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  Recently,  Learning to Feel  (Girrell), reached #214 on the Amazon bestseller list of psychologist biographies. Book Description:  Learning to Feel, Second Edition,  teaches readers how to gain choice and authority over their emotional states. Feelings and emotions are reactions to the deeply held beliefs and experiences of our lives. In order to become fully emotionally intelligent - that is, to be able to know what is yours, what comes from the others, and how best to respond to those others - we must connect first to those core experiences and often re-interpret the meaning they have held for us.  Learning to Feel  is such a journey, intended to be a set of trail blazes for anyone who wishes to up their game in the realm of emotional intelligence. (Edition 1 was selected for the Independent Press Distinguished Favorite Award and a Literary Titan gold award.) First Edition Book Awards Literary Titan Gold Award Independent Press Award Distinguished ...

  Perfection is seductive. It promises safety, admiration, control. It whispers that if you can just get everything right—your timing, your tone, your choices, your appearance—then life will finally feel manageable. But perfection is a moving target. Presence is the ground beneath your feet. Choosing presence over perfection is the moment you stop rehearsing your life and start living it. It’s the moment you decide that being here—fully, honestly, imperfectly—is worth more than looking flawless from a distance. Perfection asks you to perform. Presence asks you to participate. Presence sounds like: • noticing what you feel instead of judging it • listening to your body instead of overriding it • responding to the moment you’re in, not the one you imagined • letting yourself be seen as you are, not as you “should” be Perfection is brittle. It shatters the moment something goes off‑script. Presence is flexible. It adapts, breathes, recalibrates. When you choose presence, you c...

    Recently,  An Afternoon's Dictation  (Greenebaum), reached #29 on the Amazon bestseller list of books in ecumenism Christian theology, #78 in Christian ecumenism, and #115 in faith and spirituality.. The book has been on bestseller lists many times.  Book Description:  In 1999 Steven Greenebaum felt he'd hit the wall. Fifty years old, he could not make sense of his life or the world around him. For several months he angrily demanded answers from God, if God were there. One afternoon, an inner voice told him to get a pen and paper and write. Steven then took dictation - three pages, not of commandments but guidance for leading a meaningful life.   An Afternoon's Dictation  grapples with, organizes, and deeply explores the revelations Steven received and then studied for over ten years. His sharing is NOT offered as the only possible way to understand it the dictation. It is offered, rather, as a start. The book's sections include deep explorati...