Self Help Psychology

If you or someone you love grew up with an emotionally unavailable, narcissistic, or selfish parent, you probably struggle with residual feelings of anger, abandonment, loneliness, or shame. For anyone who endured a nightmare or a wasteland instead of a nurturing childhood, The Toxic Parents Survival Guide will offer you the clinical insights and the day-to-day tools so you can break the chains of toxicity that bind you in a mess you didn't create.

Seeking reassurance to remove doubt or fear is natural, and we all do it from time to time. However, it becomes a compulsion when it develops into something repetitive and ritualistic. This compulsion is linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), can perpetuate and worsen this condition, and can also create conflict between you, your friends, coworkers, and loved ones. So, how do you stop? The Compulsive Reassurance Seeking Workbook offers proven-effective tools to reduce compulsions, make peace with uncertainty, and better manage your OCD.

Estrangement from one or both parents-even by choice—can take a huge emotional and psychological toll. If you have cut ties with a parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, guilt, and shame. You may question or second-guess your decision. And you may have trouble setting or keeping boundaries with your parent, as well as others in your life. This workbook offers evidence-based skills to help you heal the emotional wounds of your past, so you can finally move forward.

With gripping personal anecdotes, practical techniques, and a compassionate approach, this self-help book offers a transformative guide to achieving anxiety relief and finding peace within oneself. The author's journey from hiding to embracing his anxious life forms the backbone of this book on anxiety, inspiring readers to rethink their relationship with anxiety.

Use this book as a starting point to find help for yourself or your loved ones. You may not find exactly what you need right away, but be persistent and advocate. There are many effective mental health approaches, and rapid advances are taking place. Find reliable resources, and do your research. I encourage you to use the insights from our authors to spark your own conversations–at home, at work, in your community. Begin the conversation and never stop having it. Find the tribe where you are heard and understood. Let these things keep you hopeful, and leave helplessness in the past. -Dr....

Depression is one of the most pervasive mental illnesses of our time. Whether you are struggling with depression yourself or know someone who is, depression has likely impacted your life in some form. This brief volume aims to promote awareness of the nature and reality of depression, encourage those who are battling depression, and equip those who want to help someone who is struggling.

Untreated and uncontrolled anger can have very adverse effects on your physical, mental, and emotional health. It can take a toll on you and the people around you. Anger can also affect your relationships, career, family life, and even your general lifestyle. This audiobook will help you to understand anger, guide you to identify your triggers of anger, and learn how to manage it. It uses a simple language to explain the helpful and unhelpful forms of anger. It also describes the steps that you can use to manage it.

Wondering aloud about people, getting caught up in the simplicities and complexities of everyday life...Young people voice their feelings, thoughts, questions, worries, and experiences. Some are poetry in motion, some pure speculation. Great for discussion pieces, can also be used as monologues. Family will recognize each other in the rumination of the day. Everyone has puzzlements, some more than others.

Learn how to cope with intense feelings, and discover how to use your sensitivity, empathy and intelligence to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity will give you in-depth information about this trait, as well as practical exercises and strategies to help with your daily struggles. It will help you come to new ways of thinking about your past, thrive in your current life and create exciting possibilities for the future.

Do you feel like you lack the discipline necessary to achieve all your goals? You’re not alone. Our modern society moves at a dizzying pace as if time were running at “2x” speed. Suddenly, the hours slip away, and every evening you wonder, “Where did my day go?” Another day, another week, another month, another year passes, and we’re still left with a massive to-do list… and unfulfilled dreams. Time simply isn’t enough. We all have dreams. We all want to achieve our goals, whether big or small. Some dream of financial freedom to travel and enjoy life; others dream of getting...

Shame is a devastating emotion, and one that's often difficult to work through. If you are hurting, you should know that you aren't alone. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Shame offers a step-by-step evidence-based approach to healing from shame using the core skills of emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness. You'll learn to cultivate nonjudgmental self-acceptance, and discover strategies for managing difficult emotions—even in situations that trigger feelings of shame, guilt, or self-directed anger.

The author of Learned Optimism discusses what someone can and cannot change about his or herself and talks about developing the skills to change and the skills to cope.

Broken and Blue: A Policeman’s Guide To Health, Hope, and Healing by Chief Scott Silverii is a heartfelt and powerful testimonial of a law enforcement officer’s journey through the darkest valleys of anxiety, pain, and PTSD. With over 25 years of service, Chief Silverii shares his personal struggles and the toll that a career in policing can take on one’s mental and emotional health. This book is not just a recount of hardships but a beacon of hope and a guide to healing. Chief Silverii opens up about his path to recovery, offering practical advice and spiritual insights that helped ...

The Ultimate Success Formula Was Never a Secret - It’s Been in the Bible All Along. You’ve read the self-help books. You’ve followed the top performance experts. You’ve studied mindset, discipline, and confidence. But what if the greatest personal development system of all time wasn’t designed in a boardroom… but spoken by Jesus over 2,000 years ago? The world sells “breakthroughs” as if they’re new - success formulas, peak performance strategies, mindset hacks. But everything they teach was already in Scripture. Resilience. Momentum. Identity. Faith-driven action. It was ...

Are you plagued by a recurring thought or idea that just won't go away, or feel the need to wash your hands repeatedly, to hoard things or to repeatedly check all appliances in the house have been turned off before you leave? These are common symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), a condition that causes distress to hundreds of thousands of people.

We all slip into some form of subtle addiction from time to time. It’s only human to desire comfort. But what happens when we start abusing our body to derive pleasure? Recent studies have shown that 1 in every 20 adults is a victim of food addiction. Perhaps you’ve tried a few fasting or dieting methods yourself. But most of them are hard to sustain and make you slip back and feel guilty. It’s time to put an end to this vicious cycle. This edition of the audiobook brought to you by the Self-Help-Guide, includes the best of various programs, distilled into one carefully-designed plan.

Do you ever worry that you aren't good enough or capable enough, despite your many accomplishments? Have you achieved high levels of success, yet still feel as though you're just "faking it?" If so, you might be dealing with imposter anxiety—a persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Remember, you are not alone. Too often, highly talented individuals allow imposter anxiety to distort their views of themselves. So, how can you embrace your boundless potential and forge ahead with confidence?

Evolving on Purpose: Mindful ancestors, paving the way for future generations was a title spirit handed me. What a magnificent book to serve the world right now as we move forward, thankfully, out of this pandemic. The authors in this book are forever evolving on purpose and desire to create a reality that serves them, their families, and their communities and makes the changes that they want to see in the world. Self-responsibility is paramount in this new paradigm. We cannot change the behaviours and actions of others, but we can change ourselves and how we perceive everything, and we can...

Do your clients ever ask you "why did I do that"? Do they wonder why they sometimes self-sabotage or act against their own self interests? This book is the answer. It will guide you to help them to untangle the strange reasons why we all make bad decisions in life from time to time. And in understanding this, they’ll understand themselves, and they’ll be able to make better decisions in the future.

This book will tell you everything you need to know about anxiety: what it is, the different types of anxiety disorders, the signs and symptoms, and how you can battle it. Not only does it give you details on the disorder itself, it also explains how you can help yourself. It is a practical guide to managing anxiety. This book will help you understand why it is such a difficult situation and why you can’t just ignore or will anxiety away.