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No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
‘Innovative and transformational’ – Gabor Maté
‘Changed my life’ – Rangan ChatterjeeThe empowering new way to discover your multifaceted mind.
Do you long to break free from a stuck part of you – the inner critic, ‘monkey mind’, a bad habit or an addiction? What if there was a way to approach those aspects of you, to free you from the constant inner struggle and find true healing?
In this groundbreaking international bestseller, Dr Richard Schwartz reveals that we are each born with an ‘internal family’ of distinct parts within us. Some of our parts can become trapped in destructive patterns, but learning to relate to each of them with curiosity, respect and empathy can vastly expand our capacity to heal.
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model will help you challenge the destructive behaviour of these parts, turn the ego, the inner critic and the saboteur into powerful allies, and allow you to return to a more whole and harmonious ‘Self’.
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It’s On Me: Embrace Hard Truths, Discover Your Self and Change Your Life
From the existential psychotherapist, USA Today columnist, and creator of the popular Instagram account @millennial.therapist comes a guide to identifying self-loss-one of our greatest unspoken human sufferings: that feeling of being estranged or disconnected from your true Self-so we can answer the most essential question: “Who am I?”
So many of us feel lonely, unfulfilled, or trapped-in our roles and relationships, in cycles of self-sabotage and wrong decisions, by our toxic patterns and misguided attempts to feel happy-or to feel something. Many of us struggle to like the person we see in the mirror. According to Sara Kuburic, it doesn’t have to be so difficult. Really.
Instead of pushing harder or running faster, the secret lies in taking full responsibility for the choices and actions that create our reality. It’s about slowing down, cutting through the clutter of demands and expectation, and finally taking ownership of this person we call our “Self.”
In It’s On Me, Kuburic unpacks “self-loss,” giving us new vocabulary to understand our unarticulated experience, and offers tools she’s used for years to help her clients recover. Self-loss becomes apparent when we feel the pain and emptiness from performing or observing life, rather than living it. Guiding us through the process of self-reflection, acceptance, and discovery, Kuburic proves that we can:
· experience but not feel overpowered by our emotions
· establish a healthy connection to our bodies
· set loving boundaries to define ourselves and heal our relationships
· declutter our physical and mental environments to create space for our true selves to thrive
· find meaning and purpose in a seemingly meaningless worldEye-opening and inspiring, It’s On Me shows how we can stop sleepwalking our way through the lives we don’t want and step into our most vibrant, authentic, and meaningful Self.
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FND Stories: Personal and Professional Experiences of Functional Neurological Disorder
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) is one of the most common diagnoses among patients referred to neurology clinics, but is still misunderstood and under-recognised by medical professionals and the public.
This vital book brings together the voices of healthcare professionals and people living with FND across the world. Experts in neurology provide a clear, evidence-based explanation of FND as an introduction, laying the foundation for the personal stories of people with FND and the professionals involved in their care. From testing and diagnosis to dealing with stigma and coping with changing symptoms, each chapter delves into the realities of life with FND from the perspective of lived experience.
FND can be an isolating condition. The life stories in this book will help you to make sense of living with FND and tackle its challenges alongside others with the condition.Read more
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Red Flags, Green Flags: Modern psychology for everyday drama
Pre-order now and discover the tools to identify healthy and toxic behaviours in all areas of life and separate the red flags from the green, from TikTok psychologist Dr Ali Fenwick @moderndaypsychologist
__________In an increasingly fast-paced world, equally fast decision-making skills are seen as a strength. When we are constantly presented with so many options to choose from, a quick and dirty decision doesn’t always seem like a bad thing.
When it comes to things we don’t like in friends, family, work, or relationships we are often fast to judge and label them as red flags.
What we don’t realise, however, is that this mindset is causing us to lose our ability to manage difficult situations. Decisions taken in the heat of the moment can also prevent us from achieving a greater understanding of ourselves.
Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Innovation Dr Ali Fenwick is here to guide you through critical life situations, providing you with the knowledge to unpack the psychology behind each one and ultimately make the best and healthiest decisions about dating, relationships, friends, family, work, wellbeing, and success.
Red Flags, Green Flags is here to help you break this cycle of unhealthy behaviour by equipping you with the tools to identify the good and the bad signs in your life, show you what these signals say about people and, more importantly, what they say about you.
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Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide, Second Edition
Written by recognised coaching leaders and incorporating the most up-to-date standards and competencies in the field, Becoming a Coach, Second Edition sets out a wide range of coaching models and shows how they can be integrated and combined in order to provide the best possible service to clients. Underpinned by the latest competencies set out by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), this is the perfect textbook for coaching training and an ideal resource for any coach.The authors provide a thorough exploration of a diverse array of contemporary tools, models, research, skills, considerations and approaches. Starting with the basics and working through to the techniques of the master practitioner, they structure the sometimes opaque field of coaching into a clear, practical and evidence-based format. Harnessing decades of expertise and experience in one powerful resource, Becoming a Coach, Second Edition equips anyone, no matter where they currently are on their professional journey, to develop as a practitioner and increase their coaching impact.
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The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
PRE-ORDER THE PAPERBACK NOW AND DISCOVER THE SIX SECRETS TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS AT ANY AGE FROM THE 102-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO KNOWS BETTER THAN ANYONE
‘Astonishing. Contains so many lightbulb moments it could power the national grid. Truly one of the most inspirational women you’ll ever meet’ ELIZABETH DAY, How To Fail podcast
‘You will love the stories, you will learn how to honour your health and your body, and in the end, you’ll love life that much more. Dr Gladys […] writes one of those rare gems of a story that teaches as much as it inspires’ Dr Edith Eger, New York Times bestselling Author of The Choice and The Gift
__________There’s really no one quite like Dr Gladys McGarey.
Age 8 years old, she met Gandhi in India who instilled in her life lessons about love.
She began her medical practice at a time when women couldn’t own their own bank accounts, and accumulated thousands of patients.
At 85 she travelled to Afghanistan to teach rural woman safer birthing practices, resulting in a 47% decrease in infant mortality rates in the area.
Dr. Gladys McGarey revolutionised holistic medicine. Now, aged 102 and still practising as a doctor, she shares her powerful secrets so you can live your own life with joy, vitality and purpose at any age – just as she has.
In a voice that is both practical and inspiring, Dr Gladys shares life-changing stories of miraculous healing from her thousands of patients of all ages, as well as her own experiences as a mother of six, and her survival of both heartbreak and illness, as heard on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
Dr. Gladys will change the way you think not only about health and healing but what leads to a life filled with joy and satisfaction.
__________‘I want everyone to pick up this book and read it. [Dr Gladys is] an inspiration to me and to many people in the world’ Deepak Chopra
‘Incredibly insightful. Very special. Full of wisdom. I can’t think of a single person that this book won’t help’ Dr Rangan Chatterjee
‘If you want to know the secret to living a truly good life then I don’t imagine there’s anyone you’d be better off hearing from’ Jane Garvey, Times Radio
‘Amazing. Leaves you feeling like you’ve taken something away. This book is moving as well as being filled with practical wisdom. Beautifully written’ Nadiya Hussain
‘Refreshingly simple and practical. The good doctor’s sound advice feels achievable, and readers will feel inspired and energized’ Booklist
‘Dr. Gladys is a global pioneer who has helped transform our very definition of health and healing. Her extraordinary book will offer millions of readers the simple yet revolutionary secrets to discover true health and happiness at any age’ Mark Hyman, New York Times bestselling author of Young Forever and The Pegan Diet
‘Gladys McGarey’s approach is just what the doctor ordered. She inhabits the real world where body, brain, and spirit are inseparable, and her century of wisdom is infused with science, medicine, and soul’ Dr. Robert Waldinger, Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development and New York Times bestselling author of The Good Life
‘Dr. Gladys is as illuminating as she is engaging. Her combination of medical knowledge and lived experience will be an empowering guide for legions’ Sara Gottfried MD, New York Times bestselling author of Women, Food, and Hormones
‘Truly one of the most inspirational women you’ll ever meet’ Elizabeth Day, How to Fail Podcast
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How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives-from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain
If you are going to care for someone, you must first understand them. If you’re going to hire, marry, or befriend someone, you have to be able to see them. If you are going to work closely with someone, you have to be able to make them feel recognized and valued. As David Brooks observes, “The older I get, the more I come to the certainty that there is one skill at the center of any healthy family, company, classroom, community or nation: the ability to see each other, to know other people, to make them feel valued, heard and understood.”
And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us to do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us. If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?
Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and from the worlds of theatre, history, and education, to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate towards others; it helps readers find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is a profoundly creative act: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, seeking to understand and yearning to be understood.
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Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It
This book is all about the care system, and it’s written by people who have experienced it first-hand.
Free Loaves on Fridays is an anthology of stories, poems, reflections and letters by nearly 100 care-experienced people, which aims to challenge the sliced-loaf mindset. This collection gives voice to diverse experiences including foster care, adoption, kinship care and semi-independent living, among others.
Headlines written about care often entrench negative stereotypes and dominate the narrative, leaving care-experienced people with nothing but crumbs. This anthology is an opportunity to redirect the dialogue and present a window into a world that has been overlooked for too long.
Free Loaves on Fridays presents a spectrum of joy and sadness, laughter and tears, love and loss, and reminds us that bread tastes so much better when it’s been chosen.
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1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round
Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s guide features encouraging essays on creativity, productivity, and writing from acclaimed authors including Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, Celeste Ng, Meg Wolitzer, and Carmen Maria Machado.In 2018, novelist Jami Attenberg, faced with a looming deadline, needed writing inspiration. Using a bootcamp model, she and a friend set out to write one thousand words daily for two weeks straight. They opened this practice to Attenberg’s online community and soon hundreds then thousands of people started using the #1000WordsofSummer hashtag to track their work and support one another. What began as a simple challenge between two friends has become a literary movement—write 1,000 words per day without judgment, or bias, or concerns about writer’s block, and see what comes of it.
1000 Words is the book-length extension of this movement. It is about becoming—and staying—motivated, discovering yourself and your creative desires, and approaching your craft from a new direction. It features advice from more than fifty well-known writers, including New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners, and stars of the literary world. Framing these letters are words of wisdom and encouragement, plus specific strategies, from Attenberg on how to carve out a creative path for yourself all year round.
Paired with vibrant word art illustrations, 1000 Words is an accessible and motivational craft book that allows you to open any page and get a quick and fulfilling hit of inspiration.
Featuring Roxane Gay, Bryan Washington, Susan Orlean, Maris Kreizman, Sara Novic, Rumaan Alam, Lauren Oyler, Emma Straub, Christopher Gonzales, Benjamin Percy, Mira Jacob, Laura van den Berg, Carmen Maria Machado, Courtney Sullivan, Rebecca Carroll, Ada Limon, R.O. Kwon, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Elissa Washuta, Alexander Chee, Maggie Shipstead, Deesha Philyaw, Jasmine Guillory, Kristen Arnett, Attica Locke, Megan Abbott, Min Jin Lee, Lauren Groff, Andrew Sean Greer, Camille Dungy, Megan Giddings, Isaac Fitsgerald, Hannah Tinti, Michael H. Weber, Celeste Ng, Elizabeth McCracken, Will Leitch, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Morgan Parker, Kiese Laymon, Melissa Febos, Alissa Nutting, Liz Moore, Laila Lalami, Megan Mayhew Berman, Rebecca Makkai, Meg Wolitzer, Mychal Denzel Smith, Josh Gondelman, and Dantiel W. Moniz.
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Securely Attached: Transform Your Attachment Patterns Into Loving, Lasting Romantic Relationships ( a Guided Journal)
So you’re an adult with an insecure attachment style. Now what? Create secure, healthy, and deeply satisfying relationships by transforming your old attachment patterns with more than 140 prompts in this evidence-based, practical guided journal. Therapists agree the way to address troubling attachment patterns as an adult is through reflection. Licensed therapist, attachment nerd, and viral TikTok star Eli Harwood is here to help you do just that. Together, you will come to understand and transform the patterns in your romantic life. Want to find out why you’re always running for the hills at the first sign of commitment or constantly spiraling with jealousy and anxiety? This journal is the answer. The research findings suggests that our attachment patterns are set in place as early as 10 months old―but the data of adult attachment comforts and assures that yes, everyone can change their attachment pattern. This workbook for romantically entangled (or romantically seeking) adults has: Prompts for reflecting on your current patterns of behavior in dating Research-based quizzes to help you delve into your patterns Space to write about your past and present insecure patterns in relationships Tips and tricks for your journey toward an earned secure attachmentRead more
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Sad Happens: A Celebration of Tears
A beautifully illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadness—and the transformative power of tears.When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frustrated? Maybe from relief or from pride? Was it in public or in private? Did you feel better afterwards, or worse? The reasons that we cry—and the circumstances in which we shed a tear—are often surprising and beautiful. Sad Happens is a collective, multi-faceted archive of tears that captures the complexity and variety of these circumstances.
We hear from Mike Birbiglia on the role that grief and pain have in comedy; Jia Tolentino on how motherhood made her cry in both hormonal joy and fervent rage; and Hanif Abdurraqib on the intimacy of crying on planes. We hear from Phoebe Bridgers on poignant moments of departure and JP Brammer on the strange disappointments of success; Matt Berninger on becoming a crybaby in his adulthood and Hua Hsu on crying during a moment of public uncertainty. We also hear from everyday people in a range of professions: an actor on the tips she learned from drag queens about preserving a full face of makeup while crying; a zookeeper on mourning the animals who have died during her tenure; a bartender on crying in the walk-in; and a TV critic on the shows that have moved her.
Brimming with humanity, this anthology is confirmation that sad happens—but so does joy, love, a sense of community, and a host of other emotions. By turns moving and affirming, Sad Happens is an emotional balm and visual delight.
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Brand-New Dad Jokes
ALL NEW JOKES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERS @DADSAYSJOKESThe iconic Instagram page @DadSaysJokes returns with a fresh batch of dad jokes to share with your nearest and dearest. Packed with jokes so bad that they’re good, Brand-New Dad Jokes is the perfect gift for every occasion.
@DadSaysJokes is a community-run Dad jokes network on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, with nearly 6 million followers, inspired by the daily jokes of author Kit Chilvers’ dad, Andrew. Every day, followers submit their jokes and the team picks their favourites – or Dad just drops in his own zinger! Kit, a young social networking influencer, started his career at the tender age of 14 when he created his original platform, Football.Newz. He has since added another fourteen platforms, including @PubityPets and monster meme Instagram page @Pubity with over 34 million followers. This is his seventh book.
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The Teacher (A DS Cross Thriller)
‘DS George Cross shot to the top of my favourites when I first encountered him. The Teacher shows him at his best.’ MARI HANNAH
‘Starts with a bang and then continues to deliver all the way to the thrilling end.’ IMRAN MAHMOOD
‘George Cross is becoming one of my favourite detectives.’ ELLY GRIFFITHSHe’s a victim. But is he innocent?
THE BODY
In a village in South West England, an elderly man is found dead in his home. The angle of his neck says he fell down the stairs. The stab wound on his body tells a different story.THE EVIDENCE
In the weeks before his murder, Alistair Moreton changed. He usually kept himself to himself, but people swear there was someone in the house when they checked on him, that there was a reason he wouldn’t let them inside.THE PUNISHMENT
Moreton made people’s lives a misery, from his neighbours to his ex-pupils. While DS George Cross’s list of suspects is long, every victim deserves justice.But in all of Alistair’s years, there was something important he never learned:
If you go through life making enemies, don’t be surprised when they teach you a lesson.
Perfect for fans of MW Craven, Peter James and Joy Ellis, The Teacher is part of the DS George Cross thriller series, which can be read in any order.
‘George Cross is in a class of his own.’ SIMON TOYNE
Why readers love George Cross . . .
‘The fact that Cross has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder makes him just as intriguing as the murder mystery’ The Times
‘I am insanely in love with George Cross.’ Stephen Fry
‘A compelling, suspenseful police procedural with an intimate, positive insight into living on the autistic spectrum’ WomanRead more
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Love Life
Who hasn’t shied away from taking risks for fear of rejection? Who hasn’t put up with the wrong behaviour for too long because they’re afraid to lose someone? This is less a book about how to navigate our love lives, but a book about the deeper issues our love lives reveal.
Our love life holds the uncanny power to elevate or extirpate all the adjacent joy in our lives. This book will rescue your time and put you back in control of your own happiness, ensuring your love for your life will never be dependent on the status of your love life.
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Food for Life: Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well
‘Life-changing’ DAVINA McCALL
‘A must-read’ DR RUPY AUJLA
‘Fascinating’ NIGELLA LAWSON
‘Empowering’ LIZ EARLE**AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST**
Empowering and practical, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat – for our health and the health of the planet.
Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat in the age of ultra-processed food has never seemed so complicated.
Drawing on cutting-edge research and personal insights, Professor Tim Spector offers clear answers in this definitive, easy-to-follow guide to the new science of eating well.‘No fads, no nonsense, just practical, science-based advice on how to eat well’ Daily Mail, Books of the Year
‘A rigorously academic book that welcomes the layperson with open arms’ The Times
** A THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**
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When Teens Self-Harm: How Parents, Teachers and Professionals Can Provide Calm and Compassionate Support
Supporting teens who self-harm can be stressful, with panic and anxiety muddying the waters and making it difficult to know how to respond. How do you help? What if you make it worse?
This book guides you through the potential reasons for self-harming behaviour, helping you to respond with compassion and support. Quotes from young people who self-harm give insight into the mindset behind the behaviour, while expert guidance gives you the tools to help. Advice on regulating your own emotions, combined with a better understanding of why teens self-harm, allows you to provide a safe, nurturing environment to support your young person and reduce their self-harming behaviour.
Grounded in the authors’ extensive clinical experience in young people’s mental health, this book guides you out of panic mode to create a secure, validating environment for teens who self-harm.
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
An urgent and insightful investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author
Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking wisdom and truth in some of the most the most difficult spaces – communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the perfect storm contributing to a public health emergency for teenagers today.
In The Anxious Generation, Haidt argues that for the cohort that hit puberty around 2009, their sense of self developed as the threads of three dramatic technological and social changes emerged: smartphones and life with the constant companionship of a screen, front-facing cameras and apps that thrive on selfie-culture, and social networks that reduce engagement and affirmation to likes and hearts alone.
This book shows how the ground for the current crisis in teen mental health was seeded by a decades-long shift from play-based childhoods to ones defined by over-supervision, structure, and fear: how adults began to overprotect children in the real world while unwittingly offering scant protection in the brutal online world. Haidt delves into the latest psychological and biological research to show the four fundamental ways in which a phone-based childhood disrupts development – sleep deprivation, social deprivation, cognitive fragmentation, and addiction – while offering concrete and scientifically based advice to parents, schools, universities, governments, and to teens themselves. Drawing on ancient wisdom and cutting-edge research, this eye-opening book is a life-raft and a powerful call-to-arms.
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Nurturing Life Skills to Empower Your Elementary Child: Includes Developmental Milestones, Fundamental Skills, Motivational Strategies, and Practical Exercises
12 Fundamental Life Skills Every Child Should Learn Before Middle School
Nurturing Life Skills is the perfect gift for parents! Are you worried your child might lack essential life skills? Help your child lay the foundation for success during their formative years. This comprehensive guide is written for busy parents, caregivers, and educators seeking simple ways to instill foundational life skills. This go-to resource is packed with practical advice and actionable strategies to weave into daily life tasks. Equip your elementary-aged children with the tools they need to not just survive but thrive in life, empowering your children to become independent, well-rounded, and resilient young individuals.
Inside you’ll discover:
- Foundational Life Skills: This book delves into a broad spectrum of essential life skills, including communication, problem-solving, decision-making, empathy, emotional intelligence, time management, collaboration, adaptability, self-confidence, critical thinking, healthy hygiene, and physical training. Each skill is explored in detail, providing you with a deep understanding of its significance and how to teach it effectively.
- 65 Real-Life Scenarios: Relatable scenarios illustrating the importance of life skills. These scenarios help you and your child connect with the content and apply it to real-life experiences.
- Practical Tips for Parents: This guide is more than just theory; it offers practical tips and exercises to help you teach these skills in an engaging way. Whether it’s planning a family adventure, resolving conflicts with friends, or practicing good hygiene, you’ll find step-by-step guidance.
- Developmental Milestones: Recognizing that children grow and learn at their own pace, we’ve included developmental milestones for each life skill. This allows you to gauge your child’s progress and adapt your teaching to their unique needs.
- Promoting Independence: Gradually step back as your child gains proficiency, becoming confident in their abilities.
- Building Lasting Memories: The book underscores the importance of quality time spent with your child and how these shared moments create lasting memories. You’ll find suggestions for activities that reinforce life skills while creating a strong bond between you and your child.
- Empowering Your Child: At the heart of this guide is the belief that these life skills will empower your child to face the challenges and opportunities of life with confidence and resilience.
Why this book?
- Academics, while important, are just one piece of the puzzle. Taking a holistic approach to developing your child’s well-being is equally vital.
- Teaching life skills is not just about imparting knowledge; it’s an opportunity to strengthen the parent-child bond. This book will guide you in creating a safe and nurturing environment within a loving and supportive relationship.
- Research shows that children who possess strong life skills are better prepared for academic success and life beyond school. They exhibit increased self-esteem, problem-solving abilities, and resilience.
In the ever-changing landscape of modern education, equipping elementary-aged children with fundamental life skills has become more crucial than ever before. Ensure your child is well-prepared for the complexities of the world they’ll navigate. More than just a book, it’s an easy-to-follow roadmap for parents to help children flourish. Through nurturing these essential life skills, you’re paving the way for their success beyond the classroom in their ability to embrace life’s challenges with courage and enthusiasm.
Prepare your child for a bright future by instilling these essential life skills today by clicking on the “Buy with 1-click” button above. Unlock their potential and watch them thrive!
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We’re All Neurodiverse: How to Build a Neurodiversity-Affirming Future and Challenge Neuronormativity
“Neurodiversity has helped me understand myself and provided a sense of relief that I’m a whole neurodivergent person functioning as my brain intends.”
“It’s provided me with the language to advocate for myself.”
“I no longer hated myself. I no longer felt broken. I found a sense of community. A sense of belonging”
This affirming and thoughtful guide outlines how and why we need to fundamentally shift our thinking about neurodivergent people. We need to accept differences rather than framing them as a problem, abnormality or disorder. Welcome to the neurodiversity paradigm.
At times challenging and radical, Sonny Jane Wise explores the intersections of neurodivergence with disability, gender, sexuality and race. Through interviews, narratives, and the lens of their own raw experiences, they consider how current systems and structures that impact neurodivergent people are rooted in outdated capitalist and racist frameworks, and how these need to change and adapt to be neurodiversity affirming. Sonny Jane’s words are a rallying cry to challenge the pathology paradigm. They offer nine principles for facilitating change, reflected in deeply personal stories from the neurodivergent community.
Powerful and persuasive, this book is a clarion call for a kinder and more neurodiversity affirming society.
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Play Therapy Dimensions Model: New Insights for Integrative Play Therapists (3rd edition)
An updated take on a fundamental decision-making framework, this practical guide explores the dimensions of play therapy and how they apply to today’s practitioner. In-depth case studies illustrate the interplay between theory and practice, demonstrating an integrative case conceptualization approach. Scales have been updated to reflect current best practice and developments in the field, and combine with the core decision-making framework for a deeper, expanded use of the model. New chapters delve into parent work and case conceptualization utilizing observational and self-reflective forms. Downloadable video content brings the text to life, including a new video illustrating the essentials of consultation with parents.
The interface between practitioner and client also takes centre stage. New sections on self-reflection and cultural sensitivity guide you through ways to foster a welcoming, compassionate environment throughout your practice.
Whether you’re a seasoned play therapist or just starting out, this fresh take on the dimensions of play therapy will foster self-reflection of the who, what, when, why, and how of play therapy.Read more
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The Emotional Literacy Toolkit for ADHD: Strategies for Better Emotional Regulation and Peer Relationships in Children and Teens
Challenges with emotional regulation and rejection sensitivity can disproportionately affect children and teens with ADHD, impacting on their development at school and their relationship with their peers.
Developed for children and young people who experience difficulties with emotional regulation, SEND specialist Sonia Ali, shares a mentoring Intervention programme to support a child or young person with this issue at school or at home. Covering concepts like the fight, flight or freeze response and the ‘Window of Tolerance’, managing anger outbursts and overwhelm or navigating conflict with peers, this easily digestible book will help educators and carers support children and teens to develop core emotional literacy skills in an enjoyable way!
This accessible, step-by-step guide is packed with activities, including role-play situations, discussion-based statements, quizzes and more. The programme can be followed sequentially or ‘dipped into’ to support a child with a particular issue when relevant.
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We’re All Neurodiverse: How to Build a Neurodiversity-Affirming Future and Challenge Neuronormativity
“Neurodiversity has helped me understand myself and provided a sense of relief that I’m a whole neurodivergent person functioning as my brain intends.”
“It’s provided me with the language to advocate for myself.”
“I no longer hated myself. I no longer felt broken. I found a sense of community. A sense of belonging”
This affirming and thoughtful guide outlines how and why we need to fundamentally shift our thinking about neurodivergent people. We need to accept differences rather than framing them as a problem, abnormality or disorder. Welcome to the neurodiversity paradigm.
At times challenging and radical, Sonny Jane Wise explores the intersections of neurodivergence with disability, gender, sexuality and race. Through interviews, narratives, and the lens of their own raw experiences, they consider how current systems and structures that impact neurodivergent people are rooted in outdated capitalist and racist frameworks, and how these need to change and adapt to be neurodiversity affirming. Sonny Jane’s words are a rallying cry to challenge the pathology paradigm. They offer nine principles for facilitating change, reflected in deeply personal stories from the neurodivergent community.
Powerful and persuasive, this book is a clarion call for a kinder and more neurodiversity affirming society.
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Challenging The Story: A Surprisingly Simple Approach to Supporting Children with Challenging Behaviours
Supporting kids with challenging behaviours can be difficult – but change the narrative, and you may be surprised.Most children will behave in challenging ways at some point, but persistent and difficult-to-deal-with behaviours can have a negative impact on relationships and learning.
For educators, health professionals and caregivers who find traditional methods of behaviour management ineffective, Challenging The Story offers a fresh perspective and actionable strategies for positive change.
Read this book to:
• Approach challenging behaviours with curiosity and compassion
• Apply innovative, proven strategies to encourage positive behaviour while treating kids with respect and kindness
• Build strong bonds with children and create an environment of trust and mutual respect
• Improve your skills in dealing with difficult behaviours in a variety of scenarios
• Guide children towards significant, lasting change and a new, more positive narrative for a brighter future
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The Montessori Child: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Capable Children with Creative Minds and Compassionate Hearts: 3 (The Parents’ Guide to Montessori)
From the bestselling authors of The Montessori Toddler and The Montessori Baby, The Montessori Child guides parents in using the principals of Montessori to raise their school-aged children in ways that assist their development and foster a respectful relationship between parent and child and world.
When children are given independence, the tools to succeed, and the encouragement to build on their abilities, it’s amazing what they can achieve. The newest book in the bestselling Montessori series is an everything-you-need-to-know guide to raising your school-aged child (from 3-12 years old, with a bonus chapter for the teen years) in the Montessori way. Educators Simone Davies and Junnifa Uzodike provide an in-depth, practical guide to incorporating Montessori principles into readers’ everyday lives, with advice on everything from setting up your home in ways that encourage curiosity and independence to supporting your child’s social and moral development with a balance of limit-setting and age-appropriate freedoms.The book includes dozens of hands-on activities to help foster your child’s love of numbers and literacy, art and science, and ones that encourage community-building, social awareness, and connection with the natural world. The Montessori Child offers a powerful alternative for parents who feel that family life has gotten too complicated by showing parents how to make more intentional choices for your family, how to better understand the needs of your children, and support them as they develop their unique potential.
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Thumbsucker: An illustrated journey through an undiagnosed autistic childhood
Spoilt. Weirdo. Fussy. Hypochondriac. Chatterbox.
Eliza spent her childhood being told she was all of these until her autism diagnosis as an adult revealed why she had experienced the world so differently. But what does it mean to grow up knowing you are different, misunderstood, ‘difficult’?
Funny, witty and tender, Sunday Times bestselling author and illustrator Eliza Fricker, uses her own memories of growing up in the 80s to explore how neurodiversity presents itself in everyday life and what neurodivergent children really need from the people who love them.
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One Win a Day: 365 little steps to make a big difference
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of You Do You, an interactive workbook designed to bring a bit more magic into your everyday life, one day at a time.
You can start at any point of the year. Every page contains a simple act of self-care to take on each day, that will make today just that little bit better than yesterday. It’s the best friend by your bedside – a safe space to help you take stock, take a moment for yourself, and then get ready to take on the world!
Try your hand at self-care bingo one day. Get back to nature the next. Learn how to heal yourself using your love language. Practice celebrating your daily success, whether this is making your bed or finally catching up with that friend you’ve been meaning to chat to for ages.
With Charlotte’s signature humour and heart, this book is here to cheer you on through the ups and downs the year may bring, and take small steps towards happiness a little more each day.
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The Greatest Manifestation Book (is the one written by you)
Unlock your inner power, create positive change and bring about the life you truly desire with The Greatest Manifestation Book.
From the authors of The Greatest Self-Help Book – Sunday Times bestselling author of Good Vibes, Good Life, Healing is the New High and Closer to Love, Vex King and social media star, Kaushal – comes this powerful daily journal that will transform your life.
This journal will help you to understand what manifestation is, how to set intentions and goals, overcome limiting beliefs, practise daily gratitude, and ultimately, to lead the life you’ve always dreamed of.
Each day, you will have the opportunity to speak aloud a powerful affirmation, dig deep with a gratitude prompt, rewrite your ‘manifesto’, work on negative thought patterns that might be holding you back, develop self-awareness of your thoughts and emotions and engage with some interactive activities to aid your journey.
A journal like no other, you can expect to find:
– Manifestation-led activities, exercises and hacks
– Visualization, self-care and positive talk check-ins
– Daily affirmations, prompts and gratitude-led questions
– 30-day check-ins to track personal growth and self-reflectIsn’t it time you let go of self-doubt, filled your heart with gratitude and created the life you deserve?
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Tiny Dancer, Big World: 12 Simple Steps to Inspire You to Follow Your Dreams
Janette Manrara is the glamourous big sister we all need in our lives. In her first book – Tiny Dancer, BIG World (working title) – she shares a delightful blend of advice, inspirational stories and life lessons from her time on stage and screen.
Each chapter offers a tenet of wisdom alongside techniques of how to implement it, complete with actionable goals. The result is a highly readable, applicable, motivational narrative to inspire readers to live their best life. In addition Janette shares her own poignant stories, from her childhood in a large Cuban immigrant family in Florida and her decision to pursue a career in dance to her big break on So You Think You Can Dance and finally, Strictly Coming Dancing. Full of magic and glitter and joy, Tiny Dancer, BIG World is a fun and practical resource for learning to embrace self-love and ambition and be your best self in every aspect of your life.
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There is No Wall: Running won’t save you
There Is No Wall is ultrarunner Allie Bailey’s brutally honest and sometimes shocking account of alcoholism, depression and severe mental breakdowns which almost cost her her life.
Told with disarming vulnerability, heartbreaking depth of feeling and dark humour, this isn’t a story about how running saved her – she was already running and at the height of her struggles sometimes even winning 100-mile-plus races. But somewhere between the darkest excesses of the music industry and the simple beauty of the ultrarunning scene, Allie found space to listen, learn and put into practice techniques that would go on to save her life and change it for the better.
There Is No Wall is a story about how doing something you love can lead you to achieve things you never thought possible. Running won’t save you, but it might buy you the time to save yourself.
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The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out
A central source of frustration for most adults with ADHD is that they know what they need to do but they have difficulties turning their intentions into actions. These difficulties also interfere with their ability to use self-help books and to get the most out of psychosocial treatments that provide coping strategies that promise to improve their functioning. Drs. Ramsay and Rostain are experts in the assessment and treatment of adult ADHD and are leaders in the development of effective psychosocial treatments for this group of patients. Their newest book, The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out is a coping guide for adults living with ADHD, one that does not just present useful coping strategies but also provides specific tactics designed to help readers implement these skills in their daily lives and brings them to life in a user-friendly format. The authors discuss many different settings in which ADHD may cause difficulties, including work, school, matters of physical health and well-being, and the issue of excessive use of technology. Although written for consumers, clinicians will find the book to be a clinically useful tool for their adult patients with ADHD, serving as a companion to the newly updated and expanded second edition of Drs. Ramsay and Rostain’s professional treatment manual, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD: An Integrative Psychosocial and Medical Approach.
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This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better
‘When you want to sort medical fact from medical fiction, Dr Karan is your man. This is the only book that will have you laughing and learning in equal measure’ Dr Julie Smith, bestselling author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before
_______________________________The hilarious, myth-busting survival guide to the human body from TikTok’s favourite General Surgeon.
Though the odds are stacked against us, the human body has an extraordinary tendency to survive…
Full of hard-learned lessons and health hacks from Dr Karan Rajan’s years working the hospital wards, This Book May Save Your Life is a head-to-toe ode to our amazing bodies – warts and all – that will help you to worry less and live better for longer.
Here, Dr Karan explains the weird and wonderful bodily functions that keep us going, and offers practical advice to help you thrive when things go wrong, including:
THE DANGERS OF PLUCKING YOUR NOSE HAIRS
YOUR UNTAPPED NATURAL REFLEXES TO COMBAT STRESS
HOW TO MANAGE PAIN WITH SIMPLE MIND TRICKS
AND WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER HOLD IN A FART
_______________________________‘I’ll never look at my anus the same way’ Hayley Morris, bestselling author of Me Vs Brain
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How to Be the Love You Seek: Million-copy bestselling author
‘I love Dr Nicole LePera. She helps me a lot.’ GWYNETH PALTROW
‘A practical and inspiring primer on how to extend true connection and love to others and to our hurting world.’ DR GABOR MATE´
‘A loving, patient, and powerful guide to creating happy, fulfilling life relationships of all kinds. How to Be the Love You Seek is a masterwork of awareness and compassion.’ JAY SHETTY
A radical new path to revolutionise your relationships
Why are our closest relationships so often a source of more stress than solace? Whether the relationship is with a romantic partner, a parent, child, friend or colleague, the dynamic is frequently the same – you’d like the relationship to change for the better, yet nothing you try seems to work.
Author of international bestseller How to Do the Work, Dr Nicole LePera has heard these frustrating patterns of loneliness, disconnection, and resentment described time and again, both from patients in her clinical practice and from her global online community @the.holistic.psychologist. In this groundbreaking book she offers a new path to healing our relationships by tapping into the power of the heart.
How to Be the Love You Seek harnesses the latest scientific research to teach us how to recognise our dysfunctional patterns, identify their roots in our earliest relationships, break painful cycles, build security and share compassion with ourselves and others.
Through stories, exercises, journal prompts, and other practical tools, Dr LePera empowers us first to strengthen our foundation of self-love, paving the way for deeper, more harmonious connections with those around us.
When you become the love you seek, you have the power to transform every relationship, from your most intimate partnerships to the bonds that hold our communities together.
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Wreck This Journal: To Create is to Destroy, Now With Even More Ways to Wreck!
A new edition of Keri Smith’s bestseller, with updated material
Think of Wreck This Journal as the anarchist’s Artist’s Way — the book for those who’ve always wanted to draw outside the lines but were afraid to do it.
For anyone who’s ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book featuring a subversive collection of suggestions, asking readers to muster up their best mistake – and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them).
Through a series of creatively and quirkily illustrated prompts, acclaimed artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in “destructive” acts – poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting with coffee, colouring outside the lines, and more – in order to experience the true creative process. With Keri Smith’s unique sensibility, readers are introduced to a new way of art and journal making, discovering novel ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process.
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD
‘Dr. van der Kolk’s masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller’ Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world’s experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.
‘Fascinating, hard to put down, and filled with powerful case histories. . . . the most important series of breakthroughs in mental health in the last thirty years’ Norman Doidge, author of The Brain that Changes Itself
‘An astonishing and important book. The trauma Bible. I cannot recommend it enough for anyone struggling with…well…anything’ Tara Westover
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