Personal Anxiety

The stress of painful past experiences is more than just a memory. It can cause you to avoid certain people or places, affect your emotions, even your trust in people. This makes the most important relationships in life harder to maintain. You’ve likely gotten this far by creating your own coping mechanisms. Maybe even done the work of understanding your past. But we can understand our past mentally, and still feel the pain of trauma. Because the body doesn’t forget. Some pain has to be worked through at a deeper level.

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.

Anxiety in relationships can manifest itself in many ways, including social anxiety, panic attacks, depression, negative thinking, jealousy, and attachment issues. If these issues are left untreated, anxiety in relationships can lead to separation or divorce. Welcome to your roadmap to a better relationship!

What if I told you that your anxious attachment style might be linked to your childhood teddy bear? Do you struggle with anxiety and jealousy in your relationships? Are you exhausted from the fear of abandonment? If you're ready to break free from toxic patterns, this book is for you. Research shows that anxious attachment can stem from genetics, early caregiving, and even prenatal stress. But don’t worry—anxious attachment isn’t permanent!

Discover how to quiet your inner critic, break free from shyness, and overcome your social fears with Social Anxiety and Shyness. A comprehensive and studious guide to conversation skills and confidence-building, The Conversation Skills Guides is based on actual scientific research. It breaks down all concepts so that even a social beginner can find their way through and apply the great advice.

In The Art Therapy Way: A Self-Care Guide, you will discover how creativity can help you calm anxiety, destress, boost your mood, and more (even if you do not believe that you have a creative bone in your body). Inside you will find therapeutic art prompts, meditations, and process questions to help you tune in to your inner experience and connect with your heart, body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

In the newly revised and expanded second edition of Free-Range Kids, New York columnist-turned-movement leader Lenore Skenazy delivers a compelling and entertaining look at how we got so worried about everything our kids do, see, eat, read, wear, watch, and lick - and how to bid a whole lot of that anxiety goodbye. With real-world examples, advice, and a gimlet-eyed look at the way our culture forces fear down our throats, Skenazy describes how parents and educators can step back so kids step up.

You can't hit a magic button to turn your mental health around, but you can harness the power of positive energy to transform your life. Anxiety and depression are constant shadows influencing everything you do. Tasks that are easy on good days become impossible, and nothing lifts your heart from the darkness. However, these companions aren't permanent, and you can find light in places that once seemed dark. Weaving mechanisms into your life can stop anxiety and depression in their tracks.

Say goodbye to explosive anger and hello to a calmer, more connected relationship with your child. If you’re looking for a better way to handle your emotions and improve your relationship with your kids, you’ve come to the right place. This groundbreaking guide will transform your parenting journey.

If you want to rapidly boost your self-esteem and tap into limitless confidence, then keep listening…Do you feel trapped by your low-esteem? Would you like to finally uncage your self-confidence? Are you worried that your current mindset is holding you back from being successful? The truth is self-esteem issues are more common in men than you think. And if you’ve ever felt frustrated, angry or embarrassed by your lack of confidence, it’s not your fault! But you do need to change the way you way you approach life.

The Highly Sensitive Person - a complete guide for all sensitive people out there who want to have full control over their physical and emotional life. You probably already heard or have been told that high sensitivity is a completely normal thing, and you shouldn’t worry about it. Well, in some cases, it is, but most of the time it affects you more negatively than positively - in other words, it is just an excuse not to do anything about it.

The Speakmans' powerful and life-changing guide to conquering anxiety and living a more positive life. The world's leading life-change therapists, the Speakmans, share a passion to help people lead happier and less inhibited lives. Their intellectual curiosity guided them through years of extensive research into behaviourism and conditioning, which led to the creation of their groundbreaking behavioural change therapy known as 'Schema Conditioning'. Based on the Speakmans' unique coaching method this book provides the key to eliminating anxiety.

Anyone caring for girls today knows that our daughters, students, and girls next door are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before. The question that no one has yet been able to credibly answer is Why? Now we have answers. As award-winning writer Donna Jackson Nakazawa deftly explains in Girls on the Brink, new findings reveal that the crisis facing today’s girls is a biologically rooted phenomenon: the earlier onset of puberty mixes badly with the unchecked bloom of social media and cultural misogyny.

As an experienced psychotherapist, who’s had years of therapy, I realised that ploughing endless energy into trying to control the uncontrollable is keeping us all tired, wired, and worried. Ignoring fears doesn’t make them less true, it makes them more powerful. I decided to try a different tact and it changed my world. Instead of doing everything I could to ease and avoid life’s uncomfortable truths, I sought a deeper acceptance of them. Through using this approach, my clients and I discovered that fear began to loosen its grip. We were living more intentionally and peacefully.

You’re tired, always thinking, “what is wrong with me?”, a constant battle in your mind, and feeling like anxiety and low self-worth is just something you must live with. That confidence that you wish you had, you believe it’s something only lucky people possess.I once believed anxiety was something I’d have for the rest of my life. Diagnosed, like it was my fate. Here’s what I wasn’t told…anxiety should not be a diagnosis. It’s a symptom, a manifestation of a deeper issue and it’s only a small part of a broader picture.

It's time to outsmart your worry and anxiety. Drawing on the same cutting-edge psychology presented in author David Carbonell's The Worry Trick, this irreverent, on-the-go guide offers 10 powerful "counter-intuitive" strategies to help you put worry in its place-anytime, anywhere.

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.

Many people experience these sorts of feelings, but not many people work on developing these skills. And many more don't even realize it's possible to develop these skills. This book should help you to develop these skills and give you the best chance of finding your voice and reaching higher levels of confidence.

Have you ever felt like sleeping is a better option compared to waking up and facing the day? These signs might actually indicate a serious underlying problem. We need to know how our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact especially in the case of conditions such as depression, anger, anxiety, phobia, and panic. This book is designed to help children, teenagers, and young adults understand their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

The authority on panic and anxiety - newly revised and expanded. Are you one of the more than 19 million Americans who suffer from anxiety? Don't panic. Newly revised and expanded, this edition offers a straightforward and remarkably effective self-help program for overcoming panic and coping with anxious fears. With insight and compassion, Reid Wilson, PhD, demystifies anxiety attacks and provides indispensable advice.