Personal Care

Is your parenting journey turning out differently than you imagined? You had so much love to give, but now you feel ashamed and bewildered by your lack of compassion. You may be experiencing blocked care—a self-protective mechanism in your nervous system that makes it difficult to connect with your child and maintain compassion. When it happens, it’s like your heart seems to have left the relationship. But the good news is you are not a bad parent. You can heal from blocked care, and compassion can be rekindled in your heart.

Defend and claim your space, say no to people, and compensate for your unique sensitivities. The world is noisy, intense, and exhausting. For some, it feels like they are wearing hearing aids and binoculars, unable to hide, recharge, or shelter. This is no way to live. Stop the feeling responsible for the emotions of everyone around you. Learn to say no and defend your own space. The Empath Self-Care Blueprint is an audiobook written for empaths by an empath. If you’ve ever felt too many emotional and sensory burdens, and struggled to breathe, this is the audiobook for you.

Dementia, Caregiving, and Personal History is a practical and compassionate guide for anticipating and addressing the emotional and behavioral challenges of dementia care. By uncovering how personal history, trauma, cultural values, and lifelong patterns shape behavior, you can provide care that supports your loved one and protects your well-being.

Most of us know deep down that if we just got over our fear of rejection, our fear of being continually judged and ridiculed by others, we would basically become unstoppable. Engaging and thought-provoking throughout, Don’t Care What Other People Think skillfully brings together valuable insights and practical frameworks that everyone can understand and apply.

Although many of us prioritize our physical health through exercise and healthy eating, we often forget to spend time boosting our mind, mood, and mental health. It is so important that we focus on mental self-care and reducing daily stress since mental toughness and resilience will get us through difficult times and help us achieve success in every area of our lives. Using the incredible power of our minds, we can persist and grow in response to life's challenges.

When Dr. David Kirkpatrick's wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2007, their lives - and their marriage - would change forever. In an honest, uplifting, and sometimes heartbreaking account of loving a partner with dementia, Dr. Kirkpatrick creates a clear guide for others in similar circumstances. He shares his perspective both as a loving and grief-stricken husband coping with a profound change in his marriage, and as a geriatric psychiatrist doing everything he can for his wife while continually learning throughout that experience.

Ward of the State: A Memoir of Foster Care tells what happened to a little Black boy from the inner city of Detroit. This is the story of Karlos Dillard, who was severely neglected by his mother, who often left him and his siblings at home alone for weeks to fend for themselves. Enduring severe neglect and abuse, the boy was removed by the State of Michigan and put into foster care. Karlos was removed from his mother's care just to end up in foster homes that treated him worse. Karlos was told he was not loved, he was not wanted, and he was nothing but a ward of the state.

Embark on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment with "Glow Up! Your Ultimate Self-Care Transformation Guide." In this illuminating e-book, author and life coach, Bianca Daniels, offers a comprehensive roadmap to help you prioritize self-care, embrace self-love, and manifest the life you've always dreamed of. Are you ready to elevate your self-care routine to new heights? "Glow Up!" provides actionable steps, empowering exercises, and insightful advice to help you cultivate a mindset of abundance and fulfillment.

How can we maintain optimal levels of pressure so we perform at our best? What systems and tools can we use to own the pressure? What techniques can we apply to regain composure and situational control when under pressure? All of us experience moments when we are under pressure and need to perform to a high standard. While the right level of pressure enhances our performance, excessive pressure leads to cognitive overload, stress, and compromises our ability to perform. How can we own the pressure to achieve peak performance?

An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein, and...

Our favorite four-legged grief counselor, Jack McAfghan, guides you gently and honestly through all aspects of pet loss and grief. Jack will prepare you, teach you to make peace with the decisions you may ultimately have to make and help you to understand that the end of this life is not the end of life at all. Learn the secret language that will help you communicate with your pets no matter where they are.

This program is read by the author. A simple shift in thinking can change everything you believe about your own happiness. By the time we become adults, most of us have joined the religion of suffering, which preaches that unless circumstances are controlled, life will be a mess. We compare...

Longing for a practical approach to self-care that actually fits your real life? Inside this comprehensive, research-supported guide, you'll discover 120 evidence-based self-care activities customized for different time availabilities.

Your relationship ended. It’s hard to not think about it. Your heart hurts, and your stomach is in knots. You hate the way you feel. Whether you were the one being broken up with, or you were the one who initiated the breakup - either way, the emotions of a breakup are difficult to grapple with. Self-Care After a Breakup can help!

Reach your highest potential and a deeper understanding of self with Deepak Chopra’s groundbreaking guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga. Royal Yoga is the highest and most important of the yoga traditions—an all-embrracing path to personal transformation that reaches beyond any...

In all of the years that Rick Warren has been a pastor, the number one question he's asked is "Why can't I change?" We want to make changes, but we often feel stuck. Let God's Power to Change Your Life be the first step on your journey to getting out of your rut and back into God's wonderful...

Kate Paris Battaglia, a resilient high school student, has taken advantage of Covid-imposed solitude to author her first book: 101 Tips for Surviving in a Pandemic: A Generation Z Guidebook. Born near 2000, Kate allows listeners to travel into the minds of a generation accustomed to the technology of the internet. However, she surprisingly does not dwell on social media to cure all ills that Covid-19 and its variants have inflicted upon the "zoomers" of Gen Z.

The world has changed, our lives have changed, and in recent years, our work has changed. Despite the disruption, our relationship and understanding of self-care have remained the same as we still see it as something fluffy or a perfect list of habits that we "do" alone outside of work to recover. But what if self-care wasn't something we "do"? What if self-care is a mindset that allows us to achieve peak performance, engagement, and growth without burning out and sacrificing our health and joy?

When the Sirens Are Silent is a raw, unfiltered look at what life inside emergency medicine really does to the people who live it — the trauma we carry, the silence we keep, and the way it slowly breaks us if we don’t fight back. Written by a working medic who nearly died from stress-induced stroke after years of suppressing the emotional toll, this book isn’t a self-help manual or inspirational fluff. It’s the truth — backed by science, lived in blood and burnout, and told with the kind of dark honesty that only another responder will understand.

3.ª edición. En esta obra, Joan Garriga ilustra temas universales sobre el lado más oscuro del amor que todos en algún momento de nuestras vidas debemos abordar: la presencia de fantasmas del pasado, los amores desiguales, los problemas de comunicación...y lo hace no solo a través de reflexiones conceptuales, sino con la exposición práctica de casos reales tratados por él mismo en sus terapias de constelaciones familiares, como un intento de traer lo invisible a lo visible, de hacer luminoso lo oscuro, y así comprender mejor lo que actúa en la cara oculta del amor.