Parenting Stress

You’ve taken the first step into the beautiful and creative life of the highly sensitive child. And now, we can help make this world a more compassionate and caring place together. Parenting a highly sensitive child is a gift: We get to experience their journey of growth and help shape their future. But parenting a highly sensitive child presents special challenges that require special awareness. Highly sensitive children need understanding, validation, and our support as positive role models to learn how to use their unique gifts in a world that doesn’t always understand them.

Anger is universal. Unchecked, it can cause lasting damage in our lives: wrecked relationships, lost jobs, even serious disease. Yet in these increasingly stressful times, all of us have acted in anger - and often wished we hadn't. Is there a way that really works to solve problems and assert ourselves without being angry?

En la vida, todos enfrentamos momentos de oscuridad. Problemas, desafíos y noches interminables de insomnio pueden hacer que nos sintamos perdidos, ahogados por el peso de nuestras propias preocupaciones.

Feel overwhelmed by your thoughts? Struggling with anxiety about your daily tasks? Or do you want to stop worrying about life? The truth is we all experience the occasional negative thought. But if you always feel overwhelmed, then you need to closely examine how these thoughts are negatively impacting your lifestyle. The solution is to practice specific mindfulness techniques that create more "space" in your mind to enjoy inner peace and happiness.

Is it possible to feel better - and make it last? Renowned physician, psychiatrist, brain-imaging researcher, and founder of Amen Clinics Dr. Daniel Amen understands how critical it is for you to know what will help you feel better fast, now and later. In Feel Better Fast and Make It Last, you'll discover new, powerful brain-based strategies to quickly gain control over anxiety, worry, sadness, stress, and anger, strengthening your resilience and giving you joy and purpose for a lifetime.

If meditation apps and self-help tips haven’t helped—and you still feel anxious or shut down—this workbook is your next step. Based on Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Practices, and Evidence-Based Tools, Nervous System Regulation Workbook is a hands-on manual for your body’s stress response. Imagine steady energy, calmer reactions, and feeling at home in your body. That’s biology you can train.

Who has time for self-care? Chelsea Pottenger didn't. In May 2015, the successful entrepreneur found herself battling postnatal depression so severe, she landed in a psychiatric hospital. Determined to overhaul her wellbeing, Chelsea dived headfirst into the study of mindfulness and meditation. She radically shifted her priorities, learning to put her mental health first. In The Mindful High Performer, Chelsea expertly guides you through simple, science-based tools to achieve optimal mental health.

Today’s the day you start trading stress for calm. Mindfulness for Stress Management provides you with a collection of easy-to-learn stress management exercises that will help you stop worrying and start focusing on the moment. Broken into 6 chapters - each focused on dealing with a different type of stress - this mindfulness-based guide to stress management offers you 50 unique tools designed to help you tackle stressful thoughts, emotions, and communication. Learn simple ways to avoid thought traps, externalize your emotions, sharpen your focus, and more.

In Believe in Yourself, Dr. Joseph Murphy, the author of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, shows how you can use the power of believing in yourself to achieve your dreams. Illustrating his points with wonderful stories about how inventors, writers, artists, and entrepreneurs have used this power to reach the heights, he shows you how you, too, can achieve success.

Learn how to cope with intense feelings, and discover how to use your sensitivity, empathy and intelligence to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity will give you in-depth information about this trait, as well as practical exercises and strategies to help with your daily struggles. It will help you come to new ways of thinking about your past, thrive in your current life and create exciting possibilities for the future.

Stuck in cycles of inaction and self-sabotage? Does procrastination keep you from reaching your potential? Every day, your ambitions clash with habits that leave you unfocused, overwhelmed, and searching for a way to move forward. What if proven methods could break those patterns and replace them with purpose, discipline, and steady progress? Discover Ikigai, Kaizen, and Hansei—three powerful Japanese principles to help you reclaim your time, reshape your habits, and align your life with what truly matters.

Many people feel called to help others and change the world, but they just don’t know how to fulfill their potential. They have the creativity and passion, but often get lost, not knowing how to direct their energies. Now, popular life coach Martha Beck shows how readers can find their calling in service and healing - while realizing their destiny. With a sparkling, compassionate, and often irreverent style, Beck draws from a combination of ancient wisdom and modern science to help readers consciously embrace vital skills that may be embedded in our DNA and are now made accessible again.

Drawing on the theoretical roots of the Stoics, Buddhism, popular psychology and CBT, Ben has created a unique programme that anyone can follow. Join Ben on his journey from anxious mess to back in control. This book is packed with fun and practical challenges that rlisteners can try themselves, all in the name of self-improvement! Split into three types of activity - mental, physical, and skilful - the challenges range from climbing a mountain to sleeping on a beach in a bivvy bag in a storm to having a conversation in Japanese.

Trauma and stress don’t just affect the mind. They affect the whole body. Which is why healing that trauma, and the physical health issues it leads to, requires a holistic approach. Developed from health coach Nate Ortiz’s personal experience with overcoming trauma and succeeding against the odds, along with his professional work with thousands of celebrity and everyday clients, The YOU You Never Knew is an empowering tool for those on their own journey of healing and transformation.

Everywhere you go, you see gyms, videos, and books about exercise, advertising how they can help you get in shape fast and easy. You've probably even put some money down before, vowing that this was the year you'd get in shape, lose that extra weight, and become the energetic person you know is hiding inside you. Unfortunately, life happens, and you fall into the habit of "I'll start tomorrow." How to Build Self-Discipline to Exercise is a practical guidebook on how to introduce exercise into your life and keep it there.

You’re about to discover the missing key to your happiness, your fulfillment, and your success. A secret hiding in plain sight your entire life, simpler than you ever could have imagined. And once you learn what this is and begin using it, your world will never be the same.

Noted mindfulness expert and international teacher and business leader Laurie J. Cameron reveals how to seamlessly weave mindfulness and compassion practices into your life. Timeless teachings, compelling science, and straightforward exercises designed for busy schedules - from waking up to joy, the morning commute, to back-to-back meetings and evening dinners - reveal how mindfulness practice can help you navigate life's complexity with mastery, clarity, and ease.

Whether you are stuck in the distress of life, or appear like nothing’s wrong, you may have faced trauma, or incredible stress, or suffocating fear. Maybe you wonder whether those emotions, memories, and experiences are blocking you from being as fulfilled and happy as you could be. Maybe you’re stuck in patterns that simply no longer work for you. What if you could change it all? What if you could feel safe and solid and secure inside your own body? What if your life could be peaceful and centered and fulfilled?

The simple truth is that PTSD can be extremely debilitating - not just for the person who has experienced trauma firsthand, but for their partners, as well. And while there are many books written for those suffering from PTSD, there are few written for the people who love them. In Loving Someone with PTSD, renowned trauma expert Aphrodite Matsakis presents concrete skills and strategies for the partners of those with PTSD.

Nearly half of US citizens over the age of 85 are suffering from some kind of dementia and require care. Loving Someone Who Has Dementia is a new kind of caregiving book. It's not about the usual techniques, but about how to manage on-going stress and grief. The book is for caregivers, family members, friends, and neighbors, as well as educators and professionals - anyone touched by the epidemic of dementia. Dr. Boss helps caregivers find hope in "ambiguous loss" - having a loved one both here and not here, physically present but psychologically absent.