Human Growth

HGTV cofounder Susan Packard launches the next chapter in emotional intelligence (EQ), and shows you how to increase your personal satisfaction and productivity—in work and life—via her three-step path toward EQ Fitness. Emotions can sink us, or they can power us like fuel to succeed...

Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out is an accessible, down-to-earth guide that shows us what our bodies and minds truly need. Dividing the program into four foundational areas, we can isolate the issues we all face and start making the necessary changes. Food: What we eat and...

No one is born resilient. But you have the power to become stronger than you think. At one point or another, life will break us open—through loss, trauma, betrayal, or heartbreak. But as psychologist Dr. Sherry Hamby reveals, we are never beyond repair. We all have an incredible capacity for...

We are all frittering away our lives—at least according to someone. They tell us to be productive and not waste our opportunities. In Ancient Extravagance, Ryan Snider shows us that life is more than our accomplishments and what we do. The key to a life of meaning is developing our spiritual senses, which only come awake when we worship with others. That might seem like a waste of time, but in fact, these ancient practices have the power to wake up all parts of our lives—not just Sunday morning.

The Better Human Blueprint is your practical guide to personal transformation. Organisational psychologist, Pete Cooper leverages extensive research and a career dedicated to individual growth to guide you towards living a life of intention and meaning, while thriving in a world of work that values comparison over contentment.

We all have a purpose, and that is to be the best version of ourselves. To accept ourselves, as is, for better and worse. We must hold ourselves as the creators for our part in shaping the experiences that make up our lives. If we can know the rules that govern our lives, we can use them. The process of cultivating ascension may be easier than you think. Like Jacob’s ladder, ascension is the process of connecting humans to the creator and the creator to humans. We are energy beings just waiting for the light to be turned on so our spirits may fly.

Eric and Kameron Swithin, the Creators and Directors of the Feature Motion Picture, Show Me Your Glory, take listeners on an eye-opening journey through 16 true stories where the supernatural crashes into human suffering.

Modern life often strips Sunday of its joy and meaning, leaving souls restless and distracted. Drawing from rich Catholic tradition and cultural insight, this reflection calls believers to reclaim the Lord’s Day as a time of festivity, worship, and true rest. Learn how to defeat spiritual sloth, reorder Sunday habits, and rediscover the power of the Eucharist and contemplation, turning each Sabbath into a foretaste of Heaven’s eternal celebration.

Acclaimed journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin takes readers on a lively journey to explain what happens to memory and attention in middle age. Anyone older than forty knows that forgetfulness can be unnerving, frustrating, and sometimes terrifying. With compassion and humor, Jakobson Ramin sets...

Human Gifts is a book about the innate capacities that lie within each of us and how, through developing and sharing them, we can find personal meaning and fulfill our potential in the world.

What Am I Missing? illuminates the difficult life lesson that everyone is missing something in their lives. This truth includes six significant characters of the Hebrew Bible: Abraham and Rachel; Moses and Miriam; and David and Esther. Using texts from the Hebrew Bible as our source of interpretation, we search for the meaning of "what is missing" in each of them and ourselves. These challenges provoke questions that have no simple answers and stimulate us to reflect on being a human with purpose and hope today.

In The Gospel of Being Human, Marty Solomon (host of the BEMA podcast) and Reed Dent invite you on a journey of curiosity, attention, and wonder—asking better questions about who we really are and what Scripture actually says about our identity. As you go to God’s Word to explore ten common perspectives about sin, salvation, and our relationship with God, you’ll discover a more expansive and hopeful vision of what it means to be created in His image.

In the course of his work as a vicar, Dave Tomlinson meets lots of people who describe themselves as 'not good enough' to be Christians, thinking that faith involves going to church a lot or believing in a list of strange things or following certain rules. But being a Christian isn't about any of that - and actually, following Jesus is a lot easier, and more fun, than most people think....

How Could You Do That?! illustrates Dr. Laura Schlessinger's philosophy of personal responsibility through her usually provocative but always stimulating moral dialogues with callers about everyday ethical dilemmas. In her lively pull-no-punches style, Dr. Laura takes on the moral dilemmas of...

From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo -- such as...

The enneagram, a funky nine-pointed geometric structure, has been all the talk in personality testing and career coaching over the past decade. The enneagram is an ancient personality system that can unearth some of your hidden desires and fears. One of the things that the enneagram can tell you about yourself is how desperate you are to find something that seems almost unattainable. This book will explore some of the things that each enneagram type searches for in life, but finds hard to actually maintain or grasp.

Too many people sleepwalk through life, following the wide path of societal expectations. Try hard in school, do your exams, go to university, get a good job, fall in love, get a mortgage, have kids, and then work like a dog for years and years, same old same old, without ever really taking the time to figure out what the point of it all is.

Tired of swimming with the sharks? Fed up with that big ape down the hall? Real animals can teach us better ways to thrive in the workplace jungle. You’re ambitious and want to get ahead, but what’s the best way to do it? Become the biggest, baddest predator? The proverbial 800-pound gorilla?...

In The Customer Connection: Life Lessons from Behind the Chair, you’ll embark on a transformative journey into the world of a seasoned “hairapist,” where the salon chair becomes a unique vantage point for understanding human nature.

There are many important decisions you need to make in life and many questions life will throw at you, such as, "Will you get married? Where will you live? What will you do for a living?" However, this short book will challenge you with questions of a far greater importance than these. You will be challenged to find your true life’s purpose and sobered as you turn your eyes away from man-made religion and onto your Maker.