Self Help books

Nearly twenty years ago, Conari Press published Random Acts of Kindness, and launched a simple movement--of people being kind to one another in their daily lives.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Random Acts of Kindness, the editors of Conari Press have compiled Random Acts of Kindness Then and Now, which includes the original book along with new material sourced from Facebook, Twitter, and various other social networks. It combines the best of 21st century crowdsourced wisdom with the best of 20th century social activism.

The inspiration for the kindness movement, Random Acts of Kindness is an antidote for a weary world. Its true stories, thoughtful quotations, and suggestions for generosity inspire readers to live more compassionately in this beautiful new edition.

This is the ideal gift book for all occasions/ an inspirational gift that inspires readers of all ages. It not only restores reader's faith in humanity, but encourages them to pass that faith along to their friends and neighbors.

The original Random Acts of Kindness was name a Best Bet for Educators in 2000 by USA Today.

#1 Bestseller in Religion & Spirituality, Death & Grief − A Compassionate Companion for Those Facing Loss

Guiding you through the grieving process. The losses we face impact us in different ways, but there are certain steps that naturally take us through the grieving process and ultimately lead to healing. In this grief recovery handbook by Molly Fumia, we are gently guided through these steps by words of profound wisdom and insight. Her writing speaks both to those who don’t know how to begin processing a loss and to those who have long been suffering under the weight of grief.

Contemplative meditations. The grieving process is a slow one, but it is only by going through each of the steps that recovery is achieved. With this in mind, Fumia provides meditative reflections for readers to sit with and focus on. By encouraging us to take the necessary time to contemplate our feelings, Fumia opens a space for us to face our grief and equips us to handle what comes with that challenge.

Find healing and hope. Healing after loss can seem impossible, but Fumia assures us that there is hope to be found. As an expert on grief, as well as one who has personally experienced devastating loss, Fumia provides a deeply thoughtful roadmap for the difficult journey we face after profound losses in our lives. In leading us through the stages of grief, from near disbelief and denial to acceptance and growth, this meditation book provides a helping hand to all those lost in grief.

Pick up Molly Fumia’s Safe Passage and discover…

• A reflective and thoughtful guide from an experienced and trusted author
• Chapters relating to every stage of the grieving process
• A source of healing and inspiration for those who feel recovery is not possible

Readers of books such as Healing After Loss, Bearing the Unbearable, and Grief Day by Day will find great comfort in Safe Passage: Words to Help the Grieving.

Change the Direction of Your Mind and Uncover Your True Potential

A spiritual self-help guide teaching you the 12 principles that will transform your way of thinking and lead you towards living a better life.

In Getting Unstuck, bestselling recovery writer Karen Casey invites you to work through the 12 principles in her Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow and to dig deep into your patterns of behavior, to determine where you’ve gotten stuck in your life. Learn where the boundaries should be drawn between yourself and others and to:

• Stop holding others emotional hostage
• Avoid turning caring into control
• Let loved ones find their own higher power
• Find their own free and peaceful life

A simple 12 step guide with an inspirational outcome. Presented in a workbook format, readers write down and explore their answers to specific questions both to discern what's causing them unhappiness or stress and to develop strategies for getting unstuck.

Deepen and broaden your understanding of the peace that comes from being responsible for yourself and letting others do the same. Casey's characteristic gentle prodding and profound insight helps you discover your wisdom and inner strength.

If you enjoyed books that helped you discover your self like Drop the Rock, Codependent No More, or You Are a Badass, then you’ll love Getting Unstuck.

An Inspirational Guide to the Sweet Things in Life

A perfect little gift for you or your loved ones that is filled with positive words of encouragement. Learn to see the beauty in simplicity and to celebrate each day with gratitude.

Honey is sweet, and sometimes we need a spoonful of it in our life. In this delightful, beautifully illustrated gift book, Mary Anne Radmacher shares the many ways we can add honey to our daily lives, celebrating the good things around us and in each other. This personal dose of sweetness reminds you to celebrate the little things in life with happiness and thankfulness.

Stop and capture the moment. Life can get overwhelming, and sometimes we forget to stop and breathe in the moment. It isn’t always easy to do, but Honey in Your Heart helps you do just that. An uplifting book both for your mental health and emotional wellbeing, Mary Anne Radmacher's inspirational guide includes:

• Original four-color lettering and art
• Motivational quotes
• Uplifting poetry
• Aphorisms about the good things in life

Honey in Your Heart connects you to your own rich and poignant daily experiences. Radmacher's lively original art and signature lettering make this book a keepsake and a sweet and perfect gift for any occasion.

If you enjoyed books like Good Days Start With Gratitude, Wreck This Journal, or Present, Not Perfect; then you’ll love Honey in Your Heart.

Celebrate the Human Experience by Giving Thanks at Mealtime. Try It!

Count your blessings. Today there is a deep hunger for connection with ourselves, with nature, and with the process of birth and death itself says life coach and author M. J. Ryan, creator of the New York Times best-selling Random Acts of Kindness series. What her book, A Grateful Heart, is offering from a wide variety of spiritual disciplines and secular perspectives, is a way of satisfying that hunger by setting aside time before we eat to acknowledge the blessings in our lives. When we give thanks, we take our place in the great wheel of life, recognizing our connection to one another and to all of creation.

Choose from 365 blessings and give thanks. A Grateful Heart is a tool to help readers reclaim and enrich the tradition of pausing before the evening meal to give thanks. Drawing from a range of religious and cultural practices, the 365 blessings in this book celebrate friendship, love, peace, reconciliation, the body, nature, joy, and appreciation of the moment. This illustrated feast for the mind includes quotations from Martin Luther King Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, Gandhi, Rumi, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Denise Levertov, the Bible, and the Tao Te Ching.

M. J. Ryan wrote A Grateful Heart to encourage families to share the experience of being part of something greater than themselves. With that in mind, the book includes 365 traditional and nontraditional blessings organized into four sections corresponding to the seasons.

Experience the blessings in A Grateful Heart in a variety of ways:

• Just open it and begin reading one-a-day in the order given
• Use the index to pick and choose topics of interest that day
• Open at random and read what is offered

If you have benefited from books such as Earth Prayers, M. J. Ryan’s Attitudes of Gratitude, Don Miguel Ruiz’s Prayers, June Cotner’s Graces, or Marcia M. Kelly’s 100 Graces; you and your family will love M. J. Ryan’s A Grateful Heart.

No Matter Where You Travel, Be Inspired to Live Your Life To The Very Best

Inspired by Dr. Seuss' Oh! The Places You’ll Go! Mina Parker encourages you to step into the wonderful pages of Going Places and discover the inspiration and beauty in the phases of your life.

Starting college, moving to a new city? Going Places is filled with humor, fun, and motivational quotes to encourage the first steps, and to remind you that the journey is in the destination. There is bravery in the unknown, and sometimes, not knowing is the beauty of adventure.

Inspirational quotes. Get inspiring quotes from Isadora Duncan, Ezra Pound, Dr. Seuss, Thomas Edison, and many others. With an abundance of wisdom for every situation, you’ll find the confidence to pursue the life you want to live and make your dreams a reality. Going Places offers:

• Lush and evocative photographs to inspire the adventurer in you
• Daily affirmations of courage across a variety of situations
• An intimate insight into yourself and your happiness

If you enjoyed books that awakened the adventurer in you like Whatever You Are Be a Good One, Positive Thinking, or Wonderful You!─ you’ll love Going Places.

Celebrate the Ultimate Gift of Friendship

A book full of inspirational quotes and words of encouragement to help you appreciate your wonderful circle of friends.

Friends build us up. They make us stronger, smarter, and better. In this delightful, beautifully illustrated gift book; writer, artist, and friend extraordinaire Mary Anne Radmacher shares the many ways we celebrate each other.

Life-changing words. Discover the special talent that Radmacher has to change lives with her words. Read this extraordinarily touching book which includes an abundance of:

• Motivational quotes
• Poetry
• Aphorisms about the importance of friendship

The perfect gift for friends or yourself. With original four-color lettering, art and design, Mary Anne offers a funny, sweet, and perfect book for any occasion. "When we have a circle of friends, we have more fun. We get more done, we feel and are stronger, and we really do celebrate the power of our 'us.'" Says Mary Anne Radmacher.

If you enjoyed books like The Art of Showing Up, How To Win Friends and Influence People, or Dare to Lead then you’ll want to read Mary Anne Radmacher's Us!

A Meditation-A-Day to Aid the Addiction 12-Step Recovery Process

Help in staying centered and finding inner peace. Karen Casey’s daily meditation book Peace a Day at a Time offers 365 reminders to help strengthen those traveling the path to recovery from addiction. In this powerful set of daily reminders, Karen draws from her bestselling Each Day a New Beginning, which has helped millions recovering from addiction.

Grow stronger every day with this classic meditation-a-day book. Karen Casey's daily meditation books have guided millions through their recovery and their daily lives, providing serenity and a happier more peaceful life. She has written eloquently about almost every facet of recovery and how to live a sober, balanced life by trying to live in the present, one day at a time. Peace a Day at a Time offers a meditation for every day of the year, opening with a quote and following with a brief essay and a takeaway message. This beautiful book is your powerful set of daily reminders on how to stay centered and find inner peace. Karen also provides a companion index with key theme words to reference any issue you may be struggling with.

In Peace a Day at a Time learn to:

• Pay attention and listening to your inner voice
• Avoid drama and to let go of blame
• Stop living from crisis to crisis
• Cope with fear, sorrow, anger, and pain
• Embrace change
• Practice kindness, joy, hope, and acceptance

If you have been aided by books such as The Language of Letting Go, The Road Back to You, or Let Go Now; then Peace a Day At a Time can help you heal.

This book brings together two seemingly disparate worldsthe world of hard, evidencebased science and the world of experientiallybased healing to provide a multipronged approach to self-healing ailments. The AtoZ format makes reference easy.

For each of over 100 heath issues, you'll find seven healing options that can help readers activate their inner healing resources ranging from food and dietary strategies to powerful meditation techniques and from timetested flower essences to ways of invoking "power animals." For some ailments, readers may need just one option, for others, two or three, and sometimes all seven approaches as they try to deal with difficult problems to achieve longterm relief.

It's what we do with the life's bummers, how we look at setbacks, what we make of the lemons that counts. And in this lighthearted, spirited book, Addie Johnson invites us to make a myriad of different things from those metaphorical lemons.

When you're stuck in a difficult time you can change your outlook and your circumstances, you can stay healthy and surround yourself with love, you can seek out and find the hidden treasure to all around you in everyday things, and, perhaps most important, you can figure out how to be grateful for anything and everything that comes your way. You never know, maybe all it will take is a little water, sugar and ice before you're feeling much better.

Beautiful Poems About Life

The important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. So begins artist and writer Mary Anne Radmacher's beautiful ode to promises—those we make, those we keep, those we renew, those we live up to. In this motivational book, Radmacher inspires us to discover the promises that make life sweet. To count our promises and our blessings. To delve into our hearts to discover the promises of our life's purpose.

It's not about what was—it's about what may be. Promises to Myself is one big self-love poem for the heart, soul, and mind. This beautiful rendition of handlettered, visual poetry is a book to keep near at hand and return to often.

Listen to the music of love and respect. Reflecting on the promises of your everyday life will deepen your satisfaction and heighten your clarity. In this inspirational poetry with a purpose, you will find illustrated thoughts on:

• Promises of Friendship, Family, and Love
• Promises of Possibility
• Promises to the World

Readers of visual poetry and inspirational poems about life like Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur; 2Fish; and Gmorning, Gnight! will be inspired by Mary Anne Radmacher's Promises to Myself.

House Blessings for Your Sacred Space

From the “Martha Stewart of inspired living” comes a collection of warm words and welcoming colors to make you feel right at home.

Haven, home, or house. Whether it’s a special place, a feeling, or a person—rest assured, there’s no place like home. What is a home? To author Mary Anne Radmacher, it is much more than an address. It is a refuge, a creative incubator, a celebration of story and joy. In May Your Walls Know Joy, find aphorisms and illustrations to redefine and reaffirm your idea of home.

Home is where the heart is. Made for those who have moved in and moved out, felt homesickness and homecoming, sighed “home sweet home” and yelled “welcome home,” May Your Walls Know Joy is for the reader who’s coming home. Gathered under one roof, Mary Anne combines caring aphorisms, blessings for the home, and charming four-color artwork.

If you’re looking for the perfect housewarming gift or house blessing, and enjoyed books like Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers, House Blessings, or Being Home, then you’ll love May Your Walls Know Joy.

Go on A Powerful Journey Through Daily Affirmations and Find the Healing You Deserve

Discover a new philosophical take on life where you’re taught that healing doesn’t happen when you’re asleep. It’s when you’re awake. David Kundtz, the author of Quiet Mind, embarks on an intimate journey of self-discovery through meditation.

Life is busy. Between relationships, work, and finding a quiet space for ourselves, it’s often easy to get lost in the hurriedness of our day-to-day activities. This personal guide brings balance back into your life by teaching you to be mindful and more “awake.”

Now is the time to open your eyes. As the Navajo proverb says, "When we are pretending to be asleep, no one can awaken us." We must stop the pretending and "awaken" ourselves. By taking a minute out of your day to meditate and reflect, you’ll activate your self-development and realign your spirit. Take this personal guidebook with you through all situations you encounter and learn to truly “awaken” your spiritual side. Awakened Mind offers:

• Simple yet powerful positive affirmations for each day
• Meditative lessons to help you connect with your inner self
• Reflections on life, gratitude, and spirituality

If you enjoyed transformative books like Wheels of Life, Light Is the New Black, or Practical Law of Attraction, then you’ll love Awakened Mind.

How to Conquer Creative Block and Ignite the Creative Process

Stoking the Creative Fires is a burn-out antidote for any creative process. Follow award-winning author and filmmaker, Phil Cousineau, as he overcomes creative block with tools that alleviate burnout and rekindle passion.

Practice makes progress. Contrary to popular belief, creativity isn’t just mentors and muses. Igniting the creative process requires focus and practice—determined practice that eventually sparks habits. In this warm and conversational exploration of creative inspiration, Cousineau crafts the ultimate self-discipline model for today’s creatives. In Stoking the Creative Fires, explore the different ways to ignite your inner fire, and the creative techniques that keep it lit.

Why is discipline important to the artist? With a multitude of stories, ideas, and exercises Stoking the Creative Fires inspires readers to live passionately and creatively, whether building a business, an art project, or a life. Drawn from historical and contemporary figures, artists, and from his own experience, find creative techniques, quotes, and handpicked images, to help explore questions like:

• Why is discipline important?
• Where do you want to be?
• How’s your fire?

If you enjoyed books like The Artist's Way, The War of Art, or Do the Work, then you’ll love Stoking the Creative Fires.