{"title":"Karen Dubin","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"it-s-all-perfect-book-karen-dubin-9781968105075","title":"It's All Perfect","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52757648376081,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52757649326353,"sku":"NIN9781968105075","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781968105075.jpg?v=1763579197"},{"product_id":"before-anything-else-validate-book-karen-dubin-9781968105099","title":"Before Anything Else, Validate","description":"Validation is not a luxury. It's a necessity.\nFrom our first breath to our final words, we are wired to ask one silent, sacred question:\nDo I matter?\nIn this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist Mardoche Sidor, M.D., and social worker Karen Dubin, Ph.D., LCSW, expose the transformative power of validation-what it is, why it matters, and how it can change your life, your relationships, your leadership, and your world.\nWith science, story, and soul, Before Anything Else, Validate takes you on a journey through the inner and outer landscapes of validation. You'll discover:\nWhy the need to be seen shapes everything we do\n How to stop chasing external approval and build lasting self-worth\n The neuroscience of emotional safety and identity\n Scripts and tools to validate yourself-and others-in everyday life\n How to use validation to transform parenting, therapy, teaching, leadership, and culture\nWhether you're a clinician, caregiver, teacher, parent, partner, or leader-this book offers you a new language of connection, a new model of healing, and a new practice for living with integrity and care.\nYou don't need to have all the answers.\nBut before anything else-validate.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52757651620113,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52757652373777,"sku":"NIN9781968105099","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781968105099.jpg?v=1763579202"},{"product_id":"courage-to-care-book-karen-dubin-9781968105051","title":"The Courage to Care","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Courage to Care\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories of Healing, Hope, and the Power of Social Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to care deeply in a world that often demands distance?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it take to show up, again and again, for others-and for yourself?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Courage to Care, over 50 clinicians from the SWEET Institute open their hearts and share their journeys-stories of how they began, what shaped them, the challenges they faced, and the meaning they've found along the way. These are not stories of superheroes, but of humans: honest, complex, resilient, and profoundly dedicated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking book offers a rare, intimate look behind the titles-into the lives of the people who serve. It is a celebration of the profession of social work and a testament to the healing that happens when we listen, reflect, and remember who we are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether you're a clinician, a student, a leader, or someone longing to reconnect with purpose, The Courage to Care invites you into a community grounded in truth, transformation, and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is more than a book. It is a mirror. A movement. A remembering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52757657157905,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52757658042641,"sku":"NIN9781968105051","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781968105051.jpg?v=1763579211"},{"product_id":"life-is-not-hard-book-karen-dubin-9781968105143","title":"Life Is Not Hard","description":"What if everything you've been told about struggle is incomplete?\nWe are taught to believe that life is supposed to be difficult - that hardship is required for growth, and that suffering is inevitable. But what if that isn't true? What if freedom, meaning, and transformation are possible without unnecessary struggle?\nIn *Life Is Not Hard*, Mardoche Sidor, MD, and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW, bring together science, story, and practice to show that life is not meant to weigh us down but to invite us into lightness. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, and anchored in the SWEET Institute's Four Layers of Transformation framework, this book offers a step-by-step guide to living with greater ease, clarity, and purpose.\nInside You Will Discover:\n¿ Why struggle is not a prerequisite for growth - and what is.\n¿ Practical tools to shift your habits, beliefs, and patterns.\n¿ Ways to uncover and release unconscious blocks holding you back.\n¿ How to live in alignment with your deepest values and purpose.\n¿ A blueprint for integration: moving from awareness to action, from effort to ease.\nWith reflections, exercises, and real-life stories woven throughout, *Life Is Not Hard* is more than a book - it's an invitation to transform the way you live, love, and lead.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52932478664977,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52932478894353,"sku":"NIN9781968105143","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781968105143.jpg?v=1765790187"},{"product_id":"because-of-us-book-karen-dubin-9781968105082","title":"Because of Us","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53187645735185,"sku":"NIN9781968105082","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781968105082.jpg?v=1772393761"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-karen-dubin.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}