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The Search for the True Self
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Alice Miller
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This best-selling book examines childhood trauma and the enduring effects it has on an individual's management of repressed anger and pain.
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of people with an answer—and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.
Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents' expectations and win their "love". Alice Miller writes, "When I used the word 'gifted' in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb.... Without this 'gift' offered us by nature, we would not have survived."
But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.
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Critic reviews
"Rare and compelling in its compassion and its unassuming eloquence...her examples are so vivid and so ordinary they touch the hurt child in us all."—The New York Magazine
"An unpretentious little book with an amazing impact...Many readers find themselves portrayed with an accuracy and empathy that seem uncanny, as if the author had been a silent, unseen witness to their childhood [and] their innermost and secret selves."—Vogue
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- A Simple Framework for Transforming Your Habits
- By: Darius Foroux
- Narrated by: Darius Foroux
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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Covid-19 has changed our habits whether we like to admit it or not. We've become more distracted than ever, which is impacting every aspect of our lives. In this updated and expanded version of The Road to Better Habits, you’ll learn how to transform your habits in a simple way. Ultimately, where you are in your life is a result of your habits. The American historian and philosopher, Will Durant, said it best: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
By: Darius Foroux
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Your Difference Is Your Strength
- A Guide to Accepting Yourself -- for Anyone Who Has Ever Felt Out of Place
- By: Kris Ferraro
- Narrated by: Kris Ferraro
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Your Difference is Your Strength is a book for anyone and everyone who has ever felt out of place, misunderstood, or just...different. It’s the book for the kid who was too creative or too shy or too “weird” and who grew up into an adult who still isn’t quite sure where they fit in or if they even want to. It’s a book for you. In Your Difference is Your Strength, Kris Ferraro, author of Manifesting, invites the oddballs and underdogs of the world to stop hiding, minimizing, or disguising their differences and instead embrace them in a powerful new way.
By: Kris Ferraro
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52 Small Changes for the Mind
- Improve Memory - Minimize Stress - Increase Productivity - Boost Happiness
- By: Brett Blumenthal
- Narrated by: Brett Blumenthal
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Small changes work. In this practical book, wellness expert Brett Blumenthal reveals how to hone in on the mind as the foundation of overall health and well-being. She presents one small, achievable change every week - from developing music appreciation to eating brain-boosting foods, practicing mono-tasking, incorporating play, and more. The accumulation of these lifestyle changes ultimately leads to improved memory, less stress, increased productivity, and sustained happiness.
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Enjoyable, and useful
- By Amazon Customer on 01-14-24
By: Brett Blumenthal
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How to Lead Smart People
- Leadership for Professionals
- By: Arun Singh, Mike Mister
- Narrated by: Arun Singh
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Using over 40 simple lessons, How to Lead Smart People shows you how to manage a team of equals with intelligence and diplomacy. Traditional skills are re-evaluated for the leader of a smart team. Split into three sections: leading yourself, leading your team and leading your organisation, the book offers advice for 360-degree management. How to Lead Smart People teaches core skills such as decision-making and delegating but also soft skills such as delivering good and bad news to team members and how to realise longer-term aims such as building trust and growing your team.
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Useless - waste of time
- By Anonymous User on 01-08-20
By: Arun Singh, and others
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Living with Intent
- My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace, and Joy
- By: Mallika Chopra, Deepak Chopra - afterword
- Narrated by: Mallika Chopra
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Living with Intent is a chronicle of Mallika Chopra’s search to find more meaning, joy, and balance in life. She hopes that by telling her story, she can inspire others with her own successes (and failures) as well as share some of the wisdom she has gathered from friends, experts, and family along the way — people like her dad, Deepak, as well as Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, Arianna Huffington, Andrew Weil, and Dan Siegel. She also provides a practical road map for how we can all move from thought to action to outcome.
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Relatable!
- By Kristin on 04-15-16
By: Mallika Chopra, and others
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Find Yourself at Home
- A Conscious Approach to Shaping Your Space and Your Life
- By: Emily Grosvenor
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Home can be a space to explore your sense of self, a message board to cue your aspirational goals, and a story where you choose which parts of your past to put down and which to carry. In Find Yourself at Home, design journalist and interiors consultant Emily Grosvenor introduces her five steps to align your home to suit your purpose and your path.
By: Emily Grosvenor
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One Day, Life Will Change
- A story of love & inspiration to win life when it hits you hard...
- By: Saranya Umakanthan
- Narrated by: Nandita Dubey
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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Love...does it mean running around the trees or vacationing in Switzerland, singing tra-la-la in the snow? Is it about gifting teddy bears and roses to your partner? After losing everything she holds dear...her love, her parents, and even her singing, Samaira is dejected. She is at her lowest point in life and has no idea what she wants. Vivian is the successful and dynamic head of Creative Tanks and dreams of being the top entrepreneur in India. When their paths cross, sparks fly and they are drawn to each other. The aura of mystery around her tugs at Vivian’s heartstrings.
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Take the Leap
- Change Your Career, Change Your Life
- By: Sara Bliss
- Narrated by: Will Blagrove, Ramón De Ocampo, Janina Edwards, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Sara Bliss (yes, that’s her real name) tracked down more than 65 people who transformed their lives to learn how they did it so you can, too. Take the Leap is packed with inspiring profiles, quotes, and other pieces of creative advice from game changers, rule breakers, and side hustlers, including successful entrepreneurs like Barbara Corcoran, Bobbi Brown, writer turned actress (at 40) Jill Kargman, Black Crowes drummer turned sports radio host Steve Gorman, writer Simon Doonan, and NFL player turned artist/activist Aaron Maybin, and many more.
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Getting Unstuck
- By Sandra Mizumoto Posey on 05-09-19
By: Sara Bliss
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The Emotionally Destructive Relationship
- Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It
- By: Leslie Vernick
- Narrated by: Leslie Vernick
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Leslie Vernick, counselor and social worker, has witnessed the devastating effects of emotional abuse. Many, including many in the church, have not addressed this form of destruction in families and relationships because it is difficult to talk about. With godly guidance and practical experience, Vernick offers an empathetic approach to recognizing an emotionally destructive relationship and addresses the symptoms and the damage with biblical tools.
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EYE OPENING!
- By Tamara Adame on 01-22-25
By: Leslie Vernick
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Stop Talking, Start Doing
- A Kick in the Pants in Six Parts
- By: Richard Newton - contributor, Shaa Wasmund
- Narrated by: Richard Newton, Shaa Wasmund
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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Have you got an itch to start your own business, go to the North Pole, retrain, lose weight, get promoted, learn to play the ukulele? Or do you just have a nagging sense that there must be more to life? If there is something you really want to do, but secretly fear you'll never do it, then you need this. This is your kick in the pants! To make your thing happen, you have to climb into the ring. You have to face your fears and move from talking to doing.
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The push
- By Rigoberto Tinajera on 06-03-24
By: Richard Newton - contributor, and others
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The Art of Being Brilliant
- Transform Your Life by Doing What Works For You
- By: Andy Cope, Andy Whittaker
- Narrated by: Glen McCready
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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A pep talk in your pocket, this short audiobook will fill you to the brim with happiness, positivity, well-being and, most importantly, success! Andy Cope and Andy Whittaker are experts in the art of happiness and positive psychology and The Art of Being Brilliant is crammed full of good advice, instructive case studies, inspiring quotes, some funny stuff and important questions to make you think about your work, relationships, and life.
By: Andy Cope, and others
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Train Your Mind to Be Successful
- Attract and Get Anything You Want in Life
- By: Sayra S. Montes
- Narrated by: Mapuana Makia
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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Do you want to develop the habits you need to thrive and flourish in life? Looking for powerful, proven exercises to help you change your mindsets, manifest your dream life, and strive for achievement? Then this is the book for you.
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Common sense Rehash of another million books out there
- By DeAnn on 07-03-22
By: Sayra S. Montes
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Complex PTSD
- From Surviving to Thriving
- By: Pete Walker
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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The causes of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grew up in houses that were not homes-in families that were as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated, and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul, and body. This book is a practical guide to recovering from lingering childhood trauma. It is copiously illustrated with examples of the author's and his clients' journeys of recovering.
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Needs a PDF
- By D. Beahn on 08-08-19
By: Pete Walker
Psychology for psychologists
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Worth it.
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Highly recommended, even for 18-25+
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Rattling the bars of forgotten selves
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Just puts in words everything.
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Great book!!!
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Amazing!
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Great Book
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Powerfully Insightful
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All of us have a wounded child inside
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