BOOK BROWSER Can there be enough books on parenting? If your goal is to always be moving in the best direction for your life, here are a few suggested books.
Look at it this way, having discipline is a part of daily life for everyone. You may need it with a child, or you may need it with your budget.
Self-help books are beneficial when you need to figure out your career, your life, your mind—anything really. Embrace this list for a boost.
SEASONS READINGS HOW TO RAISE YOUR SELF-ESTEEM NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. Branden offers a step-by-step guide to strengthening your sense of self-worth. Read this book for straightforward and effective techniques that will improve the way you think about yourself.
HANDS FREE MAMA RACHEL MACY STAFFORD
If technology is the new addiction, then multi-tasking is the new marching order. We spend more time looking into electronic screens than into the eyes of our loved ones. Hands Free Mama is the digital society’s answer to finding balance in a media-saturated, perfectionobsessed world. It doesn’t mean giving up all technology or forgoing our jobs and responsibilities. It means seizing the little moments that life offers us, despite a world full of distractions.
LIVING WELL, SPENDING LESS RUTH SOUKUP
Living Well, Spending Less was written to bring hope and encouragement to every woman who currently feels overwhelmed or stressed with a life–and budget–that feels out of control. It speaks to the mom trying to juggle all the demands of a busy life with the pressure to keep up with those around her. How can we live the life we’ve always wanted? Ruth doesn’t just
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offer advice, she walks it with you, and shares with brutal honesty her own mistakes and failures along the way.
RISING STRONG BRENÉ BROWN
Vulnerability—the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome—is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy. But living a brave life is not always easy; we are, inevitably, going to stumble and fall. Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness; it’s the process that teaches us the most about who we are.
LIVING COURAGEOUSLY JOYCE MEYER You have fear. And if you don’t face your fear, it can paralyze you and hold you back from enjoying
life to the fullest. In Living Courageously, Joyce explains how you can overcome the power of fear by learning to confront and conquer any and every fear you have. Blending practical insights with her personal experiences, this book will teach you how to reach your greatest potential and start living life to the fullest.
7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE FAMILIES STEPHEN COVEY
By offering revealing anecdotes about ordinary people, as well as helpful suggestions about changing everyday behavior, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families shows how and why to have family meetings, the importance of keeping promises, how to balance
individual and family needs, and how to move from dependence to independence.
THE SOUL OF DISCIPLINE KIM JOHN PAYNE
Practical and rooted in common sense, this book gives parents permission to be warm and nurturing but also calm and not overreactive. It gives clear, doable strategies to get things back on track for parents who sense that their children’s behavior has fallen into a troubling pattern. And best of all, it provides healthy direction to the entire family so parents can spend less time and energy on discipline and more on connecting with and enjoying their kids.