeness.

In The Pain We Carry, you'll find powerful tools to help you understand and begin healing from repeated trauma. You'll discover ways to feel safer in your body, build self-compassion and resilience, and reclaim your health and wellness by reconnecting with your sense of self and your ancestral wisdom. You'll learn how trauma is connected to grief, how it can affect both the mind and the body, and how it can persist from one generation to the next. Most importantly, you'll find the validation you need to begin mending your heart, and the skills you need to live a life of intention--even in the midst of an oppressive system.

It's time to find relief from the trauma and burdens you have been carrying and start celebrating and rediscovering who you are. With this guide, you will uncover your own strength in order to work toward healing C-PTSD within the external constraints you face to live a life of resilience, empowerment, reflection, and perseverance.

The founder and CEO of AppSumo.com, Noah Kagan, knows how to launch a seven-figure business in a single weekend--and he's done it seven times. Million Dollar Weekend will show you how.

Now is the best time in history for entrepreneurship. More than ever, the world needs new businesses and it's cheaper than ever to create them.

And, let's be frank: most day jobs suck. People spend too much time doing too much work for too little money--and they know it. They want out.

But, if the barriers to starting a business are getting lower and lower, why is it SO HARD TO DO for SO MANY PEOPLE? Why are there so many wantrepreneurs playing at business on social media and so few entrepreneurs actually running them?

Ask yourself:

• Do you want to work for yourself, or start a side-hustle, but it all feels too risky and unpredictable?
• Have you spent time or money on things like websites and logos, but still have no customers?
• Are you brainstorming endlessly and waiting for the perfect idea to strike?

All those Frequent Excuses are solvable. The plan is simple--so simple it can be completed in a single weekend, but so powerful that Kagan has used it to build seven businesses now worth more than $1 million:

• Find your Creator's Courage to overcome your fear and have fun!
• Use the "Million Dollar Weekend" Process to get customers EXCITED to give you money.
• Automate your business so it can grow while you sleep.

By Monday, you'll have a market-tested, scalable business idea and you'll be a entrepreneur on the path to seven figures. Million Dollar Weekend is the path to creating your dream life and attaining financial freedom. LFG.

Millions of readers have discovered the secrets of success in this classic guide to achieving your dreams.

Whether your goal is to earn more, lead better, or simply find more confidence and satisfaction in life, this inspiring and actionable guide will show you the way. Motivational expert Dr. David J. Schwartz presents a carefully designed program for getting the most out of your job, your relationships and family life, and your community. He demonstrates that you don't need to be born into great wealth and intellectual acumen to attain great success and happiness--but you do need to learn and understand the habit of thinking and behaving in ways that will get you there.

The timeless and practical advice in The Magic of Thinking Big reveals how to:

• think like a leader
• harness creative thinking
• make "action" a habit
• set goals for growth - and exceed them.

For fans of Think & Grow Rich and The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, this timeless motivational guide belongs on the desk of anyone who's serious about achieving their dreams

The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL

"A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief." --NPR
"A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side." --The Boston Globe
"Powerful essays on loss, endurance, and renewal." --People

For fans of Glennon Doyle, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne Lamott, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life's challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience.

When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem "Good Bones," started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next?

An officially-licensed, collectible magnet set inspired by the Bag of Holding from Dungeons & Dragons

It's larger on the inside! Carry all your equipment, weapons, items, and more with this official Dungeons & Dragons magnet set.

• UNIQUE MAGNETS: A collection of 30 magnets featuring an assortment of both rare and common items, objects, and equipment found in the game
• MINIATURE BAG OF HOLDING: A special felt "Bag of Holding" perfect for keeping all your magnets safe and in one place
• ILLUSTRATED MINI BOOK INCLUDED: Discover the secrets that the Bag of Holding might be hiding with this inventory book and learn more about the unique objects and equipment you'll find inside
• PERFECT GIFT FOR D&D FANS: Display on a shelf, desk, or bookcase and show off your love of Dungeons & Dragons
• OFFICIALLY LICENSED: Authentic Dungeons & Dragons collectible

Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, their respective logos, and the dragon ampersand, are registered trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. (c)2021 Wizards of the Coast. All rights reserved.

Discover the power of crystals, from common stones to sacred rituals, in this enchantingly illustrated miniature guidebook. Whether rose quartz, lapis lazuli, or amethyst, crystals are a beautiful and magical addition to your life! Learn the ins and outs of these mystical tools, including choosing and activating a crystal, basic properties of the stones, and how to create a crystal grid. Gain inspiration as you uncover the secrets to creating a crystal grid and learn to perform a crystal chakra ritual with this full-color, illustrated miniature book (size: 2 7/8 X 3 1/4 inches).

Perfect for kindergarteners, this workbook helps kids learn to write in clear, easy-to-read print. Full of activities, exercises, and supportive illustrations that advance throughout the book from learning uppercase and lowercase letters to months and colors and finally to sentences and story writing, this workbook is perfect for kids who are just learning to write.

This series is developed with leading educational experts to build confidence and understanding. Each leveled workbook, for children ages 3 - 9, is packed with activities and challenges, offering the beneficial repetition and cumulative learning that lead to mastery. Fact boxes on each page give a simple overview of the topics being covered, helping children get their bearings, review the basics, and often see an example of the task at hand.

Spark imagination and discover over 100 great LEGO(R) build ideas and creative challenges in this ultimate 5-minute activity book for kids!

LEGO(R) building has never been faster or more fun! This fun, interactive book is packed full of exciting puzzles, games, and exclusive mini model ideas, with each activity specifically designed to take no longer than five minutes--PLUS all the LEGO(R) bricks you need included! Try your hand at creating a rainbow-colored llama and a super galactic hero. Can you build a boat in time to escape approaching sharks or even invent your own sea monster? With the quick-build format, this super-interactive book is perfect for everything from busy days and after school activities to LEGO(R) birthday parties and family game nights.

Give as a holiday gift for boys and girls, as a Christmas stocking stuffer, Father's Day family activity, or unique birthday gift for kids ages 5 and up!

Additional Features:

• 50-piece basic LEGO(R) brick kit that works for every action-packed activity!
• Single player games for kids plus activities that can include the whole group!
• Awesome adventure themes like ocean, city, things that go, animals, space, and more!
• Hours of screen-free entertainment and imaginative fun perfect for the beginning, middle, or end of a jam-packed day!

WARNING: SMALL PARTS. NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 3 YEARS OF AGE--CHOKING HAZARD

LEGO, the LEGO logo and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks and/or copyrights of the LEGO Group.

(c)2021 The LEGO Group. All rights reserved.

Scholastic Early Learners: Interactive books for hands-on learning. Perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders, too!

Write and Wipe: Learn to Write is perfect for helping children who are learning to write their letters. The book comes with a wipe-clean pen and the glossy board is easy to clean, so that children can try a page, wipe it clean, and try it again!This interactive book uses dots and arrows to show children exactly how to write all the letters of the alphabet, both capitals and lowercase. It also provides words to trace for each letter, developing children's awareness of letter sounds.Scholastic Early Learners: Interactive books for hands-on learning. Perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders, too!

Learn how to use a sewing machine while making fantastic projects!

With 35 projects that you'll love to make and a helpful techniques section, this book will teach you all about sewing machines. Start out with Clothes and Accessories, where you can make a felt collar and cozy scarf, as well as a pretty skirt. Then try one of the Bags and Cases, such as a cute bobble-trim coin purse, an MP3 player case, and even a sleepover bag. Transform your room with Things for Your Room--the wall tidy looks great and gives you somewhere to store all your bits and pieces, and you can brighten up your bedding with a patchwork quilt. Finally, why not have a go at the Toys and Games? Make a rag doll, and then clothes for it, too, to get a feel for dressmaking, or create a fabric games board for playing checkers and chess. Every project has step-by-step artworks to guide you, plus a skill level so you can start with easy items and move on to more challenging things as you get better at using your machine.

A guide to the basics of Biofield Tuning, using tuning forks to clear trauma stored in the human energy field

- Provides a precise map of the energetic biofield that surrounds the body, showing where specific emotions, memories, traumas, and pain are stored

- Details how to locate stored trauma in the biofield with a tuning fork and clear it

- Winner of the 2015 Nautilus Silver Award

When Eileen McKusick began offering sound therapy in her massage practice she soon discovered she could use tuning forks to locate and hear disturbances in the energy field, or biofield, that surrounded each of her clients. Passing the tuning forks through these areas in the biofield not only corrected the distorted vibrational sounds she was hearing but also imparted consistent, predictable, and sometimes immediate relief from pain, anxiety, insomnia, migraines, depression, fibromyalgia, digestive disorders, and a host of other complaints. Now, more than 20 years later, McKusick has fully developed her sound healing method, which she calls Biofield Tuning, and created a map of the biofield, revealing the precise locations where specific emotions, memories, ailments, and traumas are stored.

In this book, McKusick explains the basics of Biofield Tuning practice and provides illustrations of her Biofield Anatomy Map. She details how to use tuning forks to find and clear pain and trauma stored in the biofield and reveals how the traditional principles and locations of the chakras correspond directly with her biofield discoveries. Exploring the science behind Biofield Tuning, she examines scientific research on the nature of sound and energy and explains how experiences of trauma produce "pathological oscillations" in the biofield, causing a breakdown of order, structure, and function in the body.

Offering a revolutionary perspective on mind, energy, memory, and trauma, McKusick's guide to Biofield Tuning provides new avenues of healing for energy workers, massage therapists, sound healers, and those looking to overcome chronic illness and release the traumas of their past.