As seen on the TODAY show! A dazzling debut from an artist with a great sense of humor, The Soul Support Book is a wise and reassuring meditation on getting unstuck in your creative projects, your relationships, and your life. Full of encouragement and reminders that everyone could use a little help now and then, Deb Koffman’s cartoons pair colorful and whimsical illustrations with joyful and inspiring text. Funny and poignant, this delightful book will brighten your outlook and help you approach life’s challenges with a healthy dose of laughter.

With playful, witty cartoon art, The Soul Support Book offers wise and reassuring observations on getting unstuck, gaining new perspectives, and opening to love, creativity, and joyfulness in everyday life. Author and artist Deb Koffman first created these colorful cartoons as reminders to herself, with clever visual interpretations of common sayings like: Explore Options; Make Room for What you Need; Consider Another Point of View; Notice What is Happening Now; and Anything is Possible Here. Her delightfully uplifting mini-meditations have found a broad audience, appealing to anyone seeking a little bit of encouragement for approaching life’s challenges with insight, open-heartedness, and a healthy dose of laughter.

"With playful, witty cartoon art, The Soul Support Book offers wise and reassuring observations on getting unstuck, gaining new perspectives, and opening to love, creativity, and joyfulness in everyday life"--

A young dancer's last hope--a bone marrow transplant--has failed. A homeless man, in the final stages of AIDS, refuses to speak. A newly retired woman has just received a terminal diagnosis and is wailing in despair. What can we learn about death, dying, and the human spirit as we journey with a hospital chaplain into sickrooms like these? Soul Support tells true stories of people coming to terms--or not--with their final days. It offers intimate, behind-the-scenes accounts of the many ways patients, their families and friends, and hospital staff all deal with death and dying. It speaks to readers reflecting on their own mortality or the life-threatening illness of a loved one, and tells of the sometimes-astonishing events that can occur when people are in their last hours of life. The book tells not only their stories, but also the chaplain's. It relates how she listened and learned and stumbled and grew. Soul Support speaks to believers and nonbelievers alike, providing information, inspiration, and hope.

Think of Deb Koffman as a guru with a great sense of humor. She's deep, she's funny, she's inspiring. Deb gets her point across fast through bold, colorful cartoons, each accompanied by just a single line of text. Every spread is a mini-meditation, visually exploring common words of wisdom such as, There's always another way, Follow your intuition, and Seek new perspectives. Deb's fresh insights into these concepts are sure to make you smile and say, Oh, yes, I've been there. Deb wasn't trained as an artist or a writer, but you'd never know it by looking at her cartoons. She favors big blocks of color, comical cartoon faces, and pairs of happy feet in magical red shoes. The combination of whimsical drawings with insightful copy lines is simply brilliant. These cartoons are the kind of thing you'll want to tape to your refrigerator, use as a screen saver on your computer, even carry around in your pocket for those moments when your soul could use a lift. Deb's cartoons are drawn from her own life experience, but the truths they convey--be more joyful, be more loving, live a creative life, don't be afraid to take a chance--apply to everyone. Such universality makes The Soul Support Book a perfect gift for grads, newlyweds, new moms (and new dads), job changers, or anyone else in the midst of a life-altering transition. Everyone in the office thinks The Soul Support Book should be a fixture in every doctor's waiting room--it's a guaranteed stress reliever. Some early readers have described The Soul Support Book as a contemporary survival guide. That strikes us as right on the money: Deb's observations are wise and witty, encouraging and reassuring, and so darn true you'll wonderwhy you didn't think of them yourself.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book delivers 101 powerful stories of courage, hope, support, and love to help cancer patients and their families. A bonus memoir by a cancer patient bound in, with intimate and helpful words of advice. A support group you can hold in your hand, this loving and inspirational collection of intimate stories, by cancer patients and their loved ones, medical professionals, clergy and friends, is a must-read for anyone affected by cancer. Writers share all their experiences – from the initial diagnosis, to breaking the news to loved ones, to discussing the effect on home, school and work, from securing a medical team to living through an ever changing self-image, from the embarrassment of losing hair to discovering a new spirituality. A bonus book, a no-holds-barred memoir by cancer patient Elizabeth Bayer, is bound into this volume, after the full-length Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

This wise and inspiring book by Leonard Berry, moves far beyond his pioneering work in services marketing and service quality to explain how great service companies meet their toughest challenge: sustaining long-term success. In a world where customers regard flawless products as a given, service is the key differentiator between competitors in any field. From Berry's exacting study of fourteen mature, highly successful, labor-intensive companies comes an astonishing revelation: the single most important factor in building a lasting service business is not a matter of savvy business practice, but of humane values. In all fourteen award-winning companies -- Bergstrom Hotels, The Charles Schwab Corporation, Chick-fil-A, The Container Store, Custom Research Inc., Dana Commercial Credit, Dial-A-Mattress, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Midwest Express Airlines, Miller SQA, Special Expeditions, St. Paul Saints, USAA, and Ukrop's Super Markets -- values-driven leadership connects with strategic focus, executional excellence, control of destiny, trust-based relationships, generosity, investment in employee success, acting small, and brand cultivation to drive customer satisfaction, innovation, and growth. Dedicating a chapter to each of these nine drivers, this book is the most far-reaching and insightful vision ever presented of the principles and step-by-step actions that continuously bring success to life in a company. Berry's comprehensive model reveals the soul that underlies the strategies and day-to-day operations of great service companies, guiding the thousands of daily decisions of individual employees. Clear, compelling, pathbreaking, Discovering the Soul of Service is essential reading for managers everywhere.