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From TV's Real Housewives to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with 50 affluent New Yorkers - including hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers - to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege.

Are you constantly worrying about your health, or the health of a loved one? Do you find yourself endlessly looking up symptoms on the internet? No matter how your health anxiety manifests, it can be a crippling psychological burden. In Freedom from Health Anxiety, nationally recognized anxiety expert Karen Lynn Cassiday teaches you skills to conquer health anxiety, once and for all. You'll learn to switch from focusing on worst-case scenarios to appreciating the joy of the present moment—regardless of health status.

Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunning, malevolence and brutality. Yet the country has more often than not been a crucial ally, not least against Napoleon and in the two world wars. We admire its music and its writers. We lavish praise on the Russian soul. And still we think of Russia as a unique menace.

It's time to say goodbye to endless theory that resolves nothing for you, and hello to actual practical advice that will help you create the relationship you desire. But, be aware. This will take work from both of you and all we ask is you come to every exercise with an open mind and ready to tackle the hard questions together. That is how you will create a life of love together!

Voted as one of the Top 43 therapists in the world, five-times best-selling author, naturopath and psychotherapist Dr. Ameet helps you to easily heal your health issues, gut, liver, adrenals, depression, anxiety, mood, liver, skin, hormones, inflammation, and sexual issues with nutrition, healthy foods, natural medicine, holistic therapies, and emotional healing.

Anxiety is a normal human condition. For most people, anxiety is temporary and manageable. However, for some people, anxiety can become acute and/or pervasive. The cause of this anxiety can come from a variety of sources.

Every week, one in 10 young people in the UK experiences symptoms of a common mental health problem, such as anxiety or depression, and one in five have considered taking their own life at some point. In this audiobook, Stacey Dooley opens up the conversation about mental health in young people, to challenge the stigma and stereotypes around it. 

From the best-selling anxiety expert, Bev Aisbett, comes a proven and practical workbook to help people manage their anxiety with simple daily strategies for work and for home. This audiobook is a clear, practical day-by-day workbook, written by experienced counselor and best-selling author of the classic national best seller about anxiety, Living with IT, that is intended to help people control their anxiety.

Say goodbye to social anxiety: Master the art of confident communication, and build meaningful relationships with anyone. Do you wish that you could have genuine conversations with the people around you, but start to doubt yourself before you begin? Maybe you worry that you’ll feel tongue-tied, awkward, or anxious or that you’ll say the wrong thing and offend someone.

¡Ha llegado el momento de romper ese patrón! "Domina tu Ansiedad" no es simplemente un libro; es tu guía personal hacia el control emocional y una vida llena de paz y tranquilidad.

Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work 24/7? How many of us talk to our children while scrolling through e-mails on our BlackBerrys? How many of us feel overextended, as we are challenged to play multiple roles - worker, boss, parent, spouse, friend, and client - all in the same instant?

Dalton Conley, social scientist and writer, provides us with an X-ray view of our new social reality. In Elsewhere, U.S.A., Conley connects our daily experience with occasionally overlooked sociological changes: women's increasing participation in the labor force; rising economic inequality generating anxiety among successful professionals; the individualism of the modern era - the belief in self-actualization and expression - being replaced by the need to play different roles in the various realms of one's existence. In this groundbreaking book, Conley offers an essential understanding of how the technological, social, and economic changes that have reshaped our world are also reshaping our individual lives.

Wandering from the base of the brain and then branching through your lungs, heart, digestive tract, and all the way to your abdomen, the vagus nerve is the longest and most powerful of the cranial nerves in your body, making it the most important nerve you never knew you had. It works as some sort of a "superhighway" that carries all manner of information to and from the organs and organ systems connected in its complex network.

The vagus nerve is one of the most important nerves in the body, controlling everything from your digestion to your mood. And yet, most people don't know how to use it or even what it does. This audiobook will help you understand how your vagus nerve works and what it does. It will also teach you how to stimulate your vagal tone through daily exercises that can lead to a happier life. This audiobook also includes information on other treatments such as medication and therapy, along with helpful advice on effective diet and lifestyle changes.

Introducing new methods to help you banish anxiety and strike up a conversation with anyone, even if you’ve suffered from shyness your entire life. Do you feel helpless in social situations? Is it difficult to hold a conversation with people you don’t know? Are you struggling to navigate the complexities of social interaction due to shyness, social anxiety, or low self-confidence?

At school you were probably taught that our nervous system allows us to stimulate the voluntary and involuntary activities of our psychophysical apparatus; but know that it also has another significant function which is that of self-healing. Ask yourself this question: where did all the pains you experienced during your life originate from? From your mind, or rather from your brain! Well, know that there are some very simple exercises that allow the training of our vagus nerve with the aim of helping the nervous system to heal any kind of ailment.