Self-Improvement
Timeless Ideas for Meaningful Personal Transformation.
This collection brings together timeless works that have helped readers gain clarity, shift perspective, and navigate life with greater awareness and intention. Among them are our well-known adult fables—stories that are deceptively simple, engaging, and easy to read, yet reveal deeper insights with each revisit.
For many readers, these books have become lasting companions, shared across generations and used in settings ranging from personal reflection to therapy and support environments.
Alongside these are foundational works connected to the development of modern therapeutic thinking, offering practical frameworks for understanding thought patterns, emotional responses, and behavior, most importantly the ability to change them.
An Unforgettable Treasure of Laughter and Wisdom
Over 4 million copies sold worldwide!
This story is guaranteed to captivate your imagination as it helps you discover the secret of what is most important in life. It’s a delightful tale of a desperate knight in search of his true self.
Join him as he faces a life–changing dilemma upon discovering that he is trapped in his armor, just as we may be trapped in our armor—an invisible one we put on to protect ourselves from others and from various aspects of life.
As the knight searches for a way to free himself, he receives guidance from the wise sage Merlin the Magician, who encourages him to embark on the most difficult crusade of his life. The knight takes up the challenge and travels the Path of Truth, where he meets his real self for the first time and confronts the Universal Truths that govern his life–and ours.
The knight’s journey reflects our own, filled with hope and despair, belief and disillusionment, laughter and tears. His insights become our insights as we follow along on his intriguing adventures of self-discovery. Anyone who has ever struggled with the meaning of life and love will discover profound wisdom and truth as this unique fantasy unfolds.
Robert Fisher’s The Knight in Rusty Armor will expand your mind, touch your heart, and nourish your soul. It is one of Wilshire Book Company’s most popular titles and has become an international bestseller.
“Here is a very special book that will guide you lovingly into a new way of thinking about yourself and your life so that the future will be filled with hope and love and song.”
-Og Mandino
Author, The Greatest Salesman in the World
The Princess Who Believed in Fairy Tales by Marcia Grad is a personal growth book of the rarest kind. It’s a delightful, humor-filled story you will experience so deeply that it can literally change your feeling about yourself, your relationships, and your life.
The princess’s journey of self-discovery on the Path of Truth is an eye-opening, inspiring, empowering psychological and spiritual journey that symbolizes the one we all take through life as we separate illusion from reality, come to terms with our childhood dreams and pain, and discover who we really are and how life works.
If you have ever dreamed of finding a Prince Charming and living happily ever after, only to have your cherished fairy tale shattered by the painful day-to-day reality of being hurt by the one you love, this book will prove to you that happy endings—and new beginnings—are always possible.
The universal appeal of this book has resulted in its translation into numerous languages all over the world.
Available in soft cover below, or on Kindle.
Treat Yourself to This Fun, Inspirational Book and Discover How to Find Happiness and Serenity…No Matter What Life Dishes Out
This powerful story by bestselling author Marcia Grad Powers promises to be one of the most important you will ever read–and one of the most memorable.
Sometimes things happen we wish hadn’t. Sometimes things don’t happen we wish would. We might wish our past has been different or that we could be different. We struggle through disappointments…frustrations…losses…and more. We do the best we can and hope things get better. In the meantime, our hearts can grow heavy.
That’s what happened to Duke the Dragon Slayer. In fact, his heart grew so heavy with all that he felt was unfair and not the way it should be, he became desperate to lighten it–and set forth on the Path of Serenity to find out how.
Guided by fascinating characters that spring to life and become his personal friends, Duke finds out the secret to being okay even when things aren’t okay.
Accompany Duke on this life–changing adventure. His guides will be your guides. His tools will be your tools. His success will be your success. And by the time he is heading home, both Duke and you will know how to take life’s inevitable lumps and bumps in stride–and find happiness and serenity anytime…even when you really, REALLY wish some things were different.
New, Updated Third Edition of A Guide to Rational Living…
An International Classic in the Field of Psychology
By the creators of the most popular forms of therapy in the world; Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CT) and Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT).
“This is one of the most important books I have ever published. It has set the standard and likely will remain the standard for years to come. Undoubtedly this new edition will prove particularly valuable to present-day readers, who face unprecedented challenges in daily living.”
– Melvin Powers, Publisher
Considered by Many to Be the Best Book On Psychotherapy Ever Written
If you have the rigorous honesty necessary to conduct self-analysis, this book can be the most important one you have read. For although it makes no promises, it can help you more than all the other self-help books put together.
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy can teach any intelligent person how to stop feeling miserable about practically anything. Direct, get-to-the-heart-of-the-problem methods teach you what you often do to needlessly upset yourself and what you can do, instead, to make yourself emotionally stronger. These practical, proven methods of changing your self-defeating emotions and behaviors reflect the authors’ vast experience as therapists and as teachers of therapists from all over the world, and have been backed by literally hundreds of research studies.
A Guide to Rational Living provides much sought-after answers for individuals with problems, and it can help everyone to feel better about themselves and to deal with their lives more effectively.
Available on Audible and in both hard and soft cover.
The Powerful, Groundbreaking, Life-Changing Secret of Overcoming Verbal Abuse
If you feel as though you are on a runaway emotional roller coaster with your partner at the controls, this book is for you! It can save you years of torment, tumult, and tears.
If you are being mistreated by your partner, The Secret of Overcoming Verbal Abuse can dramatically change your life. You will learn an entirely new way of perceiving and coping with your relationship and your feelings.
The time-tested, proven secret contained in this book will wrap itself around you like a thick, warm, protective blanket, insulating you from your pain. And the next time your “Prince Charming” takes aim and tries to pierce your heart with his unkind words, you will be ready. You will feel strong and be in charge of your own reaction.
Whether you want to stay, need to stay, or plan to leave, this book can help you to:
Set yourself free from confusion, anxiety, frustration, self-doubt, guilt, anger, and depression
Restore your dignity, self-respect, self-love, and personal power
Create the inner peace and happiness you have wanted, wished for, and in tearful private moments, prayed for–perhaps for years
Now get ready to begin an exciting journey of enlightenment and empowerment that will help you regain control of your life.
Albert Ellis, Ph.D. is an internationally renowned psychologist and eminent teacher of psychotherapists. He is founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and originator of modern Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and is ranked as one of the world’s “Most Influential Psychotherapists” by his peers.
Marcia Grad Powers is an accredited psychological educator, a credentialed teacher, and a bestselling author. She has lectured to business and professional groups and at colleges and universities.
This little gem provides specific ways to overcome roadblocks to your happiness. Discover how unwanted feelings about yourself, your life, and other people stand in your way and how to get rid of them. A self- help book that actually helps.
Albert Ellis, Ph.D. is ranked as one of the world’s “Most Influential Psychologists.” He is an eminent teacher of psychotherapists, the founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), the originator of modern Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and the author of numerous books, including the 1.5-million seller A Guide to Rational Living.
Learn How to Deal Effectively With Difficult People In Your Life
In the best of all worlds the people we live and work with–our lovers and spouses, our parents and brothers and sisters and children, our friends and co-workers and bosses–would be thoughtful, caring, stable, reliable, rational human beings who are always a pleasure. But the truth is that in the real world many of us have to deal with difficult people.
This book will show you how to initiate change in those who routinely drain your energy and test your patience with their bothersome, annoying, or destructive behaviors. And you’ll get powerful psychological tools to insulate you from their “nutty” ways.
You will learn:
How to help emotionally disturbed people discover why they feel and behave as they do
The best way to give advice, support, and encouragement
How to lead those who need therapy to seek it–even if they are resistant
What to do about your anger, frustration, and resentment
The secret of remaining calm and in control of your emotions even if those you try to help continue their objectionable behavior
Albert Ellis, Ph.D. is ranked as one of the world’s “Most Influential Psychologists.” He is an eminent teacher of psychotherapists, the founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), the originator of modern Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and the author of numerous books, including the 1.5-million seller A Guide to Rational Living.