Mental Anxiety

Beneath the surface, a storm can brew unseen. For many, life can appear calm, a facade masking an inner world of swirling anxiety and the heavy weight of depression. "Quiet Storm" delves into the often-silent battles fought by those grappling with these invisible struggles, exploring the isolation, the overwhelming pressure, and the desperate search for understanding. Through poignant storytelling, relatable characters, and alternating perspectives, "Quiet Storm" illuminates the challenges of Navigating the pressures of adolescence, young adulthood, and mature adulthood. The difficulty of ...

Do you feel a tightness in your chest and a racing heart anytime you have to speak up for yourself, whether in a large group or small? Does the very idea that others could perceive you as looking uncomfortable or frightened make those symptoms even worse? Do you vigilantly avoid potential panic triggers, and always think the worst is bound to happen? If so, you may be one of the 40 million Americans who suffer from anxiety. Symptoms run the gamut from mildly embarrassing but tolerable to persistent and debilitating.

Do you constantly replay past mistakes or worry about the future? Is your mind overwhelmed by negative thoughts and self-doubt? Does anxiety keep you stuck, preventing you from living the life you truly want? Anxiety, stress, and overthinking have a way of trapping us in a cycle of self-doubt and fear. It can feel like no matter how hard we try, we can't silence the noise in our heads. But you’re not alone in this struggle. What if there was a way to break free?

You dream big, but hesitate. You feel called to do more, but self-doubt always seems louder. You start things—but never finish. Deep down, you know you’re capable of so much more… but something keeps pulling you back. That something is self-sabotage. And it’s time to break free. In Get Out of Your Own Way: Break Free from Self-Sabotage, Silence the Inner Critic, Build Unshakable Confidence and Reclaim Your Life, you’ll discover how to overcome the mental and emotional patterns that have been quietly running the show.

Millions of people in the United States alone experience depression and anxiety that affects not only their ability to function on a day-to-day basis, but also their relationships at work and in their personal lives. Now, in the midst of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic the numbers of people suffering these painful and debilitating conditions has skyrocketed. Natural health practitioner, Becky Chambers, has decades of research and experience with revolutionary natural health therapies. Her previous books have explored whole body vibration (WBV) and homeopathy as part of a lifestyle for optimum ...

You know the feeling . . . worry snowballing into panic, stress literally harming your health. It’s the crushing weight of anxiety. Anxiety can make everyday tasks difficult. It can make true challenges seem insurmountable. It robs you of peace, sleep, confidence, and productivity. Anxiety robs you of life. But God offers relief from your fears, hope in your heartache, and yes . . . even joy in your anxiety. Experience these promises in real, tangible ways with How to Fight Anxiety With Joy by Linda Buxa. This 28-day guide shares daily devotions filled with God’s wisdom, along with ...

Suffering from excessive stress, anxiety, and panic attacks can be confusing and sometimes terribly frightening, and finding solutions can be a challenge. The good news is, there ARE answers. In this beautifully written book, author John Clark talks candidly about his own experiences with years of anxiety, stress, worry, depression that culminated in a prolonged and terrifying series of panic attacks that included feelings of impending doom, tightness in his chest, pounding heartbeat, and severe shortness of breath. These uncontrollable episodes were not only scary but confusing. No matter ...

Exhausted . . . fragmented . . . fuzzy . . . frazzled. That’s how a lot of people describe their mental and emotional health these days. Maybe you can identify. Maybe like so many others, your inner life feels like a tiny little flame flickering in the wind, at risk of going out. God understands. He knows right where you’re at, and he wants to help you find healing, wholeness, and renewed joy in him. In this book, Dr. Jennifer Londgren pairs biblical wisdom, practical principles, and clinical insight to help you recover peace, joy, clarity, and purpose. Throughout the book, you’ll ...

In this practical yet powerful guide, psychologist and neuroscience expert Catherine Pittman—author of Rewire Your Anxious Brain—introduces fifty new ways to work with your brain's neural connections to find lasting, effective relief from your worst anxiety symptoms. The chapters of this book can be used in any order, as needed, to give you the information you need to act now, whether you're at home or on the go. Also included are quick skills to help you soothe an anxious or stressed-out brain through physical movement, identifying what you care about, and banishing toxic thinking.

If you have a child with anxiety, you need quick, in-the-moment solutions you can easily use now to help your child face their fears and worries. Created by a psychologist and expert in childhood anxiety, this guide offers proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and exposure skills you can use at home, in social settings, or anywhere anxiety takes hold.

THE POWER OF INNER CHANGE The power of inner transformation Positive psychological habits The hidden mental potential Positive mental change A journey to mental clarity Our mind is like a stream that never stops; it has no beginning and no end. It is like a chain that is always turning over the same place. At times, it is like a runaway horse that we cannot stop; at other times, it seems to find calm and then it is as if everything stops at that moment. It remains fixed at one point and we can exercise some control over it. Our mind is like a door that opens; when we enter inside, we see ...

Overthinking is a challenge faced by many people globally which make them unhappy. It is something that you need to stop to be happy again. You need the techniques that will help you to stop overthinking and be in the present. This book will help you out as it is written by someone who once found himself in that state but today is free from the mental illness. On the other hand, stress is what we find ourselves in as we make efforts to meet demands. If you do not manage it well, you may find yourself in a worse state. A guide on how it can be managed is provided in this great book. Among ...

Licensed therapist and mental health writer Dr. Kathleen Smith offers a smart, practical antidote to our anxiety-ridden times. Everything Isn't Terrible is an informative and practical guide—featuring a healthy dose of humor—for people who want to become beacons of calmness in their families, at work, and in our anxious world. Everything Isn't Terrible will inspire you to confront your anxious self, take charge of your anxiety, and increase your own capacity to choose how you respond to it.

We taught people that anxiety is dangerous and damaging, and that the solution to its pain is to eradicate it like we do any disease—prevent it, avoid it, and stamp it out at all costs. Yet cutting-edge therapies, hundreds of self-help books, and a panoply of medications have failed to keep debilitating anxiety at bay. A third of us will struggle with anxiety disorders in our lifetime and rates in children and adults continue to skyrocket.

There is a Black mental health crisis in our world today, and it is tied to disproportionately high rates of chronic illness, poverty, under-education, unacknowledged and untreated trauma, and structural racism. Depression, anxiety, and suicide were increasing before the global pandemic, but have since escalated even further. Whether you suffer yourself, have a loved one who needs help, or are a mental health professional working with the Black community, this workbook will be your lifeline. This workbook offers a step-by-step, interactive journey toward better mental health.

Overcoming anxiety and depression is difficult, but not impossible, often even without resorting to psychotropic drugs; this book will help you regain self-esteem, your health and improve the quality of your life.

Anyone who struggles with overeating knows what it’s like to feel out of control—and to feel the guilt attached to it. While ordinary anxiety feels like something that happens to us, the siren song of food cravings feels like something we should be able to control. The result is a toxic cocktail of shame and self-loathing that makes it impossible to change our behavior. The Hunger Habit is based on Judson Brewer’s deeply researched plan proven to help us understand what is going on in our brains so that we can heal the shame and overcome overeating.

Sure, everyone gets sick sometimes, but do you realize that plenty of those folks also die slow, unpleasant deaths from diseases that stumped even the experts at top-notch (still privately run) hospitals? That's right: There are plenty of illnesses that even physicians have never heard about. Nodding Disease, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, and Cutaneous Horn (yes, you grow a horn) are all featured here in pithy, energetic entries. You won't have to worry about socialized medicine if you have this book....

Imagine this scenario. Why is it that psychologists, philosophers, and Neuroscientists know so much about the brain and mind but mental health is getting worse? The results of mental health are how they are because of so-called experts. Our current attempts to impact mental health in any given situation are based on and bounded by our current explanation for mental health that was given to us by the experts. Our current explanations have been derived from and bounded by today’s social model. The result is, our access to creating mental health is shaped by that social model of mental ...

While reading psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison's groundbreaking account of bipolar disorder, An Unquiet Mind, Sarah Wilson discovered an ancient Chinese proverb that would change her life: To conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful. Wilson, a best-selling author, journalist, and entrepreneur, had spent years struggling with her own beast: Chronic anxiety. And the words of this proverb would become the key to understanding her condition.