Wellness Culture

The study of classic and contemporary films can provide a powerful avenue to understand the experience of mental illness. In Madness at the Movies, James Charney, MD, a practicing psychiatrist and long-time cinephile, examines films that delve deeply into characters’ inner worlds, and he analyzes moments that help define their particular mental illness.

¿Puede una persona normal volverse psicópata? ¿Por qué no es fácil reconocer a un psicópata integrado en el trabajo? ¿Qué es lo que convierte a algunos jefes y directivos en depredadores de sus equipos? Camuflados bajo un aspecto encantador y un halo de falsa eficiencia, una nueva raza de psicópatas integrados está alcanzando el poder en las organizaciones.

In Distracted, journalist Maggie Jackson ponders our increasingly cyber-centric world and fears we're entering a dark age of interruption that will render us unable to think critically, work creatively or cultivate meaningful relationships.

In Under Pressure, Carl Honoré shows how the pressure to give our children the best of everything and make them the best at everything is backfiring on kids, parents and society as a whole. He maps out how we can rescue childhood from the excesses of the 21st century.

Introducing kids to meditation can benefit them now and in the long run. Because, meditation can be a powerful way to develop positive traits. Several studies suggest that kids who practice meditation tend to develop positive traits, such as increased self-control, better attentiveness in class, and more empathy and respect for others.

Guided imagery can be a safe, powerful and holistic way to relieve everyday stress and anxiety. During guided imagery, you are guided into a deeply relaxed state, in which you will feel peace and optimism. If you are ready to reduce anxiety and achieve balance and calm, then scroll up and buy this guided imagery audiobook now.

Il faut se rendre à l'évidence : il se passe quelque chose de nouveau sous le soleil. Les majestueux processus physiques et chimiques qui organisent le système Terre, la trajectoire évolutive du vivant, la composition des sols, des eaux, tout cela porte désormais la marque des activités humaines.

How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic", as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture.

Mindfulness isn't anything that we think; it's what we don't think. Mindfulness isn't something that other people do; it's something that we all do. Mindfulness is an ancient, life-enhancing, healing technique that can help us remember our natural state of happiness and health, even if we think we are too modern and too busy to prioritize what's really important--being fully alive and fully alive to our full life potential.

"The Impact of AI on Mental Health: Navigating the Digital Age for Teens, Adults, and Seniors" is a groundbreaking guide that tackles the urgent intersection of artificial intelligence and mental wellbeing. I am not a licensed therapist or clinical psychologist. I make that clear from the start. So why am I writing this book? Because I’ve lived a life at the intersection of leadership, innovation, spiritual formation, and family. I’m a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served as a U.S. Army Ranger Captain. I led teams under high-stress conditions and trained men for war.

Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in which good people face impossible choices and in which routines designed to normalize experience have the unintended effect of highlighting war’s absurdity. With stories that are at once comical and tragic, de Rond captures the surreal experience of being a doctor at war.

Health-conscious Americans seek out vitamins any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, or a daily multivitamin. We believe that vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get, the better - yet despite this familiarity, few of us could explain what vitamins actually are. Instead we outsource our questions to experts and interpret vitamin as shorthand for health.

Through a straightforward, science-based approach, Leading for Wellness: How to Create a Team Culture Where Everyone Thrives explains the steps to become a Generator—the type of leader who people want to work for and organizations want to hire—by leading in a way that fosters trust and positive connections with employees. This book is based on two in-depth studies conducted by the authors, where they found that the keys to employee satisfaction, wellbeing, retention, and productivity were found in the behavior of leaders and the environment those leaders cultivated.

Follow a crawling baby around and you’ll see that right from the beginning, nothing excites us more than something new and different. Our unique human brains are biologically primed to engage with and even generate novelty, from our ancestors’ first bow and arrow to the latest tablet computer. This “neophilia” has enabled us to thrive in a world of cataclysmic change, but now, we confront an unprecedented deluge of new things, from products to information, which has quadrupled in the past 30 years and shows no sign of slowing.

Her longevity, health, and physical stamina are legendary. Now officially the longest reigning monarch in British history, Elizabeth II has spent over half a century on the throne, rarely taking a sick day and, in her tenth decade, remains amazingly comfortable in her own skin. How does she do it? For the first time, step behind palace doors to unlock the little-known secrets behind the queen’s remarkable self-preservation and continued radiance. Investigating the six lifestyle spheres that have kept her going strong for decades, you will learn how to channel your inner royal.

Best-selling novelist Jonathan Kellerman returns to his roots as a scientist and child psychologist to dissect a problem that is attacking our society: dangerous children who, in all likelihood, will grow up to be dangerous adults. Kellerman explores the "nature v. nurture" theory, discusses the legal and psychological ramifications of treating such children as adult criminals, and tackles the assertion that violence in the media is to blame.

From behavioral scientists to besties, Kate draws upon the extraordinary research from academics, scientists, and psychotherapists, and stories from friends of friends, strangers from the Internet, and her “squad” to get to the bottom of these and other facets of friendship. For fans of Susan Cain’s Quiet and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic, The Friendship Cure is a fascinating blend of accessible “smart thinking,” investigative journalism, pop culture, and memoir for anyone trying to navigate this lonely world, written with the wit, charm, and bite of a fresh voice.

From the cranberry bogs of Massachusetts to the classrooms of Singapore and Finland, from tiny start-ups to global engineering firms and beloved American organizations like Ocean Spray, Eileen Fisher, Gore, and Boston Scientific, Heffernan discovers ways of living and working that foster creativity, spark innovation, reinforce our social fabric, and feel so much better than winning.

Equipes brilhantes mergulha em algumas das organizações mais bem-sucedidas em diversas áreas—tecnologia, esportes, arte, educação e segurança nacional—para descobrir como elas funcionam. Contando histórias de empresas e até de uma gangue de ladrões de joias, Daniel Coyle oferece estratégias que estimulam o aprendizado, geram confiança entre as pessoas e inspiram mudanças positivas. Coyle mostra como criar um ambiente onde a inovação tem espaço para florescer, os problemas são resolvidos com facilidade e as expectativas são continuamente superadas.

In this book in praise of wait times, award-winning author Jason Farman passionately argues that the delay between call and answer has always been an important part of the message. Traveling backward from our current era of Twitter and texts, Farman describes how societies have worked to eliminate waiting in communication and how they have interpreted those times' meanings. And in a rebuttal to the demand for instant communication, Farman makes a powerful case for why good things can come to those who wait.