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When I took my first steps on the spiritual path," says Tami Simon, "I was looking for answers to life’s greatest mysteries. Over time I learned that the best books and teachers pointed us inward—to our own experience—and that this is where we can find our greatest sense of aliveness and purpose." On Being True, the founder of Sounds True distills essential lessons learned from 30 years of exploring the edge where spiritual wisdom meets the challenges of work, life, and love. Join her for four intimate sessions on: • Being true as a process—five keys for living in integrity • Spirituality in action—how we can apply our highest values in the workplace and in our relationships • Her most transformative encounters with spiritual teachers Sounds True listeners and followers of the Insights at the Edge podcast series have heard Tami introducing and interviewing leading voices in spirituality, science, and creativity. Now she speaks to you directly as a fellow traveler on the journey—sharing her most valuable insights on honoring your inner imperatives in the real world, meeting setbacks with an open heart, and remaining alive to the inner voice that always encourages each of us to "be true.

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In Little Cat Hide-and-Seek: A Playful Primer to Learn about Your Emotions, young children will learn to recognize and respond to emotions in themselves and others. The book introduces a range of emotions such as happy, angry, sleepy, anxious, and surprised. Each emotion is featured in a spread in the book, and each spread has a variety of illustrations with cats expressing different emotions. Children will match the emotion to the illustration that most closely represents it. The book also offers children a chance to engage with their own emotions, asking such questions as "How about you? What makes you happy?" and "Whisper in Little Cat's ear the name of someone you love." Little Cat is an appealing character that will appear in upcoming books about emotions published by Sounds True, including Little Anxious Cat and Little Angry Cat.

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Rekindle Your Connection to the Divine and Ignite Your True Power Within each of us is a spark of pure divinity, a direct channel to Source that never goes out no matter what hardships we face. Although this spark has many names in many traditions, physician and bestselling author Dr. Lissa Rankin refers to it as the "Inner Pilot Light." In Your Inner Pilot Light, Lissa speaks with Sounds True founder and CEO Tami Simon about her own journey of discovering the Inner Pilot Light, sharing inspirational stories, guided meditations, and practices to help each of us awaken the eternal flame within. Tune into the wise voice within that knows just what you need, when you need it When we tend to our Inner Pilot Light—that flame of consciousness that is uniquely us yet part of a greater Divine fire—we tap into an unlimited source of wise guidance and unconditional love. In this seven-part program, you’ll learn to kindle your own Divine spark and bring greater alignment to your relationships, health, job, purpose, and more. As Lissa draws on her own experience of discovering her Inner Pilot Light, she’ll show you how to move closer to your own center, to reconnect with your creator, and to live a more fulfilling and joyful life. "When you start trusting the voice of your deepest truth," Lissa teaches, "you enter the mysterious landscape of the soul, one where you will discover a wellspring of meaning, purpose, and wholeness."

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Enter the “Ordinary State” of Enlightenment Many of us share the belief that enlightenment is rare—that true spiritual awakening only happens for extraordinary people. According to Adyashanti, this idea may actually be the most powerful impediment to our awakening. On Spontaneous Awakening, he invites you to inquire into the “ordinary nature” of enlightenment—and the profound truth of who you really are. “Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special—it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred,” teaches Adyashanti. So where do we start? With the desire to look fearlessly at and inquire passionately into truth, explains Adyashanti. “When you stop resisting experience, what remains is the bliss of sheer nothingness. And everything that is possible lives in that nothingness.” With more than seven hours of teachings, two guided meditations, and an exclusive Sounds True interview, Spontaneous Awakening is an eye-opening program that explores topics including: The self-authenticating nature of spiritual discovery • The link between personal awareness and awareness itself • How attachment can lead to complete freedom and unattachment • Why genuine spiritual knowing requires mental subtraction—not addition.

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There’s no shortage of psychology self-help books on depression—but this collection, envisioned and edited by Sounds True founder Tami Simon, is not one of them. You won’t be revisiting familiar therapies or antidepressant options. What you will find is a gathering of 16 exceptional and compassionate teachers who have faced profound depression themselves. Their purpose? To radically shift the way that we perceive the experience. To offer insights and practices that reach beyond conventional models. And to help us receive depression’s uninvited yet singular gifts. The guidance presented here supports traditional psychotherapy and medication as valuable tools. But for those who’ve found these approaches incomplete—or seek to help others at an impasse—there’s much to discover within these pages, including: Thomas Moore, PhD, on Saturn’s gifts; Sally Kempton on shifting from suffering and into witnessing awareness; poet Mark Nepo on embracing both emptiness and aliveness; Mary Pipher, PhD, on how despair can open us to long-hidden joy; Christina Baldwin on "ineffable sorrow"; Parker J. Palmer, PhD, on finding meaning and connection through the experience of depression; plus exceptional contributions by Ann Marie Chiasson, MD; James Gordon, MD; Sandra Ingerman; Karla McLaren; Robert Augustus Masters, PhD; Amy Weintraub; Jeff Foster; Elizabeth Rabia Roberts, EdD; Michael Bernard Beckwith; and Reginald A. Ray, PhD.

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Rex was a raucously rough, terrifically tough tyrannosaur. Sam was not. Even so, they had a dino-mite friendship. They did everything together. Until . . . When the serene sauropod called Sam takes a break from play to meditate, his friend Rex doesn't get it. Why would anybody want to sit still and chill when they could be romping and roaring all day? As kids join these prehistoric pals, they'll learn how good it feels to slow down, breathe, and pay attention. Dinos Don't Meditate is an ideal teaching story for high-energy kids. With colorful characters that kids can immediately identify with, this fun-filled tale reveals how important and enjoyable it can be to engage in moments of peace and relaxation. The book also provides simple mindfulness guidance-and Mesozoic meditations to try at home.

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When you see yourself as a soul-being made from energy that resonates across time and space, you begin to understand how everything in your life is deeply connected to your soul’s experiences - in this realm and beyond. You can access the wisdom of these experiences through an energetic Line connecting you to your Akashic Records, a metaphysical library of your entire soul journey. With The Line, Ashley Wood teaches a new way to access your Akashic Records by aligning with the energetic frequency of your own Line, sharing tools and practices to use your Line for clarity, guidance, and soul insight. “Through your Line, you’re receiving guidance and support from your soul,” she teaches, “so you can learn how to trust yourself, love yourself, and guide yourself in this life.” After teaching you how to activate your Line through breath and movement, Wood dives into supportive practices, including exploring the unique frequencies that you receive through your Line, trusting your messages and loving yourself enough to act on them, managing emotions and energy, making multidimensional connections across soul experiences, living in aligned love for yourself and others, and understanding how these universal frequencies support you in coming back to yourself.

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A Step-by-Step Guide for Cultivating Financial Well-Being "Money is a story, one that too often is used against us. When you're ready to engage with intention, this book can help rewrite your story." -Seth Godin, author of The Practice Does prosperity lead to happiness . or is it the other way around? As a therapist, Joyce Marter noticed an extraordinary trend: as her clients improved their mental health, they also began receiving raises, getting promotions, finding better jobs, or starting their own successful businesses. Since that epiphany, Marter has become a go-to expert on the "Psychology of Success"-establishing ways to help you improve your financial well-being by focusing on your psychological and relational issues around money. With The Financial Mindset Fix, Marter crystallizes her most powerful and effective practices for long-term prosperity. Here, she guides you through 12 essential mindsets for transforming your relationship with yourself to welcome a life of wealth. Within each are innovative exercises, self-assessment tools, and insights for shifting into a mindset of abundance. In The Financial Mindset Fix, you will discover: · What it means to cultivate a holistic view of success · Why mindsets based on scarcity and zero-sum thinking lead to suffering · Possible triggers for financially risky behavior and how to defuse their power · The simultaneously challenging and surprisingly easy task of proper budgeting · Why holding on to resentment also holds you back from your potential · How to manage the desires of the ego without becoming either a doormat or a diva · Why acknowledging your interconnection with others gives rise to stronger empathy and collaboration · Mindfulness, lovingkindness, self-inquiry, and other practices-all refocused on financial wellness "We are all works in progress," writes Marter. "No matter where you are on your journey, these tools are meant to be lifelong companions to a life of greater prosperity and joy."

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Cranky Right Now brings a much-needed message to kids: Sometimes we're all cranky. We're tired; we're hungry; we're just feeling grumpy. Dealing with emotions can be hard. Cranky Right Now is a hilarious ride through the ups and downs of being grumpy, helping kids deal with cranky feelings, frustrating relationships, and things that just make them mad. Award-winning author Julie Berry talks about reasons kids can feel cranky and how to recognize those feelings and own them. She then gives simple practices for moving through crankiness. She shows that it's okay to be in a bad mood sometimes-just not to take it out on others-and that cranky days will eventually give way to happy ones. So put on your cranky boots and get ready for a rip-roaring read! Cranky Right Now is perfect for children, parents, and caregivers who want to learn how to navigate difficult emotions and end up on the other side of cranky.

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Underneath the challenges of our modern age, we find a common cause of disconnection - from each other, the earth, and lives of purpose and meaning. How do we turn it around? In Flying Lead Change, Kelly Wendorf offers a guide for a new approach to leading and living, grounded in evidence-based principles of neuroscience and inspired by two profound sources of ancient wisdom: Original Peoples and Equus (the horse). Wendorf presents the wisdom of a 56-million-year-old system - the horse herd - that overcame threats we now face, such as climate change and mass extinction. Here, she shares the five pillars of their success: safety, peace, connection, joy, and freedom. She reveals how true leaders in both human and equine society use these principles to benefit the whole - a model of servant leadership based on presence and care, not dominance, force, exploitation, or coercion. In horsemanship, a “flying lead change” allows a running horse to respond with breathtaking grace to changing conditions. “Collectively, we need a similar physics - defying maneuver,” Wendorf writes. “This book is for the called - thought leaders, visionaries, parents, creatives, and all those who sense we are being asked to participate in humanity’s ‘flying change’ through the way we live, love, and lead.”

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"We are, nearly all of us," writes Matthieu Ricard, "the playthings of our whims, conditioning, impulses, inner conflicts, wandering thoughts, and afflictive emotions. This servitude is at the root of much that torments us. How do we free ourselves from the prison of these mental mechanisms, in the face of which we often feel helpless, even resigned?" With their acclaimed book In Search of Wisdom, these three gifted friends-a monk, a philosopher, and a psychiatrist-shed light on our universal quest for meaning, purpose, and understanding. Now, in this new in-depth offering, they invite us to tend to the garden of our true nature, freedom. Turn by turn, each shares his own unique perspective on the various obstacles to inner freedom, the "ecology" of freedom, the ways to cultivate it, and the harvest that comes out of it. What emerges is a panoramic vision and roadmap for us to overcome the barriers that hinder our liberation. "It is our hope," they write, "that this book will provide clarification of the means for freeing ourselves from the causes of suffering." Filled with unexpected insights and specific strategies, Freedom for All of Us presents an inspiring guide for breaking free of the unconscious walls that confine us.

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This book awakens expectant parents to the transformative experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting As expecting parents, you’ve got more information than ever about proper nutrition, home versus hospital births, fitness, medications, and the list goes on. Yet when it comes to the deeper truths about the incredible process of bringing a child into this world—like spiritual and emotional growth—where can you turn? With Transformed by Birth, Dr. Britta Bushnell has created the transformative, intelligent, and empowering pregnancy and childbirth guide you’ve been waiting for. Our culture has bombarded us with false ideals that prevent us from fully engaging in the journey of pregnancy and childbirth—including a need for control and certainty, vilification of pain, and reverence for technology and intellectual knowledge. Dr. Bushnell helps you clear away these illusions so you can open to the meaning and comfort of this life-changing experience. Here she offers daily practices, rituals, drawing exercises, and more to help you cultivate resilience, power, and connection during this magical time. Childbirth is more than a biological event, psychological event, relational event, or medical experience. With Transformed by Birth, you’ll rediscover childbirth as a transformational experience that alters your knowing of who you are.

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An adventure story that helps children explore their imaginations and teaches a series of nature and animal yoga poses I Am the Jungle takes kids through a yoga flow of poses inspired by the natural world, including Mountain, River, Elephant, and Python. Told through a fun adventure story, the book offers young ones the benefits of yoga, including joy, movement, calm, and focus. In addition to learning basic yoga poses, children will learn to identify different emotions while practicing the poses. Butterfly helps you feel calm and centered, Tree brings feelings of being grounded and well-balanced, and Turaco lets you get your silly and playful on! The back of the book includes a parents’ and teachers’ guide with Sanskrit names and physical benefits of each yoga pose.

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The Challenge of Our Time: To Know Your Light and Wield Your True Power If you don’t understand the nature of evil, how can you be a force for good? As Caroline Myss teaches, “evil” and “good” are not simply abstract concepts—they are fundamental cosmic energies you can learn to feel in your body and soul. With The Courage to Confront Evil, Caroline Myss delivers one of her most powerful presentations yet: a sweeping training in the practice of standing in your own light and integrity, so every choice you make becomes an act of healing in this extraordinary and challenging period of human history. Discover How to Harness the “Power Tools of Creation” In this time of profound transformation, your capacity to make a difference has never been greater—or more needed. “Darkness cannot be offset by bombs, bullets, or any external force,” Myss teaches, “but only by the power of the light within us.” In these seven audio sessions, she boldly investigates the spiritual nature of evil, the many masks it wears, and the temptations it offers us to be fearful, selfish, or disengaged. Here she trains you in the seven “power tools of creation”—the divine gifts of grace you can access with your words, prayers, and actions. “This is this era of your soul’s waking up,” Myss says. “This is the time when we’re called to become mystics out of a monastery. Every act of love weakens the forces of hate. Every act of compassion and grace weakens evil’s legislation against humanity.” The Courage to Confront Evil is a clarion call for you to discover your role in this great unfolding of human evolution—and to become an “instrument of holy power” as only you can. Highlights • Is evil real? How our collective denial has given power to darkness • The evolution of the soul in the atomic age—how we reached this turning point in history • The inner vocabulary of evil—how the words you choose can give strength to darkness or to light • Activating your conscience—the inner voice that is your true guide • Where darkness begins—becoming deeply mindful of your everyday choices • Why temptation works—the forces that make us fear the light and seek refuge in darkness • The perils of becoming the very thing you wish to overcome • How a sense of entitlement shuts down your capacity for love • The nature of angels and demons—and how we invite both into our lives • What you can learn from the temptations of Jesus and the Buddha • The breakdown of systems—why religion, scientific rationalism, and political structures can and must change • How evil is a necessary factor in our own growth and awakening • More than seven hours of deep insight, training, and essential wisdom from bestselling author Caroline Myss

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“The Yoga Plate brings us compassion and living right for our families, our planet and our animals—a beautiful offering for good all around.” —Julie Piatt and Rich Roll, bestselling authors, wellness leaders, chefs, and podcast hosts Discover 108 nourishing and delicious vegan recipes in the first modern cookbook to marry yoga’s principle of ahimsa with nutrition We take a lot of care when it comes to choosing the proper clothing for yoga, the right accessories, the best studio—but primary to these considerations is an often overlooked yet vital component of practice: our diet. How we eat might be the most important aspect of an effective practice. How we eat is a huge component to the practice because it represents how we treat and nourish ourselves. By changing the way we eat physically and consciously, we can put ourselves on the path to greater well-being. In The Yoga Plate, LA-based yoga power couple Tamal and Victoria Dodge introduce readers to the philosophy of yoga as it is reflected in our eating choices. The 108 recipes are designed according to the concept of ahimsa, or non-harm. “Consciously or not, we can cause a lot of harm with our eating habits,” explain the authors. “Living with ahimsa means we try to cause the least harm possible to all living creatures.” Each recipe takes you through your daily practice of yoga, starting with “Morning Meditations,” where you’ll find smoothies and breakfasts to fuel and power you through the day; “A Plate Full of Prana,” with snacks, soups, and salads to revitalize your system; “A Bowl Full of Yin,” with recipes to help cultivate a centered mood; and “Sweet Savasana” for restorative and beneficial dessert options. A well-rounded yoga practice includes a conscious approach to the things we eat. With The Yoga Plate, readers can make each meal a sacred activity to support both our practice and well-being.

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Science has spent centuries trying to define the laws of the universe. But in this modern era of breakthroughs and quantum physics, what have we finally learned? “It turns out that the laws of the universe are just waiting for us to break them,” explains Richard Bartlett. With The Matrix Energetics Experience, this extraordinary teacher invites you to learn the art of rewriting any rule of your reality—about your health, your happiness, or even your understanding of what is physically possible. What is Matrix Energetics? Born from a set of potent energetic treatments that Bartlett discovered in his chiropractic practice, Matrix Energetics has evolved into a “technology of consciousness” for insight, healing, spiritual growth—and living a life unbound by the limits we have been trained to believe in. As quantum physics implies, we live in a universe made of consciousness and light, where what we think of as “real” can shift as quickly as our minds let it. Now Richard Bartlett takes you on a freewheeling, playful, and possibility-expanding journey that will shatter your preconceptions about the seemingly “solid” universe we live in—and how unlimited your potential to change it truly is.

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An illustrated picture book offering a playful introduction to yoga through dinosaurs. The latest yoga picture book from bestselling author Mariam Gates introduces children to the joys and benefits of yoga—through dinosaurs! Triceratops, Pterodactyl, T-Rex, and others learn to bend, stretch, and breathe through a yoga flow. Instead of being sad, mad, or frustrated when things aren’t going their way, the dinosaurs practice yoga to feel better. The book features a parents’ guide to the depicted postures and a glossary of dinosaurs at the back. As the creator of the celebrated Kid Power Yoga, Gates knows that teaching children yoga sets them up for better habits of flexibility, fitness, and self-soothing. With Dinosaur Yoga, kids can stomp, stretch, and snort their way to skills that will serve them for a lifetime.

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Experience more joy and less stress in a 21-day journey with world-renowned happiness expert Nataly Kogan What do happier people all have in common? Gratitude. Time and again, gratitude has been scientifically proven to be a critical ingredient for a happy, healthy life, and in Gratitude Daily, happiness expert Nataly Kogan takes you on a 21-day audio journey to build your gratitude skills. "Gratitude isn’t a feeling you get from something outside of you—it’s a skill that you can learn and improve through regular practice." —Nataly Kogan Gratitude Daily brings you 21 short, fun lessons that you can do anytime and anywhere, featuring practices such as "Gratitude Zoom," "Tiny Miracles," and "Gratitude for Imperfection." In each 10-15 minute lesson, you’ll not only learn how to do each practice, but why, as Nataly shares fascinating tidbits from psychology, neuroscience, and her own successes. By the end of your gratitude journey you’ll not only have created a solid gratitude habit, you’ll have actually changed your brain in ways that bring you more joy, better health, and greater resiliency going forward.

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Discover the eight pillars of everyday leadership to make a positive impact in your life, community, workplace, and more Who will step up and change the course of a world that is so full of anger and conflict? Not elected officials or media personalities, but what equality advocate Ash Beckham calls “everyday leaders”—including you. “We are moms and teachers and executives and imams,” she says. “Before we start changing the external world, we need to commit to living fully and completely as our most authentic selves.” In Step Up, Beckham presents eight pillars to become an everyday leader—Empathy, Responsibility, Courage, Grace, Individuality, Humility, Patience, and Authenticity. For each pillar, she shares engaging stories of her own journey from isolation and anger to a place of greater openness and connection. She then provides eye-opening research on what it takes to build these essential qualities, coupled with practices to mindfully change the way you relate to yourself and the people in your life. “We all have closets,” says Beckham. “We in the LGBTQ community do not have the closet market cornered.” Though our closets may feel safe, we only become whole and effective when we stop hiding from ourselves and others. Step Up is a powerful call to action—to speak when it feels easier to be silent, to do good without being self-righteous, and to create a world of inclusion where everyone has a voice.

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This book is about developing 'inner game' skills of mindful awareness, heart attunement, embodiment, and resilience in order to play your best 'outer' game and lead within your company with courage and brilliance. Its practices teach us how to grow inner capacities that will push us to new heights and cope when things are roughest. Hauck, a leadership consultant, frequent presenter, and business school instructor at Stanford and Berkeley, interviewed a number of top 'conscious business' leaders for this book and highlights the inner tools they use for success. It is clear that the boldest and most innovator leaders honor and value qualities like presence, tolerance, compassion, and resilience, so that they can bring wisdom, grace, and courage into the workplace and the world. This is what Hauck calls stepping in and stepping up, and it is precisely the kind of leadership the world needs now. Through the practices offered in this book, Hauck shows leaders how to align their deepest values with their everyday work style and work goals and support this alignment in the people and teams they lead. In addition to the interviews conducted for this book, the author writes about her own original research on resilience, well-being, and authenticity in corporate culture as well as the work of others in this field.

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Productivity Meets Purpose—Discover a Powerful 9-Step Method to Start Finishing the Work That Matters Most How much of your time and attention lately has been focused on things that truly matter to you? Most people's honest answer is: not enough. Everyone is buried by busywork, responsibility, distraction, and fatigue. The joy-producing, difference-making ideas are waiting for when the time is right, when the current project is over, when they have a little more money, when the kids are grown, or when they get a more understanding boss. They are waiting for someday. The trouble is someday never comes on its own. Start Finishing presents a 9-step method for converting an idea into a project by addressing the challenges you'll face and getting the project on a reality-based schedule. The book will teach you how to: • Practice the five keys that lead to self-mastery • Build your success pack of supporters, guides, peers, and beneficiaries • Keep working through the thrashing that comes with any project that matters to you • Chunk, link, and sequence your ideas down to doable parts • Use the Five Project Rule to prioritize your daily schedule and be at peace with the work you choose not to do • Fly through drag points—how to deal with head trash, no-win scenarios, and other people’s priorities • Heatmap your schedule so you do the right work at the right time • Overcome cascades, logjams, and tarpits—the three ways projects routinely get stuck • Finish strong—celebrate, review, and ride the momentum to your next goal You are not incapable, wired to struggle, or fated to be unable to get your act together. With a few key steps, you can change the way you show up, how you plan, and how you respond when things get tough. You can Start Finishing the work that matters most to you. *Includes original contributions from Seth Godin, Susan Piver, Jonathan Fields, James Clear, and many other teachers.

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A week-by-week guide and beautiful keepsake for a mother’s pregnancy journey, from America’s favorite childcare and attachment-parenting experts Pregnancy is a time of tremendous change. As you carry new life into the world, you undergo an initiation into an entirely new way of being. The massive changes you experience—to your body, your lifestyle, even your relationship with yourself—will be both joyful and challenging. The Healthy Pregnancy Journal will help you navigate the beautiful chaos of your journey into motherhood with a safe space to reflect and prepare, work through all you’re experiencing, and stay on track for a healthy pregnancy. Highlights include: Creative and inspiring journaling prompts about everything from food cravings and dreams to fears and feelings of uncertainty • Helpful guidance on all things pregnancy-related—nutrition and exercise, stress relief, birthing methods, breastfeeding, self-care, and more • Open space to record your hopes and dreams in a way that resonates with you—photos, love letters to your baby, drawings, quotes, or even magazine clippings • "Pro Pregnancy Tips"—sex and intimacy, recipes, community, sleep, even getting off the couch when you feel huge, and more • Weekly information around the development of your baby to help you more deeply connect with what’s happening in your body • Chronicling the birth of your baby—including vital statistics, pictures, your birth story, and your own sweet words to the newest love in your life The Healthy Pregnancy Journal, by Martha Sears, RN, and her daughter, Hayden Sears, MA, of the Sears family parenting legacy, is the perfect complement to The Healthy Pregnancy Book, co-written by Martha and her husband, Dr. William Sears—parenting experts and bestselling authors of over 25 books. "The sweet spot of pregnancy gives way, oh so quickly, to the whole new world of motherhood. We look forward to guiding you on this momentous and spectacular journey." —Martha and Hayden Sears

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Experience the Transformative Power of Tibetan Buddhism’s Gradual Path of Enlightenment "Enlightenment is an unfolding process—open to everyone." teaches Dr. Miles Neale. "However, in a culture that reduces, commodifies, and sensationalizes meditation, our challenge is to restore the depth, sophistication, and integrity of the complete spiritual path." With The Gradual Path, Dr. Neale presents a seven-session audio course to immerse you in the teachings and practices of the Lam Rim—Tibetan Buddhism’s time-tested path for psychological maturity and awakening. Created as an audio companion to Dr. Neale’s book Gradual Awakening, this course brings you a guided experience in the traditional Lam Rim journey, updated with insights from science and psychotherapy to root each step in our modern experience. Lam Rim—The Hero’s Journey of Awakening With passion and eloquence, Dr. Neale reveals how the Age of Reason’s "enlightenment" that originally emerged to free us from dogma and superstition evolved into a dangerous new "sickness of paradigm" that has given rise to our precarious global situation. By combining healthy scientific inquiry with the timeless power of the Lam Rim path, Dr. Neale invites us to catalyze genuine and sustainable well-being, compassion, and liberation—both for ourselves and the world around us. This path is a "hero’s journey" that begins with our inherent state of suffering and separation, then takes us through each step of transformation to becoming fully human. Do we need to become enlightened to make a difference in the world? "Though enlightenment is always here and possible," teaches Dr. Neale, "what matters most is to focus on the next incremental step ahead of you and awaken gradually—becoming a more mature, aware, insightful, and loving human being. Even making one small Lam Rim step brings a little more light in the world and makes a giant leap for humanity’s evolution." A portion of the proceeds from this program will benefit the Buddhist nuns of Kopan Monastery in Nepal.

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Pause . . . breathe . . . smile. Three small words, yet each contains a universe of wisdom. Let the title be your guide in this inspiring book on awakening to the full depths of mindful living. The Pause is about setting our intention before we think, speak, or act—the ethical dimension of mindfulness. When we Breathe, we unite mind, body, and spirit, making every moment an opportunity for meditation. With a Smile, we open to a wisdom beyond words. This simple trio will water your innate seeds of awakening to help you pave your own path to fulfillment and peace.

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Bestselling author Pedram Shojai, "The Urban Monk," presents a comprehensive guide on how Taoist alchemical practices can help you release stress, harness life force energy, and awaken your true self. "We have fallen asleep to the knowledge of our true nature, and now it is time to wake up." —Pedram Shojai There is a way to break free from trance of modern life and awaken to your true, limitless nature. The path lies in an ancient system of Taoist alchemy, and with Inner Alchemy, qi gong master, physician, and former monk Pedram Shojai presents an in-depth guide for harnessing the transformational power of this wisdom in your own life: Part 1 lays out Taoist principles and philosophy for understanding the body’s energy matrix and the nature of our current challenges—all in down-to-earth language • Part 2 covers specific exercises and techniques for mastering your energy and awakening your true power—including diet, meditation, exercise, sleep, lifestyle tips, and traditional qi gong sets • Part 3 provides an advanced exploration of traditional Taoism for modern times, along with a 100-day practice formula to help you regulate your energy, wake up from the hypnotic daze of daily life, and make the world we live in a better place "The process of turning the material `lead’ of our human experience into the `gold’ of awakening is the essence of this ancient science of spirituality," writes Shojai. "My promise is that if you practice what you learn in this book, your life will change in ways that you have never imagined."

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Embracing the Life of Growth and Transformation "Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience, and everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom," teaches Mark Nepo. Flames That Light the Heart brings you into the company of the beloved poet and author for a rich conversation on the life of transformation and the heartwork that is required to be a spirit in the world. Teachings and Practices for Making Sense of Our Experience How do we listen to life and not to what life does to us when suffering and loss meet us at every turn? How do we make sense of our experience? "My offering here is to explore these challenges and introduce you to your own wisdom and gifts, to help you personalize the ways you can nourish the spark of life we each carry inside," explains Mark Nepo. In 10 audio sessions, he explores the passages that open us, as well as the skills and ways of being that help us meet the difficulties that life brings us. Join him in this intimate conversation on our shared "growing pains of transformation" and the art of living "as an awakened part in an awakened whole." Highlights: • What it means to be transformed by what we go through • Being true to your own nature • The wisdom of a broken heart • Changing our relationship with fear • The practice of loving what you do • Obstacles as teachers • The peace that abides in every moment • More than five hours of insightful teachings, moving poetry, and practical guidance

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Heart-Centered Meditations for Opening to the Depths of All Your Experience Pain, loss, shame, sadness—suffering is an unavoidable part of being human. The practice of tonglen offers us a way to transform our relationship with suffering—our own and that which is all around us. In The Courage to Love the World, beloved teacher Pema Chödrön shares insightful and heartfelt stories about tonglen, along with direct instruction and guided practice. Recorded on retreat with an intimate group of students, this four-part series presents: Pema’s step-by-step guidance in the formal practice of tonglen • The importance of becoming a "Modern-Day Bodhisattva"—awaken your heart and be of benefit to beings • The practice of "compassionate abiding" in everyday life • Q&A with retreat participants addressing the most common questions that arise with practice • Tonglen as a practical skill for survival in today’s world "The practice of tonglen is one of bravery," teaches Pema, "It takes courage to develop a new relationship with suffering." Now, each of us can immerse ourselves in this ancient Tibetan practice for cultivating kindness and compassion under the guidance of one of our most beloved teachers.

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From master baker, cook, and Zen priest Edward Espe Brown comes a collection of timeless essays on Zen, food, and life itself. Brown was one of the first Westerners to be ordained a priest by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, who had hoped that Zen might be transformed into a vibrant new form in the West. In The Most Important Point, Brown fulfills Suzuki’s wish with 60 essays that are distinctly American yet preserve the roots of traditional Japanese Zen. Drawing from his time in the kitchen and on the cushion, Brown explores a range of topics, from basic sitting practice to making the "perfect" biscuit and much more. "In the words of my teacher," reflects Brown, "the most important point is to find out what is the most important point." Flavored with wise insights and irreverent humor, The Most Important Point brings together a treasury of teachings to inspire your own discovery.

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Explore the Extraordinary Intelligence and Healing Potential of Your Heart The heart is the center point of all human experience. Though our modern culture focuses on the brain, current neuroscience is confirming what shamans have always known: that the heart is the gateway to healing, maturity, and fully engaged living. With The Shaman’s Heart Meditation Training Program, shamanic teacher and transpersonal psychologist Byron Metcalf combines progressive meditation training with cutting-edge sound technology to help you explore and expand the four essential aspects of your heart: • The Clear and Intelligent Heart: Unlock your visionary gifts for clarity, intuition, and spiritual perception • The Full and Compassionate Heart: Discover your healing potential as you expand your capacity for love, empathy, and generosity • The Open and Trusting Heart: Follow your heart’s guidance for releasing unhealthy attachments and trusting in the unfolding of reality • The Strong and Powerful Heart: Awaken your warrior nature as you tap new resources for strength, courage, and confidence Using his proprietary Field Effect Audio Technology™ (FEAT) to help you easily and safely access expanded states of consciousness, this renowned teacher offers his most comprehensive training program—created to support you in fully developing your authentic power, purpose, and presence.

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Come Back Home to Life’s Essential Harmony There is harmony at the heart of everything in existence. Yet so many of us live from day to day with a lingering feeling of inner discord—a sense that something is not quite right that we may not even be able to explain. How do we return to the essential harmony at the core of our being? Return to Harmony is a six-session audio course with psychologist and poet Steve Taylor to guide us back home to our fundamental state of peace and presence. Poetry, Teachings, and Guided Practices for the Journey of Spiritual Awakening From time to time, we all have experiences when restlessness and discontent fade away and we’re filled with a sense of life’s inherent goodness. According to Steve Taylor, this expansive state is not an aberration—it’s our natural way of being when we free ourselves from the inner turmoil created by our minds. This is the process of spiritual awakening—the recognition of who we are in our deepest nature, and the journey of living in alignment with life in the timeless present moment. Return to Harmony weaves together over six hours of original poetry, including many unpublished poems, insightful teachings, and guided practices to help you navigate your own transformational path through some of the challenges that life—and spiritual awakening itself—can bring. "The return to harmony is a journey from disconnection to connection, from separation to union," explains Steve Taylor. "Along the way, our lives become the expression of something greater than themselves—of an evolutionary energy that flows through us all." Join this inspiring teacher as your friend and guide with Return to Harmony.

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When women are denied the rest they need—whether from social pressures and obligations, wanting to do too much in too little time, or a deeply rooted sense of guilt—they are cut off from the true source of their power. In her debut book Daring to Rest, Karen Brody came to the rescue of worn-out women everywhere with a transformative program for reclaiming rest through yoga nidra, the art of conscious relaxation This new release presents her groundbreaking 40-day program in audio form, complete with teachings, practices, and guided meditations.

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When we are thrust into the role of caregiver for a loved one who is in the process of dying, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Yet it’s a situation millions of us face every year with virtually no sort of preparation or guidance. With Graceful Exit, Dr. Gustavo Ferrer offers an all-in-one resource for anyone tasked with managing the end-of-life care of a loved one. Dr. Ferrer shares the essential steps we need to take in a way that can be tailored to our unique situation. Through checklists, plans, and step-by-step instructions reflecting his years of experience supporting patients and their families, Dr. Ferrer offers clear and compassionate guidance for the most difficult issues, including: What are your rights under Medicare and health insurance? • When should you bring your family together? • How can you be a caregiver without burning yourself out? • What are the pros and cons of advanced medical treatment versus hospice at each end-of-life stage? • Most importantly, how do we say goodbye in a way that brings healing, closure, and peace? It’s the last news we want to hear—that someone we love is dying. Yet it's an inevitable part of life. With Graceful Exit, Dr. Ferrer offers this much-needed guide through the medical, legal, financial, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of dying and death.

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Human beings are inseparable from the natural world, co-evolving with all of life. In order to thrive, we need to nourish this bond. In The Healing Code of Nature, biologist Clemens G. Arvay illuminates the miraculous ways that the human body interprets the living "code" of plants, animals, and our larger natural habitat for healing and sustenance. Here is a book as inspiring as it is fascinating, offering a new vision for the future of medicine and the way we relate to our environment. Learn more about: • The new science of eco-psychosomatics: the study of the close connection between mind, body, and nature • The biophilia effect and the healing relationship between humans and trees • Epigenetics and the mounting evidence of how environmental experiences of a living being can directly affect genetic material • The role of evolutionary medicine in understanding and treating cancer • Regenerating in nature and taking a time-out from the stressors of modern living • Unleashing the healing potential of encounters with animals • Moving beyond the materialist view to reclaim nature as an unsolvable mystery

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The ultimate card deck dedicated to making breathwork an accessible, fun, self-directed journey that easily integrates into daily lifeLet your breath be your guide. These are the opening words on the path to your new breathwork practice. Give yourself a moment to notice your breath. Right now, is it short, restricted, shallow, or quick? If you're feeling stressed, unwell, frequently caught in defensive reaction or if you struggle with sleep, working with your breath may be the built-in resource you hadn't thought to use.Whether you're an athlete, spiritual explorer, or just someone trying to live your best life, breath is the most reliable tool you have to elevate your performance and regulate your mood, as it's one that is always available to you. Your breath can fill you with energy, soothe and calm you, or even allow you to access altered states of being, says Isabel Tew, but only when used correctly! With Breath Cards, this expert instructor

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Based upon Shauna Shapiro’s popular Good Morning, I Love You book, The Good Morning, I Love You journal is designed to help you re-architect the structure of your brain for greater joy and peace. This journal is built on principles of psychology and neuroscience and combines two simple, yet effective daily practices - one in the morning and one in the evening - as well as a powerful weekly science-based meditative practice (aka a deep-dive) to support your emotional health and wellbeing. Research shows that journaling has powerful benefits from enhancing your immune system and reducing stress to boosting your memory and inspiring creativity. Research also shows that your mood in the morning and evening are the best predictors of your overall health and longevity. During the first few minutes after waking, when the mind is still and receptive, we can use the practices Shapiro provides to start shaping our brain for the good and building our inner resources for the day. Similarly, when we engage in practice just before going to bed - in particular gratitude practice - we not only stimulate the part of the brain associated with dopamine, we can also skillfully let go of the stress of the day and shift into sleep. The journal features a beautiful, spacious interior design and offers a three-month journey based upon weekly themes, such as mindfulness, acceptance, forgiveness, resilience, connection, and joy.

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What if you could reboot your health, tap into your creative self, reclaim your wild nature, lead from your heart—and still feel well rested? As modern women, we’re taught that we can do it all, have it all, and be it all. While this freedom is beautiful, it’s also exhausting. Being a "worn-out woman" is now so common that we think feeling tired all the time is normal. According to Karen Brody, feeling this exhausted is not normal—and it’s holding us back. In Daring to Rest, Brody comes to the rescue with a 40-day program to help you reclaim rest and access your most powerful, authentic self through yoga nidra, a meditative practice that guides you into one of the deepest states of relaxation imaginable. It’s time to lie down and begin the journey to waking up Though it comes from the yogic tradition, yoga nidra doesn’t look like a typical yoga class—the entire practice is done lying down. As you listen to a guided meditation, you’re gently taken into complete inner stillness, effortlessly releasing into a healing state that works on both cellular and subtle body levels. With Daring to Rest, Brody presents a comprehensive yoga nidra program that unfolds in three phases: rest for physical exhaustion, release for mental and emotional exhaustion, and rise for tuning in to the "life purpose exhaustion" that can come when we’re not in our full power. Each phase includes a downloadable yoga nidra guided meditation and supportive practices. "By directly accessing your subconscious mind, yoga nidra helps shift the long-held patterns that prevent you from stepping fully into your purpose and power," writes Brody. "Now is the time to break the cycle of fatigue and return to your truest self—the woman you are when you’re not constantly exhausted." This is a book about yoga nidra, a meditation practice that helps with relaxation, sleep, rest, and healing.

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