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Suggested reading for mental wellness
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Suggested reading for mental wellness
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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. --Publisher's description.
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Publisher
Watkins Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Helps sufferers discover how their posture and movements harm their health and gives new ways of performing daily activities. The result: reduced muscular tension and stress on the bones and joints--and a more pain-free life. Features fact panels, tips, quick reference summaries, and illustrations.
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Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint
Pub. Date
2013, ©2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The anger of others is often the roadblock to your achieving your goals. Shrand reveals what happens inside the brain when the dark forces of anger begin to erupt. He outlines techniques for recognizing the many forms of anger and tapping into your brain's powerful anger management zone.
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Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Depression is not a disease, it is a symptom. Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use, with one in four women starting their day with medication. These drugs have become the panacea for everything from grief, irritability, panic attacks, to insomnia, PMS, and stress. But the truth is, what women really need can't be found at a pharmacy. According to Dr. Kelly Brogan, antidepressants not only overpromise and underdeliver,...
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Nature wants you dead. Not just you, but your children and everyone you have ever met and everyone they have ever met; in fact, everyone. It wants you to cough and sneeze and poop yourself into an early grave. It wants your blood vessels to burst and pustules to explode all over your body. And ? until recently ? it was really good at doing this? Covid-19 may be only the first of many modern pandemics. The subject of infection and how to fight it...
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North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Written for those working to heal developmental trauma and seeking new tools for self-awareness and growth, this book focuses on conflicts surrounding the capacity for connection and introduces the NeuroAffective Relational Model, a unified approach to developmental, attachment, and shock trauma"--Provided by publisher.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"We expect medicine to progress in an orderly fashion, with good medical practices being replaced by better ones. But some tests and therapies are discontinued because they are found to be worse, or at least no better, than what they replaced. Medications like Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain caused by compression fractures are among the medical "advances" that turned out to be dangerous or useless. What Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Over the next ten years, 40 to 60 million people in this country will be admitted to the ICU. Most of these hospitalizations will be sudden, unexpected, and harrowing, experiences that can alter patients and their families physically and emotionally, with effects that endure for years. Every Deep-Drawn Breath is a rich blend of science, medical history, profoundly humane patient stories, and personal reflection. Dr. Wes Ely's mission is to prevent...
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Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Using an accessible, case-history approach, they explore the different types of cancer, the causes of cancer, how proper nutrition can help prevent and treat cancer, the most well-studied supplement to use with cancer treatment, cutting-edge therapies (such as intravenous high dose vitamin C and other studied therapies), and natural solutions to common problems (such as the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation).
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Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Outlines practical approaches for back pain relief that draw on traditional and modern treatments, looking into the causes and physiological sources of pain while profiling alternative therapies and suggesting exercise options.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"A decade ago, with Listening to Prozac, Kramer revolutionized the way we think about antidepressants and the culture in which they are so widely used. Now, he returns with a look at the condition those medications treat. Depression, linked in our culture to a long tradition of "heroic melancholy," is often regarded as ennobling--a source of soulfulness and creativity. Tracing this belief from Aristotle to the Romantics to Picasso, and to present-day...
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Publisher
Vermilion
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Based on over a decade of research and practise ....[author]... shares that best techniques ot alleviate the torment and exhaustion that a lack of sleep can bring. With a mixture of cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and interpersonal therapy, The one-week insomnia cure provides you with the tools for a perfect night's sleep. Understand and identify your sleep issues, stop dreeading bedtime and start reaping the benefits of sleep in just...
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Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Blackstone weaves her 30-plus years of psychotherapy practice to present a simple yet revolutionary approach to healing trauma. She writes, “All of the constrictions in our fascia (the connective tissue surrounding muscles and organs) are moments of our past that we have stopped in their tracks and held in that way, unconsciously. They are frozen moments of our past.” Trauma and the Unbound Body explains how and why the body constricts in...
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Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Building Social Confidence offers a supportive program based in compassion-focused therapy for moving past social anxiety and the self-critical thoughts that propel it. The program in this book helps you both accept your shyness as part of your personality and challenge your social anxiety when it keeps you from living the life you want. This book also provides dozens of exercises that will help you practice mindfulness,...
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