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Stress is not in your head, it’s in your body—this is the key to peak performance that Leah Lagos, PsyD, BCB, an internationally known expert in biofeedback and sport and performance psychology, wants us to know. In this audiobook, she shares with listeners for the first time the same program that she uses with top athletes, CEOs, business leaders—anyone who wants and needs to perform at their best.

In the popular imagination, hypnosis is misconstrued as something done to people, as if the hypnotist hypnotizes them. And hypnotherapy is similarly misconceived as something done to clients' problems, as if the therapist could unilaterally counter or cure them. In a refreshing departure from conception-as-usual, Douglas Flemons offers another view. He explains and illustrates how hypnosis, like meditation, is invited, not induced, and how hypnotherapy entails the altering and unraveling of knotted strands of experience, not the controlling and abolishing of labeled afflictions.

Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is the most commonly diagnosed birth abnormality in the US. Little attention, however, has been paid to the psychosocial impacts on these individuals. Liza Morton and Tracy Livecchi are both mental health professionals who have developed a specialty in working with clients who have chronic medical conditions, and they are both themselves living with CHD. While their powerful personal stories are woven into the narrative, the book is focused on providing evidence-based coping and self-care skills for adults living with CHD.

Is not being able to sleep — and the thought of what a lack of sleep is doing to your health — ironically keeping you up at night? Are you frustrated at how you can’t seem to get a good night’s sleep? Do your anxiety, stress, and racing thoughts just make falling asleep impossible? Do you feel all those sleepless nights and all-nighters starting to take a toll on your body? If your answer to the questions asked above is yes, then here's a perfect resource for you that will help you fall asleep… and stay asleep! While you’re awake, you’re met with countless opportunities to ...

Alchemists sought to transform lead into gold. In the same way, says Tara Bennett-Goleman, we all have the natural ability to turn our moments of confusion and emotional pain into insightful clarity. Emotional Alchemy maps the mind and shows how, according to recent advances in cognitive therapy, most of what troubles us falls into ten basic emotional patterns, including fear of abandonment, social exclusion (the feeling we don't belong), and vulnerability (the feeling that some catastrophe will occur).

In these momentous times, we are each undergoing an unprecedented journey of self-discovery that is a vital part of a collective shift of consciousness. As the shift gathers pace, we can energise the higher compassion of our hearts, the heightened clarity of our minds and the empowered commitment of our purpose on Earth to create a new cosmic age.

Suicide, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse, and many more emotional and stress-related problems plague the first-responder community. Hundreds of thousands of these brave public servants have unwittingly become victims of the professions they once loved. However, the suffering that results from a professional life of sacrifice and service can be prevented and mitigated. Bulletproof Spirit offers field-tested expertise designed to be used by all first responders—and their families—to heal themselves and continue serving with compassion and strength.

With Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, mindfulness meditation, and mind/body medicine, Bardacke offers practices that will help you find calm and ease during this life-changing time, providing lifelong skills for healthy living and wise parenting.

Whether you are stuck in the distress of life, or appear like nothing’s wrong, you may have faced trauma, or incredible stress, or suffocating fear. Maybe you wonder whether those emotions, memories, and experiences are blocking you from being as fulfilled and happy as you could be. Maybe you’re stuck in patterns that simply no longer work for you. What if you could change it all? What if you could feel safe and solid and secure inside your own body? What if your life could be peaceful and centered and fulfilled?

In Deep Listening, Pransky presents her signature Calm Body, Clear Mind, Open Heart program - a 10-step journey of self-exploration that she's taught around the world. It centers on the science of Deep Listening, which allows us to pause and truly hear - often for the first time - what both our bodies and our minds are telling us. It kickstarts our relaxation response, calming muscular tension and setting the whole body up for deep healing, growth, and repair. It's a new frontier in integrative wellness - the new mindfulness.

Enchantment, as defined by bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, is not about manipulating people. It transforms situations and relationships. It converts hostility into civility and civility into affinity. It changes the skeptics and cynics into the believers and the undecided into the loyal. Enchantment can happen during a retail transaction, a high-level corporate negotiation, or a Facebook update.

This might be hard to believe, but successful weight loss does not begin with your body. It’s not simply about eating less and exercising more. It’s not just a matter of calories in and calories out. Dr. Brian Alman's new book, Mind-Body Weight Loss, reveals a great weight-loss secret: The first step to effective weight loss is more emotional than it is physical; it depends more on how much you love and support yourself than on how much you starve and work your body. And so, to be successful, losing weight has to begin on the inside, in your heart, mind, and spirit.

We're all living on the edge. Life is tough. Bad things happen. To us. To those we love and care about. We wonder what's coming next. We're scared, anxious, angry, and sad. We try, but never feel good enough. We wear masks. We try to fit in. We live lies. You've felt this. Perhaps you're feeling it now. There's a fierce battle going on in your mind. Your heart is at stake. It's time to move from walking on the edge of a cliff to living on the edge of your seat. There is much to look forward to. More than you realize.

The world you live in promotes sex as the answer to just about everything. The pressure to go along with the crowd is greater than ever before, and it's easy to compromise in little ways that are a lot more harmful than they seem. You and your friends may become caught up in destructive relationships or sexual activities without even knowing how you got there. You just want to be normal - to fit in, to be liked, to look attractive to the opposite sex. But are you paying too high a price?

Every woman deserves to enjoy great sex with her husband, without inhibition or shame. But many wives live with the burden of self-doubt or feel mystified about what men really want in bed. Others wrestle with memories of sexual abuse or neglect, guilt over past intimate relationships, or negative feelings about their own bodies. Maybe you’ve been thinking you were alone in your struggle to discover sexual fulfillment.

In a society where fear has spread like wildfire, the surge in stress-induced illnesses should come as no surprise. To achieve harmonious health, we need to bring the mind and body to a less reactive state, where the stress cascade won’t be initiated. Dr. Evelyne Leone guides us to the health threshold—the unshakable balance in body, mind, and spirit—with Into the Heart of Health.

In 1997, writer Patricia Stacey and her husband Cliff learned that their six-month-old son Walker might never walk or talk, or even hear or see. Unwilling to accept this grim prediction, they embarked on a five-year odyssey that took them into alternative medicine, the newest brain research, and toward a new and innovative understanding of autism. Finally their search led them to pioneering developmental psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan who helped them save their son and bring him into full contact with the world.

Your habits will either MAKE or BREAK you! No single factor is more important in your life than the habits you have chosen. With the wrong habits, the rough paths ahead become even tougher. The obstacles you dread will eventually defeat you! That is because the wrong habits weaken your body, heart, mind, and soul. These four crucial elements require attention and care to stay in great shape. If even one of them takes a hit, our entire existence will feel the impact of that blow. Most people are unsuccessful and unhappy today because they have failed to look after their bodies, minds, hearts...

Here’s how to do away with negativity and move forward from painful emotions. How do you get rid of your emotional pain, anxiety, and negative self-talk? Is it by suppressing them...or maybe trying not to think about them? If so, denying what you really feel is harmful and will only make your feelings worse deep within. Or maybe you’re using willpower to change your situation? This only results in short-term victories...leaving you back at square one and feeling lonely, stressed, and anxious.

Preteen girls have lots to be anxious about these days, and Katy Boatman, who has worked with them for 15 years, understands that. With an authentic voice and mentor mindset, Katy wrote You Can Rest to help young listeners calm their hearts and minds by focusing on the one who brings true rest: Jesus. Each day is structured with a Bible verse to open, a devotion to ponder, and a prayer to close. With journaling prompts throughout the book, this 100-day devotional helps listeners reflect on their everyday anxieties from a biblical perspective, leading to hope in Christ.