This book is for you if you experienced the type of tragic loss that is difficult for people to recover from. You may not know if you can ever be whole again, and you are seeking to find a way through the storm. If you believe that your world is over, I pray this book helps you in your journey. I want you to be encouraged to keep going and keep fighting until no fight is left. Although the worst has happened to you, it does not mean that your story is over or that you've reached the end. Belief in the power of love, honor, and strong faith that God will pull you through is enough to carry you forward. Happiness can be regained.

From psychologist and children's friendships expert Eileen Kennedy-Moore and parenting and health writer Christine McLaughlin comes a social development primer that gives kids the answers they need to make and keep friends. Friendship is complicated for kids. Almost every child struggles socially at some time, in some way. Having an argument with a friend, getting teased, or even trying to find a buddy in a new classroom...although these are typical problems, they can be very painful. And friendships are never about just one thing. With research-based practical solutions and plenty of true-to-life examples--presented in more than 200 lighthearted cartoons--Growing Friendships is a toolkit for both girls and boys as they make sense of the social order around them. Children everywhere want to fit in with a group, resist peer pressure, and be good sports--but even the most socially adept children struggle at times. But after reading this highly illustrated guide on their own or with a caring adult, kids everywhere will be well equipped to face any friendship challenges that come their way.

Growth mindset, grit, and self-regulation are all terms that teachers and parents have been hearing a lot lately. Drawing on research into the importance of growth mindsets and self-control, Keep Growing shows how teachers can provide opportunities for students to develop traits that will make them better able to face challenges and recover from setbacks. It supports the creation of a practice-based environment that helps teachers transform theory into teachable moments. This practical book provides strategies, activities, and assessment tools that will help children to change their mindsets and foster their desire to tackle difficult tasks, their ability to push through challenging work, and their application of what they have learned. It also offers suggestions for home–school communication that will help you build stronger partnerships and keep students and their learning growing, inside the classroom and out.

In The Self Help Book: 6 Practical Ways to Never Stop Growing, author and coach Jared Graybeal outlines six practical ways to live a life of constant growth while avoiding stagnation or burnout. Confidence. Competence. Clarity. Character. Connections. Commitment. This short, insightful guide is filled with inspiration and encouragement and is designed to give you the perspective you're looking for, no matter what's going on in your life. Pick it up each year or turn to it whenever you have questions and find the answers you need. Just relocated to a new city? Revisit the connections chapter. Struggling in your personal life? Revisit the chapter on character. Every time you turn to The Self Help Book, you'll walk away encouraged, knowing that every day is an opportunity to grow and that you have the ability to do so.

From the renowned psychologist who introduced the world to “growth mindset” comes this updated edition of the million-copy bestseller—featuring transformative insights into redefining success, building lifelong resilience, and supercharging self-improvement. “Through clever research studies and engaging writing, Dweck illuminates how our beliefs about our capabilities exert tremendous influence on how we learn and which paths we take in life.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes “It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.” After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment. In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own.

At times we think we need to be someone else to be loved. Several times, we don't believe in ourselves enough to go out in the world. And in the meantime, we abandon the one who needs us most - ourselves. We find ourselves being slaves of our minds, suppressing our needs, avoiding our emotions, and not knowing how to create healthy boundaries that work in our favor. If you find yourself living in the past and struggling with your overthinking mind and lack of self-love, this is not a sign that you're broken. It is a sign that, somewhere along the way, you learned to escape from yourself as a coping mechanism. In Keep Growing, Joana dos Reis offers a roadmap for you to start transforming your relationship with yourself to end the loop of self-abandonment and move into self-discovery. You'll learn to: change your core beliefs about yourself. take responsibility for your thoughts. connect and start healing your inner child. become friends with your emotions. start a loving relationship with yourself. discover and honor your true desires. see failures as friends that move you further. Joana's timeless lessons, based on wisdom from past traumas and years of writing self-help articles that turned into thousands of readers and hundreds of young adults reaching her out for help, teach you to start loving your deepest wounds and be the version of yourself you're longing to be. You will see how everything that happens for you is part of your growth. By the time you finish Keep Growing, you will be committed to go back to yourself and know exactly how to do it again, and again, and again.

Based on interviews with pastors of growing churches, as well as personal experience, this book identifies the most common mistakes pastors make that keep otherwise healthy churches from reaping the harvest God has prepared. Each chapter spotlights a common mistake, gives real-life examples, uses a generous dose of humor, and provides a practical course of action to recover from the error. The book draws from the experience of Seacoast Church as well as pastors such as Craig Groeschel, Chris Hodges, Perry Nobel, Mark Batterson, Dave Ferguson, Scott Chapman, Dino Rizzo, Ron Hamilton, and Dave Browning, Church leaders will be encouraged to realize that they are not the only ones who struggle, and that turning their situation around may not be as daunting a task as they think. This is a field guide for the common pastor based on actual churches of all sizes.