Womens Mental Health

Whether you're on the verge of a breakdown, in the middle of one, or worried you're headed toward one-this book will show you how a breakdown can lead to a breakthrough. We have wasted enough time living in fear; let's start living in freedom!

Explore the many facets of your identity through hundreds of big and small questions. In this affirmations audiobook created for Black girls, M. J. Fievre tackles topics such as family and friends, school and careers, body image, and stereotypes. By reflecting on these themes, you confront the issues that can hold you back from discovering your inner Black joy. Embrace authenticity and celebrate who you are. Finding the courage to live as you are is not easy, so Badass Black Girl is designed to help you nurture creativity and positive self-awareness.

This book is your unofficial guide to navigating those tricky transitions. While your school and parents have armed you with the basics, there's a boatload of critical life skills that they might not cover—skills that are absolutely crucial for thriving in today's complex world. That's where "Teenage Girl to Super Woman" swoops in. Consider this your handbook for all the things that come after learning how to drive or picking a college major. It's about handling your digital life, understanding your emotions, and making decisions that reflect who you are and who you aspire to be.

As a woman, there is a lack of practical resources for coping with anxiety. We struggle with feeling alone, trapped, and fearful that we will be misunderstood, shamed—or worse, just overlooked. You are not alone! Most women are battling similar, if not the same, emotions every day alongside you.

Great sexual confidence is one of your most powerful assets. Having it will make you feel secure, strong - and sexy. With this audiobook by Debs de Vries, one of the UK's top self-confidence teachers, you'll learn to express your needs and desires in ways that respect and protect you - and others. Debs will show you how to learn the vital skills of thoughtful inquiry so you avoid 'crash and burn' relationships - and you'll also get the low-down on how to nurture yourself to enjoy your unique sensuality.

At 24, life was good for Georgie Dent. After graduating with top marks she landed her dream job at a prestigious Sydney law firm and moved in with a boyfriend she adored. She had the world at her feet and no right to break. But she did. Badly. Within a year Georgie was unemployed, back living with her parents and suffering such crippling anxiety that she ended up in a psychiatric hospital. Breaking Badly is the story of a nervous breakdown in slow motion, a life that fell apart and what it took to put it back together again.

I nostri demoni possono solo essere domati, mai uccisi. In "Non mi sono mai piaciuta", Valentina Dallari ha raccontato come era arrivata a pesare 37 chili, a non voler più sentire, né vedere, né vivere, e il modo in cui è riuscita a smettere di autodistruggersi. Ma fragilità, rabbia e paura trovano sempre nuove forme, rinascono ogni volta che rinasciamo. Come l'uroboro, il serpente che addenta la propria coda, simbolo antico dell'eterno ritorno: l'inizio e la fine non sono poi così diversi.

In deinen Herausforderungen liegt deine Stärke, in deiner Vielfalt deine Größe, und im wissen dein Selbstvertrauen. Können Sie Ihre Neurodiversität annehmen und sich so akzeptieren, wie Sie sind? Als Frau mit ADHS kann es eine entmutigende und oft isolierende Erfahrung sein, sich in einer neurotypischen Gesellschaft zurechtzufinden. Die Welt um uns herum scheint in einem anderen Takt zu marschieren, der nicht immer mit dem Rhythmus unseres Verstandes übereinstimmt.

Fear and overanalysis can trigger anxieties that can ruin your relationships. Knowing how to manage these, how to avoid triggers, and how to deal with them when they appear are vital to creating a healthy relationship and experiencing connected bliss. You can cultivate better relationships, and with the skills taught in this book, you can develop a commitment mindset that will serve you and your partner well.

In a genre-bending book that blurs the lines of fiction and nonfiction, the author challenges the listener to identify their own truth about weight loss, diet, and body image by experiencing the truth of others. Fitness professional Renee knows all the stories, the secrets, and the struggles of people working toward fitness goals first-hand. Through her many clients, she's witnessed how people seek self-worth and purpose through the size and shape of their body.

Women are as prone to ADHD as men, and the struggle with the symptoms is unending. Women are more prone to emotional imbalance, and ADHD worsens it. The good news is you can overcome your most frustrating symptoms of ADHD with more tailored assistance. Using this workbook, you can make your life more organized and successful by keeping the move-forward momentum and removing every obstacle that ADHD causes on your way to your best self.

Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor - raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood, and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness". Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment.

From women who find their sexuality reawakened by a younger lover, to couples whose marriages survive health crises and grow stronger, to women who finally find a soulmate in their sixties, to stories from seasoned sirens in their seventies, eighties, and even nineties, these portraits cover an enormous range of experience. In them, Sheehy locates the universal patterns that enable us all to recognize and understand our own lives.

In Every 90 Seconds, Anne P. DePrince argues that to end violence against women, we must fundamentally redefine how we engage with it—starting by abandoning the idea that violence is a problem involving only those who abuse or are abused. Instead, DePrince illuminates how violence against women is inextricably linked to other issues that stoke our greatest passions.

Open: A Toolkit for How Magic and Messed Up Life Can Be is full of honest advice about the big, bad and beautiful things that growing up is all about: from mental health to families to first love, and everything in between. Gemma Cairney is an important advocate for young people due to both her life experiences and her personal insight from her time as Radio 1's resident agony aunt on The Surgery.

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.

Hooking up, marriage, childbirth, infidelity, divorce, menopause, widowhood - women's lives have many stages, changes, and challenges. A prevailing question on women's minds as they age is, "How do I handle the shifts in my sexuality caused by these transitions?" In Sex After…, veteran journalist and New York Times best-selling author Iris Krasnow tackles this question head-on. Krasnow traveled the country, interviewing over 150 women, from waitresses to CEOs, ages 20 to 88. Here she shares their varied stories.

Loving the girl in the mirror isn't about changing how you look, but allowing God to change how you see. Teasi Cannon’s lifelong battle with body image nearly destroyed her. Yet today she feels blessed - not because the size of her lower half has changed but because her perspective has. In her often hilarious, no-nonsense style, Teasi's gut-honest journey and transparent insights will propel every one of us who struggles with...you name it - bad hair or chubby cheeks, skinny arms or wide hips - to realize our value and beauty.

When a 200-pound glass partition fell on Donna Fado Ivery's head resulting in brain injury, disability, and chronic pain, she could no longer count on walking, speaking, or thinking. How would she care for her infant, her preschooler, her husband, and herself? How would she continue to serve as pastor? With humor and humility, this inspirational memoir speaks to Donna’s struggle through medical, social, and church prejudice with the abiding support of family and the Holy Spirit.

Obscene Thoughts: A Pornographer's Perspective on Sex, Love and Dating examines progressive, intellectual and academic constructs regarding mate selection, sexual behavior and the reasons why people cheat. Obscene Thoughts investigates and deconstructs core socioeconomic and biological values and the sexual behaviors of men and women, in a fresh, distinct manner.