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In the pattern of her popular 40-Day Sugar Fast, Wendy Speake offers you The 40-Day Social Media Fast. This "screen sabbatical" is designed to help you become fully conscious of your dependence on social media so you can purposefully unplug from screens and plug into real life with the help of a very real God. Take a break from everyone and everything you follow online. Disconnect in order to reconnect with the only one who said "follow me."

Bayou transplant Odessa Dean has a lot to learn about life in Brooklyn. So far she's scored a rent free apartment in one of the nicest neighborhoods around by cat-sitting, and has a new job working at Untapped Books & Café. Hand-selling books and craft beers is easy for Odessa, but making new friends and learning how to ride the subway? Well, that might take her a little extra time. But things turn more sour than an IPA when the death of a fellow waitress goes viral, caught on camera in the background of a couple's flash-mob proposal video.

The Buddha worked out how best to deal with the challenges we face today over 2000 years ago. His teachings show us that human stress, anxiety and suffering are nothing new. Life Hacks from the Buddha will help you to quieten your mind, create more peaceful environments to live in, and find the calm and contentment you need to help you function at your very best, which will leave a lasting impression on everyone around you.

Life Hacks from the Buddha will help you to quieten your mind, create more peaceful environments to live in, and find the calm and contentment you need to help you function at your very best, which will leave a lasting impression on everyone around you.

By the time we become adults, most of us have joined the religion of suffering, which preaches that unless circumstances are controlled, life will be a mess. We compare ourselves to others and speculate about an impossible-to-know future, holding out hope for an improved life through getting ahead, fulfilling passion, or finding true love. But the idea that happiness comes from putting effort toward altering one’s circumstances is harmful and backward. What if we instead learned to understand that circumstances can rarely be controlled, and that life is, and always will be, messy?

Written by medical experts and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in basic and advanced cardiac life support.

Feel Better, Live Smarter: Real-Life Biohacks from a 50-Year Journey Toward Health and Vitality This concise book presents the essence of my forty years of practical biohacking, drawn from personal experimentation and scientific observation. It captures the lifestyle changes and habits that helped me reverse metabolic issues such as prediabetes and abdominal obesity, and achieve six-pack abdominal muscles well after the age of fifty. More importantly, it helped me experience renewed vitality, mental clarity, and emotional well-being as I aged. If you have grown tired of mainstream health ...

Living Life Sideways paints a vivid picture of the adventure of a lifetime (a year-long, worldwide sailing journey), coupled with the fight of a lifetime. It describes one sailor’s odyssey to regain her sense of self when she realizes that her peace of mind is worth more than she could have ever imagined.

Stephanie L. Jones, author of The Giving Challenge, is back with another life-changing book. With all the negativity in the news and on social media, The Gratitude Challenge will sprinkle a little positivity into your day. Inside this book, you’ll find: -short, heartwarming stories from Stephanie and a few of her friends; -daily gratitude challenges; -journal space to write your thoughts and what you are thankful for; and -ideas of whose day you can easily brighten and how. If you are at your wit’s end and wondering if changing your life is even a possibility, this book is for you. If ...

What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, Boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers' ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions.

There has been an urgency in my spirit for a long time to write this book. Who am I that I should write a book on overcoming identity issues? I am a former victim and I know what it‘s like to suffer from an identity crisis. I know what it’s like to be challenged mentally and emotionally and to feel like no one understands. I understand. I understand the pain and the isolation having personally experienced the paralysing effects of identity struggles.

Message from the Authors Welcome to a journey of discovery! Disclaimer: This book is provided as a free resource to those wanting to live their best life. It is provided free as a PDF and for $0.99 as a Kindle Ebook. As a convenience we publish a paperback version for $4.99. As the authors, representing Get Wisdom Publishing we are excited about our products and the impact that we can have on people's lives. We believe our books provide the potential to transform lives and deepen your understanding of how to live life based on wisdom and wise choices. This book is intended to provide you an...

Michelle Segrest dreamed of checking one giant challenge off her bucket list. Boarding a 43-foot sailboat to rekindle her relationship of six years, she set out on the eight-month voyage from North Germany to Alabama filled with hope. But suffering extreme seasickness and heavy gales in the Baltic proved the least of her problems when she faced abusive gaslighting from her partner. Unable to keep food down long enough to help when maintenance issues struck, Michelle’s only comfort came from her two devoted beagles.

In the dramatic final book of the three-part Living Life Sideways series, the harsh effects of years of narcissistic abuse begin to take their toll as Michelle Segrest is broken down psychologically and emotionally—piece by piece—by her manipulative partner. She is forced to battle her inner demons as she struggles to rediscover her personal strength and resolve. Trapped inside the lonely darkness of depression and unsettling isolation, she must dig deep into her soul to find a way to save herself and her two devoted beagles.

Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales' riveting and explosive American Girls.

I want you to get excited for this year because this is the year that you're going to crush it! This is the year you're going to achieve that dream body you've envisioned about for so long. I'm talking about high school skinny! I know this is your year and all you have to do is listen to what I have to say and promise yourself no excuses. Best of all, my solution is a lifestyle change - not a weight loss program where you gain all the weight back.

In this expanded edition of Let Go, best-selling author and successful online entrepreneur Pat Flynn explores what it means to let go of the things that keep us from the journeys we yearn to forge and the achievements we aspire to attain. With eight new chapters, Flynn shares with listeners the wisdom he’s learned during the years since he was let go from his architecture job during the height of the US economic downturn.

Reddit hails itself as "the front page of the Internet". It's the third-most visited website in the US—and yet, millions of Americans have no idea what it is. We Are the Nerds is an engrossing look deep inside this captivating, maddening enterprise, whose army of obsessed users have been credited with everything from solving cold-case crimes and spurring tens of millions of dollars in charitable donations to seeding alt-right fury and landing Donald Trump in the White House.

In this book by Tom Flora, we will find opportunities to put stress in its proper place and learn to have a better outlook at situations that come up in our lives. We may even learn to laugh at ourselves sometimes. This is all about life’s lessons that we can benefit from. If you think life is not as good as it could be, then this book is for you. If you think life is fairly good, then this book is for you. If you think life is good, then you are going to love listening to these experiences because you will be able to relate to them.

Unleash your potential in the world of TikTok with "The Freedom Blueprint for TikTokers". This eye-opening eBook is your compass to navigate the exciting, yet often confusing, journey to online influence and independence. At the heart of the book lies a roadmap beginning with "Unleashing your TikTok Potential" (Chapter 1) leading you towards "Living the TikTok Dream Real-life Success Stories" (Chapter 25). This book successfully serves as an A-Z guide, covering the steps you need to follow on the path to become a TikTok sensation. You will find guidance on critical aspects of the process ...