Self Identity

The howl of the bedside clock-radio carves through your dreams like a buzz-saw through butter, and you are awake. In another place. Never mind the bright yellow sunlight that flecks your pillow and warms your face. You are rudely awake, and resent it.

If you’re like many moms out there, your number one priority is usually everyone else. Driving the kids from one activity to the next, ensuring everyone’s fed and clothed, the list of duties is endless! But if you’ve fallen into this trap, you could be creating the opposite effect to the one you desire because the best gift you can give your children is a whole and healthy you! Whole and healthy in body, spirit, and soul.

The self-help industry is a fraud. You are not exceptional. You can’t have it all. The money won’t follow just because you do what you love. Anyone who tells you something different is lying. Sam LaCrosse’s approach to living a rich and fulfilling life doesn't involve cookie-cutter slogans or self-esteem dogma. The path to a good life lies in discovering and honoring your own core values.

Westerners today grow up with abundant opportunities to determine their own values, identities, and roles in society. But for generations, millions who lived under Soviet rule in the USSR had these essential freedoms withheld, determined instead by a central authority that claimed the right to choose for them and enforce their compliance. Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s decisive collapse, the old communist paradigm continues to limit those who come of age in a post-Soviet world.

Recognizing one's self-image is a crucial step in comprehending how self-perception influences one's behavior and interactions with the environment. Our thoughts, perceptions, and attitudes regarding our looks, talents, and general values make up what is known as our self-image. Society norms, individual experiences, and the opinions of others all have a role in shaping this multi-faceted concept. Building a positive self-image is essential for a joyful and successful life since it guides our actions, choices, and feelings.

The intention of this book is to open up a space for reflection and awareness of some aspects of the vast topic of female psychology, romantic relationships, and regaining your personal power by opening your heart to yourself. The central focus is the subconscious dynamics of female spirituality and the basic male and female archetypes, along with their strengths, fears, and possibilities. This understanding is valuable in order for every partner to become a complete personality who can accept their strengths, as well as their shadow aspects—those that we hide from ourselves.

What is the value of one powerful question? What about one life changing answer? This book asks questions geared towards a sense of knowing who you are at your core. These questions are thought-provoking, challenging, and inspiring. Most importantly, they are life changing! Truth is - no two individuals are created exactly alike! God, in his infinite wisdom, created every person with a unique identity and purpose.

Most of us say we want better health, finances, and relationships. Yet, beneath the surface, we don't think we deserve it. Projecting confidence on the outside, we feel like impostors on the inside. The truth is we'll never outperform our self-image. Author Kary Oberbrunner knows this firsthand. In this updated and expanded edition of Your Secret Name, he shares the same steps that helped him overcome a paralyzing speech disorder and an addiction to self-injury.

Me, My Selfie & Eye is a timely, relevant book intently written to connect, console and encourage those in the midst of midlife identity confusion. This book is a practical updated conversation about the process of midlife upheaval and cites grief as the main culprit, especially when everything we believed to be true about our selves is no longer certain.

It’s time to end your suffering and start your life. With unexpected pain, trauma, abuse, or betrayals you feel used up, exhausted. Maybe angry, maybe depressed. In short, you feel like a victim...of a wrongdoer, of circumstance or both. You know intuitively that life just isn’t meant to be this way, yet you feel stuck. The good news is, there’s a way out, and your life can get better - much better. In Victim Is Not Your Name, you’ll discover a potent yet practical plan to move beyond suffering into a life of significance, joy, and hopefulness.

“I am married to an amazing woman, and we have great kids. I also carry a huge secret deep inside: I am gay.” Accepting truth about sexual identity after living outwardly as straight is terrifying and incredibly difficult to maneuver. Some fool themselves that this will be just fine, some have been caught exploring their sexuality, and some consider drastic steps to spare themselves and their loved ones from this truth.

19 Masks People Wear is your guide to unraveling the myriad facades that shape our lives, leading you on a path to self-discovery, enhanced communication, and inner fulfillment.

Many people struggle throughout their lives, unable to identify the source of great inner existential discontent. No matter their material comfort or good fortune, they cannot escape the idea that they do not live the lives they ought to. They are not in environments that support their deepest personal growth and development. They are not the people they feel they are meant to be, and the world never works the way they know it could.

From #1 New York Times-bestselling Marissa Valdez comes a hilariously zany and uproariously fun story of an underwear-obsessed hedgehog — perfect for fans of Dragons Love Tacos and Something's Wrong! Hedgehogs Don't Wear Underwear features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the...

The president of Catalyst Leader believes that the most impactful and most influential leaders are the ones who lead from who they truly are, not who they pretend or wish to be. With clear biblical teaching and personal accounts, Tyler Reagin not only demonstrates the necessity of life-giving...

Reveals how faith traditions have always passed down tools for self-examination and debate, because all religious ideas—not just extremist ones—can cause harm, even as they also embody important moral teachings. Scripture’s abiding relevance can inspire great goodness, such as welcoming...

Unspoken Wounds: Healing Childhood Trauma Through the Lens of Culture, Identity & Belonging is a powerful, affirming book for listeners who never saw themselves represented in traditional healing narratives. Written for people whose trauma was shaped by cultural silence, family loyalty, systemic oppression, or generational pain, this book offers a deeply compassionate path toward healing. If you grew up in a home where emotions weren’t safe, where love had conditions, or where survival came before softness, this book will speak to your soul.

Tyrone loves his hair and all the cool shapes he can make with it. No clippers are coming anywher near him! But after an afternoon diving through the leaves in the park, Grandad Cleveland and Mum think it's time for a trip to the barbers. Tyrone does not want to go! But once he's sat in the chair in Dalisa's grooving salon, and after some history and comforting words from Grandad, Tyrone feels like a king!

On her first day of school in a brand-new country, a gift from Mexico alights on María’s windowsill: “¡Una mariposa!” And with the butterfly, in comes magic. Filled from her toes to her new butterfly wings with memories of home, María knows exactly who she is. But when everything at school is different and strange, doubt begins to fade María’s confidence away. The place she comes from, the community she loves, the magic inside her … does any of it really belong in her new life in the United States?

Isamu Noguchi is one of the most important sculptors of all time. His Akari lamps changed the way modern buildings light their space. But before he was important, he was a kid. This is his story. Noguchi was a Japanese American artist who gave the world light. The world, however, was not always so giving in return. Growing up mixed-race, born in the United States but raised in Japan, Noguchi found himself perceived as an outsider who did not belong in either country