Most Popular Books by Tom Holmes

This book represents [the author''s] own variant of the IFS [Internal Family Systems] model as [he has] used it for nearly twenty years in clinical practice, in the classroom with graduate students at Western Michigan University, and in workshops and trainings throughout the United States and Europe. [Here, he shares his] understanding of why we think, feel and act as we do and how we can move toward harmony and balance in our inner and outer lives. -Introd.

Story of the three pigs who built their houses out of straw, twigs, and bricks, told in rebus format.

Das innere Kind, der innere Kritiker, der innere Antreiber: Selten ist uns bewusst, wie stark unterschiedliche Persönlichkeitsanteile unser Leben beeinflussen. Der erfahrene Psychotherapeut Tom Holmes zeigt, wie wir sie besser verstehen und problematische Verhaltensmuster auflösen können. Die erweiterte Neuausgabe dieses erfolgreichen Buches enthält über 100 Zeichnungen und illustrierte Vorlagen für die Erforschung der eigenen Innenwelt. Innere Persönlichkeitsanteile verstehen Entdeckungsreise in die eigene Psyche Aktualisierte und stark erweitere Ausgabe

Tom Holmes ist bekannt geworden durch seinen eigenen Ansatz der Arbeit mit Persönlichkeitsanteilen. Seine Besonderheit liegt darin, dass er Spiritualität mit der systemischen Therapie mit der inneren Familie (Internal Family System, IFS) verbindet. "Ein Weg des Herzens" beschreibt Heilungsprozesse, die eintreten können, wenn spirituelle Ressourcen in den IFS-Prozess integriert werden. Dies illustrieren ausführlich geschilderte und transkribierte Fallbeispiele, in denen spirituelle Erfahrungen eine entscheidende Rolle spielen. Es zeigt sich, dass das, was IFS als »Selbst« bezeichnet, viele Qualitäten mit dem teilt, was in spirituellen Traditionen als »Herz« beschrieben wird. Wird dieser Herzensraum durch die innere Arbeit geöffnet, kann Heilung geschehen. Stimmen zum Buch: "Die Kombination von Spiritualität und Teile-Arbeit ist das kraftvollste Mittel, das ich gefunden habe, um sich selbst innerlich zu stärken und leichter mit dem Leid anderer von einem Ort des friedvollen Mitgefühls aus gegenwärtig zu sein." Tom Holmes

If you''ve secretly logged in at work to set your line-up, or if you can''t wait to gloat in the group chat, then this unique and hilarious book about the national obsession of fantasy football (or soccer, in the U.S.) is for you. The A-Z of Fantasy Football is a unique and hilarious journey through the hobby that has people across the world scrambling for their phone every matchday morning. Fantasy footy has come a long way since it entailed scouring through the newspapers—and, as the game has grown, so have the lengths players will go to in order to win! You''ll read about the eye-watering forfeits, the labor-ward transfers, interviews with players who refuse to bet against themselves, and tales of woe from those who take things that little bit too far. Littered with insightful dos and don''ts from a leading fantasy football podcast, this guide will have you in stitches half the time and in disbelief the other.

Follow the journey into the mind of the Poet Narrator. From pieces selected across 8 years of writing, this collection tracks the birth, wilt and rebirth of love, life and self, as well as the evolving relationship of the author''s relationship with his own body.

When an innocent and imaginative game of ''gangsters'' evolves and begins to spiral out of control, it suddenly becomes harder and harder to distinguish between where the game ends and dangerous real life begins.

In 2009, I realized that I had forty days of unscheduled time in Thailand between the seventh mission trip I had helped lead in the "Land of Smiles" and an international conference in Pattaya on the Gulf of Thailand. I was at a point in my life where I felt the need to test my two primary relationships: with God and with my self. I grabbed the opportunity to test these two relationships by traveling around Thailand alone-with my limited Thai vocabulary and my neurological disorder--to plunge into the deep end of the cultural pool, if you will, and see if I would sink or swim. Before leaving I joked with my friends and family that my only traveling companions would be my self and God, and I didn''t know if I would get along with either one. I wrote Forty Days Alone in Thailand partly as a spiritual travel memoir, but partly as a way of encouraging readers to risk moving out of their cultural comfort zones as a way of meeting themselves again as if for the first time.

This is a health and fitness programme designed to increase the rider''s level of confidence and skill. It focuses on three key health ingredients - physical fitness, nutrition, and mental fitness. The physical fitness programme is designed specifically for the needs of rider-athletes, which are different from track-athletes or swimmers. The nutrition strategy includes special advice for competition days, and the sports psychology programme offers to help the reader past any mental blocks.

Tom Holmes is an impresario of dreams. His images form a compendium at the same time personal and archetypal, incidental and enduring. Pablo Neruda''s dictum, "We are many" is richly borne out in these virtuoso poems, where "Somewhere in the deepest library, / a copyist begins retranslating / the last straight inch of history"; where "all treasure maps / are stolen, memorized, and eaten." What remains, this book proves, is poetry in its spontaneity, magically perpetual. - Angela Ball, author of Talking Pillow and Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds "Sometimes I draw a boundless world," a mapmaker asserts in Tom Holmes''s Material Matters, a notable new collection of poems seeped in the materiality of maps and books and letters, of vellum and ink, of copyists and cartographers and compass chickens. The fascinating boundless world of this collection encompasses the wind and stars and god and meditates on the everyday sustenance of pen and bread. Like the cartographer, who "believed in grounding observation," Holmes charts the world through particulars, using a sure hand to build to a stunning long poem that maps both love and loss. - Rebecca Morgan Frank, author of Sometimes We''re All Living in a Foreign Country and The Spokes of Venus Set aside the old admonition that "the map is not the territory," this is. From the unique vantage of a mapmaker floating godlike above his subject, cartography creates the world, as true for the earliest charts on vellum as for the intimate topographies of these smart and informed poems. Tom Holmes is a cartographer of authentic imagination, of history and deep longing, Pangea to Beatrice, Archimedes to Mississippi. - Allan Peterson, author of Fragile Acts and Precarious

The Soul of a Liberal Village: the Variety of Religious Experience in Oak Park, IL documents and analyzes the variety of religious experience in an extremely "blue" village. It also includes a collection of stories from the wide spiritual spectrum which exists in the village. Read it for the analysis and/or for the stories which are interesting and often inspiring.