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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with stress
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.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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 areānot 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.
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