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Communication expert and popular speaker Quentin Schultze offers a practical, accessible, and inspiring guide to public speaking, showing readers how to serve their audiences with faith, skill, and virtue. This thoroughly rewritten and expanded edition has been tested and revised with input from Christian undergraduates and contains new chapters on timely topics, such as speaking for video, conducting group presentations, and engaging society civilly. A complete public speaking textbook for Christian universities, it includes helpful sidebars, tips, and appendixes.

Even those who love their jobs, enjoy parenting, and have good relationships also feel overwhelmed, burned-out, and pulled in many directions, as though the light of their dreams has dimmed. Becca Powers knows this acutely—and she wrote this book to help others find their way, as she did. She combines science, psychology, and metaphysics to offer a proven path toward joy and fulfillment, perfected through her lived experience and interactive training with corporate clients.

This updated edition with brand-new material reveals ingenious ways to solve problems using techniques from the greatest minds in history, like Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, and the brains at Google. Featuring new chapters on the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience and thought-process research, How to Think Like Einstein offers astonishing solutions to everyday challenges - such as business, breaking creative blocks, parenting, and improving relationships.

Drawing on deeply revealing conversations with powerful and dynamic women, input from researchers and relationship experts, and her own wealth of experience, Mika helps women pinpoint their individual definition of success. She advises her listeners to define the "professional value" that encompasses their worth in the workplace, and the "inner value" made up of their core beliefs and goals.

Sólo el miedo muere es una de las obras más importantes de este autor excepcional. A través de sus ocho ensayos nos transmite enseñanzas básicas en relación al modo en que dentro de nosotros se crea la infelicidad y qué hacer para apartarnos de ella. Sólo el miedo muere es un acertado llamamiento a redescubrir la libertad y la felicidad que nos asiste como seres humanos. Sobre todo, Barry Long desea que sepamos que es posible y práctico llevar una vida apacible.

It’s the middle of the summer before her fiftieth birthday and Alexandra is just barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, chafing and straining against the stresses and strictures of midlife as a mother and ex-wife, and piecing her way through a disastrous relationship with a younger woman that lurches and buckles, but never quite breaks. And then—suddenly and incomprehensibly—her son Fi, at 21 years old, dies in his sleep. What happens next is what Alexandra details in this book.

¿Está listo a creer que el mundo, y usted, es ya de la forma que tiene que ser y, por lo tanto, no tiene que vivir agobiado con preocupaciones, miedos, ni culpas? Cuando aceptamos eso, podemos relajarnos y comenzar a vivir en control de nosotros mismos y de nuestra realidad. El Dr. Schneider lleva 20 años explicando estos conceptos. El libro es fácil de entender y le ofrece una serie de lecciones para aprender a sanarse espiritualmente, descubrir su realidad interna.

After decades of studying and working with tens of thousands of patients, Amit Sood has found a potent and practical approach to well-being that is well-suited to 21st-century living. Based on Dr. Sood’s popular, clinically proven stress management program, The Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness offers a straightforward plan anyone can implement across 10 weeks. Combining groundbreaking insights from neuroscience and psychology, and wisdom from philosophy and spirituality, Dr. Sood reveals how to reduce everyday anxiety and find greater fulfillment in life.

Drawing on groundbreaking brain research, Dr. Sood helps you understand the brain’s two modes and how an imbalance between them produces unwanted stress.

Angela Santomero, creator of the Emmy Award-winning shows Blue’s Clues and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, has spent decades creating programming that makes kids feel seen and heard. That experience has shown her a simple truth: When we pay attention to the things kids do, we unlock the clues to an exceptional life. In Life Clues, Angela uses that truth to show us how to look beyond the ordinary and find the extraordinary.

In honest, confessional prose, Born on the Bayou - a roller-coaster rags-to-riches story - transports us to a pocket of the South where Lourd learns how to be a man from the two people he looks up to the most: his larger-than-life father, "Puffer", a prominent figure in the oil business; and his successful older brother, Bryan.

La Dra. Martín despliega aquí los aromas y colores del silencio, el cual constituye la puerta, a la vez que el meollo mismo, de la vivencia no-dual. Toda práctica tradicional tiene ineludiblemente un aspecto encaminado a llevar al practicante hasta el silencio. Es en ese momento, en que se detiene la actividad incesante del pensamiento, donde reside la oportunidad de contemplar directamente lo que es tal cual es y sin atributos: la Realidad en toda su pureza, libre de las distorsiones de la charla mental.

In Embody, Toni Bergins, the founder and creator of JourneyDance, an internationally renowned dance movement program, shares with listeners a powerful way to address trauma mindfully so people can confront it, heal, and grow to love themselves unconditionally, just as they are. Embody is a dynamic, conscious practice that can help people release what no longer serves them and shows them how to stop stuffing/numbing the pain and start feeling, stop over-thinking/limiting, and get moving!

Self-limiting beliefs plague us all eventually. In a noisy world that sets unreasonable expectations of how you’re supposed to live your life, it’s easy to second-guess yourself. Self-limiting beliefs come from everyday things like expectations from others, social media comparison, cultural norms, and past experiences and traumas. Whether you’re feeling like you’re not enough, struggling to let go of the past, or yearning simply to live life on your own terms (maybe even all of the above), Born Unbreakable is the roadmap to putting life’s challenges in the rearview mirror.

The Facebook Narcissist is the first book dedicated to exploring the relationship between narcissism and social media. Lena Derhally, a licensed psychotherapist certified in Imago therapy, delves into how social media enhances individual and cultural narcissism and how it may create or exacerbate toxic narcissistic tendencies in people who use it. Social media is here to stay, but with education and awareness on how it makes us and the world more narcissistic, we can change the narrative and focus on the ways in which social media can be positive, and even improve the world.

Using real-world examples, illustrations from their own lives, and a researchbased approach, dynamic daughter-mother duo Lauren Reitsema and Joneen Mackenzie guide you through familiar relationship situations. Their suggestions can be used with your partner, coworkers, children, extended family members, and friends. Drawing from their experience teaching thousands through The Center for Relationship Education, they introduce practical, easy-to-use strategies that will help you communicate more effectively and work through relationship challenges with confidence.

From acclaimed journalist Sophia A. Nelson, the best-selling author of The Woman Code, comes a poignant, powerful, and revealing memoir providing life lessons that emphasize the importance of self-care, self-love, and self-understanding that will lead to freedom, healing from the past, and a better future.

We have all struggled to take control of our futures or build the life of our dreams at some point. Thriving Life will show you how to take charge of your own life and transform the way you view yourself, your relationships, and your experiences.

Most of us struggle with feeling unworthy. We stumble into traps of self-doubt and inadequacy because we don’t know how to even begin to cultivate self-love, self-compassion, and self-care. This course is designed to help you begin to cultivate love in your heart - for yourself! If you find yourself stuck in a trance that causes you to see yourself as unworthy, not good enough, you can awaken from this thought process through the practice of mindfulness and self-compassion by learning to trust the goodness and purity of your own heart.

The evening of April 12, 1979, was clear and warm. Unaware of the danger lurking on the periphery of the French Quarter, Drs. Ronald Banks and John Hakola made a tragic decision - to walk the few blocks from the historic district to the Hyatt Regency. Inches from the safety of their hotel entrance, they were accosted by two young men - a scuffle ensued, a shot fired, Dr. Banks lay dead on the sidewalk. Fighting Time tells the story of what happened next - hours, days, weeks, and years after those horrible seconds.