Start Being Happy: Proven Practices for a Joyful Life by Justine Roach

$22.95 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships

Have you ever felt unhappy, stuck or dissatisfied with your life? If so, this book is for you! It gives unique, step-by-step guidance on how to change your circumstances and perception so life becomes much more meaningful and enjoyable. "I loved this book because it gives really practical advice that is applicable to everyone. Justine's skill in personalising the examples really resonated with me and I thought `If these simple techniques helped her, they're definitely worth a try'. And they worked! This book really can increase your happiness." -- Christine Barnes, Director, It's The Thought That Counts. New author Justine Roach has faced many challenges and shares them with her readers while exploring the philosophies that transformed her life. The book is captivating. It is a simple but powerful guide to effect positive and lasting change in your life. So start reading now! ...Show more

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy

$35.00 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships

A book of hope for uncertain times. The conversations between the four characters in this book - the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse - have been shared thousands of times online, recreated in school art classes, turned into tattoos, they inspire parents and grandparents, comfort children, cheer peo ple who feel lonely, are grieving, need courage, or a reminder that they are not alone and to keep going when life is hard. Enter the world of Charlie Mackesy's creations, these four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most poignant and universal life lessons. The book includes Charlie's most loved illustrations and new ones too. 'The world needs Charlie's work right now.' Miranda Hart 'My hope is that the book goes some way to helping people live more courageously, more honestly and with more love for themselves and others.' Charlie Mackesy   ...Show more

The Truth Will Set You Free, but First It Will Piss You Off!: A Lifetime of Quotes by Gloria Steinem

$24.99 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction

Gloria Steinem's most powerful and pithy quotes, with reflections and an introduction by the feminist icon herself, in a stunningly illustrated collection. For decades people from around the world have found inspiration, guidance, humour and recognition in Gloria Steinem's words. Since her early days as a journalist and feminist activist, Steinem's philosophies have helped define generations of women. Now, she brings together her most memorable one-liners in an anthology that will inspire and entertain. Covering topics including relationships ('Many are looking for the right person. Too few are looking to be the right person.') to jobs ('It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than to watch it accumulate') to activism ('I've seen enough change to know that more will come'), and featuring an introduction and additional reflections by Steinem throughout, this is the definitive collection of her thoughts on the topics that matter most to women. ...Show more

How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg

$32.99 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships

Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ved one of the most significant social changes in a generation. Sally Rugg is one of Australia's most influential campaigners for social change. HOW POWERFUL WE ARE is her manifesto for championing what you believe is right. In these pages Sally will teach you some of the things she learnt on the marriage equality campaign: how to develop a strategy, how to frame your messages, how to get your campaign to the media, how to build community power. And she'll share with you the much harder lessons learnt: the consequences of campaign decisions; how to weather criticism and harassment from every angle; and how, in mass campaign movements, nothing is black and white. ...Show more

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

$29.99 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships | Reading Level: very good

For the past few years, Mark Manson-via his wildly popular blog-has been working on correcting our delusional expectations for ourselves and for the world. He now brings his hard-fought wisdom to this groundbreaking book. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-tal k, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor. ...Show more

Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell

$32.99 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships | Reading Level: near fine

Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty. Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, Is There Still Sex in the City? follows a cohort of female friends--Sassy, Kitty, Queenie, Tilda Tia, Marilyn, and Candace--as they navigate the ever-modernizing phenomena of midlife dating and relationships. There's "Cubbing," in which a sensible older woman suddenly becomes the love interest of a much younger man, the "Mona Lisa" Treatment--a vaginal restorative surgery often recommended to middle aged women, and what it's really like to go on Tinder dates as a fifty-something divorcee. From the high highs (My New Boyfriend or MNBs) to the low lows (Middle Age Madness, or MAM cycles), Bushnell illustrates with humor and acuity today's relationship landscape and the types that roam it.   Drawing from her own experience, in Is There Still Sex in the City? Bushnell spins a smart, lively satirical story of love and life from all angles--marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real pressures on women to maintain their youth and have it all. This is an indispensable companion to one of the most revolutionary dating books of the twentieth century from one of our most important social commentators. ...Show more

Outer Order Inner Calm by Gretchen Rubin

$27.99 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships

Ask yourself - Do I need it? Do I love it? Do I use it? Bestselling author and happiness expert Gretchen Rubin explores one of her key secrets to happiness: that, for most of us, outer order leads to inner calm. A messy desk or a cluttered cupboard might seem like a trivial matter, yet Rubin has found that by simply organising our stuff, we free up space for what we truly value (in our lives and in our homes). This new, beautifully packaged gift book with over 150 concrete ideas approaches the problem of how to best organise our possessions with Gretchen Rubin's characteristic clarity and humour, explaining how to: 'Make Choices', 'Create Order', 'Know Yourself - and Others', 'Cultivate Helpful Habits' and, of course, 'Add Beauty'. Leading on from both Happiness at Home and The Four Tendencies this book is filled with practical insights, clear strategies and sometimes surprising tips, and will help readers find what works best for them to regain control to lead happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative lives.   ***PRAISE FOR THE FOUR TENDENCIES*** 'There's something rather profound going on here: an advancing of self-knowledge, and mutual human understanding, which could surely be harnessed as a recipe for world peace' Daily Telegraph 'A genius' Guardian 'If you want to change anything in your life, you need Gretchen Rubin' Viv Groskop, journalist and Rebel 'I love Gretchen Rubin - she helps me understand both myself and the people around me' Cathy Rentzenbrink, Obliger and bestselling author of The Last Act of Love ...Show more

Fair Play: A Win-Win Solution for Women with Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky

$32.99 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships

A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long--from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women. Eve Rodsky is changing society one marriage at a time with a twenty -first-century solution to an age-old problem: women shouldering the brunt of domestic responsibilities, regardless of whether they work outside the home. The unequal emotional labor and "invisible work" in marriage is a hot-button issue, but no one has offered a real solution to this dilemma, until now. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually is and how to get it done efficiently. The resulting time- and sanity-saving system offers a completely original lexicon that identifies the 100 main tasks in any marriage and then divides those tasks fairly (not necessarily equally!). Fair Play allows couples to renegotiate all of the work it takes to run a home--and empowers them to reimagine their relationship, time, and purpose. With four easy-to-follow rules and a figurative card game played with your partner, winning means rebalancing your home life and reclaiming your Unicorn Space--as in, the space to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Let's deal you in. ...Show more

Blue Sky Mind: The Art of Meditation

$29.99 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships

Your mind has two aspects. Maybe you are only familiar with one - the active thinking mind with all its attendant emotions. Blue Sky Mind will introduce you to the other half - the still mind. While meditation does involve getting to know both aspects of your mind better, more particularly it provides a reliable way to become familiar with the still mind. This aspect of the mind is renowned for its innate inner peace and clarity, loving kindness and wisdom. Meditation introduces us to the still mind with direct certainty. It then helps us to function with confidence from its centre wherein all the qualities we aspire to as good people are to be found. Blue Sky Mind is intended to be a highly accessible introductory book to meditation, something that everyone will find informative and useful for establishing and deepening their own meditation practice. Ian's first meditation book, Peace of Mind (1987) was one of the first books on meditation published in Australia and was followed by Meditation: Pure and Simple. Blue Sky Mind combines the best of Ian's first two books with fresh material, guidance and insight into the art of meditation.  ...Show more

Me Time by SANDERS JESSICA

$24.99 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships

The Right Brain Workout by Russel Howcroft

$19.99 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships | Reading Level: 6.5 Wellbeing

In The Right-brain Workout, you'll find 70 questions posed by some of Australia's most creative people from the worlds of comedy, art, advertising, music, literature and photography. Questions that will probe, cajole, and challenge you to be more creative, every day. You'll rediscover the creativity tha t we all have inside of us when we were kids. Or you'll enhance your already creative mind. Plus, you'll uncover weekly Right-brain Tips- simple things that you can do to stimulate your brain. It's the fun and energising exercise regime for your brain that you didn't know you were looking for. And it just might help unlock the creative genius inside of you. ...Show more

Use It or Lose It by Paul McIntyre

$32.99 AUD

Category: Self Help & Relationships | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction

In Use It or LoseItPaul McIntyre, host of ABC Radio's 'Medical Matters', sorts the fact from the fiction and reveals the practical measures we can all take to keep our body in good shape and our brain sharp and alert. Because when it comes to positive ageing, our physical and mental health are one and t he same. Believe it or not, preventing a disease as serious as dementia is as much about pursuing interests and having a flourishing social life as it is about standard health prescriptions. Good nutrition, regular exercise, relaxation, social interaction and healthy activities are paramount for your body andyour brain andyour emotional outlook as you get older. With key advice from experts in diet, nutrition, dementia research and psychology, and lots of activities and suggestions to inspire you, including some delicious health-boosting recipes, Use It or Lose It isan essential guide to remaining vital through mid-life and beyond. ...Show more