Stress Management Relationships

Losing weight and successfully maintaining it over the long term is not as much about what you put in your stomach; it's more about what's happening in the brain. In Brain-Powered Weight Loss, psychotherapist and weight management expert Eliza Kingsford shows that more than 90 percent of people who go on diet programs (even healthy ones) fail or eventually regain because they have a dysfunctional relationship with food.

How to Hone Your Emotional Intelligence provides readers with tools and strategies to develop stronger emotional intelligence. Through a mix of research and practical advice, this book discusses the importance of emotional awareness, self-regulation, and empathy, and provides useful tips to develop these skills. This book is an ideal resource for those interested in learning how to better manage their emotions and increase their level of contentment and happiness.

Stress is inherent to the human condition. When not properly understood, stress can wreak havoc on our mental and physical health, our relationships, and our lives. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In Stress Wisely, award-winning psychology scholar and resiliency expert Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe explains how we can be strategic in stressful times by challenging everything we’ve been told about stress—and wielding its power in our favor.

The age-old practice of meditation brought up to date and redefined as an exact science for the purpose of helping the individual. Meditation is a technique of subjection to the inner self, which we know as conscience. The understanding you will gain from daily practice is so profound that you will never find the words to explain your experience to others. The practice of inner attentiveness will change your perspective on life so radically and rapidly that within a very few days many people will be astonished at your new attitudes and insight.

Although many of us prioritize our physical health through exercise and healthy eating, we often forget to spend time boosting our mind, mood, and mental health. It is so important that we focus on mental self-care and reducing daily stress since mental toughness and resilience will get us through difficult times and help us achieve success in every area of our lives. Using the incredible power of our minds, we can persist and grow in response to life's challenges.

Stress is consuming your life, doing more harm than you realize. Discover how somatic practices can offer relief and balance—in as little as 10 minutes a day! Imagine it's a regular Tuesday. You're at your desk, sifting through emails or tackling laundry! Suddenly, you notice your shoulders are tensed up, and there's a dull ache at the base of your neck. It's not just physical stress but past traumas making themselves known in subtle ways. You're not alone. According to the American Psychological Association, 76% of adults experience physical symptoms caused by stress.

This book is a practical guide to transforming your relationship with anger. Anger can be a healthy emotion when you are in control of it. Healthy anger allows you to protect your boundaries and assert yourself wherever needed. Unhealthy or toxic anger erupts like a volcano and destroys everything that lies in its path, including your peace of mind and your relationships.

Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), created by world-renowned therapist Dr. Albert Ellis, provides you with realistic, simple, proven techniques that will significantly reduce your stress levels and help you react effectively, whether the circumstances are professional or personal.

Thousands of people have found help for mental health issues through Recovery International, founded by Dr. Abraham Low in 1937. He developed a cognitive-behavioral, peer-led method to manage fear and anger through training at group meetings. Recovery International conducts hundreds of weekly meetings across North America and abroad. This book comprises seventy lectures by Dr. Low recorded during the last few years of his life, and represent the application of his method and examples of the people whose lives he has touched.

Whether you are stuck in the distress of life, or appear like nothing’s wrong, you may have faced trauma, or incredible stress, or suffocating fear. Maybe you wonder whether those emotions, memories, and experiences are blocking you from being as fulfilled and happy as you could be. Maybe you’re stuck in patterns that simply no longer work for you. What if you could change it all? What if you could feel safe and solid and secure inside your own body? What if your life could be peaceful and centered and fulfilled?

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.

In our always-on, tech-addicted lifestyles, we often think of the pursuit of fun as an indulgence. When we do find time to relax, we often turn to activities that are not actually that enjoyable, let alone fun: bingeing on television and movies, doomscrolling the news, or feeding our FOMO on social media. But award-winning science journalist Catherine Price has learned the truth: far from being frivolous, fun is the key to living a more meaningful, fulfilling and happier life.

The art of letting go, Dr. Judith Orloff explains, is the secret key to manifesting power and success in all areas of life, including work, relationships, sexuality, radiant aging, and health and healing. In our superconnected world where emails and text messages constantly interrupt us, it’s easier to let go than you think. Once embraced, surrendering removes roadblocks and the exhaustion that comes from "trying too hard" - and it helps you achieve goals more effortlessly and brings ongoing happiness.

It's time to outsmart your worry and anxiety. Drawing on the same cutting-edge psychology presented in author David Carbonell's The Worry Trick, this irreverent, on-the-go guide offers 10 powerful "counter-intuitive" strategies to help you put worry in its place-anytime, anywhere.

Want to overcome negative feelings? Feel like you aren’t good enough? Need help dealing with stress? The solution to deal with negative emotions is to understand how your emotions work and apply specific techniques to ensure you manage them as effectively as possible. Master Your Emotions is the "how-to" manual your parents should have given you at birth. By listening to it, you’ll learn a step-by-step process to deal with negative emotions so you can live a happier, more fulfilling life.

After age 40, years of accumulated stress, poor coping skills, and a slowing metabolism leave many women dramatically overweight and physically unfit. This toxic weight puts a woman in jeopardy for serious health risks: diabetes, hypertension, heart disease. By incorporating nutrition management into her medical practice, Pamela Peeke developed a program that helps women break this cycle and shed the dangerous pounds.

A well-told story takes your mind off plans, worries, and recapitulations, providing a safety net beneath your brain. It takes your mind off any thoughts that could be occupying your mind and relieves anxiety and reduces your stress levels, leaving you no other option but to relax and fall asleep within minutes.

For the first time, best-selling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel G. Amen offers insight on the unique characteristics and needs of the female brain and a practical, prescriptive program targeted specifically for women to help them thrive. In this breakthrough guide based on research from his clinical practice, Dr. Amen addresses the issues women ask about the most including fertility, pregnancy, menopause, weight, stress, anxiety, insomnia, and relationships.

EMDR is designed to ease the distress you associate with traumatic memories, combining cognitive, somatic, and emotion-focused therapies with bilateral stimulation—usually guided eye movements.

It's the hidden epidemic of small moments of anxiety that infiltrate both our work and personal lives. Because each individual microstress is so small, it doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, the microstress just embeds in our minds, accumulating along with scores of other microstresses, day-to-day and week-to-week. The long-term effect is devastating: microstress invisibly weighs us down, damages our health, and contributes to a decline in our overall well-being. The good news is that once you learn about microstress, you can fight back.