Have you, as a parent, ever found yourself treating yourchildren in a way you would never tolerate from someone else? Theauthors of Emotionally Intelligent Parenting call for a new GoldenRule: Do unto your children as you would have other people do untoyour children. And most important, they show us how to live by it.Based upon extensive research, firsthand experience, and casestudies, Emotionally Intelligent Parenting breaks the mold oftraditional parenting books by taking into account the strong roleof emotions -- those of parents and children -- in psychologicaldevelopment. With this book, parents will learn how to communicatewith children on a deeper, more gratifying level and how to helpthem successfully navigate the intricacies of relating to others.The authors take the five basic principles of Daniel Goleman'sbest-seller, Emotional Intelligence, and explain how they can beapplied to successful parenting. To this end, the book offerssuggestions, stories, dialogues, activities, and a special secti

In Discovering Your Spirit Animal, shamanic healer Lucy Harmerpresents a practical approach to understanding spirit animals andapplying their power to specific situations in daily life. Writtenin clear, simple language and featuring compelling stories andanecdotes, the book explains what a spirit animal is, describes itspurpose, and shows that understanding the “medicine” of one’sspirit animal—assimilating its qualities and characteristics—allowsone to apply the lessons and messages they convey and use them forpersonal transformation. Lucy Harmer notes that particular animalsthat cross one’s path or appear repeatedly nearby probably want usto share in their medicine, their teaching, their energy, and theirspirit. Discovering Your Spirit Animal provides guidance for meeting andgetting to know one’s spirit animal through easy exercises andshamanic techniques. Lucy Harmer explains how to discover thestrengths, qualities, and skills one shares with one’s personalspirit animal, enablin

In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp wasstolen, Lisby Mayer’s familiar world of science and rationalthinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up anyleads, a friend suggested she call a dowser—a man who specializedin finding lost objects. With nothing to lose—and almost as ajoke—Dr. Mayer agreed. Within two days, and without leaving hisArkansas home, the dowser located the exact California streetcoordinates where the harp was found. Deeply shaken, yet driven to understand what had happened, Mayerbegan the fourteen-year journey of discovery that she recounts inthis mind-opening, brilliantly readable book. Her first surprise:the dozens of colleagues who’d been keeping similar experiencessecret for years, fearful of being labeled credulous orcrazy. Extraordinary Knowing is an attempt to break through the silenceimposed by fear and to explore what science has to say about theseand countless other “inexplicable” phenomena. From Sigmund Freud’swr

Are you worried about protecting your career in this toughmarket? Are you ready to get your dream job or that covetedpromotion? Are you eager to show the world everything you have to offer? If you answered yes, to any of those questions, this book is foryou! Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio see it all the time:women derailing their careers because they believe that if theyjust sit quietly and work hard, someone upstairs will recognizetheir contribution and deliver big rewards. However, intoday’s ultra-competitive workplace and tough economic climate ifyou want your dream job with your dream salary, and all theopportunities and fulfillment that come with it, you have to bearmed with the right strategies and big, bold moves. The Girls Guide to The Big Bold Moves For Career Success gives you everything you need to decide what you want out of yourwork life and create a plan to make it happen. Fromnegotiating a raise or a promotion to starting a new profession,finding your footing after a layoff, Fri

“There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”--William Shakespeare, Hamlet B fell twenty-five feet from his nest into the life ofChris Chester. The encounter was providential for both ofthem. B and Chester spent hours together playing games like bottle-capfetch or hide-and-seek. They learned “words” in each other’svocabularies. B developed a fetish for nostrils and a dislike ofthe color yellow. He grew anxious if Chester came home late fromwork. At bedtime he would rub his sleepy eyes on Chester’s thumband settle to sleep in his palm. Chester ended up turning part ofhis house into an aviary and adjusting his social life to meet B’sdemands. This was a small price to pay, though, for the trust andcomfort of a twenty-five-gram friend who brought joy and wonderback into his life.

Marc David eloquently describes the importance of addressingthe emotional and spiritual aspects of our lives in order to trulynourish ourselves. --Dean Ornish, M.D. Combining the principles ofnutritional awareness, personal growth, and body psychology, Nourishing Wisdom provides practical methods for redefiningthe role food plays in our lives. Line drawings.

Discover the power of miracles from the show that hastouched America’s heart If you’ve ever doubted, wished, or prayed for a miracle,here is the book to restore your faith and touch your soul. RichardThomas, host of PAX TV’s successful series It’s a Miracle ,has selected his favorite true stories of miracles that havehappened in everyday life. You might call them astonishingcoincidence, or answered prayers, or amazing acts ofheroism...they’re all around us--and right here in theseawe-inspiring pages. Here are stories to celebrate: a man whose nightmares end afterthey help him save a woman’s life . . . a woman whose beloved dogwas injured and lost during airline travel--and the psychic whobrought them together again . . . orphaned best friends, separatedin childhood, who rediscover each other years later when one walksinto a restaurant and sits down at the counter--next to herlong-lost friend. From angel encounters to extraordinary animal stories, from amazingrescues to remarkable medical re

By a well-known psychic and astrologer, a revealingpsychological/astrological exploration of the masks we wear and themany ways our rising signs affect our personalities.

Using the occasion of her eightieth-birthday party toreflect on the past, Doris Grumbach delivers an enchanting memoirof the writers, friends, and loves who have accompanied her in mindand body through an extraordinary life of letters.

She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earthpersonality as she campaigned for her husband, thenvice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions asshe valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosedonly days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds ofsimilarly grieving families when her own son, Wade, died tragicallyat age sixteen in 1996. Now she shares her experiences in SavingGraces, an incandescent memoir of Edwards’ trials, tragedies, andtriumphs, and of how various communities celebrated her joys andlent her steady strength and quiet hope in darker times. Edwards writes about growing up in a military family, where shelearned how to make friends easily in dozens of new schools andneighborhoods around the world and came to appreciate theunstinting help and comfort naval families shared. Edwards’reminiscences of her years as a mother focus on the support she andother parents offered one another, from everyday favors to theultimate test of her

Judith Blackstone's Subtle Self Work is a mind-body therapyintegrating teachings from dance, Alexander Technique,psychotherapy, Eastern philosophy, and meditation. A student ofboth Hindu and Buddhist traditions, Blackstone describes in TheSubtle Self her own physical and spiritual healing, as well as amethod one can work with to establish a closer connection betweenthe body and mind.

所有的Kliban人民-从逃离新泽西的Houdini到著名的成吉思汗和Sylvia Khan。 不要放下Crumb或Koren或Booth或Rodgriguez或Trudeau或其他任何人，但Kliban的 永不吃任何比您的头部和其他图画大的东西 是我多年来读过的*一一本令我大叫的书。我的意思是大腿拍打着地面滚动，无法捕捉到我的呼吸声。每次我回到它时，我都会发现一些新的细节。 -查尔斯 M 扬，滚石乐队。 All the Kliban people--from Houdini escaping New Jersey to the famed Genghis and Sylvia Khan. Not to put down Crumb or Koren or Booth or Rodgriguez or Trudeau or anybody else, but Kliban s Never Eat Anything Bigger than Your Head Other Drawings is the only book I ve read in years that made me howl. I mean thigh-slapping, roll-on-the-ground, can t-catch-my-breath howling. And every time I go back to it, I find some new detail to chuckle at. Charles M. Young, Rolling Stone.

Drawing on the philosophy of A Course in Miracles, Casarjiangives a new and surprising definition of forgiveness and providesoriginal exercises and meditations that acknowledge our hurt evenas they lead us beyond it. The book explores special casesinvolving family members, crime victims, self-forgiveness, andforgiveness of God.