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Have The Best Year
of
Your Life
by Jane Matthews
Buy now: £9.99
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This book offers
a realistic
alternative
to
the typical
‘change
your life
in seven days' approach.
It is based on the belief that genuine
transformation is
an incremental process requiring small, regular, achievable
steps
that can be incorporated into real life on a daily basis...
Have The Best Year of Your Life is
a book designed to be your companion for a whole year and creatively
guide you on a journey to your best-ever
year,
via 365 small, daily activities.
Written for anyone who is feeling stuck,
living on automatic and in need of change, the book provides all
the tools needed to start living a richer, more purposeful and
more authentic life.
Author Jane Matthews invites you to use the techniques, ideas and
challenges within the book to move in the direction of your dreams,
with 365 days of learning, discovery, growth, fun, and, above all,
transformation.
Have the Best Year of Your Life is a thought-provoking, accessible
and practical book for anyone who's reached the point of wanting
more out of their lives.
"...I looked forward to each day's activity and after 365
days wanted to start all over again. I trusted the paths it took
me down and was rewarded with the best year of my life." Shirley
Paley
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Losing a pet
by Jane Matthews |
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The loss of a pet can hit us as hard as the loss of
any close friend. Yet pet bereavement is so little talked about that
along with grief and pain animal lovers may also find themselves
having to deal with feelings of confusion and even embarrassment
at the strength of their reaction.
For anyone grieving the loss of a pet, or facing
up to having a pet put down, this short book aims to fill the gap. Losing
A Pet offers practical guidance, emotional support and, above
all, the reassurance of finding that you are not alone. For those
supporting someone through pet bereavement, either personally or
in a professional capacity, its blend of compassion and practicality
will help the healing process.
Contents: the place of pets in our hearts and lives; understanding
why we feel so strongly; the stages of loss; feelings of shock, denial,
anger, blame, guilt; having a pet put down; when a pet goes missing;
getting help; healing yourself; commemorating and celebrating your
pet; further resources.
BUY THIS BOOK
or order by phone 01908 670080, by email
or by clicking here to
print off an order form to send by post.
Publication date: November
2007
Dimensions: 150
x 100mm
Price: £3.99 (special
rates for trade) Pagination: 64pp
SPECIAL OFFER! Buy
two or more copies and get FREE p & p
Format: paperback ISBN: 978-0-9556643-0-4
This book is also available as an e-book at £2.99,
saving you £1 on the printed book.
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"I
loved the book. The length and content are ideal and I would
recommend it to anyone facing euthanasia or who has/is experiencing
the grief of losing a much loved pet. I think many, many people
will be helped by it." "I think this
is one of best publications of its kind to date and will hopefully
help a lot of people."
"Many
thanks. The books have been very well received by our bereaved
clients."
"Thoughtful,
moving... it will help anyone who has lost a pet."
"It's completely true people suffer the loss of pets as much as anyone else and
I've never seen anything written about it before."
"How I wish I had had this book when we lost our first dog a few years ago. God
- that hit us hard."
"A really good book. I was worried people would perceive me as silly or over
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I Think You're Great!
Self-esteem made easy
by Jane Matthews
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Are you your
own worst critic?
Waiting for people to find you out?
If low self-esteem is getting in your way or holding you
back, this book aims to help you achieve a new level of self-confidence
and self-approval:
• Learn how to weed out the beliefs of not being good enough
or talented enough, clever enough or beautiful enough
• Understand how unconscious beliefs affect you and what
you can do to change them
• Learn a range of tools and techniques to keep your self-esteem
high – and yourself going in the direction you want
• Discover how you can be the star of your own life, directing
and writing your own script.
Warm, personal, direct and, above all, effective, this book
will change the way you see yourself and others.
Available for immediate download,
only £2.99:
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“I found the exercises very
powerful in moving me on.”
“I love the way the book
is so gentle. It feels like someone holding your
hand and helping.”
“The most helpful thing for
me was seeing where low self-esteem comes from and
having so many practical suggestions to reverse it.”
“Once you start reading it's
easy to get motivated and the tools were really valuable.”
“This is an important book.
Kind compassionate, supportive,
non-judgemental, valuable for those near the beginning of their
journey and for those of us who need reminders.” |
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The Carer's Handbook
by Jane Matthews |
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Becoming a carer can be physically and emotionally
exhausting and although there is help available many carers do not
have the time to look for it, or know who to contact. Fully updated,
this second edition of The Carer's Handbook is a one-stop shop for
the two in three of us who, sooner or later, will find ourselves
in a caring role. It covers:
How to find a way through the maze of health, local authority and
voluntary agencies; guidance on day to day practicalities; financial
and employment rights; dealing with difficult feelings; getting
support; keeping care under review.
Published May 2007, HowtoBooks £10.99
ISBN 978-1-84528-194-6
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"Well
written, full of useful advice and incredibly compassionate.
I am absolutely certain this book will save lives and sanity.
Essential reading for any carer, or anyone who may become a carer."
"An indispensable guide for carers which
also serves as an excellent reference book."
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A girl's guide to man management
Learn how to help him be part of a great
relationship in which you both get what you want.
Published August
2007, Bonnier Books £7.99
ISBN 978-1-90582-546-2
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Lose
that loser and find the right guy
If you're always falling for the
wrong guy this book will show you why and help you change the pattern,
and start enjoying healthy relationships.
Published August
2007, Bonnier Books £7.99
ISBN 978-190582-548-6
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Review by
Susan Quilliam,
author and agony aunt
"I
read a lot of self help books as part of my job. Which means
that usually, I'm extra critical of 'yet another' in the
field. But not this one.
This one not
only comes from a 'life examined'; the author has clearly been
to the dark places and that shows through in her writing. The
book not only comes from her years of workshop teaching, she
obviously has under her belt years of helping folk through
their problems. And - unusually for the genre - the book's
also well written: lovely turns of phrase and an unput-downable
style.
So you may, like me, find yourself reading the whole book from cover to cover
just for the joy of it. But then... the fun begins. For the way you're meant
to use it is day by day, one task at a time, for the next year.
And here the book keeps its promise on two levels. First, it delivers 365 days
of interesting and challenging tasks, some light, some serious, all thought-provoking.
And also - I can see this despite the fact that I'm only a few days into it -
it's going to deliver a year of personal change, pace by pace, baby steps to
harder tasks.
I suspect that "The Best Year of Your Life" will effect a turning point in its
readers... that if you trust in and follow the book, not only the next year but
also the succeeding years of your life are likely to be the best ever!"
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"Surviving life as a carer means, above all, learning to care
for yourself too."
The following checklist, taken from The Carer's Handbook is
a cut out and keep reminder of what caring for yourself means:
Carer's Creed:
- Whatever you feel able to do is enough
- Things don't have to be perfect; you can drop your standards
- Learn to say yes to every offer of help
- Treat yourself with the same gentleness and understanding
you would anyone going through a tough time
- Don't neglect your own physical health, especially your
diet
- Negative feelings don't make you a bad person; they just
mean you're in a bad situation
- From now on work out what you can and can't change and
stop worrying about anything in the 'can't' column.
- Connect with other carers, either through a local support
group or, find others to talk to on the internet. It
may feel like it sometimes but you are NOT alone.
- Don't be defined by your role as a carer. Beneath the
busy-ness, you are still YOU.
- Don't lose sight of your dreams.
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