Parenting Stress

Raising a teen can feel overwhelming, but ADHD adds a unique layer of challenges. Do you find yourself struggling to support your teen toward independence without constant stress? You’re not alone. Many parents of teens with ADHD face the same worries – the quest for balance, the desire to connect without overwhelming them, and the fear of making mistakes. But with the right strategies, you can help your teen thrive. In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover simple yet effective approaches for understanding, supporting, and guiding your teen as they prepare for adulthood.

In today's world, everyone has to deal with numerous difficult situations and people, leading to stress and agitation. Om Swami shares with us precious nuggets of wisdom from the inner recess of the universal consciousness to help us meet the challenges life throws at us.

Why do we spend so much energy explaining ourselves—our choices, our boundaries, our feelings—to people who may never truly understand? In The Courage to Be Misunderstood, Robert Tisort exposes the exhausting "Public Relations Firm of One" we run in our heads and offers a liberating path to freedom. Through psychology, personal stories, and practical tools, this audiobook shows how over-explaining stems from fear of judgment and rejection, and how to break free by embracing the discomfort of being misunderstood.

Stop the Mental Noise and Think Clearly Even When Life Is Pressuring You From All Sides. Are you exhausted from a mind that never shuts off no matter how hard you try? Do you feel calm one moment, then hijacked by anxiety, overthinking, or emotional surges the next? Have you realized that “just relax” advice doesn’t work but you still don’t have a system that does? Most people don’t break under pressure all at once — they break slowly. It starts with replaying conversations at night, second-guessing decisions, and waking up tense and mentally cluttered.

In our fast-paced world of constant hustle and distraction, it's easy to feel like you're drifting skimming the surface of life, detached from the present moment, and hollow despite outward success. Elias Thorne draws from personal experience and practical wisdom to guide you back to center. Stop the Drift explores the subtle erosion of presence in modern life and offers simple, actionable anchors to reclaim your ground. Through psychology, physiology, rituals, connection, nature, boundaries, and more, you'll learn to find stillness amid chaos no dramatic overhauls required.

In a world of constant noise, endless obligations, and digital overload, many of us live with a low-frequency "Hum" of anxiety that erodes our health, relationships, and joy. Ricardo Jackson shares his personal breakdown and recovery to offer a compassionate, science-backed path to lasting calm no extreme overhauls required. The Art of Sustainable Quiet dismantles the myths fueling chronic stress and guides you toward a regulated nervous system through practical, biological tools.

Each one of us has visionary qualities; we are inundated daily by fears, stress, and worries. Mindfulness and meditation serve as band-aids, but we are all familiar with the adage: Don’t put the sick mind you don’t understand into the healthy self you aspire to become.

Building a Steady, Positive Outlook offers a practical approach to maintaining perspective during everyday stress. Instead of treating stress as a failure, this book reframes it as a signal—one that can be understood and managed with awareness, patience, and clear thinking. Positivity here is steady and realistic, not forced or idealized. The book begins by explaining how perspective shapes emotional responses to daily pressures. By learning to pause, notice thoughts, and focus on what truly matters in the moment, listeners can reduce overwhelm and respond to stress one step at a time.

Middle childhood, the period for those aged 8–12 years old, is often the most overlooked phase of a child’s development, but it’s the age where play continues to serve an important role in their emotional growth. It’s also an age where we are most likely to stop playing with our children. With over 20 years of clinical expertise and neuroscientific research, psychotherapist and parenting expert Joanna Fortune shares her proven techniques that will enable you to better understand your relationship with your children as they grow.

In her trademark gentle, supportive and reassuring style, best-selling author Sarah Ockwell-Smith shows that while we all lose it at times, everyone can become a calmer parent. Based on her many years' experience working with parents, Sarah provides research, advice and practical exercises that will set you on the path to calmer parenting that will benefit both you and your child.

For anyone burdened by stress and anxiety, just the thought of trying to make a positive life change can feel utterly overwhelming. Wanting to live a healthier life may sound easy, but what about the time needed for meal prepping? What about the added meal-plan costs to your budget? Do you have to wake up at dawn to take that meditation class? When you are surrounded by stress, it’s all too easy to completely derail yourself...with more stress. Life is hard enough - the road to a stress-free life should feel easy!

Cribsheet meets The Sh!t No One Tells You in this no-holds-barred, judgment-free parenting guide that sets the record straight on every hot-button parenting topic by longtime journalist and founder of the viral #NoShameParenting movement. What if you could do more for your kids, by doing a whole...

Lose our cool and then regret it afterward? Feel like we’re doing “everything” for our kids, but still living in constant tension? Do we worry our stress is quietly shaping our child’s nervous system, confidence, and future? A lot of parents know this moment: it’s been a long day. We’re holding it together, barely. Then something small happens (a spilled drink, a sibling fight, a refusal to brush teeth) and our body goes into overdrive. We snap. Our child spirals. The house turns loud. And afterward, the guilt hits like a wave.

Stress Nation provides answers to the lingering questions many people have about why they constantly feel tired, lonely, anxious, disconnected, and unwell, explaining in both humorous and poignant prose how the technology that was supposed to make our lives easier is actually one of the leading causes of chronic stress, dysregulated cortisol, and dangerously inadequate sleep.

Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or emotionally drained? This isn’t just another motivational book telling you to “think positive.” It’s a compassionate, evidence-based roadmap to help you reclaim your peace, reset your mindset, and finally feel happy from the inside out. Whether you're a high-achiever stuck in burnout or someone quietly battling self-doubt behind a strong exterior, How to Be Happy is your gentle yet powerful guide to rewiring the way you live, think, and feel.

Don’t let stress control your life. Discover how to conquer it quickly with the international bestseller by Sarah Wright. This guide strips away the medical jargon and overwhelming exercises to offer you simple, effective techniques that you can start using immediately.

Calm Your Thoughts is a book that understands what you’ve been through, the exhausting situation you’ve put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress. Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire your brain, control your thoughts, and change your mental habits. What’s more, the book will provide scientific approaches to completely change the way you think and feel about yourself by ending the vicious thought patterns.

Modern times are stressful - and it's killing us. Unfortunately, we can't avoid the things that stress us out, but we can change how we respond to them. In this breakthrough book, a clinical psychologist and neuroscience expert offers an original approach to help listeners harness the power of positive emotions and overcome stress for good.

From the author of the hugely successful The Sensational Baby Sleep Plan comes a follow-up guide helping parents to handle sleep issues in toddlers and children aged over 12 months.

Learn how to quiet your mind and ease fearful feelings with this simple, practical anxiety workbook for women. Each moment offers insight into the underlying causes of anxiety and teaches you how to identify your triggers and develop effective coping methods so you can live with greater confidence and contentment.