Collection: Self-Development

Awaken the Goddess within through spells, rituals, meditations, embodiment practices, and journal prompts

In this introduction to the Goddess across time and cultures, and Her many expressions of myth and magick, Gabriela Herstik guides us toward connecting to the Goddess in ourselves and establishing a relationship with Her that is personal, empowering, and transformative. Goddess Energy covers topics including:

• the history of the Goddess, Her role in modern society, and why it's imperative that we begin to work with and honor Her
• how Goddess energy is for everyone, of any gender expression or sexual orientation
• connecting to the elemental power of the Goddess of the Earth
• calling on the Goddess of Protection and Healing in moments of need
• transforming your life into a ritual for the Goddess of Love
• the potent mysteries of the Dark Goddess and how to embrace the shadow self
• honoring the Goddess through glamour, astrology, and sex magick
• working with ritual, tarot, journal questions, and affirmations to attune to Goddess Energy
• and much more

The Goddess path is one of alignment with the heart, with the universe, with nature--and with ourselves. To honor the Goddess, we don't have to go through anyone else but only remember the divine within. This is your power. This is Goddess energy.

The Goddess is calling...Are you listening?

MAKE THE JOURNEY FROM POTHOLDERS TO WOVEN ART

Inside this book you'll find more than 100 patterns for your potholder looms: in plain weave, shadow weave, and twill. The majority of these are new, never charted for the small loom before, and the rest are strong classic patterns chosen to complete the collection. One chapter teaches you how to convert floor loom drafts for the potholder loom, reverse engineer any potholder, and chart your own design. Others introduce you to intriguing weaving techniques--and of course basics are explained: sources, tips, heads-up advice. Look inside!

It is our hope that this book will catalyze your creative energy, opening a door to new territory beyond. The weavers who are the soul of this book--Mary, Christine, Andréa, Kendal, Paula, and Deborah--all know, from experience, this: There's a certain space inside of us all ready to expand, and this expansion gives us a sense of spacious freedom, creative inspiration, and delight. We wish this for you, and may your journey be a happy one!

With more than 35 Monster body options, plus myriad variations for limbs, mouths and teeth, horns, antennae, tails, scales, and so much more, you will never make the same Monster twice. Choose from wide open mouths with fangs to adorable Monsters with bunny ears and a cat tail to Monsters with hair poufs and scales. Make one-eyed spiders or three-eyed aliens, dragons with scales or little friends that don't match any known monster to date. There is nearly no limit to the variations you can combine!

All Monsters use worsted weight and/or sport weight yarn and a size G-6 (4 mm) hook. Patterns are appropriate for beginner through advanced crocheters. If a stitch is new to you, just turn to the Glossary for detailed instructions on how to work it. Photos are included for each pattern piece and any complex stitches so you can be sure you are on the right track as you work.

Choosing your next Monster's look is half the fun. Get family and friends involved in picking options for their own Monster and share the creativity! Get excited for these Monsters to skitter, galumph, stomp, and roll right off your hook!

Sharing the result of her years combing dusty attics, archives, brocantes, and antique shops for vintage handstitched items and rare needlework manuals, embroidery expert Véronique Maillard here offers the patterns used by French women in the 1800s and early 1900s to prepare their dowry chests or to customize their household linens.

This is a genuine goldmine for stitchers: letters and motifs in shapes, sizes, and styles that can be adapted to any piece.

Until a few generations ago, French women spent winters monogramming or marking their household linens. Today's crafters can do the same or apply these alphabets, flowers, and borders in creative ways to other projects.

- The hundreds of patterns are digitally transcribed to make them clear.

- All patterns are designed for cross-stitch embroidery, either over one or two warp or weft threads.

- Features photos of projects featuring the patterns, to offer inspiration. For example: a dish towel with stitched message in a mix of letter styles; personalized napkin rings using borders, for each guest to keep as a memento; a little heart to hang at the front door to welcome visitors, embroidered on an old piece of bedsheet using three colorways.

- An index allows selection of designs by letter height, by border size, or by motifs ranging from flower baskets to hens.

- Includes the most outstanding designs from 1800s and 1900s "mark manuals" by cross-stitch design publishers including M. Rouyer, Sajou, L.V., and Alexandre.

In The New Silversmith, jewelry artist Nicole Ringgold shares her cutting-edge sculptural torchwork techniques for creating hand-fabricated, nature-inspired jewelry in sterling silver.

Taking an innovative approach that challenges metalworking's conventional wisdom, Ringgold creates intricate designs by fusing and carving scraps, and minimizes the need for chemicals by using tools in visionary ways. .

• Essentials. An overview of safety rules, as well as metal, tools, and torch and how to use them.
• Projects. A variety of techniques, illustrated by stunning projects ranging from simple chain designs to a textured branch to a delicate dragonfly, provide inspiration as well as instruction.
• Access to online tutorials. QR codes throughout the book link to concise how-to videos.

With The New Silversmith, you'll learn to create sumptuous earrings, pendants, bracelets, and rings in sterling silver that celebrate natural forms with this revolutionary, zero-waste approach to jewelry making.

This essential manual helps educators comfortably and knowledgeably bring comprehensive sex education to the special education classroom.

Drawing on firsthand experience and real-world examples, the first half provides background material-including common roadblocks-and tools for how to effectively partner with parents. The second half breaks down the how-tos of implementing a successful sex education program and troubleshoots tricky situations that might come up in the special education classroom.

Written in accessible, person-first language, this guide equips you with best practices for providing students with developmental disabilities with the knowledge and tools to engage in healthy relationships and live full lives as self-advocating sexual beings.

A Tibetan Buddhist anthology of accessible and authentic contemplative exercises to help cultivate innate yet undeveloped powers of mind, emotion, and body.

A Penguin Classic

Drawn from Tibet's rich contemplative literature, Buddhist Meditation offers classic exercises focused on the opportunities and challenges of life; cultivating inner calm; fostering a wider perspective on oneself in relationship to others; working with negative emotions, and the highest values of the Buddhist tradition, love and compassion. Several dozen meditation instructions are collected in twelve chapters. All major traditions of Tibetan Buddhism are represented. The book is structured on "foundation practices", practice manuals that immerse the reader in the search for meaningful and compassionate responses to the ubiquity of human suffering, and in the contemplative techniques that translate that search into consequential action.
Spiritual exercises introduce 1) the opportunity for self-betterment and to be of benefit to other living beings; 2) the inescapable persistence of suffering in life, and the reality of death; 3) the workings of ethical cause and effect, otherwise known as karma; and 4) the ever-repeating succession of frustration known as cyclic existence, or samsara. The second set of foundation practices provide tools to build upon including: 5) taking refuge in Buddhism--a deep formal commitment to integrate Buddhist contemplative and ethical teachings into one's life; 6) cultivating love and compassion for all living beings; 7) clearing away cognitive, emotional, and behavioral impediments to actualizing love and compassion; 8) developing with wisdom and the experience and excellent qualities necessary to put love and compassion into practice; and 9) dedicating oneself to a spiritual mentor to serve as a guide through this intensive program of training.
Part existential philosophy, part ethics, part self-help program, part cosmology--the foundation exercises present a complete Buddhist picture of life, the ethical universe, and the first steps in making a positive impact in life for ourselves and others, steps anyone can begin to take by dedicating themselves to train in contemplative exercises.

Two experts in mental health and sport lift the veil on the crisis in women's athletics, offering parents and coaches urgently needed advice and support and showing how female athletes can find joy in whatever sport they choose, at whatever level they compete.

No matter the sport, the message to girls and women is the same: Be aggressive, but not too aggressive. Win at all costs, but be polite while doing it. Get strong, but not too big. Female athletes have long been conditioned to perform under these standards, gracefully and without complaints.

Yet, behind the scenes, female athletes are suffering from disordered eating and substance use; depression and anxiety; emotional and sexual abuse; racism and discrimination; self-harm, and even suicide ideation. When global tennis star Naomi Osaka and gymnastics world champion Simone Biles took breaks from competing to tend to their mental health, many were compelled to ask: What is causing this mental health crisis in women's sports? In The Price She Pays, Katie Steele and Dr. Tiffany Brown illuminate where we are going wrong--and how we can correct course.

Through first-hand accounts, research, and reporting, they reveal the deep layers of trauma and mistreatment women experience in their pursuit of excellence in sport. They show parents, coaches, and athletes how to recognize the signs of mistreatment and mental health issues, and reveal how, by focusing on the wellbeing of the whole person--not just the athlete--we can provide women and girls with the support they need to thrive, in whatever sport they choose, at whatever level they compete.

The Twelve Keys of Faith-Based Recovery (Booklet Edition) presents the key biblical truths to help you be successful in recovery. These twelve key biblical truths share the critical faith-based messages that are so important for those in recovery. This book will guide you through the biblical principles that build one upon the other that ultimately lead you to the loving God of the Bible, the true "Higher Power", success in recovery, and a brand new life with God.

The Twelve Keys of Faith-Based Recovery is an easy-to-read book that blends biblical truth with key principles of recovery to encourage you and support you in your recovery and in your faith. This book is great for individuals seeking a faith-based approach to recovery.

The Twelve Keys of Faith-Based Recovery is also a great resource for churches, recovery ministries, and facilities that want to make faith-based recovery resources available to their members in an easy-to-read book format. It is available in multiple editions: Pocket Edition (4.25x7), Booklet Edition (5x8), Large Print Edition (6x9), and Kindle/eBook Edition.

The world has changed, the fire department has changed, and the firefighters you serve have changed. Fire departments across the world are responding to increasingly difficult emergencies and natural disasters at an unprecedented rate. In order to provide safe and effective emergency responses to our communities, the fire fighters we lead must be a well-trained team with an attitude to match. Don't get left behind with outdated leadership practices. Grow into an officer that fire fighters respect and build a team second to none.

The Modern Officer will help you to navigate:

• Self-improvement and communication tactics
• Planning for the future growth and development of your crew
• Creating a healthy fire house environment to encourage excellence
• Learning to trust and empower your team
• Dealing with adversity, PTSD, and crisis
• Proper disciplinary techniques
• Honing productive attitudes

Even though The Modern Officer has been developed for the Fire Service, the concepts within its pages hold many insights for leaders of any organization. If you are serious about becoming a true leader, not just a manager, let this book mold you into a truly modern leader!

Visit ModernFireOfficer.com for recent podcast interviews of the author!

If you have always wanted to feel confident in social interactions but still keep finding yourself being awkward and the shyest and quietest person in the room, keep reading...

Pain. Is that what you often feel inside during social situations? Do you feel like talking to a stranger is so daunting a task that it drains all your energy? Or maybe you have skipped an amazing opportunity or canceled some plans because you simply felt too shy and not confident enough to go?

If so, then this book is for you.

You see, breaking out of shyness and building bulletproof self-confidence doesn't have to be difficult.

Even if you've already tried the common advice "just be yourself" and failed miserably, you don't have to lose hope.

The truth is, overcoming your social anxiety is much easier than you think.

With over 10 years of experience in the education and parenting fields, Emily Carter introduces her 7-Day system that is designed to help you to break out of shyness, build bulletproof self-confidence and eliminate social anxiety to finally start excelling in social interactions without having to spend months and months trying to make a change.

In Social Skills for Teens, you'll discover...

Simple and Fast - The mind-opening truths, relatable real-life examples and boosting daily tasks of the 7-day system are designed to make beating your shyness as simple and fast as it possibly can be.

Tried and Proved - Emily Carter has developed, tried and proved her methods while working with teenagers of different ages and, with this exact process, 9 out of 10 of them said they felt a lot more confident already after the first week.

Whole New Life - The tips from enhancing communication skills and building meaningful relationships to sustaining social skills for long-term success will open you to a whole new life with a ton of new adventures and relationships that you missed out on earlier solely because of your shyness.

And much, much more...

Imagine how you'll feel once you don't have that painful social anxiety anymore, and how your quality of life could change for the better.

So even if you're the person that always sits in the corner, never talks to new people and always feels socially the most awkward person in the room, you can stop the shyness and gain a never-seen amount of self-confidence with the help of Social Skills for Teens.

Color your way through Mexico!

Learn and explore all the states of Mexico with delightfully-illustrated maps in this comprehensive coloring book.

Mexico is a land of tropical rain forests, volcanoes, deserts, and beaches as well as a vibrant array of ancient and modern traditions and rich history. Each map features the capital, flag, food and distinguishing highlights such as monuments, archaeological and World Heritage sites, animals, cathedrals and parks. All 31 states plus Mexico City are illustrated on their own unique page. The Mexico Coloring Book is an interactive way for kids (and adults!) to learn about the varied and amazing states that make up Mexico.

Celebrate and learn about Mexico from Aguascalientes to Zacatecas!

This coloring book:

• makes a great gift for birthday or holidays
• can be used by students
• is useful for homeschool
• is rich in detail
• has original and unique illustrations of beautiful plants and animals
• is great for nature lovers

Jen Racine is the author and illustrator of more than a dozen coloring books.

Blankets, Booties, Sweaters & More! From cozy cardigans and a whimsical blanket shaped like a sheep to a pinwheel beret, embroidered booties, and tiny legwarmers, 60 Quick Baby Knits has something for every knitter...and every tot! Featuring the popular, affordable, and surprisingly soft Cascade 220 Superwash yarn, these cute and colorful projects-designed for ages 0 to 24 months-will please even the fussiest babies...and their parents.

Made with Kumon's unique step-by-step instructions, high-quality paper, and engaging illustrations, children develop fine motor control, verbal, and math skills in Spanish. Spanish Language Edition Kumon Workbooks helping children gain confidence in their abilities and are motivated to learn on their own.

Over 50 step-by-step recipes for stunning outdoor planters of all shapes and sizes, in Artisan's bestselling flower recipe book format.

We're taking the Recipe Book series outside! In the Container Garden Recipe Book, Lana Williams of the Oakland-based Tender Gardener offers readers dozens of step-by-step recipes for lush outdoor planters, from classic terra-cotta pots to window boxes, urns, bowls, and more. There are recipes specifically designed to adorn your porch or patio (a rustic birdcage-cum-hanging basket, a stately Japanese maple planted in a painted terra-cotta urn) and others that are perfect for backyard entertaining (an elegant tabletop trough of succulents, a concrete water garden that's sure to be a conversation starter). And with Lana as their guide, readers' yards will never be bare thanks to creative designs for all seasons, from urns bursting with spring bulbs to a summer trough brimming with fresh herbs and an heirloom pumpkin converted into the perfect home for fall blooms.

And recreating these stunning designs couldn't be simpler! Each recipe includes a detailed ingredients list and step-by-step instructions, along with hundreds of photos showing where and how to place each plant. Also included is foundational information on planting techniques, care instructions, choosing the right container, as well as plant spotlights highlighting foolproof options for all climates and seasons, from spring bulbs to evergreens.

Remake the ordinary into the extraordinary--crafts for kids ages 8 to 12

Watch kids' eyes light up as they roll up their sleeves and transform ordinary items. Upcycle It! Crafts for Kids shows tweens how to take objects destined for the recycling bin and breathe new life into them to make room decor, organizers, school supplies, and so much more.

What sets this apart from other kids' activity books:

• 25 purposeful projects--Exciting arts and crafts like Awesome Earbud Case, Cute Critter Cardboard Hangers, and Splatter Paint Sunglasses allow kids to create something that is both useful and fun to make.
• Easily accessible supplies--The crafts in this book repurpose everyday items you likely have lying around, so there's no need to spend lots of money or schedule a trip to the store.
• Clear instructions--Kids will have no trouble tackling these crafts thanks to simple directions that are paired with beautiful pictures to guide them through the process.

Inspire ingenuity and eco-friendly habits with Upcycle It! Crafts for Kids.