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There are a thousand books about eating disorders, taking everything from gender to age into account. But they have a habit of assuming that you're neurotypical, and that your brain works in a very specific way. Not exactly helpful if yours doesn't! In this essential self-help guide, Rachel...

I lost my brother David to suicide in 2021; he was only 40-years-old, and he left behind two young kids. In an attempt to deal with my helplessness, frustration and heartbreak, I wrote this book to help others like my brother and maybe save someone’s life in his memory.

Se o senhor sempre quis se curar dos efeitos duradouros de traumas de infância, mas luta contra a dor emocional não resolvida, então continue lendo...

This audiobook is about the insights of a mother after her daughter dies by suicide. The mother thought her daughter, Leah, was painfully shy at a young age, but was consistently told by counselors that her daughter would grow out of it. However, this shyness was a sign of depression at a young age. Leah was a child in a dysfunctional marriage with no love or recognition from her Dad. Her mother believed the only way to help her was to move and leave the marriage multiple times without success. After Leah's death, her mother finds diaries that Leah wrote at various times in her life.

The Dopamine Code is a game-changer for brains that are feeling stuck, scattered, or buried under a mountain of to-dos. If you’re constantly chasing happiness or struggling with focus and time management, this book will be your new favorite tool. It’s packed with science on dopamine, how it...

In this raw and revealing non-fiction work, Chad Calahan delves into the lasting echoes of childhood trauma and its profound impact on adult life, with a lens on his 20-year career in the Air Force. Blending personal experience with hard-earned insight, the book explores how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) shapes the mind and body, often in ways that remain hidden until the pressure builds beyond breaking points. With a focus on men—who are too often taught to bury their pain—this narrative offers a roadmap to understanding, confronting, and healing from the torque of trauma.

Overthinking is a habit—a really icky one, like biting your nails. At least that accomplishes something. It may be a messy manicure, but it is an end to a means. When you overthink, though, you obsess and analyze until solutions become barriers, and you become consumed by that one thing to the exclusion of all else. Overthinking can be chronic and almost addictive, but you are not bound to it for eternity! This book will help you keep analysis paralysis from separating you from the important things—and people—in your life.

Overthinking is exhausting. It drains your energy, hijacks your focus, and convinces you that every decision is a life-or-death situation! But no, you’re not “too sensitive” or “too much in your head.” It's entirely human. With the right strategies, you can carve your way out. If your brain feels like a messy closet, crammed with thoughts and emotions that fall out every time you open the door, this book is your exit plan! The Stinking Overthinking Trap is your down-to-earth, psychology-backed, surprisingly funny guide to cutting through the noise and reclaiming your mental space.

University of British Columbia psychopathy expert Leanne ten Brinke draws on the latest science to help you identify and manage dark personalities—from the difficult to the deadly—and dramatically reduce their impact on our relationships, workplaces, and society at large. Everyone knows how...

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For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web's popular "Ask the Pilot" feature, separates fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know....

Some people are so stressful to be around they can actually make us ill. This book looks at the relationships that may drag us down and drain our energy. It gives us the tools to recognise toxic people and places so that we never need give in to them again. It explains that our freedom lies in our own hands and has to do with making choices and decisions, setting proper boundaries and drawing back from situations in which we tend to feel like victims. This may mean weeding out our address book and going lonely for a while - but never fear, says Dr Cantopher, givers will turn up once we eliminate the takers from our lives.

BPD and NPD expert Randi Kreger provides targeted resources to help you build the confidence you need to navigate your relationship safely and effectively. Packed with in-depth information and proven-effective skills, this guide will help you evaluate your relationship, discover what you truly want and need, and gain the courage needed to make healthy decisions.

Anxiety and depression are two of the most common conditions affecting mental health and overall quality of life, but there are tools for managing them. In this audiobook, we’ll explore how depression shows up in the brain, different manifestations of depression and anxiety, various talk therapies, technological innovations, lifestyle interventions, and more.

In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always: Why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by suicide, this book offers the clearest account ever given of why some people choose to die.

If you have experienced sexual abuse, assault, harassment, or rape, you may feel disconnected from your sexual self—even if you've overcome the initial trauma. You are a survivor, but surviving is just the beginning. Written by a psychologist and grounded in cutting-edge research, Reclaiming Pleasure picks up where other sexual trauma recovery books leave off. With this sex-positive and empowering guide, you are invited to take your recovery to the next level. You'll feel emboldened by the desire for better sex, healthier relationships, and a more connected, pleasurable life.

You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff—you can get rid of clutter for good! Decluttering expert Dana White identifies the emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter and provides workable solutions to break through and make progress. While the world seems to be in love with...

Craig Beck is a master hypnotist with 20 years of experience and is also a respected timeline therapist and NLP master practitioner. He understands what makes people tick and, more importantly, how to access and remove the erroneous programs that cause us problems in everyday life. Designed to quickly help you reduce and remove the overpowering fear of failure, use this powerful and proven hypnosis program to help with atychiphobia.

I haven't tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I'm walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat. Remember when Kate Moss said, 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'? She's wrong: chocolate does. At the age of 32, after ten years of hiding from the truth, Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge of her life. Addicted to hunger, exercise and control, she was juggling a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on an apple a day.

In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate and devoted researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry. Although he did offer individualized care to children he deemed promising, he also prescribed harsh institutionalization and even transfer to Spiegelgrund for children with greater disabilities, who, he held, could not integrate into the community.