<div> <p><b>"How I wish I'd had this book when I suffered from postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder! Pregnant and postpartum moms need to know that perinatal anxiety disorders are common and treatable, and that <i>there's no need to continue suffering</i>."<br /> ??Katherine Stone, editor of <i>Postpartum Progress</i></b><br /><br /><i>What if my baby isn't healthy?<br /> What if I can't handle the pain of labor?<br /> What if I'm not a good mother?</i><br /><br /> If you have these thoughts, you're not alone. Anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum is much more common than many people know, and yet there are so few resources available to struggling new moms. If you're one of many women suffering from this treatable condition, <i>The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook</i> offers powerful strategies grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you control your worry, panic, and anxiety.<br /><br /> Through a series of simple exercises and worksheets, you'll learn skills for relaxing yourself when you feel the most stressed. You'll also learn strategies that are proven-effective in reducing the frequency and intensity of anxious feelings many pregnant women and mothers of infants face. The book also includes a chapter that offers tips to help fathers understand and support their partners.<br /><br /> Many new parents feel anxious, and it's perfectly natural to have some fears during and after pregnancy. The problem is, anxiety can grow, disrupting your daily life and keeping you from enjoying being a parent. This effective workbook can help you keep your anxious thoughts at bay and get back to the positive thinking you've been missing.</p> </div>
<div> <p><b>?In a culture where value is often measured by how many followers or likes you attain on social media, this book by Lisa Schab hits the mark. ?<br /> ?<b>Lucie Hemmen, PhD</b>, licensed clinical psychologist<br /><br /> From the author of the best-selling <i>The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens</i>, <i>Self-Esteem for Teens </i>offers six core principles in a smaller, easy-to-reference format to help you build a healthy, positive view of yourself as you face all the challenges of teen life.</b></p> <p>How you feel about yourself affects every aspect of your life. When you have healthy self-esteem, you?ll approach people, situations, and feelings with confidence. You?ll have an easier time making friends, excelling in school, and interviewing for jobs. You?ll be able to see yourself more clearly?celebrating your strengths and accepting your weaknesses. And finally, you?ll be better able to accomplish any goal you set. This book can teach you how.</p> <p><i>Self-Esteem for Teens </i>will show you how you are in control of your own self-esteem. When you truly believe in your own worth, discovering and developing your authentic self gives you the power to feel good and succeed in any area of life. You can learn to turn any life situation into a positive one and see mistakes and hurdles as opportunities and challenges. You can develop inner strength and peace. And you can make choices in your thoughts and actions that lead to positive outcomes with friends, family, dating, school, jobs, and activities.</p> <p>So, stop being unkind to yourself! Start cultivating a deep and abiding belief in your own self-worth. You can create the life you want! The principles in this book will show you how.</p> </div>
<div> <p><b>Being a teen in today?s fast-paced, media-saturated world is difficult, and it?s easy to get overwhelmed or stressed out. This breakthrough workbook will help you balance your emotions, stay focused, and experience the natural quietness that lives within you.</b></p> <p>If you?re a teen, you?re probably experiencing stress. And is it any wonder? You?re juggling schoolwork, friendships, and countless other activities. You get endless messages every day?texts from your friends, advice from your family and teachers, images from television, social media, and advertising about who you could and should be. Sometimes you just need a place to unwind and be yourself!</p> <p><i>A Still Quiet Place for Teens</i> can be that place. It is a place of peace and calm within. In this workbook, mindfulness expert Amy Saltzman offers a comprehensive program to help you manage daily stressors and challenges in your life, whether at home, in school, or with friends. Using proven-effective mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) techniques, this book will help you be fully present in the moment, cultivate kindness and curiosity toward yourself and others, and find constructive ways of dealing with the pressures of being a teen.</p> <p>Between school, friends, and dating, there?s plenty to feel stressed about! This book will help you find a quiet place inside yourself that you can go back to again and again, no matter how overwhelming life gets.</p> </div>
<div> <p><b>For some people with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), medication may not be the right answer, and for others, medication alone may not be enough.<i> Natural Relief for Adult ADHD </i></b><b>offers an accessible, research-based guide on the most effective non-medication treatments for ADHD. </b></p> <p>If you have ADHD, you may find it hard to stay focused on one thing and have trouble with time management and organization. You may also act on impulse?often with negative results. Whether you?re in treatment, on medication, or are looking for alternative ways to get your symptoms under control, this book will provide you with sound, complementary strategies to increase your focus, get organized, and stay motivated.</p> <p>In the book, you?ll find a ton of information on how to manage your ADHD, such as body awareness techniques to prevent sensory overstimulation common in ADHD; working memory training; massage, acupuncture, acupressure, chiropractic treatment; how food additives can affect ADHD symptoms, particularly certain pesticides; how to incorporate organic food into the diet while on a budget; and much, much more.</p> <p>If you are looking for proven-effective alternative treatments to get your ADHD under control and take back your life, this book will be your go-to guide.</p> </div>
<div> <p><b>In <i>CBT Made Simple</i>, two psychologists and experts in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offer the ultimate ?how-to? manual based on the principles of effective adult learning. Structured around these evidence-based principles, this user-friendly guide will help you learn CBT and deliver it to your clients in the most optimal way.</b></p> <p>CBT is a popular and proven-effective treatment for several mental health disorders, including anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anger problems. However, there are no evidence-based learning techniques to teach it?until now. This simple, pragmatic guide offers everything you need to know about CBT: what it is, how it works, and how to implement it in session.</p> <p><i>CBT Made Simple</i> provides a user-friendly, practical approach to learning CBT using up-to-the-minute teaching methods and learning tools?in particular, the ?effective adult learning model,? which promotes interactive learning, experiential learning, and self-reflection. Each chapter presents key elements of CBT in clear, accessible language, and includes client dialogues?including explanations of the therapist?s thinking process in relation to various interventions?and clinical examples. Practical exercises are incorporated throughout, enabling you to practice and consolidate your learning. In addition, each chapter mimics the structure of an actual CBT session.</p> <p>If you are a clinician or student interested in learning more about CBT, this book?a new addition to the <b>New Harbinger <i>Made Simple</i> series</b> that includes <i>ACT Made Simple</i> and <i>DBT Made Simple</i>?has everything you need to hit the ground running. Why not make it a part of <i>your</i> professional library?</p> </div>
<div> <p><b>Press ?send? for amazing results! With <i>52 E-mails to Transform Your Marriage</i>, you?ll find a year?s worth of e-mails to help you reconnect with your spouse, reignite intimacy, and keep your love alive.</b></p> <p>There?s no doubt marriage can be a challenge?we?ve all heard that half of marriages end in divorce. A common problem you may face as a couple is feeling stuck or disconnected?lonely within the marriage?as if you and your spouse were worlds apart, even as you present a united front. Attempts to discuss the problem may lead to painful arguments, and even couples therapy may prove more expensive and time-consuming than effective, putting each of you on the spot and moving so quickly that you may leave, session after session, without feeling closer. E-mail, however, can be a much less threatening way to communicate your true thoughts and feelings.</p> <p>Based on the author?s popular online relationship coaching sessions, each chapter of this book provides an e-mail writing assignment focused on a different topic, such as sex, intimacy, communication, trust, and the future. These weekly assignments will grant you both the time to write?which can be extremely therapeutic in itself?and read what the other has to say without the need for an immediate response.</p> <p>With <i>52 E-mails to Transform Your Marriage</i>, you?ll discover useful tips for good communication, learn how to respond to messages with empathy and validation, and be well on your way to rediscovering and sustaining the love that brought you together in the first place.</p> </div> <br />
<div> <p><b>Transform your relationship with food, once and for all. Written by a family therapist and eating disorder specialist, this skills-based workbook will give you the tools you need to manage your emotions and find the comfort and sweetness you truly seek in life?without overeating!</b></p> <p>If you struggle with overeating, you are not alone. Studies show that millions of teens face problems with emotional eating, weight gain, and negative body image. However, these facts and figures do not include sneak eaters, overeaters who do not binge, and teens who overeat but manage their weight through excessive exercise. So, if you?re struggling with the habit of overeating, where can you turn?</p> <p><i>Getting Over Overeating for Teens</i>, written by an eating disorders specialist who struggled with her own issues as a teen, provides a wealth of tools to help you change your relationship with food. Using an integrated approach that includes mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and intuitive eating, this book will focus on the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual factors that are essential to overcoming overeating.</p> <p>With the practical advice and powerful exercises in this book, you?ll come to a better understanding of your urge to overeat, and learn skills such as emotion regulation, assertive communication, moderate eating, and working with cravings. Most importantly, you?ll find better ways to fill up and be ready to apply what you?ve learned to living a healthier, happier life.</p> </div> <br />
<div> <p><b>We?ve all said things we lived to regret. But what if we communicated mindfully instead, stopping first to consider how our words might hurt rather than help?or if we need to voice them at all? In <i>What Would Buddha Say?</i>, best-selling author Barbara Ann Kipfer offers 1,501 reminders for staying on the path of positive communication. Based on ancient Buddhist teachings, this portable guide will provide inspiration and tips on how to speak clearly, truthfully, and with lovingkindness.</b></p> <p>In our modern world, it seems we?re always in a hurry?usually running on autopilot, and all too quick to make that comment or send that message. But when we communicate without first considering the impact it may have?especially if it?s idle gossip or false speech?we can create unnecessary conflicts and far-reaching negative consequences. With poor communication at the heart of most misunderstandings and arguments, learning to practice mindful communication, including good listening skills, is key to speaking?or <i>not</i> speaking?with better results in every area of your life.</p> <p>In <i>What Would Buddha Say?</i>, you?ll find hundreds of instantly accessible and compulsively readable communication tips on giving thoughtful attention to your words so you?re more likely to be understood, and less likely to damage your relationships. Based on the concept of Right Speech, an important element of Buddhism?s Noble Eightfold Path, these mindful essentials?inspirational quotes and sayings, short essays, and meditation suggestions?will guide you away from harmful speech and into a state of mindfulness from which you can gently speak your truth.</p> <p>There is <i>always</i> room for improvement in terms of communication, and with practice, we <i>can</i> learn to speak mindfully?to say only what is beneficial and true with a kind heart at the right time. Packed with Buddhist wisdom and full of inspiration, <i>What Would Buddha Say?</i> will help you maximize the good in your speech as you take steps toward a more peaceful way of being.</p> </div>
<div> <p><b>You are stronger than your anxiety! In this important workbook, best-selling authors Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, and Michelle Skeen offer a breakthrough anxiety solution based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you understand and overcome your fears and worries, rather than try to avoid them.</b></p> <p>If you suffer from an anxiety disorder, you may try to avoid situations that cause you to feel worry, fear, or panic. You may even believe that terrible things will happen to you if you face the things that make you anxious. But avoidance isn?t a long-term solution, and in the end it may result in <i>more</i> anxiety. This book shows you how the simple belief that you can endure your worries and fears?both mentally and physically?can be an extremely powerful treatment.</p> <p>Using a breakthrough approach combining proven-effective CBT and exposure therapy, this workbook helps you understand how worry and rumination drive anxiety, and offers practical exercises to help you adopt new habits of observing your thoughts, rather than accepting them as the ?ultimate truth.? You?ll also develop mindfulness and self-soothing coping skills to help you manage anxiety in the moment, rather than avoid it. Over time these practices will show you that you are more powerful than your anxiety.</p> <p>If you?ve been stuck in a cycle of anxiety and avoidance, this workbook will help you make the changes you need to get your life back.</p> </div>
<div> <p><i>ACT for Psychosis Recovery</i> is the first book to provide a breakthrough, evidence-based, step-by-step approach for group work with clients suffering from psychosis. As evidenced in a study by Patricia A. Bach and Steven C. Hayes, patients with psychotic symptoms who received acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in addition to treatment as usual showed half the rate of rehospitalization as those who did not. With this important guide, you?ll learn how a patient?s recovery can be both supported and sustained by promoting acceptance, mindfulness, and values-driven action.</p> <p>The journey of personal recovery from psychosis is immensely challenging. Patients often struggle with paranoia, auditory hallucinations, difficulties with motivation, poor concentration and memory, and emotional dysregulation. In addition, families and loved ones may have trouble understanding psychosis, and stigmatizing attitudes can limit opportunity and create alienation for patients.</p> <p>True recovery from psychosis means empowering patients to take charge of their lives. Rather than focusing on pathology, ACT teaches patients how to stay grounded in the present moment, disengage from their symptoms, and pursue personally meaningful lives based on their values.</p> <p>In this groundbreaking book, you will learn how to facilitate ACT groups based on a central metaphor (Passengers on the Bus), so that mindfulness and values-based action are introduced in a way that is engaging and memorable. You will also find tips and strategies to help clients identify valued directions, teach clients how to respond flexibly to psychotic symptoms, thoughts, and emotions that have been barriers to living a valued life, and lead workshops that promote compassion and connection among participants.</p> <p>You?ll also find tried and tested techniques for engaging people in groups, particularly those traditionally seen as ?hard to reach??people who may be wary of mental health services or experience paranoia. And finally, you?ll gain skills for engaging participants from various ethnic backgrounds.</p> <p>Finding purpose and identity beyond mental illness is an important step in a patient?s journey toward recovery. Using the breakthrough approach in this book, you can help clients gain the insight needed to achieve lasting well-being.</p> </div>
<div> <p><i>The Mala of God</i> is a unique spiritual gift, an expression of the surrendered heart filled with prayer, devotion, and gratitude, yet imbued with the unsparing wisdom and power of non-dual self-inquiry. With profound simplicity, Advaita zen master Mooji unveils the intimate, mystical ways of the praying heart, and provides insight for those yearning to discover their true nature.</p> <p>Many of us seek inner peace and happiness, lasting self-realization and awakening, or a felt blissful oneness beyond the mere concept of unity. In our search for truth and enlightenment, we may find ourselves drawn deeply into sincere introspection or with a deep affinity for prayer as a means of self-discovery and communion with the Supreme.</p> <p>Using language familiar to many spiritual traditions, including Christianity and Sufism, this book bridges the seeming divide between devotion and non-dual self-inquiry. This beautiful collection can be read start to finish or opened to any page for insight into the moment?perfect for both the spiritual seeker with an interest in non-duality or one who is drawn to devotion and the power of prayer.<br /><br /> Including over 100 powerful prayers and blessings, complemented by Mooji?s drawings and handwritten sayings throughout, <i>The Mala of God</i> provides wisdom and inspiration that sets your heart free.</p> </div> <br />
<div> <p><strong>A fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary way its changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase peoples well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices. If you want to know how you can help create a better world, read this book.</strong></p> <p>What if there were a way to prevent criminal behavior, mental illness, drug abuse, poverty, and violence? Written by behavioral scientist Tony Biglan, and based on his ongoing research at the Oregon Research Institute, <em>The Nurture Effect </em>offers evidence-based interventions that can prevent many of the psychological and behavioral problems that plague our society.</p> <p>For decades, behavioral scientists have investigated the role our environment plays in shaping who we are, and their research shows that we now have the power within our own hands to reduce violence, improve cognitive development in our children, increase levels of education and income, and even prevent future criminal behaviors. By cultivating a positive environment in all aspects of societyfrom the home, to the classroom, and beyondwe can ensure that young people arrive at adulthood with the skills, interests, assets, and habits needed to live healthy, happy, and productive lives.</p> <p><em>The Nurture Effect</em> details over forty years of research in the behavioral sciences, as well as the authors own research. Biglan illustrates how his findings lay the framework for a model of societal change that has the potential to reverberate through all environments within society.</p> </div>
<div> <p>As if coping with feelings of depression or anxiety by themselves weren?t difficult enough, clinical research suggests that as many as 60 percent of depression sufferers concurrently experience some kind of anxiety disorder. If you are in this group, it is quite common to simultaneously experience profound loss of energy and initiative along with substantial stress and anxiety. Caught between the push and pull of these two conditions, you might find that neither is easy even to recognize, much less cope with. But, by adapting for the first time the powerful techniques of dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, to the special needs of people troubled by co-occurring depression and anxiety, this book offers powerful tools for overcoming this condition. DBT is designed for people who have lost hope and meaningfulness in life, who question their own ability to be influential in their world, who find their emotions intolerable, and who find that they try to escape and avoid important aspects of their lives. DBT may be just the tool you?ve been looking for to move beyond depression and anxiety. </p> <p>The step-by-step exercises, techniques, and worksheets in this book work to identify painful inner conflicts that might underlie depression and anxiety symptoms. Then, by negotiating a series of compromises, the techniques help acknowledge these issues while limiting their ability to interfere with your life?effectively reducing the extent to which your emotions govern who you are or what you are capable of. This book explains mindfulness techniques that encourage participation in the world and allow easier adaptation to change. It treats the difference between ?threat cues? and ?safety cues? and how recognizing and reacting to them constructively can reduce the effects of anxiety and depression. By teaching you how to monitor and limit negative self-evaluations and how to best tolerate negative experience, this book gives you a powerful set of tools for the control of co-occurring depression and anxiety.</p> </div>
<div> <p>By the first day of kindergarten, Olga Trujillo had already survived years of abuse and violent rape at the hands of her tyrannical father. Over the next ten years, she would develop the ability to numb herself to the constant abuse by splitting into distinct mental ?parts.? Dissociative identity disorder (DID) had begun to take hold, protecting Olga?s mind from the tragic realities of her childhood.</p> <p>In <em>The Sum of My Parts</em>, Olga reveals her life story for the first time, chronicling her heroic journey from survivor to advocate and her remarkable recovery from DID. Formerly known as multiple personality disorder, DID is defined by the presence of two or more identities. In this riveting story, Olga struggles to unearth memories from her childhood, and parallel identities?Olga at five years old, Olga at thirteen?come forth and demand to be healed. This brave, unforgettable memoir charts the author?s triumph over the most devastating conditions and will inspire anyone whose life has been affected by trauma.</p> </div>
<div> <p>Dealing with an anxiety disorder is hard, but loving someone with an anxiety disorder can be equally as difficult. If your partner suffers from extreme anxiety, they may have panic attacks, constantly be voicing their worried thoughts, or may not be able to participate in social events because of a fear of social settings. No matter how compassionate you are, you may sometimes feel frustrated, unable to help, and even find your own life restricted?all of which can lead to conflict, resentment, miscommunication, and ultimately, an end to the relationship altogether.</p> <p><i>Loving Someone with Anxiety</i> is one of the few books written specifically for the partners of people with anxiety disorders. The book is designed not only to aid you in helping your partner cope with anxiety and worry, but also to help you take care of your own needs. Inside, you?ll learn the importance of setting healthy boundaries, limiting codependent behaviors, and why taking over roles that make your partner anxious?such as answering the phone, driving, or doing the grocery shopping because your partner feels too anxious to be in public?can be extremely damaging for the both of you.</p> <p>Codependency in relationships with an anxious partner can lead to resentment, anger, and a sense of helplessness on your side. This book will help you and your partner overcome these negative behaviors, build better communication and a stronger personal connection.</p> <p>Written by a licensed professional counselor who specializes in helping the partners of those with mental illnesses, this book is the resource that you have been looking for to help you understand your anxious partner and keep anxiety from sabotaging your relationship.</p> </div>
<div> <p>Given the popularity of yoga in this day and age, you probably know about the benefits it can have on both the mind and body. An increase in positive mood, a decrease in stress, better sleep, and fewer aches and pains are just a few. Maybe youve been busy, and have been meaning to try itor maybe you <em>have</em> tried it but still find it difficult to fit into your schedule.</p> <p>The most common excuse people give for not exercising is that they have no time. Between work, family, school, and social obligations, many of us are overbooked and scrambling to get things done in our daily lives. But what if there were quick, easy yoga exercises that could be integrated into your daily routine?</p> <p><em><strong>Yoga Sparks</strong></em> offers 108 quick, practical, and accessible yoga exercises that you can practice anytime, anywhereno matter how busy or stressful your schedule. In this book, you will learn how yoga in bite-size pieces can become a healthy habit that can relieve emotional stress, increase your physical strength and flexibility, and help you to lead a happier, healthier life.</p> <p>Whether practicing relaxed breathing while in traffic, sitting with proper alignment while working at your computer, or even balancing on one leg while waiting in line, the step-by-step, breath-by-breath practices in this book will help you bring the physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of yoga practice into your daily life.</p> </div>
<div> <p>If you?ve picked up this book, chances are you?re someone with a serious anger problem. Your explosive temper has probably cost you jobs, friends, loved ones?maybe even your liberty. If it hasn?t yet, it soon will, unless you do something about it.</p> <p>This book contains a powerful and straightforward system for taking control of your anger and your life. This program is not easy, and it might even be painful at times?but it works. The book will teach you how your anger escalates and what you can do to change your angry thoughts and behaviors. Then it?s your turn. When you make and keep that promise to yourself to stay calm no matter what, the happier, safer life you want will become a possibility.</p> <p>With this book, you'll be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Identify the causes of your anger</li> <li>Avoid violence, blaming, and threats</li> <li>Stay calm one day at a time</li> <li>Change anger-provoking thoughts</li> <li>Ask for what you want without anger</li> </ul> </div>
<div> <p>If youve experienced a traumatic event, you may feel a wide range of emotions, such as anxiety, anger, fear, and depression. The truth is that there is no right or wrong way to react to trauma; but there are ways that you can heal from your experience, and uncover your own capacity for resilience, growth, and recovery.</p> <p><em>Overcoming Trauma and PTSD </em>offers proven-effective treatments based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you overcome both the physical and emotional symptoms of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This book will help you find relief from painful flashbacks, insomnia, or other symptoms you might be experiencing. Also included are worksheets, checklists, and exercises to help you start feeling better and begin your journey on the road to recovery.</p> <p>This book will help you manage your anxiety and stop avoiding certain situations, cope with painful memories and nightmares, and determine if you need to see a therapist. Perhaps most importantly, it will help you to develop a support system so that you can you heal and move forward.</p> </div>
<div> <p>Inspired by Sri Atmananda (Krishna Menon), the Direct Path is a ?pathless path.? It simply articulates the being of you and the world as loving, open, clear awareness. If this truth is realized as your experience, then nothing need be done. The path disappears, and life is lived in sweetness and celebration! But if there are still questions or doubts, the Direct Path contains unique and powerful resources that stabilize this truth as your everyday reality. This is a revised edition of the book, expanded to add chapters on the Direct Path in addition to its selection of dialogs from a decade of ?Nondual Dinner? gatherings. The first three chapters unfold the basics of the Direct Path, such as standing as awareness, being in love with awareness, and exploring awareness. Included are several experiments that help establish your everyday experience as awareness, always and already. The dialogs cover questions such as the desire for enlightenment experiences, the relationship between the brain and awareness, the question of ?nondually correct? language, the belief in physical and mental objects, the idea of having a sage?s experience, and more.</p> </div> <br />
<div> <p>Is your ex-spouse trying to gain custody of your kids? Has he or she launched a campaign to make you look like a bad parent, both in the eyes of your children and the law? You aren?t alone. Unfortunately, high-conflict custody battles are all-too-common in today?s world. So how can you arm yourself with the mental and legal resources needed to survive this difficult time and keep your kids safe?</p> <p>In <i>The High-Conflict Custody Battle</i>, a team of legal and psychology experts present a practical guidebook for people like you who are engaged in a high-conflict custody battle. If you are dealing with an overtly hostile, inflammatory, deceitful, or manipulative ex-spouse, you will learn how to find and work with an attorney and prepare for a custody evaluation. The book also provides helpful tips you can use to defend yourself against false accusations, and gives a realistic portrayal of what to expect during a legal fight.</p> <p>Going through a divorce is hard, but going through a custody battle can feel like war. Don?t go in unprepared. With this book as your guide, you will be able to navigate this difficult process and learn powerful skills that will help you maintain a healthy relationship with your kids, fight unfair accusations, and uphold your rights as a parent.</p> </div>
<div> <p>Living in a culture obsessed with body size and shape, it can be hard to feel good about the way you look. But eating disorders caused by unrealistic body image ideals create much larger problems-diminished self-confidence, unhealthy eating and exercising habits, and an inability to see yourself as a person rather than a number on the scale.</p> <p>This workbook takes aim at the motivations behind your relationship with food and helps you to better understand how your need to control what you eat can end up controlling you. As you complete the worksheets in <strong>What's Eating You</strong>, you'll learn more about the beliefs and experiences that contribute to your disorder. Each worksheet includes questions and exercises targeting the cultural myths, perfectionism, stress, and lack of self-confidence that are often at the heart of a dysfunctional relationship with food. Once these issues are addressed, you'll be able to gather the strength you need to make peace with your body, exude confidence, and live a healthy life.</p> </div>
<div> <p>Many women who free themselves from violent domestic situations experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) long after they achieve physical and emotional safety. A ringing telephone or a crowded city street threatens a potential encounter with their abuser. People they care for seem far away, and things they used to enjoy offer neither pleasure nor relief. Their long, sleepless nights drag on.</p> <p>If you?ve freed yourself from an abusive relationship but still suffer from its effects, this program of trauma recovery techniques can help you take back your peace of mind. Based on a clinically proven set of techniques called cognitive trauma therapy (CTT), the exercises in this workbook will help you address feelings of guilt, anger, depression, anxiety, and stress. You'll learn how to break down the negative thoughts that might be cycling in your mind and how to replace them with positive, constructive affirmations. Later in the program, you'll be guided through controlled exposure to abuse reminders, which will enable you to face the fears you might otherwise spend a lifetime avoiding. The program begins and ends with techniques for becoming your own best advocate?an informed, confident person with all the strength you need to create the secure, fulfilling life you deserve.</p> </div> Recognize the effects of trauma on your life <br /> Let go of anger, stress, shame, and guilt <br /> Change core beliefs that can lead to involvement in abusive relationships <br /> Confront and overcome your fears <br /> Dispel feelings of helplessness <br /> Avoid future involvement with potential abusers <br />
<div> <p>Mitral Valve Prolapse is a non-life-threatening structural dysfunction of the heart's mitral valve that affects women twice as commonly as men. Some 40 percent of people with MVP also suffer from MVP syndrome, otherwise known as dysautonomia, an imbalance of the autonomic nervous system whose symptoms include panic attacks, anxiety, fatigue, migraines, irritable bowel, and more. </p> <p>This survival guide reassures anyone who's been told, 'It's all in your head' that what you're going through is real and teaches you that the syndrome can be managed through education, healing, and support. Use this book to learn what MVP and MVP syndrome are, discover how to alleviate symptoms, and explore steps you can take to live with the condition. The authors cover diet, nutrition, and exercise, recommend self-help strategies, and help you become an advocate for yourself with health professionals.</p> </div>
<div> <p>Most children learn to stop throwing temper tantrums, talking back, and refusing to go to bed or take a bath at an early age. But some children have trouble with impulsivity and self-control. Left unaddressed, these issues can lead to some very serious problems in adolescence and adulthood. Anger control problems are the number one reason that children are referred for therapy, affecting children as young as three years old. Since anger problems in children may indicate other significant concerns, it pays to address anger in kids as soon as possible. If a child in your life has an anger problem, you need the friendly, effective activities in this book.</p> <p><b>I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad</b> contains forty activities for issues such as recognizing anger triggers, better problem solving, and communication tips for defusing conflict before it gets out of hand. The workbook explores common lifestyle issues such as lack of sleep that can make anger problems worse. These fun activities will help kids talk about their feelings and learn to control them.</p> </div>
<div> <p>Most people have heard of bipolar disorder, a mental health condition that is marked by manic episodes and periods of intense depression. Bipolar II disorder differs from bipolar I in that sufferers may never experience a full manic episode, although they may experience periods of high energy and impulsiveness (hypomania), as well as depression and anxiety. If you have been diagnosed with bipolar II, or even if you think that you may have this disorder, you may be frightened by the highs and lows of your intense emotions. Fortunately, there are proven-effective treatments that can help you find a sense of calm and peace of mind.</p> </div> <p>Written by an extremely accomplished team of bipolar experts, <strong>The Bipolar II Disorder Workbook</strong> is designed to help you manage the recurring depression, hypomania, and anxiety that can arise as a result of your condition. The convenient workbook format combines evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and other mindfulness-based exercises to help you manage your emotions, track your progress, and ultimately live a happy and more productive life.</p> <p>This is the first self-help workbook available specifically for individuals diagnosed with bipolar II disorder.</p>
<div> <p>The college years are very stressful for many people, so it comes as little surprise that college-aged youth often suffer from diagnosable psychiatric disorders. Even among college students whose distress is not clinically diagnosable, the college years are fraught with developmental challenges that can trigger bouts of psychological suffering. Is it any wonder, then, that suicide is the second leading cause of death in this age group?</p> <p>In <em>Mindfulness and Acceptance for Counseling College Students</em>, clinical researcher Jacqueline Pistorello explores how mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) are being utilized in higher education settings around the world to treat student mental health problems like severe depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders, and/or to help students thrive--both in and out of the classroom.</p> <p>This book offers easy-to-use programs for college counselors, therapists, instructors, administrators, and even high school counselors who are looking for tools to help high school students prepare for the transition to college. Counselors with extensive experience with mindfulness and acceptance approaches can learn new ways of adapting these approaches to interventions with college students, and counselors interested in these approaches but lacking experience can learn about these effective therapies. Finally, college administrators and staff can gain ideas for implementing mindfulness practices in various campus contexts to help p romote student mental health or academic engagement.</p> <p>In addition to chapters by Steven C. Hayes, the founder of acceptance and commitment therapy, this book also contains an online Appendix with helpful original handouts, Power Point slides, and links to podcasts and lectures to help implement mindfulness-based approaches on different campuses. It is a wonderful resource for any pro- fessional who works with college students and who is interested in promoting psychological well-being.</p> <p><strong>The Mindfulness and Acceptance Practica Series</strong></p> <p>As mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies gain momentum in the field of mental health, it is increasingly important for professionals to understand the full range of their applications. To keep up with the growing demand for authoritative resources on these treatments, <em>The Mindfulness and Acceptance Practica Series</em> was created. These edited books cover a range of evidence-based treatments, such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), compassion-focused therapy (CFT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) therapy. Incorporating new research in the field of psychology, these books are powerful tools for mental health clinicians, researchers, advanced students, and anyone interested in the growth of mindfulness and acceptance strategies.</p> <p></p> </div>
<div> <p>The inner critic is the voice in our heads that whispers, whines, and needles us into poor self-esteem and self-confidence. It edits our thoughts, controls our behavior, and inhibits our actions. It thinks it is protecting us from being hurt or feeling abandoned, but all it really does is reinforce our feelings of shame and guilt, sabotage our intimate relationships, and incline us to self-destructive behaviors. <em>Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice</em> presents a revolutionary new strategy for dealing with the inner critic: externalizing it. This subtle, powerful technique turns internal self-criticisms into 'you' statements that can be evaluated objectively and exposed as the gross exaggerations, unfair comparisons, or flat out lies they really are. This book takes you through the step-by-step process of learning how to keep track of your negative thoughts, analyze their reality, and recognize how they impact your life. Learn to use a variety of techniques to help release your inner critic's stranglehold and combat its subversive effect on your career achievement, intimate relationships, and sexuality. A final chapter of the book offers parents simple ways to help their children avoid forming a tyrannical inner critic.</p> </div>
<div> <p>The Perfect Antidote to Anxiety</p> <p>Feelings of anxiety can sap your energy, joy, and vitality. But now the scientists at the Institute of HeartMath have adapted their revolutionary techniques into a fast and simple program that you can use to break free from anxiety once and for all. </p> <p>At the core of the HeartMath method is the idea that our thoughts and emotions affect our heart rhythms. By focusing on positive feelings such as appreciation, care, or compassion, you can create coherence in these rhythms-with amazing results. Using the HeartMath method, you'll learn to engage your heart to bring your emotions, body, and mind into balance. Relief from anxiety, optimal health, and high performance all day long will follow. </p> <p>(HeartMath is a registered trademark of the Institute of HeartMath.) </p> </div>
<div> <p>Trying to control your anxious thoughts can backfire, making them more prevalent, not less. The best way to calm these common feelings is by attuning yourself to your thoughts in a nonjudgmental, attentive manner, acknowledging your anxieties but choosing to act rather than react.</p> <p>From the author of <b>Calming Your Anxious Mind</b> comes <b>Daily Mediations for Calming Your Anxious Mind</b>, a collection of more than sixty-four daily mindfulness-based meditations to help you engage with the present moment, manage stress and anxiety, and rediscover the joy in living. Each meditation contains an easy-to-learn visualization exercise, affirmation, or activity, with meditations grouped into four sections: relaxing and feeling safe, embracing joys and fears, befriending your anxious mind and body, and connecting to the web of life.</p> </div>
<div> <strong>Read the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller everyone is talking about. This beautiful hardcover gift edition with satin ribbon bookmark features a new preface by author and spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer. This special deluxe edition makes the perfect gift for any occasion.</strong> <br /> <br />If youve ever wondered what it would it be like to free yourself from limitations, soar beyond your boundaries, and discover true inner peace and serenity, <em>The Untethered Soul </em>can show you the way. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space <strong>,</strong> or youve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you. <br /> <br />By tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness, Singer shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization. Copublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) <em>The Untethered Soul</em> begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. It then delves into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Finally, with perfect clarity, this book opens the door to a life lived in the freedom of your innermost being. <br /> <br />Visit <a href="http://www.untetheredsoul.com">www.untetheredsoul.com</a> for more information. </div>
<div> Do you rule the realm of disorganization, clutter, and chaos? Are you constantly battling to get things done? Are you ready to give up and toss your day planner into the dungeon (otherwise known as your closet)? If so, you might just be <em>The Queen of Distraction</em>. And whether or not youve been formally diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you probably already know that somethings got to give. </div> <div></div> <div> <em>The Queen of Distraction </em>presents practical skills to help women with ADHD achieve focus and balance in all areas of life, whether its at home, at work, or in relationships. Psychotherapist Terry Matlen delves into the feminine side of ADHDthe elements of this condition that are particular to women, such as: relationships, skin sensitivities, meal-planning, parenting, and dealing with out-of-control hormones. In addition, the book offers helpful tips and strategies to get your symptoms under control, and outlines a number of effective treatment options for you to pursue. </div> <div></div> <div> From getting dressed in the morning, to making it to a job interview, to planning dinnersometimes just getting through the day can be an ordeal for a woman with ADHD. If youve been accused of getting lost in your own world, maybe its time to make a change. If youre ready to start getting organized and stop leaving your groceries in the car, this book can help. Its more than just a survival guide; its an ADHD <em>how-to</em> to help you thrive! </div>
<div> If youve experienced loss, you may feel intense emotional or even physical pain. In fact, its not uncommon for grieving people to experience depression, anxiety, fatigue, and a variety of other physical, mental, and spiritual symptoms. If youve tried other ways to move beyond your loss but have yet to find relief, you may be surprised to discover the transformative effects of yoga. <br /> <br /> <em>Yoga for Grief Relief </em>combines over 100 illustrations of gentle yogic poses and the power of psychophysiology and neuroscience to help you recapture a true sense of well-being. Youll also find breathing exercises, cleansing techniques, and self-relaxation tips to help you work through your loss and begin on the journey to self-knowledge and re-identification. At its core, yoga is about accepting change. If you are open to viewing your loss as an opportunity for growth, this book will help transform your grief with gentle clarity and awareness. <br /> <br />To find out more, visit yogaforgriefrelief.com </div>
<div> Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. If you suffered childhood physical or sexual abuse, you may experience such intense feelings of shame that it almost seems to define you as a person. In order to begin healing, its important for you to know that <em>it wasnt your fault</em>. </div> <div></div> <div> In this gentle guide <em>, </em>therapist and childhood abuse expert Beverly Engel presents a mindfulness and compassion-based therapeutic approach to help you overcome the debilitating shame that keeps you tied to the past. By following the step-by-step exercises in this book, youll gain a greater understanding of the root cause of your shame. And by cultivating compassion toward yourself, you will begin to heal and move past your painful experiences. </div> <div></div> <div> Recent studies show that trauma survivors, particularly those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from abuse, can greatly benefit from incorporating elements of self-compassion into their treatment. Furthermore, the practice of self-compassion has been shown to decrease PTSD symptoms, including, self-criticism, thought suppression, and rumination. </div> <div></div> <div> This book is based on the authors powerful and effective Compassion Cure program. With this book, you will develop the skills needed to finally put a stop the crippling self-blame that keeps you from moving on and being happy. Youll learn to focus on your strengths, your courage, and your extraordinary ability to survive. Most of all, youll learn to replace shame with its counter emotionpride. </div>
<strong><em>Full</em></strong> <strong> is the true, poignant story of one womans spiritual journey as she recovers from anorexia, eases the emotional pain of her hunger through yoga and Buddhism, and finally becomes full. </strong> <br /> <div></div>In this inspiring and captivating memoir, Kimber Simpkins captures vividlywith piercing insight, raw emotion, and often humorthe all-consuming hunger she felt on a daily basis as a result of an eating disorder. Sick of dieting and hating her body, Simpkins decides to get to the bottom of her unhappy relationship with her body. Thats when she discovers the healing power of yoga and Buddhism. <br /> <div></div>Along the way, Simpkins realizes her hunger isnt simply physical, but that it comes from a place deep inside her. Through the wise teachings of yoga and meditation, Simpkins discovers she doesnt have to live in a prison of self-dissatisfaction. In fact, by understanding the root of her pain and learning to love herself in body, mind, and spirit, Simpkins is able to truly set herself free. <br /> <div></div>As she wrestles with her inner demons of hunger and perfectionism and learns how self-acceptance can soften even her toughest inner critic, Simpkins takes us along on her voyage of self-discovery. At its core, this book is a journey to find true self-fulfillment that will inspire readers in their own search to create a full and meaningful life.
Publishers Weekly,Everyone knows a narcissist, one of those vainglorious individuals in desperate need of constant affirmation and attention. Cognitive therapist Behary's book argues that by modifying your own behavior, you can manage your relationship with such a person. Separating narcissism into categories (spoiled, dependent, deprived and combinations thereof) and exploring the causes of the disorder, the author hopes to assist the reader in overcoming the emotional obstacles involved in interaction with a boss, spouse, friend or relative. Rather than focus on changing the narcissist (which may be impossible), this book aims to help the reader improve self-knowledge to see why the narcissist pushes his or her buttons and how to cope. Some of the instruments Behary provides-such as checklists, flash cards, journal writing- are useful for determining the type of narcissist you are dealing with and how your past experiences affect your responses. The author acknowledges that her book is no panacea, and she doesn't present the reader with strategies for when the narcissist isn't responsive to the actions she has suggested. Notwithstanding this caveat, Behary's book will surely provide help to many in need of a confidence bolster in the face of provocation. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved