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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled, written and read by Ruby Wax. Five hundred years ago no-one died of stress: we have invented this concept and now we let it rule us. Rest has become a dirty word, and our idea of satisfaction is answering the last...

Bryony Gordon is a respected journalist, a number one best-selling author and an award-winning mental health campaigner. She is also an alcoholic. In Glorious Rock Bottom Bryony opens up about a toxic 20-year relationship with alcohol and drugs and explains exactly why hitting rock bottom - for her, a traumatic event and the abrupt realisation that she was putting herself in danger, time and again - saved her life.

Lose weight without dieting, without frustration… and for good? What if the real breakthrough didn’t come from willpower but from your subconscious? You’ve tried. Again and again. Strict diets, meal plans, cutting back, staying “motivated.” And no matter how hard you tried, the result was always the same: the weight came back. Your energy dropped. Guilt set in. You’re not alone. Every year, millions of people start a new diet full of hope. But before long, old habits return… and the progress disappears.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to...

If you're tired of just managing your anxiety and want a powerful natural solution, then apply the DARE technique, as explained in Barry McDonagh's latest book. Based on hard science and over 10 years of helping people who suffer from anxiety, Barry McDonagh shares his most effective technique in this new book. The DARE technique can be used by everyone, regardless of age or background, to live lives free from anxiety or panic attacks.

This book, How to Heal Your Inner Child, is your step-by-step guide to overcoming childhood trauma, breaking generational cycles, and reclaiming your true power.

Whether you’d like to give up alcohol or just drink less—or you’re just thinking about drinking less—this guide is for you. Each day for 30 days, New York Times best-selling author and recovery expert Holly Whitaker brings you a 5- to 10-minute reflection aimed at helping you change your relationship with alcohol, drawing on her personal experience and grounded in the latest research. 30 Days to a New Relationship with Alcohol is crafted to help you gently but powerfully change your brain and your life. All you have to do is listen.

Prompted by years of working with patients suffering from panic attacks and struck by just how common and debilitating they were, medical doctor and psychotherapist Dr Áine Tubridy first published When Panic Attacks in 2003. Grounded in years of clinical experience and research, it has been a best seller ever since - because her methods work.

As a top-flight foreign correspondent, John Passmore was at the pinnacle of his career: the Chief Correspondent of the London Evening Standard. Then, at the age of 45, he announced that he was bored and resigned. It would not be until he was 68 that this made any sense. At a time when most people are taking stock of their lives, Passmore was told that he had ADHD. In fact, he was in the 1% of the most severe cases. Suddenly, everything made sense the chronic search for excitement, the chaotic relationships, the poor school reports, bad driving… It was a crushing emotional experience.

"Пространство вариантов" - это первая книга Вадима Зеланда о Трансерфинге реальности. Речь в ней идет об очень странных и необычных вещах. Это настолько шокирует, что не хочется верить. Но вера и не потребуется - вы сами во всем убедитесь. Только будьте готовы к тому, что после чтения ваше привычное мировоззрение рухнет, ведь книга несет ошеломляющие своей дерзостью идеи.

In this fascinating biography, Annette Wood delves deep into Grandin's life from childhood to adulthood. Wood tells of the trials and tribulations of the icon: What difficulties Grandin struggled with and how she's become a hero for the autistic community. She also tells what Temple has done since the movie came out, where she is today, what kind of difference she's made, and what her future holds.

Are you living in chaos because you keep putting off important tasks until the last minute? Do you feel disorganized at home and at work? Are you experiencing feelings of anxiety, frustration, and helplessness because of all your unfinished projects? If so, it's time to break the procrastination habit and rewire your difficult work habits.

When Jenny Lexhed and her husband have their first child Lucas, they are living the dream. They're happily married, they've just bought a house, the company they built together from the ground up is starting to blossom. But with the arrival of their son, a feeling of anxiety slips into their life. What starts as a feeling becomes a conviction.

In more than a decade on television, Vicky Pattison has had her fair share of ups and downs, from her rise to fame on Geordie Shore to her public break-up with her fiancé, her body confidence issues and debilitating anxiety. In The Secret to Happy, Vicky opens up about her darkest moments and shares the pearls of wisdom and hard-won lessons she's picked up along the way—to overcoming heartbreak, ending toxic relationships and managing her mental health—to help you find inner strength, accept imperfections and be true to yourself.

Belinda Black was just seventeen years old when she began working as a nursing assistant at the large and foreboding 'madhouse', as it was then known to the villagers of her hometown in the north of England. Following in the footsteps of her mother, she went on to spend a decade caring for patients with widely varying mental health problems, all locked up together and out of view of society.

Do you wish you could flip a switch and shut off the negative thoughts? Do you want to eliminate the triggers causing anxiety, panic attacks, and your phobias? Are you looking to reform your thought process, so depression does not hold you back in life? Listen to find out more. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the psychotherapeutic treatment of choice recommended by leading experts around the globe. It’s a modern solution-focused therapy in which you challenge negative self-thoughts to change useless behavioral patterns and bad habits into positive outcomes.

Brought to you by Penguin. Are you constantly worried about what people think of you? Psychotherapist Meg Josephson explores the common survival instinct fawning and offers explanations, comfort and solutions. If you ever: Leave social situations overthinking something you’ve said Overlook...

We spend 93% of our lives indoors, running our biology on the wrong operating system. The result is what Dr. John La Puma calls Digital Obesity: a biological mismatch that drives chronic inflammation, burnout, brain fog, poor sleep, impaired immunity, addiction, metabolic dysfunction, and contributes to heart disease, diabetes and stroke. John La Puma, MD, is a board-certified internist, two-time New York Times bestselling author, and professionally trained chef who reviewed 2,200 peer-reviewed studies to find the right dose of nature for your specific condition and hundreds of ways to get it.

You know the feeling. Something small happens — an unreturned text, a flat tone of voice, a meeting you weren't included in and within seconds you're certain. Certain that you're unwanted. That this confirms what you've always suspected. That it's only a matter of time. And the worst part isn't the certainty. It's that you can't think your way out of it. You know, somewhere, that the reaction is too big for the cause. But knowing doesn't help. The flood comes anyway.

Critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand the tragic epidemic of suicide—”a powerful book [that] will change people's lives—and, doubtless, save a few" (Newsday). The first major book in a quarter century on suicide—and its terrible pull on the young in...