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	10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-esteem It's no secret that we're all bombarded with negative messages. We're too fat, too thin, work too much, not enough. Combine this with the fact that we are far more critical of ourselves than we would be of others, and you can see why low self-esteem is a common and dangerous threat to many of us. Maintaining a strong and healthy self-esteem will help an individual be happy, successful and well-adjusted, but the consequences of negative self-esteem can be very severe: depression, anxiety, fragile relationships and a lifetime of unnecessary suffering. Author Glenn Schiraldi's Self-Esteem Workbook offers readers a comprehensive programme for assessing and increasing self-esteem. But many of us simply haven't the time or the motivation to undertake a major re-evaluation of the way we see ourselves. Fortunately, this latest installment in New Harbinger's Ten Simple Solutions series offers readers quick, easy-to-grasp tips for fostering a positive sense of self, distilling the best techniques from the author's successful Self-Esteem Workbook. With a little patience and practice, readers will discover what wonderful, valuable people they really are. Author: Glenn R. Schiraldi Publisher: New Harbinger Publications,U.S. ISBN: 9781572244955 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.21
	Awakening Self Esteem This is the first book to integrate research-based psychological coping strategies with spiritual practices to improve self-esteem. There are few practical resources, instruction manuals, work plans, or study guides available for people seeking deeper meaning in their lives. But the benefits of personal spirituality donit necessarily require a lifetime of commitment to a religious or spiritual tradition. The tools for change developed by cognitive and behavioral science can provide you with the means of directing your thoughts, feelings, and actions toward your spiritual awakening. The strategies in this book are not a replacement for the great traditions of spirituality that you've been familiar with since childhood they are not intended, in fact, to provide spiritual advice at all. Rather, they are aimed at boosting your strength and resolve to explore your spirituality. This book liberates psychology from confinement in the secular sciences and creates a powerful synergy between cognition, behavioral study, and metaphysical exploration. Passionate acceptance of human imperfection is the first step towards awakening your new sense of self. The bookis exercises begin by encouraging you to be more present in your everyday life. Then, discover how to use your senses to relate to your inner and outer worlds. Guided relaxation and visualization help you overcome self-imposed emotional obstacles. Deal directly and promptly with critical issues in your life. Affirm and accept value in yourself while becoming more assertive. Let go of relationships that reinforce your negative self-image. Increase feelings of connectedness. Author: Arthur M. Nezu Publisher: New Harbinger Publications,U.S. ISBN: 9781572243439 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $26.95 Our Price: $23.99
	But I Didn't Mean That! If you don't do it yourself, you certainly know someone who is forever putting a foot into his or her mouth. This person has raised the tasteless, thoughtless, tactless, or otherwise terrifically awful remark into an art form. If there is a wrong place, a wrong time, or a wrong person to whom to say anything, they're on the spot and on the ready. And though we can joke about it (at the right time, of course), careless speech is no laughing matter. Words really can hurt-not only the person at whom they're aimed but the speaker, too, whose relationship, career, and social prospects can all suffer as a result of unmindful speech. Fortunately, this book can help even the most scandalous mis-speaker. It outlines six simple questions, called Q-Points (Questions of Positive Thinking and Speaking) for readers to keep in mind before they speak. Who am I speaking to? What am I not seeing? Where will my words get me? How will the other person react to my words? When do I say it? And why must I say it at all? By coming up with an answer in the moment before speaking, anyone can start to avoid terrible slips in speaking judgment that can hurt themselves and others. The book analyzes the most problematic speaking situation to show how the Q-points can be use to start conversing with empathy, confidence, and unimpeachable tact. Author: June Paris & Rachel Small Publisher: New Harbinger Publications,U.S. ISBN: 9781572244887 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $22.95 Our Price: $20.43
	How to Stop Backing Down and Start Talking Back Here's a book for all those times you said yes but really meant no. Every day we encounter difficult people with whom we're tempted to agree to anything-if only they will go away. The list of characters is virtually endless: the rude acquaintance, the dismissive relative, the passive-aggressive coworker. Of course, the best way to deal with all of them is to hold your ground, communicating your needs and feelings openly and assertively. But, of course, this approach is always easier said than done. The less-than-assertive among us sometimes need a little help to take charge of these difficult exchanges and start getting what we want. This concise, witty book reveals the secrets you need to know to make the most of difficult conversational situations. The book offers an arsenal of rhetorical weapons you can use to stop verbal assailants in their tracks like the snappy comeback, the well-argued response, and the simple truth. From ways to answer the ubiquitous How are you? honestly to strategies for talking to an unresponsive physician, the book offers up fun, easy ways to deal effectively with common situations. In no time, you'll learn to hold your own in family discussions and relate to significant others with confidence, savvy, and tact. Author: Patrick Fanning & Lisa Frankfort Publisher: New Harbinger Publications,U.S. ISBN: 9781572244177 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $20.95 Our Price: $18.65
	Memories That Matter How do we get to be who we are? Are we born that way, or do our experiences mold us into the people we eventually become? It's an old question, and the answer probably lies somewhere in between. Nevertheless, it's clear that our memories do play a critical role in establishing who we are and how we set about living our lives. This book discusses our memories and how they work to define our personalities. Research suggests that certain powerful recollections called self-defining memories (SDMs) have a profound impact on larger issues pertaining to our identity and mental health. This book offers an approach you can use to tap into SDMs and analyze these memories for their specificity, meaning, content, and affect. Once understood, these SDMs reveal clues you can use to maximize the helping aspects and minimize the hurting aspects of these memories. You'll first learn how to identify SDMs and how to discover the life lessons they contain. By paying attention to SDMs, you can avoid repeating harmful patterns in your life. You'll find out how memories affect moods and how to use SDMs to control moods, enhance sensuality, and manage stress. Ultimately, the book guides you to explore deeper issues of life's meaning through SDMs, offering you a memory-based legacy you can share with important people in your life. Author: Jefferson Singer Publisher: New Harbinger Publications,U.S. ISBN: 9781572244078 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $23.95 Our Price: $21.32
	Visualise Confidence To achieve, you have to believe. It's that simple. If you can't picture yourself doing something difficult or challenging, you won't, because you won't have confidence in yourself. This book offers readers ten proven-effective skills for developing the confidence they need to turn their dreams into reality through the use of guided imagery. The guided imagery process couldn't be simpler or more powerful: whatever it is that you want to achieve, you develop a rich picture of it happening in your mind. Research proves that visualization stimulates the brain in many the same ways as actual experience. By visualizing you prepare yourself to experience your goal, developing self-confidence and conviction as you go. Readers will gain renewed optimism, learn anti-worry strategies, and use their imagination to foster mental calmness they need to feel confident, poised and assured. The mind-body techniques in the book include guided imagery, meditation, creative visualization and personal rituals and exercises. Author: Kirwan Rockefeller Publisher: New Harbinger Publications,U.S. ISBN: 9781572244948 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $22.95 Our Price: $20.43
	Courage Based on the tenets of the Japanese monk Nichiren, these guides provide insight and advice on injecting Buddhist philosophies into one's relationships and spirituality. Drawing on ancient themes of compassion and happiness, these compilations distill the essence of Buddhist scripture. These instructions for applying the readings to modern life will also teach about the many facets of love, determination, courage, and prayer. The concise, easy-to-follow entries are ideal for anyone looking to discover and cultivate a more spiritual life. Author: Daisaku Ikeda Publisher: Middleway Press ISBN: 9780972326766 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $13.31
	Flying Solo Written with candour and humour, the Sunscreen series offers preteens and teens advice on the topics that interest them most in a compact, highly illustrated paperback. This title offers reassuring advice on feelings of isolation and loneliness that teens may be going through. Written in a conversational, hip tone, teens will feel as though they are not alone with the depressed feelings they may have or the fear that they don't fit in. Whether it's fighting depression, communicating with your parents, or making friends, this title with give teens the confidence they need to interact with others in a positive way. Author: Pascale Perrier & Erin Zimring Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN: 9780810992818 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $18.95 Our Price: $16.87
	Get Motivated 52 quick, easy and practical motivational articles from the author of Would You Like Attitude With That? Re-charge your batteries, change for the better and achieve all that you desire. Australian author. Author: Justin Herald Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781741149906 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $18.95 Our Price: $16.87
	How to Develop Self-confidence This book will show you how to overscome the natural fear of public speaking and even learn to enjoy it. Drawing on Dale Carnegie's years of experience as a business trainer, this practical book will help you to become a successful speaker. His invaluable advice includes ways to: * Develop poise * Gain self-confidence * Improve your memory * Make your meaning clear * Begin and end a talk effectively * Interest and charm your audience * Improve your diction * Win an argument without making enemies Dale Carnegie's methods have helped millions of people worldwide. Make sure you have the advantage, and make them work for you too. Author: Dale Carnegie Publisher: Ebury Press ISBN: 9780749305796 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.21
	How to Raise Your Self-esteem Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success. Now, one of America's foremost psychologists and a pioneer in self-esteem development offers a step-by-step guide to strengthening your sense of self-worth. Here are simple, straightforward and effective techniques that will dramatically improve the way you think and feel about yourself. You'll learn: How to break free of negative self-concepts and self-defeating behavior. How to dissolve internal barriers to success in work and love. How to overcome anxiety, depression, guilt and anger. How to conquer the fear of intimacy and success. How to find -- and keep -- the courage to love yourself. And much more. Author: Nathaniel Branden Publisher: Random House Publishers ISBN: 9780553266467 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $18.95 Our Price: $16.87
	Self-esteem Revolutions in Children Offering practical and achievable methods to help children gain self-respect, this guide enables parents to discover the basics of self-esteem, the relationship between discipline and self-respect, and the reasons for the junior high self-esteem crash. A robust, yet realistic self-esteem is taught through five critical strategies in which gimmicks and good intentions are replaced by the hard work of both parents and children. Following this step-by-step program, parents can help their children to feel better about themselves and to make changes toward building a strong sense of self. Author: Thomas W. Phelan Publisher: Child Management Inc.,U.S. ISBN: 9781889140018 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $21.95 Our Price: $19.54
	Survive Bullying at Work Bullying at work is a serious problem for many people today. Anyone who has ever been bullied will know how demoralising and difficult it can be, and at times it can seem as if there is no escape. Covering everything from understanding why bullies behave as they do, to standing up for yourself and knowing your rights at work, Survive Bullying can help you make the best of a challenging situation. Whether you are being bullied yourself or want to help a victim of bullying, this book is full of essential information that can help everyone move on with their lives. This book features a quiz, step-by-step guidance and action points, lists of common mistakes and how to avoid them, top tips, and lists of handy weblinks and further reading. 'A jazzy, upfront and contemporary looking series. Each one is focused and full of the things that it should have. Put these on the shelf and they will shout "buy me".' The Bookseller Author: Lorenza Clifford Publisher: A & C Black Publishers ISBN: 9780713675207 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $17.76
	Ten Simple Solutions to Shyness In this book, an expert in the treatment of social anxiety and phobia offers ten easy-to-use, concise exercises based on cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, that readers can use to throw off shyness, unease in gatherings, and fear of giving speeches or talks. The book examines shyness by symptoms: physical discomfort, anxious thoughts, and bothersome behaviours, and offers solutions that address all three types of symptoms. Author: Martin M. Antony Publisher: New Harbinger Publications,U.S. ISBN: 9781572243484 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.21
	There is Nothing Wrong with You This book reveals the origin of self-hate, how self-hate works, how to identify it, and how to go beyond it. It provides examples of some of the forms self-hate takes, including taking blame but not credit, holding grudges, and trying to be perfect, and explores the many facets of self-hate, including its role in addiction, the battering cycle, and the illusion of control. After addressing these factors, it illustrates how a meditation practice can be developed and practised in efforts to free oneself from self-hating beliefs. Author: Cheri Huber Publisher: Keep it Simple Books,U.S. ISBN: 9780971030909 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $20.95 Our Price: $18.65
	Toxic Criticism Shows you how to end the negative cycle of accepting criticism from others and understand its source. This work explains how to stop generating self-criticism through personality work, cognitive therapy, and spiritual practices. It helps you silence your internalized pain and shame and transform it into a force for self-improvement and strength. Author: Eric Maisel Publisher: McGraw Hill Publishers ISBN: 9780071465557 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $26.95 Our Price: $23.99
	Life Was Never Meant to be a Struggle In this amusing CD, Stuart Wilde in his inimitable style helps you identify the cause of struggle in your life and shows you how to eliminate it quickly through a concerted action plan. Your heritage is to be free. To achieve that freedom, you have to move gradually from struggle into free FLOW. Author: Stuart Wilde Publisher: Hay House ISBN: 9781401904524 Format: Audio Book - CD List Price: $16.95 Our Price: $15.09
	Self-esteem Affirmations This compact disc contains a series of positive affirmations created and narrated by Louise Hay, renowned metaphysical teacher and lecturer and bestselling author of 19 books, including You Can Heal Your Life and Empowering Women. Author: Louise L. Hay Publisher: Hay House ISBN: 9781561705320 Format: Audio Book - CD List Price: $16.95 Our Price: $15.09
	Six Pillars of Self-Esteem Essential reading for anyone with a personal or professional interest in self-esteem, this book demonstrates compellingly why self-esteem is basic to psychological health, achievement, personal happiness and positive relationships. The six pillars are action-based practices for daily living that provide the foundation for self-esteem Author: Nathaniel Branden Publisher: Bantam Books ISBN: 9780553374391 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $32.95 Our Price: $29.33
	Affirmations for Self-esteem Each case contains 12 colorfully illustrated cards designed to give you an enhanced sense of joy, power, and contentment! This item is great for your point of purchase display! Author: Louise L. Hay Publisher: Hay House ISBN: 9781401900748 Format: Cards & Flash Cards List Price: $9.95 Our Price: $8.86