Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance
Do you use substances or engage in compulsive activities to regulate your mood? Do you reach for something sweet, a couple of drinks, or a pack of cigarettes after a difficult day because you can’t unwind without them? Do you race to the stores to spend away the day’s frustrations or run around in circles taking more time …
Two professors combine their fascinating and cutting-edge research in behavioral science to explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smart spending.Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research …
SOS Help for Emotions: Managing Anxiety, Anger, and Depression (Revised 2014)
SOS Help For Emotions – Managing Anxiety, Anger, And Depression (Revised 2014) is a self-help book that is fun to read and easy to apply. To see SOS Videos and all SOS Books, click on (by Lynn Clark Author) just below the Main Title of this book. By understanding and applying insights and techniques from this book, you …
Break free from the narcissistic nonsense…(A Codependency Workbook)You don’t have to wait until your relationship with a narcissistic and emotionally abusive partner is over to begin working on your recovery. Stop Spinning, Start Breathing, author Zari Ballard’s companion codependency workbook to When Love Is a Lie, provides a motivational formula for breaking free that can be applied …
When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships
In this book, psychotherapist David Richo explores how we replay the past in our present-day relationships—and how we can free ourselves from this destructive pattern. We all have a tendency to transfer potent feelings, needs, expectations, and beliefs from childhood or from former relationships onto the people in our daily lives, whether they are our intimate partners, friends, …
When you have difficulties managing your emotions, it can feel like you’re losing control of your whole life. Anger, hurt, grief, worry, and other intense feelings can be overwhelming, and how you react to these emotions can impact your ability to maintain relationships, succeed at work, or even think straight! If you find it difficult to understand, express, …
Living in Gratitude: Mastering the Art of Giving Thanks Every Day, A Month-by-Month Guide
What would happen if you made gratitude your focal point for one full year? With Living in Gratitude, Angeles Arrien invites you to find out. Integrating the latest teachings from social science with stories, prayers, and practices from cultures and traditions spanning the globe, she presents a 12-month plan for making gratitude your foundation for daily living. …
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
You don’t need a book to tell you this much: Sometimes things fall apart, crack open, and miss the mark. You can plan and strategize and keep your eye on the horizon, watching for trouble. And nothing you can do will protect you from the fact that things might, when you least expect it, go terribly, horribly wrong. …
Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
We all know love matters, but in this groundbreaking book positive emotions expert Barbara Fredrickson shows us how much. Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives.Using research from her own lab, Fredrickson redefines love not as a stable behemoth, but as micro-moments …
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
The Boston Globe“Surprising and remarkable… Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.”Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the world’s …