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The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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"Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey combine their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle to show readers how to improve their lives right now, instead of waiting for the outside world to change. They offer a research-based work plan that shows the reader how to manage their emotions so they no longer control their outlook and behavior; turn life's inevitable difficulties and challenges into opportunities for growth; strengthen their...
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed...
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"If you're looking to clean up but not clean out, if you want to declutter but don't want to throw out eighty percent of your stuff, if you want to be able to find matching socks in the morning but don't want a color-coded sock drawer, you've come to the right place. Organized Enough offers a groundbreaking, science-driven method for getting--and staying--organized. Amanda Sullivan's proven approach will teach you the lifelong habits of the organized,...
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"We're never going to measure up to the 'perfect parent' model we've built up in our heads: a Frankenstein version of mom and dad cobbled together from our childhoods, our parents, cultural ideals, social media, and everything in between. We want to be good parents, but our pasts hold us back. If you're thinking: 'I can't be a good parent because I had a shitty childhood, bad parents, or a traumatic experience,' stop! Let go of what came before and...
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In our modern society there are lots of pressures to succeed. Whatever that means. Most of us absorb the idea that we need to succeed in life and thus they have the corollary fear of failure.
One of my favorite movies is "The Razor's Edge" with Tyrone Powell. It is the story of a young man in the 1920s who has the opportunity to make it big in conventional jobs, but he isn't interested. Instead, he follows an alternative path which leads him to India...
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This volume of Deborah LeBlanc's Make Sh** Happen Series is a wry yet insightful guide to cleaning your closet . . .and very existence. It isn't time to just tidy up. It's time to completely transform-together. From physical mounds and digital masses to crippling mental sloppiness, Deborah has tactics proven to help break free of all disorder.
Framed correctly, making a game plan isn't dull-it's revolutionary. With LeBlanc's unique blend of psychological...
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"THE STORIES WE CANNOT TELL is a fast-paced, beautifully written tribute to what we can and can't control and who we love in the process. A true delight. This book is GOOD!"--- Zibby Owens, author of Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, and host of Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books There can come a point in life where you'll always remember what came before and what came after.Rachel is a thirty-year-old married Jewish woman who's wanted...
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Exhausted?
Strung out?
Shackled in your own invisible straitjacket of stress?
Seventy per cent of us spend most of our day in a state of stress, with our nervous systems in a position of fight, flight or freeze. Modern day stress has become pervasive in all aspects of our lives through constant pressure, the weight of perceived expectations and the drive to be always on.
Many live with an energy and nervous system that feels like a tightly clenched...
9) Crazymakers
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Living with insensitive, tactless, careless, inattentive, difficult, self-absorbed, neglectful, damaging, condemning, harsh, hard, treacherous, deceiving, prejudiced, and paralyzing people…can make you crazy! Chances are, there's at least one person like that in your life right now-a person who is always right. Behavior ranges from indifference and unconcern to complete narcissism and destruction. Dr. Paul Meier and Dr. Robert Wise created this...
10) ¿Cómo dejar de pensar demasiado? Descubre el poder de las estrategias para controlar el pensamien
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En un mundo donde el pensamiento constante puede convertirse en una trampa, este libro te invita a un viaje de autodescubrimiento y liberación mental. Descubre cómo superar los límites de los pensamientos negativos y recupera el control de tu mente para alcanzar tus objetivos.¿Qué aprenderás?:Descubrirás la corriente constante de pensamientos que guía tus acciones diarias.Comprenderás cómo el ego construye una identidad a veces limitante.Podrás...
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Take control of your past, your memory, your emotions, your life! While in medical school, Dr. Augusto Cury became fascinated with the impact a healthy mind can have on emotions and life. After many years of research and founding The Intelligence Institute, he concluded: Every person is a genius because everyone has the power to think. Harnessing "mind power" has been scientifically proven to enhance a person's physical, mental, and spiritual well-being....
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A take-anywhere toolkit to short-circuit anxiety and rewire your brain for lasting calm.
Do you struggle with anxiety? Has it taken over your life or affected your relationships? Do you feel like chronic worry and rumination are holding you back from being your best, achieving your goals, or just enjoying your day-to-day life? Get a crash course in neuroscience with this slimmed down guide-full of the actionable tools you need to face anxiety head...
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James Neville-Taylor has felt the suffocating darkness that can drive a person to take their own life.
After a failed suicide attempt in 2017, he realized his life would have amounted to nothing if it had ended then. So, he resolved to change it.
“From Beat Down to Back Up and Beyond” details James's journey of overcoming childhood abuse, addiction, and trauma to become a self-made millionaire against all the odds. When he saw the healing effect...
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"A Financial Times FT Critics' Book of the Year" "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Avram Alpert is a writer and teacher. He has worked at Princeton and Rutgers Universities, and is currently a research fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us about Living Well without Perfection. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times,...
15) Aging Wisely
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Growing older brings many thoughts of "I wish I knew that before" This book provides information to help us age as well as possible. Surprisingly, our feelings do not age. Pleasure and contentment interface loneliness, loss, fears and sorrow. At a time when life is thought easier, new problems and situations that are challenging arise. Four stages of aging include the initiation to aging at about fifty years of age, changes in life following retirement,...
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Powerful dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to move beyond shame and toward a place of peace and healing.
Shame is a devastating emotion, and one that's often difficult to work through. If you are hurting, you should know that you aren't alone. Shame may be the result of a past trauma, feelings of insecurity, or even guilt. Shame can also spiral out of control, make you feel trapped and hopeless, and lead to more serious mental health issues...
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BECOME A FIRE-BREATHER! Your personal success is literally in your hands!
RELEASE YOUR INNER DRAGON is about FOCUSING YOUR MIND
HOW DO YOU REALLY GET TUNED IN-TAPPED IN-TURNED ON? Become "obsessed with your goal!"
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will"-Vince Lambardi
"That which does not exist has not been sufficiently desired"-Confucius
"The secret of...
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Over the years, President Donald Trump has written many bestselling books, but he has also written shorter essays that encompass his philosophy about how to live life to the fullest, both personally and professionally. In these pieces, which have been personally selected by Trump for this book, he gives his special perspective in what amounts to an "informal education" about success in business and in life. With a foreword by Rich Dad, Poor Dad, author...
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Based on the long-running Slate advice column, a collection of the most eye-opening, illuminating, and provocative installments during Daniel M. Lavery's tenure as the titular Prudence.
Every week, millions of readers visit Slate for the irresistible "Dear Prudence," an advice column that promises a healthy dose of reality and good humor alongside its indispensable suggestions and life lessons. The ever-hilarious and insightful Danny Lavery was one...
20) You've Got This
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From a rising clinical psychologist and founder of Instagram's @myeasytherapy, an accessible, life-enhancing guide to reframing self-doubt and negative thought patterns to unlock your potential.
?We all experience self-doubt and anxiety at certain points throughout our lives, some of us more often and more intensely than others. Anxiety is an emotion, a chemical reaction, and a fundamental part of being human. It can help us to stay alert and focused,...