Showing results by publisher "Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd" in Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development

In Smart Moves: Simple Ways to Take Control of Your Life, you'll find the knowledge, tools and confidence to go after what you want and live the life you've always dreamed of. This practical playbook is packed full of more than 100 actionable tips for levelling up in your finances, your career, your wellbeing and your relationships. Inside, you'll find everything you need to empower and motivate you to take charge—starting today!

It sometimes feels like there’s a rule for parents: if you’re going to say anything mildly unhappy about parenting, you must also be at pains to stress that it is all worth it. What joy! What wonder! How lucky we are! But then there’s the crying. And the body horror. The tearing and the leaking. And the crippling isolation. And the sleep deprivation. And somehow a dead rat in the cubbyhouse and the endless judgement of peers and neighbours and the internet.

In The 1% Good Club, author Cooper Chapman reveals a fresh and exciting new approach to managing your mental health. Chapman, an ex-pro surfer and founder of The Good Human Factory, reveals how dedicating 14 minutes—just 1%—of your day to wellness will transform your mindset, mood and outlook. Not only will you embrace a positive new sense of self-awareness, but you'll also learn how to take simple, effective, concrete actions for improving your overall mental health.

Therapist Jana Firestone breaks down the factors that often make us so reluctant to pursue new goals – from core beliefs and anxiety to ego and imposter syndrome – and offers concrete strategies to help you adapt and thrive. With a blend of professional advice, personal experience and real-life stories, Embracing Change is a key to unlocking your potential.

Here is a moving and unusual memoir by Michael Pascoe about his relationship with Jim, his friend since boarding school in Queensland, as he faces up to terminal illness. We see a group of friends as they meet occasionally to talk about their shared youth and their mortality. Eloquent, profound—and sometimes funny, as mates can be with one another—these encounters, as well as Michael and Jim's correspondence about living, dying, memory and family—will resonate deeply with listeners.

A whole, beautiful life is only made possible by the wide spectrum of feelings that exist between joy and sorrow. In this insightful and warm book, writer and illustrator Mari Andrew explores all the emotions that make up a life, in the process offering insights about trauma and healing, the meaning of home and the challenges of loneliness, finding love in the most unexpected of places - from birds nesting on a sculpture to a ride on the subway - and a resounding case for why sometimes you have to put yourself in the path of magic.

Spanning three generations, The Long Goodbye takes us deep into the lives of an Australian family as they survive record-breaking floods, outlast epic droughts and face the unforgiving realities of life on the land. Told with astounding lyricism, warmth and humour, this is a deeply moving memoir about the unbreakable bonds of marriage, love and family. And it poses the most heartbreaking moral dilemma of all: when a loved one is suffering, is euthanasia the answer?

For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, journalist Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - like superstition, fatalism and magical jinn. From religious devotion to New Age love and light, Amal has tried a lot. While this doesn't make her an expert in healing lives, it does make her a well-versed one, fluent in the boundless healing modalities on offer in our retail universe.