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Self Improvement Books
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items Want to level up your mindset, habits, and creativity? These self-improvement books are total game-changers. Learn to improve any aspect of your life and become your best self!
Psychotherapist Meg Josephson is here to show you that people-pleasing is not a personality trait. It’s a common survival mechanism known as “fawning”: an instinct often learned in childhood to become more appealing to a perceived threat in order to ...
Are You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You
You’ll learn:
How to identify—and heal from—symptoms of ANS dysfunction
Somatic self-help exercises that are safe, effective, and easy to learn
Neurofascial release, migraine massage, and other hands-on techniques
Polyvagal applications for stress, ...
Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
The book provides an entirely new framework and language for thinking and talking about today's complex world. Instead of focusing on the usual left-center-right horizontal political axis, which is all about what we think, the book introduces a verti...
What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
At thirty-eight and a quarter years old, Paris native Camille has everything she needs to be happy, or so it seems: a good job, a loving husband, a wonderful son. Why then does she feel as if happiness has slipped through her fingers? All she wants i...
Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One
Life Is Beautiful When You Know How To Live It is not just a book-it's a guide to living fully, authentically, and joyfully. Let it show you how to find your way back to the beauty of life, one story at a time.
Life Is Beautiful When You Know How To Live It: Five life changing stories
Where are you right now? Are you here? Or are you sort of somewhere else?
You’re Grounded is an exploration of what it means to be connected to the present moment. Sometimes your head can be in a completely different place than your body. Whethe...
You're Grounded: An Anti-Self-Help Book to Calm You the F*ck Down
Through insightful commentary and actionable exercises, you'll learn how to:
- Identify the thought patterns that fuel anxiety, stress, and dissatisfaction.
- Question deeply held beliefs that may no longer serve you.
- Develop mental resilience by o...
Don't Believe Everything You Think: A Critical Review of Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning and End of Suffering, with Daily Reflections
In Women Who Think Too Much, Nolen-Hoeksema shows us what causes so many women to be overthinkers and provides concrete strategies that can be used to escape these negative thoughts, move to higher ground, and live more productively. Women Who Think ...
Women Who Think Too Much: How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time.
Over the course ...
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
And How Does That Make You Feel? is a primer on what to expect from therapy, how to find the right therapist, and the most common afflictions treated in therapy (such as depression, OCD, and panic attacks) as well as a darkly hilarious narrative abou...
And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy
Your mental well-being is just as important as your physical well-being. Packed with proven strategies, Dr. Julie’s empathetic guide offers a deeper understanding of how your mind works and gives you the insights and help you need to nurture your men...
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World
In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the different ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.
The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
The Kindness Method is the key to breaking unwanted habits—for good! Combining her own therapeutic style, personal experiences, and techniques learned from working in the field of substance abuse, Shahroo Izadi shares simple steps that strengthen you...
The Kindness Method: Change Your Habits for Good Using Self-Compassion and Understanding
CHOOSING ME is packed full of easy to digest tools and prompts to make the reader pause, reflect and self-enquire so they can move forward with clarity.
Choosing Me
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to re...
The Wedding People: A Novel
Explore your deepest feelings with self-awareness strategies and consciousness-raising exercises. Learn how to cope with physical, mental, and spiritual problems, involving love, money, risk-taking, relationships, guilt, self-reliance, self-image, se...
What You Think of Me Is None of My Business
This book combines both the why and the how to let go, with excellent practices that help convert the desire into action.
There are four stages to letting go:
Be Present and Enjoy Each Moment
Let Go of the Thoughts that Keep You Stuck
Let Go of the P...
The Power of Letting Go: How to Drop Everything That's Holding You Back
The Power of Self-Discipline is not a textbook on self-discipline, nor is it a gentle and drawn-out discussion. It is a toolbox to keep you in motion and in action towards your goals. It pulls no punches as it provides direct techniques to ensure tha...
The Power of Self-Discipline: 5-Minute Exercises to Build Self-Control, Good Habits, and Keep Going When You Want to Give Up
In this follow-up to her hit book, How to Break Up with Your Phone, Price makes the case that True Fun—which she defines as the magical confluence of playfulness, connection, and flow—will give us the fulfillment we so desperately seek. If you use Tr...
The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again
The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. This bestselling mindfulness guide by Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path ...
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
Have you ever felt like life has thrown you a curveball? Are you struggling to overcome unexpected challenges and setbacks?
While loss, heartbreak, and loneliness are all part of the human experience, in this warm guide, internationally bestselling ...
When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times
The Self-Care Year reveals how to re-connect with your body and mind and engage with your surroundings, how to slow down, live in tune with the seasons, and pay attention to the present moment.
The Self-Care Year: Reflect and Recharge with Simple Seasonal Rituals