‘A beguiling exploration of how flexibility can contribute to creativity, purpose and happiness.’ Justine Roberts, founder of Mumsnet ‘Straight-talking self-help... Inspiring words, practical help and a fresh way of seeing things that we’ll be forcing on just about everyone we know.’ Stylist
Learning to juggle career and relationships, while living a healthy, fulfilled life, has created a whole new set of circumstances unique to the modern woman. At the same time, we're living in a world that needs the balance of feminine energy at its most powerful to create a sustainable, positive future for humankind. Lynne Franks's new book," GROW, is aimed at women of all ages who wish to get back in touch with their feminine center, where they remember how to connect, first, with themselves and the divine; second with their families and loved ones, and third with their local and global communities. It's an encyclopedic examination of all of the issues that face a woman of the 21st century, including health and well-being, spirituality, career, relationship, sexuality, family, community, and social change."GROW, based on the colorful format of Lynne's previous work," The SEED Handbook, contains fun exercises, stories, and guidance to take you through a ten-part program to enable you to reach the Gorgeous Real Original Woman inside and find your life's purpose.
Are you fed up with your work/life balance? Do you feel burnt out and uninspired? Are you stuck in a job you hate and desperate for change but don’t know where to start? Then you need this refreshingly honest book that will change your relationship with work for good. One evening after missing the train home, standing on the cold platform, exhausted and quietly sobbing, Anniki Sommerville realized she wouldn’t get to see her kids before bedtime for the fourth time that week, she knew it was time for a major change. When podcaster, author, and journalist Anniki first landed her dream job, she was overjoyed. But she very quickly felt trapped in a toxic work culture that was making her miserable and anxious. We’re constantly told we should be doing work that is 100% fulfilling and makes us feel authentic and bursting with happiness at every moment. But the perfect job doesn’t exist. What if there was another way? From running a multi-million-pound company to becoming a freelancer and everything in between, Anniki has learnt some valuable life lessons about what work means to her. She’s figured out that ‘nailing it’ is a one-way ticket to burnout and disillusionment, and instead found a more joyful path to contentment. In this essential guide to getting your work life back on track, The Big Quit will show you how to: 1. Spot the early signs of burnout 3. Embrace trying new things and overcome fear of failure 4. Navigate your way through work anxieties 4. Create boundaries with your work and home life 5. Benefit from slowing down and looking after yourself 6. Build your confidence up after a career break 7. Enjoy your job! Packed with real and practice advice, fans of Arianna Huffington, Everything is Figureoutable, Roxie Nafousi’s Manifest and Caitlin Moran will love The Big Quit. Read what everyone is saying about Anniki Sommerville: 'I loved this book. Full of wit and wisdom, Anniki tells it like it is.' Clover Stroud ‘I LOVED this book… I couldn't put down… so refreshingly honest…The language used made the book feel like I was talking to a friend…really helpful and full of useful advice…such a brilliant read!’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Laugh-out-loud funny! As a woman in her 40s, I thoroughly enjoyed this book… Spot-on for many of the thoughts & worries & oddities running through my head too.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
We are living in a fast changing, complex and uncertain world and the future of the work, jobs and careers we are currently familiar with is unpredictable. What is certain is that our working lives are rapidly changing and this will continue after the Coronavirus pandemic. This book will serve to prepare the reader for these changes and offer career strategies for living through them. The book outlines the main issues affecting the current employment landscape, before detailing a process for a journey of discovery and includes a practical toolkit of interactive exercises of self-reflection. So, whether it is to take a career further along its current route, completely change direction, or reboot a career, this essential ‘how to’ guide will help readers understand their values, career drivers and strengths. Work is a large part of our life; it is vital to make the best of it.
This Handbook serves as a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of women in outdoor learning environments (OLEs). Women choose to participate actively in outdoors careers, many believing the profession is a level playing field and that it offers alternatives to traditional sporting activities. They enter outdoor learning primarily on the strength of their enthusiasm for leading and teaching in natural environments and assume the field is inclusive, rewarding excellence regardless of age, gender, socioeconomic status, disability, or ethnicity. However, both research and collective experiences in OLEs suggest that many women feel invisible, relegated, marginalized, and undervalued. In response to this marginalization, this Handbook celebrates the richness of knowledge and practices of women practitioners in OLEs. Women scholars and practitioners from numerous fields, such as experiential outdoor education, adventure education, adventure therapy, and gender studies, explore the implications of their research and practice using poignant examples within their own disciplines. These insights emerge from similar life experiences as women and outdoor leaders in the 1970s to the present. Social inequalities still abound in OLEs, and the Handbook ensures that the contributions of women are highlighted as well as the work that needs to be done to make these spaces inclusive. Global in perspective and capacious in content, this one-stop volume is an indispensable reference resource for a diverse range of academics, including students and researchers in the fields of education, psychology, sociology, gender studies, geography, and environment studies, as well as the many outdoors fields.
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This complete step-by-step instruction manual provides an introduction to yoga for all women. More and more women are discovering the benefits and joys of yoga practice: it makes them feel better, look better, and live better. This book is the perfect starting place for any woman of any age who is interested in yoga but is not sure where to start. A step-by-step instruction manual that is fully illustrated, The Woman's Book of Yoga offers a clear, jargon-free introduction to the basic yoga positions; the physiological, psychological and spiritual benefits of each position; and daily progress charts and journal-entry pages to encourage the reader to explore her own progress. Each chapter presents a new yogic concept and new poses or asanas that build into a complete program. As a special feature, there are also journal pages for recording your physical and spiritual progress. A book for any woman of any age who wants to improve her health, The Woman's Book of Yoga comes at a time when even mainstream health clubs are recognizing that yoga isn't for alternative lifestyles anymore-it's for everyone.