The star of HGTV's "Fixer Upper" shares anecdotal insights into the value of a strong network, explaining how a team of family members, friends, and neighbors can become an essential component of personal success. Call it a network, a community, a home team. It might be your family, your neighbors, the people you work with. But you need to be intentional about choosing the people in it. Gaines has been building that kind of network his whole life,...

Sharon's got six weeks to melt away the weight or she won't have a dress to wear to her own wedding.

"What is my son doing behind his constantly closed door? What's with his curt responses, impulsiveness, newfound obsession with gaming, and...that funky smell? As pediatrician and mother of two teenagers Cara Natterson explains, puberty starts in boys long before any visible signs appear, which causes confusion about their changing temperaments for boys and their parents alike. Often, they also grow quieter as they grow taller, which leads to less...

In our fitness obsessed World, we have no end of fitness options. Weight training. Cross Training. HIIT. Kettlebells. Running. Jogging. With all of those methods measured to the millisecond by a dazzling array of digital wearable tech. But amid all this focus on the "no pain-no gain" school of fitness, there is a much older, and painless way to optimum fitness. That way - is Pilates. Named after its inventor - Joseph Pilates. He originally devised...

From the critically acclaimed author of Try Softer comes a new approach to healing, wholeness, and possibly-especially-strength. When it comes to hard circumstances, we've all heard the platitudes: "No pain, no gain." "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." These statements may be well-intentioned, but they have a cost: When we spend our lives trying to be "the strong one," we become exhausted, burned-out, and disconnected from our truest selves. What...

Exercises of healing and transformation for trauma survivors. Drawing from neuroscience and psychotherapy with empowering strategies to take charge of healing from trauma, this workbook follows the theme of each of the eight keys in 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery. The two books complement each other; but it is not necessary to have listened to the original to benefit from this workbook, which presents practical exercises and activities integral to...

When was it decided that exercise could only be good for you? Leading neurosurgeon Dr. Steve Barrer argues-based on his extensive career treating exercise-related injuries, a cornucopia of his own personal injuries from exercise over the years, and ample scientific data-that we ought to change the way we think about exercise. Instead of succumbing to what Barrer calls "the cult of exercise" that follows the mantra "no pain, no gain," how about some...

60% of Americans don't exercise, and the majority of people who join a gym stop going after six months. The high intensity six-pack abs approach pushed by the fitness industry only caters to about 10-15% of the population and there's a reason for that: it doesn't motivate people for the long term. In Fitness without Fear, Fleming surprises readers by showing them how to ditch the '"no pain, no gain" mentality and still make great progress in their...

Displaying her "real talent for conjuring far-flung times and places," Kathryn Harrison tells the mesmerizing story of her 200-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. In the spring of 1999, Kathryn Harrison set out to walk the centuries-old pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. "Not a vacation, “she calls it, "but a time out of time." With a heavy pack, no hotel reservations, and little Spanish, she wanted an experience that would...