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Do cravings control your life? Have you tried diet after diet, only to slip back into unhealthy habits? Do you feel guilty after bingeing? You’re not alone, and Control Your Emotional Eating can help. This compassionate, science-based guide offers a practical, supportive approach to changing your relationship with food.

Number one New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein charts a path to healing that can literally change your life—a simple, powerful method informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy.

Open When... is the book to turn to when you find yourself in the eye of the storm. Within this book are a series of Open When style letters from Dr Julie to help navigate the moments of overwhelm, confusion or self-doubt that we all face when life gets messy. Offering calm, clarity and a laser focus on the best way forward, each personal letter is followed by real-time tools that will help you re-frame the situation and decide on your next move.

Hello to you, I am with news. I have a new book: I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. I know – what an intriguing title! Basically, I have had an unexpectedly difficult decade – there have been surprising joys but also deep revelations and challenging lows. I shall be honest about those, because what I discovered in the difficult times were my, what I call, treasures.

In this audiobook, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress. Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory. With stories of his own work and those of specialists around the globe, The Body Keeps the Score sheds new light on the routes away from trauma - which lie in the regulation and syncing of body and mind, using sport, drama, yoga, mindfulness, meditation and other routes to equilibrium.

In this series of Boot Camp, Derren Brown is joined by top behavioural scientists and diverse experts to reveal how we can control these powerful and mysterious forces which often hijack our rational thinking and lead us seriously astray. By increasing our emotional intelligence we can improve our lives in every conceivable way.

In broad daylight, Herbert Mullin calmly placed a rifle on the roof of his car, took aim at Fred Perez, and pulled the trigger without flinching. The fatal shot rang out, causing panic as a witness frantically called the police. Compelled by the voices in his head, Mullins believed that human sacrifice would prevent a massive earthquake from striking California. No one was safe. Over a span of four months, Mullins brutally killed men, women, children, and a priest, without any hint of remorse.

El apego ansioso puede ensombrecer muchas relaciones, siendo a menudo la causa principal de los problemas de pareja. Por el contrario, las relaciones prósperas y duraderas se caracterizan por la ausencia de rasgos de apego ansioso. Este libro te ayudará a comprender el origen de tu estilo de apego ansioso, a superarlo recuperando la confianza en ti mismo con consejos prácticos y aplicables que puedes empezar a implementar hoy mismo y apreciar los progresos en ti y en tus relaciones.

Living with ADHD as an adult can feel like a constant uphill battle, with your mind in chaos and stress always around the corner. You might long for focus, crave mental peace, and need strategies to manage emotional resilience without burning out.

Calm In The Chaos: Managing Anxiety In A Fast-Paced World provides a comprehensive and practical approach to managing everyday stress and anxiety. Whether you're facing persistent anxiety or just need help managing day-to-day challenges, this book offers powerful tools to help you achieve emotional balance.

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through life's ups and downs. Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Dr Julie's simple but expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient no matter what life throws your way.

Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking wisdom and truth in some of the most the most difficult spaces - communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the perfect storm contributing to a public health emergency for teenagers today. In The Anxious Generation, Haidt argues that for the cohort that hit puberty around 2009, their sense of self developed as the threads of three dramatic technological and social changes emerged.

Dealing with a narcissist is hard. One day their confidence and charisma pull you in, the next day they gaslight, wreck your self-confidence, and leave you wondering what you could have done differently. Clinical Psychologist and narcissism expert Dr Ramani is here to help. Packed with expert tips and detailed advice, this book will equip you with the tools to stop blaming yourself, regain your power, heal, and take back your life.

We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world? Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45 percent of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live. In his new masterpiece, renowned physician, addiction expert and author Gabor Maté dissects the underlying causes of this malaise—physical and emotional, and connects the dots between our personal suffering and the pressures of modern-day living.

Over years of developing and teaching their renowned Mindful Self-Compassion program, Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer have found MSC to be uniquely helpful for people struggling with the soul-draining depletion of burnout--from health care professionals, teachers, and caregivers, to tapped-out business owners and employees.

Executive functioning skills—including focus, organization, stress management, and more―are critical to succeeding in all aspects of your life. Whether you’ve just been diagnosed with ADHD or you’ve lived with it your entire life, you know that developing these skills can be a challenge. Thriving with Adult ADHD offers a toolbox of information, assessments, and evidence-based exercises to help you build this mental skill set and take control of your ADHD.

This book is a transformative guide for those yearning to escape the anxiety brought on by the pressure to be perfectly productive at home, at work and socially. Psychologist Allison Keating will help you find practical and realistic ways to deal effectively with anxiety, manage panic attacks and move out of survival mode to a place where you can articulate what gives you joy in order to find a new way of living that aligns with your core values.

Fern Brady was told she couldn't be autistic because she's had loads of boyfriends and is good at eye contact. This is a story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic and how being autistic gets in the way of being the 'right kind' of woman.

Comedian Pierre Novellie was on stage when a heckler suggested he was autistic. Usually, this disruption would be water off a duck's back but two things made this heckler different: first, he was himself autistic. Second, he turned out to be absolutely right. This random encounter led to a diagnosis of autism at the age of 31 that unravelled his world, explained his struggles and answered questions that had bothered him for his entire life: why were the other kids obsessed with Britney Spears instead of The Goon Show? Why don't people ever say what they mean? Why is everyone chewing so loudly?

Leading consultant psychiatrist Steve Peters knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagging self-doubt can impact negatively on our professional and personal lives. In this, his first book, Steve shares his phenomenally successful mind-management programme that has been used to help elite athletes and senior managers alike to conquer their fears and operate with greater control, focus and confidence.