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50 Best Ways to Simplify Your Life : Proven Techniques for Achieving Lasting Balance   BOOK
In The 50 Best Ways to Simplify Your Life, proven cognitive methods do what religious ideology, radical ecology, or just plain marketing fluff can't do: help readers understand what matters most to them and achieve lasting balance. Using the kinds of practical techniques that can lead to real personal change, author Patrick Fanning and self-help editor and writer Heather Garnos Mitchener first help readers examine their values and prioritize meaning.

100-Something VIDEO
Once a rarity, centenarians are becoming noticeably less unusual. How have they managed to live so long in such good health? In this program, doctors from Harvard Medical School’s New England Centenarian Study and the University of Georgia’s study of extreme longevity search for a correlation between life span and the genetic, physical, psychological, and cognitive dimensions of aging. In addition, people who have surpassed the ten-decade mark offer personal insights into the importance of key aspects of life such as faith, exercise, nutrition, sexuality, and continued involvement in daily routines and meaningful work. (47 minutes, color)

Accepting Life’s Transitions VIDEO
Aging is a series of transitions, some gradual and some abrupt. How do people come to terms with these changes? This program examines the aging process from beginning to end, defining age from the viewpoints of biology, psychology, society, functionality, and the law. The impact of current behaviors and attitudes on one’s future self is also discussed, as well as dying—itself a part of life—and the stages of grieving. In addition, the program addresses the health challenges faced by older Americans and indicates why some seniors cope better than others. (29 minutes, color)

Body Image for Boys   VIDEO
As the idealized male physique continues to be hyped in movies, on TV, in magazines, and on billboards, a rapidly growing number of men are becoming obsessed with appearance.

Body Image VIDEO
The teens in this tape are not acting - they are ordinary people describing their views, experiences, and what they are willing to do to look the way they want. What does your body image say to others? How far are you willing to go to look good? How do you feel about your body image? What are your choices, options, and consequences?

Girl Power  VIDEO
Studies indicate that as girls reach adolescence they undergo a crash in self-esteem unique to their gender. It is during this stage in life that girls are confronted with such critical issues as body image, sexual pressure, depression, relationship violence, date rape and eating disorders.

Ignite Your Intuition: Improve Your Memory, Make Better Decisions, Be More Creative, Achieve Your Full Potential   BOOK
Dispelling the myths of psychic powers, Karges reveals how to unlock the extraordinary natural powers of your mind. This book will awaken you to the possibility of truly realizing your full potential.

 Look in the Mirror: Free Yourself from the Body Image Blues   BOOK
Who is the fairest of them all and what does that mean, anyway? What teen hasn't wished that her body were just a little more, well, perfect? This hands-on workbook shows you how to sift through the powerful messages that society and the media send you about women's bodies and being feminine

Maintaining Mental Health VIDEO
Aging well might be an ambiguous phrase but it does have meaning, especially for people over 60. This program tells the stories of five vibrantly alive seniors who have successfully navigated through momentous life changes. Their examples highlight important precepts for staying mentally healthy, showing how mental health is a key to successful aging. In interviews and in footage of these men and women engaged in various activities, the program provides useful tips and firsthand advice on planning for retirement, staying active, coping with grief, and making the senior years an age of new discoveries. (57 minutes, color)

Relaxation Procedures    AUDIO
This widely used program links progressive relaxation with other tension reducing exercises to form one of the most easily learned methods for physical and mental relaxation. An ideal aid for health professionals, biofeedback and other relaxation therapies, and general use. 1 audio cassette (39 minutes)

Self Esteem     BOOK
This second edition has a new chapter on changing core beliefs that undermine self worth. This is the only book on the subject that uses proven cognitive techniques for assessing, improving and maintaining your self esteem by talking back to the self critical voice inside you

The Self-Nourishment Companion   BOOK
For all those readers who haven't been giving themselves the time and care they deserve, this delightful guide offers 52 inventive and easy-to-follow recipes for relaxation and rejuvenation. Two coauthors of New Harbinger's popular Daily Relaxer and Self-Esteem Companion have joined forces with the coauthor of Facing 30 to provide readers with a smart, funny, and practical guide to nurturing themselves.