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Mindfulness at Play was written by a mindfulness expert and university lecturer, a psychologist and play therapist (also both parents) to help parents and young people recognize and expand the practice of mindfulness in their lives, as well as recognize and respond to whatever is getting in its way. It introduces mindfulness and play-based training exercises and activities, as well as evidence-based mindfulness knowledge. -- publisher marketing.

The author Steven Kotler and high-performance expert Jamie Wheal spent four years investigating how Silicon Valley executives, the Navy SEALS, and maverick scientists are harnessing rare and controversial states of consciousness to solve critical challenges and outperform the competition.--

Contains some of the questions psychologist Harriet Lerner has answered in her advice column in "New Woman" magazine that relate to the most common problems women encounter.

Psychologists and allied social scientists have become leading thinkers of our time. But what if much of the science underlying their blockbuster ideas is dubious or fallacious? What if Americans' long-standing preference for simplistic self-help platitudes is exerting a pernicious influence on the way behavioral science is communicated and even funded, leading respected academics and the media astray? In The Quick Fix, Jesse Singal examines the most...

Are you codependent? You may be and not even know it. Do you find yourself falling into the same patterns of abuse in every relationship you enter? Perhaps you've reached your breaking point but you don't know where to turn. Enter, The Codependency Recovery Guide. In it you will learn what codependence is, how you got that way and most importantly how you can break free of the endless cycle of giving everything you have to someone and getting nothing...

This is Henri Nouwen's "secret journal." It was written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, even his hope in God. Although he experienced excruciating anguish and despair, he was still able to keep a journal in which he wrote each day a spiritual imperative to himself, which emerged from his conversations with friends and supporters. For more than...

"A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies.Anyone who struggles with overeating knows what it's like to feel out of control and to feel the guilt attached to it. While ordinary anxiety feels like something that happens to us, the siren song of food cravings feels like something we should be able to control. The result is a toxic cocktail of shame and self-loathing that makes it impossible to change our behavior. The Hunger...

A guide to raising troubled teens teaches readers how to understand teen behavior, establish a useful contract for life around the house, and seek outside help when necessary.