Little Indulgences

Cynthia MacGregor has won the hearts of thousands of parents with her parenting classics. In The Naptime Book, she shares sweet, simple, and effective suggestions to help children get their allimportant sleep during the day. Current medical thinking indicates that small children should get at least nine hours of sleep at night and a nap during the day. Alarming statistics show that sleep deprivation can lead to countless health, cognition, and social problems. Cynthia MacGregor can help transform naptime into a treat both children and their caregivers look forward to every afternoon, leading to happier, healthier children and more joyful families.

The Naptime Book is full of creative, playful ways to help children relax. Plus the hundreds of storytime activities, quiet games, riddles, and rhymes in this little book will help develop language and number skills. And what book on naps would be complete without a chapter called "Time Out for Mom, Too " Adults who care for small children all day need to take time for themselves. MacGregor suggests ways to use this time to your own best advantage.

A sweet little book, with illustrations throughout, The Naptime Book is perfect for busy parents, tired teachers, and perplexed daycare professionals.

The Naptime Book offers creative solutions to the challenge of naptime as well as a unique opportunity to foster closer relationships with young children. It's a book bound to become dogeared with repeated use.

Filled with suggestions for activities, gifts and projects, this book contains over 500 ways to show your loved ones how much you care. It is designed to be a resource for thoughtful gift-giving and loving actions that readers can take every day to express their love for friends, family and significant others.

In Night-Night, author Cynthia MacGregor tackles one of the biggest challenges of parenthood--tucking a child into bed. Every parent has experienced the countless excuses and delays of a child resisting bedtime, from needing another drink of water to fearing monsters lurking in the dark. In Night-Night, MacGregor presents a fun assortment of creative solutions to transform bedtime from a battle into a special bonding experience for parents and their children.
Beautifully illustrated and filled with suggestions for storytime activities, quiet games, and playful songs and rhymes, Night-Night will turn bedtime into a special part of the day. There are activities to help develop language and number skills and activities that will inspire cognitive and creative thinking, as well as suggestions on how to help children relax. Instead of reading a book, MacGregor suggests telling personal stories tailored to the child's individuality, such as tales about when the child was little or adventures the parent had as a child. She also proposes activities to make bedtime more exciting, such as playing hokey-pokey to get under the covers and making up rhymes to accompany the actions of snuggling into bed.

Embrace Your Divine Feminine Energy

Create new rituals and self-care habits with this oracle deck. These sacred inspirational cards inspired by land-based practises of the Métis people serve as a daily mental healer.

Re-energize and connect to the Métis culture. These oracle cards are the perfect way to help you slow down and awaken to the energy around and inside you. Andrea Menard writes beautifully while invoking connections to the land and indigenous teachings; use these cards as friendly reminders to dive into your divine feminine energy. Andrea Menard is a Métis woman whose Michif ancestry originates from St. Laurent, Manitoba, Canada. She is deeply influenced by Sacred Elements and guided by the teachings of her ancestral Grandmothers.

Enjoy colorful and beautifully layered art. These unique images bring emotional healing and a deep awakening to divine feminine energy. Sacred women, men, and gender-fluid individuals will find wisdom on every card. Enjoy 52 cards with beautiful images of original artwork by Métis painter, Leah Marie Dorion. Leah is an interdisciplinary Metis artist raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, who views her Metis heritage as a unique bridge connecting all people to a greater knowledge.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Ancient wisdom and teachings from Andrea Menard set to transform you
• Beautifully layered art from Leah Marie Dorion on a deck of cards set to awaken you
• A handbook guide set to spark your divine feminine energy

If you need a gift for the sacred woman in your life or if you liked The Sacred Forest Oracle, The Starseed Oracle, or Sacred Destiny Oracle, you’ll love Seeds of the Sacred Feminine.

Heal Trauma and Recover from PTSD

“Rosenthal encourages others with [PTSD] to use the lessons and tools that she says turned her life around. … This is a cheerleading, you-can-do-it kind of book, with step-by-step lifestyle modifications interspersed.”
—Nancy Szokan, The Washington Post

Create a new life of PTSD recovery and healing. Put together your own personal trauma treatment toolbox!

Find out what PTSD recovery is really like. Following a critical illness, Michele Rosenthal struggled with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for twenty-five years. Now, a post-trauma coach and award-winning writer, Rosenthal shares the tools that helped her heal from PTSD symptoms. Previously published as Heal your PTSD by the Conari Press back in 2015, this book is packed with insightful tips on how to not let PTSD symptoms control your life. 

Heal trauma your own way. We know that trauma and recovery from hard things isn’t easy but your path to recovery is uniquely worth it! With Your Brain is a Safe Space, you can take back control and push forward towards PTSD recovery and try new trauma release exercises that build and create a safe space to receive the inner healing that you need to thrive. 

Inside, learn how to heal from trauma by:

• Connecting to your own inner power and authentic self
• Applying mental healing measures like mindfulness and meditation
• Overcoming PTSD symptoms and recovery obstacles with unique tips and strategies

If post-traumatic growth guidebooks like The Body Keeps the Score, The Complex PTSD Workbook, or Keep Pain in the Past helped you heal trauma, then Your Brain is a Safe Space is your next read.

Be the Captain of Your Change Journey

#1 New Release in Business Mentoring & Coaching, Decision-Making & Problem Solving

While every change is unique, there is a predictable pattern to change. Understand that pattern, and turn change into opportunity!

Change is inevitable. When unexpected or unwanted change disrupts well-established routines, personally and professionally, it’s natural to wonder, “Who rocked the boat?” Unfortunately, that is exactly the wrong question to ask! Discover from the change experts at FranklinCovey how successful leaders engage people in change and turn change into opportunity.

FranklinCovey is the world leader in helping organizations achieve results that require collective behavior change. They have built a Change Model that demystifies the uncertainty of change and creates the opportunity to realize greater results, personal growth, and even innovation.

A simple but profound business parable. Change: How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity begins with a business parable that invites leaders to reflect on their own change journey and discover how their “crew” falls into a set of predicable patterns and reactions. Whatever the size or scope of the change you’re facing, by following the story’s Change Model you can confidently lead and chart a way forward knowing what will come next.

Learn from “been there done that” change experts. In their book, authors Curtis Bateman, Marché Pleshette, Andy Cindrich, and Christi Phillips guide you and your organization through change, sharing their decades of experience with concrete examples.

Inside find:

• Step-by-step instructions on how to engage teams through the change process
• How the Change Model makes change actionable and predictable
• How to minimize the disruption of change
• Where most change initiatives fail and how to adapt

If you have read Who Moved My Cheese, Switch, Our Iceberg is Melting, or Managing Transitions, you will love this book.