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Being Seen is a memoir about a woman with autism struggling not only to be seen, but to be understood and respected. Anlor Davin grew up in a small town on the Western coast of France. From earliest childhood she was beset by overwhelming sensory chaos and had trouble navigating the social world. Only many years later did she learn that she was autistic. Throughout childhood, Anlor struggled to hold her world together and in many ways succeeded: she became an accomplished young tennis play...

According to the National Institute of Health, 28.8% of all adults will face an anxiety disorder in their lifetime. To put it a different way, anxiety disorders will affect one in four people. That's a pretty alarming fact.However, what's important about this statistic is in the definition of those suffering from anxiety versus a disorder. An anxiety disorder isn't simple nervousness before a big business presentation. It's not an occasional case of the blues. It's not worrying abo...

Close Encounters With Addiction is an ebook adaptation of a lecture Dr. Gabor Maté gave in Los Angeles about his experience as a physician treating patients with addiction, trauma, and mental illness.

A woman shares her eighteen-year struggle with suicidal thoughts, explains the brain functions behind those thoughts, and offers tricks to overcome them.The statistics on suicide are staggering. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in 1997 in the United States, more teenagers and young adults died from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease combined. It is also an...

Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though, his journey took him where it takes most addicts: into a life of addiction, desperation, decept...

One of the great spiritual writers of our time explores how we can move out of the darkness of depression into the light.

From the New York Times –bestselling author of Passages , "Trust me: there is no better guide to caregiving." —Bill MoyersIn this essential guide, the acclaimed expert on the now aging Baby Boomer generation outlines nine crucial steps for effective, successful family caregiving, turning chaos into confidence during this most crucial of life stages.No one really expects ...

From 'hippie biker chick' to EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) practitioner...Read highlights of Jan Carter's life journey as she shares the power of EFT to simply 'tap away our challenges'.Learn what EFT is, how Whoopi Goldberg used it, and how you can use it too.

There are many publications on how to quit smoking, some made by hundreds and hundreds of pages, packed with platitudes and exhausting repetitions, offering methods absurd and inefficient, if not even harmful, usually intended to persuade the smoker with tantalizing expectations personal improvement, increased quality of life, or using smoke's demonization, terrorizing the reader with detailed illustrations of adverse effects, or serious damage and diseases that it brings, going even to do...

Named a best book of the year by The New Yorker | A Smithsonian top ten science book of 2023 | One of AARP magazine's favorite books of 2023“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert science writing, [Sandeep Jauhar] has composed a can’t-miss introduction to what has been called the Age of Alzheimer’s.” —Sanjay Gupta, author of Keep Sharp and World War C

Self-healing for pain, stress and distress.

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