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“God help me. I stopped hating white people on purpose about a year ago.”

With this brave confession, award-winning author Patricia Raybon invites readers to join her courageous personal journey to stop hating others by learning first to love God, her family and herself.

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Your future depends on the choices you make now. What most people think of as the inevitable effects of aging are, in fact, the result of unhealthy lifestyle choices, and are preventable. Midlife is the ideal time to build healthy habits that will improve your life now and enable you to be at your best as you age. This book is for you if you are seeking: motivation to take action in midlife for lifelong well-being; a succinct and accessible overview of the research about aging well; confidence and effective strategies for making healthy lifestyle improvements; a broad range of options to strengthen your physical, mental, emotional, and social health; and optimism about your future. Use this easy-to-read book as a tool to customize your plan for aging well. Take action and start living the good life today!

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Winner of eight awards including Books For A Better Life and the Colorado Book Award, this powerful debut memoir chronicles Nancy Sharp’s story of love, loss, and bold change. Loss might be universal, says Nancy, but so, too, is hope. Ultimately, Both Sides Now is a story of understanding and hope.

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It’s said that a habit can be built in three weeks – we’ve added a fourth to anchor the experience. Over 28 days, you will do 28 different exercises designed to generate a greater awareness of all the good in your life. It might be within you, the value of others, the blessings in your work, home, family, the good you having flowing in your material life. Gratitude works in every area of our lives, and its benefits start immediately. We all have different areas that are easier for us to be more grateful for – and areas in our lives we struggle to find any good. The exercises in this course are designed to cover a wide array of these areas – to give us practice in them all. Each day is its own chapter, and each chapter includes a section you can use to make note of any significant lesson or aha moment you’ve experienced in that exercise. To really benefit from this workout, make it a personal commitment. Only you can benefit — or not – from being true to your daily exercises. If you miss a day, re-start by repeating the last day you had done and get back into the flow. When you’ve finished this workout, repeat it again in order of the days 1-28, or choose a category you might want to work a little bit more on. The 28 Day Gratitude Workout book is a companion to The 28 Day Gratitude Workout online course. www.The28DayGratitudeWorkout.com.

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Do you find yourself stuck in the “I’ll be happy when . . .” trap, believing that achievements or big life changes are what will bring you lasting happiness? In Happier Now, nationally recognized emotional health expert Nataly Kogan shares her lifelong struggle of searching for the elusive “big happy” to how she finally made the essential mindset shifts that allowed her to live with more self-compassion, joy, and meaning. Nataly redefines happiness as a skill that anyone can cultivate. She shares a wealth of simple, science-backed practices―used successfully by more than a million people―so you can experience more joy in ordinary moments and greater resilience when times get tough. Nataly’s approach is grounded and practical. You won’t be asked to make difficult, time-consuming changes or gloss over life’s very real challenges. Rather, you’ll learn five core skills―and the science behind them―so you can feel more joy and less stress in your daily life.

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Nationally recognized communication expert Debra Fine reveals the techniques and strategies anyone can use to make small talk–in any situation. Do you spend an abnormal amount of time hiding out in the bathroom or hanging out at the buffet table at social gatherings? Does the thought of striking up a conversation with a stranger make your stomach do flip-flops? Do you sit nervously through job interviews waiting for the other person to speak? Are you a “Nervous Ned or Nellie” when it comes to networking? Then it’s time you mastered The Fine Art of Small Talk. With practical advice and conversation “cheat sheets,” The Fine Art of Small Talk will help you learn to feel more comfortable in any type of social situation, from lunch with the boss to an association event to a cocktail party where you don’t know a soul.

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Addiction is relentless, convincing and a master of deceit. It would have to be to pull someone as confident as I was into its grip and hang on that tightly for so long. From my late teens and beyond, I lived what I believed was a well-ordered life at the mercy of alcoholism and eating disorders. Juggling addiction with life unraveled when I had triplets and was faced with the task of raising a child with special needs. I began a journey which led me to the realization that Adam, who had cerebral palsy, was not the only one in our family who needed help learning to walk. For Adam, learning to walk was the key to his independence. For me, reclaiming my life by learning to walk in recovery and faith saved my life. Adam led me to my life’s calling. My addictions led me to God who placed the reins of Adam’s Camp in my hands and gave me the willingness and gifts to found this organization for children with special needs and their families. This book delves into the very deliberate process of healing. Yet it should be no surprise to any person of faith that God works through the most broken. As a Christian, I glean examples of this throughout the Bible, from Moses to David to the motley crew of disciples. My brokenness did not prevent God from working through me to offer hope and healing to others in the midst of gracing my life with hope and healing of a very different kind. If you find yourself in the pages of this book, my hope is that you will discover it is never to late to learn to walk.

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