Self Help Psychology

In Whatever Works, Thalma Lobel explores groundbreaking psychological research on job performance, satisfaction, and creativity. Did you know that just doodling in a certain way can increase your creativity? That looking at something green for forty seconds will improve your attention? That crossing your legs similarly to an interviewer could get you the job? That the mere presence of a smartphone on your desk can lessen your performance, even if it's turned off? These are the invisible factors that nudge our behavior on a daily basis.

Packed with fascinating facts and anecdotes, these life-changing tips, such as how to make your room sleep-friendly and how to use sleeping to improve learning, will tell you everything you ever needed to know about sleep but were too tired to ask. At once a bedside companion and a sleeping aide, The Magic of Sleep will be your solution to a better sleeping life, improving each of your waking hours.

What if everything you’ve been telling yourself about being caring, successful and competent contributes to your stress and unhappiness? What if these very qualities that you view as virtuous and necessary to succeed in the world are keeping you disconnected from yourself? Defining ourselves, and our worth, by what we do rather than who we are, and by how others view us, often lies at the heart of our distress and emotional struggles, advises Dennis Portnoy, a psychotherapist for over 30 years. Disconnected from our Intrinsic worth fosters an externally driven mindset that permeates our ...

From Australia's best-selling anxiety expert, Bev Aisbett, comes an essential guide for these anxious times. Worry-Proofing Your Anxious Child is a calm, clear, and, above all, reassuring guide to help parents (and teachers) of anxious children. Filled with simple explanations and practical advice, this guide will assist everyone who wants to help a child overcome their anxieties and learn to live more confidently.

Overcome Social Anxiety and Shyness is an effective, practical, science-based, self-help workbook with a clear step-by-step action plan to overcome social anxiety and shyness, and eliminate panic attacks - based on the successful anxiety workshops of Dr. Matt Lewis. He will take you through a step-by-step program using simple but powerful exercises that will take just a few minutes each day, allowing you to start overcoming social anxiety and shyness, and be back in control and able to enjoy life.

The Personal Development Book for Performers explores the psychology of success and examines the mindsets of the world’s greatest composers, artists and philosophers. This book is for artists, leaders, performers and creative people from all fields, with practical tips and techniques to take creative success to amazing new levels. Anthony King offers advice and guidance, empowering performers, athletes, leaders – creative talented people of all kinds – to help them exceed potential and express creativity to the best of their ability.This book examines the creative mindset of success, ...

Deşi de-a lungul timpului problematica minciunii a fost dezbătută mai degrabă de filozofie şi religie, avem acum o altă abordare – din perspectiva unui psihiatru cu o remarcabilă deschidere interdisciplinară. Un tur de orizont asupra naturii umane, un dialog deschis între psihologie şi religie. Cazurile clinice prezentate aici, manifestări ale răului în viaţa cotidiană, deşi la prima vedere pot fi catalogate drept maladii psihice, la o analiză psihiatrică atentă refuză să se înscrie în categoriile standard ale psihologiei sau psihiatriei.

Ova zadivljujuca knjiga spaja drevnu mudrost sa suvremenom znanoscu kako bi vam predocila ne samo nove uvide i spoznaje vec, sto je neizmjerno vaznije, konkretne nacine kojima si mozete pomoci u svakodnevnom zivotu. U ovoj sjajnoj knjizi nalaze se poglavlja poput: "Cudotvorna moc ljudske podsvijesti", "Kako podsvijescu ukloniti strah", "Vlastita podsvijest kao partner u uspjehu", "Podsvijest i teskoce u braku" te "Kako zauvijek ostati duhom mlad".

Affirmations (statements said with confidence and about a perceived truth) have helped millions of people make significant changes in their lives. An affirmation can be very powerful because it has the ability to program your mind into believing the stated concept. This collection of affirmations has been created by certified hypnotherapist and best-selling author Joel Thielke. They are specifically designed for stress relief, relaxation, and to help you create calming energy and thoughts.

While leading a double life would seem to be the exclusive domain of psychopaths and undercover agents, thousands of 'regular people' keep extraordinary secrets from those closest to them. Duped is an investigation of compulsive liars - and how they fool their loved ones - drawing on Abby Ellin's personal experience. From the day Abby went on her first date with The Commander, she was caught up in a whirlwind. Within five months he'd proposed, and they'd moved in together.

A lion sleeps 16 to 20 hours a day, yet in the few hours he is awake, he accomplishes everything—hunting, protecting his pride, marking his territory, and asserting his dominance. He moves with precision, exerting energy only when necessary, proving that success isn’t about constant activity but focused efficiency. But you are not a lion. You are a human being navigating a world filled with responsibilities, challenges, and endless hurdles. You don’t have the luxury of endless rest—you must adapt, learn, and persist. Your dreams won’t chase themselves, deadlines won’t wait, and ...

You are a young girl trying to excel in a sport. But this requires dedication and discipline. Sometimes it's very hard to keep your eye on the prize and devote your free time to your chosen activity. Here are some questions to ask yourself and some coaching tips to help you excel at life.

This practical and insightful book provides expert strategies for improving focus, boosting productivity, and embracing creativity.

Gamer and commentator Jamie Madigan's fresh and pertinent new book shows how business leaders can promote a culture of productivity and innovation using gaming techniques and psychology. Just as games teach players to navigate a virtual "world", bosses teach employees to navigate the workplace by solving problems, cooperating with colleagues, and setting long-term goals. The application of video games has the potential to eliminate dreary offices in favor of more stimulating - and ultimately, more profitable - work environments. Look no further to level up your team!

Do you have a child who finds it hard to control their emotions? Have you tried various things to improve their behavior? Are you ready to try anything to change the way they behave? Raising children is hard work at the best of times but when you have a child who has an explosive temper and nothing seems to work to calm them down, it can seem like an impossible challenge. Temper tantrums and poor manners when you are in public can be embarrassing and finding a solution is often difficult. Luckily there is help for you now.

Women and men are not the same. They express their anger in very different ways, so why should they manage it with the same tips and techniques? Managing anger can be very complicated without the right guidelines, and Anger Management for Women will help you understand origins of your anger, giving you the skills to identify its triggers.

Perhaps anxiety is something you have always struggled with and you are looking for ways to manage it effectively. Or maybe you are new to dealing with anxiety and looking for guidance on how to manage it. You might even know someone who is struggling with anxiety and want to support them.

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AUTHOR The Silent Epidemic: Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety Do you suffer from constant worry, exhaustion, forgetfulness, insomnia, or irritability? If so, you’re not alone—welcome to the "disease of the century." In our fast-paced world, anxiety affects people of all ages. The overwhelming influx of information, pressure to multitask, and mounting worries can severely impact our physical and mental health. In “Anxiety: How to Face the Illness of the Century”, renowned psychotherapist and bestselling author Augusto Cury explores the causes and symptoms...

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for PTSD is a self-help guide to overcoming Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with DBT techniques and practical exercises. It offers an explanation of what Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is, how to use it yourself or with your therapist, and much, much more! DBT teaches you how to identify and acknowledge your emotions so that you can then control them and their associated behaviors. It provides a change in habits and behavior to put an end to self-destructive decisions and choosing healthier actions.

That love does not control seems obvious to many people. And yet the temptation to control—often with good motives — is strong. The long-term results of yielding to this temptation damage everyone. Contributors to Love Does Not Control explore uncontrolling love and a vision of God as uncontrolling. They do so from their perspectives as therapists, psychologists, and counselors. Writers ponder what uncontrolling love might mean for human healing. Open and relational theology operates as the underlying framework for most contributors. That theology fits nicely with the belief that love ...