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Making Life Matter: Embracing the Joy in the Everyday
by Shane StanfordIn a world of fast-paced schedules and priorities, conversations about what makes for a life well lived are a rarity and a luxury. But what if the daily pace of life held in itself the way to make choices more significant? What if the daily to-do lists gave a glimpse into how people might change their future? What if the daily grind, as arduous as it might seem, held the key to a life full of meaning and potential? What if everyday, simple steps, instead of some complex list of seemingly unattainable principles, showed how to make life matter?Making Life Matter answers these questions and shows that the steps for making life matter are found in rather ordinary decisions, attitudes, and patterns found in normal routines. This book is about our story and our journey, and what we do and feel along the way.
Making Life More Livable: Simple Adaptations for Living at Home after Vision Loss (Revised Edition)
by Maureen A. DuffyFrom the book: The newly revised and updated Making Life More Livable is the essential guide for adults experiencing vision loss and is an invaluable resource for their family and friends. Full of practical tips and illustrated by numerous photographs, this easy-to- use resource shows how people who are visually impaired can continue living independent, productive lives at home on their own. Useful general guidelines and room-by-room specifics provide simple and effective solutions for making homes accessible and everyday activities for individuals with visual impairments.
Making Love Last a Lifetime: Biblical Perspectives on Love, Marriage, and Sex
by Adam HamiltonIn this thoughtful, inspiring book, Adam Hamilton offers some keys to helping you develop a healthy, satisfying, and successful marriage. He draws on insights from surveys of over two thousand single and married persons, from experiences shared by couples he interviewed, from reflections based on fifteen years of counseling individuals and couples, and from his own experiences in marriage. Most importantly, he draws on insights from the Bible to help you make love last a lifetime. If you are single, this book can prepare you to have a successful relationship. If you are married, the book can help you grow in your relationship with your spouse so that you can experience all that God intends a marriage to be.
Making Marks: Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing
by Elaine ClaytonThrough the simple act of drawing--whether it's doodling or creating detailed illustrations--embrace your inner voice and unlock the power of your intuitive intelligence.Do you remember being a child and the pure joy brought on by a box of crayons and piece of paper? Do you still find yourself sketching away every time you pick up a pencil? That's because drawing is a natural impulse that stays with us throughout our entire lives. Whether you are doodling in a notebook or carving your name in the sand, this simple, stream-of-consciousness activity is a window into your deepest, truest self. In Making Marks, you'll learn that every single line, smudge, or spot you make contains visual imagery with the power to heal the past, develop your sense of empathy, and reveal solutions and answers you never realized before. You don't need to have any specific experience or skills to benefit from this book; through simple steps and interactive exercises, people of all ages and artistic abilities can gain insight and learn to reconnect with their creative selves. With beautiful black-and-white and full-color illustrations, Making Marks is a powerful guide to self-discovery. Tap into your unconsciousness as artist and spiritual guide Elaine Clayton takes you on a journey of the soul.
Making Marriage Simple: 10 Truths for Changing the Relationship You Have into the One You Want
by Harville Hendrix Ph.D. Helen LaKelly Hunt Ph.D.Welcome to the Relationship Revolution! Making Marriage Simple is the accessible, essential road map to building a strong marriage in the modern world. Leading relationship experts Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt distil into 10 essential truths what they have learned about how to create a successful and satisfying relationship from their counselling and workshops with married couples, their own 30-year relationship and decades of research. Harville and Helen have spent their careers helping couples transform their marriages. But marriage, even for marriage experts, is never easy, and a number of years ago they found themselves on the brink of divorce. Harville and Helen used their own tried-and-tested exercises they had coached so many couples through and in doing so saved their marriage. Written with humour, compassion and honesty, Making Marriage Simple will give all couples the practical tools they need to foster a rewarding marriage.
Making Marriage Work: New Rules for an Old Institution
by Lynn Toler&“Solid advice for newlyweds, golden anniversary celebrants and everybody in-between&” from the Marriage Boot Camp and former Divorce Court star (The Augusta Chronicle). As the judge starring on two hit television shows, Lynn Toler has witnessed, en masse, the thematic mistakes made in American marriages. She herself has also been wed for more than 30 years and has seen both the highs and lows of matrimony in her own marriage as well as the marriages of those close to her. Drawing from both her professional career and personal life, Toler sees that the biggest impediment to marriage these days is that couples decide to take the plunge based almost entirely on the most irrational criteria: falling in love. Making Marriage Work doesn&’t suggest that love has nothing to do with marriage at all; rather, Toler says that love by itself is simply not enough to make marriages survive. Marriage, Toler says, is a job, and it needs to be treated like one. This updated manual suggests specific procedures that should be put in place to bridge the gap between head over heels and happily ever after. It explains how to phrase things in order to span the great hormonal divide men and women often fall into when trying to talk to one another. It also discusses the very new and real challenges to marriage created in a culture often overwhelmed by the emphasis on (and ability to attain) instant gratification. Replete with simple, no-nonsense rules, Divorce Court anecdotes, and stories about Judge Toler&’s own union, Making Marriage Work contains invaluable information couples can use today to secure their marital tomorrow.
Making Meetings Work: The Art of Chairing
by Richard HooperMaking Meetings Work is a short book which aims to help people chair meetings better – meetings of all kinds from community playgroups to conferences and dinners to large corporate Boards. The book is based on the personal experience of a professional working chair over many years. The book is aimed at younger men and women who are beginning to chair their first meetings, and also at more experienced chairs who want to develop their skills.
Making Men from "The Boys": Winning Life Lessons Every Young Man Needs to Succeed
by Nick OlynykA collection of stories from the author’s career, each containing a significant lesson about masculinity. "Making Men From The Boys” will motivate young men to ask more of life and take more personal action to achieve it, even as young men get more mixed signals about what it is to be a man than ever before.
Making Music for Life: Rediscover Your Musical Passion
by Gayla M. Mills"Making Music for Life is the adult novice's friend. First, it cheerleads for music's salutary benefits to the music-maker's soul. Then it becomes a useful how-to handbook: finding a teacher and learning how to practice once you have one. How do you hook up with like-minded enthusiasts and what are all the ways you can learn to make music together? How about performing for others? And maybe you will end up teaching others yourself. This useful book is a doorway into the endless joys of making music, for everyone at any age." — Bernard Holland, Music critic emeritus, The New York Times and author of Something I Heard Do you hope to expand your musical circle? Need inspiration and practical ideas for overcoming setbacks? Love music and seek new ways to enjoy it? Roots musician Gayla M. Mills will help you take your next step, whether you play jazz, roots, classical, or rock. You'll become a better musician, learning the best ways to practice, improve your singing, enjoy playing with others, get gigs and record, and bring more music to your community. Most importantly, you'll discover how music can help you live and age well. "A keen road map that supports musicians and the expansion of their craft. Gayla's done the work. All you have to do is step on the path and follow her lead." — Greg Papania, music producer, mixer, composer "Gayla Mills shares the nuts and bolts of fostering one's hidden musical talent. But perhaps most importantly, she shares the power behind music. . . . anyone seeking to awaken their musical passion will find this book ideal." — Dr. Lynn Szostek, psychologist and gerontologist "Making Music for Life absolutely fascinated me. It's beautifully written and engagingly constructed and it helped me better understand why music has remained central to my life. I found it entrancing." — Steve Yarbrough, author of The Unmade World and guitar player "Gayla Mills' precision with language, delight with music, and intrinsic joie de vivre make her the perfect author for Making Music for Life. Everyone who has tapped a foot or hummed along with a band will love this book, and maybe, just maybe, make music a bigger part of their lives." — Charlotte Morgan, author of Protecting Elvis "Gayla Mills shares the nuts and bolts of fostering one's hidden musical talent. But perhaps most importantly, she shares the power behind music. It boosts creativity and reduces stress. It strengthens social bonds, helping us find harmony while resonating with others. From amateur musician to Grammy-winning performer, anyone seeking to awaken their musical passion will find this book ideal." — Dr. Lynn Szostek, psychologist and gerontologist "What better way to counteract boredom, stress, anxiety and even depression than playfully learning a new instrument, singing, jamming, or just learning to hear the pitch, rhythm and timbres of sounds around you. Gayla Mills, in her book, Making Music for Life, offers tips for learning to hear and live life like a musician, while boosting your dopamine and improving cognition at the same time." — Dr. Jodie Skillicorn, psychiatrist "Gayla and I were part of a motley group of musicians who gathered monthly to play and sing. The years passed. My guitar strings rusted; my piano went out of tune. I felt remorse and sadness. But now I realize that I'm the perfect audience for this thoughtful, detailed book, and I'm very thankful she had the vision and heart to write it." — Liz Hodges, author and guitar/piano player "Music can be a powerful part of your life even if it is not your livelihood and Gayla's book Making Music for Life is like a table setting for this magical, mystical, musical table setting of love." — Michael Johnathon, musician and WoodSongs Old-time Radio Hour producer "As a scientist who frequently speaks about the benefits of music on the brain, I'm often asked: is it too late for me? Mills provides a highly readable and practical guide that democratizes music's promise." — Dr. Nina Kraus, Professor, Brainvolts Auditory Neuroscience Lab, Northwestern University
Making Natural Beauty Products: Over 250 Easy-to-Follow Makeup and Skincare Recipes (Idiot's Guides)
by Sally TrewThis highly visual guide teaches you how to make skincare, makeup, and many more personal-care and beauty products using natural ingredients. For both men and women, step-by-step, full-color photos guide you through basic beauty recipes, followed by more than 250 color and blend variations. Readers with sensitive skin, as well as those who want to save money and avoid harmful chemicals, will find everything you need to get started making your own luxurious, natural beauty products. Content includes: 250 recipes with beautiful, full-color photography. Step-by-step guidance through the foundational recipes, showing tools, ingredients, and techniques. Shopping lists and suppliers for natural ingredients, including essential oils, butters, clays, minerals, colors, and fragrances. Basics and recipes for creating mineral foundations, color correctors, and concealers. Formulas for skin-healing balms, creams, and oils. Products for men, including shaving products, powders, moisturizers, facial care, foot care, and massage oil.
Making Peace With Your Parents: The Key to Enriching Your Life and All Your Relationships
by Harold H. BloomfieldWhatever your age, to become a fulfilled and creative person, you must resolve the issues in your life that derive from your relationship with your parents, whether they be dead or alive.
Making Peace With Your Past
by H. Norman WrightAre you struggling from feelings of loneliness, depression, anger, or fear? If so, there may be a link to events or ideas you formed in the past. Through Biblical examples, practical exercises, and ideas, you can find a way to make peace with past hurts and rejection. You can heal and be a happy, peaceful person.
Making Peace With Your Thighs
by Linda MintleGet your thighs off your mind and lose the lies that bind.Women of America, it's time to stop obsessing and start making peace with your thighs, your waist, and any other body part that leads you to feel inadequate. Everywhere we turn-magazines, movies, television-we are bombarded with images of what a woman "should" look like. And every image makes body acceptance and confidence harder to achieve. So author and therapist Dr. Linda is inviting all members of the sisterhood of the dissatisfied traveling pants to discover how we arrived at this discontent and how to change our attitudes-and our lives-when it comes to liking our bodies.
Making Peace with Your Office Life: End the Battles, Shake the Blues, Get Organized, and Be Happier at Work
by Cindy GlovinskyDo you feel disconnected and disorganized on the job?Do you feel powerless in the face of multiple office challenges, from organizing your desk to dealing with office bullies?Are you sick of it all and ready to be happy at work?Help is on the way! Cindy Glovinsky, licensed psychotherapist and expert on organizing and mental health, is uniquely qualified to offer solutions to your office blues, including:- Dozens of anecdotes and insightful exercises- Simple, effective organizing tips- Hundreds of easy ways to connect with colleagues- Great ways to make positive changes in the workplaceWhether you dread coming to work every day or you're just looking for a new way to deal with office issues, MAKING PEACE WITH YOUR OFFICE LIFE offers a fresh, liberating view of the office world and practical ways to cope with its day-to-day challenges.
Making Peace with Your Past: The Six Essential Steps to Enjoying a Great Future
by Harold H. Bloomfield Phil GoldbergDo You: Harbor guilt or grudges from past relationships? Feel plagued by thoughts of regret? Think "Oh, no, not again!" when personal problems arise? Wonder why life hasn't turned out the way you wanted? Feel anxious or depressed about your future? Seem to be less happy as time goes by?If you answered yes to even one of these questions, this book can help you make peace with your past -- here and now.The past lives on in everything we think, feel, say, and do. Medical studies show that adults who've had adverse or traumatic past experiences are much more vulnerable to life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. Now, world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Harold Bloomfield, bestselling author of Making Peace with Your Parents and Making Peace with Yourself, offers practical, scientifically proven techniques that can help you heal the wounds of the past; transform feelings of pain, shame, and blame into high self-worth; and reawaken to the magic and joy of being alive.
Making Peace with Your Plate
by Robyn Cruze Espra AndrusAnorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Binge-eating disorder (BED) and bulimia can also bring misery and death. Pushing the River, with its unique three-phase approach to eating, smashes the illusion of control, the power, and the lies of this deadly illness, providing a concrete plan for long-term recovery from the disease of disordered eating.
Making Peace with Yourself
by Kathryn J. HermesThis is a guide to the deepest reality at work in our lives: God's presence in the midst of life's confusion. "This book explores the stories of people like you and me, people faced with situations that often were irreparable, people who need to make peace with themselves" -- Kathryn J. Hermes, FSP
Making Peace with the Things in Your Life: Why Your Papers, Books, Clothes, and Other Possessions Keep Overwhelming You—and What to Do About It
by Cindy GlovinskyA therapist and professional organizer “explains [the] mental glitches that can make organizing harder for some people than others”—and how to fix them (Library Journal).Do you spend a lot of time struggling against the growing ranks of papers, books, clothes, housewares, mementos, and other possessions that seem to multiply when you’re not looking? Help is on the way. Cindy Glovinsky, practicing psychotherapist and personal organizer, is uniquely qualified to explain this nagging, even debilitating problem—and to provide solutions that really work.With a supportive, nonjudgmental tone, Glovinsky uses humorous examples, questionnaires, and exercises to shed light on the real reasons why we feel so overwhelmed by papers and possessions and offers individualized suggestions tailored to specific organizing problems. Whether you’re drowning in clutter or just looking for a new way to deal with the perennial challenge of organizing and managing material things, this fresh and reassuring approach is sure to ease the stress.
Making Plans That Stick: An Honest Look at the Mindsets That Keep Us Stuck
by Josh BrazierA no-nonsense guide for your journey into adulthood, realizing your potential and building the skills and confidence to launch a meaningful career. More than a career guidebook, Making Plans That Stick teaches you how to create positive momentum in your life and stop holding yourself back from your own potential. With wisdom and encouragement, Josh Brazier helps you find motivation in the realms of education, career, relationships, and self-esteem. If you&’re a young adult or college student at a transitional stage in your life, facing uncertainties about your future path and looking for ways to create purposeful endeavors, Making Plans That Stick will give you the tools you need to finally get unstuck and start living the full life you deserve to live.Inside, you&’ll learn: How to strategically set and meet personal and professional goals by overcoming obstacles, recognizing opportunities, improving relationships, and finding a sense of purpose in your life How to make lasting changes and find an exciting adult job that fills you with pride How to gain self-confidence and self-assurance in who you are and what you offer to the world.
Making Plant Medicine
by Richard A. CechMaking Plant Medicine is about making herbal medicine. This is a modern medicine making book and formulary with its roots in original herbalism designed for every medicinal herb gardener to cultivate the full potential of the plant-human relationship. Richo Cech tells very good stories based on his experience as a global wanderer, herbalist and medicine maker. In the context of his lifelong love of gardening, he has produced this long-awaited book that is original, amusing and absolutely useful. Part 1: Medicine Making * drying and processing herbs * making tinctures the easy way * the mathematics of tincturing and solubility factors * basic formulas for fresh and dry tinctures, including dosages * vinegar extracts, glycerites, herbal succi and syrups teas, decoctions, herbal oils, salves and creams poultices, compresses and soaks Part 2: A Gardener's Formulary This section covers well over 100 herbs that are readily cultivated in North America. The listings include: conservation status, parts used, specific formulas, practical uses, dosages, contraindications and an overview of alternate species. Since the beginning, the garden has been a haven of good values, both physical and spiritual. The act of gardening provides a balm for every wound. May your medicine be of the garden, and may it be of benefit to all.
Making Pre-Med Count: Everything I wish I'd known before applying (successfully!) to med school
by Elisabeth FassasIn Making Pre-Med Count, med student Elisabeth Fassas shares personal stories from her own experiences to help guide you through the pre-med process. You’ll get first-hand guidance and learn how to apply her advice to your own med school journey.Counselors and checklists are helpful, but your pre-med journey cannot be boiled down to a list of activities and a collection of accolades. In Making Pre-Med Count, Fassas teaches you how to translate your accomplishments into a compelling and personalized med school application. Fassas gets into the weeds of the pre-med years to touch on the most fundamental and gnawing questions that interested applicants must face. Using examples from her own journey from freshman year to acceptance, plus tips and tricks from her peers, she guides readers through an endless stream of conflicting advice towards preparing academically, mentally and psychologically for the med school application process.Her advice starts with the idea that anything and everything can get you into medical school if you’re able to get into the heads of the admissions committee. You’ll also get her take on many of the questions raised in student forums. Fassas, who will begin med school in the fall of 2019, helps relieve some of the common pre-med doubts, anxieties, and fears that you’ll feel. Making Pre-Med Count compiles Fassas’ advice in one place -- it’s like having your own personal med school advisor.
Making Room for Life: Trading Chaotic Lifestyles for Connected Relationships
by Randy FrazeeWhat if you could get all your work done by 6:00 p.m.? Eat dinner with your family every night? Form deep, satisfying relationships? Naturally blend the world of church with your everyday life? Spend hours a week on your hobbies?You can! Making Room for Life reveals how to make all of these things a reality. Not by working faster or having more gadgets, but by simply choosing a lifestyle of conversation, and community over accumulation.Randy Frazee's practical, motivating insights call you back to the kind of relationships and life rhythms you were created to enjoy. In Making Room for Life, Frazee shows you how and why it's so important to balance work and play, establish healthy boundaries, deal with children's activities and homework, bring Jesus to your neighbors, and build authentic bonds with a circle of close friends. Share these insights with those around you and help usher in an amazing transformation: your life and the lives of others blooming, in the midst of the chaos and fragmentation of today's culture, into communities of purpose and peace.
Making Room for Mr. Right
by Michael Mastro Robin MastroMaking Room for Mr. Right is for women who are ready to go beyond wishing and hoping for the man of their dreams. Here is a concrete, time-tested way to draw him into your life. Making Room for Mr. Right introduces actions and principles you can do now to make your most cherished dream come true. No kidding. In this long-awaited book, Robin and Michael Mastro translate prosperity techniques used for thousands of years into a single method for drawing the prosperity of love into your life. Recognized experts in Vastu Shastra, they offer this inspired plan to women who are ready for the relationship their heart truly desires.
Making Sense of Trauma
by Nigel HuntThis book is aimed at people who have experienced distressful and traumatising experiences such as war, sexual abuse or rape, natural and manmade disasters, car accidents, or the death of a loved one. Most people have had such an experience, and evidence suggests somewhere between 5-25% of people have significant problems as a result; not necessarily full post-traumatic stress disorder, but also anxiety and depression, or substance abuse. There is ample evidence to show that people recover from traumatic or distressful events by telling their story, by making sense of what happened. The narrative techniques described in the book will help people with that process of meaning making. Topics include: What we mean by a traumatic event Coping and support Narrative storytelling - telling your story to a person, therapist or group Writing it down Guided Narrative Techniques - more sophisticated form of writing and/or talking techniques, eg Narrative Exposure Therapy (N.E.T.) Arts and narrative - eg writing, pictures, cartoons, photography.
Making Sense of Trauma
by Nigel HuntThis book is aimed at people who have experienced distressful and traumatising experiences such as war, sexual abuse or rape, natural and manmade disasters, car accidents, or the death of a loved one. Most people have had such an experience, and evidence suggests somewhere between 5-25% of people have significant problems as a result; not necessarily full post-traumatic stress disorder, but also anxiety and depression, or substance abuse. There is ample evidence to show that people recover from traumatic or distressful events by telling their story, by making sense of what happened. The narrative techniques described in the book will help people with that process of meaning making. Topics include: What we mean by a traumatic event Coping and support Narrative storytelling - telling your story to a person, therapist or group Writing it down Guided Narrative Techniques - more sophisticated form of writing and/or talking techniques, eg Narrative Exposure Therapy (N.E.T.) Arts and narrative - eg writing, pictures, cartoons, photography.