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Cut Down, Stop for a Bit, or Quit
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Listen to How to Be a Mindful Drinker: a practical support plan to help you take control of your alcohol intake, with tools to track progress, deal with triggers, social stresses, and stay on track for the long term.
Fed up with weekend hangovers? Motivated by budgetary or health concerns? Or just want to feel your best every day of the week? Without preaching or waffling, How to Be a Mindful Drinker will help you to understand your drinking behavior and plan your self-moderation goals.
Drawing on highly successful behavior-change tools and techniques, How to Be a Mindful Drinker is designed to guide you toward moderate drinking habits, so that you can live the life you want and put alcohol in its place. Alongside expert advice and guidance, action plans, diagrams of strategies, and motivational quotes from real Club Soda members, the book also includes support strategies for social situations that you can carry into the future. Take control and discover how to change your drinking for good - not just during Dry January or Sober for October.
Club Soda is a rapidly growing community creating a world where no-one has to feel out of place if they're not drinking. Founded by Laura Willoughby, Jussi Tolvi, and Dru Jaeger, it offers online courses and real-world events, including regular Mindful Drinking Festivals. If you want to change your drinking, you are welcome in Club Soda.
Narrated by Laura, Jussi, Dru, and Anja of Club Soda, along with stories from some of the Club Soda members, and packed with exclusive audio bonus material, enjoy listening to How to Be a Mindful Drinker.
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- By: Chelsea Harvey Garner
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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What if all the advice we’ve received about “looking on the bright side” is wrong? What if sadness is actually the key to happiness, and can even be . . . fun? Garner is here to make that case. In this feel-good guide to feeling bad, she claims it’s not enough for us to tolerate hard feelings. We need to embrace them. We need to let them show by crying with others. Often. In public. Playful, at times irreverent, but always sincere, Garner is the grown-up Miss Frizzle for the therapy generation.
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permission to be exactly as you are
- By Chelsea on 07-11-23
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The Light We Give
- How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life
- By: Simran Jeet Singh
- Narrated by: Simran Jeet Singh
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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The Light We Give lays out how we can learn to integrate ethical living to achieve personal happiness and a happier life. It speaks to those who are inspired to take on positive change but don’t know where to begin. To those who crave the chance to be empathetic but are afraid of looking vulnerable. To those who seek the courage to confront hatred with love and compassion. Singh reaches beyond his comfort zone to practice this deeper form of living and explores how everyone can learn the insights and skills that have kept him engaged and led him to commit to activism.
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As a newcomer to Sikhi this book was perfect!
- By Tonneli on 01-24-23
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Things I Learned from Falling
- A Memoir
- By: Claire Nelson
- Narrated by: Claire Nelson
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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In 2018, writer Claire Nelson made international headlines when she fell over 25 feet after wandering off the trail in a deserted corner of Joshua Tree. The fall shattered her pelvis, rendering her completely immobile. There Claire lay for the next four days, surrounded by boulders that muffled her cries for help, but exposed her to the relentless California sun above. Her rescuers had not expected to find her alive. In Things I Learned from Falling, Claire tells not only her story of surviving, but also her story of falling.
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Stunning and interesting
- By Amazon Customer on 11-29-23
By: Claire Nelson
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Expect to Win
- 10 Proven Strategies for Thriving in the Workplace
- By: Carla A. Harris
- Narrated by: Carla A. Harris
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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While climbing the corporate ladder, Carla Harris sought career advice from her mentors and superiors but found some of the counsel too nonspecific. As Carla's career advanced, she discovered the key survival tools to business success and vowed that when she reached senior management and people came to her for advice she would provide them with specific, play-by-play answers about what they needed to do to fulfill their career potential.
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The Roadmap to Success
- By LadyH on 06-21-23
By: Carla A. Harris
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The Dorito Effect
- The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
- By: Mark Schatzker
- Narrated by: Chris Patton
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number-one public health crisis has gotten it wrong. The epidemics of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are not tied to the overabundance of fat or carbs. Instead we have been led astray by the growing divide between flavor - the tastes we crave - and the underlying nutrition.
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In the shadow of Salt, Sugar, Fat by Michael Moss
- By Graham on 09-08-15
By: Mark Schatzker
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Hear Yourself
- How to Find Peace in a Noisy World
- By: Prem Rawat
- Narrated by: Prem Rawat
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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The cacophony of modern life can be deafening, leaving us feeling frazzled and uneasy. In this warm, wise book, Prem Rawat teaches us how to turn down the noise to “hear ourselves” - to listen to the subtle song of peace that sings inside each of us. Once we learn to truly “hear ourselves” and the voice of peace within, then we can hold on to that as we face all the noise of the world. The culmination of a lifetime of study, Hear Yourself lays out the crucial steps we can use to focus on the voice within.
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This is a book about you.
- By Anonymous User on 10-02-22
By: Prem Rawat
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Widen the Window
- Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma
- By: Elizabeth A. Stanley PhD, Bessel van der Kolk M.D. - foreword
- Narrated by: Elizabeth A. Stanley PhD, Fred Sanders
- Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
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Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging. Trauma is our response to an experience in which we feel powerless or lacking agency. Until now, researchers have treated these conditions as different, but they actually lie along a continuum. Dr. Elizabeth Stanley explains the significance of this continuum, how it affects our resilience in the face of challenge, and why an event that's stressful for one person can be traumatizing for another.
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Not enough exercises
- By jason ramsey on 06-11-20
By: Elizabeth A. Stanley PhD, and others
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A Liberated Mind
- How to Pivot Toward What Matters
- By: Steven C. Hayes PhD
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins, Steven C. Hayes PhD
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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In this landmark audiobook, the originator and pioneering researcher into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) lays out the psychological flexibility skills that make it one of the most powerful approaches research has yet to offer. These skills have been shown to help even where other approaches have failed. Science shows that they are useful in virtually every area - mental health, physical health, social processes, and performance.
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Disappointing. A 14 hour long defense of ACT.
- By Mats M on 02-06-20
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10 Rules for Resilience
- Mental Toughness for Families
- By: Joe De Sena, Lara Pence
- Narrated by: Joe De Sena, Lara Pence
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Joe De Sena has spent his life running toward challenge and discomfort. Why? Because how we react to challenging situations defines us and our families. The only tools we have as humans to survive the many peaks and valleys of a full life are preparedness, health, leadership, and most importantly, resilience. Why do so many parents struggle to finish things we start, delay gratification, and protect our health - and why do our kids continue to struggle in every facet of life? Because we haven’t showed them a path to resilience, and we haven’t fought for it ourselves.
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Words to live by !
- By ELIZABETH PATNODE on 10-21-21
By: Joe De Sena, and others
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The Resilient Life
- Manage Stress, Prevent Burnout & Strengthen Your Mental and Physical Health
- By: Dr. Susan Biali Haas M.D.
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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This deeply inspiring book by Dr. Susan Biali Haas, M.D.—a physician, executive coach, and leader in conversations on burnout and mental health—can help you break the cycle of overwhelm and exhaustion by using simple, science-based shifts that restore joy, health, and meaning to your work and life.
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A great uplifting book
- By Ms Cheryl E Arcidiacono on 06-13-24
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The Blue Zones Solution
- Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People
- By: Dan Buettner
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Dan Buettner, the New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Zones, lays out a proven plan to maximize your health based on the practices of the world's healthiest people. For the first time, Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he's identified as "Blue Zones"—those places with the world's longest-lived and thus healthiest people.
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Good Info, Well Presented
- By Soozzone on 06-29-15
By: Dan Buettner
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Things That Matter
- Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life
- By: Joshua Becker
- Narrated by: Joshua Becker
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Everywhere around you are distractions: That text you respond to quickly, just to get it out of the way. The newest money-making side hustle to cross your mind. The evening spent organizing your overflowing kitchen cupboards. Disruptions are the enemies of a life well lived—both the new distractions of our generation and timeless ones that have existed for centuries. They all add up to make you feel restless, tired, and unfulfilled. They’re keeping you from living with joy, from accomplishing the good that only you can do.
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A ton of preaching about being “selfless”
- By Amazo rrrrrrrrrrr on 08-25-22
By: Joshua Becker
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At Your Best
- How to Get Time, Energy, and Priorities Working in Your Favor
- By: Carey Nieuwhof
- Narrated by: Carey Nieuwhof
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow. Influential podcast host and thought leader Carey Nieuwhof understands the challenges of constant pressure. After a season of burnout almost took him out, he discovered how to get time, energy, and priorities working in his favor. This approach freed up more than one thousand productive hours a year for him and can do the same for you.
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So helpful.
- By kevin on 09-21-21
By: Carey Nieuwhof