Parenting Stress

Breath Perception is your companion to understanding the power of breath and using it as a tool to improve your physical and mental health. Partly because we take breath for granted and do not work with it, we are somewhat unaware of the potential it holds to reduce stress, change metabolism, and increase our supply of energy. Breath Perception presents 261 simple exercises - one for every Monday through Friday - for using breath to attain greater well-being.

A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, featuring life-changing, real-world advice. “Preserve the greatest gift you will ever give your baby: a loving relationship between the baby's parents” —John Gottman, clinical...

Parenting Kids with ADHD isn’t just another guide—it’s a lifeline filled with real-world strategies to help you understand your child, reduce daily chaos, and create a more connected, confident home. Inside, you’ll learn how to ease morning stress, prevent meltdowns, support focus and sleep, and handle tough moments with calm and clarity. You’ll discover why common discipline approaches often backfire with ADHD—and what actually works to encourage positive behavior.

Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new insights into anxiety and personality disorder and the impact of spirituality on managing stress. As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, the diseases we fear-and the ones that plague us now-are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage, such as heart disease and cancer.

Sweaty, trembling hands. Churning stomach. Headaches, sleeplessness, rapid heartbeat. All are common symptoms of nervous illness, or the panic state. During her long and accomplished career, Dr. Claire Weekes helped countless people overcome anxiety, fear, and frustration and lead happy, healthy lives. Based on the best-selling book of the same name, this eight-part original audio series is like a personal consultation with Dr. Weekes. Learn to recognize your own symptoms, rise above them, and relax.

Life is busy, full of things competing for our time and attention, and it’s easy to believe that the best way to get things done is just to keep going—as fast as possible. But that just isn’t true. In fact, taking time to re-centre ourselves can have tremendous personal and professional benefits. In this concise programme, sports psychologist Dr Josephine Perry and yoga for sports specialist Lexie Williamson will guide you through tried-and-tested relaxation techniques designed especially for busy people—which, let’s face it, is all of us.

In this paradigm-shifting guide, renowned intuitive, life coach, and truth seeker Elizabeth April dismantles outdated beliefs about anxiety and exposes its true root cause: an energetic imbalance signaling unresolved emotional and spiritual misalignment. Drawing from her personal journey with chronic anxiety, she delivers a bold new framework that empowers you to take control, without medication, years of therapy, or exhausting trial and error.

Anxiety is a survival skill gone haywire. It happens when our brain is working so hard to protect us that it forgets to notice that the danger has passed. It feels like choking, stifling, smothering, tingling, panicking - our brains cut out and we start to make bad decisions - all normal anxiety reactions. Dr. Faith G. Harper, author of the best-selling This is Your Brain on Depression packs a ton of knowledge and help into this practical manual.

If you are tired of being tired and your brain insists on running a late night talk show the moment your head hits the pillow, Boring Bedtime Stories To Put YOU To Sleep Fast: 18 Stories to Help You Quieten Your Mind and Fall Asleep is here to save your sleep and your sanity. This hilarious yet calming collection of extremely uneventful stories is written with one mission in mind. To relax your mind so completely that you drift off before you even remember what the story was about.

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."

Author Deborah Roth Ledley is a mother of two and a clinical psychologist who specializes in anxiety disorders and works with new mothers. In this book she introduces six simple strategies to handle the inevitable stress we all experience during the first year of motherhood.

You’re 18–35, ambitious, and drowning in the tiny screen’s 24/7 tyranny. The hustle that once lit you up now triggers cynicism, 3 AM racing thoughts, and a hollow “why bother?” Burnout isn’t stress it’s chronic sympathetic activation, reduced efficacy, and a values-action gap that drains your soul. The Unburdened Self is your strategic withdrawal.

Healing with Somatic Yoga is your step-by-step guide to reconnecting with your body’s innate wisdom—through breath, movement, sound, and sensation. In this transformative 6-week journey, yoga teacher and somatic coach Brett Larkin helps you unwind stored trauma, regulate your nervous system, and build a felt sense of safety from the inside out. Whether you’re seeking emotional release, trauma recovery, or nervous system repair after burnout or chronic stress, this book is your invitation to heal—gently, playfully, and powerfully.

Psychotherapist and spiritual counselor Nancy Colier offers the key to breaking free from the repetitive and obsessive thinking that is causing your stress, anxiety, worry, and unhappiness: Change your relationship with your thoughts. Using a powerful blend of mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), you'll learn how to surrender your thinking mind, and end repetitive thinking, rumination, and self-criticism - freeing you up to discover a life of self-compassion, presence, peace, and joy.

Are you curious about biohacking but not sure where to start? Biohacking for Beginners is your safe and practical guide to improving your health, energy, and mental clarity without falling into risky fads or extreme experiments. Written for everyday people who want to feel and perform better, this book breaks down the science of biohacking into simple steps anyone can follow.

Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo - he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he didn't absolutely need. The effects were remarkable: Sasaki gained true freedom, new focus, and a real sense of gratitude for everything around him.

Anxiété, surmenage, burn-out... ce n'est pas que dans la tête ! L'épuisement est une réalité physiologique, et ce livre vous donne les clés pour lutter efficacement contre lui. Dans ce livre, Cathy Assenheim vous éclaire et vous aide à : Comprendre les causes nerveuses et hormonales des symptômes typiques.

Imagine a breathing technique that can increase oxygen uptake and delivery to the cells, improve blood circulation, and unblock the nose. Perhaps it can help open the airways of the lungs, enhance blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain, improve sleep, and bring calmness to the mind. It might even restore bodily functions disturbed by stress, build greater resilience, and help you to live longer. You might think this description sounds farfetched. But it isn’t.

You have a complete understanding of your most private self. You have come to the realization that you have the capacity to do great things in your life and to alter the course of events. The fact that you are unable to make the adjustments that would be beneficial to you, despite the fact that you are aware of and comprehend who you are, is detrimental to your sense of self-worth and causes you to experience less happiness. On account of this, the life of a procrastinator is characterized by feelings of disappointment, missed opportunities, and a sense of guilt.

Fondé sur le travail pionnier du Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn et son célèbre programme de réduction du stress, ce livre majeur nous montre comment utiliser des méthodes scientifiquement prouvées pour guérir le corps, l'âme et l'esprit. Ce programme unique a fait l'objet de recherches qui démontrent que les techniques de méditation ont des effets préventifs et thérapeutiques sur la maladie, le stress social et professionnel, les troubles du sommeil ou alimentaires, etc.