Showing titles in Mental Health

Drift off to sleep with one of Britain's most celebrated nature writers. The Sleep Almanac brings you John Lewis-Stempel's guide to Autumn; gently drifting you off to sleep through the quieting British countryside as the season turns. Follow fallow deer through the mist of a royal park. Walk the hedgerow lanes of a West Country village as redwings feast on hawthorn berries. Settle into the rhythms of a working farm at dusk, swallows departing for Africa, hedgehogs fattening for hibernation, and a tawny owl beginning its evening circuit of the valley.

Great - another book about ADHD to add to the pile... But wait a second...what if this one’s a little bit different? What if you could spend time inside the head of one of the UK's most bespectacled comedians – Sue Perkins? What if you could be led by the ears into the vortex of her distracted mind? Well, first of all, she’ll need to be able to focus for long enough to write the thing…

When Gretchen Reb moved to swinging Chicago from sleepy Dubuque, she seemed unstoppable: ambitious and charismatic, her whole life was in front of her. Within a decade, she would be barely recognisable. Poor mental health can afflict anyone and Gretchen soon found herself in a position outside her control, which coincided with one of the darkest chapters in US medical history. Niall Breslin follows the paper trail Gretchen left behind of letters, diaries, photographs, and family memories to uncover the story medicine tried to forget.

We live in a culture where we are under constant pressure to do, to improve, to optimise. Wellness is aspirational but commodified, and our quest to be 'well' can come at a personal cost. In an amateur's guide to staying alive, Scottee offers a quieter, more honest alternative: what if we let go...

Like Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? made even more accessible, this is an emotional first-aid kit for the stress and overwhelm of modern life from viral mental health educator, The Pocket Psychologist. ‘Your brain is fancy Play-Doh. It can always be reshaped.’ Psychologist Millie Hardie...

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Narrated by Andrew Huberman. From Andrew Huberman, host of the world’s leading health podcast Huberman Lab, comes an essential guide to improving brain function, optimizing your physical health and performance, enhancing mood and energy, rewiring your...

In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents' emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you'll learn how to create positive new relationships so you can build a better life.

Have you ever finished a book about ADHD and marriage feeling like a problem your husband was supposed to fix? Most of them are written for him, as if the real title were How to Manage Your ADHD Wife. I read three of them, and the third one ended up on the other side of the room. You love him...

Seven Simple Steps to Change Your LifeHave you ever felt like you weren’t living up to your full potential? Do you know deep down you have something more to offer the world, but something keeps holding you back? Have you tried productivity hacks and self-help books, only to find that nothing seems to stick? There is another way to create real, lasting change. In THE CHERRY TREE THEORY, you’ll learn a powerful truth: transformation doesn’t come from pushing yourself harder. It comes from changing the conditions that shape your life. A cherry tree cannot bloom in poisoned soil.

If you learn to let go, your life will take off. When you let go, you live intuitively. Everything flows, because you are no longer attached to things being a certain way, to being a certain person or always being right. What a relief. The irony is that when you feel stuck in any area of your...

Are you exhausted by your own mind? If you constantly overthink relationships, rely on mindless scrolling to numb stress, and feel like your emotions are controlling you, you are not broken. Your nervous system is simply dysregulated. The Nervous System Reset: 3 Books in 1 is your comprehensive...

Does the world overwhelm you? Do you ruminate too much? Do you struggle to set boundaries or make decisions? Then Miriam Junge, a psychological psychotherapist specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy, has the solution: In Order in Your Head: 3 Steps to Greater Clarity, she introduces the MindCycle – a practical, scientifically grounded method – to show you how to get a handle on mental overload and regain your clarity.This method is a clearly structured cycle consisting of three modules that you can restart whenever you need to.

FROM THE MILLION-COPY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Happiness is a thing that must be done over and over and over again. Like laundry. And sex. It’s not a thing you are - it’s a thing you do.' Not getting enough sleep, doomscrolling on your phone, and feeling acid anxiety every time you...

READ BY THE AUTHOR The bestselling author of The Parasitic Mind shows why empathy in politics leads to civilizational collapse. What happens when a society elevates victimhood to a virtue and decides that punishment is cruel? You get the disease Dr. Gad Saad calls suicidal empathy. And the West...

As part of Busted, Matt Willis played to the biggest crowds, toured the world, and was the wild and daring face of noughties pop. But when the shows were over there was always something else on his mind - alcohol, drugs and keeping the party going. Twenty years later, Matt has forged a career as...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug...

MINDFULNESS reveals a set of simple yet powerful practices that can be incorporated into daily life to help break the cycle of unhappiness, stress, anxiety and mental exhaustion and promote genuine joie de vivre. It's the kind of happiness that gets into your bones. It seeps into everything you...

THE NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES, FT, ECONOMIST AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR Acclaimed psychologist Jonathan Haidt reveals how the decline of free-play in childhood and the rise of smartphone use among adolescents is changing our world From 2010, as teens traded in their flip phones...

The causes of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grew up in houses that were not homes-in families that were as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated, and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul, and body. This book is a practical guide to recovering from lingering childhood trauma. It is copiously illustrated with examples of the author's and his clients' journeys of recovering.

Hey.It’s 11:52. You turned the light off twenty minutes ago, and your brain has just decided that now is the perfect time to replay something you said at lunch.It’s 1:14, and somehow you’re watching a stranger repaint an old chair on your phone.It’s 4:03. Nothing woke you. You’re just...