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We Are the 1: A Practical and Inspirational Journey Toward Self-Empowerment (Volume 1)

Do you feel lost, let down, or disconnected? Are you unhappy with the way things are going in your life?

If you answered yes to either of these questions, We Are the 1: A Practical and Inspirational Journey Toward Self-Empowerment will give you the inspiration and instruction you need to turn your life around.

We Are the 1 is the story of how Zanda K. Gutek turned her unfilled life into one full of purpose by seeking divine guidance and journeying inward to understand herself, embrace her intuition, and realize her full potential. Her story tells us that “it can be done”—even when it seems like there is nowhere else to turn, we can turn to ourselves to find the power and strength we need to deal with everyday stresses and decisions.

By reading Zanda’s amazing account, you will learn what it takes to surrender to your inner power and discover the steps to take along your own path to realizing your full potential. Once you are on that path, you will find that We Are the 1 has steered you to a place where you are happy, comfortable with yourself and others, and enjoying life in ways you never thought possible.

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The Self-Acceptance Project: How to Be Kind and Compassionate Toward Yourself in Any Situation

Even after years of spiritual practice, self-improvement, or therapy, many of us still have trouble with one essential challenge: self-acceptance. How do we stop from constantly judging ourselves as inadequate, finding fault with our bodies, or being plagued by our inner critics? The Self-Acceptance Project was created to help us find a solution. In this collection of essays, contemporary luminaries in spirituality, psychology, and creativity offer insights and teachings for truly embracing who we are no matter what our circumstances, including:
 
• “Waking Up from the Trance of Unworthiness”—Tara Brach illuminates the source of self-rejection and offers a powerful process to reverse unconscious patterns
• “Compassion for the Self-Critic”—Dr. Kristin Neff shows how self-judgment is often a misplaced but well-meaning survival instinct
• “Held, Not Healed”—Jeff Foster on making the space to accept anything that arises with open-hearted curiosity
• “No Strangers in the Heart”—poet Mark Nepo helps us reconnect to the sense of deep aliveness that we were born with
• “Taking in the Good”—Dr. Rick Hanson offers effective neuroscience-based insights and practices for overcoming our “negativity bias”
• “Transforming Self-Criticism into Self-Compassion”—Dr. Kelly McGonigal reveals practical strategies for changing the habitual way we treat ourselves
 
Why is it often so much easier to feel compassion and forgiveness toward others than toward ourselves? Where do our self-critical voices come from? Can we be motivated to grow and excel while still accepting ourselves as we are? In these 19 offerings, some of today’s most trusted teachers share their most valuable practices and techniques for building confidence, transforming our relationship with our inner critics, and using any circumstance as an opportunity to treat ourselves with kindness, compassion, and love.

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Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy: Toward a Theory of Self and Social Empowerment (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
This book introduces a progressive type of education called Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy. This pedagogy utilizes the arts to promote critical learning, and incorporates particular types of aesthetic experiences into pedagogical practices to increase students’ social empowerment and commitment to social justice. The first coherent body of work that marries critical pedagogy and aesthetics, the book guides theory and practice for teacher educators interested in infusing their critical pedagogical practices with the arts. It also proposes tangible reforms in the public school system that will enable a critical aesthetic process to take root and thrive.
Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy can be used in upper-level undergraduate and graduate teacher education and art education courses. It can also help P-12 teachers and art organizations to successfully develop and carry out critical aesthetic practices at all levels. In addition, it provides a rationale for school administrators, community leaders, and educational policymakers for embracing critical aesthetic practices as a way to improve the education of all children.

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Affirmations That Move the Throne Room of GOD: A 30-45 day journey of adjusting your mind toward GOD’S plans and desires for you

Take a 30-45 day journey of adjusting your mind toward GOD’S plans and desires for you. You will notice positive changes. Apply the affirmations to your life correctly and you will feel empowered to put your best foot forward. Think about this: It takes about 40 days for a positive thought to impact your consciousness. Normally what we say, we see, and what we think, we experience. Now, it is time to change the way that you speak whether your experiences have been good or bad. If your experiences have been good, make them better. If your experiences have been otherwise, crack the code of defeat and accomplish victory. You experience victory when the positive words that you speak and what you think, align with your actions. Allow this 30-45 day journey to create miracles in your life, and cause you to prosper. Affirmations That Move the Throne Room of GOD is a collective of 30 declarations created to bring positive, life changing, experiences into your life. This book was created to offer guidance, support and wisdom to set your feet on the right path toward the ONE who will move on your behalf. With these meditative affirmations and the journal questions that follow each one, you can stay mindful of your thoughts and words and begin producing miracles in your life because your words speak life and nothing else. With a combination of wisdom and instruction from the Throne Room of GOD, this book was authored in one day to help those who desire transformation in their lives. The affirmations that this book embodies will open your eyes to something bigger than you.

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Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy: Toward a Theory of Self and Social Empowerment

This book introduces a progressive type of education called Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy. This pedagogy utilizes the arts to promote critical learning, and incorporates particular types of aesthetic experiences into pedagogical practices to increase students’ social empowerment and commitment to social justice. The first coherent body of work that marries critical pedagogy and aesthetics, the book guides theory and practice for teacher educators interested in infusing their critical pedagogical practices with the arts. It also proposes tangible reforms in the public school system that will enable a critical aesthetic process to take root and thrive.

Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy can be used in upper-level undergraduate and graduate teacher education and art education courses. It can also help P–12 teachers and art organizations to successfully develop and carry out critical aesthetic practices at all levels. In addition, it provides a rationale for school administrators, community leaders, and educational policymakers for embracing critical aesthetic practices as a way to improve the education of all children.

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Strip Yourself Naked: Your Journey toward Self-Empowerment: Inspiring Success Stories on Overcoming Adversity, Hardship, and Challenges

If you are facing adversity, no matter what your situation may be, there is hope! Valentina Rise, a certified life coach, intuitive healer, teacher, and the founder of the Bio Matrix Energy Healing Technique, has dedicated her life to the crucial work of inspiring others. Now she shares her best tips, lessons, and tools to help you learn how to overcome adversity in your life. You can create the change you crave to lead a happier, healthier, and more fulfilling life. Strip Yourself Naked: Your Journey toward Self-Empowerment shares a wide range of inspiring success stories to help motivate you. It seeks to open your mind to new possibilities and give you the powerful inspiration you need to take that first step to an exciting new reality. So get ready to strip away all that you know, all that you thought you knew, and everything that you’ve been told by family, friends, society, partners, coworkers, and others – a new you awaits! You can experience a powerful rebirth into newfound power that can encourage you to step boldly ahead to a brighter future. Your journey of inspired change is about to begin.

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One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days and 40 Nights Toward Spiritual Strength and Personal Growth

One Day My Soul Just Opened Up is a program of inspiration and motivation that will help you work through problems and improve your emotional and spiritual health. Through exercises and readings, Iyanla provides you with the tools to tap into your strengths and make your dreams come true. One Day My Soul Just Opened Up will open your mind, heart, and soul to the truth of your identity as a creative and powerful being.Ordained minister and “spiritual life counselor” Iyanla Vanzant doesn’t know the exact moment when her soul opened up “and the spirit of the divine entered [her] body.” But she will always remember the key insight that opened the door to her soul and simultaneously locked the door to her insanity: “If you know who walks beside you, you can never be afraid.” This is the premise from which Vanzant has launched her enormously successful 40-day, spiritual self-help program. One Day My Soul Just Opened Up is designed as day-by-day journal/workbook to help readers believe in a divine presence while pondering daily spiritual lessons such as simplicity, peace, compassion, and nonjudgement.

The charismatic Vanzant (whom Oprah Winfrey considers to be one of the world’s most admirable spiritual leaders) has a gift for humble, tell-it-like-it-is talk. She is also a wise and warm soul, eager to help others trust in love and find a relationship with God in order to get on with their lives. Readers especially like her daily list of inspirations titled “Let Me Remember.” For example, under day 23, “When You Feel Angry,” she uses the list to remind readers: “All things work to bring me healing”; “Forgiveness will provide relief and release”; and “Love will heal anything that is not an expression of love.” –Gail Hudson