Stand up to your OCD! The ACT Workbook for OCD combines evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with exposure and response prevention (ERP) for the most up-to-date, effective treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). If you're one of millions of people who suffer from OCD, you may experience obsessive, intrusive, or even disturbing thoughts. You may engage in compulsive or ritualistic behaviors, such as checking to make sure you've locked the front door, or endlessly washing your hands for fear of germs or contamination. And you may be tempted to give up if treatment just doesn't work for you. Whether you've just received a diagnosis, or have suffered for years, this workbook can help. Using the powerful and proven-effective treatments in this guide, you'll learn what type of OCD you suffer from (such as harm OCD), how to identify the underlying mechanisms of your OCD, move through triggering incidents while staying present and connected to your values, be more aware and flexible, tolerate uncertainty, and commit to behaviours that ultimately allow you to lead a full, rewarding life. Once you realise what really matters to you, you'll find the motivation needed to start on the path to psychological well-being. If you're ready to be courageous, take a risk, and stand up to your OCD symptoms, this workbook can help guide you, every step of the way.

Lost and Restored offers inspiration through Suzanne B. Simpson's personal journey, along with others, who are overcoming struggles and doubts. Just receiving salvation doesn't necessarily free one from the effects of their broken world that brings relationship distress, addictions, and abuse. Within Lost and Restored, individuals are encouraged to overcome the blocks of receiving the Father's love as they move into a deeper connection that He takes them through to reclaim their truest self. Believers may be missing answers from the church as to how to develop more emotional intimacy with Christ that moves them to reclaim what was stolen. Suzanne provides believers with a more genuine and lasting healing rather than traditional talk therapy. Lost and Restored exposes readers to the resources and latest methods that are available to bring more accelerated healing. Practical methods and tools are shared throughout so one can be released from unresolved pain from difficult life events.

A beautifully illustrated, irreverent guide to breaking out of the anxious thought patterns that hold us back. This little self-help book contains 101 anxiety spiral-stopping exercises, inspiring pep talks, and calm-the-F-down activities. With a no f*cks given tone, research-backed therapeutic techniques, and fun, fresh illustration, F*ck Anxiety will help you take control over your anxious thought patterns and make you laugh at the same time. Divided into six chapters-the first two will help kick that anxiety spiral in it's scrawny ass, and the next four help build and flex anti-anxiety powers on the daily-F*ck Anxiety covers the following: Get Out of Your Head in Ten Minutes or Less Get Stubborn Against a Longer Spiral Do These Eight Things Every Day-You Deserve It! A Grab Bag of Ways to Be Amazing to You Truths + Tending for Shitty Situations Hush Up, It's Time for Your Daily Moment of Zen In addition, the book also includes an explanation of how anxiety works, as well as recommendations for additional tools and practices.

'The most honest, most revealing - and funniest - exploration of male mental health I have ever read' Adam Kay 'Matt Rudd may have written the most important book in a generation' Idle Society On the surface, men today don't have much to complain about. At work, they still get paid more than women for doing the same jobs. At home, they still shirk most of the unpaid labour. Putting the bins out does not count. Beneath the surface, it's a different story. An alarming number of men end up anxious, exhausted, depressed - and very reluctant to admit they are. Even if they do everything that's expected of them in work, life and fatherhood, genuine happiness is still elusive. By midlife, their levels of stress are higher and their levels of wellbeing are lower - and work-life balance turns out to be just a cruel illusion. The evidence is clear and ironic: the system set up by men for men doesn't work for men either. It is making none of us happy. In Man Down, Matt Rudd takes the long view on this perplexing paradox. Drawing on stories from his own life, and the varied lives of the other men he has interviewed, he goes back to the beginning to consider what makes the modern man - how the seeds of midlife misery are sown in the school playground and cultivated through adolescence and into adulthood. By turns compassionate and provocative, Man Down asks the important question: is midlife unhappiness inevitable? Spoiler alert: it isn't.

The powerful, refreshingly honest, first-hand account of a childhood spent in the Care system. At the age of nine, Hope Daniels walked into Stoke Newington Police Station with her little brothers and asked to be taken into care. Home life was intolerable: both of Hope's parents were alcoholics and her mum was a prostitute. The year was 1983. As London emerged into a new era of wealth and opportunity, the Daniels children lived in desperate poverty, neglected and barely nourished. Hounded by vigilante neighbours and vulnerable to the drunken behaviour of her parents' friends, Hope had to draw on her inner strength. Hackney Child is Hope's gripping story of physical and emotional survival - and the lifeline given to her by the support of professionals working in the care system. Despite all the challenges she faced, Hope never lost compassion for her parents. Her experiences make essential reading and show that, with the right help, the least fortunate children have the potential not only to recover but to thrive. 'It's raw and absorbing'Grazia 'This story needed to be told' Cassie Harte, Sunday Times Number One bestselling author

This user-friendly workbook provides adults with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), the tools they need to move beyond their disorder using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and it also serves as compact text for clinicians/practitioners to use with clients suffering from OCD at any point in treatment. The workbook offers readers hands-on ACT and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) skills for taming disturbing obsessions and filling the gap of where one stands and where one wants to go. Dr. Zurita provides evidence-based exercises to guide adults through the process of ACT. This includes learning to step back from one's thoughts and memories, opening up to all types of unwanted thoughts and feelings, paying attention to the physical world, observing one's thoughts and feelings, getting rid of barriers to values-based living, and developing consistent patterns of values-based behavior. Written from the office of a full-time therapist in a simple, uncomplicated, and unpretentious manner, this workbook will be useful for all clients suffering from OCD and for the therapists who work with them.

"Fear and Self-Loathing in the City" is a practical guide to both managing the pressures of the workplace and coping with the struggles we may have in our personal lives. It incorporates simple techniques and quick solutions to many stressful work-related issues that exist in most working cultures. This book is crucial for today s workplace. The current state of the economy, financial disasters and general instability is having a massive affect on employees. Workers have to deal with redundancies and the pressures of finding new jobs; the number of sick days is on the rise; drug use and alcoholism is increasing; and depression and anxiety are becoming more and more common. Although more people are seeking help, there is still a stigma in the workplace about depression, anxiety, and other very real mental illnesses. As a result, many employees suffer in silence for fear their contemporaries will find out they are not coping, see it as a sign of weakness and think badly of them. In this book, Dr Sinclair has taken a lighter approach and used relatable language (common to the workplace) with which the reader can identify. In short, this book aims to remove this stigma about mental health, and promote a sense of acceptability about seeking help and resolving problems in a healthy way. This book deals with very current topics, including: depression, anxiety, alcoholism, sleep deprivation, and unhealthy lifestyles (e.g. eating habits) among many others."

Learn how to control your health anxiety Health anxiety affects many people across the world - a preoccupation with physical illness that is equally bad for your mental health. This can be worsened in times of global panic about pandemics. This self-help guide explains how health anxiety develops and what keeps it going. This updated edition gives you clinically proven cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to help you challenge the way you think and behave, such as: - What health anxiety is and how it develops - Physical symptom - How to spot and challenge thoughts that make you anxious. - Reducing your focus on illness - How to spot and challenge thoughts that make you anxious - Reducing your focus on your body and on illness

At the age of thirty-nine, Sarah Kowalski heard her biological clock ticking, loudly. A single woman harboring a deep ambivalence about motherhood, Kowalski needed to decide once and for all: Did she want a baby or not? More importantly, with no partner on the horizon, did she want to have a baby alone? Once she revised her idea of motherhood-from an experience she would share with a partner to a journey she would embark upon alone-the answer came up a resounding Yes. After exploring her options, Kowalski chose to conceive using a sperm donor, but her plan stopped short when a doctor declared her infertile. How far would she go to make motherhood a reality? Kowalski catapulted herself into a diligent regimen of herbs, Qigong, meditation, acupuncture, and more, in a quest to improve her chances of conception. Along the way, she delved deep into spiritual healing practices, facing down demons of self-doubt and self-hatred, ultimately discovering an unconventional path to parenthood. In the end, to become a mother, Kowalski did everything she said she would never do. And she wouldn't change a thing. A story of personal triumph and unconditional love, Motherhood Reimagined reveals what happens when we release what's expected and embrace what's possible.

The Door to Inner Happiness reveals powerful strategies from around the world for bouncing back when everything's going wrong. The Door to Inner Happiness shares the stories of regular people from all over the world who have found ways to turn horrendous situations into opportunities and new possibilities. It will reassure you, inspire you, and give you hope, because if these people can do it, so can you. You'll discover that beneath our cultural differences, there is a common thread that binds us all together. This is not just another self-help book. It's a deep dive into the heart of life through real stories of overcoming real tragedies.

Within The Anxious Mom Manifesto, Paola B. Sur reveals personal stories, experiences, and tips of her journey as a mom living with anxiety. Paola suffered from anxiety almost all her life but was not diagnosed with the actual Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) until she was an adult. She describes anxiety as "a monster that every day you try to defeat but instead, you might end up feeding it, nurturing it and making it stronger and scarier." However, she managed to find a way to keep the monster at bay and control her anxiety on a daily basis. The Anxious Mom Manifesto seeks to offer encouragement, motivation, and guidance for mothers with anxiety. As a survivor, Paola believes that sharing real stories, tips, and methods used with success can be an effective way to help mothers relate to one another. The Anxious Mom Manifesto spreads the message that everyone can control their own monsters, plus encourages an open conversation about mental health and motherhood.

Are you gluten-free or dairy-free? If so, you might not have to be. Eat Wheat is a scientific and clinically-proven approach to addressing food intolerances. After 3.4 million years of eating wheat and only 500,000 years of hunting meat, we are actually genetically better equipped to eat wheat than meat. This book is your guide to safely bringing wheat and dairy back into your diet. Dr. John Douillard, a former NBA nutrition expert and creator of LifeSpa.com, addresses the underlying cause of the gluten-free epidemic. Eat Wheat explains how a breakdown in digestion has damaged the intestinal wall and leaked undigested foods and environmental toxins into the body's lymphatic system, causing "grain brain" symptoms and food allergies. Although eliminating wheat and dairy from your diet may help your symptoms, it is a Band-Aid solution. Eat Wheat addresses the root cause: weak digestion and the inability to efficiently break down harmful pollutants and toxins that can predispose you to a host of chronic degenerative diseases, such as cancer and autoimmune disorders. Backed by more than 600 scientific studies, Eat Wheat is a revolutionary guidebook to regaining your digestive strength. Eat Wheat will: Separate fact from fiction surrounding gluten and dairy Help you navigate around food toxins in modern wheat and dairy Retrain your body to digest wheat and dairy again Give you techniques to flush your lymphatic system, which is the cause of many food allergies Teach you to follow natural digestive circadian cycles Help bring your blood sugar back into balance and enjoy wheat and dairy again Teach you proven exercise and detox techniques to re-boot strong digestion and achieve optimal health and vitality

"Un-Agoraphobic" offers a comprehensive, step-by-step self-help program for overcoming agoraphobia and panic attacks. Since overcoming his own disorder twenty years ago, Mathew has been leading support groups and recovery programs for people with agoraphobia. He understands what agoraphobes need and how to deliver it.

No one knows exactly what causes agoraphobia or panic attacks, but it clearly involves some misfirings in the brain. The good news is that recent neuroscience research suggests the brain is retrainable?at any age.

The basis for any recovery plan for anxiety disorders is a highly structured approach each day. Mathew provides a daily schedule that lays out a clear set of steps and considerations for conquering this affliction, including:
writing every daycultivating present-moment thinkingtaking a new approach to food and eatingchoosing a therapiststarting a peer support groupusing visualization techniques specifically designed for overcoming anxiety and panictaking medications, if appropriatedealing with children, spouse, parents, friends, coworkers, teachers, bosses, and moretaking your first trip out of the house

Mathew includes FAQs, general survival tips, and a special chapter on tips for spouses and loved ones.

"Un-Agoraphobic" is candid, funny, prescriptive, and spot on for panic disorders - by an author with a lot of life experience under his belt.