Personal Healing

Being a woman in this highly male-dominated world is exhausting. It’s because women like you devote a lot of time and energy in maintaining relationships with others. You fulfill so many roles daily, it’s easy for you to lose yourselves in the process. This is a problem that many women like you face today. You lose yourselves in the roles and responsibilities that you fulfill. You constantly give so much of yourself that you easily become emotionally exhausted and burnt-out. You start losing time for yourself, then your self-esteem slowly shrinks.

This guide by Dr. Lawrence L James, an expert in alcoholism and trauma, offers not just knowledge but a shared understanding of the lifelong impact of adverse childhood experiences. Drawing from personal and professional experiences, Dr. James delves into the heart of the emotional and psychological turmoil faced by adult children of alcoholics.

In a culture that constantly tells us to do more of everything but simultaneously pressures us to do nothing, Permission to Rest is a passionate cry for a more regulated, resourced, and rested life. Wellness expert Ashley Neese combines personal essays, contemplative questions, scientific research, and somatic practices to help us disrupt the state of urgency, reflect inward, and relax deeply. Neese examines common beliefs around rest and offers support and guidance to challenge the shame, guilt, and discomfort that often arise when we attempt to slow down.

Eight years ago, Kathleen Hart was diagnosed with breast cancer. Further complications led to a protracted recovery and months spent in hospital, where Kathleen had to learn how to walk again. While recuperating, she came across a small whitewashed cottage for sale in Wigtown, Scotland. Driving hundreds of miles on nothing more than a few photographs and an inkling, she bought it that very same day and named it Devorgilla after the formidable 13th century Scottish princess.

When you look around you, you see all these people happily in love and singing poems about the wonders of love. And then you are confused why you are not able to feel anything on those lines. All you feel is a pit in your stomach, a sense of fear and of always being on edge, but all you did was love, right? You did or are doing everything right, yet this “love” does not seem to be magical or does not seem to be healing you; rather, it appears to be destroying you by driving you crazy, and you notice that you have changed not for good.

Narcissists are seemingly irresistibly charming people. They fill you with love and attention until you fall in love, and then they trap you in their darkness. Behind this fascinating façade, there is, unfortunately, almost always a ruthless manipulator who punishes you by taking away your affection and attention every time you disobey. This book warns against narcissists by teaching you to recognize them, recognize their subtle tricks, and showing you how to break this vicious circle. Your boundaries are not negotiable. This is the right book that can help you take back your life.

Are you suffering the effects of sexual abuse? There is a way out. In Not Marked: Finding Hope and Healing After Sexual Abuse, Mary DeMuth illuminates the way to go from shame-filled to joy-filled, from traumatized to finding enduring peace. This isn't theory. Mary has lived it. She's traveled this path and offers a uniquely qualified, insider's view of the healing process.

Never apologize for the strength of your feminine energy. This is one of the phrases that left a lasting impression on me. In a society that constantly represses your feminine energy, your purest part, the only thing left to do is to develop and protect it. Within you lies a strength you can't even imagine, dormant for too long, a flame that in these times is fading more and more. To conform to the masses, to strip away what makes you special: Your feminine energy.

Are you feeling overwhelming resentment toward your narcissistic mother? Do you feel frustrated because you can’t seem to find a way to heal and establish loving relationships with others? Award-winning author and narcissistic-abuse survivor Nanette Abigail knows a thing or two about this sensitive issue, laying out the crucial tools she used to create safe havens and find mental clarity for herself, and with her help, you can, too!

The world can often be cruel to Black women, though I'm sure I don't have to tell you that. We deal with far more than the combined forces of being both Black and women.

This is the story of a Canadian woman who was in the Advanced Training Institute, run by Bill Gothard, for fourteen years. The amazing thing is that she never knew she was in a cult until several years after she was out. That's what happened to Christine in 2014. She has spent the past nine years trying to deprogram and change the way she sees the world. Join her as she navigates the cult, goes through a divorce, finds out she was in a cult and subsequently has to unlearn all she believed to be true.

As the creator of the Radical Forgiveness books and workshops, Colin Tipping knows that this is more than just a theoretical question. According to Colin, unconditional forgiveness is not only necessary for mental well-being, but also catalyzes our ability to bounce back from illness. With Radical Forgiveness for Healing, Colin presents a blueprint for applying this powerful framework to your day-to-day health.

After a number of years of being chronically ill with Lyme disease, Jenny Rush had a momentary realization that she was overlooking a lesson that was resulting in continued ill health. As she went into her last year of dealing with chronic illness at a physical level, Jenny shifted her primary focus from the illness itself to addressing the multitude of experiences that the illness was provoking.

With how busy our lives can be, the stress of the future, and even the worries we feel whenever we’re just trying to live, it can take a toll on the body. Most of us end up staying up too late and getting up too early. If you’re someone who used to fall asleep hearing the lull of your parent’s words, then this book is for you. Sit back, relax, and hear these wonderful stories, and you’ll see, as you listen to them, how relaxing it can be for you, and how, with a few small stories, they can relax you, so you’re happy and satisfied.

This audiobook is filled with powerful positive affirmations that are life-changing. Listen, learn, and develop self-love as the hypnotic meditations enhance your relationships. The beauty of this magnetic audiobook is that it can change your mood while subliminally improving your happiness, habits, and confidence.

When someone leaves an abusive marriage, life isn't instantly fixed. Women who have experienced domestic violence feel shattered. Because of the trauma they've been through, a bond with their abuser has formed that keeps them tied together long after they've physically left. Karen DeArmond Gardner understands these difficulties all too well. And she intimately knows what women in this situation need in order to gain freedom from the lies of abuse - to be reborn as the people God longs for them to be.

A codependent relationship, to put it in simple terms, is a dysfunctional relationship. It is the kind of relationship where one person either supports or enables another person’s poor behaviors. Why do they do this? Because, they would rather cling to a relationship that is unhealthy. After all, being codependent is better than being alone, right? Wrong.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and tapping consist of activating energy points along one's body in much the same way acupuncture relieves pain - except without the needles! Energy blockages are cleared quickly and effectively, allowing for healing and a sense of overall well-being. It is a safe and easy way to relieve stress, anxiety, and depression, and to control weight gain and physical pain.

This book is for chronic pain sufferers and those who care for them: doctors, nurses, family members, and friends. It offers proven techniques to clear pain and live a life free from suffering, from a former chronic pain sufferer who searched the globe for answers—and found them. Elizabeth Kipp lived with chronic pain for over four decades until she learned nonpharmaceutical techniques to clear it and live a life free from suffering.

No one who lives and loves will be immune from grief and trauma. While this suffering is universal, living through a devastating event often leaves people feeling alone and even alienated. Michele Neff Hernandez experienced this when her 39-year-old husband died after being hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Her most transformative realization was that grief changes us. There is no going back or bucking up. Life is now different.