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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

Dr Nadine Burke Harris · 2018

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as an innovative, crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was her patient Diego - a boy who had stopped growing four years earlier after a sexual trauma - who galvanized her to dig deeper into the connections between toxic stress and the lifelong illnesses she was tracking among so many of her patients and their families. A survey of more than 17,000 adult patients’ Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs, like divorce, substance abuse, or neglect, had proved that the higher a person’s ACE score the worse their health—and now led Burke Harris to an astonishing breakthrough. Childhood stress changes our neural systems and lasts a lifetime. Through storytelling that delivers both scientific insight and moving stories of personal impact, Burke Harris illuminates her journey of discovery, from innovative research labs nationwide to her own pediatric practice in San Francisco’s poverty-ridden Bayview, Hunters Point. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the innovative and acclaimed health interventions outlined in The Deepest Well will represent vitally important hope for change.

The Child in You

Stefanie Stahl · 2020

The breakthrough million-copy international bestseller about how to befriend your inner child to find happiness Ideally, during childhood, we develop the self-confidence and sense of trust that will help us through life as adults. But as all childhoods are imperfect, we all carry shadows within us that shape our approach to life as adults, and can lead to problems with relationships, perfectionism, self-doubt and anxiety. In The Child In You, bestselling author and psychologist Stefanie Stahl shares her proven approach for solving this -- by befriending our inner child. Powerful, imaginative and practical -- with clever exercises, from "the three positions of perception" to over-writing old memories -- she shows how in today's anxious world we can renounce our 'shadow child', embrace our 'sun child', and find the answer to all the psychological problems that come from our upbringing.

Stop People Pleasing: And Find Your Power

Hailey Magee · 2024

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

Suzette Boon · 2011

A patient-oriented manual for complex trauma survivors. This training manual for patients who have a trauma-related dissociative disorder includes short educational pieces, homework sheets, and exercises that address ways in which dissociation interferes with essential emotional and life skills, and support inner communication and collaboration with dissociative parts of the personality. Topics include understanding dissociation and PTSD, using inner reflection, emotion regulation, coping with dissociative problems related to triggers and traumatic memories, resolving sleep problems related to dissociation, coping with relational difficulties, and help with many other difficulties with daily life. The manual can be used in individual therapy or structured groups.

Slow Pleasure: Explore Your Pleasure Spectrum

Euphemia Russell · 2022

Slow Pleasure is a practical and philosophical exploration of pleasure, teaching you how to claim, prioritise and integrate pleasure into your daily life. We live in a world of breakneck speed and it can be intimidating and nearly impossible to slow down. In this crisis of pace, we are often disembodied, disconnected, and forget that we even live in a body! In this beautiful book, pleasure coach and educator Euphemia Russell (they/them) teaches us that, despite our collective challenges, we can cultivate pleasure and connection. Starting with the philosophy of pleasure, Euphemia deepens your understanding and then helps you interrogate what is impeding your ability to feel the whole pleasure spectrum. Slow Pleasure will help you establish a pleasure practice of your own, expand your pleasure dial, help you understand your desires and teach you how to continue to explore the depths and boundaries of your pleasure. Woven throughout the book are reflection questions and pleasure practices that bring you back into your body, make you slow down to listen to yourself, and help you consciously begin to prioritise your pleasure. Slow Pleasure teaches us that pleasure goes way beyond sex and should be cultivated and celebrated in every moment.

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport · 2024

From the New York Times bestselling author of Deep Work, Slow Productivity is a groundbreaking philosophy for creating great work at a sustainable pace. Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we're either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success or we're rejecting the idea of ambition entirely. But it doesn't have to be all or nothing. There is a way to create meaningful work as part of a balanced life, and it's called 'slow productivity'. Coined by Cal Newport, the bestselling author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, slow productivity is a revolutionary philosophy based on simple principles. From managing your energy according to the season, to identifying which projects to pursue and which to set aside, to building a schedule that yields maximum output with minimum stress, this timely and essential book will revolutionise how you work, helping you to accomplish great things at a more humane pace.

The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: How Your Relationships Can Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

Elaine Aron · 2000

Exploring the impact of temperament on intimacy, the author of The Highly Sensitive Person comibnes self-tests and case studies with practical advice to help sensitive individuals develop happier, healthier relationships, with tips on how to cope with a fear of intimacy, stress, arguments, and sex. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

You Will Find Your People: How to Finally Make the Friendships You Deserve

Lane Moore · 2023

You Will Find Your People is a narrative work of self-development that uncovers the complex, frightening, and mystical world of friendship. Author Lane Moore takes readers on a journey that challenges heteronormative western ideas of friendship, navigates the tricky world of being friends with your ex, and teaches us how to finally-and fearlessly-accept the friendships we know we deserve. Part memoir, part self-help book, and with Moore's signature self-deprecating humor, You Will Find Your People has wide commercial appeal for readers of all ages who want to challenge and better understand their sense of community.

Self-Care for Autistic People

Megan Anna Neff · 2024

Ditch the stigma, stop masking, and put yourself first with these 100+ exercises that reinforce the idea that neurodiversity is a strength and teaches you how to relax, destress, find your community, practice self-love, and more.When you’re autistic, it can be tough to prioritize wellness. Self-Care for Autistic People can help you engage in some neurodiverse self-care—without pretending to be neurotypical. You’ll find more than 100 activities that help you accept yourself, destigmatize autism, find your community, and take care of your physical and mental health. You’ll find solutions for managing the challenging aspects of autism, as well as ideas to bring out the many positive aspects. With expert advice from therapist Megan A. Neff, this book will help you make the most of your life and your diagnosis.

Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person

Anna Mehler Paperny · 2019

An engrossing memoir-meets-investigative report that takes a fresh, frank look at how we treat depression Depression is a havoc-wreaking illness that masquerades as personal failing and hijacks your life. After a major suicide attempt in her early twenties, Anna Mehler Paperny resolved to put her reporter's skills to use to get to know her enemy, setting off on a journey to understand her condition, the dizzying array of medical treatments on offer, and a medical profession in search of answers. Charting the way depression wrecks so many lives, she maps competing schools of therapy, pharmacology, cutting-edge medicine, the pill-popping pitfalls of long-term treatment, the glaring unknowns and the institutional shortcomings that both patients and practitioners are up against. She interviews leading medical experts across the US and Canada, from psychiatrists to neurologists, brain-mapping pioneers to family practitioners, and others dabbling in strange hypotheses--and shares compassionate conversations with fellow sufferers. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me tracks Anna's quest for knowledge and her desire to get well. Impeccably reported, it is a profoundly compelling story about the human spirit and the myriad ways we treat (and fail to treat) the disease that accounts for more years swallowed up by disability than any other in the world.

Inner Child Recovery Journal: Embrace Your Inner Child and Heal Past Trauma

Linda Hill · 2024

The Codependency Recovery Workbook: How to Create Healthy Relationships, Stop People Pleasing and Overcome the Fear of Abandonment - Includes 8 Debunked Myths and Codependents' Biggest Mistake

Roberta Sanders · 2021

Love is a Choice Workbook: Recovery for codependent relationships (Minirth-Meier Clinic Series)

Dr. Robert Hemfelt · 2001

Do you feel caught in a trap of constantly trying to please everyone, and yet you still feel guilty at the end of the day? Do you feel as if you and your spouse are in a never-ending battle for control and have no idea who is winning or losing? Do you feel as if something is missing in your life? If these scenarios sound familiar, then you, like one in four Americans, may be codependent. Codependents rely on alcohol or drugs, money, work, food, or sexuality to make them happy. Let the doctors of the Minirth-Meier Clinic counsel you directly, using their proven interactive technique, through the Love Is a Choice Workbook. This unique workbook is based on the recovery principles found in the best-seller, Love is a Choice. Love is a Choice Workbook defines the Minirth-Meier Clinic's ten-stage plane and guides you through the plan using interactive quiestions, self-tests, exercises, and journaling that will help you find healing from the pain that created your codependency. This workbook helps readers to step back and examine their lives and then effectively deal with their codependency at their own pace. The book can be used independently, or with Love is a Choice, to help you break the cycle of codependency and be free to make new choices...free to choose love.