Library Books July 6

The following books are available at the Portales Public Library:

"Art Journals and Creative Healing: Restoring the Spirit Through Self-Expression" by Sharon Soneff

Author and artist Sharon Soneff demonstrates how the process of journaling can be a tool in navigating through some of life’s more difficult or challenging seasons with real excerpts from beautiful and unusual artistic journals in this new book. This book explores how the combination of artistic and written expression can help to unlock the subconscious and result in a safe space to push and explore beyond difficult or challenging human experiences to places of newfound peace, wisdom, comfort, joy, health and healing through real-life journals, personal stories, journaling worksheets, and creative exercises.

"Football Training Like the Pros: Get Bigger, Stronger, and Faster Following the Programs of Today’s Top Players" by Chip Smith with foreword by Brian Urlacher

If you’re ready to go hardcore, get intense and gain the competitive edge, then let top performance trainer Chip Smith break you down and build you up into the baddest, biggest player on the field. When the pros want to get pumped and primed for the season, they go to the No. 1 expert Chip Smith in order to take their game to the next level. Inside this book you will find tons of individualized, position specific drills and training techniques to help you gain pounds of muscle and increase your power, supercharge your endurance, get fast, improve flexibility and agility, turn your mental toughness to steel and much more. Chip Smith brings his top training secrets to you giving you a complete guide to taking your game to the next level.

"Mothers Need Time-Outs, Too" by Susan Callahan, Anne Nolen and Katrin Schumann

This new book can help you whether you are the mother of teens or toddlers, work outside or inside the home and if you are exhausted from trying to be perfect. “Mothers Need Time-Outs, Too” uses hundreds of mom-tested tips and real-life stories to demonstrate how taking time-outs will transform your life. This book discusses why being selfish isn’t always bad and how taking care of yourself so you can take care of others is the key to finding greater happiness as a mother. With its inspiration and practicality, this book will launch you on a voyage of discovery that takes you back to yourself, and it will help you become the best mother you can be by becoming the best woman you can be.