Have you had a traumatic experience that is consuming your thoughts, or ruining everything good in your life?Are you tired of trying to move on from a bad experience and don't know what to do next?Or do you have a loved one you can see is struggling with a traumatic experience, and you don't know how to help them?If you answered yes to any of the above questions, this guide can help you find yourself and the happine...

Do you have behaviors or reactions that you wish you could change about yourself?Are you often isolated and have a sense that something inside yourself is stopping you from feeling happiness?Or do you find yourself acting in a way you promised you never would, such as being a bully or treating your children like you were hurt growing up?If any of these questions resonated with you, you are not alone, and this guide ...

What if you could finally heal from trauma — even if part of you insists you should have "gotten over it" by now?A memory keeps consuming your thoughts. You have tried to move on, told yourself enough time has passed, and still it pulls you back to that night, that moment, the thing you would give anything to forget.You are tired of advice that treats healing like a switch you can simply flip. It has never felt that simple, and you are starting to wonder ...

How to finally confront the trauma stopping you from feeling peace and joy — even if you've never realized it was trauma at all.Do you have behaviors or reactions you wish you could change about yourself? Do you often feel isolated, sensing that something inside you is blocking your happiness? Have you caught yourself acting in a way you swore you never would — like being a bully, or repeating patterns from how you were raised?If any of this resonates, yo...

This longawaited book by a pioneer in brain research offers a new model of our emotions- their origins, their power, and their malleability.For more than thirty years, Richard Davidson has been at the forefront of brain research. Now he gives us an entirely new model for understanding our emotions, as well as practical strategies we can use to change them.Davidson has discovered that personality is composed of six basic emotional "styles," including resilie...

Therapist Recommended: Family scapegoating is an insidious form of "invisible" abuse that is difficult to recognize. It is therefore critical that adult survivors of dysfunctional or narcissistic family systems understand what type of abuse they are trying to recover from. In Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed, Family Systems expert Rebecca C. Mandeville uses her research findings on what she named Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) to help adult survivors recognize and release the...

"Excellent. Fully Present offers one of the clearest introductions to mindfulness in the field." — Library JournalMindfulness —the art of paying attention with an open and curious mind to present-moment experiences—has attracted ever-growing interest and tens of thousands of practitioners, who have come to the discipline from both within and outside the Buddhist tradition. In Fully Present,

Do you overspend? Undersave? Keep secrets about money from a spouse or family member? Are you anxious about dealing with your finances? If so, you are not alone. Let's face it–just about all of have complicated, if not downright dysfunctional, relationships with money.As Drs. Brad and Ted Klontz, a father and son team of pioneers in the emerging field of financial psychology explain, our disordered relationships with money aren’t our fault. They don’t stem from a lack of knowledge ...

Practices for well-being, based in neuroscience and geared toward kindness.Skills for people to learn to be with themselves in the healthiest way possible.When we experience trauma or need to find a way to protect ourselves from interpersonal hurt, we make unconscious contracts with ourselves, such as: “I will never let myself get treated that way again” or “I will never forgive myself for that.” But these contracts often result in harmful ...

A psychotherapist and trauma survivor offers insight and self-care tools for PTSD, depression, substance abuse, and other trauma-related difficulties.There are many different approaches to healing from trauma. In this compassionate and practical guide, Jasmin Lee Cori offers a wide range of perspectives and options so that you can find what's right for you.With innovative insight into trauma-related difficulties, Cori helps you: Understand trauma and its dev...

Self Science takes the study of the brain out of the laboratory and into the light. After years of seeing how evidence-based practices ignore the individual and fall into generalizations, Dr. Mandy Wintink decided there had to be another way. Looking beyond her training in traditional neuroscience, she embarked on a journey to better understand the way her own brain works and discovered a holistic understanding that put the individual back in focus. With this book, she tells that story and...

Let's face it, especially these days, there's a lot going on and things are constantly coming at us to the point where overload sets in and mentally our brain is just not handling it. If that describes you, there's something you can do about it starting now. Get your hands on "Train Your Brain: Mental Toughness Training For Winning In Life Now!" You can't go wrong with this book because it's written to improve your cognitive skills and throughout the process your brain will not be overwork...