Audiobooks by Kimberly Brown

Happy Relationships: 25 Buddhist Practices to Transform Your Connections with Your Partner, Family,

Happy relationships are possible—for everyone. Even if you’ve been married for twenty years and your routine is boring and stressful; although your mom has always been a help-resistant complainer; and despite the fact that your dearest friend moved across the country — all of us can create lasting and joyful connections with the people we care about the most. Using simple tools drawn from the Buddhist tradition, you can cultivate appreciation, set wise expectations, and create meaningful and intimate bonds of mutual support and kindness with your partner, family, and friends. That’s because our happiness isn’t dependent on everything in our lives being perfect. In fact, we can experience conflict, disagreement, job loss, grief, and boredom and still have appreciation, delight, and gratitude for everyone in our lives. We can create happiness by improving the quality of our attention, the depth of our compassion, and our willingness to repair ruptures and let go of resentments. Happy Relationships is designed for all of us who are sometimes challenged by our husbands, wives, kids, parents, and best friends. It’s for those in happy marriages and close-knit families who want to feel closer and more connected to the most important people in their lives. Happy Relationships is a relatable and useful guide with practical applications to help us stay attuned and cultivate understanding with our dearest people: an inconsiderate partner repeatedly ignoring our requests; repairing the rupture from a conflict with a sibling; celebrating a child’s success; or learning to communicate with a difficult parent. Each short chapter honestly describes—in three to four pages—a common shared experience, such as the stress of old resentments, the opportunity of celebrating together mindfully, the nightly routine of a child’s bedtime, spending time with old friends—and is followed by a brief practice—a meditation, exercise, or contemplation that readers can use to orient their beautiful qualities of love, kindness, and wisdom to communicate and act in ways that lead to joy. Happy Relationships readers can use these practices alone or with their loved one anytime—from the most mundane daily routine to the excitement of a big gathering, through the sadness of loss.

Kimberly Brown (Author), Cindy Kay (Narrator)

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Navigating Grief and Loss

A trusted meditation teacher shares effective and traditional tools of kindness and wisdom in this personal and useful guide to caring for yourself after loss. Navigating Grief and Loss is a book for anyone who's experienced the pain of mourning, who's struggled to find a job, who is devastated by a bad breakup-yearning to rest, feel understood, and believe in themselves and the future. It's a guidebook filled with relatable stories and practical meditations to help navigate the profound experience of death and loss, be it an elderly parent succumbing to a lingering illness, the shock following a tragic accident, a divorce after years of conflict, or the euthanasia of a beloved pet. Filled with traditional Buddhist wisdom into the nature of life, each short chapter honestly describes a personal experience dealing with death or grief-staying at a hospice facility at a mother's bedside, feeling frustrated by the options for a terminally ill friend, or dealing with difficult family members in the midst of a crisis. Chapters are followed by compassionate and mindful practices-meditations, exercises, or contemplations that readers can use to discover insights and truths and bring comfort and friendship to their own struggles and sorrow.

Kimberly Brown (Author), Jennifer Pickens, TBD (Narrator)

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Sell Your Used Car

Kimberly Brown (Author), Roxanne Black (Narrator)

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Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning Into a Career You'll Love

Kimberly B. Cummings leaves no stone unturned with this thorough, expert guide for professionals seeking to understand how to navigate the world of work. As a former career development adviser in some of the nation's top universities and a diversity + inclusion professional in a Fortune 100 company, Cummings has recognized that people work for the sake of working without understanding how to leverage their unique gifts and position themselves for success. As a result, Next Move, Best Move shares transformational lessons to ensure success and puts the ball back in your court. In Cummings's highly acclaimed book, a specific, effective framework is unveiled to ensure each listener channels and utilizes their highest potential as they regain control and steer professional opportunities in their favor, gaining key information as to: taking stock of their experiences to ensure strategic career moves; discovering how to cultivate and maintain fruitful relationships that support career growth; uncovering how to build a two-year career strategy to move you into future leadership positions; gaining a deeper look into personal and professional branding to ensure alignment with leadership capabilities and career goals; and learning how to use their voice in the workplace to advocate for themselves.

Kimberly B. Cummings, Kimberly Brown (Author), Diana Blue (Narrator)

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Tips to Sell Your Used Car

Kimberly Brown (Author), Roxanne Black (Narrator)

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Coping With Alopecia Areata

Alopecia areata is a condition that is typified by patchy hair loss over the scalp or body. It comes in several forms ranging from a single patch to total body hair loss (alopecia universalis). Its cause may be difficult to diagnose but many cases appear to link directly to imbalances in the immune system that can be treated effectively. In most cases hair will reappear on its own but some patients develop more extreme variations that are more difficult to treat.

Kimberly Brown (Author), Luana Maranz (Narrator)

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