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Connecting Paradigms: A Trauma-Informed & Neurobiological Framework for Motivational Interviewing Implementation provides an innovative approach to helping those struggling with past trauma to make critical life changes and heal from their pain and suffering. Scientific understanding of the brain, the impact of trauma, and research around behavioral change has grown exponentially over the last several decades.

Each year the markets change, one year it can be all rosey and easy, think 2019, then the following can be an absolute blood bath, think 2020. The crazy part is most investors want markets like 2019, yet we made more money trading in 2020! After being a part of a correction or two (or a dozen) you begin to embrace them. If unprepared you dread them as most are not looking for telltale signs. Those are the ones who get easily caught with their pants down!

Congratulations on making it to the final step before joining the Alpha Chat! You have proven to take your trading and investing very seriously. You have listened to our Game Planning learning why 90% of the work is done before we click the button. You worked through the Chart Reading to understand the necessary patterns to look for in order to click said button. You also completed our Trading Psychology so you know how to deal with all the emotions that come about after clicking the button.

Some of the greatest technicians we know just couldn’t cut it trading. They had all the best charts, the best game plans, but for some reason they could never put it all together and they couldn’t figure out why. We knew why, these guys were manic when managing trades. Every uptick they wanted to take profit and every down tick they panicked.

Updated and Expanded Edition How do you quantify the mental, physical, social, and cognitive health of people and organizations? Heart rate variability or HRV is the answer. HRV is a biometric that measures the differences in successive heartbeats. While simple, HRV provides an incredible amount of information on the health of our autonomic nervous system and brain. In recent years, HRV variability monitors have become smaller and very affordable. A simple smartphone application takes the data from the monitors, applies algorithms, and provides users with accurate data on their mental, ...

Understanding Islam's sacred text is integral to understanding your Muslim neighbor. Cross-cultural missionary and scholar Matthew Aaron Bennett blends the insights of Islamic believers, secular Qur'an scholars, and missionaries to Muslims, making The Qur'an and the Christian like no other resource for Christian ministry to Muslims. Combining these perspectives in one guide better equips Christians to communicate the biblical gospel to friends and neighbors who are adherents to Islam—both in and out of majority-Muslim cultures.

Are you preparing to take the gospel to the nations? You’ve said “yes” to God’s call to go, and now you will pack up your things and step into the unknown of a new location, people, and culture. The following years will likely include great joy, frustration, homesickness, difficulty, and excitement. In this book, ten men who have served in missions in various ways share what they wish they had known before they began.

We aim to simplify the complexities of the stock market as much as possible. We find that you need to be extremely picky when buying/selling equities as the percentages of you being right are not in your favor—especially if you don't use a consistent system. There are no guarantees in the market. Selectivity and risk/reward is the name of the game. With a proven method like ours, you too can have the odds in your favor and make money anywhere with an internet connection.

Today, something is going to happen to an innocent child. Tomorrow, that child will walk into their school. What happens next will impact the rest of their life. What is this powerful event? Childhood trauma. Most students will experience some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, neglect, family dysfunction, racism, homelessness, or poverty by their 18th birthday. If left untreated, their traumatic experience may have lasting implications on their physical and mental health and their success in school.

How do you quantify the mental, physical, social, and cognitive health of people and organizations? Heart rate variability or HRV is the answer. HRV is a biometric that measures the differences in successive heartbeats. While simple, HRV provides an incredible amount of information on the health of our autonomic nervous system and brain. Heart Rate Variability explores how professionals and organizations can implement HRV to track the psychological, social, and physical health of those they serve, their staff, and the organization.

Buying a stock is the easy part, the hard part is knowing when to sell which is the main goal of this program. To help make the way you sell your winning and losing trades systemically. One of the main rules we follow in regards to selling winning trades is treating our trade in thirds. We aim to sell a third into strength to book some profits and lower our risk if the trade fails.

So far, you have picked up a few things along the way: why the broker doesn't matter, how much to start with, how to fund your account, how to grow your account, how to game plan, how to read charts, and some lessons we had to learn the hard way that you can now avoid. Our goal of this book is to give you a peek behind the curtain of the 10 major misconceptions that Dumb Money traders consistently make. This way, you can avoid the same mistakes that 90 percent of the market makes each and every day.

This past year was an amazing year from a trading standpoint. We traded into new all time highs twice, through two corrections and even sprinkled in a bear market to start the year off. If you were able to persevere through the end of the year and overcome the fear of Mr Market, this year there will be even more to learn, attain, succeed, master, and achieve. Only if you are willing to put the work in, of course.

We are going to build up your trading knowledge from the foundation up. The proper way. The way that has worked for the thousands of members who have listened to this book before you. This will be unlike most books you hear, this book will require you to act, and put your knowledge to the test.

Poetry; a unique and beautiful way to express feelings and ideas. Weaving words into perfect poetic prose, these thirty authors remind you of your childhood, bring comfort from the hardships of life, fiercely spur emotions, and tell tales of old. All lovers of poetry will find a favorite here! Featured authors include Jonathan Pratt, Douglas Allen Gohl, J.E. Feldman, Rebecca A. Demarest, E.L. Summers, Austin Worley, Jose Joel Robles, Dana Trick, Neethu Krishnan, Alize Atif, Stephen Schwei, Vanessa Bane, and Matthew Ivan Bennett.

We put together our most critical lessons that new investors need to learn before putting their money into the markets. You must fully understand the concepts of risk management, execution, game planning, risk-reward, and proper chart reading before you even think about investing your hard-earned money.

We have made all the mistakes that new traders make trying to teach themselves how to swing trade stocks, this mistakes often can become very costly when you have to risk your hard earned money in the market when it is not a requirement to learn such lessons. Over the years, we have found there to be a handful of lessons that traders can learn before risking there money in the market to limit this costly lessons learned.

As a follow-up to the successful Connecting Paradigms, Talking About Trauma & Change: A Connecting Paradigms' Supplement provides analogies and models to help people understand the complexity of changing behavior and healing psychological trauma. Talking About Trauma & Change presents the approaches that Matthew Bennett has used in his training and clinical work in a format that is easily integrated into individual or group conversations.

The ability to manage and recover from stress is crucial for resiliency and cognitive, medical, mental, and social health. Burnout is the enemy of productivity, creativity, and overall business success. Until recently, it was difficult for leaders to get reliable data on people's ability to perform at their best and understand levels of burnout within the business. The Heart(beat) of Business presents the science behind peak performance and how stress and burnout destroy people's health and devastate business outcomes.

The apostle John wrote one of the most loved yet misunderstood books of the Bible. He is a very personable and loving man when you meet him. As the "disciple that Jesus loved," he was very close to Jesus when he walked the earth. Now he is in heaven and is a remarkable saint. In September 2017, he came to visit Matthew and spoke on a number of subjects.