Parenting Stress

Although you cannot avoid stress, the good news is that you can minimize the harmful effects of stress, such as depression or hypertension. The key is to develop an awareness of how you interpret, and react to, circumstances. This awareness will help you develop coping techniques for managing stress. This book aims to give you an insight into stress, its impact, symptoms and causes, as well as to give you practical steps to follow to reduce your current stress.

In this powerful book, Clarke draws on her professional expertise and her lived experience as a Black woman to share mindfulness exercises, breathwork practices, and meditative tools centered on healing from and surviving racial trauma. Filled with deeply personal stories highlighting the many systemic challenges that people of color face, this mixture of guide and memoir offers thirty-three practical techniques based on the emotions elicited from these experiences.

This book is a call to action based on one simple concept - that personal freedom is a choice. Beth Kempton went from being a life-loving, risk-taking adventurer to a grown-up, settled down mother-wife-business owner before realizing the life she had built was suffocating her. She set out to find her personal freedom and along the way discovered that many others were also feeling hemmed in, suffering from anxiety, depression, and physical pain, exhausted, disconnected, and sad.

Transform your life by Breaking Bad Habits: Your Guide to personal growth and success. Unlock the power of transformation with our revolutionary guide book. Whether your habits are minor annoyances, harmful behaviors, or unconscious actions, this book offers practical strategies to identify, understand, and eradicate them, paving the way for a more fulfilling life.

If your partner is a survivor of sexual trauma, they may experience anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, or feel triggered by intimate situations. And you may feel confused or unsure of how to support them. This gentle guide will give you the tools you need to help nurture intimacy and trust, and cultivate a secure relationship. In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, marriage, family, and sex therapist Megan Lara Negendank offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to support your partner.

Once upon a time, Martians and Venusians functioned in separate worlds. But in today's hectic and career-oriented environment, relationships have become a lot more complicated, and men and women are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress. To add to the increasing tension, most men and women are also completely unaware that they are actually hardwired to react differently to the stress.

Does anxiety hold you back from everyday tasks? Does your mind feel “cluttered” by a constant inner dialogue? Take control of your emotional well-being and learn to thrive! Learn to combat anxiety and overthinking with this comprehensive book bundle. If an overwhelmed, exhausted mind has been holding you back from the life you deserve, Stop Overthinking and Overcoming Anxiety, Concern and Apprehension are the ultimate self-help combination that will guide you toward mental health success!

In You Are Free, Rebekah Lyons--author of Rhythms of Renewal--reveals her journey of releasing stress, anxiety, and worry to uncover the peace that comes from Jesus Christ. Have you bought into the lie? So many of us do. We measure our worth by what others think of us. We compare and strive, living our lives for the approval of others. Pressure rises, fear and anxiety creeps in, and we hustle to keep up.

Drawing on the theoretical roots of the Stoics, Buddhism, popular psychology and CBT, Ben has created a unique programme that anyone can follow. Join Ben on his journey from anxious mess to back in control. This book is packed with fun and practical challenges that rlisteners can try themselves, all in the name of self-improvement! Split into three types of activity - mental, physical, and skilful - the challenges range from climbing a mountain to sleeping on a beach in a bivvy bag in a storm to having a conversation in Japanese.

Everyone has bad days. But the difference between the person who breezes through the bumps in the road and the person who smashes into them and takes a tumble is a certain mindset and an ability to take control over their thoughts and emotions. And these are not things that are beyond the average person to do. Through mindfulness practices this guide will show you, you can develop this mindset and ability and see a massive improvement in the quality of your life.

For anyone burdened by stress and anxiety, just the thought of trying to make a positive life change can feel utterly overwhelming. Wanting to live a healthier life may sound easy, but what about the time needed for meal prepping? What about the added meal-plan costs to your budget? Do you have to wake up at dawn to take that meditation class? When you are surrounded by stress, it’s all too easy to completely derail yourself...with more stress. Life is hard enough - the road to a stress-free life should feel easy!

Eight Limbs of Yoga - The Structure and Pacing of Self-Directed Spiritual Practice provides an efficient integration of a wide range of yoga practices for use in a daily routine that is compatible with an active lifestyle, while staying in tune with the centuries-old "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali."

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Our human nervous system has the power to cope with high stress but not when it's been ground down by the relentless stimuli of today’s world. Over time, these persistent demands leave us burnt out because our nervous system is stuck in survival mode. In this mode, we have reduced capacity for rational thinking and less capacity to care. Dr. Claire Plumbly draws on polyvagal theory and her professional insights as a trauma therapist working with clients experiencing anxiety, trauma and burnout to give you tools to thrive amidst the challenges of modern life, at work, at home.

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.

We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic and political upheaval or as personal as having kids at home fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, we are feeling overwhelmed and out of control. But in this timely book, Judson Brewer explains how to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to anyone.

Dile adiós a la ira explosiva y dale la bienvenida a una relación más relajada y cercana con tu hijo. Si buscas una forma más eficaz de manejar tus emociones y mejorar la relación con tus hijos, has venido al lugar adecuado. Esta innovadora guía transformará tu experiencia como padre. Con un enfoque práctico y directo, condensa años de investigación y experiencia personal en un sencillo sistema de 3 pasos que cualquier padre puede seguir.

By listening to this book, you’ll discover how to deal with your fears, overcome negative thoughts, relieve stress, and stop your overthinking for good. What you should expect throughout the journey of practicing the techniques and strategies in this book is to be aware of where your mental chatter comes from, and how to address it.

In Love for No Reason, transformational expert Marci Shimoff offers a breakthrough approach to experiencing a lasting state of unconditional love—the kind of love that doesn't depend on another person, situation, or romantic partner, and that you can access at any time and in any circumstance. This is the deepest and truest form of love and is the key to lasting joy and fulfillment in life.

Do you ever feel guilty for being angry? Women and girls are often taught that we are overreacting, or just being too sensitive or unreasonable when anger arises. This bottled-up anger can then lead to inner criticism, self-doubt, resentment, emotional avoidance, and conflicts with others. In this much-needed guide, a clinical psychologist and somatic therapist reveals how anger creates stress in the body and mind, and offers powerful body-based, somatic practices and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to help you let go of internalized anger.

THE 4 BASIC STEPS TO FORGIVENESS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER. With over forty years of helping people manage their stress, I have observed that true health, happiness and well-being comes when you are at total peace with yourself in all aspects of your life, both past and present. Graf Stress Management uses energy work through muscle response testing to narrow down and clarify the stress. We teach about the principles of forgiveness and expressing gratitude.