Me and White Supremacy

Me and White Supremacy

Author: Layla F. Saad

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1728209811

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The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. "Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."—New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations. Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home. This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining: Examining your own white privilege What allyship really means Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation Changing the way that you view and respond to race How to continue the work to create social change Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White Fragility, White Rage, So You Want To Talk About Race, The New Jim Crow, How to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change. "Layla Saad moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won't end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action."—Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller White Fragility


Emotional Clearing

Emotional Clearing

Author: John Ruskan

Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9780712671675

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"There is more and more discussion today about our vital need to release trapped, negative feelings as a way of reaching personal fulfilment and optimal health. In this ground-breaking, highly praised work, John Ruskan presents a profound system of self-therapy, based on both Eastern and Western methods, through which you can learn how to- Understand your real feelings and use them for emotional and spiritual growth. Prevent negative ones from contaminating your life and relationships. Enhance emotional release through well-tested, easy-to-follow techniques. Initiate deep personal change. Typical emotional issues with which we all struggle include depression, anxiety, anger, love/hate, loneliness, sexual blocks, tendencies to control, various compulsions, relationship problems and so on. This book provides the practical skills to deal intelligently with your feelings - and touch and transform all levels of your being. 'Ruskan has achieved a challenging and difficult task, clarifying the interface between Western psychology and Eastern spiritual tradition'"


ACT with Love

ACT with Love

Author: Russ Harris

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1648481655

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Build more compassionate, accepting, and loving relationships with acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Let’s face it: Picture-perfect storybook romances don’t exist in real life. Couples fight. Feelings of love wax and wane through the years. And the stress and tedium of everyday life and work can often drive a wedge between even the most devoted couples. So, how can you reignite passion and intimacy in your relationship, cultivate greater understanding and compassion between yourself and your partner, and bring the joy back to your love life? In this fully revised and updated edition of ACT with Love, therapist and world-renowned ACT expert Russ Harris shows how developing psychological flexibility—the ability to be in the present moment with openness, awareness, and focus, and to take effective action in line with one's values—can help you and your partner strengthen and deepen your relationship. Also included is new information on attachment theory, powerful mindfulness and self-compassion techniques, and assertiveness and boundary-setting skills. ACT with Love will show you how to: Let go of conflict, open up, and live fully in the present Use mindfulness to increase intimacy, connection, and understanding Resolve painful conflicts and reconcile long-standing differences Act on your values to build a rich and meaningful relationship If you’re looking to increase feelings of intimacy, love, and connection with your partner, this book has everything you need to get started—together.


Positive Psychology: A Workbook for Personal Growth and Well-Being

Positive Psychology: A Workbook for Personal Growth and Well-Being

Author: Edward Hoffman

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1071821733

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The Positive Psychology: A Workbook for Personal Growth and Well-Being is a companion workbook designed to accompany Compton and Hoffman’s Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Flourishing, 4e. The workbook aligns active learning and critical thinking applications with the twelve core chapters of Compton and Hoffman’s textbook, but could easily be a benefit to other Positive Psychology texts or support courses and texts where a workbook centered on growth, well-being, and mindfulness is desired.


ACT Made Simple

ACT Made Simple

Author: Russ Harris

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1684033039

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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Due to the recent illegal counterfeiting of this book, we cannot guarantee book quality when purchased through third-party sellers. Now fully-revised and updated, this second edition of ACT Made Simple includes new information and chapters on self-compassion, flexible perspective taking, working with trauma, and more. Why is it so hard to be happy? Why is life so difficult? Why do humans suffer so much? And what can we realistically do about it? No matter how rewarding your job, as a mental health professional, you may sometimes feel helpless in the face of these questions. You are also well aware of the challenges and frustrations that can present during therapy. If you’re looking for ways to optimize your client sessions, consider joining the many thousands of therapists and life coaches worldwide who are learning acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). With a focus on mindfulness, client values, and a commitment to change, ACT is proven-effective in treating depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, eating disorders, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder (BPD), and myriad other psychological issues. It’s also a revolutionary new way to view the human condition—packed full of exciting new tools, techniques, and strategies for promoting profound behavioral change. A practical primer, ideal for ACT newcomers and experienced ACT professionals alike, ACT Made Simple offers clear explanations of the six ACT processes and a set of real-world tips and solutions for rapidly and effectively implementing them in your practice. This book gives you everything you need to start using ACT with your clients for impressive results. Inside, you’ll find: scripts, exercises, metaphors, and worksheets to use with your clients; a session-by-session guide to implementing ACT; transcripts from therapy sessions; guidance for creating your own therapeutic techniques and exercises; and practical tips to overcome “therapy roadblocks.” This book aims to take the complex theory and practice of ACT and make it accessible and enjoyable for therapists and clients.


Guidebook on Vicarious Trauma

Guidebook on Vicarious Trauma

Author: Jan I. Richardson

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 9780662295174

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This guidebook outlines personal strategies and organisational policies to prevent vicarious trauma and "compassion fatigue" for counsellors and social workers working with abused women and children. It is aimed at counsellors and administrators, and includes information on staff training and hiring, the organisational culture, and the client-counsellor relationship.


Meditations to Heal Your Life

Meditations to Heal Your Life

Author: Louise L. Hay

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1458763854

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This is a book of ideas to spark your own creative thinking process. It will give you an opportunity to see other ways to approach your experiences. . . . As you read this book, you may find statements that you dont agree with; they may clash with your own belief systems. Thats all right. Its what Louise calls stirring up the pot. She says, Yo...


Building Motivational Interviewing Skills

Building Motivational Interviewing Skills

Author: David B. Rosengren

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2017-08-14

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1462532071

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Many tens of thousands of mental health and health care professionals have used this essential book--now significantly revised with 70% new content reflecting important advances in the field--to develop and sharpen their skills in motivational interviewing (MI). Clear explanations of core MI concepts are accompanied by carefully crafted sample dialogues, exercises, and practice opportunities. Readers build proficiency for moving through the four processes of MI--engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning--using open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summaries (OARS), plus information exchange. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the volume includes more than 80 reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can download and print the reproducible materials. New to This Edition *Fully revised and restructured around the new four-process model of MI. *Chapters on exploring values and goals and "finding the horizon." *Additional exercises, now with downloadable worksheets. *Teaches how to tailor OARS skills for each MI process. *Integrates key ideas from positive psychology. Winner (First Place)--American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, Adult Primary Care Category This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series, edited by Stephen Rollnick, William R. Miller, and Theresa B. Moyers.


Poems of Healing

Poems of Healing

Author: Karl Kirchwey

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1101908254

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A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.


ACT Made Simple

ACT Made Simple

Author: Russ Harris

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Published: 2021-10-04

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9781648370762

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ACT Made Simple is a comprehensive guide to a powerful, evidence-based approach to pyschological well-being--full of tools, techniques, and strategies to maximize human potential for a rich and meaningful life.