Mental Pain

With a better understanding of healing, we can change the paradigm of treating and preventing chronic pain and disease. While conventional Western medicine tends to treat the body and mind as separate entities, scientific evidence proves that physical, spiritual, and psychological aspects of the self affect one another on a profound level. This audiobook explains the science that tells us that only when these deeper spiritual and emotional issues are addressed can true healing from suffering and pain begin.

This collection of poetry, memoirs, and stories of short fiction presents to the listener such themes as depression, suicide, hopelessness, grief, loss, love, mental illness, and abuse both emotional and physical experienced by the writers or someone close to them. This collection serves to demonstrate that hiding behind shame or fear rather than sharing emotional pain as the authors in these works do is tantamount to putting on a mask; wearing a person suit.

If you're struggling with suicidal thoughts, please know that you are not alone. When you're suffering, life can feel overwhelming and even insurmountable. This guided journal offers a safe space to help you process these difficult thoughts, soothe emotional pain, and create a crisis plan if needed. Grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this journal provides gentle writing prompts to help you safely explore your thoughts and feelings, understand symptoms and triggers, and identify your reasons for living.

When a 200-pound glass partition fell on Donna Fado Ivery's head resulting in brain injury, disability, and chronic pain, she could no longer count on walking, speaking, or thinking. How would she care for her infant, her preschooler, her husband, and herself? How would she continue to serve as pastor? With humor and humility, this inspirational memoir speaks to Donna’s struggle through medical, social, and church prejudice with the abiding support of family and the Holy Spirit.

Sex Without Pain: A Self-Treatment Guide to the Sex Life You Deserve is the definitive resource for women experiencing painful sex, authored by internationally recognized pelvic health physical therapist Dr. Heather Jeffcoat. Now in its expanded second edition, this expert guide provides evidence-based solutions for conditions including vaginismus, vulvodynia, vestibulodynia, dyspareunia, overactive pelvic floor, interstitial cystitis, and endometriosis. It also addresses sexual pain related to postpartum recovery, perimenopause, and menopause.

Are you tired of feeling like life is a never-ending whirlwind, constantly pulling you in a million different directions? Do you find yourself overwhelmed by the relentless demands of work, family, and the chaos of modern living? Have you ever mindlessly scrolled your phone, knowing you had more important things to do but couldn’t seem to find the focus you needed to redirect? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these, it's time to take control and embark on a transformative journey with 'The Wonders of Mindfulness Meditation for Busy Adults.'

Are You Constantly Battling Stress, Anxiety or Trauma? Do You Feel Trapped in an Endless Cycle of Worry, Fatigue or Emotional Turmoil? It’s time to break free! Science Backed Somatic Exercises is your 5 books in 1, step-by-step guide to unlocking the healing power of your nervous system using proven techniques that take just 10 minutes a day.

Introducing Somatic Exercise Made Simple, your personal guide to achieving profound mental and physical health through easy, accessible somatic exercises that fit effortlessly into your daily life.

The weight of unresolved trauma doesn't just affect your personal life—it silently shapes your decisions, your leadership, and your success. Even as conversations about "trauma" move into the mainstream, the business world has largely ignored its impact—until now. In Your Way Back to Happy, Janelle Bruland shares her deeply personal story of overcoming undiagnosed PTSD and offers a proven roadmap to transform your pain into power.

Why It's OK to Talk About Trauma is the book your brain, body and future self need to listen to. 1 in 2 people experience trauma at some point in their lives. Trauma can be a result of anything which causes fear, helplessness and horror. Broadcaster and abuse survivor Charlie Webster uses her own lived experience alongside advice from experts to create a companion for trauma survivors – a book that will help, explain, understand and navigate the impact of trauma on our lives.

After suddenly losing her daughter in 2013, Dr. Betsy Guerra met excruciating pain and hopelessness face-to-face. Her grief journey taught her lessons that superseded the knowledge afforded by her doctorate degree and decades of clinical practice. Ultimately, Betsy found her way to joy, while continuing to love and honor her daughter. Her story has attracted hundreds of people who have also struggled with grief. Since her loss, Betsy has studied and tested the tools that helped her clients overcome incredible pain and hardships.

My name is Kristina Joy. I was plagued with chronic pain for years from an autoimmune disease and neurological damage. I prayed for a change and set out on a journey to explore natural ways to alleviate or eliminate my pain. The goal was a higher quality of life. As I explored the natural route for chronic pain, I was astounded at what I discovered. My health issues were so severe in the past I was close to spending my future days in a wheelchair or severely disabled and chained to my bed.

U.S. Representative Adam Smith was successful by all measures, with a long, distinguished career in Congress and a loving marriage with children. Yet seemingly out of nowhere, his body and mind broke down to the point where every day was a relentless struggle to just keep moving. It’s a struggle millions of Americans know all too well. Would he be able to meet his responsibilities as a husband and father? Could he still maintain his breakneck professional schedule and continue to do his job well? He soon realized he couldn’t will himself well—he needed help.

What if you could activate or improve your body’s natural healing thanks to a few simple physical exercises? Just imagine those exercises reducing your body’s inflammation, anxiety, or chronic illness. How could it be possible? Simply thanks to the vagus nerve! If you never heard about vagus nerves, which are usually referred to in the singular, they are the longest and maybe the most important autonomic nerves in human body. Approximately the 80 percent of its nerve fibers drive information from the body to the brain.

Concluí que o caráter agridoce não é apenas um sentimento momentâneo. É um modo de ser, uma resposta autêntica ao problema de estar vivo em um mundo profundamente imperfeito e teimosamente belo.

An intriguing blend of science and sports that explores how some of the worlds greatest athletes are utilizing the last frontier of performance-enhancing technology—the mental mapping and engineering of their own brains—for peak performance, and what it means for the future of athleticism...

Using inspirational dialogue combined with music, each of the six meditations in the series serves as a remedy for a specific complaint. The meditations are designed to release negativity and eliminate stress. Used regularly, the meditations promote a positive attitude which will support a deeper sense of peace and well-being.

When Vonnie Woodrick lost her husband, Rob, to suicide in 2003, she was faced with a series of decisions. How would she move on? How would she support and raise her three children as a young widow? How would she talk about Rob and honor his memory? These questions had no easy answers, but Vonnie found herself longing for one thing in particular: understanding. The stigma of mental illness loomed large over Rob’s death and made healing difficult.

R. Allen Stigger is a native Chicagoan who currently resides in the western suburbs and is father to three amazing daughters. He is an army veteran who enjoys writing about the human experience and his personal life childhood experiences.

Am I an accident? Why did I have to go through all of this pain? What is the purpose of my life? These are just a few questions asked and answered by international author, public speaker and minister, D'Andre J. Lacy in his book, Out of the Ashes: Finding the Purpose In Your Pain.