You're A Good Mom (And Your Kids Aren't So Bad Either): 14 Secrets To Finding Happiness Between Super Mom And Slacker Mom

For 21st century mothers there seem to be just two choices: be a Super Mom or be a Slacker Mom. One's bad for you; one's bad for your kids. So what's a momma to do? In You're a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren't So Bad Either) the Internet's favorite momma Jen Singer tells all. Turns out you can raise perfectly good kids in that sweet spot between flash cards at breakfast and "donuts for dinner kids!" It's for every mom who's pressured to be perfect yet lost under the laundry wondering if she's a bad mom. It's for every mom to wants to enjoy-not endure-motherhood while still giving her kids what they truly need to succeed. Filled with "that happened to me too!" stories and wrapped in the wit that could only come from the creator of Please Take My Children to Work Day this book offers giggles and a pat on the back for today's moms whether they're deep in diapers or petrified by puberty. For 21st century mothers there seem to be just two choices: be a Super Mom or be a Slacker Mom. One's bad for you; one's bad for your kids. So what's a momma to do? eBook.

Confessions Of Super Mom

Strange things are happening to divorced mother-of-two Birdie Lee since the Horrible Swiffer Accident. She can sense danger (for example a carload of speeding teenagers without seatbelts) and spring into action with superhuman speed. She can find out what her daughter is doing on the Internet without even having to snoop. And she's got cleaning powers ordinary women can only dream of. Warm, witty, and full of heart, Confessions of Super Mom is the tale of a woman who dares to take a stand against everything from stubborn stains to smug exes to corporate CEOs-and winds up defeating evil in some very unexpected ways. eBook.

Release Your Worries: A guide to letting go of stress and anxiety

Written by experts RELEASE YOUR WORRIES is just the tool you need to help you take control of your anxieties. The authors understand that what works for one person may not work for another. This is why they have drawn on simple yet effective techniques from a range of the most up-to-date psychological approaches. Case studies illustrate key points while exercises are included to guide you on the path to nurturing mind body and spirit. With its clear down-to-earth approach RELEASE YOUR WORRIES will enable you to start making a positive difference in your life immediately. eBook.

Stress Can Really Get On Your Nerves!

STRESS Can Really Get on Your Nerves! Skipping school and kicking bricks are NOT good cures for stress. Screaming and yelling won't help, either. And forget about being captured by aliens. Stop being a worried wreck and start handling your stress. This book tells you how. Look inside to find: facts about stress (it's sneaky!), strange-but-true tales about stress, the world's worst stress relievers (things not to try and why), ways to be a Panic Mechanic and fix your own stress messes, and more. Plus you'll grin, smile, and laugh out loud at lots of jokes and cartoons. Because laughter is a great stress reliever. eBook.

Optimal Stress

Find the optimal level of stress and wellness for your life and career-the essential guide for women. If you're one of the many women juggling the issues and demands of self, home, family, health, and the workplace, stress is one of the most important emotional and physical problems you face every day. Stress is inevitable, but this book shows you how to embrace it and use it. The key lies in learning how to transform harmful reactions into healthy responses. Optimal Stress offers a new way to view, organize, and shape your world so that you have a healthy response to any stressor or demand in your life. Don't let stress overwhelm you-discover Optimal Stress and regain balance in your life. eBook.

Helping Children to Cope with Change, Stress and Anxiety

This book is full of creative ideas for use with children who have difficulty in coping with change, stress and normal levels of anxiety. Supported by a comprehensive but accessible theory section, the practical exercises are a simple and fun way of helping children to learn healthy stress management strategies. Deborah Plummer offers over 100 activities and games specifically aimed at helping children to build emotional resilience. eBook.

Overcoming Social Anxiety And Shyness

Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness is a self-help manual for this common problem which explains why it happens and sets out practical methods of resolving it. Everyone sometimes feels foolish embarrassed judged or criticised but this becomes a problem when it undermines their confidence and prevents them doing what they want to do. This easy-to-use guide full of real-life examples is for those who suffer from all degrees of social anxiety and shyness for their families and friends and for the professionals who help them: psychologists doctors and others. Explains the many forms and causes of social anxiety. Contains a complete self-help program and work sheets. Is based on clinically proven techniques of cognitive therapy. eBook.

Status Anxiety

Anyone who's ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor's Lexus had better read Alain de Botton's irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has less to do with material comfort than with love. To demonstrate his thesis, de Botton ranges through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins. Whether it's assessing the class-consciousness of Christianity or the convulsions of consumer capitalism, dueling or home-furnishing, Status Anxiety is infallibly entertaining. And when it examines the virtues of informed misanthropy, art appreciation, or walking a lobster on a leash, it is not only wise but helpful. eBook.

Find More Time: How To Get Things Done At Home, Organize Your Life, And Feel Great About It

You have a sink full of dishes to wash, three loads of laundry to do, seventeen bills to pay, thirty-six e-mails to answer, a big stack of novels on the nightstand you'd love to read, and zero minutes of free time. You can't add more hours to the day, but Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®, will help you make the most of the time you have and get things done. The Productivity Pro® helps you determine what you have under control and where you need to improve. Are you good at managing your bills but can't find time to exercise? Do you get your kids to all their activities but end up constantly behind on laundry? Laura Stack shows you how to improve every area of your life. Whether you need help on just a few things or feel like your life is totally out of control, Find More Time will help you organize your space, time, and information to reduce your stress and create and sustain a productive home environment, so you'll have more time to enjoy your life. eBook.

The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem

Completely revised and updated and with a new introduction The Courage to Be Yourself helps women enhance their self-esteem and tap into their core emotional strength. In this special edition Thoele continues her quest to provide the necessary tools to help women transform their common fears into the courage to express their unique authentic selves. By using concepts and examples in the pages of her book women become aware of their fears and learn to overcome them. Freed fom the shackles of fear they can then give themselves permission to own their excellence and live up to their highest potential.

Self-Esteem

Are you your own worst enemy? Are youd evastated by criticism? Do you have trouble your loved ones what you really need? If you said yes, you're a victim of low self-esteem. Learn to be your own best friend! This easy, step-by-step program can start changing that today! You can radically improve the way you feel about yourself and discover an attractive, confident, and happier you. Discover: simple exercises to focus on your good points how to combat your critical inner voice techniques to stop your" shoulds"--those damaging rules about how you "should" be effective ways to deal with criticism. eBook.

Everybody Tells Me to Be Myself but I Don't Know Who I Am: Building Your Self-Esteem

This new Faithgirlz! book helps girls ages eight to twelve develop God-centered self-esteem. Every girl is unique and beautiful but not every girl sees herself that way. This new addition to the Faithgirlz line helps girls face the challenges of being their true selves with fun activities interactive text and insightful tips. eBook.

Building Self-Confidence for Dummies

We could all use a little more confidence in our lives. With a push in the right direction, you can discover how to carry yourself confidently at work, at home, and even in relationships. This friendly guide shows you what confidence is and where it comes from, and offers practical tips and techniques to build on your skills, challenge your fears, and channel your energy into a more effective you. eBook.

Every Mother Is A Daughter: The Neverending Quest For Success, Inner Peace, And A Really Clean Kitchen (Recipes And Knitting Patterns Included)

Mothers and daughters go through so much-yet when was the last time a mother and daughter sat down collectively to write a book together about it all? Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be ideal collaborators as they examine their decades of motherhood, daughterhood, and the wonderful, if sometimes fraught, ways their lives have overlapped. Looking deep into the lives they have lived separately and together, Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story with honesty, humor, zest, and mutual admiration. A memoir in two voices, Every Mother Is a Daughter is a duet that resonates with the experiences that all mothers and daughters will recognize. eBook.

The Coaching Parent: Help Your Children Realise Their Potential By Becoming Their Personal Success Coach

Imagine you could afford the world's best coach for your child; watch, listen to and feel what it is like as your child blossoms, discovers hidden talents and abilities, and develops an ever-deepening level of self-confidence. Notice how the coach is working. Marvel at the wonderful rapport coach and child share how learning has become not only enjoyable but also easier and faster. eBook.

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles Of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success And Performance At Work

Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we'll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. This isn't just an empty mantra. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe.A must-read for everyone trying to excel in a world of increasing workloads, stress, and negativity. eBook.

Live Like A Hot Chick: How To Feel Sexy, Find Confidence, And Create Balance At Work And Play

You are a hot chick; Now start living like one! Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent are back to give you the savvy self-assurance you need to find the perfect balance between work and play. You are a Hot Chick (an empowered confident woman) who deserves every juicy bit of goodness that life has to offer. Live Like a Hot Chick will motivate you to go out there and get the absolute best that life has to offer which is exactly what a Hot Chick like you deserves. eBook.

Live Like Your Nail Color, Even if You Have Naked Nails: Discovering Sanity, Confidence, and Fun at the Tips of Your Fingers or Toes!

Are Your Nails Mild, Wild, or Naked? Find out what your nails reveal about you in Mary Foley"s latest book Live Like Your Nail Color, Even If You Have Naked Nail! Between the real-life nail color stories, light-hearted explanations, and smile-worthy illustrations, you won"t be able to wait to whip out your nail supplies or stop by a salon to live like your nail color. Better yet, you"ll want to multiply the fun by calling up your girlfriends and throwing your own Live Like Your Nail Color Party! eBook.

Confidence Plan: How To Build A Stronger You

Few other factors impact your life as much as your personal confidence. The Confidence Plan is a revolutionary guide that gives you a step-by-step process for building a more confident you. This smart and practical book addresses five essential paths to help you boost your self-confidence. Many people want to grow in confidence but they try to do it without a plan. And while most confidence books may make you temporarily feel good they fail to give you concrete ways to grow. The Confidence Plan changes that by offering a six-week practical program for taking your confidence to the next level. eBook.

The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success

What does it take to be an esteemed and respected leader? What does it take to get ahead? Is it A: your intelligence quotient? Or B: your emotional quotient? If you picked A, you are partly correct. Your intelligence quotient can be a predictor of things such as academic achievement. But it is fixed and unchangeable. The real key to personal and professional growth, and happiness, is your emotional quotient, which you can nurture and develop. The EQ Edge , by Steven J. Stein and Howard E. Book, shows you how the dynamic of emotional intelligence works. This book peels the onions on what EQ really is and teaches the reader to assess their own EQ and how to increase it. eBook.

Self-Confidence: The Remarkable Truth of Why a Small Change Can Make a Big Difference

A bestselling motivational author on life's X factor: confidence. Have you ever wondered how different your life would be if you increased your confidence by just 10%? Paul McGee has. And in his latest book, he explains what confidence is, where it comes from, why it's important, and how to develop it in yourself and others. Loaded with practical tips on bouncing back from a setback and feeling confident in challenging situations, this inspiring, upbeat book will help fill you with life's X factor. eBook.

What I Know Now About Success

Erma Bombeck once said, ''When I stand before God at the end of my life, I'd hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.'' How each woman defines success might be a personal matter, but there are certain gems of wisdom we can all share. eBook.

"Girl On Top is a fabulous read. It's chock full of actionable insights and laugh out loud advice for any woman (of any age) who is serious about getting to the top of her career. I highly recommend it." - Julie Cottineau vice president brand Virgin USA

Girl On Top: Your Guide To Turning Dating Rules Into Career Success

Nicole Williams is the tell-it-like-it-is career expert who you wish could fight your work battles for you. But with her ingenious approach-taking the tactics used to land a man and applying them to your career-you'll be able to handle any work situation and come out on top. eBook.

Handbook Of Depression, Second Edition

Bringing together the field's leading authorities, this acclaimed work is widely regarded as the standard reference on depression. The Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the epidemiology, course, and outcome of depressive disorders; issues in assessment and diagnosis; psychological and biological risk factors; effective approaches to prevention and treatment; and the nature of depression in specific populations. Each chapter offers a definitive statement of current theories, methods, and research findings, while also identifying key questions that remain unanswered. Reflecting significant developments in the field, the second edition is thoroughly updated and includes a number of new chapters and topics.

Unstuck: Your Guide To The Seven-Stage Journey Out Of Depression

Despite the billions spent on prescription anti-depressant drugs and psychotherapy, people everywhere continue to grapple with depression. James Gordon, one of the nation's most respected psychiatrists now offers a practical and effective way to get unstuck. Drawing on forty years of pioneering work, Unstuck is Gordon's seven-stage program for relief. The result is a remarkable guide that puts the power to change in the hands of those ready to say "no" to suffering and drugs and "yes" to hope and happiness. eBook.

Back In 5 Minutes ~ An Expression Of Depression

Edited by Lucie Barât and Fawn Neün, designed by Chris Colston, Back in 5 Minutes is a collection of prose poetry and lyrics by emerging writers dedicated to providing empathy and reducing stigma for those with depression, addiction and mental illness. Features work by actress Sadie Frost, poet Clint Catalyst and musician Alice Temple. eBook.

I Don't Want To Talk About It: Overcoming The Secret Legacy Of Male Depression

Each year millions of men and women fall prey to depression. While the disorder has been called "psychiatry's most treatable condition ", less than one in five get help. In recent years the silence surrounding depression in women has begun to lift, but only now with this powerful groundbreaking work does psychotherapist Terrence Real expose a virtual epidemic of the disorder in men. I Don't Want to Talk About It offers great wisdom, hope, and practical guidance to men and their families. This is one of the most important and straightforward books ever written about men. eBook.

Depression Answer Book: Professional Answers To More Than 275 Critical Questions About Medication Therapy Support And More

Depression affects 14.8 million American adults every year. How do I know if my sadness is actually depression? What conditions often coexist with depression? How can I help a family member or friend who is depressed? At a time when individuals are overwhelmed with confusing and often conflicting information and emotions, The Depression Answer Book explains confusing medical lingo and provides straightforward answers to pressing questions. eBook.

The Zen Path Through Depression

A compassionate and spiritual approach to rediscovering joy. Using easy-to-follow techniques and practical advice, Philip Martin shows you how to ease depression through the spiritual practice of Zen. His lessons, full of gentle guidance and sensitivity, are a product of his experiences in using Zen practices and wisdom to alleviate his own depression. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of depression and recommends a meditation or reflection. With these tools, coping with depression becomes a way to mend the spirit while enriching the soul. eBook.

The Grief Recovery Handbook 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition

Newly updated and expanded to commemorate its 20th anniversary, this classic resource helps people complete the grieving process and move toward recovery and happiness. Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others', the authors illustrate how it is possible to recover from grief and regain energy and spontaneity. Based on a proven program, The Grief Recovery Handbook offers grievers the specific actions needed to move beyond loss. eBook.

Navigating Teenage Depression: A guide for parents and professionals

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to identifying and supporting teenagers with depression. Experienced clinician and researcher Gordon Parker explains how to systematically identify different mood disorders and contributing factors. He and co-author Kerrie Eyers explain when clinical treatment is required and outline treatment options. They also discuss the particular challenges faced by adolescents and approaches to effective management. eBook.

On Grief And Grieving: Finding The Meaning Of Grief Through The Five Stages Of Loss

Shortly before her death in 2004, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her collaborator David Kessler completed the manuscript for this, her final book. On Grief and Grieving is a fitting completion to her work. Thirty-six years and sixteen books ago, Kübler-Ross's groundbreaking On Death and Dying changed the way we talk about the end of life. Now On Grief and Grieving will profoundly influence the way we experience the process of grief. On Grief and Grieving is Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's final legacy, one that brings her life's work profoundly full circle. eBook.

When Children Grieve: For adults to help children deal with death, divorce, pet loss, moving, and other losses

To watch a child grieve and not know what to do is a profoundly difficult experience for parents, teachers, and caregivers. Yet there are guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong, healthy response to loss. In When Children Grieve, the authors offer a cutting-edge volume to free children from the false idea of "not feeling bad" and to empower them with positive, effective methods of dealing with loss. No matter the reason, or degree of severity, if a child you love is grieving, the guidelines examined in this thoughtful book can make a difference. eBook.

Grief Girl

Imagine that you're going through one of the hardest parts of your life being a teenager when your parents are killed in a horrific car crash. Now you, your 17-year-old sister, and your three-year-old brother are on your own. Imagine what that would be like. Then read this book and find out. eBook.

Shoot The Damn Dog: A Memoir Of Depression

A successful magazine editor and prize-winning journalist, Sally Brampton launched Elle magazine in the UK in 1985. But behind the successful, glamorous career was a story that many of her friends and colleagues knew nothing about - her ongoing struggle with severe depression and alcoholism. Brampton's is a candid, tremendously honest telling of how she was finally able to "address the elephant in the room " and of a culture that sends the overriding message that people who suffer from depression are somehow responsible for their own illness. A searing raw memoir of depression that is ultimately uplifting and inspiring. eBook.

The Loss of a Pet

An award-winning book on coping with the loss of an animal companion Pet bereavement pioneer Dr. Wallace Sife presents a completely revised edition of his celebrated classic, The Loss of a Pet, offering solace to the millions of pet owners who must cope with the loss of a beloved animal. eBook.

The Nine Rooms Of Happiness: Loving Yourself Finding Your Purpose And Getting Over Life

In The Nine Rooms of Happiness, Lucy Danziger, editor in chief of Self magazine, and Catherine Birndorf use the metaphor of a house to release us from this phenomenon. In this house, the living room is where we deal with friendships and our social life; the bedroom is where we explore intimacy, romance, relationships, and sex; the bathroom is for issues relating to health and body image; the kitchen is for nourishment and the division of chores; and so on. eBook.

Women Conquering Depression

From the author of Women Who Think Too Much, a groundbreaking book that uncovers a hidden source of depression in women today. Depression is a common and debilitating problem among women, though it rarely occurs in a vaccum. This ground-breaking book, written in a vivid narrative style that captures the complexities of women's lives today, explains how the three core problems of the Toxic Triangle reinforce one another, wreaking havoc on women's emotional well-being, physical, health, relationships, and careers. eBook.