GROW YOUR BRAIN

MARCH 15th, 2023 A huge thank you to everyone who participated in picking our next book to review and entered the book giveaway drawing. Congratulations to Bettie Davis Wall (Get Untamed – Glennon Doyle) and Nancy Saylor (Burn After Writting – Sharon Jones)for winning the book drawing. I will be getting these in the mailContinue reading “GROW YOUR BRAIN”

GET YOUR HAPPY ON

MARCH 1ST, 2023 Hope everyone enjoyed the book reviews last week. Find anything relatable? Have you ever purchased a book to help you with something? Did it help? Do you have a favorite? There are some books that have made such impressions on me i often give them as gifts. All I Really Need toContinue reading “GET YOUR HAPPY ON”

HEAL YOURSELF

PART ll – FEBUARY 23, 2023 COUPLES THERAPY WORKBOOK – EMT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) EMT is built on practicle, concise steps for recognizing and disrupting negative behaviour patterns. Using these principles the workbook helps you develop tools to approach your relationship with curiousity, open mindedness. Readiness to speak, listen and heal. A three part processContinue reading “HEAL YOURSELF”

HEAL YOURSELF

FEBRUARY 23, 2023 According to http://www.publishingperspectives.com a short-history of self-help, The worlds Bestselling Genre by Jessica Lamb-shapiro, self help has been around for thoushands of years. The earliest of self-help books was an Ancient Egyptian genre called “Sebayt” an instructional read on life (“Sebayt” means “teaching”). A letter from father to son advising him withContinue reading “HEAL YOURSELF”

HOPE & HEALING

FEBRUARY 15, 2023 Hope and Optimism are similiar in nature. Often confused with Positivity, Hope: A feeling of expectation or desire for a certain thing to happen; a feeling of trust Optimism: Hopefulness and Confidence about the future or the succesful outcome of something. Positivity: The practice of being or tendency to be positive orContinue reading “HOPE & HEALING”

THE AMAZING POWER OF LITERATURE

FEBRUARY 8th 2023 Knowledge is Power. Education comes from literature. Literature takes you places. Places only your mind may go but these places provide the knowledge. As of 2020 the self help book industry alone had an estimated 10.5 Billion worth. 15,000 self help books are published each year in the US alone. Right atContinue reading “THE AMAZING POWER OF LITERATURE”

HAPPY vs HAPPINESS

FEBUARY 1st 2023 What does being in a state of happiness mean to you? When you think of do you think of things that bring moments of pleasure or do you vision contentment that grows as you grow. According to a article in Psychologytoday.com, feeling happy and being happy are not the same. Feeling happyContinue reading “HAPPY vs HAPPINESS”

ETHICS

JANUARY 25th 2023 Moral: What you decide you will or won’t doValue: Worth of something and the impact it will have on you Morals can be swayed by your surroundings (people and things). Studies have shown proof your enviroment can change your morals and values.MORAL’S matched with VALUE’S1)Responsibility – Help Others1)Power – Capability2)Compassion – LoveContinue reading “ETHICS”

COMMITMENT

JANUARY 16TH 2023 We have touched on refining one change at a time. Why it’s important to take inventory of “your” life frequently. Keeping what was positive, discarding what was not. What respect looks like when given to self. How others will begin to respect you when you respect yourself. Your uniquness that was givenContinue reading “COMMITMENT”