Dr. Patricia Allen's jam-packed seminars in Los Angeles have resulted in over two thousand marriages. Now you too can take advantage of this proven step-by-step program.Here's what you'll learn:How to attract the right manWhen you should make the first move...and when you should notWhy equality in a relationship may not be what you're looking forWhy sex before commitment is a bad dealHow to have sensational sexWhat mak...

This ground-breaking book explores the theoretical, clinical and training application of integrating mindfulness with all of the arts therapies, and includes cutting-edge contributions from neuroscience. Written by pioneers and leaders in the arts therapies and psychology fields, the book includes 6 sections that examine mindfulness and the arts therapies from different perspectives: 1) the history and roots of mindfulness in relation to spirituality, psychotherapy and the arts therapies; ...

Are you sensing a void in your life? Do you find yourself trapped in a relationship that lacks meaning or purpose? Is your career on a stagnant path to nowhere?If so, this book is for you! Author Pat Allen shares her stories and wisdom of how she jumped many hurdles and emerged on the other side with a richer, more fulfilling life and how you can too.Starting as a humble country girl, she managed to carve out a multi-million-dollar business by sheer tenacity, refusing to se...

Art Therapy and Social Action is an exciting exploration of how professionals can incorporate the techniques and approaches of art therapy in their work to address social problems. Examining the expanding role of art practitioner as social activist, leading art therapists and other professionals show how creative methods can be used effectively to resolve conflicts, manage aggression, heal trauma and build communities. The contributors provide examples of innovative programs on a range of ...

Hope, a thin, tow-headed child with sad hazel eyes, stands barefooted in a dusty farm lane, watching the horse-drawn wagon take her mother away. Her beloved Momma has died a senseless death, and Hope must face life without her guidance and love.Pop, completely broken by his young wife, Lucy’s, sudden death, turns more and more to the bottle to ease his pain. Hope’s baby sister, Nollie, is taken away by relatives, and Hope sees her world being destroyed.From the hard scrabbl...

For all of us, there is something that touches our hearts. It may be a lover, a child, a sunset, a place, or a pet. It may be our spouse, a life, a death, or a new baby. It may be a phrase read in a novel, or a line in a favorite poem. But, there is always something- something that reaches our most important center. HEART POEMS explores these things.

Betsy's Choice, an illustrated story of how Betsy, a creative and independent little fairy child, becomes Mirabelle, tooth fairy to the world, is Ms. Kaplon's third book. She is also the author ofA Child Called Hope, a heart-rending memoir of her own mother's life, and Heart Poems, poems of everyday things that touch the heart.

It all begins with an encounter that irrevocably changed the life of an ordinary girl. She was cute but not statuesque or gorgeous, or even voluptuous. She was just an ordinary girl who was incredibly lucky.

This longawaited book by a pioneer in brain research offers a new model of our emotions- their origins, their power, and their malleability.For more than thirty years, Richard Davidson has been at the forefront of brain research. Now he gives us an entirely new model for understanding our emotions, as well as practical strategies we can use to change them.Davidson has discovered that personality is composed of six basic emotional "styles," including resilie...

A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone.From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans are in fact hardw...

Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I’m telling lies.I say,It’s in the reach of my arms,The span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl o...