Self Wellness

Ten years ago, Ilyse Kennedy was a disconnected twenty-something, sitting on a therapy couch, grappling with her own trauma. Now, as a trauma therapist, Kennedy shows up ready to attune to her treasured clients. Those who meet her might be surprised to know that this twenty-something still lives within her. She also has a people pleaser, who caters to the needs of others for self-protection. Then there is the therapist within her, who offers tools and solutions for her clients. The twenty-something, people pleaser, and therapist are all parts within her.

Jessa Zimmerman takes on the heart-wrenching questions that naturally arise when couples are struggling with sex. Once sex becomes synonymous with disappointment, avoidance sets in and creates pressure in the bedroom. In this straightforward and practical book, Zimmerman guides us to understand the cycle that develops when sex is difficult, to shift our mindset when it comes to sexual intimacy, and to transform our sexual experience with our partner using a nine-phase experiential process.

Here, for the first time, is a layperson's explanation of polyvagal theory, an approach to mental health and well-being that has taken the clinical world by storm. A polyvagal approach to life is based on the knowledge that the autonomic nervous system is shaped by early experience and reshaped with ongoing experience. This short book will offer an overview for nonspecialists and provide a series of exercises and meditations (practices) that will allow listeners to tune into their nervous systems, providing calming prompts to build and strengthen ventral vagal connections.

In this essential guide, Nadine Artemis introduces listeners to the concept of "renegade" beauty - a practice of doing less and allowing the elements and the life force of nature to revive the body, skin, and soul so our natural radiance can shine through. Anyone stuck in perpetual loops of new products, facials, and dermatologist appointments will find answers as Artemis illuminates the energizing elements of sun, fresh air, water, the Earth, and plants.

With this powerful self-hypnosis, you will be losing weight and feeling fabulous again in no time! With summer around the corner, it’s time to finally kick that weight off for good, and feel the way you were always meant to feel! This guided meditation features a carefully selected series of positive affirmations specifically designed to help you kick sugar cravings, feel confident and inspired, boost your exercise motivation, and form a positive body image!

This book can help you take your persuasion skills to the next level, mastering the secrets and the techniques used in dark psychology, manipulation, and NLP. Use this book as a study guide. Even if you have never used mind persuasion techniques, you'll be able to learn new ways to control your own mind and the minds of others and to use these techniques to live a successful life. Be a leader - let your power explode!

When talking about mindfulness, a lot of people avoid talking about race—despite these practices coming from the lands of Black and Brown people. This book is different: The author is Black ,and the message is Black. The purpose is to encourage spiritual consciousness, anti-racist awareness, and social change that benefits all people. Listening to Black Meditation will teach you about Kemetic principles, visualization techniques, and methods for cultivating self-love and self-respect.

The founder of Recovery Management Agency—the world’s first agency devoted to helping addicts heal their addictions by reawakening their souls—uses her knowledge of depth psychology and her personal experience as a recovering addict to help you reconnect with soul, find meaning and live your purpose.

It's time to stop restricting yourself and learn to make your relationship with food healthy—without forcing yourself to eat "healthy." Dietitian Kim Shapira has developed six simple rules that will change your relationship with food forever. In This Is What You're Really Hungry For, she breaks down the science to get your brain and your body on board, replaces fad diets that do not last with a sustainable method that encourages you to eat what you love, and empowers you to be the authority in your own body.

You might be thinking: "I've tried therapy before, and it didn't work." Or perhaps, "I'm not sure I'm ready to face my emotions." Maybe you're worried that DBT is too complicated or time-consuming. This book is designed to address those concerns. It offers a step-by-step approach that is easy to follow, even if you're new to DBT. It provides a safe and supportive space to explore your emotions and learn new skills at your own pace. And it's filled with practical tips and real-life examples that you can apply to your daily life.

Imagine waking up feeling lighter, more energized, and completely in sync with your body. What if weight loss and deep, restorative sleep weren’t a struggle but a natural result of aligning your mind, body, and spirit? That’s exactly what 16 Transformative Hypnosis Sessions for Rapid Weight Loss and Deep Sleep for Women is designed to help you achieve. This isn’t just another weight loss guide—it’s a deeply immersive experience that rewires your subconscious to work for you, not against you.

The Insecure Girl's Handbook will guide you through your insecurity no matter what life stage you're at, pointing out the pitfalls of people pleasing, negative backchat and crippling comparison along the way. It's a carefully curated toolkit of tried and tested mechanisms and small pearls of wisdom to start combatting that feeling that holds us back from speaking up, from following our dreams or even feeling that our dreams aren't good or big enough. I hope it will provide you with a comforting hug and pep talk, from one insecure girl to another.

In Secure at Last: Anxious Attachment Recovery, Emma Harper shares a compassionate and powerful roadmap to help you heal the root causes of anxious attachment and finally build the calm, safe, lasting love you deserve.

Shame is a devastating emotion, and one that's often difficult to work through. If you are hurting, you should know that you aren't alone. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Shame offers a step-by-step evidence-based approach to healing from shame using the core skills of emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness. You'll learn to cultivate nonjudgmental self-acceptance, and discover strategies for managing difficult emotions—even in situations that trigger feelings of shame, guilt, or self-directed anger.

When you are showered with attention, it can feel incredibly romantic and can blind you to hints of problems ahead. But what happens when attentiveness becomes domination? In some relationships, the desire to control leads to jealousy, gaslighting, threats, micromanaging - even physical violence. If you or someone you care about are trapped in a web of coercive control, this audiobook provides answers, hope, and a way out.

This hypnosis session has been published in over 50 countries and is considered THE most successful hypnosis for weight loss - worldwide! The application "programs" your subconscious to follow a healthy diet permanently. Hunger for too much food or unhealthy food vanishes and feeding becomes a more conscious act again. Weight problems are closely associated with our subconscious. This audiobook provides a wonderful opportunity to anchor crucial impulses in your mind to ensure you lose weight easily.

Plenty of books dwell on the faults in our decision-making or offer advice on how to make better choices. The Elements of Choice goes one step further and explains how we can design better end-to-end decision-making processes. Going well beyond the familiar concepts of nudges and defaults, Eric J. Johnson offers a comprehensive, systematic guide to creating effective choice architectures, the environments in which decisions are made.

Author Dr. Patrick Carnes begins by defining sexual anorexia and demonstrating how it and its parallel disorder, sexual addiction and compulsivity, often arise from a background of childhood sexual trauma, neglect, and other forms of abuse. Carnes explores the numerous dimensions of sexual health, examining key issues which must be addressed and resolved for recovery to proceed.

During extraordinary moments of consciousness - shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication - our senses of time and self are altered; we may even feel time and self dissolving. These experiences have long been ignored by mainstream science. Recent research, however, has located the neural underpinnings of these altered states of mind. In this book, neuropsychologist Marc Wittmann reveals how experiences that disturb or widen our everyday understanding of the self can help solve the mystery of consciousness.

Encounters with embarrassment, guilt, self-consciousness, remorse, etc. are an unavoidable part of everyday life, and they sometimes have lessons to teach us - about our goals and values, about the person we expect ourselves to be. In contrast to the prevailing cultural view of shame as a uniformly toxic influence, Shame is a book that approaches the subject of shame as an entire family of emotions which share a “painful awareness of self.”