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We don’t deserve anxiety and stress. We deserve to have fun and experience love for ourselves and others. We deserve to feel safe, completely relaxed, content, and confident. Yet we cannot even recall the last time we felt good like that. These days, we are behaving on negative autopilot, and we cannot find a way to get out of it. It has taken over our life, habits, and moods. The good news is that it is fixable, by rewiring our brain that is running on “anxiety and stress autopilot” to a new “positive autopilot” - the autopilot that’s a happy and confident one.

An alternate and sometimes unpopular view of current events and icons spoken from the heart.

Querdenken-Demos, gewaltbereite Reichsbürger, Verschwörungstheoretiker - immer mehr Menschen driften auf der Suche nach Halt und Orientierung in radikale Ideen- und Vorstellungswelten ab, finden Antworten in Chat-Gruppen, Internetforen und auf fragwürdigen Webseiten. Immer häufiger wissen Freunde und Angehörige sich im Umgang mit Betroffenen nicht mehr zu helfen, fehlen Strategien, um miteinander im Kontakt und Gespräch zu bleiben. Wie können wir diesen Entwicklungen begegnen? Dana Buchzik erklärt die Psychologie hinter dieser Entfremdung.

True crime, scandals, and celebrity gossip meet astrology when three friends discuss the transits that have influenced some of the biggest moments throughout history and pop culture. In this weekly comedy podcast, your hosts Astrologer Dana DeFranco, Elyse Carlucci, and Sarah Dembkowski cover the charts behind everything from the Free Britney Movement, to JonBenet Ramsey, to the Salem Witch Trials. Whether you’re a beginner learning astrology basics or an advanced astro nerd, you’ll have some laughs and gain a new perspective on the planets’ roles in our daily lives and world events.

Siria, 1912. Latife, una hermosa niña de ocho años, vive con sus padres en la bella ciudad de Damasco. A pesar de pertenecer a la -aún- opulenta comunidad judía, su familia se ve condenada a la miseria y al ostracismo debido a que su madre jamás pudo concebir un hijo varón. Tras la repentina muerte de su madre y el abandono de su padre, la suerte le depara ser acogida en la casa de un rico benefactor, donde encuentra la tranquilidad y, tras convertirse en mujer, también el amor.

Jack and Luke Glasser successfully survived the Organization's first attempt, but the Organization isn't going away. Neither is the unique virus created by a rogue Organization member to orchestrate a food blight for a large, multinational agricultural company, so they could own the cure. The only problem is that there is no cure. With the virus creator dead, the Glasser Brothers struggle to harness their newfound "gifts" to stay a step ahead of Draper's girl while finding and eradicating a novel virus that's infected Luke.

In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools—instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting “elite” graduates to teach—are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change.

Did you know there are specific reasons why some families do well, and others come unglued? This title offers six parenting essentials that successful, joy-filled families all seem to have. For over three decades, Dr. Gil Stieglitz has worked with countless parents and teens involving family issues. He noticed a pattern emerge between families who “did it right”, and the absence of that pattern in families who came apart. He and his wife, Dr. Dana Stieglitz, put this pattern into practice, to now pass it on to you - so you can create a truly enjoyable family of your own too!

Adraa and Jatin are heirs to the thrones of neighboring kindoms and each extraordinarily talented in the nine colors of magic. Their arranged marriage will unite much of Wickery's fractured world but, after years of rivalry from afar, they only agree on one thing: their reunion will be anything but sweet. Except destiny has other plans and with the criminal underbelly of Belwar making a move for control, their paths cross...and neither realizes who the other is, each of them having adopted a secret identity.

You are powerful. There’s nothing you can’t accomplish by getting your mind, body, and spirit working together. Life’s challenges are beatable. You can take control of your life and discover your internal power and knowledge to overcome mental and physical health problems, negative thoughts, and trauma. Take the first step to your new life. Nobody can change your life but you, and this guide can help.

Waiting to die in a remote Canadian cannabis facility wasn't exactly how Jack Glasser expected to go out. Having survived a yearlong coma and a bizarre Neural Acceleration experiment, a quick and easy consulting job for GreenLeaf Cannabis seemed like a no-brainer. Now his only hope rests on his computer-like mind and his brother, Luke, a serial gambler whose main talent is burning through jet fuel and expensive bourbon.

This Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Study, intended for those in grade three, introduces listeners to Elizabeth Jane Cochran, better known as Nellie Bly. She was an uneducated woman who landed a job as a journalist in a time when women were thought to belong at home and not in the workforce. The comprehension skills featured in this audio study include understanding informational texts, problems and solutions, and vocabulary-building.

Molly: A Love Story is a true story about a cute little pit bull, lost and alone in the world until one day she was rescued and given a home. Molly’s story teaches children about the unconditional love that a dog can bring into the lives of a family. As a cancer survivor, Molly overcame adversity, and her story shows that despite every hardship, true love is everlasting.

Twelve years old, Pat is a hundred pounds of grit thriving in the ideal childhood her parents create. A graduate’s first day on the job ends as she sleeps in her classroom after a dinner of Crisco and Red Vines. Jezebel takes stock of the consequences of her life choices as she plans her next 20 years. Following her mother’s murder, a teen reinvents herself to escape the threats and certainties she sees coming at her. Sometimes a mother's love is not enough.

Mars. The Red Planet. Bringer of war, the God of war itself. The planet that gave birth to the modern era of science fiction when H.G. Wells gazed upon the red light in the night sky and envisioned an army gathering upon its plains to invade our world. These are the stories of Mars. Stories of adventure, conflict, and war.

Mindfulness and meditation are hot topics these days, and it’s not hard to see why. These techniques can be used to relax, calm anxiety, and increase awareness and focus. But all too often, books about them ignore the people who could use their help the most. Today’s teens and pre-teens are more stressed than any other generation, pulled in a thousand different directions by schoolwork and their personal lives.

Menopause. Every woman goes through it, but few of us talk about it with our friends. Following the success of The Girl in the Gold Bikini, author Dana Goldstein is throwing back the curtain on the most challenging years of a woman's life. Holding nothing back, the author brings her unique sense of humor to her menopausal journey, sharing stories of hair growing where it shouldn't, erotic dreams that leave her shaken for days, and her struggle to stop herself from killing her beloved husband.

The year is 1896, and Elizabeth ("Lisi") von Schwabacher, the gifted daughter of a Jewish banker, returns home to Berlin from three years of piano study in Vienna. Though her thoughts are far from matrimony, she is pursued by two noblemen impressed as much by her stunning wealth as by her prodigious intellect and musical talent. Awakened to sudden improvements in the opportunities open to women, Lisi balks at her mother's expectation that she will contract a brilliant marriage and settle down to a life as a wife and mother.

Holy Wow! was written as one volume with 13 chapters...now divided into three volumes. Volume I is Chapters 1-5. Volume II is Chapters 6-9. Volume III has Chapters10-13. The odd-number chapters are the author’s story. Her journey. How she came to meditation. What she did with it. The even-number chapters take place in The Interpretorium...where beings go to prepare to incarnate human on Planet Earth...receiving updates on current customs and circumstances.

We are overly busy helicopter parents, control freaks, perfectionists, intolerants, over-consumers and social media junkies - who worry, fear, laugh less and always want more. In the midst of it, we wonder what it would feel like to open our hands and turn loose of all of it. In Holding on Loosely: Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load, and Living Unbound, author Dana Knox Wright tells stories of one who is hardwired to cling. To her children when they asked for a blessing to go.