Life Skills/Social Skills
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Tim Lomas Happiness
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psychologist Tim Lomas offers a concise and engaging overview of our current understanding of happiness. Lomas explains that although the field of positive psychology, which focuses on happiness, emerged only in the last twenty-five years, interest in the meaning of happiness goes back several millennia. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, from philosophy and sociology to economics and anthropology, Lomas offers an expansive vision of what happiness means, exploring a significant range of experiential territory.
$22.95
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Gretchen Rubin Happiness Project, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun Gretchen Rubin's year-long experiment to discover how to create true happiness. Drawing on cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world examples, Rubin delivers an engaging, eminently relatable chronicle of transformation. This special 10th Anniversary edition features a Conversation with Gretchen Rubin, Happiness Project Stories, a guide to creating your own happiness project, a list of dozens of free resources, and more.
$24.99
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Suzann Pileggi Pawelski, James O. Pawelski Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love that Lasts
In fairy tales, lasting love just happens. But in real life, healthy habits are what build happiness over the long haul. Happy Together, written by positive psychology experts and husband-and-wife team Suzann Pileggi Pawelski and James O. Pawelski, is the first book on using the principles of positive psychology to create thriving romantic relationships. Combining extensive scientific research and real-life examples, this book will help you find and feed the good in yourself and your partner. You will learn to develop key habits for building and sustaining long-term love.
$24.95
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Rick Hanson Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences but slowly from the good ones. You can change this. This simple method uses the hidden power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures full of happiness, love, confidence, and peace. Dr. Hanson's four steps build strengths into your brain, balancing its ancient negativity bias, making contentment and a powerful sense of resilience the new normal. In minutes a day, we can transform our brains into power centers of calm and happiness.
$23.99
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Cheri J. Meiners, Elizabeth Allen Have Courage!: A Book About Being Brave
Help children develop the attitudes and skills of courage and assertiveness in order to make wise choices and work through challenges. Children learn to do what they think is right and be brave, even if it’s hard. They learn to distinguish between expectations set by trusted adults and hurtful, wrong, or dangerous things adults or children might pressure them to do. The book also highlights trying new things, taking reasonable risks, and speaking up.
$18.50
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Alan Wolfelt Healing Grief At Work: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Workplace Is Touched By Loss
With a gentle and considerate style, this handbook explores what happens when grief and the workplace meet, and the drastic effects of grieving on employees, their performance, and the overall workplace environment. Touching on the different kinds of grief workers can experience, such as death, divorce, and layoffs, the effective ways to channel grief during the workday, how to support coworkers who mourn, participation in group memorials, and negotiating appropriate bereavement leave, this concise and practical resource gives both ideas for the mourner and the mourner's coworkers. A special introduction for employers, owners, managers, and human resource personnel addresses the economic impact of grief in the workplace and provides practical and cost effective ideas for maintaining morale and creating a productive yet compassionate work environment.
$16.95
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Erika Shershun Healing Sexual Trauma Workbook: Somatic Skills to Help You Feel Safe in Your Body, Create Boundaries and Live With Resilience
Drawing on the powerful mind-body techniques of somatic therapy, this workbook is a step-by-step guide to overcoming the psychological effects of sexual trauma, and increasing positive body awareness and vitality. You'll find tools to help you create an internal sense of safety and become more embodied and present. You'll also discover ways to establish boundaries; move beyond intense feelings like shame, fear, and guilt; and deal effectively with triggers.
$37.95
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Healthy Living Cards
Card Game Ages: 15-Adults. Topics include: nutrition, stress, attitude, environment, sleep, and more. 72 cards. Examples: How can you tactfully give signals to others to tell them you need "alone time"? What are 2 healthy ways you can relax? Do, or could you manage 20 minutes of exercise 4 times a week?
$29.95
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Stephanie Azri, Said Al Azri Healthy Mindsets for Little Kids: A Resilience Program to Help Children Aged 5-9 with Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Body Image, Conflict, Discipline, Empathy and Self-Esteem
This flexible, early-intervention program utilises hands-on activities and worksheets to address behaviour issues and teach core resilience skills in children aged 5-9. Based around ten guided modules, each with their own animal character, the 'Healthy Mindsets' approach helps adults to assist children in building resilience across a wide variety of themes including attachment, discipline, anger management, conflict resolution, positive body image and self-esteem, grief and loss, and anxiety. Every session comes with a complete plan from greeting to closing down, and includes illustrations, photocopiable activities, website-downloadable content, worksheets, games, colouring-in sheets, and reflective content for children to think about their own views on the issue addressed in each section.
$51.95
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Healthy Relationships Bingo Adults
Teaches the skills needed for a healthy relationship and examines key topics like Things to Look For, Red Flags, Green Flags, Obstacles, and Healthy Relationship Skills. Engaging and educational! This game is also part of the BINGO! for Adults Set of 7 Bingos. To learn more about this set go to search and type Bingo.
$62.95
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Healthy Relationships Bingo for Teens
Explore what to look for in a healthy relationship, obstacles to a healthy relationship, red flags, green flags, and skills to building a healthy relationship. Includes laminated cards, chips, calling cards, reproducible handouts, and instructions. For up to 16 players. Ages 12-18.
$62.95
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Help Kelly Bear Game
Help Kelly Bear is a game with a goal that is reached through cooperation rather than competition. The players help Kelly Bear, themselves, and each other by answering questions and moving their play piece. Children's character development, self-awareness, self-confidence, and goal setting are enhanced as they and their peers respond to the questions.
$74.95
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Steve Herman Help Your Dragon Deal with Jealousy & Envy (My Dragon Books - Volume 53)
A Cute and Relatable Story to Teach Kids How To Handle Envy and Jealousy Having a pet dragon is very fun! He can sit, roll over, and play... He can candle a birthday cake, lit a campfire, or so many other cool things... But what if he is JEALOUS because he thinks Dad loves you more? What if he is ENVIOUS of his friend's new toys? What if he is sad and grumpy when his friends get to ride a roller coaster? And more... What if he doesn't know how to handle the feelings of ENVY and JEALOUS? What should you do? You teach him about Jealousy and Envy and how to overcome them! You explain what Jealousy and Envy are and help him replace them with positive feelings and behaviors.
$21.95
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Helping Sharing and Caring Card Game
This fun card game asks children to match problems with helping, sharing, and caring solutions. Kids learn about the importance of self-esteem, kindness, safety, ethics, values, health, empathy, consideration of others, and sympathy. Ages 4-12.
$38.95
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Hooked on Friendship: Go Fish Card Game
Here's a therapeutic twist on the classic "Go Fish" card game. The six versions presented here teach youngsters about character, responsibility, friendship, anger control, conflict resolution, and feelings. Each game includes two decks of 50 cards (one deck for Grades K-2; the other for Grades 3-5). And each card poses an open-ended question that the player must answer before he or she can request "Henry Herring," "Markey Mackerel," or any other fish needed for a match. Familiar and fun, "Go Fish" is an easy, affordable way for children to improve their social and emotional skills.
$27.95
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Janis A. Spring How Can I Forgive You?: The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To
Dr. Spring, a gifted therapist and the award-winning author of After the Affair, proposes a radical, life-affirming alternative that lets us overcome the corrosive effects of hate and get on with our lives-without forgiving. She also offers a powerful and unconventional model for genuine forgiveness-one that asks as much of the offender as it does of us. This bold and healing book offers step-by-step, concrete instructions that help us make peace with others and with ourselves.
$27.50
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Tom Rath, Mary Reckmeyer, Maurie J. Manning How Full Is Your Bucket?: For Kids
Through the story of a little boy named Felix, this charming book explains to children how being kind not only helps others, it helps them, too. As he goes about his day, Felix interacts with different people - his sister Anna, his grandfather, other family and friends. Some people are happy, but others are grumpy or sad. Using the metaphor of a bucket and dipper, Felix' grandfather explains why the happy people make Felix feel good, while the others leave him feeling bad - and how Felix himself is affecting others, whether he means to or not. This beautifully illustrated adaptation takes the original book's powerful message - that the way we relate to others has a profound effect on every aspect of our lives - and tailors it to a child's unique needs and level of understanding.
$24.95
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Alex J. Packer How Rude!: The Teen Guide To Good Manners, Proper Behavior, And Not Grossing People Out
Discussing etiquette and manners from common courtesies to cell-phone smarts to classroom decorum, Alex J. Packer blends outrageous humor with sound advice as he explains why etiquette and manners are important-because people who know how to handle themselves in social situations come out on top, get what they want, feel good about themselves, and enjoy life to the fullest.
$46.50
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Laurie Krasny Brown, Marc Brown How To Be A Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them
A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them (Dino Life Guides for Families) This picture book offers kids practical suggestions about resolving arguments, getting over being shy, handling bossy children and bullies, and more. The easy-to-read text contains many examples of how to be a friend, each paired with a picture of two or more dinosaurs in that particular situation. For example, "You can protect a friend if someone starts bothering him" is illustrated with a dinosaur saying, "Stop it! Leave him alone!" to a bully.
$12.99
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David Richo How to Be an Adult in Relationships
This beloved book has touched hundreds of thousands of lives with its profound and actionable advice. Retaining the core message of becoming more mindful in our relationships, this edition includes new and revised material that addresses how we live and love today. A new preface touches on David Richo's experience with the book over time and outlines the key updates, including attention to online dating and modern communication styles as well as new perspectives on anger and ending relationships. Key concepts include: Becoming conscious of our relationship patterns and how they relate to childhood Recognizing and attracting someone who can show adult love Understanding the phases relationships go through Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries Overcoming fears of abandonment and engulfment Expressing anger and other emotions in adult and loving ways
$25.95
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Nicole Lepera How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships
This book illuminates how to break trauma bonds and form relationships rooted in mutual respect and compassion. Learn how to create safety in your body and mind, identify your unmet needs, develop emotional resilience, build deep emotional connections with others and maintain healthy interdependence. Whether you struggle to maintain the kinds of relationships you want, or are facing a challenge with a spouse, partner, parent, sibling, child, friend, or colleague's ”You can break painful cycles and reconnect with the wisdom, appreciation, and compassion. When we tap into our innate capacity to love, we can become the love we seek.
$39.50
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Dr. Ellen Hendriksen How to Be Yourself
Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety Weaving together cutting-edge science, concrete tips, and the compelling stories of real people who have risen above their social anxiety, this book proposes a groundbreaking idea: you already have everything you need to succeed in any unfamiliar social situation. As someone who lives with social anxiety, Dr. Hendriksen has devoted her career to helping her clients overcome the same obstacles she has conquered. Readers learn the roots of social anxiety and why it endures, how we can rewire our brains through our behavior, and―at long last―exactly how to quiet your Inner Critic, the voice that whispers, "Everyone will judge you." Use these techniques to develop confidence, think through the buzz of anxiety, and feel comfortable in any situation.
$22.50
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Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide
The authors guide you through the straightforward, practical, conversational techniques necessary for every successful conversation -- whether the issue is climate change, religious faith, gender identity, race, poverty, immigration, or gun control. They cover everything from learning the fundamentals for good conversations to achieving expert-level techniques to deal with hardliners and extremists. This book is the manual everyone needs to foster a climate of civility, connection, and empathy.
$25.99
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Nicole Lepera How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery
Author of How to Do the Work, Dr. Nicole offered readers a revolutionary, holistic framework for self-healing. This interactive workbook is designed to help readers uncover their authentic self. By objectively and compassionately observing the physical, mental, and emotional patterns that fill our days and create our current selves, we can more clearly see what we do not wish to carry into the future. We have the innate ability to awaken to and change the behaviors and habits that no longer serve us, allowing us to step into the highest versions of ourselves.
$29.99
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