by Joan Pastor, PhD (2013)
If you're an introvert, this guide will help you identify your strengths, and boost your confidence. By learning to communicate with greater ease and with influence, you'll improve relationships with colleagues, partners, friends, and children.
Hou Wenyong
"The 8 key attitudes one should have to meet today's monumental challenges" has already been topping bestselling lists by Hou Wenyong, the physician writer. For all the nice kids who strictly follow rules passed down from the elders, this is for you. Hou says we should break the mold and think outside the boxes. It's the only way to meet the changing world, or you would stand still.
John Powell
John Powell applies his valuable insights into self-awareness and interpersonal communication to help us develop self-esteem and improve our relationships with others. We all fear rejection. We are afraid that people will not like us if they know what we are really like, so we often assume poses to avoid being honest with them and with ourselves. Powell identifies five levels of communication and suggests that the kinds of information we disclose determine the level of depth of our relationships. Who are you? Are you the “Know-it-all”? Are you a “body beautiful”? Are you “the clown,” “the competitor,” the cynic,” or one of the many other characters people portray to protect themselves? Only when we face our fears openly and honestly can we learn to like ourselves and trust that others will accept us as we really are.
Laura Archera Huxley
Practical explorations of living out the concepts laid out by Aldous Huxley in his work - "Island". Select one recipe and stick with it- chances are we will remember and forget, however deeper change will come when we do the work along with the book.
Kathy Koch, PH.D
"Technology is one of the benefits of living in today's world. It is a non-negotiable for success in our educational, vocational, and social cultures. Yet, with all the advantages there are inherent dangers, deceptions, and abuses. Teens often look to their digital tools to make them happy, when you set boundaries or take them away they feel frustrated and incomplete. Unhealthy habits formed in this stage of life easily carry over into adulthood and addictions to technology make other addictions more likely. Screens and Teens applauds the good aspects of the digital age, but also alerts parents to how technology contributes to self-centered character, negative behaviors, and beliefs that inhibit spiritual growth, prescribing manageable solutions regardless of the level of their teen's involvement. Unmasking the lies teenagers tend to believe, like "I must have choices," the book majors on truth, acknowledging that Truth alone brings contentment, freedom, and success"--