Friends with the Scale

Friends with the Scale
Author: Linda Spangle, RN, MA
Publisher: SunQuest Media
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2014-04-23
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0976705729

That dreaded piece of metal called a scale! It holds the power to make you feel elated one day and devastated the next. But weight-loss coach and emotional eating expert, Linda Spangle, believes that when it’s used the right way, the scale can become your biggest ally in any weight-loss plan. Friends with the Scale presents a smart, practical approach that helps you completely change your relationship with the scale. Based on stories and examples along with scientific data, this book helps you discover the weight-loss power that lies within your scale when you simply make it your friend. You’ll learn: • How to prevent the dreaded scale panic • The one time you should NOT step on the scale • Ways to manage the scale at your doctor’s office • 14 factors that can affect scale numbers • How to fix “failure thinking” when the scale goes up This step-by-step guide will help change your morning weigh-in ritual into one of the most positive moments of your day.

Something's Wrong with Your Scale!

Something's Wrong with Your Scale!
Author: Van Whitfield
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2000-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780385489362

Equal parts love story and inspirational tome, Whitfield's plot shines for its original ploys and reflections of everyday people and life experiences.' - Ebony A perfect mix of humour and heart, this is the tale of Sonny Walker, a thirty-something Mr Nice Guy who's waging the battle of the bulge and looking for love. Dumped by girlfriend Marsha after gaining 75 pounds, he's on a mission to lose weight and get her back but he can't stop thinking about food!'

On the Scale, a Weighty Tale

On the Scale, a Weighty Tale
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1580138454

Introduces essential measurement units, from grams to pounds to tons.

Queers, Bis, and Straight Lies

Queers, Bis, and Straight Lies
Author: Meredith Worthen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2020-03-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315280310

Though there have been great advances for LGBTQ people in recent years, stigma, intolerance, and prejudice remain. Queers, Bis, and Straight Lies: An Intersectional Examination of LGBTQ Stigma offers an in-depth exploration of LGBTQ negativity through its ground-breaking use of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory (NCST), the first ever theory about stigma that is both testable and well-positioned in existing stigma scholarship. Based on research with more than 3,000 respondents, hetero-cis-normativity and intersectionality are highlighted as fundamental in understanding separate but interconnected discussions about LGBTQ individuals’ experiences with discrimination, harassment, and violence. With chapters dedicated to lesbian women, gay men, bisexual women, bisexual men, trans women, trans men, non-binary/genderqueer people, queer women, and queer men, Queers, Bis, and Straight Lies brings together empirically-driven findings that work toward dismantling "straight lies" in an innovative and impactful manner. Through its novel and critical approach, Queers, Bis, and Straight Lies is the ideal resource for those who want to learn about LGBTQ stigma more broadly and for those who seek a nuanced, theory-driven, and intersectional examination of how LGBTQ prejudices and prejudicial experiences differ by gender identity, sexual identity, race/ethnicity, and class.

Working with Children and Teenagers Using Solution Focused Approaches

Working with Children and Teenagers Using Solution Focused Approaches
Author: Judith Milner
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857002619

Solution focused approaches offer proven ways of helping children overcome a whole range of difficulties, from academic problems to mental health issues, by helping them to identify their strengths and achievements. Based on solution focused practice principles, this book illustrates communication skills and playful techniques for working with all children and young people, regardless of any health, learning or development need. It demonstrates how the approach can capture children's views, wishes and worries, and can assist them in identifying their strengths and abilities. The approach encourages positive decision-making, and helps children to overcome challenges, achieve their goals and reach their full potential. The book is packed with case examples, practical strategies, and practice activities. This valuable text will be of great use to a range of practitioners working with children and young people, including social workers, youth workers, counsellors, teachers and nurses.

The Soul-Sourced Entrepreneur

The Soul-Sourced Entrepreneur
Author: Christine Kane
Publisher: BenBella Books
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1950665569

Can you succeed in business when your strength is more about sensitivity than swagger? If you're moved by meaning, more than manipulation? In other words: Can you succeed while still being you? Christine Kane is living proof that the answer is yes. Far too many of us have swallowed the notion that business owners have to be a certain way to be successful—strategy-obsessed, data-driven, and relentlessly aggressive. Bookstore shelves are lined with guides for entrepreneurs that urge them to "Crush it! "10X It!" or "Unf**k it!" Those who aren't crushers or unf**kers of anything are left wondering if something's wrong with them. Like,maybe they're just not cut out for business. A former songwriter and performer, and then founder of Uplevel YOU—a multi-million-dollar business coaching company—Christine Kane shows a new class of entrepreneurs another way. It's time to connect, not crush. In The Soul-Sourced Entrepreneur, Kane shares the insights that have helped thousands find success without losing themselves. In these pages, readers will find a practical plan to: • Toss out ineffective, old-school goal-setting models. • Reframe your intuition and sensitivity as valuable assets, not as flaws to hide. • Examine old patterns for clues as to what's been holding you back. • Clean up the spaces and distractions draining your energy and power. • Learn to confidently trust in your own wisdom. • Break free from fear-based decision-making that plagues most businesses. Throughout the book, you'll hear stories from other soul-sourced entrepreneurs, who employ their own reliable, unique set of best practices based as much in intuition and self-awareness as on specific skills and strategies. Forget business as usual. Your business is personal, and in this new era, authenticity, creativity, and sensitivity are what set businesses apart. The Soul-Sourced Entrepreneur is your unconventional plan to build the business of your dreams, and being wildly successful by being you.

The Psychology of Friendship

The Psychology of Friendship
Author: Mahzad Hojjat
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2017
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0190222026

Edited by Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer, The Psychology of Friendship provides a comprehensive overview of the research on these important relationships, which represent one of humanity's closest connections. This book provides a wealth of information on both the beneficial and detrimental aspects of this important bond in everyone's lives.

What Do Children Need to Flourish?

What Do Children Need to Flourish?
Author: Kristin Anderson Moore
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2005-05-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780387230610

This volume responds to the intense concern for and interest in identifying and measuring what matters for happy, healthy children who grow to be compassionate, responsible adults. And although innumerable organizations undertake efforts aimed at positive youth development, this book takes the first step toward developing a system of national indicators that can be used to monitor positive behaviors and attitudes for children at the national level, in communities, and in programs.

Widowhood in an American City

Widowhood in an American City
Author: Helena Lopata
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351471546

Widowhood in an American City focuses on the roles and lifestyles of urban American widows fifty years of age or older. These women form a segment of two generations of one society; they present a historical instance of people born and brought up under conditions that are not likely to be duplicated. Not only the U.S., but many other countries are undergoing modifications in the degrees and forms of urbanization, industrialization, and social complexity.Helena Znaniecki Lopata argues that the way women re-engage society following the death of a husband is different due to their location in the modern social system. She notes that the trends in social structure are toward increasingly voluntaristic engagement in achieved, functionally oriented social roles that are performed in large groups and contain secondary social relations. The cultural background of many societal members prevents the utilization of most resources of the complex urban world, restricting them to a small social life space, with almost automatically prescribed social relations.Those who argue that the elderly are socially isolated contend that this is a result of the natural process of withdrawal of the person and the society from each other. These arguments focus on those who are isolated or lonely and those who lack the skills, money, health, and transportation for engaging or re-engaging society. Lopata's study indicates that this assumption is false for many widows. If such people are to be helped, a fresh view of the relation between the urban, industrial, and complex modern world and its residents is required, and new action programs must be creatively developed. This is a timely, ground-breaking work that addresses and shatters common myths associated with growing old alone in an urban society.