We all know that exercise is good for physical health. Improved fitness has been proven to increase longevity and stave off illness. Recently, there has been a wealth of data proving that exercise also contributes to overall mental well-being. Routine exercise alleviates stress and anxiety, moderates depression, relieves chronic pain, and improves self-esteem. Christina G. Hibbert, an expert on women's mental health, grief and self-esteem issues, here offers readers step-by-step strategies for sticking to fitness goals, overcoming motivation challenges and roadblocks to working out, and maintaining a physically and emotionally healthy exercise regimen. The techniques she offers will benefit readers at any stage of life or fitness level. Whether you have worked out periodically in the past or have never hit the gym, this book will help you get moving, stay moving, and maintain the inspiration you need to reap the mental health benefits of regular exercise.

'...short, sharp guide to managing your mind.' THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE 'If I could inject it, I would.' REFINERY29 'Brilliant' THE TELEGRAPH Manage your mind. Handle your emotions. Concentrate on what matters in life. So many of us feel stressed in our daily lives but lack the ability to respond to life's hurdles effectively and overcome these challenges. We can build resilience to stress by taking action to live our lives in a more meaningful way. The answer is to become stressilient. Dr Sam Akbar will show you how. As a clinical psychologist with over ten years of experience, Dr Sam draws from her own professional expertise to provide sensitive and realistic guidance to feel calmer, less stressed, and more resilient to life's challenges. From understanding how your brain works, managing your emotions and challenging your thought-processes, to opening up your perspective and having more self-compassion, Stressilient offers an indispensable, easy and effective go-to guide to help you get from surviving to thriving.

Do you ever feel you're a fraud and about to be found out? Do you feel an expectation to keep going and to be strong? Do you ever think what it would be like to just... 'STOP'? You're not alone. Mental ill health impacts one in four people every year, and professionals in high-pressure jobs are especially vulnerable. Life is a Four-Letter Word is a mental health survival guide for professionals, from a high-flying Big 4 accountant who's struggled with depression, anxiety, stress and suicidal thoughts and learned a lot along the way. Andy now advocates positive action around mental health, working closely with business leaders across the UK to help them build mentally healthy cultures. He is a renowned speaker and writer on mental health, entrepreneurship and finance.

This book is now available in paperback. While many of us may seek traditional therapy to help us deal with life's difficulties, Zen, according to David Brazier's "Zen Therapy", offers an alternative - dragon-riding lessons. Psychologist and best selling author Robert Wicks is a specialist in the field of secondary stress and counsels people who help others - psychologists, doctors, nurses, and ministers. In "Riding the Dragon", Wicks offers dragon riding lessons, drawing upon both Eastern and Western traditions. In this warm, compassionate, and highly personal guidebooks, Wicks offers encouragement and 10 lessons to help people engage their problems and grow through them. The 10 lessons include: prune carefully and often; recognize your renewal zones; catch the slide; seek hidden possibilities; engage the darkness; pair clarity and kindness; find love in small deeds; seek perspective daily; build a barrier of simplicity; and come home more often. Wicks has shown a generation the links between psychology and spirituality, working from the perspective that difficult times can offer striking moments of grace.

The ideal antidote to too much screen time, this coloring book is the perfect way to let one's imagination roam free From the artist extraordinaire whose Mindfulness Coloring Book (a #1 national bestseller!) was the first to offer pocket-sized stress relief--here are more gorgeous scenes perfect for mindful coloring. Emma Farrarons invites colorists back for another creative adventure in Moments of Mindfulness: Anti-Stress Coloring & Activities for Busy People. This all-new pocket-size volume offers more delicately hand-drawn scenes ready to be filled in with pencil, crayon, or even marker, and a greater focus on the practice of mindfulness. Working with your hands and cultivating mindful focus are two of the best ways to soothe anxiety and eliminate stress--and coloring is a great way to do both!

Find your fresh start by learning how to cope with anxiety and become a calmer, happier and more grounded person with this simple and accessible guide 'Remarkable, pioneering, could change your life' Daily Mail _______ This is a book for anyone experiencing anxiety, guiding you through simple ways to ease panic, dread and fear in the uncertainty of modern life. The Anxiety Solution is a simple and inspiring guide to reducing anxiety from former sufferer and qualified clinical hypnotherapist, and host of The Calmer You podcast, Chloe Brotheridge. Chloe will help you understand why we feel anxious and will equip you with techniques to help manage the symptoms and start living a happier, more confident life. Based on the latest scientific research and her unique programme which has already helped hundreds of clients, The Anxiety Solution will show you how to regain control of your life. 'I know what it's like to be stuck in a cycle of anxiety. I used to feel as though fear and worry were a permanent part of who I was . . . but I'm here to tell you that it doesn't have to be this way. The truth is, your natural state is one of calmness and confidence - and I'm going to teach you how to get there.' If you want to spend less time worrying, this book is the solution for you. You'll be surprised how quickly you can be back in control and able to enjoy your life once again. _______ Discover the impact The Anxiety Solution has had on readers: 'As an anxiety sufferer who has tried medication and counselling I never truly felt that anyone understood exactly what I was feeling . . . until I ordered this book! It has changed the way I look at life, and I wish I'd have found it sooner' 5***** Reader Review 'Inspiring, educational and informative. If you are somebody looking for solutions to your health, wellbeing and happiness, this book is for you. Could not recommend highly enough' 5***** Reader Review 'Putting into practice what is written in this book has made me one million times more positive in my thinking than I ever was' 5***** Reader Review 'Chloe offers realistic advice and methods that have helped me to co-exist with my anxiety in a way I never thought I could' 5***** Reader Review

You wish you didn't spend as much time worrying as you do, but you just can't seem to help it. Worrying feels like second nature. It's what helps you solve your problems and prevents you from making mistakes. It's what motivates you to be prepared--if you didn't worry, things might get out of hand. Worry protects you, prepares you, and keeps you safe.
Is it working? Or is it making you tense, tired, anxious, uncertain--and more worried?
For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Robert L. Leahy has successfully helped thousands of people defeat the worry that is holding them back. "The Worry Cure" is his new, comprehensive approach to help you identify, challenge, and overcome all types of worry, using the most recent research and his more than two decades of experience in treating patients.
This empowering seven-step program, including practical, easy-to-follow advice and techniques, will help you:
- Determine your "worry profile" and change your patterns of worry
- Identify productive and unproductive worry
- Take control of time and eliminate the sense of urgency that keeps you anxious
- Focus on new opportunities--not on your fear of failure
- Embrace uncertainty instead of searching for perfect solutions
- Stop the most common safety behaviors that you think make things better--but actually make things worse
Designed to address general worries as well as the unique issues surrounding some of the most common areas of worry--relationships, health, money, work, and the need for approval--"The Worry Cure" is for everyone, from the chronic worrier to the occasional ruminator. It's time to stop thinking you're "just a worrier" who can't change and start using the groundbreaking methods in "The Worry Cure "to achieve the healthier, more successful life you deserve.

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The experience of trauma, whether a single incident, like a car accident, or more chronic, systemic exposure, like childhood sexual abuse, is life altering. Added to the primal emotions of fear, shame, rage, and uncertainty about how to cope is the unsettling sense that you are not quite who you used to be. What does a post-trauma identity look like? How does one come to accept this new identity? And what are the healing strategies that can help to recover a sense of self? In this book, trauma coach Michele Rosenthal, herself a PTSD survivor, offers a practical workbook of insightful treatment strategies for survivors and their therapists. Exercises, checklists, and self-assessment tools walk readers through the process of self-reclamation, demonstrating how you can understand and appreciate the PTSD self while moving on to find healing and renewal."

Today's workplace is fast-paced, highly complex, and sometimes even life-threatening. Yet it is possible to thrive in the 'pressure cooker' of modern work life. We all have the right to enjoy rather than just endure work. In the unpredictability of even the most challenging environments, the route to success and fulfilment at work is to build our resilience. This ground-breaking book provides a highly effective toolkit that will empower you to survive, thrive and flourish in the dynamic and fast-changing context of blue-light services. Discover how to: Be ready for the unexpected, feel calm and confident under pressure and avoid burnout Reduce stress and anxiety by understanding the essential components of a resilient work life Evaluate your own resilience factor with the Workplace Resilience Instrument "Jonathan Rees shows us through bright examples and actionable exercises that we, too, can thrive under pressure. Our own resilient behaviors can be modeled to match the situations we face. Although reading about what makes people resilient can be insightful, Jonathan's battery of self-assessment tools provides the reader with specific feedback to be more effective and view adverse situations as opportunities more so than danger." Dr. Larry Mallak, Western Michigan University, Author of 'The Workplace Resilience Instrument (WRI)' "This book represents the next stage of Jonathan's work and provides any senior leader in the public sector with an opportunity to learn and refresh the practical skills that will help them in these challenging roles. Whether you are a senior leader in policing, the NHS or elsewhere in the public sector I would recommend that you read this book and adopt its principles. I promise that it will help you to survive and thrive in the pressure cooker." Chief Superintendent Ian Wylie, Vice president, Police Superintendents' Association.

'Offers a frank and funny approach to the ins and outs of anxiety - what it is, why it happens, and how to manage it. I love Caroline Foran's message of self-acceptance and leaning into mental illness rather than trying to outrun it. Highly recommended!' Sarah Knight, bestselling author of Calm the F**k Down THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - A bullsh*t free perspective and a no-frills account of anxiety from the front line. Through the filtered lens of social media, it may seem like life's a peach, but for lots of people - journalist and author Caroline Foran included - anxiety is always bubbling beneath the surface. Here, she chronicles her experiences. From being unable to cope with the thought of venturing outside, to walking away from her fast-paced job, to the different, and sometimes controversial, treatments available - from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to acupuncture to medication - Caroline shows us how she eventually found a way of owning her anxiety so that it doesn't own her. With extensive research and help from the experts, Owning It is written with honesty and a bullsh*t-free perspective; consider it your ultimate, practical guide that aims to get you feeling good again.

Choose Your PowerAlign with what really matters. Do you find yourself detached from your greater purpose in life? Are you feeling unmotivated and powerless? Take a breath. It's time to realign yourself with what truly matters and ignite your self-worth. It's time to affirm your life. Sometimes we are so caught up with getting things done, we forget that what truly matters is getting the right things done. Press the reset button. With the help of this guided journal, you will be reminded of the things that bring you inspiration, purpose, and fulfilment. A guided journal to help you find the answers. For those needing to refresh their goals, rediscover what they most want, and get inspired, Affirm Your Life is your go-to source. This guided journal contains thought-provoking writing prompts to help you dig deep and find the answers-and corresponding actions-you are searching for. Each chapter features a true story and lesson inspired by the author of the timeless book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, as interpreted by feminist scholar Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome Women, and guidance on how you can apply this wisdom to your own life. The lessons in this book are accompanied by confidence-boosting affirmations, writing prompts, and inspirational quotes that will assist you on your journey to peace and purpose. With the timeless teachings in this book, the Affirm Your Life journal will guide you to: Rediscover your "why" and the "End in Mind" for your life Learn to think abundantly and live in gratitude Identify your strengths and use them for self-betterment Build seven powerful practices to help you accomplish your dreams If you have been inspired by journals such as Getting to Good, The Gratitude Journal for Women, or Start Where You Are, you will love Affirm Your Life, a guided journal inspired by the wisdom of Stephen M. R. Covey.

Overcoming app now available via iTunes and the Google Play Store. Up to 44 in every 1000 adults suffer from a condition known as Generalised Anxiety Disorder. This is much more than the normal worrying we all do - it can be a debilitating disorder leading to significant personal and social problems and sometimes financial loss. Using established and proven CBT techniques, expert clinicians Kevin Meares and Mark Freeston help readers to understand that it is their propensity to worry, not the multitude of problems they worry about, that is the root of the problem. The user-friendly, step-by-step approach explains why they worry, how to recognise what feeds it and develop effective methods of dealing with it. With each step the authors introduce new ideas that add to the picture of worry, and use questionnaires, exercises and tasks to help the reader understand and then challenge unhelpful habits and beliefs.

In this fresh look at finding balance between work and sabbath rest, Justin McRoberts leads readers on their journey from false self to true self, discovering that growth and maturity take root in the knowledge of their belovedness in Christ. In his two decades working as a full-time artist and spiritual guide, Justin McRoberts has experienced first-hand the tension between "The Hustle" and "Self Care." In recent years, that conversation has turned to argument as people have suggested that one is more important than the other. But Justin disagrees entirely with such a one-sided approach. Justin says, "My natural posture is not work, nor is my natural posture rest. My natural posture is belovedness, and both work and rest spring from my belovedness, and return me to it." In this book, he uses humorous and poignant stories to help readers discover the deep truths about us being laborers for/with Christ, empowered by the Spirit, as well as worshipers of God the Father. Readers will learn how Sabbath is a gift and a practice that frees us from the anxiety of proving ourselves They are loved and valued by God for who and whose they are—not for what they do Rest is not the absence of work; it is what gives work meaning We can love our world and the people in it through what we do We are not tools in God's tool belt, valued only for our gifts and talents. Nor are we ascetics called to abandon "daily life" to find God in the desert and just sit there. We are beloved by the One who holds all things together . . . including our need to work and our need to rest.

Banish your anxiety. Find inner peace. Take the Anxiety Antidote. In three simple stages - self-awareness, self-action and new self - Kamran Bedi shows you how to be the alchemist of your own personal anxiety antidote. Drawing on his experience of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Kamran helps you to understand the structure of your mind and its impact on your feelings and behaviour. With this new awareness, you can learn to re-direct your thoughts, disrupt patterns of anxiety and take positive control of your life. Empathetic, easy to read and offering fast-acting anxiety-busting tools, The Anxiety Antidote is the cure you have been searching for.