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Was ist nur mit Mama los? Immer muss sie telefonieren, ist traurig und tut sich dann auch noch weh! "Bei deiner Mama wirbeln ganz viele Gedanken und Gefühle durcheinander. Wie bei einer Waschmaschine. Und manchmal findet sie die Stopp-Taste nicht, dann geht es ihr schlecht," erklärt ihr Mamas Ärztin. Was Mama tun kann, damit es ihr bald besser geht, erfährt Mia auch noch. Und ganz nebenbei geht für sie ein großer Traum in Erfüllung. Die Geschichte gibt einen Einblick in die Borderline-Erkrankung. Kinder und auch Erwachsene lernen so die Symptome zu verstehen.

What if your fears, cravings, and struggles with safety were not signs of weakness—but powerful messages calling you home to yourself? In Fear, Food, and Feminine Power, Debra Graugnard guides readers through a profound journey of healing and awakening. She explores how fear and food intertwine with the feminine experience, revealing how women often seek safety and comfort in nourishment when the world feels unsafe.

'At Last a Life' is the best-selling book on how to become free of anxiety and all panic issues. I wrote this book on anxiety and panic for everyone out there who still struggles for answers on their condition. After my own recovery, I went on to study the whole subject of anxiety and panic in full. I was not content with just recovering myself; I also wanted to dedicate my life to helping others. This was exactly why I wrote the book, so as to reach out to as many people as possible.

You're capable. You know it. So why does moving forward feel so hard? It's not fear. It's not laziness. It's not a lack of motivation. It's something far more specific — and far more convincing."What if you fail?" "This isn't the right time." "Who do you think you are?" These aren't random doubts. They're sales pitches. Your mind has a built-in protection system, and it is very good at its job. It takes your biggest goals and wraps them in logic so reasonable, so rational, so you, that you talk yourself out of the life you want before you even get started. I call it the Safety System.

This book is for the veterans, first responders, accident survivors, parents, and helpers who are tired of pretending they’re fine while quietly carrying the dead. No motivational fluff. No worksheets. No empty promises that you’ll wake up healed one day. Instead, you get straight talk from someone who’s sat with the same cage: real stories from people exactly where you are, the brutal mechanics of how the guilt cycle works, and the practical moves that actually helped them function again. How to interrupt the loop when shame and rage take over.

Se estima que 284 millones de personas han experimentado un trastorno de ansiedad a lo largo de su vida. Si bien la ansiedad es extremadamente común, la buena noticia es que también es extremadamente tratable. Basado en las tres décadas de conocimiento y experiencia del Dr. Tim Sharp, Hábitos para dominar la ansiedad es un programa de 10 pasos para guiar tu camino hacia el manejo y el dominio de tu ansiedad.

La depresión es una de las formas más comunes de malestar psicológico, con más de 280 millones de personas en el mundo que se estima viven con depresión. Si bien la depresión es extremadamente común, la buena noticia es que también es extremadamente tratable. Basado en las tres décadas de conocimiento y experiencia del Dr. Tim Sharp, Hábitos para dominar la depresión es un programa de 10 pasos para guiar tu camino hacia la comprensión, el manejo y el dominio de tu depresión.

My patient is stalking me... and he's a psychopath. I've dedicated my life to understanding the darkest corners of the human psyche, but nothing prepares me for him. Ghost. The man is a brilliant, ruthless serial killer who thrives on chaos. Just like his cult following enrapt by his brutality...

Anxiety is a survival skill gone haywire. It happens when our brain is working so hard to protect us that it forgets to notice that the danger has passed. It feels like choking, stifling, smothering, tingling, panicking - our brains cut out and we start to make bad decisions - all normal anxiety reactions. Dr. Faith G. Harper, author of the best-selling This is Your Brain on Depression packs a ton of knowledge and help into this practical manual.

A new model of therapeutic action, one that heals trauma and dissociation, is overtaking the mental-health field. It is not just trauma, but the dissociation of the self, that causes emotional pain and difficulties in functioning. This book discusses how people are universally subject to trauma, what trauma is, and how to understand and work with normative as well as extreme dissociation. In this new model, the client and the practitioner are both traumatized and flawed human beings who affect each other in the mutual process that the promotes the healing of the client-psychotherapy.

Have you ever wondered why you're addicted to certain foods? Would it shock you to learn that the food industry engineers food products with the express purpose of getting you hooked? With millions wrestling with food addiction, is it any surprise that much of what is meant to sustain us is in fact making us sick? The increasing dependence on unhealthy, ultra-processed foods invites a host of health problems—from obesity and heart disease to diabetes. So, how can you break free from this destructive cycle?

Anxious, Avoidant, and Disorganized Attachment Recovery is a healthy relationship workbook that seeks to help you understand not only the roots of your attachment patterns, but also the tools to reshape them. You will gain powerful insights into your relationship dynamics that echo the imprints of childhood—shaped by who loved you, who let you down, and how those experiences live on in your heart.

For the past 15 years, radical psychologist and therapist Guilaine Kinouani has helped hundreds of Black people to protect their mental and physical health from the harm of white supremacy. In this timely book, she brings together powerful case studies, eye-opening research and effective coping techniques from her anti-racist academy and award-nominated blog, Race Reflections.

Last summer, Katherine May was approaching 40, feeling overwhelmed by motherhood and lacking connection with others, lost in a world of inundation and expectation. She had always felt different, but this feeling was new. She wanted to get out, get free and find herself again - and so set about walking the rugged 450-mile South West Coast Path. However, this journey uncovered more than she had ever imagined.

Critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand the tragic epidemic of suicide—”a powerful book [that] will change people's lives—and, doubtless, save a few" (Newsday). The first major book in a quarter century on suicide—and its terrible pull on the young in...

Introducing us to eleven ordinary women who came to commit extreme acts, Anna Motz sheds light on women's capacity for violence. She takes the listener on a journey into psychotherapy, uncovering their motives and the fault lines in their psyche that led to their crimes. We meet Mary, who turned to arson after her son was taken into care, Maja, whose fantasy life led to her stalking an ex-boyfriend, and Dolores, whose terrible crime is unimaginable to most people.

By age 30, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: she had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. 

Traumatic experiences leave a “living legacy” of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that retelling the story of what happened would resolve these effects. However, survivors report a different experience...

Nobody gets out of this life alive and nobody's life is perfect. Everybody faces their measure of grief. You may be the survivor of abuse or feel traumatized by events from your past. You may encounter the agony of knowing you've deeply hurt others or not accepting yourself and moving forward after making big mistakes. In this book, you'll learn about difficult subjects in an easy-to-understand manner. You can learn to transform a life of hardship into one full of promise and significance.

This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of 35, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense. Now, she exposes the constant struggle between carefully crafted persona and authentic existence, editing the autism script with wit, candor, passion, and power. Her journey is one of reverse-self-discovery not only as an Aspie but - more importantly - as a thoroughly modern woman.