If you feel an intense pressure to be perfect, this evidence-based workbook offers real strategies based in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you develop a more balanced and healthy perspective.

Do you hold yourself--and perhaps others--to extremely high standards? Do you procrastinate certain tasks because you're afraid you won't carry them out perfectly? If you've answered yes to one or both of these questions, chances are you're a perfectionist. And while there's nothing wrong with hard work and high standards, perfectionism can also take over your life if you let it. So, how can you find balance?

With this workbook, you'll identify the causes of your perfectionism and the ways it is negatively impacting your life. Rather than measuring your self-worth by productivity and accomplishments, you'll learn to exercise self-compassion, and extend that compassion to others. You'll also learn ways to prioritize the things that really matter to you, without focusing on attaining fixed goals.

Life isn't perfect, and neither are we. If you're ready to break free from out-of-control perfectionism and start living a richer, fuller life, this workbook will help you get started.

Do you have trouble saying no, or constantly sacrifice your own needs to please others? If so, this evidence-based workbook will help you set healthy boundaries in all aspects of your life--without feeling guilty or afraid.

If you find yourself feeling responsible for others' happiness, worrying about letting people down, or struggling to speak up for yourself, you probably have difficulty setting healthy boundaries. Establishing clear personal boundaries is essential to creating and nurturing mutually respectful relationships based on equality. Setting limits can also protect you from getting involved in exploitative relationships, and help you avoid toxic personalities who don't have your best interests at heart.

This evidence-based workbook will show you how to set healthy boundaries across all aspects of life--without sacrificing your kindness or compassion for others. You'll learn to define your boundaries and discover why they're so important for your emotional well-being. You'll also find a wealth of tips for maintaining boundaries in a constantly-connected world, strategies for what to do when people get upset or threatened by your assertiveness, and ways to make sure your needs are met.

If you're tired of feeling guilty or afraid of putting your mental and physical health first, are ready to take back control of your life, and create healthy and balanced relationships, this book will show you how to step up and set limits, assert yourself confidently, and realize your full potential.

Powerful tools to help you accept your decision, manage intense emotions, and thrive.

Estrangement from one or both parents--even by choice--can take a huge emotional and psychological toll. If you have cut ties with a parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, guilt, and shame. You may question or second-guess your decision. And you may have trouble setting or keeping boundaries with your parent, as well as others in your life. This workbook offers evidence-based skills to help you heal the emotional wounds of your past, so you can finally move forward.

With this compassionate guide, you'll identify the reasons why you cut ties, so you can accept and feel validated in your decision. You'll discover powerful tools to help you manage intense emotions, develop healthy coping strategies, and build a lasting and trustworthy support network. Most importantly, you'll learn to cultivate self-compassion and live your life authentically--on your own terms.

You'll also find step-by-step guidance to:

• Grieve your losses and release guilt, anxiety, shame, and anger
• Understand and overcome the effects of difficult family relationships
• Manage difficult days and occasions like holidays, weddings, and funerals
• Maintain boundaries and build healthy relationships

They say that family comes first; but it shouldn't be at the expense of your mental health, happiness, or future. If you've decided to cut ties, this book will help you confirm that you've made the right choice, and give you the tools you need to live your life with confidence.

When Ellen Zanderfrog finds an old trumpet, she just know it's a sign. I'm going to Memphis to be in a blues band
She travels down the river and meets other musical characters along the way. Bighearted E.Z. gives away her trumpet, and is given some tuna can bongos in return. Further down the river she gives away the drums and is given an invitation to a talent show on Beale Street in Memphis.

But when E.Z. finally arrives, ready to sing the blues, she discovers the talent show was last year. Brokenhearted, she heads for the door. Just then she hears a familiar song. Is that the Froggy Bottom Blues? she asks.

Ellen Zanderfrog is elated when she finds out her musical friends have all traveled to Memphis to join her blues band.

Writer, teacher, prophet, Sharon brings clarity to a world that often seems to be spinning out of control - a world rife with overt racism and religious bigotry, hyper political partisanship and mounting income inequality, social media vitriol and sharply divided families. This collection of essays, many of which first appeared in The Oklahoma Observer, speaks to, and helps make sense of, the issues of a specific era. But really, it's timeless. Though the generations change, the issues largely remain the same. Sharon's insightful prose no doubt will apply then, as now.

Ellen Zanderfrog found an old trumpet. I'm going to Memphis to be in a blues band E.Z. travels down the river, meeting other musical characters along the way. One friend gives her an invitation to a talent show on Beale Street.

Ready to sing the blues, E.Z. arrives in Memphis. But she discovers the talent show was last year.

Will E.Z. give up and go home? Will she ever get to sing the blues?