Relationship Stress

Meditation offers, in addition to its many other benefits, a method for achieving previously inconceivable levels of concentration. Author B. Alan Wallace has nearly 30 years' practice in attention-enhancing meditation, including a retreat he performed under the guidance of the Dalai Lama. An active participant in the much-publicized dialogues between Buddhists and scientists, Alan is uniquely qualified to speak intelligently to both camps, and The Attention Revolution is the definitive presentation of his knowledge.

Picture your best life: Where would you work? What would your social calendar look like? What personal interests would you be exploring? This book is your prescription to turn those visions into a reality - with proven self-care strategies for every area of your life.

Dr. John Delony decided to get to the root of the issue by mapping out a plan to understand where our anxiety is coming from and the actions we can take to change it (because he's been there too). Over the past 20 years, he's learned through research, personal experience, and walking alongside countless others that there are six daily choices people have to make to create a non-anxious life.

You know those days when you just can't even? When everything is haywire and everyone, including yourself, seems to be against you? Your to-do list is a mile long; your kid is sick, traffic sucks, and you just spilled coffee all over yourself as you were about to walk out the door? How do you cope? We guess you could say "f--k it" and go back to bed with a bottle of whiskey at 10 a.m., but check out these more sustainable and helpful alternatives by Dr. Faith first. This is the first book of its kind to break down coping skills by type of situation.

Avec ces méditations guidées, vous découvrirez la clé d'un univers spirituel d'amour, de bonheur et de bien-être. Voici quatre méditations avec visualisation créative pour vivre votre quotidien dans l'harmonie, la paix et la sérénité. Cette source d'énergie de lumière infinie vous permettra de purifier votre corps, votre esprit, vos chakras ainsi que votre aura. Dès votre réveil, vous pouvez tirer profit d'une méditation matinale pour bien démarrer votre journée. Je vous amènerai dans un état de détente profonde ; vous prendrez conscience de votre souffle de vie et vous participerez à l'enveloppement de la sphère de protection.

To ensure we’re the ones controlling our minds, we must curate our thought content like a quality control expert on a vital production line. We need to know when our thoughts are helpful or harmful.

You've tried positive thinking. You've white-knuckled your way through panic attacks. You've told yourself to "just relax" a thousand times. But what if your anxiety, shutdown, and stress responses aren't personal failures—they're intelligent biological strategies you can actually work with? Polyvagal Theory for Stress, Anxiety, and Trauma reveals the hidden language of your nervous system and gives you the roadmap to genuine, lasting regulation. Richard Banks translates cutting-edge neuroscience into simple, practical tools that work with your body, not against it.

You are not broken. You are just unmoored. If you are reading this, you are likely tired. Not the kind of tired that a twenty-minute nap fixes, but a bone-deep, soul-level fatigue. It is the exhaustion of holding it together for too long in a world that feels like it is constantly shifting beneath your feet. Maybe you’ve lost a job, a relationship, or simply your sense of direction. You wake up at 3: 00 AM with a racing mind. You walk through your day with a low-level hum of anxiety whispering that you are falling behind.

Plagued - as we are! - by nonstop pings and notifications, we have lost the knack of zoning out. Kicking back. Slacking off. Even when pandemic-induced lockdowns forcibly cleared our calendars, many who thought I’m free! filled their days with Netflix and doomscrolling. How can we reclaim our free time (planned or not) to truly rest and reset? The Dutch have it figured out: with niksen. Perhaps their best-kept lifestyle secret, niksen is the art of doing, well, nothing. It’s the opposite of productivity, and it’s incredibly good for you.

In Relationships: A Mess Worth Making, Tim and Paul discuss the relational disappointments that we all suffer both in and out of the church. But they are also optimistic about the power of Christian beliefs to redeem and restore our relationships. Rather than presenting new or sophisticated techniques to make relationships flourish, the authors instead focus on the basic, Christian character qualities that can only be formed in the heart by the gospel.

Doing small things to prioritize your own well-being is essential, especially for women, who are often the caretakers of everyone else in their lives. Self-Care Activities for Women encourages you to spend time on you, with a wide variety of ways you can relax, reset, and find a little joy.

Love has a history and we ride - sometimes rather helplessly - on its currents. Since around 1750, we have been living in a highly distinctive era in the history of love that we can call Romanticism. And it has been a disaster for love. Relationships challenges the assumptions of the Romantic view of love. It shows how to develop new attitudes that can lead to a psychologically mature vision of love.

After the crash when ambition, obligation, and relentless hustle finally shut you down—there is only silence. In The Quiet Art of Rebuilding, Nikara Smith offers no quick fixes, no productivity hacks, and no demand to “get your old life back.” Instead, she walks with you through the tender, often painful process of becoming someone new. This is not an audiobook about bouncing back. It’s about bouncing forward into a smaller, slower, sturdier life that finally feels like home.

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, numb, or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness we so desperately need if we are to benefit humankind, other animals, and the planet itself. Through Trauma Stewardship, we are called to meet these challenges in an intentional way.

You weren’t built to live at 100 mph forever. You feel it every day: the slow rising of the water. The alarm that rips you out of sleep. The endless notifications. The quiet panic that you’re somehow still behind—even after the promotion, the raise, the perfect-looking life. You’ve tried everything: productivity systems, morning routines, meditation apps, yet the exhaustion keeps growing. That’s because none of those things are the real problem. The problem is that you are trying to out-swim an ocean that has no shore.

In a world of constant notifications, endless obligations, and nonstop mental noise, clarity has become a rare skill. Declutter Your Mind is a practical, compassionate guide that teaches you how to clear mental clutter, quiet cognitive noise, and design a lifestyle that supports focus, emotional balance, and intentional living. Using the powerful metaphor of decluttering a physical space, this book explains how thoughts, emotions, information overload, perfectionism, and unresolved experiences accumulate in the mind—creating stress, indecision, anxiety, and burnout.

Jan Chozen Bays, MD - physician and Zen teacher - has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate mindfulness as we go about our ordinary, daily lives. Exercises include: taking three deep breaths before answering the phone, noticing and adjusting your posture throughout the day, eating mindfully, and leaving no trace of yourself after using the kitchen or bathroom. Each exercise is presented with tips on how to remind yourself and a short life lesson connected with it.

You did everything right. You got the degree, chased the promotion, and optimized your calendar. So why do you feel like you’re fighting for survival? We live in an age of unprecedented noise. From the moment we wake up, we are bombarded by notifications, demands, and the curated highlight reels of other people’s lives. We wear "busy" like a badge of honor, terrified that if we stop moving, we will cease to matter. But running faster on a hamster wheel doesn’t get you to the destination. It just wears out the bearings.

Once upon a time, we were told "F*ck your feelings!"—and although we were never intended to take that advice to heart, many of us did. This book will help you translate and unravel the years of piled-on 'stuff' that you don't want to talk about—without forcing you to talk about it.

Don’t let stress control your life. Discover how to conquer it quickly with the international bestseller by Sarah Wright. This guide strips away the medical jargon and overwhelming exercises to offer you simple, effective techniques that you can start using immediately.