Self-Help - General
Winner
Think Like A Bartender: Recipes for Life
LD Morrow
Think Like a Bartender is a delicious cerebral cocktail everyone will enjoy! Even if you've never consumed a drop of alcohol, you'll giggle your way through this personal yet lighthearted perspective on living your best life. From learning how to cut people off to updating your personal menu, Think Like a Bartender: Recipes for Life challenges us all to tap into our inner mixologist and serve up our best selves.Refreshingly funny and entertaining, the book serves up bite-sized chapters to help bartenders (old and new) understand the amazing parallel between their job and personal lives, to help customers better appreciate a profession that is sometimes taken for granted, and to help every day people remember to take inventory of your life―and remember to enjoy it!These comical "cocktales" remind us that we're all connected at the Bar of Life!
Self-Help - General
Finalist
Frazzlebrain: Break Free From Anxiety, Anger, and Stress Using Advanced Discoveries in Neuropsychology
Gina Simmons Schneider Ph.D.
FRAZZLEBRAIN is the first known book to address the link between anxiety, anger, and stress while employing groundbreaking remedies from neuropsychology. Readers of FRAZZLEBRAIN will learn how focused thoughts, intentional behaviors, and healing experiences shape the structure and function of the brain. They learn how to tame cynicism and hostility and generate more hopeful thoughts. Readers explore the relationship between the gut and the brain. They learn how time spent in nature heals the nervous system. Daily, routine, and random acts of kindness help connect us to others and strengthen resilience. Readers learn how to create healing experiences that can help the brain recover from trauma. Cultivating positive emotions changes brain chemistry and promotes good health and stronger relationships. FRAZZLEBRAIN includes 23 mood-boosting exercises to settle the nervous system and provide immediate relief from anxiety, anger, and stress.
Self-Help - General
Finalist
Letting Go of Your Ex: CBT Skills to Heal the Pain of a Breakup and Overcome Love Addiction
Cortney Soderlind Warren
At some point in our lives, almost all of us will suffer an excruciatingly painful breakup that absolutely rocks our world. The loss of our romantic partner may be so all-consuming that we feel addicted to our ex. Desperate to reconnect and understand what happened, we can become fixated on them as if we need them to survive. As if our life has lost all meaning without them by our side. As if we no longer have value on our own. As if we have lost our identity and purpose.
Letting Go of Your Ex offers powerful, evidence-based skills grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help manage the harmful thoughts, feelings, and behaviors associated with a difficult breakup or divorce. Feeling addicted to an ex can leave people in a constant state of craving and withdrawal. Yet, we can emerge from breakups as stronger, more honest, and authentic versions of ourselves. This compassionate and practical guide was written to help people heal their heartache and start enjoying life again.