Practical Health

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.

Achieve balance and well-being through chakra healing, even if you've never aligned your chakras before! Do you ever feel overwhelmed by tangled emotions and exhausted energy? Are you searching for a simple, effective approach to achieving inner calm and a harmonious life balance? Have past attempts at chakra healing left you feeling more confused than centered? If any of these questions resonate with you, you've come to the right place. Many individuals exploring the world of chakras share your experiences. The journey to understanding and harnessing your energy centers doesn't need to be ...

As an empath herself, Stephanie Red Feather has experienced firsthand the challenges of being extremely sensitive to subtle energies and the emotions of others. She knows that it can be overwhelming and cause you to lose yourself and doubt who you are. With this guide for anyone who’s ever felt out of place because of their sensitivity, Red Feather offers advice on how to manage life’s difficulties as an empath as well as insight into how these qualities are vitally important to the future of humanity.

Specially crafted with a warm, heartfelt, and friendly tone, this practical book explores the proven benefits of dialectal behavior therapy, along with how we can best equip today’s young people with the emotional tools they need to achieve balance, stability, and wellness in their lives. Drawing on a powerful mix of psychological insights, user-friendly advice, and fun worksheets to help you on your journey to a happier life, the DBT Workbook for Teens seeks to dispel the mysteries around DBT.

Do you think you need better boundaries, but you don’t know how to get them? Are you drifting through life, wishing others could read your mind? Maybe you’ve tried so many times to set boundaries and you’re worn out, or you're giving your power away and avoiding confrontations. Robert Jackman, best-selling author of Healing Your Lost Inner Child and board-certified psychotherapist, gives you tools you can use right away to create healthy boundaries with your family, friends, and coworkers.

We're too tired to think, too wired to focus, less efficient than we want to be, and guilty about not getting enough time with our loved ones. We all know that we feel starved for time, but what are we actually doing about it? Precious little. In The Art of Stopping Time, New York Times best-selling author Pedram Shojai guides us towards success with what he calls time prosperity - having the time to accomplish what you want in life without feeling compressed, stressed, overburdened, or hurried.

No one is better suited to provide people with BD with practical problem-solving help than leading expert David J. Miklowitz. From managing mood swings to dealing with anxiety, getting enough sleep, defusing family conflicts, and troubleshooting medications, this book offers keys to effective self-care.

Mindful Living: A Science-Backed Guide to Managing Stress, Anxiety, and Cultivating Inner Peace In a world that never slows down, your mental well-being matters more than ever. Mindful Living is your comprehensive roadmap to reducing stress, easing anxiety, and building emotional resilience—proven by science, designed for real life.What You’ll Discover Inside: ✅ Neuroscience Made Simple – Learn how mindfulness rewires your brain to reduce stress hormones, boost focus, and increase emotional control (with studies from Harvard, Stanford, and more). ✅ 5-Minute Practices for Busy ...

Kelly Bouldin Darmofal suffered a severe TBI in 1992; currently, she holds a Masters in Special Education from Salem College, NC. Her memoir, Lost in My Mind: Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), tells her story of tragedy and triumph. Kelly will be teaching "TBI: An Overview for Educators" at Salem College. Kelly's "tips" were learned during two decades of recovery and perseverance.

Does the "God" part of addiction recovery turn you off of the process? Are you the type of person who prefers a practical, no-nonsense, psychology-based approach to sobriety that is rooted in rational principles and actions? If so, "Staying Sober Without God" has what you're looking for. Staying Sober Without God provides an overview of alcoholism, drug addiction, and behavioral addictions along with a modernized version of the 12 steps referred to as "The Practical 12 Steps".

Dementia Caregiver's Practical Guide: Manage Stress, Avoid Burnout, Find Hope, and Build Resilience is an essential handbook for anyone navigating the complex journey of dementia caregiving. The author, drawing from years of personal experience and extensive research, provides listeners with a comprehensive guide full of insights, practical advice, and strategies to help them better understand and care for their loved ones.

Caring for Aging Parents: A Practical Survival Guide is your compassionate companion for navigating the overwhelming demands of caregiving. Balancing work, family, and caregiving can feel impossible, but this guide offers practical strategies to manage it all without sacrificing your own well-being. From juggling daily responsibilities to avoiding burnout, this book empowers you to care for your aging parents with confidence.

The Concussion Repair Manual is created as a user’s guide for those suffering after head traumas and those who support them. It is one-part “textbook”, packed with the leading research on medical technologies for healing the injured brain, and one-part “workbook”, offering a step-by-step method for making and tracking a personalized recovery regimen.

Own Your Mind is more than just an anxiety workbook. It combines expert advice, real-life examples, and interactive exercises to guide you on self-discovery and personal growth. Written specifically for teenagers, this book presents complex concepts in an engaging and relatable manner, ensuring that every part resonates with you.

A leading clinical expert in the fields of child cognitive behavior therapy and anxiety disorders, Dr. Tamar Chansky frequently counsels children (and their parents) whose negative thinking creates chronic or occasional emotional hurdles and impedes optimism, flexibility, and happiness. Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking provides parents, caregivers, and clinicians the same clear, concise, and compassionate guidance that Dr. Chansky employed in her previous guides to relieving children from anxiety and obsessive compulsive symptoms.

Do you suffer from anxiety and panic? So did Joshua Fletcher, the author of the self-published best seller Anxiety: Panicking About Panic - but he treated his own condition successfully, went back to school, became a counsellor and emerged as one of the country's leading experts. Anxiety: Practical About Panic is a complete, hugely practical audiobook about anxiety from someone who knows how to recover and live your life to the full - and will show you how.

Are you overwhelmed by the emotional demands of caregiving and searching for practical guidance? Do you struggle with understanding dementia's progression and wish you had clear answers? Want to care for your own well-being without feeling guilty? If these questions resonate with you, you're not alone. As a caregiver of a loved one with dementia, you face unique challenges that can feel isolating and all-consuming. But gaining the skills to manage these challenges can transform your caregiving journey.

💥Mindfulness and Mental Health: Practical Strategies for Everyday Stress Management💥 Unlock the power of mindfulness to take control of your mental health and manage everyday stress with ease. Mindfulness and Mental Health: Practical Strategies for Everyday Stress Management by Ken Pealock is your essential guide to cultivating inner peace, improving emotional resilience, and finding balance in today’s fast-paced world. In this comprehensive, easy-to-follow book, you’ll discover science-backed mindfulness techniques and practical exercises that can be seamlessly integrated into ...

Few diabetes books focus specifically on the day-to-day issues facing people who use insulin. Diabetes educator Gary Scheiner provides the tools to "think like a pancreas"—to successfully master the art and science of matching insulin to the body's ever-changing needs. Comprehensive, free of medical jargon, and packed with useful information not readily available elsewhere.

Pain, suffering, and stress can be intolerable - but it doesn't have to be this way. Mindfulness for Health reveals a set of simple practices that you can incorporate into daily life to relieve chronic pain, suffering and stress. Clinical trials show that mindfulness meditation is at least as effective as the most commonly prescribed painkillers and can be more powerful than morphine. Mindfulness can also significantly reduce the anxiety, depression, irritability, exhaustion and insomnia that can arise from chronic pain and illness.