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Communication Skills for Teens provides the guidance you need to become a better communicator and succeed in all areas of life. You'll also learn tons of essential life skills, including active listening, assertiveness, clarifying language, the art of an apology, compassion, interviewing skills, family communication, and more. Each chapter focuses on one key aspect of communication, offers a real teen's perspective, and includes practical exercises to help you apply what you've learned in the real world-away from your computer and smartphone screens.

Listening is half, and arguably the most important half, of communicating. With this audio program, you will learn how to become a good listener. It includes lessons on the blocks to real listening, the importance of paraphrasing, how to ask for clarification, the secrets to providing useful feedback, and how to listen with empathy and openness.

A groundbreaking framework for delivering the world's most effective therapy—personalized to each client. If you are a therapist who treats clients with mood disorders, you know that effective treatment isn't one-size-fits-all. Some clients may be struggling with trauma or difficult life...

Shows how the certainty of change and loss can support rather than diminish love Shares practices and meditations to help love endure in the face of loss, disappointment, change, or any of the ways relationships and circumstances are altered by time Explores how to cultivate...

Refresh Your Spirit brings you four techniques for focusing attention inward, imagining a peaceful natural setting, and listening to a nourishing inner voice.

When you're too busy to relax, just take Time Out from Stress by listening to this audio. In just ten minutes, you can relax tight muscles, calm anxieties, and reduce pressures to a more tolerable level.

When you're too busy to relax, just take Time Out from Stress by listening to this audio. In just ten minutes, you can relax tight muscles, calm anxieties, and reduce pressures to a more tolerable level.

Relieve Your Worry brings you four techniques for letting go of anxious or negative thoughts, freeing yourself from worry, and finding joy in the here and now.

Why do couples break up? In The Commitment Dialogues, best-selling author Matthew McKay dissects a range of typical dialogues gone wrong in order to illustrate how fear sabotages relationships. He introduces listeners to 10 couples struggling with specific issues. As their dialogues unfold, each couple's core problems are revealed. Dr. McKay then shows how his techniques can help heal fractured relationships and get couples working as a team to resolve conflicts over money, children, monogamy, commitment, and more.

Get ready for a wild ride through dark streets, where monsters roam, magic crackles, and heroes fight shadows at every turn. From wizards to vampires, gods to shapeshifters, these stories will drag you into a world where the impossible is just another day.