June 6, 2023
Global Well-Being and Engagement Practice Leader Deb Smolensky is a firm believer that any brain can be trained for optimal career performance—as long as the brain’s owner is equally focused on mental health and happiness. “The core of well-being is nurturing a strong, healthy, resilient mindset,” she writes, adding: “I believe the only way to […]
March 21, 2023
By sharing her lifetime of trauma and a “spiritual tapestry fabricated from the finest fibers of various belief systems,” including Eastern religion, New Age spirituality, and the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author encourages readers to face their pain and develop unconditional self-love in this book.
Amanda McKoy Flanagan’s shame began as a kindergartener with […]
March 14, 2023
What happens when a producer of 30-second commercials gets the itch to write? Mike X uses his skill at getting to the point fast and keeping readers entertained in his book, Your Best Life.
Instead of selling product, the author’s mission this time, he writes, is to encourage readers to challenge their key beliefs—especially those […]
February 7, 2023
In Aging Wisely, Viola B. Mecke creates a two-part look at the aging process using her firsthand experiences and those of patients from her former psychology practice, among others.
In Part I, Mecke divides aging into four age categories, describing challenges faced and adjustments that need to be made, as well as benefits:
50-65: People […]
February 7, 2023
In An Educator’s Guide to Personal Pride, Larry Plummer discusses the many challenges teachers encounter, making their quest for acceptance, advancement and (at the college level) tenure such a treacherous journey.
Plummer posits that discrimination, favoritism and nepotism are rife in many teaching communities. He follows two fictitious characters – Andrew James Applicant and Latina […]
January 19, 2023
In the aptly titled I Just Can’t Read My Own Mind, life-long athlete, volunteer coach and south Texas business owner Bill Hrncir recounts his journey to overcome the challenges related to sustaining a stroke at age 46. Writing with a positive attitude that showcases the support of family and friends along with the many healthcare […]
January 10, 2023
From her clinical practice and personal life as a daughter, wife, and mother, psychotherapist Gretta Keene provides valuable tools and an instruction manual to construct an authentic, fulfilling life.
Keene uses several profound questions to help the reader, as she’s helped herself and her patients, find reasons for and ways out of devastating circumstances: “How […]
January 3, 2023
For as long as humans have formulated questions such as “what is reality?” and “what is my purpose?” there have been myriad variations on the answer. Author Chuck Champlin offers his own in Think Like a Molecule.
Champlin’s proposal is grounded in his thesis that everything in the universe is driven by a single force […]
November 8, 2022
Life-changing events — such as divorce or a loved one’s death — provide opportunities for self-growth. To use these events as such, self-motivation is key, writes author David Edwards. This requires developing two skills: self-efficacy and self-esteem, he believes.
Most of Edwards’ book describes how to hone these skills. Starting with exercises focused on identifying […]
October 17, 2022
Part memoir, part spiritual and philosophical exploration, and part self-help manual, Sherry Griffith’s Discovering the Great I AM is aimed at those hoping to wake up from unconscious patterns and conditioning and make more informed, conscious, and joyful choices.
Griffith is a social worker and therapist trained in cognitive behavioral therapy. She is deeply immersed […]