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Get Your Self Straight (non-fiction: self help, self-improvement, personal growth and development)
These books are steeped in real-life personal growth (not esoteric, guru stuff) with pages for notes and journaling: Finally, self help books that work through experience, not just instruction! A five volume set, these little books pack a black and white punch of positive self reflection which challenges readers to live life consciously through awareness, responsibility, and understanding. Great for quick enlightenment on the go, as gifts for friends or family members, or a personal collection to add to your self-improvement library.
So Drop your expectations and preconceived ideas; they only hold you back. 
The Get Your Self Straight set includes:
“Awareness…” defines self awareness and its absolute necessity in the process of personal growth and understanding life.
“Balance…” puts a whole new - no excuses - perspective on why and how we get so far from happiness and our life purpose, and subsequently lose what really matters most.
“Choices…” challenges you to grab onto your responsibilities, establish respect for yourself and others, and make the changes you know you need to make to live a great life.
“Ego…” reminds us of the culprit that leads to self doubt, failure, and victimhood. Stop the cycles of self-sabotage, blame, and excuse. Start fresh and take action building new, positive life habits that work for you, not against you.
“All Things…” provides you with reminders and familiar scenarios to solidify everything you’ve uncovered, and keep you on a straight, enlightened path of progress throughout your life.
Sneak Peek into Awareness ...
"A lot of people might think they’ve got this one in the bag, but hang on. They think they’re aware of what’s going on around them and around the world. They watch the news, they overhear conversations, they make simple deductions from things they see first or secondhand … We all know a whole lot about what’s going on all over the world, but it’s all presented to us from someone else’s point of view. And how many people do you know personally who infallibly share your point of view on everything? So, why do so many people think it’s okay to take all that secondhand information at face value and start arguing their take on situations they really know nothing about? Because it’s easier to take on someone else’s problems than it is to take on our own."
Sneak Peek into Balance ...
"I hear this one all the time, 'keep it simple.'”
What does simple mean? It means: straightforward, trouble-free, undemanding, effortless.
That’s how I want my life.
Sounds smart and easy enough, yet I, and millions of others, are incapable of carrying it out on a regular, consistent basis. Every five minutes or so we find ourselves lost in the deluge of details that the world is seemingly throwing at us. We can’t keep it simple because the world isn’t simple.
Stop and think about what world. Our human world, right? And? … Humans are the only living entities who clutter up their world with details.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve deduced that it’s in our heads. We’ve been trained to follow the rules, the protocol, the acceptable norm, the standardized solution, formula, format, … in other words, unless we’re lucky enough to get paid for new ideas, our simplicity - our natural creativity - is effectively snuffed out of us (usually at an early age), and doesn’t often come back. It’s not okay to be different. It’s not. Or is it?"
Sneak Peek into Choices ...
"Be honest and think about it. You decide to take a shortcut and wind up with your nose buried in trouble … whether you’re in your car, take a wrong turn and end up in the ditch; you’re avoiding your spouse, miss a call for help, and wind up guilty of not being there; or you try to short-circuit the proper protocol at work and get censured, demoted, or fired, it doesn’t matter the circumstances. There are no excuses, you made the choice that put you where you’re at."
Sneak Peek into Ego ...
"Really, how often have you successfully changed the person’s mind with whom you were feverishly arguing. Married couples can really clue in. Did you really change their mind or was it a stalemate? Or, worse yet, did one party simply browbeat the other party into submission and the second party let themselves be browbeaten just so the first party would shut up?"
Sneak Peek into All Things...
"Now, you have to admit life would be pretty pointless and boring if we had figured it out, so why in the world do we keep trying? Because we’re stubborn, and we’re not the brightest stars on the map. Seems to me, most of the human race blows off the “turn right, here” sign each and almost every time it comes up.
Granted, how could we see it these days with coffee and the steering wheel in one hand , the cell phone and the stick shift in the other, changing the radio station, changing lanes, cursing the driver in front of us for going too slow, the one behind us for riding our bumper, and the rest of the world for not giving us a sure sign of what we’re supposed to be doing."
Now that you've gotten Your Self Straight and stopped those frustrating cycles, learn how to stop others from reeling you back in and sabotaging your energy.
You know you're on the right track, but there are people in your life that don't want you to move forward. They want you stay in those endless continuing cycles that go nowhere causing nothing but anger, frustration, fear, futility, despair. How do you move ahead and still function in and around those old energy ways? Is it frustrating to talk to certain people because of all the subtle innuendos? What’s honest feeling, what’s manipulation?
Straightforward, honest communication is hard to come by. Too often, talk is steeped in incongruencies: political correctness, projections, insinuation. Do the words “codependence” and “enmeshment” ring a bell for you? Even overprotectiveness and avoiding insult cause major problems; sometimes it comes from others, sometimes it’s coming from our own mouths.
In The Book of Communication, you’ll discover your thread to open, honest communication - without guilt - and then recognize how to apply it to every relationship in your life. Conflict resolution, relationship issues, self-reflection, raising children with insight; all of this becomes easily understandable and nearly stress free with clear, honest perspectives and open communication.
It comes down to the fact that you are responsible for your own happiness, and only you can make yourself feel guilt.
Sneak Peek into The Book of Communication...(eBook)
"I’m sure you’ve noticed that the toughest hurdle to overcome in life is not just one lowly hurdle. It’s a bunch of hurdles stacked up together, right? It’s life; an ongoing challenge of experience, discipline, responsibility, choices, balance, and awareness. It is continually striving to find and maintain happiness.
That is life. And these days, in order to accomplish this within the human race, we have to communicate. Trouble is we more often miscommunicate.
It used to be about survival. Very simple. Either you gathered food and water, kept warm, and avoided being eaten … or you didn’t. Not so anymore. We have managed to make it a little more complicated than that.
Mother nature meant for us to strive for something more than a new cell phone. She meant for us to be patient and await the roses through the rigors of winter so that, when we can smell them, it is truly an earned and worthwhile achievement...."
New! Dragonball by Rebecca M. Halstead, Illustrated by Clare E. Hellen
Where did all the good storybooks go? Here’s a great adventure about making life fun and overcoming challenges. In his determination to have fun, a little boy learns about responsibility, measuring and balancing risk, and having his wish come true in the unlikely form of a dragon! Filled with beautiful illustrations, simple yet timeless life lessons, and an old fashioned "moral to the story" to boot. This is a newly released children's book tested in elementary schools and loved by youngsters and teachers alike. Recommended for ages 1+ years.
New! The "Oh Shits" of Horsemanship by R.M. Halstead & E.N. Lundy
Finally, a book that talks about how to communicate and work with horses in a language that anyone can understand and put to use! A novice asked the questions, and a pro answered them until her protégé got it all right. The whole book is written with the intent to build a flowing partnership of open communication and understanding between human and horse. The result is a solid working relationship that consistently circumvents those moments of horsemanship that make you holler, “Oh shit! What do I do now?!”
Great for horse lovers of any age or level of experience, this book is filled with common sense advice, real-life scenarios, and excellent, step by step, detailed resolutions that apply and can be adapted to just about every situation imaginable with horses. Discover the Three Laws of Horsemanship, the One and Only Goal, the Key to Success, and the Biggest Lie There Ever Was. Then breathe a thank you for the complete Table of Contents for quick and easy reference, and the preview of what’s to come in The “Oh Shits” of Horsemanship Book II. This is one book with a lot of bang for your buck!
A Twist of Fate by Rebecca M. Ruark (Historical Romance)
Enjoy living in awareness vicariously. Chaos and excitement erupt when Michele Sutherland is unavoidably caught up in the matching of wits with a privateer sea captain who befriended her grandparents during the British blockade. With the losses of the Revolution tempering Michele’s usual confidence, Captain Damian VanCoven is unwillingly drawn to the beauty whose status as the granddaughter of dear friends creates unbidden rules of play. In an effort toward distraction, Damian drives Michele to her mind’s limits to avoid seducing her outright and risking his friends’ trust.
Amidst Michele’s attempts to navigate the waters of sensual intrigue and Damian’s drastic measures to avoid her, this explosive relationship finds challenge from every unthinkable direction. With a scheming grandmother whose morals are sometimes conveniently bent, and a hoodwinked privateer crew plotting against the Captain they know all too well, Damian and Michele discover a heady passion and a growing trust. Yet, at the center of it all lies the threat of a bitter, jilted man who ceaselessly follows this dynamic pair north across the Atlantic Ocean.
After repeated attempts to destroy their lives, this stranger’s actions bring about the discovery of a secret never told, revealing truths that cause untold heartache and fear and, ultimately, forging a love as strong as time.
New! One Page Wisdom (coauthored by Rebecca Ruark-Halstead)
One Page Wisdom is a collection of inspirational one-page writings sourced from 111 new age, spiritual, alternative and holistic professionals from around the world. Each author was asked to write one page (700 words or less) that could in some way help, inspire, heal, guide or assist others through the ups and 
downs of life.
The book contains an eclectic mix of wisdom, inspirational and uplifting stories, the meaning of life, favourite quotes and sayings, loving thoughts and healing prayers, messages & channelled works, life skills, personal growth and development, positive affirmations, manifesting and abundance practices, new thought and consciousness physics, esoteric knowledge, poetry, song, verse and more.
(This is a collarborative offer thru NewAgeDirectories.com and uses Click2Sell for purchases.)
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Reader's comments:
"The first step was to read then re-read her books. The books were not bombastic, great, new "this is the only way" dissertations which turn me off; but instead short, to the point, gentle reminders of common sense, everyday approaches to learning about ourselves and our interactions with others.
They were easy reading because a lot of what she was saying in them were simply reminders of things that we all know at one time, but tend to put on the back burner under the pressures of our everyday lives. All of us definitely need to be reminded of them, and be able to refer back to them every now and then when things seem to be breaking down in our lives and/or our relationships to others. (The whole world doesn't change just because you do.)" GWR
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