"Am I with the most selfish person alive?""Am I being selfish when I do the things I want to do?""If you loved me, you would…"The battle of what "I want" versus what "you want" is intense. Couples are in a constant tug of war, squabbling with each other with no regard for their partner's feelings, with great guilt over their own perceived selfishness, or feeling somewhere in between. And it's costing us our relationships.What About Me? will guide readers thr...

Learn to talk back to denial and start telling yourself the truth – about yourself, others, and the world around you.Denial is everywhere, keeping us from seeing reality and causing unhappiness and frustration. It can make things disappear in the blink of an eye. It can also convince you that you are seeing what you want to see even when it isn't there, leading you to believe in nonsense along the way. People employ denial because it makes their life easier in the m...

Create lasting positive change in every area of life, from fitness to finance to family.In this empowering book, Eddie Miller shares his own personal process for creating and sustaining a happy, healthy, and purposeful life—and masterfully interweaves inspiring, hard-won wisdom from such national experts as:Brian Biro * Barbara De Angelis, PhD * Felice Dunas, PhD * Jane Greer, PhD * Jim Karas * Byron Katie * David Katz, MD * Lisa Nichols * Bob Proctor * Pau...

At one time or another we have all been betrayed by someone we trusted, all felt the sting of deceit and subsequent shattering of self-confidence. And when the people we count on betray our trust, the wound is deep and long-lasting.In How Could You Do This to Me?, Dr. Jane Greer teaches readers:the types of people who are more at risk of betrayal the warning signs of someone who is untrustworthy a process that helps decide whether a relationship is worth saving or whether ...

Coauthoring with Undergraduates in Writing Studies focuses on the largely unnoticed and unexplored tradition of faculty/undergraduate publication in writing studies. Coauthoring makes new authorial identities and relationships available to both faculty and students and demonstrates promise as a way to increase access to meaningful research experiences for undergraduates from communities that have been historically underserved in higher education, creating more inclusive learning e...

Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript power relations in their workplaces and to resist narratives about their laboring lives. The case studies reveal noteworthy patterns in how these women’s words helped to construct the complex web of class relations in which they were enmeshed. Rather than a teleological narrative of economic empowerment over the co...

Disruptive pedagogies for archival researchIn a cultural moment when institutional repositories carry valuable secrets to the present and past, this collection argues for the critical, intellectual, and social value of archival instruction. Graban and Hayden and 37 other contributors examine how undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, history, community literacy, and professional writing can successfully engage students in archival research in its many form...

Struggling with her weight for decades, Stacey Halprin eventually won the battle and lost over 350 pounds. But after gastric bypass surgery and one diet after another, she realized that the most difficult part isn't losing the weight--it's keeping it off. Now, for the 90% of dieters who have lost weight only to gain it back, Stacey presents her unique program that will keep the pounds off permanently--whether you've lost 15, 25, or 50 pounds.Complete with expert advice from medical ...

Pedagogies of Public Memory explores opportunities for writing and rhetorical education at museums, archives, and memorials. Readers will follow students working and writing at well-known sites of international interest (e.g., the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum), at local sites (e.g., vernacular memorials in and around Muncie, Indiana and the Central Pennsylvania African American Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania), and in digi...

Bloomsbury presents Am I Lying to Myself? by Jane Greer PhD, read by Emma Faye.Learn to talk back to denial and start telling yourself the truth – about yourself, others, and the world around you.Denial is everywhere, keeping us from seeing reality and causing unhappiness and frustration. It can make things disappear in the blink of an eye. It can also convince you that you are seeing what you want to see even when it isn’t there, leading you to bel...

Men are right. The “relationship talk” does not help. Dr. Patricia Love’s andDr. Steven Stosny’s How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About Itreveals the stunning truth about marital happiness:Love is not about better communication.It's about connection.You'll never get a closer relationshipwith your man by talking to him like youtalk to one of your girlfriends.Male emotions are l...

**REVISED AND UPDATED EDITIONDiscover the Truth He Wants You to Know**The man in your life carries important feelings so deep inside he barely knows they’re there, much less how to talk about them. Yet your man genuinely wants you to “get” him—to understand his inner life, to know his fears and needs, to hear what he wishes he could tell you.In her landmark bestseller, For Women Only, Shaunti Feldhahn reveals what every woman—single or mar...