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Part memoir, part self-help, You Will Find Your People uncovers the complex, frightening, and often vulnerable process of building real, healthy friendships and finally creating your chosen family. Moore takes readers on a journey that examines and challenges the ideas of friendship we've seen in pop culture, answers every question you've ever had about friend breakups, and teaches us how to fearlessly ask for what we want in friendships once and...
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"Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies. The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds...
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St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"You were made to be extraordinary, so get going! Your Difference is Your Strength is a book for anyone and everyone who has ever felt out of place, misunderstood, or just...different. It's the book for the kid who was too creative or too shy or too "weird" and who grew up into an adult who still isn't quite sure where they fit in or if they even want to. It's a book for you. In Your Difference is Your Strength, Kris Ferraro, author of Manifesting,...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Learn the tools to shed your mask of extroversion, develop your own magnetism, and reveal the true you. One third to one half of Americans are introverts in a culture that celebrates-even enforces-an ideal of extroversion and a cult of personality. Political leaders are charismatic, celebrities bask in the spotlight, and authority figures are assertive. It is no surprise that a "quiet revolution" has begun to emerge among the "invisible" half of...
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Diana
Pub. Date
20223
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Español
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Caminar, tu nuevo estilo de vida. Una guía sencilla y fascinante que recoge los numerosos beneficios de caminar, tanto en términos físicos como espirituales y emocionales. Seguro que crees que sabes bien cómo caminar. Después de todo, es una de las primeras habilidades que adquirimos de niños. Pero muchos de nosotros estamos aburridos o estancados en nuestras rutinas de paseo, haciendo siempre los mismos recorridos, compartiéndolos con...
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Penguin Life
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"A collection of powerful essays and affirmations that follows Mimi Zhu's journey toward embodying and re-learning love after a violent romantic relationship, a stunning and provocative book that will guide and inspire readers to lean into love with softness In their early twenties, Mimi Zhu was a survivor of intimate-partner abuse. This left them broken, in search of healing and ways to re-learn love. This work is a testament to the strength and...
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Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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"The noted psychotherapist and bestselling author of The Power of Kindness offers a concrete, meaningful program in developing your willpower to face periods of crisis. Crisis is an inevitable fact of life. All of us experience times of despair, gloom, fear, and uncertainty. But we each possess core reserves of internal resilience that can be cultivated for overcoming and anticipating such setbacks. In this stirring and deeply practical work, Piero...
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Seal Press
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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"Perfectionists exist in every walk of life. While outwardly they appear to be very accomplished, they are often unhappy and unfulfilled. Perfectionists strive toward unattainable goals, and their behaviors can wreak havoc on both their physical health and their psychological well-being. Timely and transformative, Better than Perfect by Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo offers step-by-step instructions for perfectionists to find balance and freedom. The book...
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New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. If you suffered childhood physical or sexual abuse, you may experience such intense feelings of shame that it almost seems to define you as a person. In order to begin healing, it's important for you to know that it wasn't your fault. In this gentle guide, therapist and childhood abuse expert Beverly Engel presents a mindfulness and compassion-based therapeutic approach to help you overcome...
10) Invincible: the 10 lies you learn growing up with domestic violence, and the truths to set you free
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A Perigee book, published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"According to UNICEF, growing up with domestic violence is one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world, affecting more than a billion people. Yet, too few people are aware of the profound impact it can have. Invincible seeks to change this lack of awareness and understanding with a compelling look at this important issue, informing and inspiring anyone who grew up living with domestic violence--and those who love them, work with...
11) Buy yourself the f*cking lilies: and other rituals to fix your life, from someone who's been there
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Dial Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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By the time she was in her late twenties, Tara Schuster was a rising TV executive who had worked for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and helped launch Key & Peele to viral superstardom. By all appearances, she had mastered being a grown-up. But beneath that veneer of success, she was a chronically anxious, self-medicating mess. No one knew that her road to adulthood had been paved with depression, anxiety, and shame, owing in large part to her minimally...
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Pamela Dorman Books Life/Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Written with grace and understanding and based on more than twenty in-depth interviews and stories as well as personal reflections from Schwarzenegger Pratt herself, The Gift of Forgiveness is about one of the most difficult challenges in life--learning to forgive. Here, Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt shows us what we can learn from those who have struggled with forgiveness, some still struggling, and others who have been able to forgive what might...
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Parallax Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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"Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, author of Anger, offers insights on how mindfulness practice can encourage wellness and balanced mental health, and help heal childhood suffering and trauma. With personal stories, techniques for dealing with old and new situations, and advice for building strong and long-lasting relationships, Reconciliation is full of concrete practices for healing the inner child. Nhat Hanh shows how mindfulness can transform anger,...
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North Star Way
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Ex-gang member-turned-inspirational messenger Preston Smiles shakes things up in the world of personal development, sharing a uniquely modern, love-based approach on how to live with more excitement, clarity, and confidence. Preston Smiles, born in Compton and raised in Los Angeles, is no stranger to a life of adventure. As a teen he joined a local gang that was first involved in petty burglary but later escalated into more dangerous crimes. One...
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Harper Celebrate
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Life is hard. But it gets a whole lot easier when you start to talk it out. Discover your purpose, honor your story, and explore who you want to be. Dr. Corey Yeager offers you 40 questions to help you develop positive mental health strategies for anxious moments while increasing your confidence." --publisher's website.
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TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Whether you're looking to manage panic, worry, stress, or phobias, or just want to pause your endless overthinking, Abs and Mags, a.k.a. The Anxiety Sisters, have insightful and practical research-based techniques--without the clinical, one-size-fits-all approach that isn't so helpful when your mind is racing, you're struggling with the physical symptoms so common with anxiety and your just want to get back to feeling normal (ish). The Anxiety Sisters'...
17) Finding me
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This is Viola Davis' story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero's journey.
"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and...
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TED Books, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The author explores the status of being a misfit as something to be embraced, and social misfits as being individuals of value who have a place in society, in a work that encourages people who have had difficulty finding their way to pursue their goals.
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G&D Media
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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If the thought of speaking in public makes you anxious, you're not alone. The good news is that you don't need to suffer from stress when it's your time to stand up in front of others. Being comfortable as a speaker requires recognizing that speaking is not about you, it's about the audience. When we focus on the message the audience needs to hear, how it will be received by the audience, and we deliver it from the heart, the fear of public speaking...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life"--
From her coming of age in London public housing to her discovery of theater and her love for storytelling, Coel tells of her reckoning with trauma and metamorphosis into a champion for herself, inclusivity, and radical honesty. She lays bare her journey so far-- and invites us to reflect on our own. A rousing manifest dedicated to anyone who has...
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