Mental Stress

The hallmarks of America’s War on Terror have been repeated long deployments and a high percentage of troops returning with psychological problems. Family members of combat veterans are at a higher risk of potentially lethal domestic violence than almost any other demographic; it’s estimated that one in four children of active-duty service members has symptoms of depression; and nearly one million veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan require increased care due to physical or psychological trauma.

Emotional trauma crashes into your life, throwing you to the ground, usually without warning. In that moment, your life sucks, and that fact sucks any remaining life out of you. The trauma crushes you, suffocating you, changing everything. This kind of stress places a burden on your physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and behavioral health. To be restored requires significant change. To live well requires diligent attention to self-care and guidance through the process of healing and recovery.

Healing from Childhood Trauma is your compassionate roadmap to understanding and transforming the wounds that shaped you. Blending trauma-informed psychology with heart-centered guidance, Lily Hart takes you on a gentle journey of self-discovery, helping you uncover how early experiences molded your attachment style, emotional habits, and sense of self-worth—and how to finally break free.

Imagine a life where the critical voice in your head grows quiet, replaced by compassion and trust. Where joy, creativity, and peace return—the parts of you that felt alive before life’s hurts dimmed your light. This audiobook offers a compassionate, practical roadmap to heal your inner child, release the weight of your past, and step into a future where you feel grounded, worthy, and truly alive.

Dr. Kirren Schnack is here to tell you that your anxiety isn’t here to stay. Whether you’re going through something and need support to feel like yourself again, or if you have been dealing with anxious thoughts for a long time, Ten Times Calmer has the help you’ve been looking for. Dr. Kirren is an Oxford trained clinical psychologist with twenty years’ experience. In Ten Times Calmer she offers a first aid kit of tools to help you understand what you’re going through and change how you’re feeling—and it might just be easier than you think.

Arrêtez d'inquiéter à l'aide du livre audio "Comment venir à bout du stress et commencer à vivre" de Dale Carnegie ! Pouvez-vous juste imaginer à quel point le stress détruit nos vies ? Nous perdons tout pouvoir de décision, notre faculté de nous concentrer. L'inquiétude affecte la santé, les esprits. Savez-vous qu'aujourd'hui la plupart des gens souffrent de troubles psychologiques et passent la moitié de leur vie à l'hôpital ?

We all want the power and motivation to create change in our lives. But how to get that in a stumbling dance of one step forward and two steps back? Negative emotions run rampant in many people's lives today; a reality that feels like a shrink wrap of suffering. Popular fallback solutions of performance-based goals and tools focus on extrinsic rewards like fame, wealth, or winning. But overuse of those rewards doesn't work for the long term and in fact weakens our confidence and motivation over time, leaving us vulnerable to failure and shame.

If you’re a woman dealing with fatigue, mood swings, brain fog, poor sleep, or stubborn weight, this is the holistic wellness guide you’ve been waiting for. Herbal Biohacking for Women combines natural hormone support, plant-based remedies, and science-backed wellness strategies to help you reclaim control of your body and mind. Written by women’s health expert Sage O’Reilley, this guide helps you feel more energized, clear-headed, grounded, and resilient—without synthetic hormones or guesswork.

Do more. Be more. Try harder. It's the battle cry of our culture, and it's making millions of us sick, tired, and frustrated. Why? Because we simply can't solve stress and overwhelm by doing more and more of what we've been doing. With Overcoming Overwhelm, Dr. Samantha Brody offers an alternative. Using her proven and practical techniques that have already helped thousands, this pioneering naturopathic physician teaches you how to systematically undo overwhelm, with four simple steps....

Feeling pressured to forgive their offenders is a common reason trauma survivors avoid mental health services and support. Those who force, pressure, or encourage trauma survivors to forgive can unknowingly cause harm and sabotage their recovery. And such harm is entirely unnecessary—especially when research shows there is no consensus among psychologists, psychiatrists, and other professionals about whether forgiveness is necessary for recovery at all.

As the personal development expert Brian Tracy says, you have two choices in life: you can either work on your own goals, or you can work for someone else and help them achieve their goals. Did you know that only a small percentage of the population has clearly written goals that they work on every day? These are the people who end up achieving the most in life. You've probably reached the point where you realize that setting goals might be beneficial and I'm here to tell you that you're entirely right.

Imagine waking up every morning with the confidence and assertiveness to lead your day. You have successfully tackled overwhelm, stress, and limiting emotions, you have boosted your focus and concentration, dealt with peer pressure, and have finally managed to navigate relationships smoothly. How great would that feel? Written by a mom of a teenager turning adult, with years of research and hands-on experience who has walked the same path with her own teen, don’t miss out on the opportunity to transform your life!

A practical guide that offers self-help for anyone suffering from anxiety, depression, stress, PTSD, and anger. For the first time, Katherine Andler brings together the five therapies commonly used to overcome emotional distress: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Hypnotherapy, and Somatic Therapy. Each of the therapies are described step-by-step, so that anyone with mild to moderate emotional issues can heal themselves.

Mind Over Anxiety offers a clear, practical approach to easing anxious thoughts and building lasting inner calm. Drawing on four decades of coaching Olympic athletes, corporate leaders, and healthcare professionals, he shows how simple mindfulness and meditation practices can help retrain your stress response and help you meet life’s pressures with greater clarity and resilience.

If you've experienced long-term or repeated trauma-such as childhood abuse or neglect, domestic violence, betrayal, or prolonged emotional abuse-you may struggle with intense feelings of sadness, anger, anxiety, shame, and distrust toward others.

A body-focused, trauma-informed art therapy that will appeal to art therapists, somatic experiencing practitioners, bodyworkers, artists, and mental health professionals

A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came. In...

About a third of the world population suffers from an anxiety disorder, and half of Americans have had at least one traumatic experience like rape, assault, shooting, or natural disasters. Fear and anxiety are with us everywhere we go. Fear is deeply woven into our biology, culture, politics, and day to day life. We sometimes don't even know what we are afraid of. What we know for sure is that we are afraid too often.But why are we so scared? How does fear work in our brains? What is the evolutionary purpose of fear? In this book, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist answers these questions.

Rich, Bret, Ken, and Josh have dedicated their lives to ensuring that people can grow in the aftermath of trauma, and live great lives — filled with Posttraumatic Growth. This remarkable book harnesses the power of all their experience, and the incredible true stories of combat veterans and military and veteran family members who have transformed loss into gain and pain into purpose.

If you have an anxiety disorder or experience anxiety symptoms that interfere with your day-to-day life, you can benefit from learning four simple skills that therapists use with their clients. These easy-to-learn skills are at the heart of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a cutting-edge therapeutic approach that can help you better manage the panic attacks, worries, and fears that limit your life and keep you feeling stuck. In The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety, you'll learn how to use each of these skills to manage your anxiety, worry, and stress.