How I Learned to Smile from the Inside

How I Learned to Smile from the Inside
Author: Seth E. Santoro
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2013-02-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781478319238

The first book in a riveting new self-help trilogy, “How I Learned To Smile From The Inside,” first-time author, Seth Santoro, CEC, presents a clear, concise, and easy to read five-step approach to healing from trauma. It's a how-to-survive trauma manual written to help people find their smile again.In the book, Seth takes us through quite a journey into five intimate and harrowing stories. The first is his diagnosis of superficial spreading malignant melanoma. The second is his very scary two-year monogamous (or so he thought) relationship where someone is diagnosed as HIV+. The third account is an almost kidnap (hostage-type situation) in Mexico, where Seth was held at gunpoint, six semi-automatic weapons to be exact, for nearly an hour by the Zetas Cartel. The fourth story is Seth's first-hand account for the nasty and gnarly events of September 11th in New York City and the last is the unfortunate deaths of five of his dear friends in just under two years.Shock, Mock-cceptance, In Overwhelmdom, Learning, and Embrace are the five phases in this extraordinary technique intended for healing. Seth Santoro, CEC, identifies these and guides the reader toward a better understanding of our not-so-unique “healing” process. Santoro expands on these powerful concepts to show how more awareness is not only essential to overcoming trauma, but also the key to living a more balanced, more centered, and fuller life, referred to as the Smile From The Inside lifestyle choice.Within each chapter, Santoro shares one personal traumatic experience after another, gently and brilliantly interwoven, in order to enhance and further carry the concept home. In other words, as the individual phases develop, progress, and subside, so too do Seth's titillating stories.Key phrases to remember: Pain is Inevitable, but Suffering is Optional; Sometimes We Need to Give Time, Time; With Hope, Anything is Surmountable; Everything in Life Begins With a Choice; and The Best is Always Yet To Come.This book is designed to inspire each individual, literally, one step at a time, to Smile From The Inside.

Looking for Smile

Looking for Smile
Author: Ellen Tarlow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534466207

In this sweet and gentle picture book, Bear wakes one day to find his Smile gone and enlists his friends to help him find it. Bear and Smile are always together. They wake up together, swim by the waterfall together, and eat honey together. But one day, Bear wakes up and Smile is nowhere to be found. With the help of his woodland friends, will Bear be able to find his Smile again? This tender and special debut picture book explores sadness with a light touch and shows that sometimes a good friend can make all the difference.

Smile: A Graphic Novel

Smile: A Graphic Novel
Author: Raina Telgemeier
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0545780012

Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.

Smile At Strangers

Smile At Strangers
Author: Susan Schorn
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0547774362

“Eat, pray . . . kick ass. Delivered with self-deprecating candor, Schorn's life lessons learned at the dojo will resonate with anyone who's ever tried to remodel a house, raise kids, cope with a health crisis, navigate office politics or hyperventilated—essentially anyone who's ever been slammed on the mat while testing for the black belt of life. Like the fighter herself, you can't put this one down.”—Mary Moore, author of The Unexpected When You're Expecting Susan Schorn led an anxious life. For no clear reason, she had become progressively paralyzed by fear. Fed up with feeling powerless, she took up karate. She learned how to say no and how to fight when you have to (even in the dark). Karate taught her how to persuade her husband to wear a helmet, best one bossy Girl Scout troop leader, and set boundaries with an over-sharing boss. Here this double black belt recounts a fighting, biting, laughing woman's journey on the road to living fearlessly—where enlightenment is as much about embracing absurdity and landing a punch as about finding that perfect method of meditation. Full of hilarious hijinks and tactical wisdom, Schorn's quest for a more satisfying life features practical—and often counterintuitive—lessons about safety and self defense. Smile at strangers, she says. Question your habits, your fears, your self-criticism: Self-criticism is easy. Self-improvement is hard. And don’t forget this essential gem: Everybody wants to have adventures. Whether they know it or not. Join the adventure in these pages, and come through it poised to have more of your own.

In My Heart

In My Heart
Author: Jo Witek
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 164700828X

Celebrate feelings in all their shapes and sizes in this New York Times bestselling picture book from the Growing Hearts series! Happiness, sadness, bravery, anger, shyness . . . our hearts can feel so many feelings! Some make us feel as light as a balloon, others as heavy as an elephant. In My Heart explores a full range of emotions, describing how they feel physically, inside, with language that is lyrical but also direct to empower readers to practice articulating and identifying their own emotions. With whimsical illustrations and an irresistible die-cut heart that extends through each spread, this gorgeously packaged and unique feelings book is sure to become a storytime favorite.

Neema's Reason to Smile

Neema's Reason to Smile
Author: Patricia Newman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2018-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781682655849

What's in your dream basket? Neema's is full of big dreams, like becoming a scientist, an inventor, or a teacher. Neema's Reason to Smile is the story of Neema, a young Kenyan girl who dreams of one day being able to afford to go to school. Slowly, and with great purpose, Neema makes a plan to save money in her dream basket and make her dream come true. One day, a mysterious young girl skips down the street wearing a red skirt and white shirt. Soon, she guides Neema all the way to a new school.

Smile Across Your Heart

Smile Across Your Heart
Author: Laurie Martin
Publisher: Yes International Publishers
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2007
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780936663449

Smile Across Your Heart explores the full spectrum of living life consciously from the inside out. It includes how to be spiritual in the business world, helpful practices and exercises, personal stories and clients? experiences, highlights of the spiritual, emotional, and physical aspects of life, and learning how to connect to, trust, and listen to your heart.

Smile Training

Smile Training
Author: Find Study Fine Studio
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781718010482

Have you been told by other people that you're laughing so poorly? When you take self-portraits, do you always laugh unnaturally in the photo? So don't you like to share your smiles or photos with everyone? There are many muscles in the face as there are in the body. The activity of speaking and smiling makes use of only a small fraction of the muscles in the face- not more than about 30 percent. The muscles that are not in use begin to wane and fade away, especially as one begins to age. The truth of the matter is that a good smile makes one look years younger than his or her age because there is more use made of the muscles and for a longer period of time. This increases blood flow around the parts that make up the face, to keep that part healthy and youthful. However, there are special techniques that can be used both to get the facial expression that is required and to improve smile quality. The training makes the muscles flexible and not rigid, to make the smile natural and less of plastic. Some of these techniques are as follows to increasing smile quality.

Emerging with Wings

Emerging with Wings
Author: Danielle Bernock
Publisher: 4f Media
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-10-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996103312

Emerging With Wings is a love story. Danielle Bernock takes you with her on her raw yet graceful journey from an invisible cage full of agony and shame, to the incomprehensible joy of validation, love and the empowerment of personal freedom. She unveils how this cage was built as well as how she obtained her freedom. Many things she did not know kept her in the dark, one being the harmful effects of multiple childhood traumas that went unaddressed which fed that darkness and a pervasive fear. The love story reveals a LOVE that secretly carried and protected her despite the lies that grew in that darkness, organized for destruction. This LOVE came and never gave up. The LOVE of one she calls The Pursuer. You are invited into her story. Enter it, share its elegance and in it see The Pursuer for yourself, in your story, for your freedom.