Health Motivation

US psychologist Abraham Maslow’s A Theory of Human Motivation is a classic of psychological research that helped change the field for good. Like many field-changing thinkers, Maslow was not just a talented researcher, he was also a creative thinker - able to see things from a new perspective and show them in a different light. He studied what he called exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people.

In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.

Over the last fifty years, women have made extraordinary advances in athletics. More women than ever are playing sports and staying active longer. Whether they’re elite athletes looking for an edge or enthusiastic amateurs, women deserve a culture of sports that helps them thrive: training programs and equipment designed to work with their bodies, as well as guidelines for nutrition and injury prevention that are based in science and tailored to their lived experience. Yet too often the guidance women receive is based on research that fails to consider their experiences or their bodies.

The author of this book has suffered from all the BIG 5 losses— Loss of Money Loss of Health Loss of Employment/Job Loss of Relationships Loss of a loved one. However, instead of complaining and crying, the author took it upon himself to convert every loss into a life lesson and every failure into an experience. After years of intense mind-numbing suffering and hardships, and without any guide to show him the right path, and through trial and error and reading hundreds of books, the author developed his own formulae for being continuously happy. The author is sharing those formulae in ...

You will never look at people the same way again - including yourself - after this lively look at how we make character judgments. Drawing on cutting-edge social science research as well as their own work with Fortune 500 executives, members of Congress, and Nobel Prize winners, authors Matt Kohut and John Neffinger demystify the process we use to size each other up.

Age really is just a number… It’s time to keep falls and muscle weakness at bay with a much better number to revitalize your senior years: 60 gentle exercises! People always talk about what age brings with it… weakened muscles and bones, a strength that drains with every passing day, and a balance that fades away with the sands of time. But nobody talks about the biggest loss that hurts deeper than a flesh wound: The loss of your liberty. Your mundane – the everyday you hardly spend a minute thinking over in your youth – becomes a weight that drags your spirit down, keeping you ...

You aren’t stuck with the body you have. You can make it better, even if you’ve mishandled it, and it’s far simpler than many people believe. Because here’s the truth: Every day, your body’s biology is changing. It’s getting stronger or weaker, younger or older, healthier or sicker, and the driving factor behind these changes isn’t your genes, environment, or even your age—it’s your lifestyle.

Women Food and God is Geneen Roth's masterwork, the final book she intends to write about the subject that has fascinated her since she wrote the bestselling When Food is Love two decades ago. From the very beginning, the listener is in the grip of an intelligent, humorous and thoughtful teacher who unravels the beginning of addiction until it's logical end.

This book will inspire you to: thrive on pressure like an Olympic athlete; manage and overcome negative emotions by acknowledging them; plan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations; surround yourself with the people who will push you the hardest; use challenges to become a better leader; use creativity to move past trauma; and understand the tools your mind uses to recover from setbacks.

Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, Finding Flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware of and out of touch with our emotional lives. Our inattention makes us constantly bounce between two extremes: During much of the day, we live filled with the anxiety and pressures of our work and obligations, and during our leisure moments, we tend to live in passive boredom.

In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage, Harvard-trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. Before Happiness is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that positive change is possible. Only once we learn to see the world through a more positive lens can we summon all our motivation, emotion, and intelligence to achieve our personal and professional goals.

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through life's ups and downs. Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Dr Julie's simple but expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient no matter what life throws your way.

WINNER OF THE 2024 BRONZE GLOBAL PUBLISHING AWARD for the Category Psychology & Counseling Written by a former stress head who knows first-hand how to navigate the maze of overthinking and emerge victorious, this revolutionary book presents hard-won practical advice from Nikki Goldstein, an AWARD WINNING ex-Vogue and Elle health journalist who coined the term "underthinking" (a clever, easy, Zen-like mental health hack) to re-engineer her overthinking. Underthinking is the exact opposite of overthinking. Goldstein has distilled tried-and-tested therapeutic tools, such as Cognitive Behavior ...

There is winner in you...you just haven't discovered it yet. The W.O.W. Effect- Winning Over Winning is the guide you need to unlock your winner within and overcome the setbacks you've experienced. Have you ever wondered if you can bounce back from those circumstances that were so traumatic they left you stagnant? Or have you found yourself unmotivated and unsure of your next steps? If so, this book has what you need to help you on your journey to becoming a winner. After many years of continuously hitting an emotional wall, Cortina was able to develop a step by step method to discover the ...

If Atomic Habits met You Are a Badass at a party, you'd get Buy the DAMN Shoes. In this funny, straight-talking guide, bestselling author and breast cancer survivor Stephanie Ewing strips away the fluff and offers a practical, approach to creating a life full of health, joy, and moments that matter. Perfect for anyone who feels stuck, tired of the endless “shoulds,” or ready to start living now, this book breaks down the steps to: ✓ Build habits that stick (without overhauling your entire life) ✓ Get moving every day with fun, realistic goals that improve both your mood and your ...

There's a revolution taking place that most businesses are still unaware of. The understanding of how our brains work has radically shifted, exploding long-held myths about our everyday cognitive performance and fundamentally changing the way we engage and succeed in the workplace. Combining their expertise in both neuropsychology and management consulting, neuropsychologist Friederike Fabritius and leadership expert Dr. Hans W. Hagemann present simple yet powerful strategies.

If you have ever set a goal and failed to reach it you need to read this book. Over 90% of New Year’s Resolutions are abandoned by January 15th, but somehow the myth that setting goals will magically change your life persists in our culture. The idea of Anti-Goals is incredibly simple to understand and it actually works. Instead of setting a goal and hoping you will follow through (even though you know deep down that you won’t), with anti-goals you are actually just avoiding things that you already don’t like. What is the worst part of your day at work? For many people it is long ...

What does your brain have to do with experiencing joy? A lot more than most of us realize. In this breakthrough book, Dr. Earl Henslin reveals how the study of brain imaging turned his practice of psychotherapy upside down—with remarkably positive results. Listen to this practical, easy-to-understand, and often entertaining book, and you'll know exactly how to nourish your mind, balance your brain, and help others do the same. After all, the capacity for joy is a terrible thing to waste.

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.

Short motivational rticle about looking back on what you promised yourself, you'd accomplish, in this new year, and assessing your progress.Figuring out what you have done and what you have not, and looking for reasons why not. Challenging yourself is necessary to push forwards. This article is about honesty, with the most important person, yourself...