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Do you have "smartphone syndrome?" This refreshingly honest how-to guide will help you find balance and build meaningful connections in a screen-obsessed world. Do you spend hours every day on your smartphone or tablet? Reading the news, shopping for clothes, checking your email, and catching up on social media? Do you scroll through blog articles and text with your friends while waiting in line at the DMV or the grocery store, avoiding any chance interactions with actual human beings? If so, you aren’t alone. Most of us are stuck on a hedonic treadmill of push-button notifications, friend updates, and text messages. But the real question is—are we happy? And, if not, how can we increase...
The Virtual Principal book is based on the experiences of administrators during the Covid-19 Pandemic. School leaders were faced with new challenges, and the book highlights the key attributes and characteristics of those who navigated the challenges with success. Additionally, first-hand experiences are provided from the principal perspective.
A must-have resource for anyone trying to balance personal well-being with a growing list of competing priorities, The Happiness Skills Workbook compiles scientifically-supported activities so people can learn the skills that help them live a more satisfying, meaningful, and fulfilling life. On college campuses, the demand for mental-health services is as much as doubling in a single year. At companies, there is an epidemic of employee burnout. And at home, increasing economic and social pressure is leading to an entire generation of stressed-out kids. Now we are at a precipice. People are beginning to realize that skyrocketing mental-health-care costs, increased workplace attrition, and lackluster academic performance can all be improved by developing people's happiness and well-being. Although scientific research has uncovered dozens of ways that people can improve their happiness and well-being, there is not yet a resource that helps people to easily learn, grow, and practice these skills. A simple, practical, and fun resource for developing happiness skills is long overdue.
A simple way to support children's well-being is by generating stronger connections in the brain for positive concepts. Children can strengthen these neural networks by practicing spelling positive emotion words. By regularly activating positive emotion concepts (by spelling the words in this book), these concepts become more available, accessible, and easily activated in daily life. In the long run, strengthening these positive networks helps children more easily develop emotional intelligence, resilience, and well-being. To use this book, just cut out the flashcards, help your child learn to spell the words, and encourage your child to practice spelling the words as often as possible.
This book is a practical guide for any lay or professional minister or seminarian who wants to become more competent in providing spiritual (pastoral) care within a congregation or institutional setting. Through the use of personal stories, spiritual care theory, Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) methodology, and his experience as an educator and practitioner, Joel Hempel offers concrete ways to be helpful to those we serve. The book is rich in empowerment, grace, and encouragement, with a hefty dose of challenge. It will provide practical advice on how to handle real-life problems that a spiritual caregiver will encounter. The reader will also be invited to identify his or her healed and un...
The Emotionally Strong Leader offers those leading our workplaces, organizations, and institutions an opportunity to transform their leadership and their lives by learning to harness the power contained in recognizing and understanding their feelings. For leaders, managing their emotions and leading with a strong mind and a kind heart while using a set of clear, simple, and tested skills and strategies will enable them to connect more authentically and communicate more effectively with their colleagues and teams. This kind of connection and communication creates an environment of trust and belonging that will spur engagement, spike curiosity, and engender fraternity in the workplace. How doe...
People with mental health issues are often stigmatised by society and their friends and family, to the extent that they feel grateful when they come across a stranger who understands their invisible pain. Journeying through the author’s personal experience in living with mental illness, it inspires her to write, advocate, and raise awareness in the community. Through this book, the author shares a snippet of the sharp and painful truth about what it feels like living with mental illness while dealing with biased community around us. There is more to mental health than just self-love and self-care. It has been truly liberating to be able to understand more about what we are experiencing, accepting ourselves, and be more compassionate.
In a world overcrowded with labels, don't allow your identity to be defined by other people. Learn how to take back your power, choose to feed the aspects of your identity that serve you, and let go of those that don't. Everyone feels like an outsider at some point in their life-when we walk into a room and think to ourselves, I don't belong here. To avoid these feelings of exclusion, many of us hide our authentic selves and allow others to define our identity. You Belong Here offers a new framework that allows each of us to define how we want to be seen, heard, and valued on our own terms so we feel a sense of belonging in any situation. Further, it serves as a launchpad for organizational ...
Rise up before your time is up! Everyone relies on a set of skills to adapt to life’s challenges and setbacks. Rise Up: Be Resilient Like You’re Running Out of Time can help you effectively face stressors and adversity with confidence by providing you with easy-to-digest information, powerful tips and insight to developing and improving your inner strength. From clear and concise information on the characteristics of resilient people, to practices to help guide you on achieving resilience and applying techniques in your daily life, this guidebook can help you deal with life’s inevitable challenges and thrive no matter what comes your way. The path to achieving the resilience you desire in your life starts with some help from this simple and straightforward guidebook. “This book beautifully defines the mindset of resilience-the powerful idea that our ideas can actually make us grow. Like a kintsugi life, the Japanese art of underlining the cracks of a broken object with gold, you too can heal your scars with gold with ‘Rise Up: Be Resilient Like You're Running Out of Time.’” –Céline Santini, author of ‘Kintsugi: Finding Strength in Imperfection.’
Healing for the brokenhearted and freedom for those bound by shame. After Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden, instead of running to God, they ran for cover. They felt the weight of their sin. They felt ashamed. And they didn’t know what else to do but to hide. Do you know what it’s like to feel stuck in the cycle of shame? In Goodbye Hiding, Hello Freedom, Morgan Krueger invites us to experience redemption, freedom, and hope in Jesus Christ. Through personal stories and biblical wisdom, Morgan offers encouragement to every soul who has ever felt disqualified from the abundant life God has for her because of her past. Morgan links arms with her readers as she talks through our beautiful identity as daughters, combats the shame that keeps us from growing, and exposes wounds that won’t heal. Morgan teaches on how to forgive yourself, the blessing of community, and our wholeness in Jesus. The world has a lot to say about who you are and who you should be. Morgan lifts the burden of cultural lies and replaces them with the truth of our freedom in Christ. Join her in saying, Goodbye Hiding, Hello Freedom.