Emotional Wellness

The second edition of this book is written for anyone who wants to change his or her life through bariatric weight loss surgery. Learn realistic and practical strategies for dealing with emotional difficulties encountered before and after your weight loss surgery that help you relieve stress without using food; modify unhealthy behavior; overcome hurdles to establishing a consistent exercise program; deal with negative reactions by friends, family, and spouse to your weight loss; prevent relapse; and more.

"The Art of Happy Living: Simple Pleasures and Creative Pursuits" is a transformative guide that invites readers to explore the beauty of life through mindfulness, gratitude, creativity, and connection. This book offers a comprehensive journey into the practices that cultivate happiness and fulfillment, from savoring the simple moments to embracing the power of creativity and innovation. Each chapter is filled with actionable steps, detailed sub-chapters, and inspiring insights to guide readers toward a more joyful, meaningful, and balanced life. Whether you're seeking to enhance your well-...

I Don’t Want to Be an Empath Anymore is a gift for the jaded empath searching for authenticity in spirituality, and spirituality in being authentic - something beyond the clichéd, positive affirmations that seem to invalidate our anger, sadness, and pain. When we feel broken - and when real damage has been done, it’s not always helpful to ignore our feelings and tell ourselves that we are perfect and whole.

Imagine shedding weight quickly and easily, without torturous workouts or giving up your favorite foods. Imagine having the power to turn down cravings and make healthy choices that last—permanently. In this audiobook, you will discover a revolutionary method to suppress your appetite, reset your relationship with food, and rewire your mind for weight loss success. This is the fastest way to reach your weight goals without relying on sheer willpower or discipline.

Does loving yourself seem unreachable? Feeling crushed by harsh self-judgments and suffocated by self-hatred? You may be surprised at how simple loving yourself again (or for the first time) can be. If you're sick and tired of the "just think positive thoughts" approach and hungry for something substantial that works long-term, you're in the right place.

Jessica Ortner's new audiobook, the latest in the best-selling Tapping Solution series, shares the lessons she’s learned about what it feels like to flow through change and how to create positive, lasting change in ways that feel both authentic and empowering. Ultimately, Jessica tells us, there’s profound beauty and joy in change, even when it doesn’t feel that way at the start. Listeners will learn how to use tapping (also known as emotional freedom techniques, or EFT) to navigate the unknown with new energy, hope, and an open heart.

Discover key Cognitive Behavioral Therapy principles that will enable you to become a happier, more fulfilled, more effective, and more content person. This guide teaches simple clear techniques that will enable you to start living life to the fullest.

Breathwork expert Jesse Coomer reveals how to breathe our way to better health, increased vitality, and mental clarity by unlocking The Language of Breath. Using powerful, proven breathwork exercises, Coomer delivers a new paradigm to the world of breathwork: one that reconnects us to our innate mind-body wisdom and bridges the evolutionary disconnect between our bodies, brains, and the stressors of modern-day life.

Therapist Chloe Brotheridge has used the latest scientific research and her own personal experience to create a programme that has already helped thousands of her clients to overcome anxiety. The Anxiety Solution will provide you with simple yet powerful practical tools to help you manage your symptoms and start feeling better every day. Chloe will help you to understand why we feel anxious in the first place and equips you with techniques to help manage the symptoms and start living a happier, more confident life.

A practical and transformative 5-step strategy to ensure the emotional well-being of yourself and your child. The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why and what we can do. Brackett is a professor in Yale University's Child Study Center, and in his 25 years as an emotion scientist, he has developed a remarkably effective plan to improve the lives of children and adults - a blueprint for understanding our emotions and using them wisely so that they help, rather than hinder, our success and well-being.

Living with OCD can be extremely challenging, but it doesn't have to rob you of your self-worth. Let this book be your guide to discovering, supporting, and loving the best you that you can be.

Ever wish you could sync your emotional GPS with your loved ones, avoiding the detours and dead ends that lead to relationship roadblocks? I’ve been there, and that’s exactly why I’ve written this workbook dedicated to addressing the very core of your struggles.

In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins. In this landmark book, scientist and psychologist Drew Westen shows how electorates vote not with their heads but with their hearts, and how the marketplace that matters most is the marketplace of emotion - filled with values, images, analogies, moral sentiments, and moving oratory.

Do you constantly judge and fixate on your actions and decisions? Do your thoughts make you increasingly anxious? Are you always a glass half empty type of person? If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, then you may have what psychologists call a "toxic mindset" - resulting in anxiety, depression, lower self-esteem, and poor quality of life. According to the National Science Foundation, the average person can have anywhere between 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day, and about 80 percent of those are negative.

The art of reading people is much more of a science! You too can learn this skill, which will allow you to know what people are thinking without them saying a word, and even predict their behavioral patterns. Not a generic book on looking at facial expressions or trying to see if someone is lying. HOW TO SPEED READ PEOPLE isn’t about surface things. It’s about all the habits, tics, and ways of thinking that can show you someone’s intentions, personality, background, and goals. People are giving out signs all the time, you just have to know what to look for!

If you've experienced chronic, multiple, or ongoing instances of trauma, you may be experiencing complex post-traumatic stress disorder, or C-PTSD—and one-size-fits-all treatment methods just aren't enough. In this evidence-based workbook, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) expert Sheri Van Dijk combines cutting-edge research and evidence-based skills to help you feel safer and more stable, and recognize and reconcile traumas, so you can take charge of your life.

Applied polyvagal theory in yoga provides conscious breathing, vagal toning, mindful movement, and meditation practices that aid in rewiring the nervous system. Listeners will discover how to help both clients and themselves cultivate a felt sense of ease during times of safety; enhance their capacity to handle challenges with equanimity; and reclaim their ability to recover from stress swiftly and efficiently. Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga offers practitioners a new and effective way to support clients who are stuck in a trauma response mode.

Discover this transformative guide—a lifeline for women struggling with their relationship with food and their bodies. Through a compassionate approach, you'll learn to manage your emotional triggers with a simple 4-Step S-T-O-P Method, enjoy meals without guilt, and foster self-love that goes beyond the mirror.

Narrative therapy has the potential to help clients understand their challenges as separate from their selves, shifting the focus to their inner strengths when managing a problem. Narrative Practices and Emotions provides a fresh perspective for new and experienced practitioners alike on how to combine classic narrative therapy with the latest scholarship on the mind-body connection.

Helen Russell has researched sadness from the inside out for her entire life. Her earliest memory is of the day her sister died. Her parents divorced soon after, and her mother didn’t receive the help she needed to grieve. Coping with her own emotional turmoil — including struggles with body image and infertility — she’s endured professional and personal setbacks as well as relationships that have imploded in truly spectacular ways. Even the things that brought her the greatest joy — like eventually becoming a parent — are fraught with challenges.