Grounded: How connection with nature can improve our mental and physical wellbeing by Ruth Allen

$29.99 AUD

Category: Health and Lifestyle

Grounded explores the concept of rewilding as an intentional way of living in the modern age that is both disconnected from nature and hyperconnected to technology. Reflecting on nature's unknowable and mysterious qualities, Grounded explores how we can therapeutically benefit from a deeper connection w ith nature, finding within it balance, stillness, solitude, resilience, contentment, activity, fearlessness - and our own wild voice. In addition to practical exercises and mindful activities, there are personal stories and thought-provoking questions that will help us understand what it means to be alive in the natural world, and in the moment. ...Show more

Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap: Essential Information & Solutions by Brian Herd

$29.99 AUD

Category: Pregnancy and Parenting

Informative and insightful, this is the essential family guide to preparing for ageing parents. This is a book that forces us to confront what most of us avoid - planning for our ageing parents. Our natural inclination is to wait and see what might happen. But when it does happen, or starts to unfold, w e, and our siblings, are totally unprepared. Poor decisions, disputes with siblings and partners and the destruction of relationships can be the aftermath. Brian should know, as a lawyer working in this area for over 20 years, he has dealt with the fallout from these failures in families. Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap is packed full of ? practical strategies for dealing with family dynamics and managing financial and legal affairs. Including information and practical case studies to support families in their legal, financial and healthcare decision-making, this is an easy to read and ? commonsense guide from a leading elder care lawyer. His uses his hands-on experience and examples to demonstrate what to expect, and even better how to plan and prepare. A book that will help keep families together and achieve the best outcomes for parents. ...Show more

Time to Breathe - Navigating Life and Work for Energy, Success and Happiness by Bill Mitchell

$29.99 AUD

Category: Health and Lifestyle

Ever feel like you're so busy and stressed that you forget to breathe? Dr Bill Mitchell is here to help. A psychologist who specialises in rebalancing the lives of the overwhelmed, overstressed and overscheduled, in this book Bill brings you tried and tested, practical solutions that will help you prote ct your energy and prioritise what is most important. Find out how to prevent the drift towards burnout and poor mental health that so many of us suffer from in our busy modern lives. Your family and your boss will thank you. ...Show more

Second Best by Ben Pobjie

$32.99 AUD

Category: Health and Lifestyle

   History is always written by the winners and about the winners. But what about the men and women of the past who reached for gold but grasped only morale-sapping silver? Australia’s second-best comedy historian Ben Pobjie celebrates the fascinating stories of those pipped at the post of greatness – f rom Buzz Aldrin following footsteps on the moon, to the woman not credited with discovering DNA because she had two X chromosomes, and Australia’s second Prime Minister whose name everyone keeps forgetting. Second Best shines a light on those plucky men and women who, through no fault of their own – or at least only a little bit of fault of their own – didn’t quite get there before everyone else, but did get there before almost everyone else. ...Show more

How to Do the Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Nicole LePera

$32.99 AUD

Category: Health and Lifestyle

As a clinical psychologist, Dr Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy. Wanting more for her patients - and for herself - she began a journey to develop a united philosophy of mental, physical and spiritual health that equips people with the interdisc iplinary tools necessary to heal themselves. After experiencing the life-changing results herself, she began to share what she'd learned with others - and soon The Holistic Psychologist was born. Now Dr LePera is ready to share her much-requested protocol with the world. In How to Do the Work, she offers both a manifesto for self-healing and an essential guide to creating a more vibrant, authentic, and joyful life. Drawing on the latest research from a diversity of scientific fields and healing modalities, Dr LePera helps us recognise how adverse experiences and trauma in childhood live with us, resulting in whole body dysfunction - activating harmful stress responses that keep us stuck engaging in patterns of codependency, emotional immaturity, and trauma bonds. Unless addressed, these self-sabotaging behaviours can quickly become cyclical, leaving people feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, and unwell. In How to Do the Work, Dr LePera offers readers the support and tools that will allow them to break free from destructive behaviours to reclaim and recreate their lives. Nothing short of a paradigm shift, this is a celebration of empowerment that will forever change the way we approach mental health and self-care. ...Show more

Wabi Sabi by Mark Reibstein

$29.99 AUD

Category: Health and Lifestyle

Wabi Sabi, a little cat in Kyoto, Japan, had never thought much about her name until friends visiting from another land asked her owner what it meant.   At last, the master Says, "That's hard to explain." And That is all she says.   This unsatisfying answer sets Wabi Sabi on a journey to uncover th e meaning of her name, and on the way discovers what wabi sabi is: a Japanese philosophy of seeing beauty in simplicity, the ordinary, and the imperfect.   Using spare text and haiku, Mark Reibstein weaves an extraordinary story about finding real beauty in unexpected places. Caldecott Medal-winning artist Ed Young complements the lyrical text with breathtaking collages. Together, they illustrate the unique world view that is wabi sabi.   A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book for 2008   ...Show more

Pure Energy

$29.99 AUD

Category: Health and Lifestyle

Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Shefali Tsabary

$32.99 AUD

Category: Pregnancy and Parenting

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Conscious parenting is about becoming mindful of your behaviour and engaging with your child as an individual. Dr Tsabary inspires parents to get back in touch with their emotions and shed the layers of baggage they have inherited during their own life and are unconscious ly heaping on their children. As they become 'conscious' in their parenting, so parents can transform their relationship with their offspring and raise happy, well-adjusted children. The Conscious Parent is already transforming the way people are parenting through its sales in the US where it's spent 15 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Oprah described the book as 'The most profound book on parenting I've ever read' and Eckhart Tolle has said 'becoming a conscious parent is the greatest gift you can give your child.' The book features a foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. ...Show more

The Montessori Toddler - Planting the Seeds to Grow a Curious and Responsible Human Being by Simone Davies; Hiyoko Imai (Illustrator)

$32.99 AUD

Category: Pregnancy and Parenting

Announcing that rare parenting book that will not only help you become a more effective parent but actually change how you see your children. Written by Montessori educator Simone Davies, this book shows you how to bring the educational values of a Montessori classroom into your home--while turning the whole idea of the "terrible twos" on its head. Here is how to set up Montessori-friendly spaces in your home. Principles for fostering curiosity in your child--and in yourself. Specific Montessori skills--the winter coat flip; getting your toddler to pour his or her own water and clean up whatever spills might occur. And it goes much deeper, showing how a parent can really be present, be the child's guide, and handle tantrums and problematic behavior without resorting to bribes, threats, or punishment and truly celebrate every stage. It's also that rare parenting book that's beautiful to look at, with a bright, airy design and simple color illustrations and photographs. ...Show more

Tapping Solution to Create Lasting Chang by Jessica Ortner

$24.99 AUD

Category: Health and Lifestyle

Why do we fear the unknown so intensely that we're willing to shy away from our deepest desires and settle for playing small? Why do we get enthused when we first start something, only to burn out the moment things feel challenging? Why does getting what we want sometimes feel just as scary as not getti ng what we want? And why, even with new outcomes we desire, do we often struggle to sustain them and instead slip back into old, self-sabotaging patterns? Jessica Ortner asked herself these question-as many of us do-until eventually it became clear that she was really exploring our relationship with the one unavoidable constant in our lives- change. Her new book, the latest in the best-selling Tapping Solution series, shares the lessons she's learned about what it feels like to flow through change and how to create positive, lasting change in ways that feel both authentic and empowering. Ultimately, Jessica tells us, there's profound beauty and joy in change, even when it doesn't feel that way at the start. Readers will learn how to use Tapping (formally known as Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT) to navigate the unknown with new energy, hope, and an open heart. Topics include- Finding our way through fear and uncertainty Discerning whether our inner critical voice is friend or foe Learning to release the doubts and fears that cloud our judgment Getting past procrastination Letting go of ogoalso and finding a new way to focus on what you desire And much more. ...Show more

Complete Guide to Self-Care: Best Practices for a Healthier and Happier You by Kiki Ely

$24.99 AUD

Category: Health and Lifestyle | Series: Everyday Wellbeing Ser.

Self-care is far from selfish. Learn lots of new mantras, tips, tricks, and crafts to help balance out all the moving parts in your life with The Complete Guide to Self-Care.

Like Streams to the Ocean - Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are by Jedidiah Jenkins

$35.00 AUD

Category: Health and Lifestyle

"As inviting, wide-ranging, and philosophical as an all-night conversation with a best friend, and as revealing and thought-provoking as the diary of a curious adventurer."--Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We We aren't born into a self. It is created without our consent, built out of our childhoods, our circumstances, and chance. But in the busyness of adult life, we rarely have time to think clearly about the questions that matter most: Who am I? What am I made of? How much of how I act boils down to avoiding the things that make me feel small? We bury these questions, but they drive our behavior far more than we give them credit for. They are our puppet masters. Writing with the passion and clarity that made his debut, To Shake the Sleeping Self, a national bestseller, Jedidiah Jenkins brings together new and old writings to explore the eight themes all of us face as we find our way in life: ego, family, home, friendship, love, work, death, the soul. As he examines the experiences that shape us into who we are, Jenkins leads readers in a wide-ranging conversation about finding fulfillment in the people and places around us and discovering the courage to show our deepest selves to the world. ...Show more