Books in the Fabrique En France series

Why read a book about Mindfulness and Meditation? Because mindfulness enables you to deal with distractions more effectively so that you can concentrate easily and increase your productivity both at home and at work makes you more creative and so that you can solve problems faster as it helps you to let go of doubts that might otherwise block your creativity helps you to sleep better at night so that you are not tired all the time and can get a lot more done during the day. enhances your mental agility and alertness, increases cognitive recall and protects you from memory loss as you get older gives you time to think before you act, making it easier to control your anger and listen more effectively so that you get on better with family, friends and colleagues dramatically lowers your stress levels so that you can cope effectively with the challenges that come your way. It also makes you physically and mentally healthier and more resilient while helping you avoid the damage stress can do to our minds and bodies makes you more compassionate towards others and towards yourself so that you can accept yourself, forgive yourself and love yourself just as you are. In short, mindfulness and meditation can make your life much easier. Why read this book about Mindfulness and Meditation? Because it differs from other books about mindfulness and meditation in five unique ways: Using a simple questionnaire, it will help you choose the meditation method will work best for you. Meditation is not a one-size-fits-all exercise. We are all different, we each have to find a meditation method that suits us, mentally and physically. This book with help you solve real-life problems. In each chapter of this book, an everyday person, just like you, with everyday challenges explains his/her problem. There is someone who struggles to lose weight and keep it off, someone with relationship problems, someone who cannot sleep, someone with an overwhelmingly stressful job, someone whose new business is faltering, someone who is trying to make a long-treasured dream come true, someone who wants to grow spiritually...and several more. Each chapter explains how mindfulness and meditation can help each of these people solve their problem. For all those of you who have always been drawn to horses, this book contains a chapter about equine-guided meditation, one of the most popular mindfulness meditation methods we introduce our Connect with Horses Personal Empowerment workshop participants to. The e-book version is an interactive and practical aid - each chapter contains a selection of links to further resources, carefully chosen to help the reader discover and experience the various meditation methods presented. There are also links to scientific studies that back up the effectiveness of the methods described in the book. If you struggle with sitting meditation, this book introduces you to a variety of other options like walking meditation, working meditation, writing meditation, music meditation, visualisation meditation, contemplative meditation and gratitude meditation. This book will introduce you to the tools, mindfulness and meditation, that you need to completely transform your life into exactly what you want it to be.

In Self-Confidence Made Simple: 16 Frenchwomen share their Self-Esteem Secrets, Dr Margaretha Montagu closest French friends share their confidence secrets with you. Margaretha has lived in France for part of her childhood and for most of her adult life. She has spent nearly twenty-five years, first as a medical doctor and more recently as a workshop leader, empowering women to live long, happy, healthy and fulfilling lives, full of purpose and meaning.Discover the secrets of 16 supremely self-confident womenIn this book, you will meet Anaïs, Inès, Lisa, Marie-Therèse, Claire, Régine, Amèlie, Corrine, Béatrice, Annie, Monique and Eloïse who will share their stories with you.As you share these women's joys and sorrows, you will discover how they remain unconditionally self-confident, serenely sophisticated and perfectly poised no matter how challenging the situations are that they find themselves in.To each story and to every secret, Dr Montagu brings her extensive knowledge and experience, with practical suggestions to help you incorporate each of these potentially life-changing strategies into your own life.Self-Confidence Made Simple is a guide to becoming a woman who knows exactly who she is, who takes excellent care of herself, who leads a balanced, purposeful and fulfilling life, who has a solid support network, who can laugh at herself, who knows she has a lot to be grateful for, who knows how to forgive, who competently handles stress, who knows how to say NO without apologising and who knows that being ageless is all about attitude.This book will empower you to make quick decisions in difficult situations based on what is really important to you accept yourself and appreciate your unique talents and abilities believe in yourself so that you can make the changes you want to make in your life deal with stress before it damages your physical or mental health care for yourself physically, mentally and spiritually build strong long-lasting relationships create a solid and reliable support network so that you can ask for help before you feel totally overwhelmed set firm boundaries and say NO without feeling guilty or needing to explain focus on what you can learn from an experience rather on what went wrong realise that whatever age you are at is the best age for you to be stop criticising yourself and celebrate your success without needing to apologise for being brilliant And much, much more. This book is for women of all ages, convictions, orientations and cultures. If you want to master the skills you need to develop rock-solid self-confidence, this book is for you.