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Strengths-Based Resilience
by Tayyab Rashid, Jane Gillham, Afroze Anjum
Informed by rigorous research from positive psychology, cognitive behavior therapy and mindfulness, the Strengths-Based Resilience (SBR) program helps participants cultivate resilience in the face of different adverse life phases, whether it is challenges in higher education, work, relationships, or more. The 14-module SBR program helps clients to build resilience through a series of evidence-based skills. Core modules focus on:• Integrating mindfulness, relaxation, and gratitude intodailyselfcare routines• Developing a personal story of resilience• Learning a more flexible thinking style• Identifying and using strengths to solve problems• Incorporating slowness and savoring• Practicing positive communication for healthierrelationships• Contributing to community by learning to act altruistically• Pursuing a sense of meaning by exploring past and futureselves This color-illustrated manual is clearly structured, providing step-by step instructions, and listing the practice elements and goals of each module. It is an essential resource for all mental health practitioners wanting to help their clients build resilience. For:• psychotherapists• clinical psychologists
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Health & Personal DevelopmentOn the Trail of Unconscious Affirmations
How you can regain control and free yourself from the constructs in your head
by Nicole Truchseß
Freeing yourself of harmful unconscious affirmations: 22 exercises that work “I don’t have a talent for that”; “I could never do that”; "Trust is good, control is better”. Do these statements sound familiar? If so, you’re likely one of the many individuals who is lugging around a suitcase of unconscious affirmations. Like ghosts, these learned beliefs haunt our heads and trick us into believing that we always know what, when and why a thing is happening. They are constructs in our head. Every one of us has these rules for life, and we use them to navigate our day-to-day existence. Most unconscious affirmations turn out to be anything but helpful, because they cause us to feel comfortable in our comfort zone and, in the worst case scenario, can block us from evolving and developing. In this book, Nicole Truchseß explains in a clear, humorous style with a focus on practical implementation, how to expose the various types of false construct, to recognise why they’re so hard to shift and to tame them effectively. The book begins by addressing the great realm of false constructs and some of its most notable inhabitants, from the wallflower to the headteacher, the hard taskmaster to the helpless, “defenceless” victim. The first chapter of the book will allow you to recognise the constructs in your own head, while subsequent sections will help you get to the root of your unconscious affirmations and replace them with kinder beliefs. Where once you might have been agitated, you’ll now respond calmly; where once you might have been silent, you’ll now stand up for your interests. Where once a stupid joke might have unsettled you, you’ll simply be able to smile. It’s often the small pieces of the puzzle that can bring about the biggest changes What are unconscious affirmations; where do they come from; how do they affect us? The book is rounded out by 22 exercises to help us banish our harmful learned beliefs.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentOctober 2021Untangling you | How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful?
by Dr Kerry Howells
A practical guide to untangling difficult relationships, letting go of resentment and ultimately leading a happier life. No doubt you have experienced everyday resentment in your life: a sibling who appeared to be favoured by your parents; a partner who leaves you for another person; a neighbour who won’t deal with their barking dog; a workmate who is promoted ahead of you… the list goes on and on. These everyday resentments can keep simmering away, robbing us of joy and wreaking havoc on our health, relationships and workplaces. But no matter how hard we try to let it go and be the ‘bigger person’, sometimes it’s impossible to express gratitude toward someone who has wronged us. Thousands of clinical studies have demonstrated the positive benefits of gratitude to our physical, emotional and social wellbeing, but according to award-winning gratitude educator Dr Kerry Howells, it’s only when we experience the discomfort of not being able to find gratitude that a path opens for real growth and transformation. Based on 25 years of ground-breaking research, Untangling you: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful? is the first book of its kind to discuss gratitude in terms of its conceptual opposite: resentment. Using practical strategies, tools and insights, this life-changing book will show you how to start to repair difficult relationships, improve your wellbeing, grow your resilience, and ultimately move from resentment towards deep gratitude to lead a happier and more fulfilling life. Untangling you: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful? will help you on this journey, whether you are a leader, coach, parent, teacher, people manager, mentor, health professional, or just someone who wants to grow their character and self-efficacy.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentFebruary 2021The Loudest Guest
How to change and control your relationship with fear
by Dr Amy Silver
An award-winning guide to reducing fear and taking control of your life from Amazon bestselling author and renowned psychologist Dr Amy Silver.When fear looms as the loudest guest in your mind, it dominates your thoughts and controls your choices. Author and psychologist, Dr Amy Silver, believes that if you reduce the control that fear has on you, you take back control of your life. Fear is merely a guest in your mind, albeit a noisy one, and you are the host. In The Loudest Guest, you will learn the six essential steps to calm your fear so you can run your best life. This book is for you if you: are prone to worrying or over-thinking desire to do something new but feel you shouldn’t or would fail talk yourself down, either out loud or in your head know there’s a gap between what you’re doing and what you could do if you had more courage spend too much time thinking about what people think of you are too ‘in your head’, full of doubt, regret or indecision. In this easy-to-read, practical book you’ll learn to quieten your fear voice so you can be a more powerful version of yourself.
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Mandrill
by Anya Damirón, Alessandro Montagnana
Mandrill is always on his rock. He spends his days helping all the animals without saying a word. Just listening to them! Will he be able to listen to himself? This is a fun story with a strong character, bright illustrations, onomatopeias, and an unexpected ending, that invites us to share our emotions, reminding us the importance of paying attention to others, but also, how much we need to listen to ourselves, being aware of our needs, to address them on time.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentJuly 2021Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions
and how critical thinking can protect them
by Annie McCubbin
This is a laugh out loud, narrative-driven self-help book. Think Bridget Jones gets a critical makeover. In Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions, our protagonist Kat is learning that the philosophy of ‘Believe-in-yourself-and Magic-will-happen’ will not deliver her a better life. Her story, which recounts her hapless attempts to navigate scenarios disturbingly familiar to many readers, is presented with a companion account of the cognitive quirks that drive her faulty thinking and behaviour. This is neuroscience explained through the lens of a modern comedy; the buggy brain stripped bare in a laugh out loud take down of magical thinking and the goofy, delusional self-actualisation movement. Kat discovers that the simplistic advice to honour your intuition is not all it’s cracked up to be. Despite practising Gratitude and Acceptance, she is still failing to lose the 2.35 kilos that preoccupy her. Despite her Positive Thinking, her performance review leaves her limp with despair, and despite her assiduous application to making affirmations, her philandering Hipster Boyfriend leaves her (taking with him the remote control). In the companion explanation to each chapter, author Annie McCubbin explains to readers what drives people to behave in blindly optimistic and self-destructive ways. If only they could apply the critical thinking that our narrator suggests, smart women would indeed stop making bad decisions. It becomes clear to Kat, and in turn the reader, that positive thinking, meditation and magical thinking will not turn her life around. Instead, women should apply the narrator’s advice and change the inherent cognitive flaws that run, and often ruin, their lives.
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Always Be Creating
by Abbey Sy
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE A CREATIVE LIFE? Artist and best-selling author Abbey Sy shares her creative journey and the learnings she’s picked up along the way through this curated collection of personal anecdotes, insightful tips, and life hacks for aspiring artists and creatives. Whether you’re just starting out on your own creative path or already fully immersed in it, this field guide will help you discover your true path to living a purposeful, art-enriched life. Plus, find a free sticker sheet, fun worksheets, and DIY activities that will inspire you to Always Be Creating. LEARN HOW TO: • Find your passion and follow your curiosities • Set realistic goals and figure out how to achieve them • Use inspiration as a tool for creation • Hone habits that will keep you going • Beat burnout and practice self-care • Take on commissioned work • Put your work out in the world with no fear • Define success on your own terms
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October 2020The Mermaid Handbook
by Taylor Widrig (author), Briana Corr Scott (illustrator)
The book mermaids-in-training have been waiting for! From history and folklore to recipes and tips for ocean preservation, as well as profiles and original illustrations of mer-maidens from all around the world, The Mermaid Handbook features everything you need to know to follow the mermaid way of life.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureOctober 2015Declutter Guide
How to Organize your life in 2 weeks or less
by Ariel Benet Savant
Don’t get paralyzed by your clutter and stuff. Start applying proven systems that work!! Do you feel you’ve become a slob or a clutter bug? Does tidying up or home organizing seem like a never-ending chore? If you are struggling in this area and want solutions that speak to you as you are guided through the maze of clutter, then this book is written just for you. Learn easy to apply tips to end the mess and live clutter-free without becoming overwhelmed or depressed. Decluttering doesn’t have to be stressful when you have the right information. Life’s constant demands can be stressful and keep in mind as long as you are living, clutter will always appear. Once you apply the time-saving tips in this guide, you will learn how to become more efficient and tame the clutter bug. Let’s face it- Clutter is a BIG problem. Some people’s homes are so full of junk and clutter that they experience a never-ending cycle of anxiety. Many people are simply too embarrassed to invite friends over. Excess clutter affects relationships, can cause a home to become unlivable and can make you feel tired and fatigued. So what makes the Declutter guide special? The Declutter Guide helps you discover the following: • Why you clutter and how to break the cycle • Helping your family declutter • Declutter in the midst of real-life challenges • Working out one room at a time systematically • Identifying the emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter • How to avoid digital clutter trap which zaps your time and energy • How to determine what you must keep, donate, or throw away Decluttering expert and author, Ariel Benet savant knows that letting go of the things that are personal and sentimental can be difficult. You will quickly find you can follow the easy to follow procedures and start enjoying a clean, organized, and clutter-free home or office that will make you proud. Ariel grew up knowing how to apply these strategies and helped her friends, co-workers, and family achieve astounding results.
