DBT for Life: Skills to transform the way you live is a self-help book that teaches skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Engaging and accessible, the book features full-color illustrations, graphics, and short stories illustrating how to use skills in real life.

DBT is an evidence-based therapy that is highly effective for emotionally sensitive people. DBT teaches skills in mindfulness, managing overwhelming emotions, caring for relationships, and getting through a crisis without making it worse.

Dr. Marsha Linehan created Dialectical Behavior Therapy as a cure for suicide. Based on copious research, this treatment is incredibly effective for anyone who struggles with overwhelming emotions. As a therapy, DBT is arduous and often difficult to access.

Diana hopes the book will provide a powerful way to connect with DBT skills.There are over a hundred skills in DBT. In DBT for Life, every chapter teaches one of the more significant skills. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the skill. Then a short story illustrates effective use of the skill. The stories are fictional composites based on emotionally sensitive clients, friends, family members, and the author's experience living as an emotionally sensitive person. Diana also provides a detailed explanation of the skill, ideas for practice, and plenty of supplemental material.

The book features a choose your own adventure style. You may read the book from cover to cover or read chapters out of order. You may choose stories based on the illustrations. Or select a chapter based on a skill you need at that moment. You can approach the book in whatever way is most effective for you.

There are so many ways to engage with DBT for Life. The stories, illustrations, graphics and straightforward language offer different types of learners easy access to the complex, evidence based toolkit of skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy. This is a wonderful work of heart, filled with wisdom and practical ways to enhance how our minds work and how our relationships can flourish in everyday life.

This is a collection of stories from the Ahtna Indians of Alaska, collected and retold by tribe member John Smelcer. Numerous illustrations by Larry Vienneau accompany the stories and numerous pictures of the Ahtna Indians and the storytellers are also included. The book's Foreword is by Gary Snyder. Each story is introduced by John Smelcer. A comprehensive bibliography of works on Alaskan mythology and folklore is included at the end.

Since Trungpa Rinpoche's death in 1987, many people have talked about the need for a book of photographs of his life. Now, finally, it's here: a book of 240 black-and-white photographs taken from 1972 to 1982 at Karme-Choling, Vermont, and Boulder, Colorado. Thank you, Bob Of the many great photographic images of Trungpa Rinpoche, Del Tredici's black-and-whites stand out. Some are iconic shots that we all know and love. Others have rarely been seen. TRUNGPA PHOTOGRAPHS is a fulsome collation of Del Tredici's work, a feast for the eyes, for Trungpa's students, and for the world at large. -- The Chronicles of Chogyam Trungpa website.

How would your life be different if you could regularly access boundless wisdom?

Would it be more peaceful? Fun? Expansive?

What are you waiting for?

Each one of us sits upon our own toolbox--our own treasure trove of inner resources. The trick is learning how to open your toolbox and skillfully use the tools inside.

In Sitting on the Toolbox: Buddha's Wisdom for a Joyful Life, Buddhist monk Venerable Bhante Sujatha uses humor, personal anecdotes, and a mix of ancient and modern stories to show you how to access your own deep truths and live a fuller, more joyful life.

Sometimes the deepest truths are already within us, waiting in the background to be recognized.

Lessons like these often come in a few simple words. Leaving us saying, Yes That's what I was thinking

In this collection, Bhante Sujatha shares with us this kind of wisdom: easy to remember, fun, practical, deep, and subtle.

As you move through this small collection, you will discover something new with each reading. Wisdom will develop within. Until one day, you will read something that was exactly what you needed to hear, at exactly the right time. And it will change your life forever. --Michael Fronczak, Moderator of Morning Coffee with Bhante & Co-Founder of Sanatha Suwaya

Bob and Sue Ann Varner live in a small town in Northern Missouri where they raised their two sons and a daughter. They have shared their journey and their family's story of survival after their oldest son, Eric, committed suicide.

The Varners experienced a lack of attention from medical facilities in Missouri; an unwillingness to help Eric when he needed it most led to tragic results. The Varner family desires that their story will offer hope to others, as well as promote aware- ness for the crucial need for treatment of patients suffering from mental illness.

Thomas Merton has been called An American Prophet and The Conscience of America. Throughout the tumultuous 1960s, Merton was a vocal advocate for the civil rights and peace movements. Merton was the first major religious figure in America to come out against the Vietnam War. He convinced Martin Luther King, Jr. to add his voice to the cause. In the fall of 1968, Merton left the safety of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani monastery in Kentucky to go on what would be known as his Asian Journey. He could not have known at the time that he would never leave

Southeast Asia alive.

Or did he?

Judiciously researched and revealed by the man who discovered Merton's worldly possessions-removed from the abbey on orders of the abbot after Merton's death and safeguarded by a fellow monk and a nun who had been Merton's friend and acolyte. Half a century since her friend and teacher died, the nun revealed Merton's secret. Here is her incredible story about Merton's daring plan that might have saved tens of thousands of lives.

This is a collection of wise sayings and words of wisdom culled from the works of men and women from around the world and from various religious and wisdom traditions. The author, John Smelcer, has added to these timeless gems some of his own hard-earned pearls of wisdom and advice. The objective is to help others come to grips with their own trials and tribulations and find peace and happiness in their lives. The small size of the book allows readers to keep the book handy, in pocket or purse, for quick reference.

Sometimes the deepest truths are already within us, waiting in the background to be recognized.

Lessons like these often come in a few simple words. Leaving us saying, Yes That's what I was thinking

In this collection, Bhante Sujatha shares with us this kind of wisdom: easy to remember, fun, practical, deep, and subtle.

As you move through this small collection, you will discover something new with each reading. Wisdom will develop within. Until one day, you will read something that was exactly what you needed to hear, at exactly the right time. And it will change your life forever. --Michael Fronczak, Moderator of Morning Coffee with Bhante & Co-Founder of Sanatha Suwaya

Since Trungpa Rinpoche's death in 1987, many people have talked about the need for a book of photographs of his life. Now, finally, it's here: a book of 240 black-and-white photographs taken from 1972 to 1982 at Karme-Choling, Vermont, and Boulder, Colorado. Thank you, Bob Of the many great photographic images of Trungpa Rinpoche, Del Tredici's black-and-whites stand out. Some are iconic shots that we all know and love. Others have rarely been seen. TRUNGPA PHOTOGRAPHS is a fulsome collation of Del Tredici's work, a feast for the eyes, for Trungpa's students, and for the world at large. -- The Chronicles of Chogyam Trungpa website.