I’ll never love again after losing my wife. There’s no time for it anyway. My daughter is my main focus, along with fighting fires for a living. I’ve closed up my heart and decided the bachelor life is for me. Or that was the plan. And yet there’s something about my daughter’s teacher. The woman unravels me—one smile at a time. Too bad she’s off limits. A casual fling would be nice. But no, it’s not right. Unfortunately, the pretty woman who’s staining my dreams disagrees. She wants what I want, and so much more. No matter how badly I fight it, all bets are off, and I’m losing this battle. She lights a fire inside me that rivals the ones I’ve dedicated my life to fighting. And no matter how much I fight it, this woman is mine. Now. Tomorrow. Forever. Every Good Girl Deserves a Bad Boy. ~ Weston
An interactive guide for teens shares quizzes and activity suggestions for navigating the tumultuous, confusing and sometimes depressing challenges of adolescence, sharing positive advice on topics ranging from relationships and self-image to willpower and learning from failure.
We’ve been conditioned to think about creative genius as a dichotomy: dreamers versus doers, creativity versus discipline, the spark versus the grind. But what if we’re wrong? What if it’s the spark and the grind? We love people whose creative genius arrives in sudden sparks of inspiration. Think of Archimedes in his bathtub or Newton under his apple tree. But we also admire people who work incredibly hard and long for their creative breakthroughs. Think of Edison in his lab, grinding through hundreds of failed variations on the lightbulb. We remember his words in tough times: “Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.” Now Erik Wahl, a visual artist, speaker, and entrepreneur, helps us unite the yin and yang of creativity— the dynamic new ideas with the dogged effort. He shows why we won’t get far if we rely on the spark without the grind, or the grind without the spark. What the world really needs are the creators who can hold the two in balance. Fortunately, it’s possible to get good at both, as Wahl knows from experience. After his corporate career suddenly ended, he pursued a spark—to paint photorealistic portraits—and ground it out until he got good enough to make very good art very quickly. That’s the basis of his riveting live shows, which have captivated skeptical audiences who never expected to be inspired by art—and taught them to embrace creativity in a whole new way. This book offers surprising insights and practical advice about how to fan the sparks and make the grind more productive. Wahl deftly synthesizes the wisdom of other artists, philosophers, scientists, and business visionaries throughout history, along with his own views. Here’s how he sums up his approach: The world needs people who enjoy swimming in ideas until they discover a great one. The world also needs doers who have a gift for activation, a.k.a. “getting s*** done.” But the most potent individual creators in any industry or environment have learned how to be both. They’ve learned how to spark their grind and they’ve learned how to grind their sparks. As a result, they not only make things happen, they make great things. If you want to ensure constant creativity in your life and produce your most innovative work—this is your guide.
Every couple fights—it’s how you fight that can determine the success of your relationship. This book teaches you to look beyond what you and your partner fight about, and discover the core issues that undermine your relationship. In the midst of a disagreement, many couples ask themselves, “What are we really fighting about?” Sound familiar? As it turns out, breakups and divorce don’t happen because couples fight, they happen because of how couples fight. In this much-needed book, Judith and Bob Wright—two married counselors and coaches with over thirty years of experience helping couples learn how to fight well—present their tried-and-true methods for exploring the emotions that underlie many relationship fights. In this unique guide, you’ll learn how to use disagreements as an opportunity to deepen your understanding of your partner, bring more intimacy to the relationship, strengthen your bond, and really learn from the conflicts and tensions that occur between you. You’ll also learn how to navigate the fifteen most common fights couples have, including “the blame game,” “dueling over dollars,” “If you really loved me, you’d…,” “told-you-so’s,” and more. If you’re ready to start fighting for your love, rather than against it, this book will show you how.
Is it possible to read a book about relationships and come away feeling like your life, your entire existence, just changed? Harvard trained psychotherapist and relationship pioneer Jeffrey Sumber says YES!!! "Your life is meant to be poetry. The way you feel when you just fall in love with someone is the way you're meant to feel about yourself when you wake up each morning." With a significant focus on your personal journey to understand life and love, this is less a relationship "diet" book of "do this" and "don't do that" and more about a creative lifestyle change. A change that comes with helpful ways to shift one's perception of the "facts" and concrete tools with which to make life work better day by day. However, it is left to the reader to decide where they are and what they want to do in order to create the life and the relationship they long for... Regardless of whether you've been together a month or an eternity, we all need a sense of renewal in our meaningful partnerships. But here's the good news- you don't have to suffer in the Soup any longer than it takes to read this book. Renew Your Wows takes us on a journey of self-discovery that invites a shift in the way we relate to the people in our lives. Renew Your Wows takes months of intensive individual and couples counseling and offers the highlights! Renew Your Wows teaches us: To identify and reclaim the Self To determine the relational landscape we have created and see whether our paradigm indeed meshes well with that of our partner To learn how to Respond instead of React to a vast array of circumstances To learn how to differentiate needs from expectations and establish an effective way to communicate that doesn't invite a defensive reaction from our partners To create a structure for general communication with friends, family, co-workers and yes, our partners, that is conducive to joyful living and mutual respect To establish a set of protocols that help us plan our responses and keep exchanges clean and kind To separate Facts from Feelings in our daily discourse in order to understand how we need to be heard as well as truly hearing others To know when a relationship no longer serves us and to make a change happen with respect, kindness and peace "Psychotherapist Jeffrey Sumber has written a wonderful, well-informed, and immensely helpful guide on how to realize the full potentials of intimate love. I highly recommend this book for those who are committed to taking their relationship to the next (and then the next!) level of happiness and wholehearted wellness." - Katherine Woodward Thomas, Bestselling author of Calling in "The One" Purchase your copy of Renew Your Wows today and receive a FREE downloadable Action Guide that brings the ideas and exercises to life!
In this practical book, Dr. Peter Benson, a leading authority on childhood and adolescence, describes a simple yet powerful plan for awakening the spark that lives inside each and every young person. Sparks—when illuminated and nurtured—give young people joy, energy, and direction. They have the power to change a young person’s life from one of “surviving” to “thriving.” Grounded in new research with thousands of teenagers and parents, Sparks offers a step-by-step approach to helping teenagers discover their unique gifts, and works for all families, no matter their economic status, parenting situation, or ethnic background.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. “Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate.”—The Washington Post The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center—a women’s reproductive health services clinic—its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic. But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester, disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard. Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day. One of the most fearless writers of our time, Jodi Picoult tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? A Spark of Light will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding. Praise for A Spark of Light “This is Jodi Picoult at her best: tackling an emotional hot-button issue and putting a human face on it.”—People “Told backward and hour by hour, Jodi Picoult’s compelling narrative deftly explores controversial social issues.”—Us Weekly
Captivate Your Husband All Over Again More than 250 ways to WOW your man Does your marriage need a little help in the romance department? Has it grown ho-hum in the daily routine? If so, it's time to spice up your relationship and rekindle the passion with hundreds of creative ways to show your man just how much you love him. Bestselling author and conference speaker Sharon Jaynes offers heart-stirring inspiration and simple ideas that will put a smile on your husband's face and a spark in your marriage. Get ready to... wow your guy with simple acts of affection he'll treasure for a lifetime wake up the passion that was God's idea in the first place watch your marriage grow stronger and your love grow deeper Take the 14-Day Romance Challenge— and make your husband feel like the luckiest man on earth.
When Dushka Zapata comes across any perspective in life that she finds useful or that contributes to her suffering less, she writes about it. This book is a collection of those lessons she hopes prove useful to others. This book is not intended to be read cover to cover but rather in snippets of time across the day.
Discover the strategies to unlock the secrets to discovering exactly what you want. * Love Languages: Learn or relearn how to speak them * Your values and to see if they have changed * The qualities that are important to you in a partner * Your interests and creating a bucket list * Intimacy * The emotional bank account * Interventions * The Decision to Leave * An inspiring future. This is a no nonsense guide to finding yourself and either rediscovering the passion in your relationship and making it flourish or realising it is time to move on and leave with love and integrity. In short you will find the purpose and happiness you have been craving. Author, Gina Mitchell is the founder of Positive Life Shift. She has successfully helped people from Australia and around the world with their relationships and their lives in general since 2012. Gina uses simple and effective strategies to help people overcome issues in their lives, particularly in their relationships. Gina has always had a passion for helping people and that is why she undertook the NLP training and life coaching courses. She also completed an Honours degree in Biochemistry and teaching diploma in the 1980s. Gina brings to the table the logic of her science experience along with her real life skills in science teaching, backed up with her NLP qualifications. This is a unique combination of skills for a relationship facilitator. Don't forget to register your book to receive the interactive chapter by chapter videos and workbooks.
