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WILLPOWER: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength ~ Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney

Social Psychologist Roy Baumeister and John Tierney a New York Times Science writer have combined efforts to create a comprehensive study of the human resource known as WILLPOWER or self control – it is strength and wisdom. This well written study has so many on target points and definitions that I can think of no [...]

Book Review: Leading Raspberry Jam Visions Women’s Way ~Terrill Welch

I have been following Terrill Welch on her blog Creative Potager.  Welch wanders around Mayne Island, British Columbia with her paints and camera; it is a delight to hike with her step by step along the way and see what she sees.   I so enjoy her posts where the wandering leads one from the back [...]

You are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life ~ Jeffrey Schwartz, M.D. and Rebecca Gladding, M.D.

Just the title of this book alone is quite a mouthful, but it is well worth the read and the book came in great timing for me when I was feeling stuck in my healing and changing.  I am reading it for the 3rd time. Both authors are specialists in the area of Neuroscience and [...]

Unfinished Business: One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to do the Right Things ~Lee Kravitz

Unfinished Business is a wonderful autobiography of a man’s life.  It is one of those new life stories that just picks one aspect of the life and then tucks in other pieces of the journey as necessary to complete the picture.  Lee Kravitz is working with the question of what are aspects of his life [...]