Mental Stress

Today, we know more about mental health than ever before, but traditional medicine still mistakes subtle signs of trauma for stress, anxiety, or chronic disease—sometimes even retraumatizing patients with outdated and misguided methods. Treatment plans that focus on the mind are only addressing the downstream effects. Likewise, common medical approaches to manage symptoms fail to explore root causes and promote genuine recovery.

Got Parts? was written by a survivor of DID in association with her therapist and therapy group. This audiobook is filled with successful coping techniques and strategies to enhance the day-to-day functioning of adult survivors of DID in relationships, work, parenting, self-confidence, and self-care. Got Parts? will help you introduce yourself to your internal family and improve its communication, integration, and well-being. Although written to carefully avoid triggering, it delivers well-grounded guidelines for living that DID people need to do on the way to recovery.

If you're overwhelmed, stretched thin, or feeling like burnout is your new normal, you're not alone. Modern life is stressful—and most advice doesn’t help for long. The Stress Solution offers a science-backed, practical path forward. Grounded in the SMART (Stress Management and Resiliency Training) Program from the Benson-Henry Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, this guide helps you reconnect mind and body to manage stress, sleep better, and build lasting resilience—without overhauling your life.

If you're looking for ways to optimize your client sessions, consider joining the many thousands of therapists and life coaches worldwide who are learning acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). With a focus on mindfulness, client values, and a commitment to change, ACT is proven-effective in treating depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, eating disorders, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder (BPD), and myriad other psychological issues. It's also a revolutionary new way to view the human condition.

Mo Gawdat is an engineer. What most of us see as insurmountable problems he sees as systems overloads to tackle and solve. Unstressable breaks stress into inputs and effects, classifying human stressors as: stress to the mind, stress to emotions, stress to the body, and stress to the soul. Once classified, Gawdat and co-author Alice Law show listeners how stress can be predicted—and once predicted, prevented.

Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking book...

Attract abundance and money while you sleep! Fall asleep tonight knowing that your mind is becoming a money magnet! It's time to stop attracting negativity and time to start attracting real wealth and abundance! With this law of attraction hypnosis, you can practice at home or on the go, learning to destress yourself with positive affirmations that rebuild your view of money, wealth, confidence, and success from the ground up.

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the author of Untangled Dr. Lisa Damour worked as an expert collaborator on Pixar’s Inside Out 2! “An invaluable read for...

A riveting memoir and a fascinating investigation of the history, uses, and controversies behind lithium, an essential medication for millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder. It began in Los Angeles in 1993, when Jaime Lowe was just sixteen. She stopped sleeping and eating, and...

Discover the profound impact your Vagus nerve has on your overall health and wellbeing from inflammation, depression, stress and wellbeing and how you can support it to improve your life beyond your wildest dreams with just a few minutes of exercise each day. This comprehensive evidence-based guide demystifies the relationship between mind, body, and the autonomic nervous system, specifically focusing on how you can harness the power of the vagus nerve to improve every aspect of your life.

Would you like to live a life free from anxiety? Have you ever wondered what happens inside your brain when you're feeling worried? Unlock the secret to managing anxiety with a powerful protein called Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF). Did you know that people with anxiety disorders tend to have lower levels of BDNF? In Live Without Anxiety, you’ll discover simple, effective techniques to naturally boost your BDNF levels and reduce anxiety, leading to a calmer, more balanced life. The latest breakthroughs in neuroscience reveal and reaffirm the ancient wisdom of past civilizations.

Modern times are stressful - and it's killing us. Unfortunately, we can't avoid the things that stress us out, but we can change how we respond to them. In this breakthrough book, a clinical psychologist and neuroscience expert offers an original approach to help listeners harness the power of positive emotions and overcome stress for good.

Suicide rates among Army soldiers increased 80 percent between 2004 and 2008, according to a recent report published in Injury Prevention. In the last several years, the number of soldiers returning from the Middle East with mental and physical wounds has continued to climb. According to Dr. Simon Rego, a supervising psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center, "Unlike any other time in history, U.S. military suicide rates now appear to have surpassed those among comparable civilian populations. It is therefore critical that we address this emerging public-health problem."

In our busy, get-it-done-now culture, stress has become the new normal - a normal that's embedding itself into our minds and our bodies. If left unchecked, stress can dictate how we think, feel, and act. Overwhelm, anxiousness, malaise, and unease are a daily experience. And over time, these stress-reactions turn into habits, leaving us stuck in a mental and physical rut. So, how can you soothe stress before it becomes your go-to? In this practical and accessible guide, you'll find powerful and effective tools for calming stress in both mind and body.

David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the US Marines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would be able to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he never thought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Even less that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of Da Nang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell. David's journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteran shows us all how fragile our humanity really is.

Hope and light are on the horizon to help clients overcome the challenges of healing and releasing the pain of relational trauma. The highly acclaimed Transcending Trauma explores a unique, compassionate, and evidence-based approach to resolving complex and dissociative trauma. In this transformative audiobook, Frank Anderson, MD, masterfully details an IFS path to therapy that allows clients to access their inherent capacity for healing — called self-energy — while also helping them welcome, as opposed to manage, the extreme emotions frequently associated with trauma.

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.

The Overthinking Cure is a book that understands where you’ve been through, the exhausting situation you’ve put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress. Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire your brain, control your thoughts, and change your mental habits.

Est-ce que vous souffrez souvent de crises d’angoisse, qui diminuent grandement vos facultés et vous handicapent dans votre quotidien? Est-ce que ces crises influencent de façon négative votre qualité de vie et votre joie de vivre? Souhaitez-vous que vos émotions négatives arrêtent enfin de gouverner votre vie? Dans ce cas, ce livre peut vous offrir une toute nouvelle qualité de vie! Combattez vos peurs une bonne fois pour toutes avec l’aide de techniques efficaces issues de la psychologie positive.