Mental Stress

Anxiety puts our bodies into "fight or flight" mode-and makes us more vulnerable to exhaustion, depression and illness. These guided mind-body techniques help listeners counteract anxiety through deep relaxation, enhanced problem-solving, and converting fear into positive energy.

Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past, your only hope for the future, is your identical twin. Now imagine, years later, discovering that your twin had not told you the whole truth about your childhood, your family, and the forces that had shaped you. Why the secrets? Why the silences? You have no choice but to begin again. This has been Alex's reality: a world where memories are just the stories people tell you, where fact and fiction are impossible to distinguish.

"Healing Anxiety and Overthinking: Proven CBT Strategies for Lasting Relief" is your guide to breaking free from the grip of anxiety. This audiobook offers a 15-step program using practical Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to help you find peace of mind. Imagine waking up with a clear mind, free from constant worry. This audiobook provides you with tools to understand your anxiety, identify triggers, and apply effective strategies to manage it.

You will say, "OMG That's Me!" Meet six people who transformed their struggles with bipolar disorder, depression, PTSD, and more... through their strength, perseverance and by finding humor in their challenges. This poignant, funny and refreshing book let's us know we are not alone by sharing challenges, and heartbreak along with the ridiculous moments of life with mental illness.

Nearly one in three teens has significant anxiety, and that number keeps growing. The Anxiety Toolkit for Teens is one of the most teen-friendly anxiety books you will ever come across that will give you the tools, practices, and strategies to address it head-on. This indispensable guide is loaded with useful information that’s easy-to-understand, fun, and engaging while providing exactly what it says it will—a toolkit to understand and manage stress, anxiety, worry, and panic.

In Breathe In, Breathe Out, breath work expert Stuart Sandeman reveals the hidden power of breathing, and how by changing the way you breathe, you can transform the way you think and feel. Since tragic loss brought him to breath work, Stuart has changed the lives of thousands through his signature sessions. Now he wants the same for you.

Thanks to technology, we live in a world that’s much more comfortable than ever before. But here’s the paradox: Our tolerance for discomfort is at an all-time low. And as we wrestle with a sinking "discomfort threshold", we increasingly find ourselves at the mercy of our primitive instincts and reactions that can perpetuate disease, dysfunction, and impair performance and decision making.

Your mind is a laboratory and you are the chemist, creating your reality thought by thought. Mental Chemistry teaches how you can access and direct your mind power to achieve success in all areas of your life. This digitally mastered audiobook with professional narration is one of the highest quality audio recordings of this classic book. This edition is true to the original, word for word what the author wrote back in 1922. This book shows how the natural laws of the universe work in conjunction with our mental processes.

Teens today face a lot of pressure--academic, social, and sporting pressure. It’s difficult to stay focused and motivated when you're feeling overwhelmed. You face challenges and obstacles that seem impossible to overcome. It can be tough to stay positive and motivated when things get hard—you end up feeling like you're stuck in a never-ending cycle of stress, anxiety, and depression.

Overwhelming anxiety and stress - most of us experience these feelings at some point. The challenges in our lives threaten to overpower us at times and the struggles we see in the world further add to the burden. Peace from Anxiety helps us understand the deep roots of our suffering so that we can work toward finding more peace - even in chaos. Therapist and yoga teacher Hala Khouri takes us on a journey to investigate our personal habits, understand our lives, and transform what doesn't serve us.

Ever wondered why your partner needs constant reassurance… or why they seem to have such demanding needs? Maybe it's your own mind you want to get under the hood of… Why is it that you need reassurance in love, no matter how much you tell yourself you shouldn’t? The patterns we see recurring in our relationships are formed early on, and many of us move through life without ever figuring out where they come from…But if you’re doing this, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Personal growth and fulfillment is only possible when you understand who you are and why you act how you do.

Integrative physician and activist Tanmeet Sethi shares her methods for shifting your nervous system and biochemistry into Joy at the cellular level. You can reclaim Joy—as you reclaim your personal power, strength, and purpose—despite the burden of living in an unjust world, despite past traumas, and despite any platitudes that a whitewashed wellness world says about your capacity. Everyone alive will endure great pain—multiple times and usually beyond your control.

Talking About BPD is a positive, stigma-free guide to life with borderline personality disorder (BPD) from award-winning blogger Rosie Cappuccino. Addressing what BPD is, the journey to diagnosis and available treatments, Rosie offers advice on life with BPD and shares practical tips and DBT-based techniques for coping day to day. Topics such as how to talk about BPD to those around you, managing relationships and self-harm are also explored. Throughout, Rosie shares her own experiences and works to dispel stigma and challenge the stereotypes often associated with the disorder.

Imagine how different your life would be if you knew how to skyrocket your levels of self-esteem - to stop the negative thinking patterns and mental anguish for good! In this insightful and functional audiobook, Katherine Chambers gives listeners a firsthand look into the overriding concepts of self-esteem.

Modern life throws a variety of stressful situations at us. This book aims to show stress in a different light - as a natural bodily reaction to help us through certain situations. Although our bodies produce the "fight or flight" reaction when subjected to stress, it often seems inappropriate - our increased heart and lung rate and the chemicals injected into system by the brain can cause illnesses such as asthma and diabetes. This text invites us to improve our brain-body connections in an approach to healthy living based on science.

The debilitating effects of anxiety can affect your sense of well-being, health, longevity, productivity, and relationships. In The Chemistry of Calm, Dr. Henry Emmons presents his Resilience Training Program - a groundbreaking regimen designed to relieve anxiety and restore physical and mental strength.

Trauma-Informed Children’s Ministry: A Practical Guide to Reaching Hurting Kids helps children’s ministry leaders understand trauma and strengthen their ministries to serve and disciple hurting kids.

It is easy to be depressed if you live in a neighborhood that has few supportive resources available or is marred by gun violence. We are able to diagnose people with depression, but how does one heal a neighborhood? This City Is Killing Me brings policy and psychology together. Through case studies, Jonathan Foiles opens up his therapy door to allow us to overhear the stories of individual poor Chicagoans. Through statistics and the example of Chicago, he teaches us how policy decisions have contributed to these individuals’ suffering.

A guided tour through the body’s innate healing powers. Many of us have learned to ignore, deny, or even mistrust the wise messages our bodies give us. The result is that when trauma strikes, a time when we need every aspect of our beings to master the challenge, we may find ourselves disconnected from our greatest strengths. Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, who has spent 30 years studying the gifts of the body and teaching thousands how to reclaim them, began to recognize this strength, which she likens to a GPS, when she herself experienced a life-threatening trauma.

Despite health care professionals' constant efforts to educate, entice, advise, convince, indoctrinate, and persuade patients with smooth talk, bribes, guilt, and manipulation to make people understand and follow medical advice, the results are often minimal. People continue to suffer from various diseases and chronic conditions. This powerful, encouraging book reveals how the divine design of the human body functions most perfectly when a person's thought life aligns with God's instructions (prescriptions beyond science).