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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tackling the serious topic of stress in his famously entertaining manner, Professor Sapolsky sets the stage on a Kenyan savannah, with a hungry lion in hot pursuit of a terrified zebra. As he explains, the zebra's fight-or-flight response channels essential energy to its survival effort by shutting down and even damaging nonessential biological functions- in a temporary, short-term response. Unfortunately, humans can generate the same response simply...
Author
Publisher
St Martins Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Why is it that some people react to seemingly trivial emotional upset - like failing an unimportant exam - with distress, while others power through life-changing tragedies showing barely any emotional upset whatsoever? How do some people shine brilliantly at public speaking when others stumble with their words and seem on the verge of an anxiety attack? Why do some people sink into all-consuming depression when life has dealt them a poor hand, while...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Katrina Alcorn was a 37-year-old mother with a happy marriage and a thriving career when one day, on the way to Target to buy diapers, she had a breakdown. Her carefully built career shuddered to a halt, and her journey through depression, anxiety, and insomnia--followed by medication, meditation, and therapy--began. Alcorn began to question how a woman like herself, with a loving husband, a supportive boss, three healthy kids, and a good income,...
Author
Publisher
HarperEnfoque
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Edición revisada y expandida.
Language
Español
Description
"Margarita Pasos, líder de opinión, empresaria, conferencista y entrenadora corporativa del Fortune 500, revela cómo pasó del pánico, la ansiedad y la depresión grave a una vida de felicidad, paz y plenitud. Yo pude; ¡tú puedes! es una herramienta y una guía para las personas que han estado buscando una solución a sus trastornos emocionales, pero han luchado por encontrar la paz y el bienestar. Los conceptos expuestos a lo largo del libro...
Author
Series
Summer lifeguards volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Needing a break from the pressures of competitive swimming, Jenna recruits her friends to try out for junior lifeguards, but becoming a junior lifeguard is harder than she thought.
Author
Publisher
Chosen, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Studies show that sleep plays a vital role in reducing stress, lowering health risks and increasing productivity. But what happens when you simply can't sleep? Laura Harris Smith will make you aware of the harmful spiritual, emotional and physical effects of what is keeping you awake and lead you to a place of peace where you will learn to hear God speak"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"We saw that things like intractable smoking, things like promiscuity, use of street drugs, heavy alcohol consumption, etc. , these were fairly common in the backgrounds of many of the patients. . . These were merely techniques they were using, these were merely coping mechanisms that had gone into place." Vincent Felitti, MD. When Dr. Vincent Felitti, head of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, began to delve...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Gabor Mate, M.D., skillfully blends recent advances in biomedicine with the personal insights of his patients to provide empowering insight into how deeply developmental experiences shape our health, behavior, attitudes, and relationships. A must-read for health professionals and lay readers seeking awareness of how the mind controls health."--www.Amazon.com.
11) The country life
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stella Benson has left behind her life in London to be an au pair for a family in a rural Sussex village.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Clara's at a breaking point. She's got writer's block, her friends ask a lot without giving much, her psychologist is useless, and her demanding publishing job leaves little time for self care. She seeks solace in the community around her, yet, while herfriends provide support and comfort, she is often left feeling empty, unable to express an underlying depression that leaves her immobilized and stifles any attempts at completing her poetry collection....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Lo opuesto a la paz es la preocupación y el estrés. Ambos son ladrones que le roban el sueño, la alegría, la creatividad y las buenas decisiones. Si los deja entrar en su mente, incluso pueden mantenerlo alejado de su destino. Pero si aprende a cambiar sus respuestas automáticas a estas luchas y le entrega sus problemas a Dios, Él puede obrar en su vida. Si está cansado de vivir en tensión y ansiedad, entonces es hora de cambiar. En Estar...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
La adversidad es una situación compleja y estresante que pone a prueba nuestra capacidad de adaptación. El sufrimiento que provoca, si lo sabemos procesar, nos enseña a ser resistentes ante los embates de la vida. Más fuerte que la adversidad es un aliado emocional y una herramienta indispensable para aprender a desarrollar la confianza en ti mismo, tomar el control de lo que sí depende de ti, enfrentar la incertidumbre y aprender a gestionar...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. The author describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In a spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth.
16) All that jazz
Series
Criterion collection volume 724
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule-mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night; and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk.
Author
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Algo no está bien de camino a la escuela por la mañana temprano. El día empezó oscuro cuando suele ser soleado. Así empiezan una serie de cambios que le dan la vuelta al día del pequeño Miles. Lo que era conocido y familiar de camino a la escuela, ahora parece distante, triste o deprimente. El tiempo. Los trabajadores de la comunidad. Hasta la perrita del vecino, Margarita. En la escuela, las cosas no mejoran para Miles. Allí le presentan...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Zen monk Jikisai Minami takes the things we are supposed to strive for and turns them on their head. The 35 short, thought-provoking essays in this book are divided into four chapters about our sense of self, our hopes and dreams, our personal relationships and how to face death. Each essay begins with a deliberately controversial point of view to help us look at life's problems through fresh eyes"--
19) Freshman year
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the constant angst, hilarity, and self-doubt enmeshed in the experience of going away to college--all through the eyes of an eighteen-year-old burgeoning comics artist.
Author
Publisher
Faith Words
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Live from a place of abundant peace in the midst of life's everyday worries and stress with...author and Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen. The opposite of peace is worry and stress. Both are thieves that rob you of your sleep, joy, creativity, and good decisions. If you allow them into your mind, they can even keep you from your destiny. But if you learn how to change your automatic responses to these struggles and give your problems to God, He...
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