Relationships / Sex

Avoid the booty call blues and get the love--and sex---you deserve!

You're not that into him, but . . . You slept with him anyway - You're dating him in the meantime - All your friends are getting married - There are no good men left

Stop lowering your standards and start reaching for love!

The world is full of sensational women, but in today's market there are too few good men to go around (or so it appears). In this smash national bestseller, Dr. Ian Kerner, sex therapist, explores the battlefield of sex, hookups, go-nowhere relationships, and the dismal dating treadmill--arming women with a sharper set of insights and the tools for change. With humor and sincerity, Kerner shows women how to break the cycle of dating defeat and use the power of sex to find love--with a great guy who is into you.

Jill Sherer Murray lived in a dead-end relationship into her forties before she finally let it go. She was like millions of women who struggle with whether to stay in a loveless marriage, a bad relationship, or give up on dating altogether, believing love isn't in the cards. You may be struggling with a similar decision yourself. Perhaps you're terrified of being single, and yet you don't truly feel you're living the life you want.

With warmth and honesty, Murray shows you how letting go--of feeling stuck, afraid, and alone, and of believing what you've got is all you deserve--can free you from a life that isn't serving you. She knows this is true, because she did it herself--and ultimately attracted the love and life she wanted. Through her story, other women's stories, surprising facts and statistics, and helpful exercises, Big Wild Love will show you the way back to the self you've lost. It will put you on the path to change and teach you that, wherever you are, it's never too late to start anew and find the Big Wild Love you deserve.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE CO-FOUNDER OF THE WHOLE30 - End resentment, burnout, and anxiety--and reclaim your time, energy, health, and relationships.

"Melissa Urban shows the way forward with clarity, vulnerability, and humor."--Gretchen Rubin, author of Life in Five Senses

Melissa Urban has helped millions of people transform their relationship with food. Now, in this powerful and practical guide, she shows how boundaries--clear limits you set to protect your energy, time, and health--are the key to feelings of security, confidence, and freedom in every area of your life.

In her famously direct and compassionate style, Urban offers:

- 130+ scripts with language you can use to set boundaries with bosses and co-workers, romantic partners, parents and in-laws, co-parents, friends, family, neighbors, strangers--and yourself
- Actionable advice to help you communicate your needs with clarity and compassion
- Tips for successfully navigating boundary guilt, pushback, pressure, and oversteps
- Techniques to create healthy habits around food, drink, technology, and more

User-friendly and approachable, The Book of Boundaries will give you the tools you need to stop justifying, minimizing, and apologizing, leading you to more rewarding relationships and a life that feels bigger, healthier, and freer.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Mindful

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Now in paperback--Peggy Orenstein, author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller Girls & Sex, turns her focus to the sexual lives of young men. "Eye-opening.... Every few pages, the boy world cracks open a little bit.... Even in the most anxiety-provoking moments of Boys & Sex, it's clear that Orenstein believes in the goodness of boys and the men they can become, and she believes in us, as parents, to raise them" (New York Times Book Review).

Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and launched conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unexpected effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. Boys are subject to the same cultural forces as girls--steeped in the same distorted media images and binary stereotypes of female sexiness and toxic masculinity--which equally affect how they navigate sexual and emotional relationships. In Boys & Sex, Peggy Orenstein dives back into the lives of young people to once again give voice to the unspoken, revealing how young men understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy.

Drawing on comprehensive interviews with young men, psychologists, academics, and experts in the field, Boys & Sex dissects so-called locker room talk; how the word "hilarious" robs boys of empathy; pornography as the new sex education; boys' understanding of hookup culture and consent; and their experience as both victims and perpetrators of sexual violence. By surfacing young men's experience in all its complexity, Orenstein is able to unravel the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important realities of young male sexuality in today's world. The result is a provocative and paradigm-shifting work that offers a much-needed vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men.

With over 80 activities--including Color the Red Flags; Draw Your Ex, then Rip Up Their Face; and Cut These Bangs Instead of Yours--open this book whenever, wherever--whether you're bawling your eyes out or tempted to set your ex's place on fire. Packed with self care tips, word searches, playlists, recommended reading, breathing exercises, treat yourself coupons, cocktail recipes, and more, it's the perfect mix of irreverent humor and sage advice.

Both comforting therapist offering real-life wisdom and hilarious best friend here to make everything feel better, this book is divided into three sections loosely based on the seven stages of grief (which are far too many stages, so we narrowed it down). Read it in any order you want. Go backward, forward, read it upside down. Keep this book to yourself, or explore it with friends. Use it. Or just look at it.

Illustrated in full-color on every page, it's really pretty. You can even just place it on your coffee table, silently communicating to everyone who visits: "Sure, I'm going through it, but I'm self-aware, confident, and I can laugh at myself because I'm doing the work, getting in touch with my feelings, and doing it all with a sense of humor--even though I haven't combed my hair in days."

Are you frustrated by stymied relationships, missed connections, and the loneliness of the search for someone to spend the rest of your life with? Are you ready, instead, to find "The One"? In Calling in "The One, " Katherine Woodward Thomas shares her own personal experience to show women that in order to find the relationship that will last a lifetime, you have to be truly open and ready to create a loving, committed, romantic union. Calling in "The One" shows you how.

Based on the Law of Attraction, which is the concept that we can only attract what we're ready to receive, the provocative yet simple seven-week program in Calling in "The One" prepares you to bring forth the love you seek. For each of the 49 days of Thomas's thoughtful and life-affirming plan, there is a daily lesson, a corresponding practice, and instruction for putting that lesson into action in your life. Meditation, visualization, and journaling exercises will gently lead you to recognize the obstacles on your path to love and provide ways to steer around them. At the end of those 49 days, you will be in the ideal emotional state to go out into the world and find "The One."

An inspirational approach that offers a radical new philosophy on relationships, Calling in "The One" is your guide to finding the love you seek.

Beloved spiritual teacher Vex King follows up his international bestseller Good Vibes, Good Life with this essential guide to building meaningful, mindful, and loving relationships.

It is nearly impossible to build healthy, sustainable bonds with others without first having a good relationship with yourself. To get along with others, we often alter our habits or subsume our unique personalities. By trying to transform or suppress our true selves, we erode our self-worth and self-knowledge. We begin to lose sight of who we really are and what we truly want. When are self-understanding and self-confidence are damaged, it ultimately hurts our relationships.

Humans are social animals. In this wise and transformative book, Vex King helps us find and sustain the connections we want with ourselves and others. Good relationships begin with loving ourselves and recognizing our own desires and needs. This self-discovery allows our best selves to radiate with confidence and to attract and choose partners--romantic and platonic--who are truly compatible. When we feel comfortable in our own skin, we are able to give and receive love without being blocked by the destructive emotions and past trauma that previously held us back and prevented us from forming fulfilling and lasting relationships.

Filled with Vex King's profound wisdom, thoughtful self-practices, and easy-to adopt-habit builders, this guide opens you up to the love you deserve and shows you how to bring it into your life.

A new, practical workbook from the New York Times bestselling author of Come As You Are that allows you to apply the book's groundbreaking research and understanding of why and how women's sexuality works to everyday life.In the twentieth century, women's sexuality was seen as "Men's Sexuality Lite" basically the same, but not quite as good. From genital response to sexual desire to orgasm, we just couldn't understand that complicated, inconsistent, crazy-making "lady business." That is, until Emily Nagoski changed the game with her New York Times bestseller, Come As You Are. Using groundbreaking science and research, she proved that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they're organized, but how you feel about them. Which means that things like stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman's sexual wellbeing; they are central to it. And, that even if you don't yet feel that way, you are already sexually whole. Nagoski's book changed countless women's lives and approaches to sex, and now she offers the next step. The Come As You Are Workbook is a practical companion to this bestselling guide, filled with new activities, prompts, and thought-provoking examples to help you exercise and expand on the knowledge you've learned. This collection of worksheets, journaling prompts, illustrations, and diagrams is a practical and engaging companion for anyone who wants to further their understanding of their own bodies and sex lives.