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Book SynopsisSynopsis coming soon.......Trade Review"Michaela Haas' latest book Bouncing Forward breaks through our great confusion around how to be happy. Full of goodness, this book shares stories, including her own, of people who have suffered in many ways and come through it into strength and love. Together, these varied, living examples reveal an important truth: ultimately there is no way to avoid pain in life, and turning toward our challenges, whatever they may be, is the way to real happiness." -- --Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real HappinessBouncing Forward propels our entire understanding of posttraumatic growth to a new level. Dr. Haas’s integration of the life stories of survivors-thrivers with the latest scientific research about discovering the advantages of adversity and finding meaning in the messiness and her very practical tools for working with difficulties, even disasters, shows the reader how to cultivate the mindset of resilience that can catalyze healing and growth from catastrophe. Brilliant, inspiring, to be read, re-read, and treasured. -- --Linda Graham, MFT, author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being.This groundbreaking book offers a path to peace and contentment in the midst of life’s most difficult challenges. Michaela Haas shows us how struggle and trauma can lead to wisdom, growth, and happiness. Bouncing Forward is a rich collection of inspiring and heartfelt interviews, personal recollections, and scientific research. We can train the mind to be resilient and to find life’s blessings no matter what hardships we’ve faced or are facing. This is a book to treasure and to read over and over. -- --Toni Bernhard, author of How to Be Sick, How to Wake Up, and How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and IllnessBouncing Forward is a testament to the strength, resilience, and hope of the human psyche and spirit. Michaela Haas deftly weaves interviews with a dozen individuals from across the world combined with her experiences, ideas, and guidance to help readers understand that “we are stronger than we think.” Bouncing Forward is a wonderful and entertaining read as well as a reasoned and reasonable guide to resilient living. -- Sam Goldstein, PhD, co-author of The Power of Resilience and Raising Resilient ChildrenMichaela Haas has written one of the most helpful, engaging, informative nonfiction books I've read in a long while. It will be useful for absolutely everyone. Highly recommended. -- --Samantha Dunn, author of Failing Paris and Not by AccidentIn this volume Michaela Haas applies the wisdom of Buddhist mind training to real-life experiences in the modern world, thereby enriching the Buddhist tradition as well as our current understanding of ways to fruitfully transcend the miseries of the past, present, and future. -- --B. Alan Wallace, author of Genuine Happiness and The Attention Revolution“Bouncing Forward shows us how adversity can turn us toward our deepest inner resources of trust, wisdom, and love. Through a wonderful mix of inspirational interviews, current science, Buddhist teachings, and her own deep understanding, Michaela Haas guides us in discovering the sacredness and grace that flows through these human lives.” -- Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge“In Bouncing Forward, Dr. Haas weaves engaging stories of modern survival with uplifting and often surprising takeaways. Readers are given tools for not only surviving life’s inevitable tough times, but consciously thriving because of them.” -- Gay Hendricks, PhD, NYT Bestselling author of The Big Leap and Conscious Loving

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Book SynopsisLive Life Like a Kung Fu Master is William Moy’s personal invitation to become your teacher or “sifu,” as he presents over twenty attributes/techniques that will contribute to living a life made better by possessing Kung Fu. Attributes such as balance, structure, distance awareness, relaxation and traveling the shortest route between two points are presented both in terms of self-defense and in making an impact on your daily life—at home, school, work, business and social encounters. The text also features positional sketches drawn by William, as well as links to a number of videos in which William demonstrates physical techniques for students to model.   William is joined on this literary Kung Fu journey by this long-time student and disciple, multi-award-winning author Paul Volponi. In turn, the co-authors are joined by several renowned martial artists, including Sammo Huang, Karen Sheperd, Grandmaster Tak Wah Eng, Grandmaster Doc-Fei Wong and Sifu Leo Imamura. A score of contributors such as basketball Hall of Famer Dave Cowens, two-time Olympic Gold medalist Kayla Harrison, glass-ceiling breaking baseball pitcher Ila Borders, famed tightrope walker Denis Josselin and World Scrabble Champion Joel Wapnick discuss how the attributes of Kung Fu relate to their many successes. The term “Kung Fu” actually translates as 'time and effort equals a skill.' That's why you see establishments with names such as Kung Fu Bread and Kung Fu Tea. These proprietors are not trumpeting their ability to fight. Rather, they're saying, we put in the time to study and learn our craft, and the result is that we are masters in our own arena—baking bread or brewing tea. In Asian culture, people who are said to have 'good Kung Fu' have a handle on their lives. They are honest, direct, kindly and self-assured. These are values more highly prized than the ability to fight. What’s the parallel between these prized qualities and the ability to physically defend yourself like a martial arts Kung Fu master? Kung Fu, especially Wing Chun Kung Fu, is based on a center-line theory of taking the shortest path, a straight line between two points, in defending yourself. It is also based on calmness and relaxation, enabling the practitioner to feel and quickly interpret incoming forces—therefore, bringing about a swifter and more focused reaction. Cultivating such abilities will allow you to transfer their martial benefits onto daily situations in your personal, social, and business interactions. William Moy’s view of the teacher/student relationship is a simple one: “Your sifu’s role is to help you find your own Kung Fu.” Hence, there are no cookie-cutter students. Each journey will be inherently different depending upon the individual student’s physical attributes, personality and goals. In this very patient art, there are no failures, just students continuing on a path to their desired destination.  

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Book SynopsisNever married? Divorced? Widowed? Currently in a relationship but concerned about possibly being alone sometime in the future? If so, then this is the book that will show you how you can live fully and joyously, no matter what your marital status! The authors, strong and independent women in their own right, reveal:• why it's so important to stop waiting for 'Mr. Right' to make it 'all right' and to really start living life RIGHT NOW;• how to overcome your fears of living alone, dealing with ill health, and losing control of other aspects of your life;• the myriad creative alternatives that are available with respect to companionship, living arrangements, hobbies and interests, financial planning, and much more;• how to break out of old patterns of self-defeating behaviour and claim the first-class life that is your birthright;• how to come to the realisation that you - a woman alone - needn't be lonely, or play out the victim role...Instead... you can empower yourself to achieve everything you want in life and be a vital part of society!

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Book SynopsisThe Force is part of each and every thing in the physical plane. This includes our planet, the stars and galaxies, and the physical universe, as it stretches out in space, beyond our perceptions. By its very nature, the Force is immortal and never-ending; because it is the inner light or 'living-ness' within all things, we call it universal.

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Book Synopsis'Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day.' - Stuart WildeThis inspirational book serves as a magnificent battle plan, where you learn to expand the power you already have in order to win back absolute control of your life.

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Book SynopsisWhile written in a lighthearted style, this book is based on the serious concept that everyone is part of "God" and that, like parents, God expects everyone at some point to grow up spiritually and take charge, and that the heavens will support the process if called upon.

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