Mental Health Alternatives

Is traditional mental health care failing you or those you love? This comprehensive guide from integrative health experts Keith Kurlander, MA, and Will Van Derveer, MD, reveals how psychedelic therapy addresses deep-rooted trauma and offers hope for creating a life of balance, resilience, and meaning.

Convinced that you, and only you, are too distracted to meditate? That you don’t have the time? Or are you simply overwhelmed by all the different flavors of practice? This audiobook, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dan Harris and acclaimed meditation teacher Sebene Selassie, is your rescue plan.

It’s hard to have ADHD in a world not built for our brains. It can leave us feeling discouraged, like we’re always getting in our own way. Like we can never quite have the life we want. But the reality is that we can influence how our brains work, and we have unique strengths. We just need the right tools. In 30 Days to Thrive with ADHD, Dr. K brings us those tools. As a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who also spent time training to be a monk, he draws on both modern neuroscience and ancient wisdom to help you understand and harness your ADHD brain.

In this collection, expert Headspace mindfulness and meditation teachers guide you through seven 25-minute themed walks to help you reset, clear your mind, and feel more grounded. Each walk is rooted in mindfulness-based stress reduction and other therapeutic techniques from Headspace’s teachers and mental health clinicians.

In this collection, expert Headspace mindfulness and meditation teachers guide you through seven 25-minute themed walks to help you connect with yourself and the world around you. Each walk is rooted in mindfulness-based stress reduction and other therapeutic techniques from Headspace’s teachers and mental health clinicians.

Taking Back My Mind: A Memoir of Healing Depression with Psilocybin Mushrooms and Psychedelic Therapy After years of battling severe depression, suicidal thoughts, and ineffective pharmaceutical treatments, Gerardo Urias hit rock bottom. Nothing worked—until he discovered the life-changing power of psilocybin mushrooms. In Taking Back My Mind, Gerardo shares his personal journey of healing through psilocybin therapy, plant medicine, and psychedelic retreats, from the beaches of Playa del Carmen to the sacred mountains of southern Oaxaca, Mexico. This raw and eye-opening memoir offers hope...

In this collection, expert Headspace mindfulness and meditation teachers guide you through seven 25-minute themed walks to help you process and navigate challenging emotions. Each walk is rooted in mindfulness-based stress reduction and other therapeutic techniques from Headspace’s teachers and mental health clinicians.

Letting Go describes a simple and effective means by which to let go of the obstacles to Enlightenment and become free of negativity. During the many decades of the author's clinical psychiatric practice, the primary aim was to seek the most effective ways to relieve human suffering in all of...

Meditation offers, in addition to its many other benefits, a method for achieving previously inconceivable levels of concentration. Author B. Alan Wallace has nearly 30 years' practice in attention-enhancing meditation, including a retreat he performed under the guidance of the Dalai Lama. An active participant in the much-publicized dialogues between Buddhists and scientists, Alan is uniquely qualified to speak intelligently to both camps, and The Attention Revolution is the definitive presentation of his knowledge.

In chapters such as "During Your Swing Is Not the Time to Give Yourself a Lesson" and "How to Enjoy a Bad Round of Golf," the author guides golfers with simple yet powerful techniques to prepare for, execute, and, equally important, respond to the results of any golf shot. The author, Dr. Joseph Parent, is a PGA Tour Instructor who draws on his teaching experience to offer special methods that have led to amazing improvements in the games of professionals and amateurs alike.

Ketamine: A Beginner’s Guide – What You Should Know Before Starting Treatment Unlock the mysteries of ketamine — a drug with a fascinating past, powerful medical potential, and a complex reputation. Whether you’re considering ketamine treatment, intrigued by its unique effects, or curious about its place in medicine and culture, this guide offers a clear, comprehensive introduction. From its origins as a battlefield anesthetic for Vietnam War soldiers to its breakthrough use in treating depression and chronic pain, ketamine’s story is as remarkable as its effects. Learn how ...

El mundo va a un ritmo cada vez más rápido. Nosotros también: nos hemos acostumbrado a sobrevivir más que a vivir con plenitud, agobiados por los pensamientos angustiantes sobre el futuro, el estrés y la idea de la hiperproductividad. En una época caracterizada por la sensación de urgencia, ¿es posible construir un presente del que no quieras escapar, desprenderte de la idea de que vas tarde a todo y liberarte de los pensamientos hiperexigentes que te mantienen en alerta constante? Mar del Cerro, guía de meditación y experta en mindfulness, está aquí para ayudarte.

How do you find sleep when your mind won't stop replaying every mistake, worry, and hurt? Night after night, you lie there. The world gets quiet, but inside, the chaos only amplifies. Anxiety spikes. Depression tightens its grip. Your own thoughts become a locked loop, creating a draining cycle that leaves your body tense and true rest out of reach. This is the exhaustion that steals not just your sleep, but your mornings, your resilience, your peace.

Two New York Times best-selling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last 20 years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard J Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us.

Are you ready to heal from past traumas, manage PTSD, and break free from negative thinking? Your Somatic Therapy Toolbox is a transformative guide designed to help adults of all ages harness the power of somatic therapy to promote emotional and physical healing. This book is for everyone, regardless of your past experiences or current struggles. This workbook is not just a theoretical guide. It combines mindfulness, body-based practices, and self-compassion to take you on a practical journey to reconnect with your body and mind. It offers tools that you can use in your daily life to ...

When Mercury goes retrograde, it is a reminder that for growth and progress to be achieved, we must reflect. Mercury is the planet of communication, and it governs both speaking and listening, as well as your lungs and your breath. When it is retrograde, we can experience shifts, disruptions, and even breakdowns in these areas. This meditation provides a sacred space for reflection and an opportunity to reassess your perspective, so that you can move ahead with clarity and confidence.

Attract abundance and money while you sleep! Fall asleep tonight knowing that your mind is becoming a money magnet! It's time to stop attracting negativity and time to start attracting real wealth and abundance! With this law of attraction hypnosis, you can practice at home or on the go, learning to destress yourself with positive affirmations that rebuild your view of money, wealth, confidence, and success from the ground up.

One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps has established itself as a classic, a bellwether of the most significant recovery movement of the 21st century, combining Buddhist mindfulness practices with a 12-step recovery program.

Millions of Americans suffer from depression, anxiety, and a host of other mental health issues, and many get psychiatric help. For many of those patients, medication is a necessary part of treatment. But pharmaceuticals are not a cure-all. Sometimes they are ineffective, leaving patients feeling hopeless, as though nothing can be done. Some medications also have terrible side effects, leading patients to discontinue the drug. More and more, patients are turning to more natural products, supplements, essential oils, and herbs to solve their problems.

Still, Together is an exploration of the ways we feel detachment from our lives, goals and friendships, and how we can begin to reclaim ourselves through human connection. Technology has enabled us to be more connected than ever before, but in many ways, it has come at the cost of our sense of humanity. The reality is that we live in a world where innovation promises to keep us more up-to-date and connected but leaves us feeling more disconnected than ever before.