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"This is the key to health. We can live for up to three weeks without food but only three days without water. I will discuss its important benefits and some helpful tips on how to easily incorporate more water into your day." (Brenda Jaeck)

"Everyone's favorite subject, I know. This is an important topic to shed some light on. I will discuss the many ramifications, both short and long term, of not eliminating regularly. I will paint an interesting picture of some of the causes and offer some solutions. All the while, I keep it light and even a little entertaining." (Brenda Jaeck)

The average person gains between five and 10 pounds from Thanksgiving to New Year. How can you change that? Brenda Jaeck discusses how to prepare before going to an event, how to navigate the choices, and how to recognize triggers. This year CAN be different!

How can we clean the body from the inside out? Creating a cleansing diet or conducting a fast is a great way to do this. Learn the difference between a cleanse and a fast, and how to prepare for each, as well as how to transition back to "regular" eating.

Brenda Jaeck discusses the benefits of meditation, its powerful qualities, and how it can help in so many areas of your life. Some misconceptions about meditation are also discussed. In a relaxing, guided meditation you will see for yourself. You will leave the meditation both relaxed and energized.

Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story has toured to the Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and other writers. Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short stories, recorded live at the Mount, and featuring acclaimed actresses Kathleen Chalfant, Christina Pickles, Maria Tucci, and Brenda Wehle.

Today, Americans eat processed foods from the supermarket, or foods from fast food restaurants we drive by on the way home. We used to eat a fiber-rich diet fresh from the fields (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes), we now eat food from a box; that is, processed food that has processed the fiber right out of our diets. The result: an epidemic of obesity that causes most of the common diseases of our time.

Mab Segrest explores her singular experience as a white lesbian organizing against a virulent Far Right movement in North Carolina in this best-selling political memoir.

Within all of us is a disowned self, a part we are hiding, that has not yet fully come to life. Often that part has the power to make your life full. The Courage to Be Who You Are describes why you reject parts of yourself and the effect this has on your life. It also shows how to reconnect with these parts, nourish them, and how to live a life that is happy and complete.

When we give ourselves permission to stop racing around and to be aware of the current moment, our entire lives can change. Becoming Mindful will show you a process which will introduce mindfulness, and put you on the road to improving the quality of your life, health, relationships, and life.

Parenting can sometimes seem difficult, filled with power struggles day by day. Zen Parenting can help offer a new approach, and help make parenting fun. As you alter your perspective and come to learn that your children are your teachers, it will become easier to create a safe, open space for both you and your children to grow. You learn how to honor and respect your children’s unique journey in life, as well as your own.

We spend most of our lives searching for and accumulating what we think will make us happy, content, and safe. Yet, the more we gain, the more we want. Why can’t we sate our inner hunger? It is partly because we live life unaware of the endless gifts we are constantly receiving, unaware of how to appreciate them. We live with a sense of inner greed and poverty, rather than with gratitude. True Wealth will offer a path towards opening your eyes and helping you experience a true sense of fulfillment and joy.

What is Zen, and what does it have to do with having happy, life-giving relationships? How Zen Are You in Love? will teach you the zen approach to joyous, true relationships. It will help you look inward and outward, removing the veil and showing you how to attract the perfect partner for you.

Losing a loved one can be one of the most difficult times of life. Some may find it impossible to move on. Living with Loss shows you how to find healing. You will learn what is needed to complete the relationship, forgive, find peace, and honor all you have gained. You will learn that this can be a time of reflection, and of tremendous growth. And ultimately, you will learn that while you will never forget them, you can also move on.

We often focus on habits that enable us to be effective, productive, to earn wealth. But what about our spiritual life? Shouldn’t this be fostered with as much discipline as every other area of our lives? Daily Habits of Spiritual Renewal encourages a new way to approach life: By taking a little while each day to carve out time and space, you can make room for renewal, inspiration, compassion, and connection.

Zen and Your Life offers a brand new look at how to bring happiness and calm into your life. Zen practice explores the unexpected causes for upset, and how to remove it from your life, and this book will offer you a prescription for true medicine. By helping you return to your natural self, you will find the healing and happiness you most need.

Even though it is painful, many are unconsciously addicted to the fighting that occurs in their relationship. The fighting creates a false sense of closeness and excitement and makes us feel as if the other person really cares. Some use the fighting to test the love of their partner. For others, who are afraid of closeness, the fighting keeps real intimacy away. Without a good fight, a relationship can feel dull. But fighting ultimately leads to hurt, pain, and distance. Stop the Fighting in Your Relationship will show you how to take new steps towards closeness.

In this "bittersweet and utterly beguiling novel" (Publishers Weekly) each of the MacKenzie family tells their stories in nine, wildly opposed points of view. Starting at a family reunion, three generations of the MacKenzies face off against each other. They discover that terrorism is as intimate as one's own family. Selected as a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year", Duck and Cover is a "wicked black comedy" of a family who fights their wars "on the home front."

The search for love can feel endless. We tend to create mental lists of what we want; when someone meets our demands and expectations, it works for a while. Then, when things change or wear out, it’s on to the next. Letting Love Find You offers a totally different way. On this new path, you will discover how to cultivate and find love that is fresh, alive, and enduring. You will learn how love brings exactly what is needed naturally by itself. In this book we learn how to allow for this type of love, and how we ourselves can embody love in the ways in which we live and exist.

Author Brenda James guides you to take a deep but safe dive inward. Chapter by chapter, through a method of introspection, you are encouraged to take simple action steps and embrace tools to help illuminate all the reasons why you should believe in yourself as a leader. Embrace the process and let its wisdom equip you with one of the key fundamentals of leadership—self-belief. Come on an inspiring journey that will fill your heart with possibility. Immediately—and forever.