Development Dance

Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. We all have a right to everything we feel—and certainly our anger is no exception. ""Anger is a signal and one worth listening to,"" writes Dr. Harriet Lerner in her renowned classic that has...

Through personal narratives and historical examples, Wirzba explores what sustains hope and why it so often seems absent from our vision of the future. The vitality of hope, he maintains, depends on a collective commitment to care for the physical world (its soils and waters, plants and animals, homes and neighborhoods) and to promote the moral, aesthetic, and spiritual ideals that affirm life as good, beautiful, and sacred.

Do you feel like you've got it all together—until life throws you a curveball? Suddenly, a part of you takes over in a work challenge, a tough conversation, or even getting cut off in traffic, and before you know it, you've said or done something you regret. In Dancing with Our Selves, Brittany Hopkins Switlick offers a transformative roadmap to self-awareness, emotional healing, and intentional living.

Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn't have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They're both plagued with faulty genes - he has bipolar disorder and she has a ravaging family history of breast cancer. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy's 21st birthday, sparks fly, and there's no denying their chemistry. Cautious every step of the way, they are determined to make their relationship work-and they put it all in writing. Mickey promises to take his medication. Lucy promises not to blame him for what is beyond his control. He promises honesty.

In Dancing with a Porcupine, Jennie Owens shares the compelling story of her struggle to save her own life while caring for three troubled children she and her husband adopted from foster care. How could she stay loving, giving, and forgiving in the midst of a daily battle with children acting out the rage, resentment, and pain of their own traumatic pasts? Is there such a thing as secondary trauma, and if so, what do you do about it? When faith, endurance, and creativity are not enough, what’s next?

Last Dance is a gripping story of how a loving family deals with many great successes life has to offer but also how a family deals with some significant tragedies. Including the loss of a son and the devastating effects of breast cancer on a Loving Mother. It's a wonderful journey through the development of a family and a strong influence on that family by a 'Loving Mother'. Mary Ann's final dance with her son at his wedding was a tribute to her strength and will power to get to that dance floor. Mary Ann lost her fight with breast cancer just 72 hours later. A video of that precious ...

From the celebrated author of The Dance of Anger comes an extraordinary book about mothering and how it transforms us -- and all our relationships -- inside and out. Written from her dual perspective as a psychologist and a mother, Lerner brings us deeply personal tales that run the gamut from...

In Gorillas Can Dance, distinguished international business strategy professor and expert Dr. Shameen Prashantham delivers a proven roadmap for large corporations collaborating with startups. Drawing on over a decade of international research, Dr. Prashantham explains the "why," "how," and "where" of corporate-startup partnering.

The Art of Strategic Partnering is a how-to guide for creating and managing successful strategic partnerships. Made for entrepreneurial leaders and executives, this audiobook shows you how to grow a company and achieve game-changing results. Learn tried-and-true lessons from a Silicon Valley industry expert who has successfully negotiated and managed more than 150 strategic partnerships.

This short, fast paced, irreverent guide to creativity is for everyone who wants better ideas and to finish projects they inspire. In 21 short chapters you'll discover a fresh way to understand creative thinking, how ideas work, plus insights from decades of study on both how to be more productive and creative at the same time.

I Carried a Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing. A warm, witty and accessible look at how Katy Brand’s life-long obsession with the film has influenced her own attitudes to sex, love, romance, rights and responsibilities. It explores the legacy of the film, from pushing women’s stories to the forefront of commercial cinema, to its ‘Gold Standard’ depiction of abortion according to leading pro-choice campaigners, and its fresh and powerful take on the classic ‘coming of age’ story told from a naïve but idealistic 17-year-old girl’s point of view.

As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls, plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic, and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.

Dr. Gordon Livingston's national bestseller, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, has drawn tens of thousands of readers who have embraced its thirty bedrock truths about life and how best to live it. Now, in And Never Stop Dancing, Dr. Livingston, a Vietnam War veteran, psychiatrist, and parent twice bereaved, offers thirty more true things we need to know now.

When Kent Nerburn received a letter from Jennifer, a young woman questioning her calling to spend her life in the arts, the writer and artist was struck by how closely her questions mirrored the doubts and yearnings of his own youth. Nerburn resolved that he would write his own letter: a letter of welcome and encouragement to all young artists setting out on the same strange and magical journey, sharing the wisdom of a life spent working in the arts.

This 528 Hz Solfeggio Meditation program was designed to assist the listener in forgiving grievances and releasing fear, while making room for miracles and the divine bliss that comes with unconditional love. This program is the fifth of a nine-part series. Each album combines ancient Solfeggio frequencies with a deeply relaxing meditation, followed by affirmations designed and narrated by Anna Thompson to enhance the healing, cleansing, and energy-expanding properties of the specific Solfeggio frequency.

Dancing with God, The Christian Journey to Live Supernaturally is a step-by-step tool to break off blocks, burdens, and barriers and teach you the beautiful art of dancing with God, a partnership with the One who knows you and loves you intimately. This audiobook brings you to a deeper dimension of spiritual health through the most powerful gifts of repentance and forgiveness. If you suffer from emotional and spiritual setbacks, your life will never be “back to normal”.

En esta obra, Joan Garriga ilustra temas universales sobre el lado más oscuro del amor que todos en algún momento de nuestras vidas debemos abordar: la presencia de fantasmas del pasado, los amores desiguales, los problemas de comunicación...y lo hace no solo a través de reflexiones conceptuales, sino con la exposición práctica de casos reales tratados por él mismo en sus terapias de constelaciones familiares, como un intento de traer lo invisible a lo visible, de hacer luminoso lo oscuro, y así comprender mejor lo que actúa en la cara oculta del amor.

A groundbreaking exposé showing how the arts—alongside diet, sleep, exercise and nature—are the forgotten fifth pillar of health From cradle to grave, engaging in the arts has remarkable effects on our health and well-being. Music supports the architectural development of children’s...

The true story of a single mother's love and perseverance, her son's autism diagnosis with its challenges and gifts, and their triumph together over life's toughest obstacles.

After the death of his brother and the sudden end of his marriage, and after his ex-wife moved to another state leaving him alone with their two young children, Dan Glick embarked on single fatherhood in an unusual way: he took his kids on a journey around the world. The idea was to go see some of the world's rare life forms before they disappeared from the planet, and to do it before the kids themselves would grow up and chart their own paths.