Self-Help : Self-Esteem

Beauty isn't skin deep -- it's soul deep. Women's wellness visionary Victoria Moran offers inspiring advice and practical suggestions that will make any woman look and feel more radiant. Each compact essay contains a tip you can put to use today to heighten your awareness of your own inner beauty, illustrating how true sparkle comes from a sense of wholeness. Women of all ages will relate to Victoria's reflections on her journey to a deeper understanding of inner radiance -- beauty that is soul deep. This sane, sensible approach to a strong self-image and loving self-care is firmly grounded in spiritual common sense, the marriage of body and soul. You start by lighting up your life -- and before you know it, you're lighting up the room. more...

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A groundbreaking new guide introducing a creative and positive approach for dealing with difficult people. Making Hostile Words Harmless creatively offers therapists and their clients a unique collection of effective exercises and bully-busting responses guaranteed to defuse difficult exchanges. Based on the martial art of Aikido?the "way of harmony"?as a model to teach the verbal arts of confirming, inquiring, understanding, and evoking, this unique book:.; Helps professionals and their clients learn empowering skills that will enable them to deal with negative verbiage and hurtful words.; Presents an easy-to-remember acronym, 'AAAH,' for neutralizing negativity: Acting-as-if, Asking questions, Active listening, and Hypnotic and humorous responses.; Offers sample dialogues, case vignettes, and other tools for using this approach. Infused with wisdom and a strong dose of humor, Making Hostile Words Harmless presents a unique combination of ancient philosophy and current psychology that offers antidotes to venomous communication with the goal of ending word warfare. more...

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An exploration of the darker side of maternal behavior drawn from scientific research, psychology, and the real-life experiences of adult daughters, Mean Mothers sheds light on one of the last cultural taboos: what happens when a woman doesn't or can't love her daughter. Mean Mothers reveals the multigenerational thread that often runs through these stories—many unloving mothers are the daughters of unloving or hypercritical women—and explores what happens to a daughter's s more...

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* Are you afraid you'll hurt the people you care about if you say NO to them?. * Can you set limits when employees neglect their responsibilities? How about with your boss?. * When friends ask you to do something you don't want to do, do you invent an elaborate excuse?. * Do you have a hard time saying NO to an invitation even when you're completely exhausted?. * Do you have trouble even practicing the sentence "No, Mom, I just can't make it home this holiday"?. If any of these scenarios sound familiar, keep reading - you need this book... No is a very simple word -- two letters, one syllable. Yet many women have a hard time saying it without feeling anxious or guilty. In My Answer Is NO...If That's Okay with You, award-winning psychiatrist and author Dr. Nanette Gartrell takes a fresh look at why even the most powerful, accomplished, and successful women find it difficult to say no and offers a revolutionary approach to setting limits without jeopardizing important relationships. Today women are bombarded with messages like "put yourself first" and "stop being a people-pleaser." But this sort of advice is useless to women who value the caring and generosity that prompt them to say yes in the first place. Through personal interviews with a diverse group of talented women, including CEOs, celebrities, physicians, and public officials, Dr. Gartrell shows that women's reluctance to say no stems from valuable traits that they should embrace, such as empathy, sensitivity, and thoughtfulness. With humor and wisdom, Dr. Gartrell reaffirms the psychological importance of compassion and feeling connected, which can often lead a woman to say yes rather than no in order to preserve a relationship or spare someone's feelings. Through entertaining anecdotes and insights from her years of clinical practice, Dr. Gartrell teaches women to honor their best instincts while still maintaining boundaries. My Answer Is NO...If Tha more...

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How often have you thought no but said yes? About as many times as you've thought fruit cup and ordered cheesecake?Sometimes diet and exercise alone just aren't enough! Many women put too much on their plates, both literally and figuratively. For those who always put others first, psychotherapist Karen R. Koenig explains the link between being too nice and eating too much and gives detailed advice on how to lose that extra baggage -- both emotional and physical -- by becoming more self-focused and assertive in every aspect of life. - Take the "How Nice Are You?" quiz to figure out if your Good Girl persona is sabotaging your weight-loss efforts. - Try the "Grab Your Thinking Cap" exercises to understand why you might be finding fulfillment inside the fridge instead of in other aspects of your life. - Use the "Nice Girl Recovery Tips" to learn practical strategies for saying no and putting yourself first...so you can finally lose the weight you want. Karen Koenig's on-the-page psychotherapy helps women attack the source of their food issues and find a different path to happiness -- one that doesn't pass through the kitchen and does lead to healthy habits for life. more...

Price: $13.99