Enhancing employee wellbeing one book at a timeAre you looking for a fun way to promote socialization and enjoy books? A book club is an opportunity for your workplace to provide a new way to build connections while learning something new. Each book comes with a facilitator guide to help you successfully implement your book club. Contact the Health Promotion team at 866-896-4602 or email DHP.health@deancare.com for a book's facilitator guide or more information. Dean Health Plan is not able to provide books.
A must read for everyone trying to excel in the world. The Happiness Advantage is not only focused on becoming happier at work, but how to reap the benefits of a happier and positive mindset. A book to help you achieve the extraordinary in work and life.
Real-world solutions to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long. The result is Fair play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities.
From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world—where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
The author tackles the illusiveness of happiness and offers the reader an alternative to our constant effort to be happy that is making us miserable. He leads the reader into embracing the thought of embracing failure, pessimism, insecurity, and uncertainty as a way to feel alive and happier.
Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel prize for “having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgement and decision-making under uncertainty. Thinking, Fast and Slow informs the reader how the two systems in the brain fight over who is in charge, where you can and cannot trust your gut feeling and how to act more mindfully to make better decisions.
In 2004, ABC news Correspondent Dan Harris experienced a panic attack on air in front of an audience of five million viewers. Rather than shying away from his experience, he gives the reader a no-nonsense look at the science behind a mindfulness practice and why setting his ego aside is important for living a stress-free life.
How do you measure success? If Thriving is not part of your metrics, consider reading this book. The author sheds light on the four key elements of thriving - wellbeing, wisdom, wonder, and giving as a key ingredient to success.
Described as a "hip self-transformation book," Adding more ~ing to your life shows you how to make happiness a way of life by accessing your inner guide. The offer outlines a 30 day ~ing equation to release negativity and choose happiness.
If you could send a letter back in time to your younger self, what would you say? This collection of 41 famous women do just that. Inspiring and filled with hope, their words can be a roadmap to new opportunities and discoveries for the reader.
49% of women are not partnered. There is still a societal stigma that a woman alone is flawed in some way, and many women experience shame and guilt as they buy in to this notion. The author invites women to “reimagine their aloneness” and discover the pleasure of solitude by living an authentic life with a newfound sense of self-confidence.
Book for all races that guides you through subjects from intersectionality and affirmative action. This books provides honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost all aspects of American life.
New York Times best seller. This book is a challenge to women to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, and identifies the excuses we should let go of.
This book exposes the lies and misconceptions that hold us back from living joyfully and productively. Rachel gives us strategies to help us move past the misconceptions.
Most grief books are written more for the recovery and the "now what?" part of Grief. The author writes about the messy part of the initial loss, and the unspoken truths of loss, love and healing. The author debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to "normal" and offers an option for a middle ground where we walk along beside grief rather than working to overcome it.
Overwhelmed is a well-researched book that investigates why life is so busy and why we live and work the way we do. The author takes a candid look at the misguided beliefs and the stressors that make leisure feel unattainable and offers a prescription for change.
This is a book for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference and lead. When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions.
In this book Brown, explains how vulnerability is both the core of difficult emotions like fear, grief, and disappointment, and the birthplace of love, belonging, joy empathy, innovation and creativity. This book is about putting ourselves out there to take risk of getting criticized or feeling hurt. But when we stop back and examine our lives we find that nothing in as uncomfortable as standing on the outside of our lives and wondering what would it be like to be courageous and step into vulnerability or difficult conversations.
New Jim Crow argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.
This book helps explain what happens to a children's brain when exposed to extreme stress and trauma. When we understand the brain we can learn the power of love and nurturing to help heal the child's wounds.