Personal Growth

Who Are You, Really?
Change Your Life in Seven Days : The World's Leading Hypnotist Shows You How
by Paul McKenna, Ph.D.
Discover your true potential and become the person you truly want to be. Imagine you woke up one day in a land populated almost entirely by giants. At first you would no doubt be terrified, and the deafening roar of loud noises and the uncomfortable

The First Invitation: Feel Everything
Setting Your Heart on Fire : Seven Invitations to Liberate Your Life
by Raphael Cushnir
To love is to open. To love fully is to open wide. When we're wide open, love rushes toward us and emanates from us. We recognize it as the essence of our existence. Naturally, without effort, the illusion of separation vanishes.

What Is No Opportunity Wasted?
No Opportunity Wasted : Creating a List for Life
by Phil Keoghan, Warren Berger
I am underwater and in the dark, stranded somewhere deep in the bowels of a sunken ship that lies abandoned at the bottom of the sea. At the moment, I don't know which way is up or down. Inside a watery cavern that was once this ship's ballroom, my body

BE: Identity and Character
Healing the Heart of Conflict: 8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others
by Mark Gopin, Ph.D.
Who we are as individuals has everything to do with how we get along with others. Step One prompts us to ask ourselves, What inside of me is contributing to this conflict, and what do I have to gain from it? Being able to see yourself as you are can be

The Good Eye
Field Notes on the Compassionate Life : A Search for the Soul of Kindness
by Marc Ian Barasch
Life offers up its own daily catechism, even if it's just seeing people in a little better light. Why not just resolve to give everyone the benefit of the doubt? 'If we treat people as they ought to be,' said Goethe, almost nailing it, we help them become

Defining Moments
Between Trapezes : Flying Into a New Life with the Greatest of Ease
by Gail Blanke
If you can feel the magic, you can go the distance. Disney understood how a gorgeous vision can propel us forward, how when we are laboring in the swamps and the ditches of our own lives, we can look up at the horizon and see our dream castle, our better

Interview with Elizabeth Wurtzel
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Wurtzel has a lot of strong opinions which seem to inspire debate. Whether you agree or disagree with what she has to say, her ideas always make you think. Bold Type sad down with Elizabeth recently to discuss her treatise on difficult women

Hey Little Girl Is Your Daddy Home?
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Considering the accelerated aging process that wastes away and wears out Hollywood's sweet young things with a fast-forward so fast it's as if they were living in dog years (bitch years?), it almost seems reasonable that Polanski should be a sucker for

Manufacturing Fascination
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
As feminism has charged forward-and no one can deny the leaps and strides it has made-so has the invention of the overeager hypersexualized female body. Nowadays you pay for sex not because you are lonely and miserable and can't get laid, or married and

Always Ask
The Secret of Life : Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
People have the power The power to dream/to rule to wrestle the earth from fools, Patti Smith. This is the essence of life. This is the only reason to get out of bed in the morning. Every day is a new opportunity to ask more questions and see what happens

Introduction
Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
by Steve Salerno
For decades I have been tracking the self-help movement without fully realizing its place in the zeitgeist, even though I've written often about its component parts. My first book, in 1985, described the mainstreaming of veteran sales and motivational

The Power of Self-Trust
Trusting Yourself: How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed and Live More Happily with Less Effort
by Mary Jane Ryan
Everywhere I turn, I hear people are overwhelmed. Married or single, with kids or not, working or not, people are struggling to keep their heads above the water of their lives. We're overwhelmed by our to-do lists, we're overwhelmed by all the information

How This Old-Fashioned Virtue Can Improve Your Life
The Power of Patience: How to Slow the Rush and Enjoy More Happiness, Success, and Peace of Mind Every Day
by Mary Jane Ryan
All of us these days, it seems, spend our lives rushing around. We're in constant motion, and we expect everything and everyone around us to go faster as well. As technology watcher David Shenk notes, between our modems and our speed dials, faxes, beepers

Everything Really Does Happen for a Reason
Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives
by Mira Kirshenbaum
Is it really true that everything happens for a reason? After all, that's an amazing thing to say-that no matter what happens to you, not only does something valuable come out of it but it's just what you need. Amazing as it sounds, it is true.

Are You an HSP? Temperament, Love, and Sensitivity
The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You
by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
I fall in love so damn hard. I feel like an alien sometimes. Everyone else seems to be in a relationship. But what they call love just doesn't appeal to me. Investments, cars, sports, getting ahead at work-I don't say it, but I've zero interest in those

Dysfunctional families and how they grow
It Ends With You: Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction
by Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D.
What does it mean to grow up in a dysfunctional family? If you've followed pop psychology, been in a twelve step program such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Adult Children of Alcoholics, watched Oprah, or read books and magazines, you've probably seen or hear

Introduction
It Ends With You: Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction
by Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D.
To grow up and out of a painful, dysfunctional past and all its leftovers - feelings, memories, pain, confusion, anger, fear, and persistent dysfunctional relationship patterns- may seem like a miracle, too wonderful to be possible.

Book Love Regained
The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life
by Steve Leveen
Do you wish you had more time to read? This little guide can help you make that wish come true. It is a book for readers who want more in their lives. It will show you how to do a better job finding books you'll love, how to read more of them

Intentions
Change Almost Anything in 21 Days
by Ruth Fishel, M.Ed.
Intentions set into process every aspect of your life. - Gary Zukav. Change begins with the intention to change. In the Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav gives us the following example of intending to change your job.

Lifting Our Thoughts
Living Light As A Feather: How to Find Joy in Every Day and a Purpose in Every Problem
by Ruth Fishel, M.Ed.
One beautiful way of lifting our thoughts to a higher level and thus raising our energy is to tap into a stored memory of joy, love or self-confidence. It takes only a few moments to make this happen.