Compassionate, Perceptive, Practical
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Lisa has done a wonderful job using her strengths to help others.  You can instantly tell she understands the difference between introverts and extroverts and the strengths of both.  She compassionately speaks from her personal experience dealing with her own tendency to introversion.  She is perceptive and knowing the thought processes and mind-tricks that introverts experience. (Or at least I think so, not being much of an introvert!) And she challenges introverts to the difficult "extrovert" activities but provides practical tips for how to manage personal energy and maintain focus.

If you have a tendency to introversion but you want to maximize your personal leadership impact, you need to get this e-book.
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An excellent, practical book that can help people to understand some of their behaviors and make some life-giving changes.
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The word "practical" easily applies to this book--much like one of John Friedlander's other books, The Practical Psychic.  This book is full of down-to-earth and literally "connecting to the earth" advice about living in a physical world with more awareness that you ever imagined possible. Beginning exercises include grounding and running earth and cosmic energies complete with helpful diagrams and full explanations of each step.  The reader quickly graduates to exercises directed at cleansing the chakras, learning easy and simple techniques to clear energy blocks, past, present and future.  Next comes helpful advice for distinguishing personal energy from the energy of others.  Awareness leads to the ability to cleanse the chakras of "stuck" energy and shed the intrusion of other's energies.  Once the reader has bookmarked and practiced these exercises over and over, a sense of freedom, lightness and clarity rarely achieved in a lifetime is the expected result.  The reader is ready to move on to achieving a profound place within to connect with Higher Self, your God of the Heart.  With a sense of humor throughout, the reader can finally gain access to "a gentle state of neutrality, one of the most powerful and effective tools for dealing with difficult situations," the core of the entire practice.  Neutrality is not the absence of emotions, but rather it is "an opening up to the complexity, subtlety, and multidimensionality of emotions and experience."  Eventually the reader is able to find an increase in compassion, both personal and for others.  This compassion leads to a state of forgiveness, both for yourself and for others, and the creation of a place of gentle acceptance of the self and the absence of blame and guilt. Add this book to your tool kit for forging a new self for practical living in the new millennium.
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Michael Thompson, Ph. D. is the author of the bestseller "Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys. His latest, written with compassion, humor, and practicality, is an insightful look into the sometimes mysterious world of child development.
As a special education teacher, and soon to be school counselor, I have long held that those who have children, and work with children need a keener understanding on why children do the things they do, if we are to care for them, and serve them better. This book will go along way in fostering this understanding among parents, teachers, and practioners because it helps us understand how a child views her world.
Written in conjuction with journalist Catherine O'Neill Grace and Lawrence Cohen, Ph. D. "Best Friends, Worst Enemies..." provides such a keen insight into the social lives of children, it is almost as if it was written by a child, because they have such an excellent perspective.
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What a lovingly written, practical and heartfelt book! Dr. Atkins delivers useful information on the dying process, which helps dispel the fear around death, along with tender stories of people who have taken the journey. I found it so helpful as both a readying guide and a reflective tool, as I thought back to my loved ones passing. This book is a great read for anyone who loves another. And warning: you may want to have a tissue handy.
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The Mindful Caregiver is a thoughtful book and an enjoyable read written from the heart based on the authors years of experience as a geriatric social worker and as a caregiver for her mother with Alzheimer's disease. The book provides practical approaches to caregiving and presents the often painful challenges in an easy to read format using real cases to illustrate and support the points. Kriseman explores coping strategies for the caregiver, how to advocate for the elder, navigate the health care system, and utilize support services. Throughout the book she emphasizes that taking care of oneself is essential for providing the best care for the care recipient and for sustaining that care over months to many years. As a practicing physician, I believe the book, while geared to caregivers of elders with terminal illnesses, provides many valuable points that can be applied to everyday life, and to caregiving for the chronically ill of all ages.
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Beautifully and respectfully engages the reader on a fully human level. In this carefully organized book the authors first present the science behind the development of interpersonal behaviors. This is interspersed with heartfelt stories of real people who have found themselves in irrelationships and their courageous journeys to a new way of loving and intimacy. Finally, we are given clear steps that can be taken to break old "song and dances"  and to develop fulfilling relationships with the important people in our lives.
Intelligent, accessible and filled with useful information to achieve real healing, change and growth.
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In Navigating Life, Margaux Bergenan utterly charming and gracious womanreveals the underbelly of modern parenting.  Her struggle to convey wisdom to her oldest daughter, one of three children she has raised largely on her own, makes a compelling story.  This brief missive, conceived in adversity, and conveyed in spare, crisp prose, is honest, raw and thoughtful.  Nothing less than the meaning of a humane life is at its core, but Bergens essential elements (such as the art of conversation) are refreshing.  I read it hungrily, as a testimonial to the challenges we confront daily in shaping a life and as a paean to myriad-layered motherhood. A lovely gift to pass on.
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I was fortunate enough to read Dying: A Natural Passage by Denys Cope when I visited a beloved friend for the last time with the intention of sharing our last goodbye.  It was extremely difficult for me to come to terms with her illness and dying from ovarian cancer.  She and her partner were reading Denys' book and suggested that I do so too.  I did read it, and along with my best friend's grace and courage, Denys' book changed my outlook from one of deep sorrow and suffering to one of rebirth and love through the natural grief.  Dying: A Natural Passage is a hands-on, easy-to-read practical guide that gives loved ones real tools needed to support the spiritual and very down-to-earth business of death, dying and continuing life with courage, dignity and clarity.  I cannot emphasize the word 'practical' enough.  I have since purchased several copies so that I can keep one for myself and share the rest with friends and relatives.  Through the difficult and dilligent work of people like Denys and all hospice practitioners - very many of us and our loved ones dealing with death are comforted and healed inside and out with our last choices before passing into a new life.  My friends and I are forever grateful to Denys and all hospice workers for gently teaching us that there is a peaceful and healthy way to pass into a new life.  Most high recommended reading for everyone.
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As a psychotherapist for 20 years, I've been helping clients move through the most difficult of losses, betrayals, and despair to a renewed sense of possibility, choice, and hope.  I'm deeply impressed with Richard Heckler's extraordinarily warm, compassionate, and fully engaging account, in Waking Up, Alive, of recovered resilience and healing.  The wisdom and heartfulness of the book have been helpful to me on a daily basis.
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This is a superb first book by the author.  It gives the reader practical and thoughtful advice to the very real life challenges of balancing family, work and individual needs.  She brings humor, sensitivity and authentic life experience to connect readers to what she has found to be best practices for healthy living.  Her recognition of her own shortcomings (like her "addiction" to Skittles) makes her advice seem more "human", sound and acceptable.  I look forward to her next work.
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Pragmatic useful information or reminders about compassionate communication.
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If you are debating whether or not to pick up Mending Broken Branches by Elizabeth Oates, let me assure you - you should skip it if you are perfect and come from a picture-perfect family; however, if you have any degree of dysfunction in your background, you will benefit from this practical guide to restoration.

While I am the child of a relatively happy and complete nuclear family, my extended family is plagued by divorce, adultery, alcoholism, and substance abuse.  Chances are, if you are living in 2018, you are not immune to the fallout from others bad choices.

Oates appears to be the quintessential Wacoan, the after result of the Gaines remodeling efforts on HGTVs Fixer Upper.  She is a beautiful, impeccably dressed, happily married mother of five, as well as a yoga teacher, author, and speaker.  Oates reveals that in spite of appearances, her early days were not the picturesque childhood one might imagine.  With heartrending vulnerability, she builds a rapport with her readers who come from less than perfect homes and spend a lifetime trying to recover.

With humor and empathy, Oates sheds light on the childhood experiences that form our beliefs and habits, peeling back layers of protection that have become barriers to healthy relationships.  Putting her seminary training to work, she helps us process our memories, unearthing both pain and treasure.  You may be afraid to open Pandoras Box, but only through looking at the reality of our past with God-given tools can we face our captivity and negate its power over us.  In the light of biblical examples such as Esther and Joseph, Oates helps us process our broken pasts in a healthy way with an interactive format that allows for reflection.

Oates shows how, rather than repeat(ing) the same mistakes deeply rooted in each of our family trees, we can allow God to restore us, for God sees us as new, useful, and lovely branches, ready to provide beautiful blossoms that bring hope, truth, joy, and splendor into the dark world.

Through poignant examples from her own life as well as from a cadre of other women with diverse but dysfunctional backgrounds, Elizabeth shares wisdom that addresses our grief and equips us with skills to build healthy relationships with our husband and children.  She demonstrates how to effectively handle communication, conflict, and forgiveness and gives the reader room to explore memories, strategies, and plans for  healthy change.

Oates does not leave us wallowing in our brokenness.  Instead, she gives us the tools to change our present circumstances and offers us a hope that can only come from God . . . the hope that our future will consist of the beautiful legacy of mended branches. Through Gods restorative work in us, from the inside out, we can be more beautiful than the most stunning makeover from Fixer Upper.
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This practical look at healing care through the eyes of a nurse enables the reader to experience the heart of care and the art of care. You will be able to envision an aspect of nursing care seldom shared with others in the general public. We all know the value of a good nurse, but to get a look into their soul will make you realize just how important their work really is.

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I wish this book would have been available for me when I started out on my quest of exploration into my "deeper self".  In this book there is a lot of valuable understanding with a practical approach.  Bringing instructions and suggestions with many gentle invitations to "Open Up Our Hearts" to our present experience of who we truly are, in a guided compassionate way.

I enjoyed the incisive wisdom, finding that it was streamlined, without having to dissect ancient paths and mysteries, providing me  universal knowledge through the heart and a refinement for the soul.

This is a well suited book for this time,  where ever you might be in your path.
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This is a lovely book! Dr Rubenstein writes about some of life's most serious and sensitive issues with the reassuring bedside manner of a compassionate family doctor. He takes the reader gently by the hand and guides us through the maze of his uniquely personal journey into the realms of spiritual mediumship. This is a warm and cosy read, full of honesty, humility and humour; a book that gives emotional comfort at every turn of the page. I found myself reading it slowly, alongside other, more scientifically political, books on the subject of psychic phenomena. For me it was, and will continue to be, an oasis of simple wisdom, sanity and sheer down-to-earth common sense; a place of refreshment in the territory of fierce combat between sceptics and believers.
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Paul Schroeder's perspective on creating a more compassionate world is well worth practicing. Compassionate seeing is the beginning of a world opening before you -- a world worthy of our understanding. Read this book and test these practices for an enhanced life and a better community.