Health Anxiety

Discover how you can increase your faith and belief by reinforcing central themes of Christianity in your mind. Just spend a few minutes a day with these affirmations to refocus your faith and daily living. The topics can be used chronologically or piecemeal to address particular needs.

There is life beyond anxiety... You know the struggle. The unconscious part of you fights to keep anxiety alive while your conscious mind becomes more and more curious about what lies beyond anxiety. The question is, which one of these parts will succeed? If familiarity wins, so will anxiety, but if curiosity and a new approach toward uncertainty succeed, your true divine-self will begin to rise from beyond the shadows. This audiobook will give you a glimpse into what to expect along your anxiety-healing journey and how to thrive post-anxiety disorder.

In the age of Trump, our society is defined by fear. Indeed, three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today than they did only a couple decades ago. But are we living in exceptionally perilous times? In his best-selling work The Culture of Fear, sociologist Barry Glassner demonstrates it is our perception of danger that has increased, not the actual level of risk.

Does your heart pound at night, and make it impossible to sleep? Do you lie awake and overthink every little thing? Is stress and anxiety a constant in your life? As soon as your head hits the pillow, the war begins. You need to wake up early the next day, but you just can’t get to sleep. One negative thought leads to another and before you know it they’re spiraling out of control, and you instantly feel dark and foreboding. Worst of all, it follows you into another groggy day.

Un-Agoraphobic offers a comprehensive, step-by-step self-help program for overcoming agoraphobia and panic attacks. Since overcoming his own disorder twenty years ago, Mathew has been leading support groups and recovery programs for people with agoraphobia. He understands what agoraphobes need and how to deliver it.

So many of us go through life following scripts we didn’t write for ourselves - scripts designed by our family, shaped by our friends, and influenced by the expectations of the people we meet. Using practical self-help skills rooted in improv principles and depth psychology, we can live more authentic, fulfilled, and empowered lives.

Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about 40 million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been at the forefront of research efforts to understand and treat fear and anxiety, explains the range of these disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore sufferers to normalcy. LeDoux's groundbreaking premise is that we've been thinking about fear and anxiety in the wrong way.

Uproar: Calm Leadership in Anxious Times helps leaders understand the powerful impact that emotional processes have on the people they lead. Peter Steinke, best-selling author of Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times, draws on decades of work on system conflict and personal experiences to share real stories of challenges leaders have faced and how understanding the power of emotions has dramatically influenced their success. In this book, listeners will observe important leadership characteristics.

Tim Clare has suffered from extreme anxiety and panic attacks for a decade. This was something the couple just got used to and were able to manage, until they became parents. With the arrival of Tim's daughter came a new wave of extreme anxiety, triggered by the knowledge that his own mental ill-health could be negatively impacting his child. It was at this point that Tim made a promise to himself—that he would try everything he could to get better. In Coward, Tim explores all the possible treatments for anxiety, from SRIs to hypnosis, from running to extreme diets.

Mindfulness can be very hard for people who deal with ADHD and other big feelings. This book is packed with practical tips and examples to help you start where you are. Make realistic change by learning how to be in the present moment. There are many ways to be mindful—and there are many ways to be you....

Are you wearing stress as a badge of honor or resigned to feeling stuck in the hustle culture? The reality is that chronic stress kills. Just ask Dr. Romie Mushtaq who suffered from career burnout and underwent life-saving surgery. And as a brain doctor, she should have known better. Dr. Romie embarked on a global journey to research and heal the negative impact of the stress responses on our brains, bodies, and teams. The solution led to this eye-opening book for professionals eager to break the relentless cycles of stress, anxiety, and burnout.

Did you know that insomnia is the most common sleep disorder, with 30 percent of adults experiencing short-term insomnia? Stress is the number one reason people report a lack of sleep. We have countless thoughts, worries, and anxieties that can make it very difficult to get some quality shut-eye. Sleep medications can help us, to a point. But they often come with unwanted side effects in both the short and long term, ultimately damaging our mental and physical health. Affirmations are a natural strategy that have the power to transform our lives.

Looking for natural and organic ways to support your mind, body, and spirit? Then look no further than the ancient practice of aromatherapy! In Essential Oils & Aromatherapy For Dummies, 2nd Edition, you'll find simple and easy advice on everything from therapeutics to cosmetics, as well as the recreational use of essential oils. Internationally known herbalist and aromatherapist Kathi Keville offers straightforward remedies for dozens of common conditions you can use immediately to make yourself—or someone you love—feel better.

Nowadays, more than 85 percent of people in the world suffer from unhappiness and every day stress. So, there is a great chance that you are in that 85 percent range as well. What are the main reasons for that? Is it society? Is it a lack of money? Is it an unsuccessful relationship? Is it the job? Probably, the main cause of it are all these reasons. People work their 9 to 5 jobs, don’t have enough money to enjoy their life, they perform habits of poor people, their relationships are struggling and eventually they are unhappy.

Self-hypnosis is a very successful, scientifically proved weight-loss and deep sleep method that therapists all over the world promote. Now, this book explains how to rewire your mind to conquer addiction and consume less food in a natural and painless manner. Also, sleep hypnosis can be used to overcome Insomnia and induce higher quality and much more healing sleep, especially when used in conjunction with other practices such as CBT!

Most people are familiar with PTSD. But many have not heard of complex PTSD and developmental trauma disorder. As adults, many of us experience symptoms of anxiety and depression. We feel chronically stressed. We have trouble trusting others, or we may even experience feelings of paranoia in our relationships with others. We struggle to define what it is that is bothering us, and we struggle to find ways effective ways to treat it.

Wrestling with fear doesn't have to be a negative experience. This book offers an approach to life that unlocks a new way of thinking and being in the world, one that leads directly through the center of the anxieties we seek to avoid. Written in the style of an owner's manual, a guide to being human, Burkett focuses on areas of pain and anxiety as they tend to manifest for modern people: feelings of unworthiness, and issues surrounding sex, money, failure, and even death.

We taught people that anxiety is dangerous and damaging, and that the solution to its pain is to eradicate it like we do any disease—prevent it, avoid it, and stamp it out at all costs. Yet cutting-edge therapies, hundreds of self-help books, and a panoply of medications have failed to keep debilitating anxiety at bay. A third of us will struggle with anxiety disorders in our lifetime and rates in children and adults continue to skyrocket.

What if you could stop panic by tapping in to a different part of your brain? After years of working to help sufferers of panic and anxiety, licensed therapist (and pilot) Tom Bunn, LCSW, discovered a highly effective solution that utilizes a part of the brain not affected by the stress hormones that bombard a person experiencing panic.

About a third of the world population suffers from an anxiety disorder, and half of Americans have had at least one traumatic experience like rape, assault, shooting, or natural disasters. Fear and anxiety are with us everywhere we go. Fear is deeply woven into our biology, culture, politics, and day to day life. We sometimes don't even know what we are afraid of. What we know for sure is that we are afraid too often.But why are we so scared? How does fear work in our brains? What is the evolutionary purpose of fear? In this book, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist answers these questions.