Mental Stress

Children who have been adopted and/or shuttled through the foster-care system experience trauma at a much higher rate than other kids, which can make it difficult for them to trust, relax, regulate their emotions, and connect with their new families. As a parent, learning how to heal attachment trauma, attune to your child's needs, identify triggers, and create felt safety is essential to providing the loving, supportive, and stable home they need to thrive. Written for parents of adopted and foster kids of all ages, this book offers resources for handling common concerns.

Transform your life and achieve lasting personal growth, even if you've felt stuck in your emotional patterns for years! Do you feel overwhelmed by your emotions, unsure how to manage stress, or struggle to maintain healthy relationships? Do you find it hard to handle criticism or express yourself confidently? If so, you're not alone. Many people face these challenges in today's fast-paced world. But there's a solution. Emotional Intelligence Unleashed by Jon Manning is a comprehensive guide to mastering your emotions and transforming your life.

The path to healing begins by going inwards. The path forward, paradoxically, begins by going backward. Our early experiences shape and mold the person we become, and when those experiences are filled with fear, anxiety, shame, and misery, what becomes of the adult? Whether you endured parental abuse, neglect, a home filled with conflict, or a mentally ill parent, there's no denying you can't come out of such traumas unscathed

Una guía empoderadora para ayudarte a sanar el dolor del pasado, encontrar el equilibrio emocional y lograr la abundancia, el éxito y la felicidad que mereces. ¿Alguien te ha dicho alguna vez que puedes hacer que sucedan cosas buenas si piensas positivamente? La ley de la atracción, que se basa en gran medida en la idea de que los pensamientos y emociones positivos atraen resultados positivos, es uno de los movimientos de autoayuda más populares de las últimas décadas.

This book will help you understand just what doomscrolling is and how it can ruin your health, damage your relationships, and leave you depressed and alone. I know what I’m talking about, because it happened to me. That’s why I committed to write this book to help others like me who have gotten lost in the bad news coming at you everyday. I’ll help you understand why you can’t seem to stop, and I’ll show you the evolutionary reasons behind your obsessive behavior. I’ll also provide you with effective steps to take to break the doomscrolling habit.

For 25 years, Michele Rosenthal struggled with her own post-traumatic stress disorder following a horrific illness that almost killed her. Now an award-winning blogger and post-trauma coach, Rosenthal has developed a program that not only helped her make a full recovery but has been helping survivors around the world move beyond their PTSD as well. In this book, she shares the very best tools that have helped so many come through to the other side of trauma.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is now recognized as one of the most effective treatment modalities for trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction, and beyond. EMDR For Dummies is a user-friendly guide for patients who need an introduction to what this type of therapy can do for them. You'll learn about the symptoms that EMDR can treat, and you'll have a chance to assess yourself to determine whether it might be a good fit for you.

When a traumatic event occurs, our body triggers its “fight or flight” response. In many scenarios, the emotional reactions of this response get trapped, disrupting the feedback loop between our mind and body, leading to an imbalance in our nervous system function. Over time this can cause chronic stress, pain, high blood pressure, and a weakened immune system. This, alongside regular triggers in our everyday life, will manifest into a disconnection between our mind and body and create a constant feeling of dissociation from our emotions, with minimal control over how we feel.

Stress is a part of daily life, but over time it can cause us to feel anxious, irritable, and overwhelmed. So how can you keep stress from getting the best of you and avoid total burnout? In the tradition of their highly successful A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Elisha Goldstein and Bob Stahl present a unique, accessible collection of daily practices to help listeners stay grounded in the here and now.

Is anxiety disrupting your life? With proven CBT-based skills and mindfulness techniques, this book can be your guide out of the spiraling stress of anxiety and get you back on track to living a happy and healthy life.

Prompted by years of working with patients suffering from panic attacks and struck by just how common and debilitating they were, medical doctor and psychotherapist Dr Áine Tubridy first published When Panic Attacks in 2003. Grounded in years of clinical experience and research, it has been a best seller ever since - because her methods work.

Written by a monk-turned-leadership-guru, Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind offers unique insight on how you can focus your mind, become more resilient, respond better to conflict, and build stronger professional (and personal) relationships. It's all possible when you begin to understand how your mind works and take control of this complicated mechanism. This book will show you how to identify and close the "apps" that are constantly running in your own mind, so you can eliminate distractions and find greater peace and productivity in your daily life.

Eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) - although still in its early stages of global recognition - is a form of therapy that has helped millions with their psychological ailments. Extensive research has evidenced the efficacy of EMDR’s approach in the treatment of trauma. This audiobook provides essential information about EMDR, discussing its history and definition, the eight phases of treatment, research-based results, and plenty of self-help techniques.

Teenage life is not easy—it comes with a lot of physical, emotional, and cognitive changes. You may often feel hurt by criticism from others, only to be told that you’re just overreacting. Remember this: You’re not being overly sensitive. They just don’t understand why you feel the way you do, including the amount of stress you’re under.

Challenges the notion that clients with PTSD must revisit, review, and process their memories to recover from trauma. Multiple therapeutic transcripts illuminate key points in trauma treatment, including stabilizing clients who dissociate, identifying and implementing hidden somatic resources, and utilizing good memories and somatic markers. With an authoritative yet personal voice, Rothschild's book is essential listening for anyone working with those who have experienced trauma.

Cognitive psychology is a study that focuses on how the human brain works. Through the use of cognitive behavioral therapy, people can find ways to keep their mental faculties in check. This includes understanding what can be done to resolve problems and issues in one’s life. This guide explains how cognitive behavioral therapy can be utilized to control fears, depression, anger, and other common problems that may persist in one’s life. With cognitive psychology, people can do more with their lives and know what they can do to manage their attitudes.

Self-care is everywhere - but sound bites on this trendy subject tend to focus more on face masks and bubble baths than on its key objective: mental health. Formerly at BuzzFeed, Borges helped popularize the self-care movement in the first place, and her book distills the “self-care internet” into an A to Z list with over two hundred entries - from soul-searching prompts to simple pick-me-ups. Listeners can tailor their own routines by choosing among Borges’s strategies, which cover four distinctive realms of self-care: physical, mental, social, and spiritual.

Wrestling with fear doesn't have to be a negative experience. This book offers an approach to life that unlocks a new way of thinking and being in the world, one that leads directly through the center of the anxieties we seek to avoid. Written in the style of an owner's manual, a guide to being human, Burkett focuses on areas of pain and anxiety as they tend to manifest for modern people: feelings of unworthiness, and issues surrounding sex, money, failure, and even death.

When it comes to healing from trauma, several important factors play a role. These factors help victims of traumatic happenings heal faster. This is exactly what you will find in this audiobook: You will find seven reasons why you may still have PTSD symptoms, suggesting another perspective on your situation and the opportunity to improve it. Also, this guide will go over what the grieving process consists of, and how people manage their dissociation from things they would rather not remember.

Anxiety puts our bodies into "fight or flight" mode-and makes us more vulnerable to exhaustion, depression and illness. These guided mind-body techniques help listeners counteract anxiety through deep relaxation, enhanced problem-solving, and converting fear into positive energy.