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Focusing is a gentle yet powerful self-awareness technique that lets you tap into your body's wisdom and make positive changes in your life. The Power of Focusing guides you in learning this vital technique of self-exploration and self-discovery.

Drawing on decades of experience, a psychotherapist and Zen practitioner makes the Abhidharma—the framework of Buddhist psychology—accessible to a general audience for the first time. The Abhidharma, one of the 3 major text collections of the original Buddhist canon, explores the critical...

When you are criticized or rejected, do you have a tendency to lash out or withdraw entirely? Both types of kneejerk reactions can have lasting and unintended consequences, affecting our friendships, careers, families, and romantic relationships. The truth is, overreacting hurts us as much as it hurts the people around us. You may see overreacting as an unchangeable part of your personality, but in reality, this tendency, like any other, can be unlearned.

“A detailed operating manual for healing pain and awakening embodied joy” through body-oriented Somatic Learning practices that incorporate mindfulness, breathing, and more (Rick Hanson, author of Buddha’s Brain) Awakening Somatic Intelligence offers a guide to Somatic Learning, an...

Do you find yourself lying awake at night, ruminating about the events of the day? Do you toss and turn, worrying about what you have to do in the morning or what you did earlier in the day? If so, you are not alone. In fact, insomnia is the most common sleep disorder faced by the general population today.

In this raw and captivating memoir, a woman whose mother had long been a high-functioning alcoholic shares the often overlooked effects of having an alcoholic parent as an adult, as well as the complicated and emotional journey of getting a parent help. Kaplan Grace’s mother was a great mom. She always held down a job and provided for her family. No one would have known that she was struggling with addiction. But when her mother’s closet alcoholism finally spiraled out of control, Kaplan began to understand how deeply addiction impacted her childhood.

Exploring Creation with Physical Science, 3rd Edition was created to give middle school students an understanding of the basic world that surrounds them each day of their lives and the forces in creation so that they can appreciate the real world relevance of scientific inquiry and the beauty of creation. We believe that students’ educations should prepare them for life, not just an academic year.

Tired of living under her father's iron thumb of control, Jessie Wilcox decides to do the unthinkable: run away to Montana as a mail-order bride. The only obstacle in her way: the 100 miles between her home in Williamsburg County and the train depot in Charleston. Joel Cunningham is in utter disbelief when the girl he once loved beyond reason is on his front porch asking him to disobey her father's wishes and drive her to Charleston. Logic and reason scream no; his lips, however, say yes.

Tizzy Donovan is having a run of bad luck. A bakery delivery gone wrong. A bar fight with an old classmate. And the discovery of a dead body in the cemetery. Texas Ranger Ridge Cooper's luck isn't much better. He's finally gotten his first solo case, and it's in the Podunk town of Brownsboro, Texas. But when he meets local beauty, Tizzy, he thinks his luck is about to change - until she becomes the prime suspect in his case!

After escaping the hidden ruins of Atlantis and surviving a helicopter crash off the Charleston coast, siblings Jet and Xavier are thrust into a reality that shatters every scientific law they once trusted. Their father’s encrypted notebook unveils a posthumous mission—one entangled in a sinister global syndicate and a cosmic war stretching across centuries.

Jet Heikki and her brother Xavier come from an abnormal upbringing. Jet, a female combat veteran and microbiologist, was born a sky baby, during mid-flight, to a Southern Baptist housewife and NSA operative father. The sudden passing of Jet’s parents and Xavier’s unknown whereabouts backpacking in Europe leave Jet on the brink of despair. On the day she is to return back to work after her father’s death, Jet finds his secret notebook with an encrypted message about his untimely death and one final mission—to breach an underground warehouse in Croatia and rescue trafficked children.

In Good Hands has enough twists and turns to make you wonder what to believe. Is this a tale about SIDS, a medical mystery? Or is it about murder? And if murder, what could be the motive? In the town of Irmo, where the Cutros had plenty of support, parents continued to drop off their children. They couldn’t fathom that these people might be dangerous. The Cutros had three children of their own.

In this fantasy-romance novella, we follow the lonely and miserable existence of Maria, a woman horribly disfigured and living in a traveling circus freak show. But when D'Arbignal stumbles into the circus, wounded and feverish, Maria sees a glimmer of hope. As D'Arbignal recovers and stays on at the circus, a friendship blooms between the two.

Shara is an impoverished seamstress who has fallen on desperate times. On the brink of starvation, she encounters a charming rogue and a menacing giant looking for a guide to the haunted village she had stumbled upon as a child. Shara recognizes this as her last chance: to break out of poverty, but also her last chance for adventure. She makes a desperate gamble and agrees to lead them.

Nothing is keeping Sierra Marsh in Moose Hollow once her sister's wedding is over. She has no job, no plans, no home, and no reason to stay. And despite what her sister said, Travis—the cowboy next door—might be the best reason of all to leave. But when lightning strikes his horse ranch, Sierra finds herself in the middle of a tempest once again. It's very last place she wants to be. But what if he is the kind of man who can hold back the storm?

The store Avery Maier purchased is more than a disaster, it's dangerous. When Liam Gunnerson offers to untangle its finances, she has to accept. He's everything that Avery is not, and he keeps digging into the dark corners of her life. So why does she turn to him again and again? And what right does she have to hope if her future was set in stone the night she lost her fiancé? Liam never wanted to come back to Moose Hollow. But now, even Montana may not be far enough away from the trouble that's following him.

Addiction is a black hole that threatens to engulf our entire society. In the US alone, over 100 million people are addicted, and according to the World Health Organization, over 3.3 million people die from alcohol related deaths alone each year. Billions of dollars spent on prevention and treatment have yet to slow the ever-rising rate of addiction-related deaths. The current models have failed.

Three brothers. Three cases. Three chances to love...or die. In the Steele Brothers trilogy you'll find danger, intrigue, mystery, and suspense as the brothers tackle cases that could very well kill them. Three stories, three romances, three brave men with hearts as big as they are handsome. From high society functions to stalkers to cold-blooded killers, these stories will keep the listener awake, listening to the end.

Coldly dismissed from her relationship and her home in Arizona, Poppy Marsh leaves her past behind and finds a remote ranch house for rent. All she wants to do is finish her thesis and pull the pieces of her broken life back together. After Colton Gunnerson's search for rodeo fame crashes to the ground, saving his family ranch is the only future he has left. If he fails, he could lose more than his home and his family. He could lose the only woman he's ever cared for.

Can you find it in your heart to forgive? Despite how challenging finding forgiveness may seem, according to Nella Coiro, the answer is "yes"! Everyone has the power to forgive past offenses, even the most serious ones. Using a combination of research, interviews, established therapeutic models, and her own personal experience, Nella will take you through the steps needed to forgive those who have offended you and move on with your life without the burden of resentment holding you back.