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Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
: :If you’ve ever felt there was something holding you back in life, ruining your plans and stopping you from being who you want to be, you were right. The fact is, there is a single source of all your problems, stress, unhappiness and self-doubt. It’s called the reactive mind-the hidden part of your mind that stores all painful experiences, then uses them against you. Dianetics gets rid of the reactive mind. It’s the only thing that does. With 20 million copies in dozens of languages, Dianetics has remained a bestseller ...
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Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame
: :Healing Your Emotional Self 'Emotionally abusive parents are indeed toxic parents, and they cause significant damage to their children's self-esteem, self-image, and body image. In this remarkable book, Beverly Engel shares her powerful Mirror Therapy program for helping adult survivors to overcome their shame and self-criticism, become more compassionate and accepting of themselves, and create a more posititve self-image. I strongly recommend it for anyone who was abused or neglected as a child.' —Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of Toxic Parents 'In this book, Beverly Engel documents the wide range of ...
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Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader
: :Over their distinguished careers, Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith have demonstrated how leaders are made, not born. In today's environment of crisis and uncertainty, the ability to develop leaders is arguably the most pressing concern, whether the arena is business, politics, education, health care, the environment, or the arts. Integrating wisdom from the world's most insightful and accomplished leaders, self-assessments, and dozens of interactive skill-building exercises, Learning to Lead reveals the underpinnings of true leadership. It shows you how to see beyond leadership myths, translate failures into springboards for renewed ...
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Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People
: :NLP skills are proving invaluable for personal development and professional excellence in counselling, education, and business.
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Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
: :Since 1980, Jungian psychologist Bill Plotkin has been guiding men and women into the wilderness — the redrock canyons and snow-crested mountains of the American Southwest — but also into the wilds of the soul. He calls this work soulcraft.There’s a great longing in all people — a longing to uncover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find the unique gift we were born to bring to our communities, and to experience our full membership in the more-than-human world. This journey to soul is a descent into ...
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Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice
from: Jossey-Bass
: :The groundbreaking first edition of Health Behavior and Health Education, published in 1990, provided a comprehensive and in depth analysis of health behavior theories relevant to health education.This completely revised second edition brings the most current information on developments in theory, research, and practice. Drawing from such fields as cognitive and organizational psychology, markeing, and communicationg, the editors explain the new, diverse factors affecting health behavior. They analyze a variety of theories and apply them to health promotion and education, exploring three different levels in each approach: individual, interpersonal, and ...
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Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever: The Making of a Happy Woman
: :As a judge, wife, mother, and grandmother, Judge Judy knows what it's like to be independent. She voices her tough-minded opinions daily to her courtroom -- and everybody listens. Now, in Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever, she explores most women's almost automatic need to defer to men, and demonstrates how women can grow in confidence and inner strength. Funny, direct, harsh as truth itself, here Judge Judy confronts that reality, using sample cases, her own stories and interviews with women of every background -- from the most affluent and successful ...
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Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow
: :The Bestselling Classic on Love, Loss, and Letting GoIn Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst turns her considerable talents to a serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are an inevitable and necessary part of life. She argues persuasively that through the loss of our mothers' protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper perspective, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life. She ...
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The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life
: :Are You Being Gaslighted?Check for these telltale signs: 1. You constantly second-guess yourself.2. You wonder, “Am I being too sensitive?” a dozen times a day.3. You wonder frequently if you are a “good enough” girlfriend/wife/employee/friend/daughter.4. You have trouble making simple decisions.5. You think twice before bringing up innocent topics of conversation.6. You frequently make excuses for your partner’s behavior to friends and family.7. Before your partner comes home from work, you run through a checklist in your head to anticipate anything you might have done wrong that day.8. You buy ...
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The Path to Purpose: Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life
: :Drawing on the revelatory results of a landmark study, William Damon -- one of the country's leading writers on the lives of young people, whose book Greater Expectations won the Parents' Choice Award -- brilliantly investigates the most pressing issue in the lives of youth today: why so many young people are 'failing to launch' -- living at home longer, lacking career motivation, struggling to make a timely transition into adulthood, and not yet finding a life pursuit that inspires them. His groundbreaking study shows that about one-fifth of youth ...
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