Just Laid Off?
Are you coping with the loss of your job? Discover resources to help you successfully navigate this life transition. See also our list of online resources.
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The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook by Martha Davis, Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman, & Matthew McKay This best-selling classic workbook for beating stress offers comprehensive, step-by-step directions for the most popular relaxation techniques including mindfulness meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, thought stopping, stress inoculation, autogenics, and more. Catalog Link |
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The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Any Change (and Loving Your Life More) by Ariane de Bonvoisin A founder of First30days.com outlines a program for initially responding to difficult life changes with dignity and empowerment, explaining how to experience life transitions as catalysts for wisdom and strength, in a guide that covers such obstacles as new careers, bad health diagnoses, and the ends of relationships. Catalog Link |
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Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Challenges readers to overcome negative opinions that are preventing optimal levels of success, happiness, and health, pairing typical excuses with a series of questions designed to help readers to overcome illusory obstacles. Catalog Link |
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Who's Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success — and Won't Let You Fail by Keith Ferrazzi Explains how to achieve personal and professional goals by building close, trusting relationships with others that help facilitate creative feedback, encouragement, and long-term success. Catalog Link |
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Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Chris Gardner The author of The Pursuit of Happyness shares the life lessons that enabled him to rise from a homeless single father to a millionaire businessman, in a guide that outlines inspirational steps for recovering from professional or physical setbacks and finding the motivation to pursue new challenges. Catalog Link |
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Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson Relates a highly meaningful parable intended to help one deal with change quickly and prevail, offering readers a simple way to progress in their work and lives. Catalog Link |
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The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life by Jim Loehr Outlines a strategy for personal success that explains how readers can adjust the telling of their life stories to promote goals and change how they are seen by others. Catalog Link |
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How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life by John C. Maxwell Shares the eleven secrets that highly successful people use to succeed in life and work, including seeing beyond one’s own needs, removing mental distractions, working with others, and examining the past for a better understanding of the future. Catalog Link |
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Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide by Caroline Adams Miller & Michael B. Frisch Creating Your Best Life supplies dozens of interactive exercises and quizzes readers can use to identify their most cherished needs, ambitions, and wishes. The exercises are fun, making the process of self-discovery enjoyable and productive. Catalog Link |
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What Now? by Ann Patchett An inspirational primer based on the author’s 2006 commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College discusses how to manage life’s crossroads, recounts times of struggle from her own life, and celebrates the benefits of not knowing what is to come. Catalog Link |
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Moving Forward: Taking the Lead in Your Life by Dave Pelzer Drawing on his own personal history as well as his experience helping others, a best-selling author teaches readers how to harness the strength of surviving past negative experiences and use that empowerment to live their lives according to their own values. Catalog Link |
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Second Acts: Creating the Life You Really Want, Building the Career You Truly Desire by Stephen M. Pollan The author, a financial guru and life coach, presents a powerful guide that shows readers of all ages how to overcome everyday challenges and create dramatic life changes, also called “second acts,” in order to live a more enjoyable, rewarding existence. Catalog Link |
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Here's the Bright Side: Of Failure, Fear, Cancer, Divorce, and Other Bum Raps by Betty Rollin Drawing on personal experience and on examples from other people’s lives, a wise and witty study reveals what individuals can gain from difficult times in their lives, detailing the lessons the author has learned and the positive outcomes that can occur in such situations as failure, divorce, widowhood, illness, and more. Catalog Link |
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The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife by Marianne Williamson Argues that the need for change as one grows older is a human phenomenon and assists the individual psychologically and spiritually to reframe this transition so that it leads to a sense of joy and awakening. Catalog Link |