Clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Julie Smith (@drjulie) returns with this highly anticipated handbook full of break in case of emergency advice for dealing with mental health challenges in the moment they occur.

In this essential guide, Dr. Julie teaches her millions of readers and clients how to navigate life's toughest occurrences while they're happening, rather than moments or years after the fact. What if we can learn to harness our emotions and stay present so we can process and choose how to respond to a situation?

Picking up where Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? leaves off, Dr. Julie shares the research-backed concepts and powerful skills we can use to weather our most vulnerable moments. Learn how to move through any situation with grace, including:

When it's hard to be with yourself: facing vulnerability alone, dealing with your inner critic, and handling imposter syndrome.When it's hard to be with other people: dealing with betrayal and knowing what to do when you (or your parents) got it wrong.When it's hard to be with your feelings: coping with loneliness, fear, and hopelessnessWhen you're healing from the past: getting out of a trauma response and learning how to stop ruminating about old events.When you're looking to the future: preventing making the same mistakes, tackling uncertainty, and finding your path.

Open When teaches each of us to find and listen to the positive voice within when we need it most, and to care for our future selves and our mental health.

Over 1 million copies sold worldwide!

International Bestseller

Smart, insightful, and warm. Dr. Julie is both the expert and wise friend we all need.--Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the Dear Therapists podcast

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional and mental health in her debut book.

Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Dr Julie Smith's expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before tackles everyday issues and offers practical solutions in bite-sized, easy-to-digest entries which make it easy to quickly find specific information and guidance.

Your mental well-being is just as important as your physical well-being. Packed with proven strategies, Dr. Julie's empathetic guide offers a deeper understanding of how your mind works and gives you the insights and help you need to nurture your mental health every day. Wise and practical, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before might just change your life.

Winner of the 1991 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel and the first mystery in the highly acclaimed Skip Langdon series, New Orleans Mourning falls deliciously between the psychological suspense of Laura Lippman and the delicate drama of Tennessee Williams.

It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncey St. Amant has been crowned Rex, King of Carnival. But his day of glory comes to an abrupt and bloody end when a parade-goer dressed as Dolly Parton guns him down. Is the killer his aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Or some unknown player? Turns out the king had enemies...

Enter resourceful heroine Skip Langdon, a rookie police officer and former debutante turned cynic of the Uptown crowd. Scouring the streets for clues, interviewing revelers and street people with names like Jo Jo, Hinky, and Cookie, and using her white glove contacts, the post-deb rebel cop encounters a tangled web of brooding clues and ancient secrets that could mean danger for her--and doom for the St. Amants.

Langdon, with her weight worries, insecurities, and yet overall toughness has long been a favorite of those who like their female sleuths bold, smart, and refreshingly human.

Bestseller internacional

Sentirás como si tuvieras a un terapeuta sentado a tu lado todo el tiempo, empoderándote en cada situación para que actúes desde la mejor versión de ti mismo , Nicole LePera, autora bestseller del New York Times

Inteligente, esclarecedora y cálida, la Dra. Julie es a la vez la experta y la amiga sabia que todos necesitamos , Lori Gottlieb, autora bestseller del New York Times

Basándose en sus años de experiencia como psicóloga clínica, la Dra Julie, que ha revolucionado las redes sociales compartiendo contenido sobre la salud mental, te enseña en este libro todo lo que necesitas saber para sortear con éxito los altibajos más comunes de la vida.

Repleto de los recursos secretos de una avispada terapeuta, este libro ofrece consejos y técnicas poderosas para fomentar nuestra resiliencia, sin importar lo que esté sucediendo a nuestro alrededor.

Escrito en capítulos cortos y con un estilo ágil y práctico, puedes ir directo a la sección que necesites según el reto al que te estés enfrentando e inmediatamente encontrarás herramientas para ayudarte con:

• La gestión de la ansiedad.

• Los conflictos en las relaciones.
• El manejo de las críticas
• Los estados de ánimo bajos
• Construir más autoconfianza
• Encontrar tu motivación
• Aprender a perdonarte

Este libro da en el clavo sobre los asuntos que más nos afectan a todos en el día a día y ofrece soluciones prácticas y sencillas que te pueden cambiar la vida.

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Over 1 million copies sold worldwide!

International Bestseller

Smart, insightful, and warm. Dr. Julie is both the expert and wise friend we all need.--Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the Dear Therapists podcast

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional and mental health in her debut book.

Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Dr Julie Smith's expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before tackles everyday issues and offers practical solutions in bite-sized, easy-to-digest entries which make it easy to quickly find specific information and guidance.

Your mental well-being is just as important as your physical well-being. Packed with proven strategies, Dr. Julie's empathetic guide offers a deeper understanding of how your mind works and gives you the insights and help you need to nurture your mental health every day. Wise and practical, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before might just change your life.

***WINNER getAbstract International Book Award 2024 - Business Impact, Readers' Choice***

**The People's Book Prize Longlisted Title 2024/25**

I devoured every page of this wonderfully written book. - Sergio Ezama, Chief Talent Officer, Netflix

Want to be more confident at work? You're not alone.

So many of us grapple with self-doubt.

Perhaps you're an exhausted achiever? You're delivering results and progressing in your career, but you feel utterly worn out. You're compensating for a lack of confidence with excessive effort and punishingly high standards.

Or perhaps you're feeling frustrated and unfulfilled? Self-doubt is making you hold yourself back, you're avoiding challenges that could demonstrate how good you really are.

This book can help. Distilling over a decade of real-life research into clear insights, practical tools and impactful activities, Julie Smith shows you how to Coach Yourself Confident.

The TENTH installment of the Skip Langdon series is a New Orleans feast for the senses, a canine love story, an action-packed police procedural made-to-order for readers who like their female sleuths bold, smart, and refreshingly human. A serial killer is using Airbnb units to stage his murders, but a teenage runaway has escaped his grasp and now she's in the wind, believing she's killed him. Meanwhile, the real killer stalks the city - and her.

Cody, the pink-haired sixteen-year-old, should be in school or at the mall texting her friends, not hanging out at the intersection of serial murder and human trafficking. When the options are: (1) Return to a life of slavery (2) Go to jail for murder (3) Be killed by a serial killer, Option 4 makes perfect sense - RUN As mean as the streets of The City That Care Forgot can be, this child attracts angels (often unlikely ones) - and entire packs of dogs - who come to her aid.

She also finds a friend in NOPD's newest Sergeant - big (six-foot ), beautiful, tough, and tender-hearted Skip Langdon. Skip knows her best hope of finding the killer is to find Cody - plus she feels for the girl, in whom she recognizes a younger version of her plucky, resourceful, whip-smart self. The city's hard-boiled; the detective has a heart the size of the Superdome.

August 29, 2005 - Doomsday: New Orleans is eighty per cent underwater, with no electricity, no phones, no 911 service, no rules. Facing the complete breakdown of systems and normality, New Orleans homicide Detective Skip Langdon is on her own to interpret and execute the only direction she's given: Get out there and keep the peace.

With communications down and all emergency services on search and rescue, all Skip can hope to accomplish is helping the person right in front of her. More than once that person turns out to be Billy, a gutsy 15-year-old from Treme who's in greater danger of being swamped by his chaotic home life than the Cat 5 hurricane Skip shelters him from.

When she escorts him home and discovers the scene of a possible homicide, homicide detecting must take a back seat to maintaining order--if not peace. Outrageous rumors are swirling, stirring up unrest, but what really bothers her is the one about a police department order to use the chaos as a cover for cleaning up by rounding up criminals and assassinating them. Now that just can't be true. Can it?

But after she hears it for the third time, Skip teams up with the only cop in the city she's positive she can trust, her former partner, movie-star handsome, kickass, praline-sweet Adam Abasolo. They may not be able to fix everything, but, as the bodies pile up, they are damn sure going to hit back at the guys who're giving their department a black eye.

On any regular weekday, New Orleans lives up to its billing as The Big Crazy. In post-Katrina New Orleans, where the dirty cops and lunatics are running the asylum, author Julie Smith also takes us inside the actual asylum, Charity Hospital emergency psych unit, an unexpected oasis of comfort in stark contrast to endless amounts of ever-present filthy water and hordes of half-drowned people.

Smith strikes just the right note, capturing the massive tragedy of the events and the inevitable comedy as the survivors struggle to make sense of the closest thing to hell squared that any of them has ever seen.

Mystery fans who love hard-boiled women sleuths, lots of action and adventure, and offbeat police procedurals will love Detective Skip Langdon.

Everybody loved easygoing Ham Brocato, producer of the famed New Orleans JazzFest. So how did he end up stabbed to death on his kitchen floor?

New Orleans Homicide Detective Skip Langdon just happens to be on hand when Ham's body is discovered in the middle of his own party the evening before the Fest. To complicate the already murky case, the victim's sixteen-year-old blues musician sister has disappeared, and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn't the murderer, she's in mortal danger from the person who is. So Task One is finding Melody, ambitious, unhappy at home, and determined to break from her family.

As she probes the victim's tangled relationships, Skip finds a Southern family to rival any in Tennessee Williams, including Ham's live-in lover, feisty and swiftly rising star Ti-Belle Thiebaud; his father George, enmeshed with family members in a bitter disagreement over the family's lucrative Po' Boy chain; and Patty, his distraught stepmother.

In this tale of southern kinships gone awry, she's assisted by her long-distance love, Steve Steinman, and her gay landlord, Jimmy Dee. Meanwhile, Melody's dangerous yet exhilarating journey tugs at the heart and raises the pulse rate.

WHAT'S THE PERFECT KILLING FIELD FOR A MURDERER?
A place where he (or maybe she) can learn your secrets from your own mouth and then make friends over coffee. A supposedly safe place where anonymity is the norm. The horror who calls himself The Axeman has figured it out and claimed his territory--he's cherry-picking his murder victims in the 12-Step programs of New Orleans.

And he's had the gall to name himself after a historical serial killer. He just needs to go down, and fast, because this is New Aw'lins, dawlin'--half the town is either alcoholic or co-dependent

Who better to take him out than tall, funny, social-misfit Skip Langdon, now a homicide detective on the Axeman team, a gig that takes her into the 12-Step groups to meet the suspects (giving the author a chance for gentle satire). As Skip threads her fascinated way from one self-help group to another, she finds she has more in common with the twelve-steppers than just the murder--her mother, for one thing, whom she encounters at Overeaters Anonymous And she knows what they do not: that among their anonymous numbers is a murderous, and dangerously attractive psychopath...

Can teaching media literacy really change the world? Researchers predict that, in 2015, the average American will spend more than fifteen hours every day listening, reading, clicking, and viewing media. Without question, television, films, radio, and music, the Internet, social media, news programs, and books and magazines are part of our daily lives. And while some claim that all of this media consumption is detrimental to society, the truth is it doesn't have to be. Times have changed. Technology connects us today in new and exciting ways. We have more choices and more control than ever, regarding what and when we will watch, listen to, and read. And, as Julie Smith explains in Master the Media: How Teaching Media Literacy Can Save Our Plugged-in World, with that control comes a heightened level of responsibility to think critically about the content we consume. Written to help teachers and parents educate the next generation, Master the Media explains the history, purpose, and messages behind the media. The point isn't to get kids to unplug; it's to help them make informed choices, understand the difference between truth and lies, and discern perception from reality. Critical thinking leads to smarter decisions-and it's why media literacy can save the world.

The Sierra Nevada is renowned for its hiking, and its surprising diversity in landscape and terrain is guaranteed to suit outdoor enthusiasts of all interest and skill levels. The longest single range in the contiguous United States, these mountains overlook perpetually changing nature and form one of the most sublime landscapes in the world.

The guide provides comprehensive, step- by- step directions for each hike. In addition, each chapter includes a map, full color photography, directions to the trailhead, distance and elevation data, hike difficulty rating, and pertinent contact information, all fully updated.

Hikes include:
- Calaveras Big Trees State Park
- Rainbow Falls
- Panorama Trail
- Redwood Mountain Grove

What better way to learn how to draw than with fun cartoon animals. These simple designed animals will have your child drawing in no time. This book features 50 different animals with step by step picture instruction. This book will help boost any young artists confidence when they successfully draw these cute animals.

***WINNER getAbstract International Book Award 2024 - Business Impact, Readers' Choice***

**The People's Book Prize Longlisted Title 2024/25**

I devoured every page of this wonderfully written book. - Sergio Ezama, Chief Talent Officer, Netflix

Want to be more confident at work? You're not alone.

So many of us grapple with self-doubt.

Perhaps you're an exhausted achiever? You're delivering results and progressing in your career, but you feel utterly worn out. You're compensating for a lack of confidence with excessive effort and punishingly high standards.

Or perhaps you're feeling frustrated and unfulfilled? Self-doubt is making you hold yourself back, you're avoiding challenges that could demonstrate how good you really are.

This book can help. Distilling over a decade of real-life research into clear insights, practical tools and impactful activities, Julie Smith shows you how to Coach Yourself Confident.

Over 1 million copies sold worldwide!

International Bestseller

Smart, insightful, and warm. Dr. Julie is both the expert and wise friend we all need.--Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the Dear Therapists podcast

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional and mental health in her debut book.

Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Dr Julie Smith's expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before tackles everyday issues and offers practical solutions in bite-sized, easy-to-digest entries which make it easy to quickly find specific information and guidance.

Your mental well-being is just as important as your physical well-being. Packed with proven strategies, Dr. Julie's empathetic guide offers a deeper understanding of how your mind works and gives you the insights and help you need to nurture your mental health every day. Wise and practical, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before might just change your life.

A ROLLICKING TALE OF MURDER, ROMANCE, AND A BORDELLO...

Rebecca Schwartz, nice Jewish lawyer with a few too many fantasies, is happily playing the piano in a whorehouse when she suddenly finds herself assigned to make sure a near-naked state senator escapes a police raid. That dirty job done, a lovely evening turns even more delightful when she's picked up by the cops and spends the next two hours at the Hall of Justice. Could this day get any worse? Of course Guess who arrives home to find a dead hooker on her living room floor?

In her new book, Keto Your Way, Julie Smith shows you how to create a customized plan for adopting a ketogenic lifestyle tailored to your specific needs, taste buds, and budget. With so many ways to approach keto, this book provides you with the information and tools you need to find the approach that matches your lifestyle and to make informed food choices that satisfy your unique nutritional needs. Julie also teaches you how to eat intuitively and to listen to your body in a way that takes the diet out of keto and makes it about living a life that is sustainable for you. With a keto template and Julie's guidance, you can lose weight and become your healthiest you!

As a busy mother of four, Julie knows the value of time and the realities of needing to stick to a budget. In Keto Your Way, she presents more than 140 simple and easy family-friendly recipes made with budget-friendly ingredients that can be found in just about any grocery store. She also offers tips and tricks for overcoming hurdles to achieve lasting success. Leave behind the one-size-fits-all approach and embrace keto--your way.

In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them. The collection features chapters by scholars working in psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, literary studies, and art, as well as chapters by and about people who live and work with animals, including the founder of a sanctuary for chickens, a fur trapper, a popular canine psychologist, a horse trainer, and an art photographer who captures everyday contact between humans and their animal companions.

Divided into five sections, the collection first considers the ways that humans live with animals and the influence of cohabitation on their perceptions of animals' minds. It follows with an examination of anthropomorphism as both a guide and hindrance to mapping animal consciousness. Chapters next examine the effects of embodiment on animals' minds and the role of animal-human interembodiment on humans' understandings of animals' minds. Final sections identify historical representations of difference between human and animal consciousness and their relevance to pre-established cultural attitudes, as well as the ways that representations of animals' minds target particular audiences and sometimes produce problematic outcomes. The editors conclude with a discussion of the relationship between the book's chapters and two pressing themes: the connection between human beliefs about animals' minds and human ethical behavior, and the challenges and conditions for knowing the minds of animals. By inviting readers to compare and contrast multiple, uncommon points of view, this collection offers a unique encounter with the diverse perspectives and theories now shaping animal studies.

LangChain and LangGraph are powerful tools that enable the creation of intelligent agents, capable of understanding, reasoning, and generating human-quality text. These frameworks simplify the development of complex AI applications, from chatbots and virtual assistants to creative writing tools and knowledge bases.This comprehensive guide dives deep into the world of LangChain and LangGraph, providing practical insights and code examples to help you build intelligent agent workflows. You'll learn how to leverage the power of language models, design effective prompts, and create agents that can interact with the world in meaningful ways.
Key Features:
Step-by-Step Tutorials: Learn through hands-on exercises and practical examples.
Real-world Applications: Explore real-world use cases and learn how to apply the techniques to your own projects.
Best Practices: Discover best practices for building robust and efficient agent workflows.
Ethical Considerations: Understand the ethical implications of AI and how to develop responsible AI systems.
This book is ideal for:
AI enthusiasts and developers
Data scientists
Researchers
Anyone interested in building intelligent agents
Julie is an experienced AI practitioner and educator, she has a deep understanding of language models and agent-based systems. With a passion for sharing knowledge, she will guide you through the complexities of LangChain and LangGraph, empowering you to build innovative and impactful AI applications.

If you teach in a school with difficult students, this book is for you. Are they snarky? Do they try to negotiate with you or simply refuse when you ask them to do the simplest things? Do you feel disrespected and unappreciated? If you answered yes to any and all of these questions, you need to read this It turns out that new brain research shows that adolescents are simply wired way differently than adults. Because various parts of their brain have not yet come into full maturity, they make way different choices than they might in ten or so years. Motivated by thrills, adventure, rewards and fun, they could really care less about threats of punishment. We teachers can put this to our advantage to have fun, engaging, interesting classrooms even in the most challenging of circumstances. Ms. Smith also deals with topics such as bullying and violence in the classroom; even what to do if you are threatened. This book could be considered to be a definitive guide for how to teach in the most challenging classrooms anywhere

Oh Yes I Can, Just Watch Me! is a heartwarming story based on the life of a determined Scottish girl called Julie. Julie had to wear leg braces after recovering from a serious illness and was often told to not dream too big. However, she knew in her heart that she could do anything she put her mind to. This is a story of determination, love, and encouragement for anyone struggling physically and emotionally as they face life with a disability!