Mental Health Stress

Imagine this scenario. Why is it that psychologists, philosophers, and Neuroscientists know so much about the brain and mind but mental health is getting worse? The results of mental health are how they are because of so-called experts. Our current attempts to impact mental health in any given situation are based on and bounded by our current explanation for mental health that was given to us by the experts. Our current explanations have been derived from and bounded by today’s social model. The result is, our access to creating mental health is shaped by that social model of mental ...

The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma offers evidence-based activities to help you heal the effects of trauma, rewire your nervous system, and return to a state of balance and calm. You'll begin by getting to know your nervous system, including an exploration of polyvagal theory and the vagus nerve. You'll also learn soothing, body-based practices to help you rewire your nervous response, including rhythmic movements (EMDR and tapping), conscious breathing, mindful movement, and more.

The journey to understanding anxiety and depression begins here, in this comprehensive guide. Offering well-researched insights, practical tools, and unwavering support, this audiobook aims to shine a light on these mental health conditions.

Exploring the latest developments in the flourishing field of modern psychedelic psychotherapy, this book shares practical experiences and insights from both elders and newer research voices in the psychedelic research and clinical communities.

" After saying the first prayer outloud I had tears running down my face. The prayers I've made in my past were so few. I never realized what an amazing feeling I could recieve if I just reached out." "Started reading with negative thinking after reading it I feel positive I feel refreshed I feel like I can take over the world. I am learning everyday how to be closer with God. Thank you.!" With over 300+ Positive reviews, this devotional for women is blessed to connect His Word to your heart. There are many expectations for you as a woman in your life. Those expectations range from family ...

We have learned how to suppress our pain and deny its presence, but when we fight against our internal turmoil, glimmers of peace are short-lived. Rejecting our suffering is not a sustainable solution because trauma is held in the body. In this book, Nityda Gessel invites listeners on a journey toward lasting freedom, with insights and experiential practices that marry the wisdom of Buddhist psychology, yogic teachings, and Indigenous understanding with somatic psychotherapy and neuroscience.

Introducing "Healing After Disaster" - the ultimate guide to conquering trauma and stress. Are you struggling after experiencing a disaster? Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or depressed? Do you wish there was a way to move on from the traumatic events and find peace again? If so, this eBook is perfect for you. Starting with Chapter One, "Understanding Trauma and Stress Related to Disasters," you'll learn what trauma is and how it affects your body and mind. The eBook then delves into the importance of mental health in disaster recovery, providing coping techniques, addressing mental ...

Dive into five hours of guided meditations that are all about boosting your focus, clearing up your mind, and helping you stay attentive for longer. Welcome to Peaceful Valley Institute. We're passionate about crafting meditation and hypnosis sessions that are designed to give your mind a little extra push, making you think more clearly and sharply.

Enhance your ability to work skillfully with your clients’ trauma in this professional training taught by Dr. Bonnie Badenoch. Drawing on the latest research and neuroscientifically grounded treatment approaches in the area of trauma, Bonnie provides both the theory and clinical tools you need to more effectively support your clients. The instruction looks at both theoretical and experiential-based learning approaches.

Most relaxation techniques focus on either soothing the body or settling the mind - and only acheive moderate results. Dr. Mark Hyman's approach helps you to address the mind and body at once to achieve a state that he calls "ultracalm". In UltraCalm, this best-selling author presents his simple, powerful method for generating a peaceful and harmonious state in the body-mind-one that allows the body's natural healing intelligence to work at it's most healing level.

By listening to this book, you’ll discover how to deal with your fears, overcome negative thoughts, relieve stress, and stop your overthinking for good. What you should expect throughout the journey of practicing the techniques and strategies in this book is to be aware of where your mental chatter comes from, and how to address it.

Introduction Three-time award-winning bestselling author, mentor, Chi Gong Master Teresa Yeung. After yoga, meditation, Reiki, Tai Chi, martial arts, hypnosis, emotional freedom techniques, healthy eating, acupuncture and other healing modalities, naturopathic remedies, the modern trend is finding an appropriate Qi Gong practice for one’s health and spiritual growth. Pureland Qi Gong® (Chi Gong) is designed for the modern learner of the 21st century. It is simple, easy-to-do, powerful healing and breathing exercise with gentle movements, as it is the method to tie all kinds of energy ...

In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this uniquely human skill. From walking's evolutionary origins, traced back millions of years to life forms on the ocean floor, to new findings from cutting-edge research, he reveals how the brain and nervous system give us the ability to balance, weave through a crowded city, and run our "inner GPS" system.

Now, you might be thinking, EMDR might be another one of those fads that will just waste your precious time and money. Or maybe you're concerned that the techniques will be too complex to understand, let alone perform on yourself. Those are legit concerns, but here's the thing: EMDR has been around for a while and its methods have been scrutinized, tested, and applauded by experts. Plus, this book breaks everything down into bite-sized, easy-to-digest chunks. No psychobabble, just straight-up, easy-to-follow guides.

Packed with authentic advice, powerful anecdotes, and practical strategies designed to help listeners work through the trauma and emotional turmoil associated with PTSD, this groundbreaking DBT workbook shares an actionable path for working through PTSD and reclaiming your life.

Writing for both EMDR therapists and substance abuse counselors, Laurel Parnell provides user-friendly tools to help support clients in recovery with EMDR-based techniques that can be easily integrated into all levels of addiction treatment. Emphasizing the practical clinical application of principles and techniques helpful for addictions and addictive disorders, this book interweaves case material throughout, with some chapters presenting in-depth cases to illustrate the techniques.

The Mental Fog: Depression With No Remorse is not your typical feel-good mental health guide. This is a rebellion against every sugar-coated slogan and toxic positivity cliché that ever told you to "just think happy thoughts." This book is for the ones who wake up tired, go to sleep exhausted, and spend the hours in between pretending they’re okay. It’s for the people who’ve smiled through breakdowns, canceled plans they didn’t have the energy to keep, and questioned their worth in the silence of a locked bathroom. Caprice S. doesn’t offer fluff. He offers fire. Brutal honesty.

Clients who have experienced traumatic events and seek EMDR therapists rely on them as guides through their most vulnerable moments. Trauma leaves an imprint on the body, and if clinicians don't know how to stay embodied in the midst of these powerful relational moments, they risk shutting down with their clients or becoming overwhelmed by the process. This book offers an integrative model of treatment that teaches therapists how to increase the client's capacity to sense and feel the body.

Disrupt family patterns and heal from inherited trauma with this powerful guide, so you can break the cycle of silence for generations to come. Filled with stories, research, practical tools, and exercises, the book helps listeners understand how their family history impacts their lives and begin to open conversations that can heal.

Did your childhood feel like something you survived instead of enjoyed? Painful childhoods naturally result in many sticky obstacles to adult success, ranging from distrust in others to self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviors. Chronic family stress prompts a young brain to create deeply ingrained physical and mental habits that help survive childhood but later work against you in adulthood, often resulting in diagnoses like depression, bipolar, ADD, post-traumatic stress disorder, and Complex PTSD.