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Harvard-Westlake Parents Mindfulness Club recommended book Miracle of Mindfulness

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The Miracle of Mindfulness

The Classic Guide to Meditation by the World’s Most Revered Master by Thich Nhat Hanh (2008) Paperback (Classic Edition)

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The Gift of Failure

In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must...

Brainstorm

In this New York Times–bestselling book, Dr. Daniel Siegel shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children’s lives into one of the most...

How to Do Nothing

In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape.

Stolen Focus

In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes.

Dopamine Nation

This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance...

The Anxious Generation

A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier,...

Emotional Intelligence

Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why.

Open Heart, Open Mind

Tsoknyi Rinpoche's story is an unusual one: as a rebellious young man, he fled a monastery to marry and raise a family, then returned to Nepal and has since become...

The Body Keeps The Score

A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller

The Great Mantra Yoga Book

The Great Mantra Yoga Book – Mantras, Japa Yoga, Sound Healing & Spiritual Practice for Beginners and Advanced Practitioners

Mantra Meditation for Creating Abundance

According to the Vedic tradition, the term "abundance" applies to every dimension of our lives, from material wealth to spiritual sustenance and growth.

You Are Here

In this book, Thich Nhat Hanh—Zen monk, author, and meditation master—distills the essence of Buddhist thought and practice, emphasizing the power of mindfulness to transform our lives.

The Mindful Teen

In this powerful book, a pediatrician specializing in teen and adolescent medicine offers a breakthrough mindfulness program to help you deal with stress in healthy ways, improve communication, and reduce...

The Anxiety Workbook for Teen

If you feel anxious most of the time, you're not alone. There is no one in the world who doesn't feel anxious at some time. And it is even more...

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Reconnect to moments of everyday peace with this “terrific” (San Francisco Chronicle) guide to the transformative power of mindfulness, from world-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and bestselling author Thich Nhat...

The Book of Awakening

Philosopher-poet and cancer survivor, Mark Nepo opens a new season of freedom and joy--an escape from deadening, asleep-at-the wheel sameness--that is both profound and clarifying.

I'm Mindful, Now What?

Mindfulness is everywhere―now widely considered an essential part of a healthy lifestyle, much like exercise, diet, and good sleep.

Permission To Feel

The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do.

Radical Acceptance

In our current times of global crises and spiking collective anxiety, Tara Brach’s transformative practice of Radical Acceptance offers a pathway to inner freedom and a more compassionate world.

The Mindful Athlete

Michael Jordan and countless other NBA stars credit George Mumford with transforming their game. A widely respected public speaker and coach, Mumford shares his story and strategies in The Mindful...

10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People

Acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager reveals the new science of motivating young people ages ten through twenty-five in this groundbreaking book that is a must-read for managers, parents, educators, coaches,...

Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence

Aware provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence, and peace in one's day-to-day life.

The Whole-Brain Child

In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve...

Wherever You Go, There You Are

When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell over...

Sitting Still Like a Frog

Mindfulness—the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is—is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment.

Mindful Parenting: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners

Despite its inherent joys, parenting can be challenging and stressful. When a parent or child suffers from a mental health issue, these difficulties multiply.

Every Day a Good Day

I could not walk correctly. I did not know where to sit. I did not know which hand to use, what to pick up, how to pick it up. Nothing...

The Places That Scare You

Lifelong guidance for learning to change the way we relate to the scary and difficult moments of our lives, showing us..

The Essential Self Compassion Workbook for Teens

Feelings of anxiety, sadness, insecurity, and shame are challenging obstacles that may come your way while growing up, and they are difficult to manage alone.

The Self-Driven Child

A few years ago, Bill Stixrud and Ned Johnson started noticing the same problem from different angles: Even high-performing kids were coming to them acutely stressed and lacking motivation.

The Art of Loving

The psychoanalyst explores the theory, meaning, and practice of love, as well as its significance in contemporary Western society and its influence on the shape and course of an individual's...

Awakening Through Love

In Awakening Through Love, he pioneers new ways of making Tibetan meditations of compassion and wisdom accessible to people of all backgrounds and faiths.

Heart Minded

A treasury of meditations for living from your heart―from a top teacher at the #1 online meditation service InsightTimer.

When Things Fall Apart

How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart—when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the...

How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials)

How to Love is the third title in Thich Nhat Hanh’s series of mindfulness books for beginners and seasoned practitioners. This time, he brings his signature clarity, compassion, and humor...

Good Inside

This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving—which is to say, all of us.

Workbook for Good Inside

In this workbook, which is in line with Dr Becky Kennedy’s well-written book, Benson Publications offers effective and practical insights on becoming the best you for your child.

Loving-Kindness

The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Shambhala Classics) Revised edition

The Obstacle Is the Way

The Obstacle is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do.

Comfortable with Uncertainty

This book offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living.

Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change

Is it possible to live well when the very ground we stand on is shaky? Yes, says everyone's favorite Buddhist nun, it's even possible to live beautifully, compassionately, and happily...

Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in...

Welcoming the Unwelcome

In her first new book of spiritual teachings in over seven years, Pema Chödrön offers a combination of wisdom, heartfelt reflections..

The Blessing of a B-Minus

When a child becomes a teenager, her sense of entitlement and independence grows, the pressure to compete skyrockets, and communication becomes fraught with obstacles.

Self-Compassion

Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your highest potential and...

Awakening Joy

Awakening Joy is more than just another book about happiness. More than simply offering suggested strategies to change our behavior, it uses time-tested practices to train the mind to learn...

The Art of Communicating

In this precise and practical guide, Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh reveals how to listen mindfully and express your fullest and most authentic self.

Altered Traits

In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to...

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition

Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new...

The Emotional Life of Your Brain

Sharing Dr. Davidson’s fascinating case histories and experiments, The Emotional Life of Your Brain offers a new model for treating conditions like autism and depression as it empowers us all...

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears. In seven short essays (plus a bite-sized...

How Emotions Are Made

Emotions feel automatic, like uncontrollable reactions to things we think and experience. Scientists have long supported this assumption by claiming that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain.

Wide Awake

Many of today's teenagers are tired of the pressure to compete and consume-and are looking for a different way to live their lives.

Mindful Learning

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), as pioneered by Jon Kabat-Zinn and others, is now being successfully applied in myriad areas of human activity—most recently, education.

Not Always So

Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is framed in his own inimitable, allusive, paradoxical style, rich with unexpected and off–centre insights.

The Gifts of Imperfection

Each day we face a barrage of images and messages from society and the media telling us who, what, and how we should be. We are led to believe that...

Coming Back to Life

Deepening global crises surround us, causing many to fall prey to denial and despair. Coming Back to Life shows how grief, anger, and fear are healthy responses to the harsh...

True Refuge

Introducing the 5 gates of grief, psychotherapist Francis Weller explores how we move through the waters of grief and loss in a culture so fundamentally detached from the needs of...

The Wild Edge Of Sorrow

There is another way. Beneath the turbulence of our thoughts and emotions exists a profound stillness, a silent awareness capable of limitless love.

Lying

In Lying, best-selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie.

How To Connect

The eighth book in the bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh that introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness practice.

Hold On to Your Kids

This parenting classic is as relevant today as it was when it was first published, shining a light on one of the most misunderstood trends of our time: how the...

Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness

The fifty-nine provocative slogans presented here—each with a commentary by the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa—have been used by Tibetan Buddhists for eight centuries to help meditation students remember and...

The Art of Simple Living

Relax and find happiness amid the swirl of the modern world with this internationally bestselling guide to simplifying your life by the renowned Zen Buddhist author of Don’t Worry and...

The Book of Tea

The original 1906 edition of The Book of Tea is one of the classic texts found on the desks of artists, poets, teaists and Zen Buddhists around the world. The...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line.

Raising Resilient Children

Top Child Psychologists Offer Expert Insight And Practical Advice For Raising Strong Kids In Today's Complicated World

The Breakthrough Years

Blending cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling, The Breakthrough Years offers readers a paradigm-shifting comprehensive understanding of adolescence.

Safe Enough Spaces

In this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education.

Pleasures Of Memory

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection.

No Time Like the Present

In this landmark work, internationally beloved teacher of meditation and mindfulness Jack Kornfield reveals that you can be happy now, this minute, with the keys to inner freedom.

Wise Heart

In The Wise Heart, celebrated author and psychologist Jack Kornfield offers the most accessible, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to Buddhist psychology ever published in the West.

A Path with Heart

This important guidebook shows in detail and with great humor and insight the way to practice the Buddha’s universal teachings here in the West. Jack Kornfield is a wonderful storyteller...

I Never Thought of It That Way

We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions.

The Power of Curiosity

The secret is curiosity. It is the innovation-driving, emotion-calming skill that comes so naturally to us as kids, but gets buried so easily beneath our busy, multitasking lifestyles.

Empathy

A popular speaker and co-founder of The School of Life, Roman Krznaric has traveled the world researching and lecturing on the subject of empathy.

Scattered Minds

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition.

Never Enough

In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today’s students face unprecedented pressure to succeed.

How to Train a Wild Elephant

A growing body of research is showing that mindfulness can reduce stress..

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy—who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these...

Mindful Monkey. Happy Panda

This wonderful picture book for children and adults alike introduces the powerful practice of mindfulness in a fun and exciting way.

Awakening Joy

Joy is not for just the lucky few–it’s a choice anyone can make. In this groundbreaking book, based on his popular course, James Baraz helps you discover a path to...

After the Ecstasy

The rich harvest of an entire generation's spiritual work in the West, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry is one of the most authentic and convincing accounts ever written of the...

A Wild Love for the World

Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology whose decades of writing, teaching, and activism have inspired people around the world.

A Path With Heart

Perhaps the most important book yet written on meditation, the process of inner transformation, and the integration of spiritual practice into our American way of life, A Path with Heart...

A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness

Mindfulness-based interventions have exploded in popularity due to their success in treating everything from everyday stress to more serious mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder...

You Belong-A Call for Connection

From much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie, You Belong is a call to action, exploring our tangled relationship with belonging, connection, and each other

World As Lover

Humanity is in an existential crisis. Facing the magnitude of our global situation as individuals leaves us feeling alone, disempowered, and despairing.

Trusting the Gold

A beautifully illustrated gift book to help us uncover and trust the innate goodness in ourselves and others.

True Refuge

How do you cope when facing life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old trauma, obsessive thinking, overwhelming emotion, or inevitable loss?

Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness

From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice.

The Wild Edge of Sorrow

The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and be stretched large by them.

The Soul of Money

A wise and inspiring exploration of the connection between money and leading a fulfilling life.

The Miracle of Mindfulness

An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

The Mindfulness Survival Kit

The Five Mindfulness Trainings (also referred to as “Precepts”)—not to kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, or take intoxicants—are the basic statement of ethics and morality in Buddhism.

The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery

Mindfulness, the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is, is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to...

The Little Book of Being

A practical guide for experiencing natural awareness―an effortless and spacious state of resting in the depth of our being.

The Joy of Half a Cookie

Anyone who’s tried to lose weight through sheer will power knows how difficult, if not impossible, it can be.

The Gratitude Project

In our fractured, “me-first” world, the science and practice of thankfulness could be just the antidote we need.

The Five Invitations

The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life.

The Craving Mind

A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so tenacious and how we can learn to conquer them

The Courage To Teach

Wisdom that's been inspiring, motivating, and guiding teachers for two decadesThe Courage to Teach speaks to the joys and pains that teachers of every sort know well.

The Art of Forgiveness

To remember the transforming power of forgiveness and lovingkindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

Sula

Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of...

Self-Compassion for Teens

Self-compassion is the key for teens to develop empathy and manage self-criticism, while increasing resilience and well-being.

Say What You Mean

Find your voice, speak your truth, listen deeply - a guide to more meaningful and mindful conversations.

Radical Friendship

A case for friendship as a radical practice of love, courage, and trust, and seven strategies that pave the way for profound social change.

Radical Compassion

One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart

Radical Acceptance

Writing with great warmth and clarity, Tara Brach brings her teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations.

Passion and Presence

Most romantic relationships follow a predictable pattern of initial enchantment followed by inevitable disenchantment.

Open To Desire

“A masterpiece. . . . It teaches us how not to fear and repress, but to rechannel and harness the most powerful energies of life toward freedom and bliss.” —ROBERT...

No Time Like the Present

In this landmark work, internationally beloved teacher of meditation and mindfulness Jack Kornfield reveals that you can be happy now, this minute, with the keys to inner freedom.

Neurodharma

“This deeply researched and compassionate guide offers an easy-to-follow road map for creating day-to-day inner peace in today’s increasingly complex world.” (Lori Gottlieb, New York Times best-selling author of Maybe...

My Grandmother's Hands

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

Mindfulness Meditation

A profound transformation can occur just by training your attention in awareness―a practice sweeping schools, workplaces, and institutions across the country with its capacity to decrease stress, cultivate inner calm,...

Mindfulness Oriented Interventions for Trauma

Grounded in research and accumulated clinical wisdom, this book describes a range of ways to integrate mindfulness and other contemplative practices into clinical work with trauma survivors.

Mindfulness in Plain English

Mindfulness in Plain English was first published in 1994, is one of the bestselling — and most influential — books in the field of mindfulness. It’s easy to see why.

Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

The mind contains the seeds of its own awakening―seeds that we can cultivate to bring forth the fruits of a life lived consciously.

Mindful of Race

"Racism is a heart disease," writes Ruth King, "and it's curable."

Loving What Is, Revised Edition

Discover the truth hiding behind troubling thoughts with Byron Katie’s self-help classic.

Love and Rage

White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death.

Inspiring Generosity

Inspiring stories and beautifully typeset quotations about generosity. WARNING: This book might change your life.

Inspiring Forgiveness

An encouraging guide for the angry or heartbroken soul, in the form of uplifting stories and quotations.

In An Unspoken Voice

Unraveling trauma in the body, brain, and mind - a revolution in treatment.

I Am That

Collecting Nisargadatta Maharaj's speeches on the Advaita Vedanta, I Am That explores the human existence and our association with the body.

How to be Sick

How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers is a life-affirming, instructive, and inspiring book about living gracefully and purposefully with the challengesfaced by...

How to Be an Antiracist

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews

How Can I Help?

Discover how giving of yourself can lead to some of the most joyous moments in your life—in a book that “deserves a special place on that shelf reserved for truly...

Healing Resistance

An expert in the field offers a mindfulness-based approach to nonviolent action, demonstrating how nonviolence is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation.

Healing Into Life and Death

Drawing on years of first-hand experience working with the chronically ill, here Levine presents original techniques for working with pain and grief.

Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer

A monk reflects on the many aspects of the spiritual life with the basic attitude of gratefulness. “A true delight.” ―Henri J. M. Nouwen

Full Catastrophe Living

Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease.

Emptiness

Guy Armstrong has been a leading figure and beloved teacher of insight meditation for decades.

Emptiness Dancing

Who are you when you are not thinking yourself into existence? What is ultimately behind the set of eyes reading these words? In Emptiness Dancing, Adyashanti invites you to wake...

Breathe, You Are Alive

According to the Buddha’s teaching in the Anapanasati Sutra, maintaining awareness of our breathing is a means of awakening to the true nature of all things and arriving at spiritual...

Breath by Breath

A “wonderfully accessible” interpretation of the Buddha’s teachings on breathwork in meditation, from a leading insight meditation teacher (Joseph Goldstein, author of The Experience of Insight)

Body-Centered Inquiry

Every experience occurs first in the body - then our mind interprets, judges, and adds a story to what occurred.

Between the World and Me

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a...

The Tools

These tools are emotional game changers.

The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet

An utterly unique and accessible introduction to the ancient principles of Taoism with the world's favourite bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friend Piglet.

Atomic Habits

An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

Conscious

n this wonderfully accessible book, Annaka Harris guides us through the evolving definitions, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited understanding of consciousness.

The Daily Stoic

From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today...

The Five Minute Journal

A Happier You in 5 Minutes a Day | Original Creator of The Five Minute Journal - Simple Daily Guided Format - Increase Gratitude & Happiness, Life Planner, Gratitude List

10% Happier Revised Edition

How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story

How To Meditate

Discover the basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness

Practicing Peace

Inspiring teachings on what each of us can do to promote peace from the inside out—now available in a pocket-sized paperback edition

Radical Acceptance

Many people have already found the Buddhist perspective on our emotional life to be extremely valuable - and this book will be a major practical contribution to the subject.

Meditation for Beginners

If you have never meditated before, you will find. Meditation for Beginners a highly accessible doorway into this proven, transformative practice.

Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort.

The Power Of Now

This beautiful journal is filled with carefully chosen, inspiring quotes from Eckhart Tolle’s masterpiece, The Power of Now.

Miracle Of Mindfulness

The Classic Guide to Meditation by the Worlds Most Revered Master by Thich Nhat Hanh (2008) Paperback (Classic Edition)

The Energy of Money

A revolutionary program that can free your financial energy, increase your wealth, and help you achieve personal life goals

Fierce Self-Compassion

The author of Self-Compassion follows up her groundbreaking book with new ideas that expand our notion of self-kindness..

Super Mind

How to Boost Performance and Live a Richer and Happier Life Through Transcendental Meditation

The Untethered Soul

In this beautiful guided journal, you’ll find brand-new exercises and prompts paired with original passages from The Untethered Soul.

Mindfulness Journal for Parents

Life with kids gets chaotic sometimes. You can’t avoid it, but with mindfulness, you can practice simple ways to stay calm and work through moments of stress.

Waking Up

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion..

Self-Compassion for Parents

In this empathic resource, mindfulness expert and psychologist Susan M. Pollak helps you let go of constant self-judgment and treat yourself..

Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program

This is the authoritative guide to conducting the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program..

Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To

Julie Potiker turns some enormous lemons in her life into the sweetest lemonade in this wonderful book.

Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook

Are you kinder to others than you are to yourself?

Self-Compassion

It’s time to stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind.

The Voices in my Head Colouring Book

The Voices in my Head – Colouring Book is a chance for children (and their carers) to learn to feel okay about themselves..

Voices in my Head

The Voices in My Head has a unique approach to helping children understand the critical and compassionate voices 'inside their head'.

The Little Book of Self-Compassion

Discover ways to befriend your inner critic and be happy with who you are, just as you are, no matter what you are doing or not doing.

Mind Bubbles

Children are wholly capable of embracing these concepts when presented in a straightforward, appealing fashion that speaks directly to them.

The Mindful Doodle Book

This book combines the evidence-based benefits of mindfulness and doodling to inspire focus, creative expression, self-compassion, and awareness.

The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion

Over his decades of experience as a therapist and mindfulness meditation practitioner, Dr. Christopher Germer has learned a paradoxical lesson

Self-Compassion For Dummies

Being kind to yourself might sound simple, but self-compassion can change your life dramatically..

Attachment-Based Yoga & Meditation for Trauma Recovery

This book offers an unprecedented, attachment-informed translation of yogic philosophy to body-based trauma treatment.

The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens

Your teen years are a time of change, growth, and—all too often—psychological struggle. To make matters worse, you are often your own worst critic.

The Self-Compassionate Teen

Written by psychologist Karen Bluth and based on practices adapted from Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer’s Mindful Self-Compassion program..

Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Teen ADHD

Being a teen with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) doesn’t stop you from wanting..

How to Tame the Tumbles

How to Tame the Tumbles pushes the literature and practice of mindfulness to a new frontier where parents and children, together, can find an avenue to self-compassion.

Befriending Your Body

A step-by-step holistic approach to recovering fully from disordered eating, using self-compassion..

Mastering Life Energies

Everyone has had luminous moments in their lives.

Peace Parenting Essentials: Cultivating Peace & Empathy In Your Children’s World

Dr. Nelly summarizes Peace Learning as the 5C’s. Just as we have our daily vitamins to supplement our physical health. The Five C’s are every bit as potent for the...

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