Mind Wellness

We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions, and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselves.

People mistakenly think that they need to eat less and exercise more to create a calorie deficit in order to lose weight. This is not how diet and exercise helps with weight loss. A well-formulated keto-adapted diet along with proper exercise builds muscle and muscle builds mitochondria. It is in the mitochondria where fat is oxidized so you can keep your cells and liver insulin sensitized. Weight loss and health is about healthy mitochondria and about controlling hormones and specifically insulin.

Human brains and behavior are shaped by genetic predispositions and early experience. But we are not doomed by our genes or our past. Neuroscientific discoveries of the last decade have provided an optimistic and revolutionary view of adult brain function: People can change. This revelation offers hope to therapists and to couples seeking to improve their relationship. Loving With the Brain in Mind explores ways to help couples become proactive in revitalizing their relationship.

Do you walk in a room to organize and find yourself paralyzed and overwhelmed? Do you find yourself spending money on organizing solutions that don't work? Organizing isn't easy. And having ADHD doesn't make it any easier. But it doesn't have to be impossible.

In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life. In Feeling & Knowing, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large.

MIND Diet for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Improving Your Brain Health and Preventing Dementia, Alzheimer's, and Other Diseases provides a step-by-step guide to healthy living through a healthy diet. With this book, you will understand more about food and your health and how food impacts your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

John Bradshaw’s best-selling books and compelling PBS series have touched and changed millions of lives. Now, in Creating Love, he offers us a new way to understand our most crucial relationships - with our romantic partners and spouses, with our parents and children, with friends and coworkers, with ourselves, and with God.

How would your life be different if you could talk to anyone? Imagine being able to confidently approach strangers and instantly be able to engage in an interesting conversation. No matter how socially awkward you feel or how nervous you get speaking in public, you can develop the skills you need to talk with anyone. It’s easier than you think. Addison Bell’s breakthrough audiobook, How to Talk to Anyone will teach you step-by-step how to improve your social skills, communicate effectively, and develop instant rapport with anyone - while reducing your social anxiety.

Don't sit back and let time, age, and genetics decide what will happen to your mind. The real determining factor in how sharp your brain is now - and how sharp it will remain - is you: Your lifestyle. Your attitudes. And, most especially, the choices you make, the habits you practice, and the small and large actions you take every single day.

Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A narrative has taken hold that a mental health crisis has been building among young people.

To finish tasks and achieve goals, most people believe that more focus is the solution. We rely on to-do lists, calendar reminders, noise-blocking headphones, and sometimes medication to help us concentrate - even though these tactics often fail to substantially improve productivity. Drawing on the latest brain research, compelling stories from his psychological practice, and colorful examples of counterintuitive success from sports, business, education, and the arts, neuroscientist Srini Pillay, MD, challenges traditional ideas about productivity.

Explore the depths of human psychology and learn to defend yourself against manipulations with "Dark Psychology and Gaslighting Manipulation" - the powerful bundle that combines two essential guides to understanding the human mind, winning influence, and navigating toxic relationships in the realm of persuasion.

Effective techniques to calm your thoughts and overcome the symptoms of ADHD. Maybe you’ve been told to “just try harder and focus.” As if it were that simple. It’s true people with ADHD are wired differently. But with the right tools the symptoms of ADHD can be managed effectively. What most people giving advice don’t know, are the specific techniques and systems that real people with ADHD have used to stop overthinking and improve their focus.

Discover the healing power of alkaline juicing! Energize your body and mind to look and feel amazing. Imagine feeling like you are 15 again. Imagine a life without aches, pains, excess weight, and stiffness. Imagine feeling light, happy, and energized. Imagine more energy and vitality in all areas of your life and health.

Let Dr. Marc Bubbs be your personal trainer in this accessible guide - aimed exclusively at those in their 40s. Create a customized program that works for you - from diet to sleep, type of training and mindset, this book has all the tools you need.

If you’re tired of just managing your anxiety and want a powerful natural solution, then apply the techniques in Free Your Mind. Based on hard science and over 10 years of helping people who suffer from anxiety, Jamie Stevens shares his most effective techniques in his new book. The Free Your Mind techniques can be used by everyone, regardless of age or background, to live a life free from anxiety, depression or panic attacks.

The scientific evidence behind why maintaining a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and well-being. In Go Wild, Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey, MD, and journalist Richard Manning reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies have not kept pace.

En este audiolibro innovador y práctico, Daniel J. Siegel y Tina Payne Bryson desmitifican las crisis y los conflictos, explicando los nuevos conocimientos científicos sobre cómo está constituido el cerebro y cómo madura. Incluyendo claras explicaciones, estrategias correspondientes a las distintas edades para enfrentarse a las luchas cotidianas e ilustraciones que ayudan a explicar estos conceptos a los niños, El cerebro del niño enseña a cultivar un desarrollo emocional e intelectual sano para que los niños puedan tener una vida equilibrada, significativa, y conectada.

Suzan Colon, yoga teacher and former senior editor at O, The Oprah Magazine, digs deep into the spiritual philosophy behind yoga and distills 30 essential components to enrich your practice and revolutionize your life from the inside out.

No one can avoid gray hair and wrinkles, but what about preventing the brain from aging? Dr. Eric Braverman, "America's Brain Doctor" and best-selling author has created a simple, science-based plan that can help prevent the worst mental side effects of aging: memory loss, cognitive decline, and mood changes.