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Mind and Body Fitness December 2016
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| Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave EvansAuthors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans are on the faculty of Stanford University's Design School, but they don't just design objects. They also teach people how to design their own lives. In this easy-to-use guide based on their well-attended "Designing Your Life" course, they explain how you can apply a designer's thought process to your hopes and desires. Once you can define your goal, the book helps you find a path to a career that suits you. Publishers Weekly praises the book's "useful fact-finding exercises, an empathetic tone, and sensible advice." |
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Emotional Agility : Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
by Susan A. David
The path to fulfillment, whether at work or at home, is almost never a straight line. Ask anyone who has achieved their biggest goals or who thrives in their relationships, and you'll hear stories of many unexpected detours along the way. What separates those who rise to these challenges and those who get derailed? The answer is agility--emotional agility. Emotional agility is a four-step approach that allows us to navigate life's twists and turns with self-acceptance, clear-sightedness, and an open mind. In her more than twenty years of research, Susan David has found that no matter how intelligent, resilient, or creative people are, when they ignore how situations or interactions make them feel, they miss opportunities to gain insight, getting hooked by thoughts, emotions, and habits that prevent them from reaching their full potential. Emotionally agile people experience the same stresses and setbacks as anyone else, but they know how to adapt, aligning their actions with their values and making small changes that lead to a life of growth.
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| Finding Calm for the Expectant Mom: Tools for Reducing Stress, Anxiety, and Mood Swings During Your Pregnancy by Alice D. Domar with Sheila Curry OakesIn this realistic discussion of wellness for pregnant women, Harvard Medical School professor Alice Domar offers reassurance to expectant mothers who think they should be unfailingly calm, happy, and radiant -- when they're not. Pregnancy often produces uncomfortable, if not miserable, body changes, but Domar assures readers that these are both temporary and common. Concluding with an appendix that provides techniques for handling stress and anxiety, Finding Calm for the Expectant Mom compassionately answers the question posed in the first chapter: "Am I Crazy, or Am I Just Pregnant?" |
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Hell Week : Seven Days to be Your Best Self
by Erik Bertrand Larssen
The renowned mental trainer and veteran paratrooper outlines an accessible, military-inspired guide to enabling professional and personal success through lifestyle changes, recommending techniques that build on an effective single week spent emulating one's best self.
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Strong is the New Beautiful : Embrace Your Natural Beauty, Eat Clean, and Harness Your Power
by Lindsey Vonn
Olympic Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn wants women to stop thinking about "losing weight fast," and instead focus on loving their bodies for what they are and what they can do. Lindsey is a small-town Minnesota girl at heart turned world-champion skier, but that didn't come without hard work. In Strong Is the New Beautiful, Lindsey lays out the never-before-seen training routines and her overall philosophy that have helped her become the best female skier in the world--tailored for women of all shapes and sizes.
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| Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World by B. Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire ArrietaAccording to Let Them Eat Dirt, microbes are good for children -- at least, certain microbes. Authors Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta explain how extreme sanitizing contributes to an increased incidence of auto-immune disorders, diabetes, asthma, obesity, and other conditions. Beginning during pregnancy and continuing through lactation, they explain, it's important for essential microbes to pass from the mother to the child. Growing children also benefit from having pets and spending time outdoors. Complete with accessible scientific explanations and handy do's and don'ts lists, this book provides a down-to-earth (as it were) guide to raising healthy kids. |
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The Danish Way of Parenting : What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
by Jessica Joelle Alexander
What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world--and how do Danish parents raise happy, confident, successful kids, year after year? This upbeat and practical guide reveals the habits of the happiest families on earth. With illuminating examples and simple yet powerful advice, the authors present six essential principles, which spell out P-A-R-E-N-T: Play is essential for development and well-being. Authenticity fosters trust and an "inner compass." Reframing helps kids cope with setbacks and look on the bright side. Empathy allows us to act with kindness towards others. No ultimatums means no power struggles, lines in the sand, or resentment. Togetherness is a way to celebrate family time, on special occasions and every day. The Danes call this hygge --and it's a simple yet meaningful way to foster a close bond. A revealing and fresh take on cross-cultural parenting advice, The Danish Way of Parenting will help parents from all walks of life raise the happiest, most well-adjusted kids in the world.
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What Great Parents Do : 75 Simple Strategies for Raising Kids Who Thrive
by Erica Reischer
A golden rule book to parenting best practices, What Great Parents Do concisely presents key strategies to help parents reshape kids' challenging behaviors, create strong family bonds, and guide children toward becoming happy, kind, responsible adults.What Great Parents Do is an everything-you-need-to-know road map for parenting that you will consult again and again. Psychologist Erica Reischer draws on research in child development and cognitive science to distill the best information about parenting today into bite-size pieces with real examples, useful tips, and tools and techniques that parents can apply right away. This book will show you how to do what great parents do so well, including: - Great parents start with empathy - Great parents accept their kids just as they are - Great parents avoid power struggles - Great parents see the goal of discipline as learning, not punishment - Great parents know they aren't perfect. A toolbox of the most effective parenting strategies known to man, What Great Parents Do is accessible, actionable, and easy to follow.
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The Awakened Family : A Revolution in Parenting
by Shefali Tsabary
We all have the capacity to raise children who are highly resilient and emotionally connected. However, many of us are unable to because we are blinded by modern misconceptions of parenting and our own inner limitations. In The Awakened Family , the author shows you how you can cultivate a relationship with your children so they can thrive; moreover, you can be transformed to a state of greater calm, compassion and wisdom as well. This book will take you on a journey to transcending your fears and illusions around parenting and help you become the parent you always wanted to be: fully present and conscious.
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