Emotional Education

Bestselling author and internationally renowned animal psychologist and dog trainer Patricia McConnell “gives a voice to those who can’t speak in words and provides hope for fearful animals everywhere” (Temple Grandin) in this powerful and uplifting memoir about healing. World-renowned as...

Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she’s too young to even understand. When Casey first meets Kiera, a small slight girl who’s just lashed out at a fellow pupil in assembly, she...

Do you suffer from stress, phobias or anxiety? Are you looking for a natural solution? EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, is a holistic therapy that you can do anywhere and at any time, by yourself.

Steve Biddulph’s Raising Boys was a global phenomenon. The first book in a generation to look at boys’ specific needs, parents loved its clarity and warm insights into their sons’ inner world. But today, things have changed. It’s girls that are in trouble. There has been a sudden and...

Emotional Intelligence for School Leaders outlines key SEL skills, from mindfulness and self-management to relationship building and conflict resolution, and details how each can be applied in a leadership context. Case studies of a variety of successful educational leaders who employ positive psychology in their work illustrate the strategies they used to cultivate and apply their own SEL skills.

The Science of Being Lucky takes you on a science-based journey into what luck is, what we think it is, and how to get more of it in your life. The journey begins by breaking down and defining the lucky breaks, coincidences, and serendipitous events in our lives - then delves into the specific traits, life factors, and perspectives that create lucky outcomes.

Celebrated educators and authors Anna-Lisa Mackey and Melissa Ragan deliver an insightful, rigorous, and accessible treatment of social emotional learning in education. Using research from the Theory of Constructed Emotion, the authors highlight the relationship between the new view of neurobiology and Social Emotional Learning. Perfect for K-12 educators, principals, superintendents, and other education leaders, The Social Emotional Classroom will also earn a place in the libraries of parents and caregivers who are responsible for young people's day-to-day learning.

Listen to psychotherapist Joe Nucci as he dispels common mental health myths and replaces them with no-nonsense truths and accessible guidance for real healing. The popularization of mental health content on social media has led to an epidemic of mental health misinformation. In Psychobabble...

A compassionate guide that tackles one of the fastest-growing issues facing families everywhere: the increasing number of children who are refusing or reluctant to attend school. When a child stops going to school, the entire family feels the impact. School avoidance may look like defiance, but...

A string of best sellers have alerted us to the importance of grit - an ability to persevere and control one's impulses that is closely associated with greatness. But no book yet has charted the most accessible and powerful path to grit: our prosocial emotions. These feelings - gratitude, compassion, and pride - are easier to generate than the willpower and self-denial that underpin traditional approaches to grit. And, while willpower is quickly depleted, prosocial emotions actually become stronger the more we use them.

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Dr. Stephen R. Covey illustrates how his principles of leadership can be applied to children of all ages—updated and revised for modern students. In today’s world, we are inundated with information...

A practical, hands-on, experienced-based guide from a military veteran turned yoga teacher Brendon Abram combines his first-hand experience with PTSD in the field and years of teaching to offer this practical guide to bringing trauma-sensitive yoga to both clinical and studio settings. Drawing...

An approach to ending psychological suffering based on the ancient wisdom tradition of Advaita or self realization. This is a presentation of the essential teaching of this direct path to freedom that focuses on the recognition and realization of the true self. This audiobook identifies the root cause of suffering as the identification with the mind and the belief that the psychological construct that is considered the "person" is actual.

It happens to every parent. One day, you have a sweet son or daughter who loves to snuggle on the couch and who puts a smile on your face just by walking into the room. The next day, it's as if someone left the door open and let in an alien with a smart mouth and an attitude that, frankly, you could do without. Entering middle school is like stepping onto a different planet—for parent and child alike. It's a planet where peer pressure, social media, and hormones can wreak havoc in your child's life.

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Dr. Stephen R. Covey illustrates how his principles of leadership can be applied to children of all ages. In today’s world, we are inundated with information about who to be, what to do, and how to live...

In her first book in many years, best-selling author Daphne Rose Kingma takes us on a path of emotional and spiritual healing, with particular attention to the complex and frequently overwhelming circumstances of our lives right now. The perfect combination of empathic friend, sage counselor, savvy problem solver, and even gallows humorist, Kingma looks straight into the predicaments so many of us face. She then offers 10 deceptively simple yet profoundly effective strategies for coping.

As a physician, you’ve devoted years of your life to training. From classrooms and textbooks to residency and beyond, you’ve honed your clinical expertise and technical abilities. But these skill sets are only half of the equation to achieving excellence. What is the other half? Emotional intelligence. In Extraordinary Doctor, top neurosurgeon Nimesh H. Patel explores the importance of emotional intelligence in physicians and how it is pivotal to succeeding in the field.

When it comes to ensuring that your life is full of happiness and content, you need to ensure that you have the right coping strategies to overcome your worries. This book is designed to ensure that you are prepared against all stressors of life. You will learn the key strategies necessary to stop yourself from worrying about everything; this means that you will have to review your inner thoughts on every situation that affects your life, how to solve the situation using alternative solutions, and the various coping tactics that would help to implement the solutions.

While social and emotional learning (SEL) is most familiar as compartmentalized programs separate from academics, the truth is, all learning is social and emotional. What teachers say, the values we express, the materials and activities we choose, and the skills we prioritize all influence how students think, see themselves, and interact with content and with others.

Unser unermüdliches Streben danach, in allen Bereichen überdurchschnittlich zu sein, schränkt uns eher ein, als dass es uns voranbringt. Denn wenn wir scheitern oder unseren eigenen Ansprüchen nicht gerecht werden, kehrt sich Selbstbewusstsein rasch um in Selbstkritik. Und wir können uns anstrengen, wie wir wollen, es wird immer jemanden geben, der noch intelligenter, erfolgreicher oder attraktiver ist als wir. Was wirklich stärkt, ist Selbstmitgefühl. Kristin Neff erforscht seit vielen Jahren die Fähigkeit, sich selbst freundschaftlich und nachsichtig zu behandeln.