Self Help Psychology

Stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bullying, and burnout have all become “accepted realities” for first responders in the modern workplace. This workbook unpacks contemporary workplace realities, educates you about trauma, and helps you build your personalized recovery plan for transformation, recovery, and healing. This recovery program has eight core purposes: Validate your current situation. This recovery program begins by validating your experiences and breaking through any denial you may be experiencing by examining all the ways you could be...

Is your life running smoothly, always filled with success and happiness? Or do you sometimes face disruptions and periods of chaos? If this is the case, you need the lessons contained in this book: How industrialist Savva Mamontov could have prevented disruptions from destroying his life. Why Albert Schweitzer only grew happy and famous after turning his life upside down. The disruptive strategy that enabled Joseph Paxton, a simple gardener, to become wealthy. How it is possible that the all-powerful Knights Templar were wiped out overnight. The method conceived by Abbot Suger in the ...

Living is hard. Living is complicated. But, this book can help you make sense of everything important in the life of (almost any) individual, along with a pinch of humor and a lot of pop-culture references. Written by a practicing counseling psychologist with over 10 years of therapeutic experience - who’s also a game design teacher - this book aims to cover it all. It does the same through simple and clear language, steering clear of complex psychological notions and statistics of any kind. There’s no hard data in this book and the author takes pride in that fact. But, it’s full of ...

By adopting most of the recovery and organizational principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, this book is provided as a way out for those who have a great desire to get help with rage issues in their life. This book is a public domain document to be used to provide assistance and guidance to those persons who find they are addicted to rage and desperately want help. In order to respect the Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author must remain anonymous. This book is very Spiritual in nature. Not only will it discuss a Spiritual Recovery Program, but it will outline a Spiritual Democracy and...

Conquer the chaos of adulting and thrive, even if you feel overwhelmed or unsure right now! Have you ever thought, "Why didn’t anyone teach me how to adult?" Do you find yourself stressed about managing your finances or balancing work life with personal happiness? Do you struggle to communicate effectively in both professional and personal arenas? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, know you're not alone. Here's a peek into a world where adulting is not a struggle but a celebration of newfound independence: The most effective strategies to create a budget that works for you A...

This book is a collection of several months of written meditations concerning the conditions over which the author has no control, the few phenomena that author can control, and sporadic rumination about the author’s bouts of confusion, alienation, and a gradual, meandering progress toward something vaguely like equanimity (or at least something vaguely less like despair).

People with BPD are like people with third-degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement - Marsha Linehan Having Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is also like having a broken brain. Because people can’t see it from the outside, they expect you to be able to run the race of life with no extra help or effort. Because of this, you end up being misunderstood, judged, and alienated, leading to broken relationships, lost jobs, and feeling isolated and alone… No one seems to understand what you’re going through, not ...

In the midst of a chaotic world, where self-criticism and constant comparison seem to prevail, "The Path to Self-Compassion: Nurturing Inner Peace in a Chaotic World" offers a guiding light towards a more compassionate and fulfilling life. Through insightful- and practical exercises, and gentle encouragement, this book teaches us to embrace self-compassion as the key to finding inner peace, cultivating resilience, and fostering meaningful connections with others. Whether you are seeking overcome self-doubt, or simply navigate life's challenges with greater ease, this powerful guide will ...

Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes - from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming - and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis and treatment.

Written by Gabriel Walker Land and Al Khemis, a grand introduction to Thailand! Thailand is known as the 'Land of Smiles' -- however it's not always an easy place to land as a long-term expat. In this memoir and self-help story, a digital nomad, expatriate and economic refugee finds himself in a foreign land where he is forced to unlock the endless mysteries of Asia. Along the way, our wayward traveler begins to smile with genuine happiness for the first time in his life, and he soon realizes that if he had never journeyed to the ASEAN region, he might not still be alive to write these ...

+Do you struggle with constant worrying thoughts? Do you feel anxious more times than not, and you don’t know what to do about it? Would you like to learn how to put an end to worrying and anxiety? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re going to want to continue reading. In life, there will be things that worry your, things that cause you to feel anxious or things that cause you to feel nervous. That’s normal because we don’t know what the future holds, and we never know exactly how our past anxieties have affected us and others. A certain level of these feelings is ...

In conversations with the Dalai Lama over the past several years, Howard Cutler has asked the questions we all want answered about how to find happiness in the place we spend most of our time - work. This guide is an invaluable source of strength and peace for anyone who earns a living.

In this informative, accessible guide, Joshua Fletcher draws on his own experiences to help others deal with anxiety. This audiobook is tailored for people like you, who are experiencing panic attacks, feeling anxious, worrying about about your health and the future, wondering why anxiety is present in the first place. Anxiety: Panicking About Panic provides quick, easy-to-follow advice and practical strategies which aim to educate the listener and simplify their world of anxiety - in order to successfully tackle it.

Be Calm Now is a guidebook for a quieter mind. It shows the way to find calm within chaos. Simple, step by step instructions provide practical exercises to reduce stress, lower anxiety, and harness inner resources that will help strengthen mental resilience and help you grow in wisdom and compassion. Be Calm Now brings together knowledge from a wide variety of fields including art psychotherapy, developmental psychology, music therapy, yoga, mindfulness, tai chi and shamanic practices. It distils the essence of these broader traditions into a manageable and digestible format giving the ...

Ann Gadd brings the Enneagram's lost childhood messages to tweens. Help your tweens understand themselves. Growing up can be challenging. As parents we can help by using the wisdom of the Enneagram. Lost Messages is a fun, engaging, illustrated adventure with clear explanations of each message your child needs to hear. Each mysterious message reveals the words the 9-types need to hear. The book is not a guide to the Enneagram. Rather, it uses the story to accessibly uncover messages to bring about greater self-awareness and deeper understanding between the types.

We all know we tell stories about ourselves. But as psychiatrist and neuroscientist Gregory Berns argues in The Self Delusion, we don’t just tell stories; we are the stories. Our self-identities are fleeting phenomena, continually reborn as our conscious minds receive, filter, or act on incoming information from the world and our memories.

★★★★★ "Please read this book and receive the healing and release that it offers!" - Reader review ___ A powerful and deeply moving memoir that will inspire young black boys to strive for more and be heard! Do young black boys have a voice and can they dare to dream? My Silent Loud explores the thoughts and feelings of the author with the hope and dream that it will give a voice to silent little black boys who wish that someone would listen to them. Young boys who yearn for someone to ask them what they are thinking about. With this book, the author strives to help all black boys ...

This guide offers the most comprehensive insight and advice into coping with nervous stress. Sufferers of nervous illness regard Self Help for Your Nerves as their bible – many believe that if they had found it earlier they would have been saved years of unnecessary suffering. Dr Claire Weekes looks at: how the nervous system works, what is nervous illness, common factors in the development of nervous illness and recurring nervous attacks. Plus important chapters on depression, sorrow, guilt and disgrace, obsessions, sleeplessness, confidence, loneliness and agoraphobia.

Imagine how different your life would be if you truly knew how to master your emotions and rid yourself of the feelings of anger and rage. Almost every person will suffer some form of anger management issues at some stage in their life; it's unavoidable, whether it's an overt form of rage or more subtle forms of frustration. It's much more prevalent than you think. This audiobook is a mixture of theoretical principles combined with real-life practical advice on how to spot and control anger issues.

What if procrastination wasn’t a problem—but a hidden strength? In this eye-opening, laugh-out-loud, and refreshingly honest deep dive, Steven Doornbos invites you on a journey through the surprisingly brilliant, misunderstood world of delay. From the neuroscience of hesitation to the emotional truth behind avoidance, The Procrastinator’s Edge is a bold celebration of the thinkers, dreamers, and slow-starters we’ve been unfairly labeling for too long. With warmth, humor, and depth, this book transforms procrastination from a dirty word into a dazzling art form—and shows you how to...