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Look at your relationship with your kitchen, and you discover the unconscious recipe guiding your life. All the ways you live and love begin in your kitchen. And it's in the kitchen where you'll find the way to your true self. A place to nourish your being and heal with the freedom, beauty, and permission you have always longed for.With The Kitchen Healer, Jules Blaine Davis invites you into the messy beauty of her healing kitchen and asks, "What are you really hungry for?"Jules teaches that how we were or weren't nourished in our childhood kitchens shapes every aspect of our lives today, and so it is through the kitchen that we find healing from the stress, overwhelm, and trauma that so many of us carry. Though this book contains recipes-with ingredients both traditional and emotional-this isn't your typical cookbook. This is a book that will shine a light on how to cook up the life you deeply long to live with food you love to make.As you rest and receive in the cozy glow of Jules and her kitchen, you'll begin to understand that the freedom to turn on the fire-in the kitchen and in your life-is one and the same.

A trauma psychologist explores the inner workings of her own grief-and leaves an invaluable guide for those seeking hope in the aftermath of loss.As a therapist, Dr. Sherry Walling knew all the "right" things to say to help people through grief. But when she lost her father to cancer and her brother to suicide within six months of each other, she had the unfortunate chance to encounter two types of mourning up close-the slowly unfolding terminal illness and the sudden and stigmatized death by suicide. She realized we're getting grief all wrong.In Touching Two Worlds, this trusted expert dares to open the inner workings of her own grief-and in the process, provides an invaluable resource for those seeking hope in the aftermath of loss. Written with honesty, gentle humor, and deep understanding, this book was created to bring comfort to friends and family when there are few helpful words to say. Dr. Walling grieves as a sister, daughter, mother, and mental health expert. She shares moving personal stories while offering a broad range of healing strategies and exercises derived from neuroscience-like how to heal through movement, how to cry in public, how to talk to kids about death, and how to cope with survivor's guilt. These are tips from someone who has been there, as well as approaches informed by professional expertise. Touching Two Worlds is a story of love, sadness, and renewal. Whether your loss is recent and sharp or old and familiar, Dr. Walling delivers wise and tender guidance to help you carry the weight of grief while finding your own path forward.

Turn your everyday experiences into a source of strength with the easy-to-learn practices in this uplifting guide to post-traumatic growth.Trauma pervades every aspect of our lives, particularly in recent years between climate change, social justice issues, the coronavirus pandemic, and more. But the truth is that post-traumatic growth, rather than post-traumatic stress, is not only possible but probable. In this book, you'll discover the conditions and compassionate practices that make growth and resilience possible, including:. How to regulate your nervous system by regulating your breath and body. Trauma-informed self-compassion practices that make you more resilient to the world around you. Skills to set boundaries to aid in your healing. Dozens of other ways to turn your difficult experiences toward growthSimple and to the point, each chapter offers practices, self-assessments, enlightening science facts, and advice for the real world-perfect for reading a page or two after an exhausting day or sharing with others when they need a lift. No one gets a pass from life's challenges. The good news is, we are hardwired to turn them into a source of strength. Turn to this book anytime you need to find out How We Grow Through What We Go Through.

A leading depth psychologist offers a practical approach for vastly expanding your creative resources-and discovering for yourself that even the challenges of our time can be overcome by the power of human imagination.If ever there was a time and a place to reconnect with imagination, that place is here, that time is now. For anyone looking for a new way forward for yourself, your community, and our struggling planet, Professor Stephen Aizenstat offers a powerful message of hope. The trailblazers are people like you-the seekers, creatives, dreamers, doers-who are willing and ready to tap into a collective purpose so vital, so vibrant, so resonant in the world of today.In The Imagination Matrix, Aizenstat shares a step-by-step process to help you gain access to the "source code of imagination"-energizing your capacity to innovate new outcomes, evolve real-world solutions, and nurture your well-being. Here you'll explore: . Opening the Curious Mind-a new method to engage imagination and wonder. Answering the call of your Innate Genius. Growing your capacities of Imaginal Intelligence. Maintaining your humanity in an increasingly technological world. Claiming your creativity and purpose to meet the pull of the future The Imagination Matrix offers a practical and uniquely personal path for becoming more purposeful, resourceful, and resilient-while developing a profound connection to the creative force that animates and flows through us all.

Children will learn to recognize and respond to expressions of emotion through a fun matching technique. Little Cat Hide-and-Seek Emotions: A Playful Primer to Learn about Your Feelings helps young readers age 2-5 recognize and respond to emotions in themselves and others. The book introduces a range of emotions such as happy, angry, sleepy, anxious, and surprised. Each emotion is featured in a spread in the book, and each spread has a variety of illustrations with cats expressing different emotions. Children will match the emotion to the illustration that most closely represents it.The book also offers children a chance to engage with their own emotions, asking such questions as "How about you? What makes you happy?" and "Whisper in Little Cat's ear the name of someone you love."Children will enjoy engaging with the character of Little Cat as he experiences a wide range of emotions in this playful, interactive book. Originally translated from the French, Little Cat Hide-and-Seek Emotions is the first book in Sounds True's Big Emotions series.

Stop struggling and start living your best life-with the inspiring, proven program that's transformed over a million people.We are all experiencing unprecedented levels of stress and burnout. Exhaustion is at an all-time high. Leaders are depleted, employees are burning out at an alarming rate, and parents met their breaking point long ago. We are struggling and in desperate need of a new path forward.In The Awesome Human Project, Nataly Kogan, emotional fitness and leadership expert and author of Happier Now, shows us the way. She makes the compelling case that while challenge in life is constant, struggle is optional. Here, she shares an accessible, super-practical, and unboring guide for reducing daily struggle and burnout-so you can live, work, and lead with more energy, joy, and meaning, even during difficult times. Nataly wrote The Awesome Human Project in response to her own journey. A refugee who achieved tremendous success, she had come to see struggle as a way of life. But her burnout taught her a powerful lesson: you can't give what you don't have. She writes, "Strengthening your emotional fitness is an essential investment in your success and leadership, and an act of love to everyone you care about."Filled with simple, science-backed practices and Nataly's contagious energy, The Awesome Human Project will teach you how to strengthen your emotional fitness skills, create a more supportive relationship with yourself as well as your thoughts and emotions, reduce self-doubt, and cultivate more honest and meaningful connections with others.The Awesome Human Project is a book that you do-not just a book that you read. It includes:. Nataly's proven, science-backed, five-week program to boost your emotional fitness. Bite-sized neuroscience lessons so that you can learn to be the boss of your brain. What awesome leaders do differently and why it matters. Ways to get rid of guilt around self-care for good. An "SOS" section to get you unstuck right now. Nataly's wildly popular "Notes to Self," with inspiration to support your progress. Awesome Human Awards!There is an Awesome Human within every single one of us. The Awesome Human Project is the essential guidebook to help you embrace your Awesome Human and become the best version of yourself-with courage and compassion.

Dr. Tammy Nelson is a relationship revolutionary. Her rethinking of monogamy-as a practice, a continuum, and a flexible concept-is on point, actionable, and nothing less than a significant cultural shift.-Wednesday Martin, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue and UntrueLove is eternal-but in an age when we live longer, communicate differently, and value gender equality, is it any wonder so many people are looking for new ways to support lasting, loving partnerships? "Monogamy is no longer a simple concept," says Dr. Tammy Nelson. "More couples every year are experimenting with open relationships and newer, more flexible versions of commitment ... yet few of us have been prepared with the skills we need to make those agreements work."Open Monogamy is a practical guide for people who wish to explore new directions in their relationships-to bring in excitement, variety, and fresh experiences without sacrificing trust, security, and respect. Through solo and partner exercises and real-life stories from people across the spectrum of relationship styles, you'll explore: . The changing face of relationships-why the time to explore new visions of love has arrived. Can open monogamy work for you? Self-assessment tools to find your place on the "monogamy continuum" . Essential skills for having honest conversations about attraction and desire. Exercises to remove shame and suspicion about open relationships . How to create agreements-traditional or otherwise-that are fulfilling, exhilarating, and built to last Dr. Nelson's 30 years of experience as a relationship and sex therapist have shown her that relationships can flourish even when the old idea of monogamy fails. "You want to love each other with fairness and integrity because that's what you signed up for, and honesty aligns with your shared values ... But you also want more. You want answers. The bad news? There is no one right way to do this. The good news? You can have anything you want." If you've ever wondered how to try an open relationship or polyamory, Open Monogamy gives you the tools you need to create a commitment agreement as unique as your love.

Learn how to communicate inside and out with calm, confidence, and self-love no matter the circumstances.Presenters and performers aren't the only ones who need calm and confidence in their everyday lives. After all, confidence is the fuel that drives us toward our ambitions, and calm eases the way. And when the two states combine, they form a magical and powerful combination.After years of struggling with communication in school, business, and public, Patricia Stark achieved this state of "Calmfidence" not through some single moment of revelation but through years of small insights, "aha" moments, and constant practice. Today, after helping thousands of students and clients find their own voices and abilities, Stark makes her methods available in Calmfidence-a comprehensive guide to improving communication skills in any social interaction.Calmfidence gathers a unique set of mental tools and experiential practices for quelling the self-sabotaging habits of the Inner Critic. With warmth and compassion, Stark guides you in how to identify and overcome your blockages to communication, how to react skillfully to strong emotions as they arise, and how to deal with setbacks in your Calmfidence journey without self-judgment.Here you will learn:. "Calmfidence boosters"-practices for shoring up your ease and resilience on the spot and in the moment. Positive daily habits to avoid burnout, exhaustion, and other drains on your Calmfidence. How to soothe negative inner beliefs around age, body type, unrealistic expectations, and more. The dos and don'ts of healthy, engaged eye contact. Why mindfulness of facial expressions and body language is imperative for effective communication. How to sidestep and eventually erase any fear of public speaking. Common verbal tics that disrupt public speaking, and how to wean yourself away from them. Advanced tips for transforming public speaking engagements into memorable, inspiring occasions. Interview Calmfidence: how to navigate and eventually master one of the most nerve-wracking social exchanges. Natural, non-intoxicating remedies for soothing ambient stress and restoring balanceYou don't need some rare talent to communicate well. When you engage with the exercises and encouragement in Calmfidence, you'll learn how to stop surrendering to fear and become the calm and confident communicator who has always been waiting within.

A gifted teacher reveals the miracle that is your body - combining science, yogic wisdom, and liberating movement practices.

A collection of stories, essays, and exercises to spark your creative instincts, activate your inner guidance, and enliven your dreamsHave you been called to express yourself with a level of courage and honesty that surprised even you? Did an image or moment cause you such joy that you needed to share it with the world? If so, you know what it means to be inspired.World-renowned spiritual teacher Light Watkins has spent most of his life learning how to seek out and tap into sources of inspiration. "Inspiration is part inner guidance, part blind faith in a greater possibility, and part inner voice," he writes, "nudging you to take an action that helps you grow and expand your awareness." In Knowing Where to Look, Light presents a trove of compelling inspirational material to catalyze positive change and give you fuel to push through self-limiting beliefs.Through 108 diverse essays, anecdotes, and parables, Light provides doorways to inspired thinking and imagination. Prompts offer reflection questions and action steps for further bringing your inspiration to life. Here you will also discover:. Recognizing the opposite of inspiration: the inner critic and its demands for safety. The joys and challenges of living minimally in a consumer society. How to listen for the intuitive whisper of true inspiration. Why the best action you can take when you're creatively lost is to keep moving. How to grapple with fear when it stands in the way of your dreams. Why following your inspiration will often remove you from your comfort zone. Questions to ask yourself in order to recognize your blind spots. How to reorient your attitudes toward the concept of success. Embracing whimsy and small moments of chaos as allies . Why the process of achieving mastery is far from straightforwardRather than being a linear set of exercises, Knowing Where to Look is meant to provide the spark you need just as you need it. Open to any page at random, and discover an unexpected source of inspiration.

A bestselling energy therapist brings her accessible approach to helping anyone struggling with depression reclaim a joyful life.

An inspiring fable of one girl's idea spreading a message of love, acceptance, and togetherness across the globe

Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and one of his first students, Nguyen Anh-Huong, offer a different path to mindfulness. Through Walking Meditation, you'll learn that insight, joy, and tranquility are available to you no matter where you are or what you're doing.

Innovative Beat poet Michael McClure has written a book of poems unlike any of his others. These dharma devotions are fruits of his Buddhist mediation practice. Like bold calligraphy moving vertically down a white scroll, they surprise the eye and mind, awakening us to a heightened sense of everyday things.

From esteemed teacher Adyashanti, an eight-hour audio learning series on the search for the ultimate reality beneath the narrative of our lives"Our inner lives are every bit as astonishing, baffling, and mysterious as the infinite vastness of the cosmos." ΓÇöAdyashanti For Adyashanti, every ripple of light across a lake, friendly gaze, and reassuring word from a mentor presents a potential gateway to a deeper connection with all of life. With The Most Important Thing, Volume 2, this esteemed teacher presents a series of talks on what it means to peer through these gateways and into a universe of infinite possibility. In this second collection of deep-dive audio sessions, Adyashanti offers evocative teaching stories and anecdotes pointing you toward the ultimate reality that exists beyond the bounds of storytelling. Whether questioning the cultural identities we adopt or recalling the events that set him on the seekerΓÇÖs path, Adyashanti devotes these talks to pulling back the curtain of our assumptions to reveal that none of us is alone and no one is ever truly isolated from the whole of existence. These selections consider:Exploring the meaning of birth, life, and deathΓÇó The nature of ego and the ways it manifestsΓÇó Meditation as the art of "listening with oneΓÇÖs entire being"ΓÇó Embodying your innate and inextricable connection with the total environmentΓÇó Examining the patterns of conditioned thinking around "I"ΓÇó Why our most nourishing stories embrace uncertainty and paradoxΓÇó Embracing the natural awe and wonder of existenceΓÇó The ultimate simplicity of consciousnessΓÇó "Know thyself": the cornerstone of all spiritual inquiryIdeal for anyone wanting to delve beyond the surface of their spiritual journey, The Most Important Thing, Volume 2 offers portals to that which is already alive and waiting within: the truths that fuel the most authentic expression of your life.