Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answerand has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents ...
Dr. Gould presents his well-tested strategy for helping readers conquer what leads to emotional eating--fear, anxiety, stress, and other factors--and slim down.
This life-changing handbook by best-selling author Cheryl Richardson offers you 12 strategies to transform your life one month at a time. Designed as a practical, action-oriented program, each chapter challenges you to alter one behavior that keeps getting you in trouble. The book is filled with personal stories of how Cheryl and others have ...
The answers changed her life and led to this new kind of book. Part meditation, part how-to guide, part memoir, "Life is a Verb" is all heart. Within these pages - enhanced by original artwork and wide, inviting margins ready to be written in - Digh identifies six core practices to jump-start a meaningful life: Say Yes, Trust Yourself, Slow Down, ...
Depression is a widespread problem that affects 10 to 15% of the world?s population (another 10 to 15% of whom commit suicide). Mary Ellen Copeland has suffered from depression herself, and peppers her study and instruction with stories of her own suffering and triumphs. Through the use of worksheets to track mood changes over time, as well as ...
Pastor Will Bowen has developed his complaint-free world plan based on the simple idea that good things will happen in abundance without the grumbling that often interferes with life. In this book, readers learn how complaining is destructive and how they can get others to stop complaining.
Filled with comprehensive, balanced coverage of classic and contemporary research, relevant examples, and engaging applications, this text shows you how psychology helps you understand yourself and the world, and uses psychological principles to illuminate the variety of opportunities you have in your life and your future career. While professors ...
This is a gentle and effective workbook and guide to Healing the Child Within. It can be used with or without having already read "Healing the Child Within." Using numerous experiential exercises that the reader can do at their own pace, physician and author Charles Whitfield takes us on a healing journey into our inner and outer life. Once a ...
A book containing advice and inspiration for teenagers to cope with everyday life. It includes guidelines on improving self-image, building friendships, decision making and resisting peer pressure. It is written by the author of 7 HABITS OF EFFECTIVE TEENS, to which it can be used as a companion.
Reminiscent of Leo Buscaglia's warm and insightful bestsellers, Happiness is a Choice offers Kaufman's clearest and strongest statement yet on the care and feeding of the human spirit. Exploring his belief that the secret to happiness lies within each of us, and not what happens--or doesn't happen--in our lives, this book is an uplifting look at ...
In an original and thought-provoking exploration of the hidden power of words, the spiritual leader for the Synagogue for the Performing Arts guides readers through the many dilemmas they face when they talk about others--though gossip, rumor, and private revelation--and to others--through anger, criticism, humiliation, and lying--and shows how to ...
This guide reveals how the logical thinking part of us, the adult, often becomes estranged from the the instinctual part that gives rise to intensity and emotions, the child. The authors explain how this fragmentation creates inner tensions that both undercut a person's ability to gain happiness and lead to loneliness and emptiness, addiction and ...
It may come as some surprise to learn that the best way to deal with a problem like anxiety is to invite it in, to abandon the struggle, and embrace the symptoms. Panic and anxiety attacks thrive on human resistance, and without it they often simply disappear. This and many other key approaches to overcoming attacks are to be found in this ...
Filled with comprehensive, balanced coverage of classic and contemporary research, relevant examples and engaging applications, Weiten and Lloyd's text shows students how psychology helps them understand themselves and the world, and uses psychological priciples to illuminate the variety of opportunities they have in their lives.
At any given time there are 18 million adult alcoholics and drug addicts in America. Of the 17 percent who quit each year, most do so on there own, Now, this life-changing handbook helps addicts understand their addiction and the negative effect it has on their lives. Using questionnaires and other tools to guide readers toward self-discovery, it ...
Panic. Nearly everyone has experienced it at some time or another, but in the form of a panic attack, it can be incapacitating. With insight and compassion, a leading expert on panic attacks offers an accessible and practical self-help program for reducing and eliminating these attacks, providing a detailed five-step strategy for controlling the ...
Americans struggle with anxiety. Among the disorder's most common forms is social phobia, a persistent fear of scrutiny and evaluation by others. Social phobia cripples the lives of some 15 to 20 percent of the US population. This distressing social anxiety includes the fear of public speaking (stage fright), performing in social and creative ...
With a new Preface, a new Introduction, and an expanded and up-to-date resource section, this classic guide by a psychotherapist and sexual abuse counselor answers victims' needs and addresses changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and sexual violence.
People can regain their long-lost authentic sense of truly being alive by understanding how that they, as children, adapted to their parents' narcissistic needs and locked their true selves away in "solitary confinement".
Hit hard by a public relations scandal, self-help guru Dr. Isabel Favor travels to Tuscany where she hopes the anonymity and the Italian sun will help her find some peace. While there, she meets Lorenzo Gage, an actor who's made a career out of playing bad guys. Looking for fun (and a chance to finally play the hero), Lorenzo sets out to woo the ...
The techniques used in "Three Minute Therapy" provide readers with many thinking, feeling, and action methods for reducing stress and disturbances--while still retaining their main goals, values, and preferences.
In this book, you'll discover what real love is, and learn how to develop lasting friendships and partnerships. As you gain the courage and trust to take off your armor of self-protection, you'll experience a new, healthy view of love and sex.
Geared to women who find themselves meeting the needs and wants of others without meeting their own, The Courage to be Yourself helps them break free from emotional dependency, enhance their self-esteem, and overcome self-limiting fears. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes a revised discussion of codependency and ...
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