Books published by publisher Creative Arts

Want more out of life than just surviving? The expectations of life and culture are causing stress and anxiety at an unprecedented pace. It is time to stop surviving life and to begin to thrive in your own life. The Thrival Guide lays out the issues our culture faces in this modern world and the effects these issues are having upon your health, career, relationships, and life. It then outlines several proven processes that can be used to move from living life in survival mode to a thriving life. In this audiobook, listeners will discover: Understanding the evolution of modern stress and how stress has become an overarching syndrome in our society. How to create a better journey in your life pursuing your meaningful work. Identify and eliminate distractions that are keeping you from meaningful work. Practical steps to stop letting technology and marketing dictate how you should live your life and take control of life. Employ tools and processes to keep your life on track, stop living in survival mode, and truly live a thrival life! Blending personal stories, research, and proven processes, Eric creates a much needed guidebook for living an effective and productive life in our modern times - a guide to live a thrival life!

Henry is a little boy living in a small, wood-framed house along the road leading to the blackberry forest. And if there’s one thing Henry loves, it’s blackberries. Blackberry jam, blackberry candy, blackberry pies, blackberry pancakes, and blackberry tea—anything and everything with that delicious fruit in it is his favorite. When Mama says during breakfast to go and pick two buckets of blackberries so she can make two blackberry pies, he’s out the door leaving his canine companions Thunder and Lightnin’ behind and without paying attention to the last thing Mama says—the part about only picking berries in the yard. Why would he worry about that? Well, Henry gets to picking those delicious berries—and the pickings are good! He tries hard to make sure he fills up both buckets by singing himself a song: “Pick a berry! Eat a berry!” That way, he gets to eat some now AND have blackberry pie later. But after he’s picked ALL the ripe berries in and around the yard, one look in his buckets tells him the song didn’t really remain the same. It had gone from “Pick a berry! Eat a berry!” to “Pick a berry! Eat a berry! Eat a berry! Eat a berry!” Which is why his buckets are pretty much empty! Uh-oh. Mama can’t make blackberry pies without blackberries—he’s got to think fast. There are plenty of ripe blackberries in the forest. Problem is, sometimes when you get started doing something you love, you forget all about what you’re doing—or where you are… A lighthearted and spooky adventure all children can enjoy, Jeneen Poole’s debut children’s book is as exciting as it is instructional. Inspired by a rich, southern storytelling tradition, Thunder and Lightnin’ is the perfect teaching tool for parents as they build the importance of following instructions within their children.