Want to discover how to master coloring in your free time and enjoy the relaxing activity more? Now you can. Introducing: Coloring Book for Adults & Grown Ups :An Easy & Quick Guide to Mastering Coloring for Stress Relieving Relaxation & Health Today! In this book, you will discover:- 1. The Most Popular Materials for Coloring 2. The Different Techniques for Coloring 3. Color Theory and How to Harness it in your Coloring 4. How to Boost your Creativity & Produce Brilliant Coloring 5. Tools/Scrapbooking Supplies Essential to Coloring 6. Ancient Tools of Meditation with Coloring & Drawing -- The Nine Designs Known as Yantras 7. The Quick Action List to Start your Coloring Journey 8. The Quick Color Chart Grab the book now and start your coloring journey today !
Creativity is getting new attention in today’s America––along the way revealing fault lines in U.S. culture. Surveys show people overwhelmingly seeing creativity as both a desirable trait and a work enhancement, yet most say they just aren’t creative. Like beauty and wealth, creativity seems universally desired but insufficiently possessed. Businesses likewise see innovation as essential to productivity and growth, but can’t bring themselves to risk new ideas. Even as one’s "inner artist" is hyped by a booming self-help industry, creative education dwindles in U.S. schools. Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails examines this conceptual mess, while focusing on how America’s current edginess dampens creativity in everyone. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Anxious Creativity draws on current ideas in the social sciences, economics, and the arts. Discussion centers on the knotty problem of reconciling the expressive potential in all people with the nation’s tendency to reward only a few. Fortunately, there is some good news, as scientists, economists, and creative professionals have begun advocating new ways of sharing and collaboration. Building on these prospects, the book argues that America’s innovation crisis demands a rethinking of individualism, competition, and the ways creativity is rewarded.
Take Control of Your Life and Achieve Intentional Transformation.Let God into your heart and remember that you are not alone through this journey.A self-help book unlike any other, The Thread will share with you personal experiences, prayers, poems, activities, and journal prompts which will guide you day-by-day through the healing journey. Discover how Leonie H. Mattison achieved intentional transformation through Christ, and as you read, find hope even in your most challenging times.A childhood filled with adverse, severe experiences left Leonie with post-traumatic stress disorder, a prisoner in her soul, and trapped in her mind. As a single mother of three, when she looked at herself in the mirror, she saw a broken girl with a sick soul, a noisy mind, and a traumatized heart. The Thread was born out of these life-shattering circumstances. In a tapestry of stories, Leonie shares her struggles, pairing them with tales of women in the Bible who also faced severe tragedy, trial, or failure. She leads readers along a gentle path that shows them how they responded in faith and explains The Thread it created in each of them. The result is a resounding six-step T.H.R.E.A.D call to action to help you: Think of the Outcome You Want to Achieve Harvest the Lessons You Have Learned and Heal Your Heart Release Fear and Reclaim Your Life Enlist Allies to Support the Woman Who Has Been Locked Inside Adopt New Mindsets to Break the Hurtful Patterns and Create New Healthy Behaviors Design Your Joyful Life and Enjoy It The women of The Thread have the courage to discover, embrace, and accelerate their God-given purpose. Leonie's prayer is that each beloved reader will recognize that they, too, are worthy of love, can find freedom, and enjoy closeness with God. Embark on your journey today and begin the transformation of your life. Don't hesitate, order your copy and begin. Learn more about The Thread at www.leoniemattison.com
Find rest, refreshment, and restoration for your soul―21 daily devotionals for women. This delightful 21-Day Devotional Journal offers encouragement and inspiration to help you rest your heart, quiet your soul, and meditate on the refreshing and restorative life-giving Word of Truth. Whether you're an abandoned daughter, an abused teen, a dispirited wife, a battered single parent, or an insecure woman who's feeling emotionally frail; you can liberate your soul from every guilt and shame caused by trauma, calamities, and suffering, Beside Still Waters. Inside Beside Still Waters, you’ll find: Twenty-onedevotionals for women―Daily guidance to inspire you to press into God and His Word as often as you want. Thoughts on Today’s Verse―Hone your focus as you take time to prayerfully read and embrace the Word of God in a practical way. Connect to God through Prayer―Ask God for what you want. Quiet your mind, and when your mind settles down, listen to God’s response to what you’ve requested. Personal Declarations―Embrace and guide yourself to a new result by affirming to allow the manifestation of your request. Remember, the happier you are, the better things will flow. Take Soul Care Actions―Identify the beliefs and habits you want to keep, release, and establish to achieve your vision of success. Time for Self-Reflection―Write down your thoughts in the dedicated space at the end of each devotional. Pause! Take a few minutes every day―or whenever you can―to turn the world off, enjoy rest, refreshment, and restoration, Beside Still Waters. Scroll up and grab your copy Now!! "He offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love. His tracks take me to an oasis of peace, the quiet brook of bliss. That’s where he restores and revives my life. He opens before me pathways to God’s pleasure and leads me along in his footsteps of righteousness so that I can bring honor to his name (Psalm 23:2-3 TPT)".
Pretty and Simple is a unique coloring book created to support you in releasing stress, relaxing your mind, and freeing you to have fun coloring. In this book there are: 26 original photographic designs of beautiful grayscale flower centers... the pretty part! each flower is centered on a simple coloring background to combine grayscale coloring with the familiar black and white style...the simple part! printed on 8 x 10 white paper printed single sided and a place to sign and date each piece on the back, as you complete it an extra blotter page at the back of the book to detach and put under each page to prevent bleed through from markers Yes, color simply and also with complexity. Meditate as you color around these beautiful flowers and feel the stress release. Have fun as you color and create something unique! Connect to the beauty in nature.
Children's literature isn't just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children's literature—when it's written for adults. What do Adam Mansbach's Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here! have in common? These large-format picture books are decidedly intended for parents rather than children. In No Kids Allowed, Michelle Ann Abate examines a constellation of books that form a paradoxical new genre: children's literature for adults. Distinguishing these books from YA and middle-grade fiction that appeals to adult readers, Abate argues that there is something unique about this phenomenon. Principally defined by its form and audience, children's literature, Abate demonstrates, engages with more than mere nostalgia when recast for grown-up readers. Abate examines how board books, coloring books, bedtime stories, and series detective fiction written and published specifically for adults question the boundaries of genre and challenge the assumption that adulthood and childhood are mutually exclusive.
Steer your organization away from burnout while boosting all-around performance The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit presents realistic strategies for leaders looking to optimize organizational achievement while avoiding the common nonprofit burnout. With a uniquely holistic approach to nonprofit leadership strategy, this book functions as a handbook to help leaders examine their existing organization, identify trouble spots, and resolve issues with attention to all aspects of operations and culture. The expert author team walks you through the process of building a happier, healthier organization from the ground up, with a balanced approach that considers more than just quantitative results. Employee wellbeing takes a front seat next to organizational performance, with clear guidance on establishing optimal systems and processes that bring about better results while allowing a healthier work-life balance. By improving attitudes and personal habits at all levels, you'll implement a positive cultural change with sustainable impact. Nonprofits are driven to do more, more, more, often with fewer and fewer resources; there comes a breaking point where passion dwindles under the weight of pressure, and the mission suffers as a result. This book shows you how to revamp your organization to do more and do it better, by putting cultural considerations at the heart of strategy. Find and relieve cultural and behavioral pain points Achieve better results with attention to well-being Redefine your organizational culture to avoid burnout Establish systems and processes that enable sustainable change At its core, a nonprofit is driven by passion. What begins as a personal investment in the organization's mission can quickly become the driver of stress and overwork that leads to overall lackluster performance. Executing a cultural about-face can be the lifeline your organization needs to thrive. The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit provides a blueprint for sustainable change, with a holistic approach to improving organizational outlook.
"A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist-a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's been neglected of late. As Martha works to manage her mother's care and the sprawling, ramshackle property-a broken septic system, invasive bamboo, dying ash trees-she is pulled back into her childhood, almost against her will. Martha grew up at Omega Farm with her four sisters, five stepsiblings, mother, and stepfather, in a house filled with art, people, and the kind of chaos that was sometimes benevolent, sometimes more sinister. Caring for her mother and her children, struggling to mend the forest, the past relentlessly asserts itself-even as Martha's mother, the person she might share her memories with or even try to hold to account, no longer knows who Martha is. A masterful exploration of a complicated family legacy and a powerful story of environmental and personal repair, Omega Farm is a testament to hope in the face of suffering, and a courageous tale about how returning home can offer a new way to understand the past"--
The most trusted guide to getting published, fully revised and updated Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market, 100th edition guide you through the process. It's the ultimate reference with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents—as well as new playwriting and screenwriting sections, along with contact and submission information. Beyond the listings, you'll find articles devoted to the business and promotion of writing. Discover 20 literary agents actively seeking writers and their writing, how to develop an author brand, and overlooked funds for writers. This 100th edition also includes the ever-popular pay-rate chart and book publisher subject index. You'll gain access to: Thousands of updated listings for book publishers, magazines, contests, and literary agents Articles devoted to the business and promotion of writing A newly revised "How Much Should I Charge?" pay rate chart Sample query letters for fiction and nonfiction Lists of professional writing organizations
