New Self Help Books Archive
April - May 2011
We've added exciting new self help book titles to The Guide for April - May 2011.
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New Self Help Book Listings in Blended Family
Happily Remarried: Making Decisions Together * Blending Families Successfully * Building a Love That Will LastDavid and Lisa Frisbie point out four key strategies to help provide long-term unity in a stepfamily: forgive everyone, including yourself; see your new marriage as permanent and successful; work with any conflicts that arise as an opportunity to get better acquainted; and form a spiritual connection centered on serving God. 2005, Harvest House Publishers
Keys to Successful Stepfathering
Keys to Successful Stepfathering describes the contributions a stepfather can make to his new family, with suggestions about how he can assume a dependable and reassuring presence in family life. Also described are some of the stumbling blocks a stepfather might encounter and how he can overcome them. The author stresses the importance of compromise and respect for others in resolving family conflicts. 2010, Barron's Educational Series
The Smart Stepfamily: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family
Ron Deal offers seven effective, attainable steps toward creating a healthy marriage and a workable and peaceful stepfamily. Exploding the myth of achieving an idealized "blended family" he helps parents discover the unique personality and place of each member of the family, while honoring the families of origin and establishing new traditions. 2006, Bethany House
Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do
Stepmonster illuminates the harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, looks at the common myths and realities of being married to a man with children, counteracts the cultural idea that stepmothers are solely responsible for the difficulties they encounter, identifies the "Five Step-Dilemmas That Create Conflict," and considers the emotional and social challenges men with children encounter following remarriage. 2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
7 Steps to Bonding with Your Stepchild
Sensible, realistic, and positive advice--from sharing a bathroom to initiating conversations--for men and women that "inherit" children in addition to a new spouse. The success or failure of a stepparent to bond with stepchildren can make or break a new marriage. But this book contains a refreshing message--it IS possible to achieve longlasting, rewarding relationships with your new children. These 7 basic steps provide you with the essentials, from deciding what kind of stepparent you want to be to realizing that love comes later. 2001, St. Martin's Griffin
New Self Help Book Listings in Career Development
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get ItWhether you are looking to make improvements in your work or personal life, the authors will show you how to identify what your objectives are, and how to successfully achieve them--even if right now the single thing you are certain of is that you're vaguely to extremely unhappy and haven't the foggiest idea what to do with yourself. 1995, Dell
New Self Help Book Listings in Communication Skills
101 Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills Instantly
This powerful, easy to use self help manual provides good suggestions and reinforces excellent practices in interpersonal relationships. Results: increased prospects for advancement at work, greater opportunity to obtain what you want with reduced likelihood of misunderstandings, and enhanced feelings of safety and friendship with far less probability of hostility. Effective communication skills are the mark of an achiever! 2005, GoalMinds, Inc., 4th Edition
The Assertiveness Workbook: How to Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in RelationshipsEffective communication is an essential skill that impacts your professional success, the stability of your family life, and your personal happiness. Your ability to communicate effectively is significantly hampered if you can't assert yourself constructively. If you've ever felt paralyzed by an imposing individual or a powerfully argued opposing viewpoint, you know that an absence of assertiveness can leave you feeling marginalized and powerless. The Assertiveness Workbook contains effective, cognitive behavioral techniques to help you become more assertive. Learn how to set and maintain personal boundaries without becoming inaccessible. Become more authentic and open in relationships without fearing attack. Defend yourself when you are criticized or asked to submit to unreasonable demands. 2000, New Harbinger
Messages: The Communication Skills Book
Now in its third edition, Messages is a best-selling classic that has previously helped more than 100,000 readers acquire communication skills in all aspects of life. This comprehensive and useful self help guide addresses a variety of topics, including couples communication, using validation strategies during conflicts, active listening, reading body language, developing conflict resolution skills, talking to children, communicating with family members, public speaking, handling group interactions, being interviewed for jobs, and being the interviewer. This book is an invaluable resource. 2009, New Harbinger
The Messages Workbook: Powerful Strategies for Effective Communication at Work and Home
The initial Messages taught you to listen well, disclose truthfully, and express honestly while communicating with others. This self help workbook will help you apply these skills specifically to various facets of your life. Step-by-step worksheets, fill-in exercises, and case stories help you avoid communication pitfalls and create long-lasting, life-enhancing changes. The workbook extends the techniques of Messages to a wide range of situations. 2004, New Harbinger
New Self Help Book Listings in Creative Writing
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
" . . . fiction does its work by creating a dream in the reader’s mind.” This dream, Gardner points out, must be vivid (filled with evocative detail) and continuous (so that the reader is not ‘awakened’ from his dream by awkward writing, inaccuracies, or plot details that do not fit). "The Art of Fiction will fascinate anyone interested in how fiction gets put together. For the young writer, it will become a necessary handbook, a stern judge, an encouraging friend." The New York Times Book Review. 1991, Vintage
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King's On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. He gives you a whole writer's "tool kit": a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story, and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph, and literary models. 2010, Scribner; 10th Anniversary Edition
New Self Help Book Listings in Death and Dying
The End-of-Life Handbook: A Compassionate Guide to Connecting with and Caring for a Dying Loved One
The End-of-Life Handbook deals with both the emotional and psychological issues relating to death and dying in addition to the practical and medical realities family members must confront with a death in the family. As medical technology advances and life expectancies edge upward, families must traverse ever-more-complicated choices as loved ones approach their final hours. This self help book provides readers much-needed guidance and support for making these frequently difficult decisions in dealing with death. 2008, New Harbinger
New Self Help Book Listings in Divorce
Contemplating Divorce: A Step-by-step Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go
42% of married Americans have considered divorce at some point in their marriage. This self help guide to making one of life's most difficult decisions helps the reader gain clarity and insight into marital problems by helping you to examine your assumptions and expectations of marriage. The author helps you explore the troubling issues in your marriage and then details the next steps to take, whether you decide to stay or go. 2008, New Harbinger
The Good Karma Divorce: Avoid Litigation, Turn Negative Emotions into Positive Actions, and Get On with the Rest of Your LifeWhat if you could reverse the stereotype of a terrible, stressful divorce and move regret-free through this process? Divorce is unfortunate but it does not need to become the defining moment for the rest of your life. Michele Lowrance, a practicing domestic-relations judge, has created this revolutionary guide which offers concrete advice, real-life examples, no-nonsense tools, and helpful checklists. She shows you how to create and follow your personal manifesto – a kind of road map that keeps you focused on the big picture. Then, harnessing your raw emotions, avoiding collateral damage, and using transformative confrontation, you can avoid the black hole of litigation and create a good karma divorce, opening up a new world of hope and possibility. 2010, HarperOne
The Switching Hour: Kids of Divorce Say Good-bye Again
Written from the child's point of view, this self help book will help parents simplify family life as children transition between parents. Filled with facts and practical advice, The Switching Hour stresses that, even with the best intentions and parenting skills, children and parents must come to terms with living divided lives. 2008, Abingdon Press
Transformational Divorce: Discover Yourself, Reclaim Your Dreams & Embrace Life's Unlimited PossibilitiesTransformational Divorce helps women use the transformational nature of divorce to create a full, multifaceted new life. With specific emphasis on psychological and spiritual growth, Karen Kahn Wilson, a psychologist who specializes in working with divorced women, focuses readers beyond immediate divorce recovery by teaching them step-by-step techniques for creating a fulfilling, independent life. In a warm, friendly woman-to-woman tone, Wilson helps divorced women reclaim their deep, inner strength and sense of self through an eleven-tiered approach. 2003, New Harbinger
We're Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents' Divorce
Twenty years later, Prof. Ahrons followed up her original research, reported in The Good Divorce. Her new self help book provides unique insights into how divorce affects children. She asked the “kids” – now 30-somethings -- what made a difference to them when their parents were divorcing. Since children are very tuned into-and upset by-parental warfare, they said that "how parents relate to each other" is key. Parents battle over joint custody schedules, oblivious to how stressful the transitioning between parents can be. Ahrons reminds parents it's not the quantity of time they spend with their child, but the quality of relationship they establish. It’s the reliability, consistency and genuine interest in their lives that matter most to children. Ahrons’ supportive guidebook should aid anyone trying to make a "good divorce" better. 2005, Harper Paperbacks
New Self Help Book Listings in Dogs and Dog Training
The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel
If you've ever wondered what your dog is thinking, Stein's third novel offers an answer. Enzo is a lab terrier mix plucked from a farm outside Seattle to ride shotgun with race car driver Denny Swift as he pursues success on the track and off. Enzo, frustrated by his inability to speak and his lack of opposable thumbs, watches Denny's old racing videos, coins koanlike aphorisms that apply to both driving and life, and hopes for the day when his life as a dog will be over and he can be reborn a man. When Denny hits an extended rough patch, Enzo remains his most steadfast if silent supporter. 2009, Harper Paperbacks
New Self Help Book Listings in Eating Disorder
Eat, Drink and Be Mindful: How to End Your Struggle with Mindless Eating and Start Savoring Food with Intention and JoyMindful eating is a whole new way of looking at food. Instead of rushing through meals, mindful eating emphasizes slowing down and savoring what you eat. Eating Mindfully includes mindfulness tips, activities, and checklists to help you start a mindful eating program, evaluate your progress, and discover a healthier and richer relationship with food. 2009, New Harbinger
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
Conditioned hypereating is a biological challenge, not a character flaw, says Kessler, a former FDA commissioner. He describes how the food industry, the advertising industry and lifestyle changes have short-circuited the body's self-regulating mechanisms, leaving many at the mercy of reward-driven eating. Since the desire to eat can be overstimulated by an almost infinite variety of diabolical combinations of salt, fat and sugar, more people of all ages are being set up for a lifetime of food obsession. Kessler's self help book provides a simple food rehab program to fight back; persistence, he says, is all that is needed to make the perceptual shifts and find new sources of rewards to regain control. 2010, Rodale Books, reprint edition
Feeding the Starving Mind: A Personalized, Comprehensive Approach to Overcoming Anorexia and Other Starvation Eating DisordersIf you're ready to stop letting your eating disorder run your life, Feeding the Starving Mind can help. As you work through the program in this self help book, you'll discover the source of your eating disorder, identify the compulsive thoughts that contribute to it, and take steps toward developing a healthy relationship with food and exercise. 2009, New Harbinger
Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life
Vietnamese Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh urges mindfulness about what people put in their mouths. Savor is a diet book and a meditation book, an unusual hybrid that makes sense because it applies his essential wisdom: pay attention; breathe. If you consistently do that, you'll eat less! This could be the diet-and-exercise self help book for those who have failed using other methods and need a fresh approach. 2010, HarperOne
Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Geneen adds a profound new dimension to her work in Women, Food and God. She begins with her most basic concept: The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, yes, even God. But it doesn't stop there. Geneen shows how going beyond both the food and your feelings takes you deeper into realms of spirit and soul to the bright center of your own life. 2010, Scribner
New Self Help Book Listings in Grief and Bereavement
Grief's Courageous Journey: A Workbook
Grieving is an intensely personal process. If you're mourning a loss, this book guides you at your own pace along the path of your own healing journey. It provides a compassionate program of steps to take for coping with day-to-day life and accepting the changes in yourself and others. Guided by a sequence of journaling exercises and suggestions for creating healing personal rituals, you can use this self help book to tell the story of your relationship with the person who died, grieve your loss, and safely remember the past.
You will also learn techniques for redefining your present life and re-creating your sense of future. 1995, New Harbinger
Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate And Spiritual Guide To Coping With Loss
Grieving readers will find in Grieving Mindfully a new understanding of their own grief process. They will learn about the spiral staircase, a metaphor used to describe the ebb and flow of emotional pain that typically follows loss. The book offers readers new ways to cope with the events and situations that trigger personal grief by using mindfulness exercises and radical acceptance, a concept that encourages the experience of grief rather than its denial. Ultimately, this self help book presents strategies for making life more meaningful by acknowledging death and working to embrace life. 2005, New Harbinger
Saying Good-Bye to the Pet You Love: A Complete Resource to Help You Heal
Written by a psychologist who is a leader in the field of pet bereavement, this practical but sympathetic guide validates the survivor’s often misunderstood feelings, explains the importance of the human-animal bond, and offers strategies for working through the grieving process. Some of the coping techniques include memorializing the pet, recognizing problematic thinking, and finding support. This self help book also covers dealing with guilt and explaining the pet’s death to a child. 2002, New Harbinger
Surviving the Death of Your Spouse: A Step-By-Step Workbook
This self help book proposes a three-step model for understanding and adjusting to life after the loss of a spouse. The first step, called "Treading Water," describes the first phases of loss in which practical concerns share primacy with dealing with uncertainty and search for balance. "Pseudoequilibrium" follows, during which the surviving spouse seeks to redefine him or herself through new people and experiences. "Transition to Lift-off" and "Renewal and Resolution" occur at that point in the recovery process when the surviving spouse is ready to let go of the guilt and embrace the possibilities associated with continuing to live. The book guides the grieving spouse through each phase with step-by-step advice. 2004, New Harbinger
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold Kushner, a Jewish rabbi facing his own child's fatal illness, deftly guides us through the inadequacies of the traditional answers to the problem of evil, then provides a uniquely practical and compassionate answer that has appealed to millions of readers across all religious creeds. Remarkable for its intensely relevant real-life examples and its fluid prose, this self help book cannot go unread by anyone who has ever been troubled by the question, "Why me?" 2004, Anchor
New Self Help Book Listings in Health and Wellness
Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness
In interviews with the most progressive doctors in the field of antiaging medicine, health pioneer Suzanne Somers uncovers enlightening, lifesaving information for a natural, drug-free approach to living. In Breakthrough she shares the 8 STEPS TO WELLNESS that form the cornerstone of breakthrough medicine. Readers will discover how to balance hormones through bioidentical (not synthetic, cancer-causing) hormone replacement; fix thyroid problems; sleep 8 to 9 hours each night without drugs; improve memory; detect diabetes early; restore hearing; preserve eyesight; and much more! 2009, Three Rivers Press
Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being
Dr. Weil offers a convincing portrait of aging as a natural part of life that can be active, productive and satisfying. Using the examples of his mother, who died at age 93; centenarians from Okinawa and Sardinia; and myths and legends, he explores common Western beliefs and attitudes about aging and urges readers to develop healthier perspectives. Dr. Weil assesses the growing and lucrative field of anti-aging medicine, takes the position that aging is not reversible, and offers many ways for readers to prevent conditions and illnesses that limit mortality so they can ensure well-being into the later years. 2007, Anchor
The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of SufferingThe Pain Chronicles is an exquisite, meticulous history of medicine’s quest to alleviate pain--from the first use of ether for surgery in 1842 to the modern management of chronic pain: drugs like Neurontin and controversial opioids; MRIs; and neuroimaging, which trains patients to literally change their own brains. The personal stories from pain sufferers that Thernstrom includes lift this accomplished medical history to an astonishing record of courage and endurance. In these stories, there is a wealth of knowledge, wisdom, and hope for the rest of us. 2011, Picador
The Secret Pleasures of Menopause
Dr. Northrup believes that it’s time for you to step forward and learn to enjoy the best years of your life! Even though studies show that menopause doesn’t decrease libido, ease of reaching orgasm, or sexual satisfaction, the majority of menopausal women aren’t experiencing the pleasure and sexual satisfaction that is their birthright. It is a long-held misconception that menopause signals “the beginning of the end,” and nothing could be further from the truth. In this fascinating book, Dr. Northrup candidly guides you toward experiencing life after 50 as the most pleasurable time of your life! 2008, Hay House
The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief
Trigger point therapy is a self-care tool for alleviating chronic pain caused by a variety of conditions, including arthritis, back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, headache, muscle ache, and repetitive strain injuries. As the author makes clear, all such conditions are related to lack of oxygen in exhausted or injured muscle tissue. Trigger point therapy has been used for decades by doctors, pain specialists, and massage therapists to quickly stimulate the flow of oxygen and promote rapid pain reduction. This book makes the same techniques available to the general public with instructions that are easy to follow, and abetted by an extensive collection of charts and corresponding illustrations. 2004, New Harbinger
New Self Help Book Listings in Intimate Relationships: Relationship Advice
Confessions of a Naughty Mommy: How I Found My Lost Libido
Confessions of a Naughty Mommy is a funny, honest, and sexy account of Raykeil’s search for her missing libido—lost in action after she gave birth to her daughter. She takes readers along on her journey from mystified and frustrated new mom through the bumpy awkwardness of reigniting the home fires during naptime and date night to a newfound discovery and appreciation of sex after baby. With humor, grit, and style, she shares what has worked for her and her husband, as they balance their dual roles of parents and lovers. 2005, Seal Press
Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style: Sharing Desire, Pleasure, and Satisfaction
Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style urges couples to ignore what they see on TV and discover their own unique sexual style. The McCarthys offer three guidelines for sexual satisfaction: develop positive, realistic sexual expectations; explore sensual and sexual options; and communicate sexual desires. With this foundation, couples can take a straightforward survey to determine which of four couple sexual styles best fits their relationship. An understanding of couple sexual styles can play a vibrant role in energizing a couple’s bond and contribute to a satisfying relationship that integrates intimacy and eroticism. Winner of the 2009 Smart Marriages® Impact Award 2009, Routledge
Emotional Fitness for Couples: 10 Minutes a Day to a Better Relationship
Emotional Fitness for Couples offers you a step-by-step progam you can use to hone your relationship skills to championship levels—in just ten minutes a day. You can use this self help book alone, or you can try the exercises with your partner, going through the book in order or choosing those chapters most relevant to your particular goals. Topics include: what the word "love" really means; the importance of physical touch; how to date your mate; how to achieve emotional balance; ways to deal with finances; tricks for stopping an argument before it starts; goal-setting strategies for couples; ways to deal with being apart; tips for coping with hurt before it turns into resentment; and much more. 2005, New Harbinger
Healing Together: A Couple's Guide to Coping with Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress
Dianne Kane; Suzanne B. Phillips
After a traumatic experience – violence, natural disasters, war, life-threatening accidents, crime, health problems, or loss of a loved one -- we are told time and time again to take care of ourselves and reach out to the people we love. But what happens when you reach out and your partner can't reach back? One or both partners can use this practical, step-by-step program to recover from trauma or help their partner recover by understanding the impact of the trauma, learning to communicate their needs, managing anger, dealing with traumatic memories, recapturing lost intimacy, and recognizing their resiliency as a couple. 2009, New Harbinger
The Mindful Couple: How Acceptance and Mindfulness Can Lead You to the Love You Want
With strategies drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a powerful therapeutic approach, The Mindful Couple will help you identify your core values and discover, as a couple, the beauty that is available to you and your partner when you bring greater awareness and values-guided behavior to your relationship. Each chapter explores a key issue, such as passion, fidelity, and the balance between dependence and independence, and includes specific practices you can do alone or with your partner to help you build a vital relationship. 2009, New Harbinger
We Can Work It Out: How to Solve Conflicts, Save Your Marriage
Based on national studies of more than one thousand couples, this three-part program guarantees that each partner's feelings can be expressed and understood, and helps couples identify personal factors and underlying principles that can create their successful marriage. 1994, Perigee Trade
When Anger Hurts Your Relationship: 10 Simple Solutions for Couples Who Fight
Psychologists Paleg and McKay pinpoint pain and a resulting sense of helplessness as the roots of anger. By outlining individuals' and couples' basic cycles of hurt and anger, the authors show how to break the old cycles. Focusing on preventing escalation, managing anger when it arises and repairing the situation after an old pattern takes hold, they suggest a one-day-at-a-time process of swearing off anger (via tension-release exercises, practicing empathy and identifying defensiveness), learning de-escalation tools (a Repair Checklist, an Anger Coping Plan) and regaining trust (by changing speech habits and concertedly giving pleasure). 2001, New Harbinger
Why Can't You Read My Mind? Overcoming the 9 Toxic Thought Patterns that Get in the Way of a Loving RelationshipBernstein and Magee offer partners a way to renew the spark in their relationships in this succinct self-help guide. They claim that one of the most significant steps is to focus on yourself rather than your partner by ridding yourself of toxic thoughts -- "negative thoughts that have lost their basis in reality and have gotten out of control." Examining nine toxic thought patterns (such as jumping to conclusions, labeling one another and playing the "blame game"), the authors provide well-researched explanations, relevant examples and practical alternatives to transform negative thoughts and behaviors into positive and constructive ones. 2003, Da Capo Press
