Self Help books

An All-Natural, Holistic Approach to Energy Boosting

Say no to another cup of coffee and YES to these wellness tips from authors and health gurus Sondra Kornblatt and Susannah Seton. Whether you’re looking for a midday pick-me-up or an extra boost first thing in the morning, their tips can help.

The alternative to caffeine. Coffee and energy drinks are not your only options when it comes to boosting your energy—and they’re certainly not your healthiest options. This book contains all the information you need to stay energized all day long, without relying on caffeine. Authors Kornblatt and Seton have researched and compiled 365 quick and easy tips and tricks that anyone can use to find and sustain the energy they need to get through the day.

Embrace a new kind of life. Not only do these health tips serve as energy boosters, but they can also help you create a calmer, more positive life. By helping you track your natural energy cycles, get organized, and sleep better, this book promises to change your life in a big way. When you’re feeling depleted and tired, you’re not your best healthy and happy self. In adopting these habits, you bring yourself one step closer to creating the life you want and deserve.

Here’s a look at some of the pick-me-ups and tips they offer:

• Juices, nuts and seeds to keep you energized all day
• Deep breathing techniques
• Tips for getting more sleep, and more!

Readers of books like Your Simplest Life, A Year of Positive Thinking, Better than Before, or Keep Going will love Everyday Energy Boosters.

A Science-Based, Whole-Body Approach to Feeling Good

#1 Bestseller in Holistic Alternative Medicine

Healing depression without medication. Millions of people suffer debilitating depression. For many people who suffer from depression and anxiety, prescription drugs have either not been effective or have produced intolerable side effects. Now, New York naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist Peter Bongiorno offers a proven drug-free approach for healing depression in this self-help book.

The mind is part of the body. In his depression book How Come They're Happy and I'm Not? Dr. Bongiorno explains that depression and chronic low moods often have roots in physical ailments: inflammation, digestive problems, poor nutrient absorption, disease. Depression can also be brought on by spiritual concerns, life events, or simply insufficient resources in dealing with day-to-day stress.

You need a happiness plan that's made for you—all of you. Bongiorno's integrative, natural approach to psychology and healing, which he has used successfully with his own patients, features a personalized approach that includes:

• Working with your doctor to help identify underlying causes of depression with blood tests and recommendations for dietary changes
• Botanical medicines, yoga, massage, and acupuncture points
• A treatment plan based on your particular symptoms and circumstances

Readers of depression self-help and happiness books like The Upward Spiral, The Depression Cure, Reasons to Stay Alive, or Habits of a Happy Brain will find life-changing guidance in How Come They’re Happy and I’m Not?

A How-To Guide to Accessing Your True Self and Living Abundantly

A book based on the teachings of Jesus and Buddha. Learn how to create an abundant life by focusing your attention on your connection with the vibrant presence of the divine within.

From the bestselling author of Writing Down Your Soul. Lotus and the Lily offers a new 30-day program for accessing your true creativity, breakthrough thinking, and divine guidance. Janet Conner continues her unique method of deep soul writing by showing readers how to exit their conscious minds, get in touch with their authentic selves, and activate the voice of wisdom within.

For those seeking the riches that lie beyond the popular explanation of the Law of Attraction, Lotus and the Lily cracks the abundance code by linking the wisdom of the inner voice with the surprising parallel teachings of Jesus and Buddha. In a profound yet simple program, Conner sheds radical new light on how to:

• Awaken your inner shaman
• Discover the power of naming your past and your future
• Experience the generative power of your own voice

Each day is reflective of you. Lotus and the Lily is a book with an array of prompts for reading, reflection, writing, exploring, and nourishing one's soul. Each week Janet Conner takes you through a program of rich exploration and redirects you from asking for things, to creating the receptive conditions that nourish a bountiful life.

If you learned from books like The Gifts of Imperfection, The Untethered Soul, or The Power of Now, then you’ll want to read Lotus and the Lily.

An Alternative Approach to Addressing ADD

Despite the millions of people taking medication for attention deficit disorders, there remains no objective method of diagnosis for ADHD. In The ADD Myth, Martha Burge proposes a different understanding and solution for those diagnosed.

ADD isn’t what we think it is. Author and ADHD coach Martha Burge introduces a different way of looking at the disorder often associated with boredom and impulsivity in young people. She argues that what is commonly understood as ADHD is actually five intense personality traits: sensual, psychomotor, intellectual, creative, and emotional. Once the supposed ADD symptoms are properly understood for what they are, people with these intense personality traits can develop them into gifts.

Finding an alternative solution. After having two sons diagnosed with ADHD, and witnessing their serious reaction to drug treatments, Martha began a search for a different approach and a more natural treatment for ADHD. By looking at all personalities as part of the neurodiversity spectrum, she shows us how we can see where those with “intense” personality traits fit on the spectrum. Once we understand that, we are better able to help people embrace their traits and develop one’s intense nature rather than try to stifle it.

This book will change the way you look at ADD for the better—open it up and learn more about:

• The five intense personality traits and how they apply to individuals diagnosed with ADHD
• Why the medical profession should seek alternative explanations for ADHD
• Stories, practical steps, and daily practices for developing one's intense nature with the least amount of suffering

Readers of books such as Driven to Distraction, Healing ADD, Delivered from Distraction, or ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens will enjoy The ADD Myth.

Restore Your Relationship, Enhance Your Marriage

New York Times Bestseller
#1 Bestseller in Marriage & Family, Family Relationships, and Divorce

Cultivate effective communication and a lasting relationship. Communication Miracles for Couples by psychotherapist, popular professional speaker, and bestselling author Jonathan Robinson has helped hundreds of thousands of couples repair their relationships and their marriages. Continuously in print since 1997, Communication Miracles for Couples has sold over 100,000 copies. Whether you are looking to enhance your relationship or want to resolve existing conflict, successful techniques taught by Jonathan Robinson can help you develop effective communication and a lasting relationship with a spouse or partner.

Honeymoon gift, anniversary gift, or just a gift for him or her. Create lasting harmony and keep love alive with Jonathan Robinson's powerful and effective methods for relationship communication. He has reached over 250 million people around the world with his practical methods, and his work has been translated into 47 languages. Learn how to enhance your relationship by learning to communicate with less blame and more understanding.

Find a deeper happiness in your relationship:

• Feel totally loved
• Never argue again
• Have your partner really hear you
• Repair broken trust

If you have read books such as 4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work─Anywhere; The 5 Love Languages; Mindful Relationship Habits; Communication in Marriage; or Couple Skills; you will love what Jonathan Robinson’s Communication Miracles for Couples does for your relationship.

#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.

No Cow Left Behind

From investigative journalist and bestselling author John Robbins comes a collection of essays on food politics, sustainability, and revolution.

Holy cow. With words like food additives, GMOs, and Big Food buzzing around, it’s getting harder to choose what to eat. And even the most well-informed eaters have a thing or two to learn about real food and the food system. Gathering and updating articles from his Huffington Post column, Robbins’s No Happy Cows features recent observations along with never before published material on today’s food revolution.

Moo-ve over, food corporations. You have to know food to eat food, but what happens when food companies leave some facts out? With commentaries on what we should and shouldn’t eat (and why), Robbins brings us to the frontlines of the food revolution. From his undercover investigations of feedlots and slaughterhouses, to the slave trade behind chocolate and coffee, he gives readers a look into the importance of working for a more compassionate and environmentally responsible world.

Inside read more about:

• Greed and salmonella
• Soy and Alzheimer's
• And much more!

If you enjoyed books by Marion Nestle or reads like How Not to Die, Feeding You Lies or The Way We Eat Now; then you’ll want to learn more by reading No Happy Cows.

You Don’t Need Food to Self-Soothe

According to experts, 75 percent of overeating is emotional eating. For readers wondering why they are eating so much, comes a 21-day path to recovery.

Don’t feed your feelings. We turn to food for comfort and rely on soul food to cope with everyday stress, anxiety, and everything in between. In Stop Eating Your Heart Out, professional clinical counselor Meryl Hershey Beck teaches us that contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to eat your heart out.

Control your cravings. Different types of eating disorders are marked by cycles of compulsive eating. Rather than focus on weight loss, Beck teaches us to recognize emotional eating and out of control comfort eating. With humorous anecdotes, learned wisdom, and informational insights she teaches readers to control cravings and live in recovery.

Compulsive eating is conquerable. Consider Stop Eating Your Heart Out to be brain food. Disclosing her very personal struggle with food and overcoming binge eating Beck doesn’t just use the Twelve-Step Recovery approach. She offers a multitude of effective self-help tools and assignments like:

• Inner Child work
• Creative visualizations and journaling
• Energy psychology techniques

If you want to learn how to stop overeating, and enjoyed books like Never Binge Again, Overcoming Binge Eating, or When Food Is Comfort, then you’ll love Stop Eating Your Heart Out.

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.

Women’s Guide for Keeping a Sharp Mind

The female brain. The differences between men and women go well beyond the surface, and the brain is no exception to this. Scientists and researchers are continually learning about the phenomenon of women’s brains. Health and science writer Sondra Kornblatt brings to readers the latest scientific studies about how women’s brains and brain memory work.

The importance of caring for your mind. Our brains are affected and shaped by a multitude of things, from our environment to the foods we eat to hormones. Because of this, it is imperative that women are conscious of how their daily habits are affecting them. Caring for our minds is important at all stages of our lives, but it becomes especially important as we age.

Fitness in all areas of your life. With experience in counseling, hypnosis, coaching, yoga, neuro-linguistic programming and more, Kornblatt is an experienced and knowledgeable source for learning and growing. By recognizing the diversity of forces that influence the female brain, Kornblatt enables readers to be proactive in caring for their brain. Whether it’s what we eat to how we use our computer, brain fitness practices can be incorporated into every aspect of our lives.

Read Brain Fitness for Women: Keeping Your Head Clear and Your Mind Sharp at Any Age by Sondra Kornblatt and discover…

• Tips and fun facts that will keep women entertained and their brains sharp
• Engaging and informative chapters such as “The Electronics on the Brain: One Second, I Just Need to See This Text” and “The Aging Brain: Did I Read This Already?”
• Advice from an author of four health books, certified in neuro-linguistic programming

Readers of books such as 2 Weeks to a Younger Brain,The Female Brain, or Keep Your Brain Alive will love Sondra Kornblatt’s Brain Fitness for Women.

Who Better to Love You Than You?

It’s time to stop feeling like we’re not enough. We’re either too fat or too thin. We're not good enough, pretty enough, popular enough, powerful enough, bold enough, brave enough, interesting enough... The solution? More self-love.

Know yourself. Bestselling author and psychotherapist, Daphne Rose Kingma, offers a four-step plan to reclaim and love ourselves. Complete with stories and examples to drown out the inner critic, When You Think You’re Not Enough sets out to remind us that we’re more than enough.

Be nice to yourself. If we’re being honest, we don’t take ourselves much into consideration. Acceptance, appreciation, respect, compassion… we reserve these virtues for others. Daphne reminds us that we need these to feel good too. It is only after we foster these in ourselves that we can apply it to a greater purpose.

Inside, she’ll encourage you to love who you are, and look at and let go of:

• Self-deprecating behaviors and beliefs
• Old patterns and pressures
• Imaginary ideals and standards

If you’re ready to start loving yourself, and enjoyed books like, I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't), More Than Enough, or You Are Enough, then you’ll love When You Think You're Not Enough.

Secrets of How Highly Creative Women Succeed

Creativity was identified in a survey of 1,500 CEO’s to be the key leadership skill of the 21st century.

Here is your ticket to becoming the highly creative woman success story you long to be. From the popular creative coach Gail McMeekin, founder of Creative Success LLC with clients all over the world, and author of this bestselling The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, comes advice about the specific challenges in life that creative women face today. This book has helped hundreds of thousands of women break through creative blocks to realize their dreams of great success.

Become CEO of your own life and start designing it. The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women explores the profiles of 45 of today's most successful women, combining their insights with Gail’s own proven success strategies to help you transcend your "blocks" and succeed. Each chapter offers the 12 secrets, keys, and challenges to help women work through their creative process. Together they offer an inspirational roadmap, providing all the tools women need to uncover their own authenticity and realize their creative dreams.

Uncover hundreds of examples of how creative women entrepreneurs and business leaders have used proven strategies as a road to success in life. Discover your life purpose and your values:

• Dismantle limiting beliefs
• Take positive and calculated risks
• Make career changes fueled by passion and purpose
• "Filter and Focus" to give creative ideas time and space to evolve
• Prioritize
• Overcome procrastination
• Declutter and create workable workspaces
• Find resources and support

If you are a fan of Gail McMeekin’s other books The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women Journal, The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women, and The Power of Positive Choices; or have read books such as Conscious Creativity, Awakening Your Creative Soul, or The 30-Day Creativity Challenge; you should read Gail McMeekin's The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women.

Journal Your Way to Becoming a Highly Creative and Successful Woman

The perfect companion to Gail McMeekin's popular The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women.

Creativity was identified in a survey of 1,500 CEO’s to be the key leadership skill of the 21st century. This journal offers a place to track and record your progress toward becoming your own highly creative woman success story. It follows the format of the original The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, highlighting the 12 Secrets, Keys, and Challenges of each chapter with prompts and inspirational quotes to motivate you to pursue your creative life. The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women Journal features original material organized into an advanced creativeness program to deepen your creativity and get you into action on your goals with new insights and success strategies.

Use this journal to help you to discover your creative purpose and your values. Learn to:

• Dismantle limiting beliefs
• Take positive and calculated risks
• Make career changes fueled by passion and purpose
• "Filter and Focus" to give creative ideas time and space to evolve
• Prioritize
• Overcome procrastination
• Declutter and create workable workspaces
• Find resources and support

  Journalers who have worked with top-sellers such as Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice, Start Where You Are, or This Year I Will…, will love Gail McMeekin’s The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women Journal.

Emotional Recovery From Addiction

Authentic recovery is more than an attitude. It is based on emotional work that involves an honest appraisal of one's life. It is through dealing with unresolved feelings of grief and anger that one can truly heal from addiction.

The emotional “bottom” of recovery. Just as one needs to hit bottom with drinking or using in order to begin recovery, eventually one will also hit an emotional “bottom” of fear, anger, and grief. And recovery can only start by first understanding how, when, and where those emotions took control. Author Barb Rogers challenges readers in recovery to investigate the unresolved grief and loss in their lives and helps readers navigate the impacts of those emotions—emotions that can lead back to using if not resolved.

Finding healing and happiness. Recovery from addictions involves more than getting sober. It involves finding happiness, which can only happen if the emotional work is done as well. Negative emotions have the ability to weigh on us and influence both our decisions and the way we handle life’s challenges. If we continue to live with fear, anger, and grief, we aren’t really free from our addictions. The steps to recovery—authentic and complete recovery—involve healing from the deeper issues in our life. Learn more about:

• The emotional healing that goes hand-in-hand with addiction recovery
• Dealing with grief and resolving underlying issues
• How to find happiness after getting sober

If you learned from books like This Naked Mind, Rewired, The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction, or A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps, then you’ll want to read Addiction & Grief.

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.

Being a mom is one of the hardest and most important jobs a woman can have. Being a mom in recovery is even more challenging.

In Moms to Moms, counselor Barbara Joy shares the stories, advice, and inspiration from more than 60 mothers in recovery from across the United States who have struggled with addiction. These are women of all ages, races, and religious affiliations who candidly share their experiences: the challenges of being a mom in recovery, the values they want to teach their children, and their fears, struggles, and accomplishments.

This is a book that offers help and hope to busy, stressed out moms in recovery/ a book they can turn to again and again to find inspiration, comfort, and advice. Joy offers evaluation tools and strategies for positive parenting, journaling activities for reflections, and affirmations designed to relieve stress and reinforce positive behavior.