Exercise Mental Health

In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this uniquely human skill. From walking's evolutionary origins, traced back millions of years to life forms on the ocean floor, to new findings from cutting-edge research, he reveals how the brain and nervous system give us the ability to balance, weave through a crowded city, and run our "inner GPS" system.

Are you forever rushing around, fending off chronic exhaustion? Are you desperately overcommitted, afraid to say no? Do you have fang marks from being bled dry by energy vampires? Does the onslaught of violence in the news leave you drained? If so, you're the victim of a hidden energy crisis. To...

Your heart is racing, your mind is spinning, and you’re barely holding it together until you either snap or shut down completely. The world is too loud, too fast, too much… and all anyone says is “just calm down.” Feeling Constantly Overwhelmed? Trapped in Anxiety, Chronic Stress, or Emotional Chaos? What if the reason you struggle to relax isn’t about trying harder—but about how your nervous system is wired?

Although many forms of trauma treatment rely solely on talk therapy as a means of healing, we cannot "talk out" every issue related to trauma. Indeed, trauma is stored in the body and the brain and must be treated as such. Designed with both mental health clinicians and clients in mind, Trauma-Informed Yoga offers forty-seven short, simple practices that regulate the autonomic nervous system, calm the racing mind, and center those of us living chaotic twenty-first century lives.

Learn how to tap into your psychic and medium abilities through trusting your intuition and practising your craft. Have you ever felt as though you had a sixth sense, or had an experience you can’t quite explain? Or maybe you had a strange ‘gut feeling’ about a situation, and then it all...

Your past holds power over your present. Childhood experiences shape your beliefs, actions, and relationships more than you realize. Do you struggle with self-doubt, insecurity, or uncontrollable emotions? These are echoes of unresolved childhood trauma, staining your adult life like unseen residue on a canvas. But there's hope. This book offers a compassionate approach to healing your inner child while equipping you with practical tools for emotional growth.

This book tells all the positive aspects of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which has its roots glued with cognition-based therapies. This study helps people with the most difficult times and gives them a ray of light in the darkness. Its primary focus is to introduce positive thoughts in a person’s mind to live the moment and defend themselves against depression, anxiety with strength, and strategies to alter severe emotions causing problems in a person’s life and effective interpersonal communication.

Improve Your Mood brings you four techniques for healing sadness, recalling sources of nourishment and pleasure, and connecting with times in the past when you felt calm and confident.

Drew Millard loves golf. As a kid, he enjoyed the game, but since college, his clubs had been gathering dust in his parents' basement. And then, a bout with depression led him back home to haul them out of the unfinished storage. It was what the doctor had ordered. In addition to medication and therapy, Drew needed to exercise. Exercise was not something he did. But golf? Sure, why not? As Drew fumbled his way through his first round in years, he discovered that sucking at golf was his new calling, one that helped him find a sense of balance and rhythm—both on the course and in his own mind.

Do you ever feel like your body’s still in survival mode, even when things are calm? Like you’re exhausted from holding it all together—but have no idea how to let go without falling apart? Maybe you’ve even looked in the mirror and thought, “I don’t recognize myself anymore.” If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone—and you’re not stuck. Healing doesn’t have to be overwhelming. With the right tools, just a few minutes a day can shift you from chaos to calm, tension to ease, disconnection to safety.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A memoir chronicling Emma Lovewell’s incredible path to physical―and mental―fitness that traces her journey to becoming a beloved Peloton instructor and inspires readers to live, learn, and love well “Emma’s spirit and spark are contagious . . . a great reminder...

This book is about how mindfulness to improve mental health and mood begins with exercise, by sacrificing the body. Most people think the hard work is achieved through sweat, but it's in the kitchen, in what we feed ourselves, where the true challenge begins. One can't outwork a bad diet. This is where learning how to master self-control is key. The catch is that anyone can do it: All it takes is consistency.

Leverage your built-in rhythms of Upstates and Downstates to enhance energy, sharpen thinking, balance moods, fuel fitness, and more. If you’re like most people, the relentless daily grind of go-go-go, do-do-do, can run down your energy and deplete your resources. While most of us find our...

Achieve peace and balance in just 5 minutes a day, even if you've struggled with stress and anxiety for years–no experience required! Beginner's Guide to Somatic Exercises for Nervous System Regulation offers an easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach to relieve stress and anxiety in just 5 minutes a day.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Drama Free and Set Boundaries, Find Peace, a hands-on resource for understanding and working through dysfunctional family dynamics—and recognizing when to walk away Family can be a source of connection, and a source of conflict. In this...

Your body is your first healer. It already carries the wisdom to restore balance, release trauma, and return you to a life of calm presence. The Somatic Exercise Solution is your roadmap back to that inner sanctuary. In this transformational audiobook, you’ll discover 42 gentle, science-backed somatic techniques designed to calm anxiety, support trauma recovery, and tone the vagus nerve, all in just ten minutes a day. No experience, flexibility, or equipment required. All you need is your breath, your awareness, and a willingness to begin.

From Sunday Times bestselling author Alex Light comes an empowering, incisive new book examining the crippling beauty standards women are subjected to – and how we can learn to fight back. Too thin or not thin enough? ‘Had too much work done’, or ‘Brave for your age’? Frivolously vain...

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for PTSD is a self-help guide to overcoming Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with DBT techniques and practical exercises. It offers an explanation of what Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is, how to use it yourself or with your therapist, and much, much more! DBT teaches you how to identify and acknowledge your emotions so that you can then control them and their associated behaviors. It provides a change in habits and behavior to put an end to self-destructive decisions and choosing healthier actions.

Shadow work—the process of exploring your pain, trauma, and imperfections—is a powerful tool to help you embrace and accept yourself, even the parts that are difficult. Shadow Work gives you everything you need to get started with a clear explanation of what shadow work is, how it works, and how it helps you, as well as guided meditations and affirmations to walk you through your own shadow work. Written by licensed therapist Jor-El Caraballo, this book is the perfect companion for your self-exploration journey.

A hands-on resource to help you break addictive habits and heal your anxious mind, based on the New York Times bestseller Unwinding Anxiety. Between the relentless uncertainty—political, environmental, societal—in the world and our own personal challenges, many of us are living in a state in...