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Gratitude Prayers: Prayers, Poems, and Prose for Everyday Thankfulness

Best-selling author June Cotner presents an enriching collection of prayers, poems, and quotes chosen for their power to bring more joy and wonder to life by encouraging an attitude of everyday thankfulness.

“The selections in this book will encourage you to pay attention to things that make you laugh, the places that nourish you, the loved ones who inspire and guide you, and caring strangers who bring blessings to your days.”—June Cotner

Gratitude Prayers is an uplifting collection of inspiring prayers, reflective poems, and motivating quotes that will open you to experience more joy and wonder in life. In this gracious anthology, June Cotner offers more than 100 motivational selections that remind you to embrace each and every day with abundance and thankfulness. Gratitude Prayers includes the voices of classic visionaries such as Rumi, Anne Frank, Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, whose words mingle eloquently alongside contemporary writers such as Michael S. Glaser and Barbara Crooker. The writers in this exuberant book share how to seek out tiny moments of joy, which will point the way toward finding the good in every situation.

 

Divided into ten chapters, Gratitude Prayers offers a transformational perspective on finding happiness through gratefulness. Chapters include: Simple Pleasures, Everyday Life, The Natural World, Friends and Family, Joy and Wonder, Faith and Courage, Prayers and Blessings, as well as Reflections, and Inspirations. In addition, the book closes with a chapter dedicated to what June calls, “Gratitude Boosters,” short, easily read passages that offer the reader an instantaneous paradigm shift.  Let gratitude inspire your attitude with Gratitude Prayers.

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Imagine Quilts: 11 Patterns from Everyday Inspirations

With this terrific collection of quilt patterns, popular blogger Dana Bolyard invites quilters of all ages and skill levels to innovate and create.

Fascinating designs range in size from small wall hangings to bed-sized quiltsUnique projects are organized into four groups: combining colors based on your stash, using traditional blocks in new ways, finding inspiration in unexpected places, and breaking the rulesStep-by-step instructions ensure success, teach skills, and spark ideas for future projects

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Profiles in Christian Courage: Extraordinary Inspiration for Everyday Life

Everyday life requires courage. From physical challenges to moral and spiritual ones, Profiles in Christian Courage tells the stories of inspiring figures whose lives can encourage us in our own struggles. In twenty reader-friendly chapters, Kerry Walters explores the meaning and scope of Christian courage, offers tips on how to cultivate it in daily life, and profiles of Christians who have exemplified it themselves. The portraits are of modern women and men from all parts of the globe. Some are well-known, such as Mother Theresa, C.S. Lewis, or Thea Bowman, while others are less known. Some faced extreme physical threats, while others faced spiritual or emotional darkness. But they are all inspiring role models for everyday courage in our own lives.

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Motivation – Discover the Magic of Motivation: Discover how to be motivated, how to stay motivated and how to start everyday with a positive attitude … thinking and motivational books) (Volume 1)

Motivation, Discover The Magic of Motivation – 7 Days for a Total Positive Transformation and Success Discover how to be motivated, how to stay motivated and how to start everyday with a positive attitude so you can achieve success and reach your goals now. . This powerful motivational book will inspire you to pursue your dreams and will teach you how to be motivated and how to acquire a positive mental attitude towards life with inspirational guidelines and easy to follow techniques to keep your motivation high. Your motivation is the core element of everything you want to achieve in life and this book will show you how to overcome your fears and how to achieve your goals. Learn how adversity can be a strong motivator and how others have conquered their fears and defeated every obstacle until they found success and their inner strength. With this book you will also learn how to set achievable goals so you keep your motivation high and you will find about the magic of staying focused while you pursue your dreams. With this powerful guide that should be from now on be among your collection of motivational books, you will discover how to start every day motivated and empowered with a strong positive attitude. You’ll also learn how to overcome procrastination and finally start to get things done so discover how to succeed and reach your lifetime goals. Also included in this marvelous guide you will find the most powerful inspirational quotes that will ignite your inner drive so you thrive from now on. Get your guide for life motivation now, this book will be your best choice when it comes to self-motivation books. You will discover how to manage your time with easy to follow principles that will transform your life. Here is what is included in this powerful motivational book: – Why Motivation is at the Root of Everything You Want to Achieve in Life and Why You Need this Book – How to Acquire Good Habits to Build Your Motivation – How to Manage Your Time so You Stay Motivated – Discover the 8 Principles to Manage Your Schedule and the Best Tips to Manage Your Time Wisely – How to Overcome Procrastination to Succeed in Life – How to Start Every Day Motivated and With a Positive Attitude – Motivation = POWER, How to Recover our Inner Drive – Discover the Best Motivation Techniques – How to Overcome Your Fears and Achieve Your Goals – How to Stay Positive and Focused – How to be More Productive so You Reinforce Your Motivation – How to Overcome Every Obstacle in Life – Adversity as a Strong Motivator – How to Set Achievable Goals and Keep Your Motivation High – The Magic of Staying Focused – 7 Days for a Total Positive Transformation and Success – Powerful Motivational and Inspirational Quotes to Keep You Inspired Limited time discount, click the buy button now and download your copy today! Take action and enjoy this inspirational guide so you complete your motivational books collection and discover the magic of motivation now!

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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive

Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No—it’s just their developing brain calling the shots!

In this pioneering, practical audiobook, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson demystify the meltdowns and aggravation, explaining the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. The “upstairs brain,” which makes decisions and balances emotions, is under construction until the mid-twenties. And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule over the logic of the left brain. No wonder kids can seem—and feel—so out of control. By applying these discoveries to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and foster vital growth. Raise calmer, happier children using twelve key strategies, including:

• Name It to Tame It: Corral raging right-brain behavior through left-brain storytelling, appealing to the left brain’s affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional storms and bodily tension.
• Engage, Don’t Enrage: Keep your child thinking and listening, instead of purely reacting.
• Move It or Lose It: Use physical activities to shift your child’s emotional state.
• Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By: Guide your children when they are stuck on a negative emotion, and help them understand that feelings come and go.
• SIFT: Help children pay attention to the Sensations, Images, Feelings, and Thoughts within them so that they can make better decisions and be more flexible.
• Connect Through Conflict: Use discord to encourage empathy and greater social success.

Complete with clear explanations, age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles, and illustrations that will help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so that your children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives.

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Parenting Your Powerful Child: Bringing an End to the Everyday Battles

Don’t let those cherublike faces fool you. Your smart kids have an agenda — and they’re workin’ ya. Powerful kids don’t just happen. They’re created, and their power comes in different packages. Whether loud and temperamental, quiet and sensitive, or stubborn and manipulative, powerful children can make living with them a challenge. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In Parenting Your Powerful Child, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Kevin Leman offers a practical action plan to redirect your child’s power surges into positive traits that will prepare your child for a successful, happy, and productive adult life. With these simple but effective techniques, you can transform your home from a daily battle zone to a safe and peaceful place. All it takes is a little determination — and some small changes on your part — to make a huge difference in your family life. Ready for the power struggle to end?

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Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience

Powerful ideas from narrative therapy can teach us how to create new life stories and promote change.

Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are shaped by story. The ways in which we understand and share the stories of our lives therefore make all the difference. If we tell stories that emphasize only desolation, then we become weaker. If we tell our stories in ways that make us stronger, we can soothe our losses and ease our sorrows. Learning how to re-envision the stories we tell about ourselves can make an enormous difference in the ways we live our lives. Drawing on wisdoms from the field of narrative therapy, this book is designed to help people rewrite and retell the stories of their lives.

The book invites readers to take a new look at their own stories and to find significance in events often neglected, to find sparkling actions that are often discounted, and to find solutions to problems and predicaments in unexpected places. Readers are introduced to key ideas of narrative practice like the externalizing problems – ‘the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem’ -and the concept of “re-membering” one’s life. Easy-to-understand examples and exercises demonstrate how these ideas have helped many people overcome intense hardship and will help readers make these techniques their own. The book also outlines practical strategies for reclaiming and celebrating one’s experience in the face of specific challenges such as trauma, abuse, personal failure, grief, and aging. 

Filled with relatable examples, useful exercises, and informative illustrations, Retelling the Stories of Our Lives leads readers on a path to reclaim their past and re-envision their future. 25 illustrations

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Think Good Thoughts: Positive Affirmations for Everyday Living

Your reality is created by whatever you think about. Whatever you focus on multiplies. The positive thoughts on this CD cover all parts of your life including love, family, friends, wealth, body image and spirituality. Whatever you intensely imagine, passionately desire, genuinely believe, and devotedly act upon must come to pass. As you change your mind you can change your life.

Use this CD while driving, cooking, exercising or even as you fall asleep at night.