Learn to cope with anxiety and embody the belief that you are not your thoughts with this eight-week program featuring 56 distinct daily meditations and journal prompts.   An epidemic of anxiety is sweeping the nation, affecting over 40 million adults in the United States. Fortunately, there are solutions available for people suffering from this condition—and they don’t have to include pharmaceutical drugs. More and more evidence is emerging daily to support the premise that meditation can be a highly effective tool in managing anxiety—with some studies suggesting that just 10 minutes of meditation a day can help to reduce symptoms.     In this guided meditation journal, popular meditation teacher Kelly Smith—host of the iTunes chart–topping podcast Mindful in Minutes and author of Mindful in Minutes: Meditation for the Modern Family—takes you by the hand and leads you step by step through an eight-week program of daily meditation and journaling to help you acknowledge, accept, understand, soothe, and ultimately heal from the debilitating affects of anxiety. Each week of Mindful in Minutes: You Are Not Your Thoughts covers a different aspect of the anxiety experience, building on the previous lessons and offering different tools to help the you learn to detach yourself from your anxious thoughts and cope with the symptoms and causes of anxiety. The daily meditations and journal prompts are designed to help you go deep into your inner self and develop a close understanding of your particular experience. This journal should take no more than 20 minutes a day to complete, making it an easy habit to incorporate into your daily routine. The practices and prompts include:   Breathwork Body scans Visualizations Free writes Drawing prompts Letter-writing List-making And more!   With just 20 minutes of meditation and journaling a day for eight weeks, you can learn to detach yourself from your anxious thoughts, heal your relationship with anxiety, and start living a fuller, calmer life.

Slow down, calm down, and come together with this complete guide to meditation for the whole family—featuring targeted practices for parents, teens, and kids of all ages. As a certified yoga teacher, meditation teacher, and host of the chart-topping podcast Mindful in Minutes, Kelly Smith is no stranger to the wide-ranging health benefits of meditation. And she discovered she needed them more than ever when she became a mom for the first time. Suddenly finding herself coping with sleepless nights, disheartening physical changes, uncontrollable worries, and near constant sensory overload, Kelly found solace in the same thing she always had: her daily meditation practice. In doing so, she discovered how meditation could help not only moms cope with common family challenges, but every other member of the family as well.   Kelly shares her hard-won wisdom with listeners across the country in her second podcast Meditation Mama, and now, in this fully illustrated book. Mindful in Minutes: Meditation for the Modern Family helps families of all kinds learn how to use meditation to cope with the everyday struggles of being a person who is also part of a family. Covering topics ranging from quieting the mind and managing stress to handling resentment and cultivating compassion, this book offers specialized practices for each family member by age—adults, teens and older kids, and small children. Topics include:   Being Present Finding Joy Anxiety Hyperactivity Worthiness Empathy Burnout Insomnia Self-Confidence Overstimulation Connecting with the True Self And much more With three distinct, age-appropriate practices for each topic, Kelly ensures that every member of the family has access to a practical, focused meditation “toolkit� to draw on when they need a little extra help. The book also includes a series of dedicated meditations for expectant parents, a series of meditations to promote a healthy, loving relationship between partners, and over 250 mantras to help you focus your mind and go deeper into your practice. Whether you are a meditation beginner or a long-term practitioner, this book will help you and your family feel calmer, happier, and more connected.

For decades, gardeners have approached vegetable gardening the same way: planting in square or rectangular beds or in straight rows, keeping vegetables separate from flowers, and definitely not mixing perennial plants with annual ones. According to these old rules, every insect must be killed, the garden must be tidy, and nothing should ever be allowed to go to seed. It's time to break the rules! Today's gardeners are re-envisioning the vegetable garden as a creative, playful space where the beds may be circles or spirals, beneficial insects are invited to the party, flowers for cutting grow right next to annual vegetables (which might be chosen for their curb appeal as much as their flavor), and a bit of "untidiness" simply creates a garden that more closely mimics the natural world. With The Creative Vegetable Gardener, lifestyle editor and master gardener Kelly Smith Trimble encourages readers to widen their focus, be playful, and imagine a vegetable garden that reflects their own unique aesthetic and offers a meditative sanctuary as well as a source of fresh, homegrown food. From seed selection to garden layout and regenerative gardening practices, gardeners of all levels will find Smith Trimble's liberating advice a pathway to making the garden a place of nourishment for the soul and creative spirit, while also feeding the body.

Sometimes the best gardening advice comes in tidbits shared over the back garden fence from a sage neighbour. In Vegetable Gardening Wisdom, master gardener Kelly Smith Trimble shares her tried-and-true ideas and guidance for finding success and enjoyment in every aspect of vegetable gardening. Presented in a lively, beautifully designed package that make a perfect gift and source for daily inspiration, Trimble invites readers to dip in regularly for bite-sized pieces of information on topics ranging from herb and vegetable gardening to cooking, preserving, and creative ways to use the harvest along with ideas for reducing garden and kitchen waste. Trimble suggests the best herbs to grow indoors, the best way to start peas, how to use lettuce as a living mulch in the garden, how to make compost tea, how to identify beneficial bugs, how to blanch cauliflower, and much more. Woven in among her 275 tips are 40 helpful and inspiring quotes from other plant-loving folks, ranging from novelist Jamaica Kincaid to vegetable gardening guru Ed Smith and renowned chef Sean Brock.

All Kelly Smith ever wanted to be was a footballer. Blessed with brilliant talent which she honed with hours of practice, it was soon clear to all who saw her that Kelly was the best women's footballer that this country had ever produced. Yet for this shy girl from Watford, it would be a long and difficult journey to the pinnacle of the world game, and one which would involve the hardest of challenges. After starting drinking to mask her loneliness thousands of miles from home in the United States, a series of career-threatening injuries led to severe depression and a battle with alcoholism. But with the fighting spirit that was so essential on her path to be Britain's first women's professional player, Kelly bounced back to inspire Arsenal to countless trophies and become England's record goalscorer. Footballer: My Story is the inspirational tale of a woman with a drive to succeed. It is the unique inside story of a star in a sport enjoyed by millions yet often not granted the recognition it deserves. And as she nears the end of a glittering playing career, it is the story of how Kelly Smith became what she always wanted to be. A professional footballer, in a professional league.

Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays collected offer young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of material to perform, read or study. Each play has been specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department with the young performer in mind. The anthology contains 10 play scripts; notes from the writer and director of each play, addressing the themes and ideas behind the play; and production notes and exercises for the drama groups. This year's anniversary anthology includes plays by Suhayla El-Bushra, Anders Lustgarten, Robin French, Tim Etchells, Patrick Marber, Kellie Smith, Lizzie Nunnery, Harriet Braun and Alistair McDowall.

Andy Digiovanni has the perfect life. He owns the Viper Pit, a string of high end kink clubs, and his only ties in life are by blood, to the mob. His blood ties allowed him to rise to power at a young age, in a family as unforgiving as the streets he calls home. Then one day a slick little silver Audi comes to a halt in front his garage, all but screaming to be saved from the wrath of the firey redhead, with the long legs and tight ass, behind the wheel. If her legs and curls weren't enough to catch his attention her smart mouth, and green piercing eyes definitely were. April Creed was on vacation, or so they told her. Hunting down her sister lands her at the mercy of a man April finds rude, crude, and downright... delicious. He matches her wit with kisses that bring her to her knees in a way no other man has. Her secrets are the only thing keeping her from fully submitting him. Andy is the Master she needs. Only he can give her the level of pain she requires to calm her inner storm and find the peace she's been craving all her life. Then she gets the call. Vacation's over. Your mark, Big Andy D.. Taking April off of vacation put her back on the grid. A grid the mob knows well. Andy never thought he'd fall for a cop, let alone one that was supposed to take him out. Can Andy trust his new Kitten? Or will she claw his eyes out, taking his heart with her?

Isabella loves planning parties She knows in her heart that celebrating the people she loves is important. From thinking of a creative theme to decorating, planning parties is her specialty. Isabella believes that every child should be celebrated. Isabella's Blizzard Party shares how Isabella and her grandmother found a way to bring birthday celebrations to her family and to others, even in a blizzard. "We can do no great things, only small things with great love." -Mother Teresa