self-help publications

"[In this book], [the author] upends her life one month at a time, using her own experiences to help you improve your health and enhance your life. [She] becomes both researcher and subject as she focuses on twelve separate challenges. Beginning with a new area of focus each month, she guides you through the struggles she faces, the benefits she experiences, and the science behind why each month's challenge--giving up alcohol, doing more push-ups, adopting an earlier bedtime, limiting technology--can lead to better health"--Provided by publisher.

"Through their poetry and the photos taken by family members, we go with [the authors] on their journey through various phases and perspectives of the transforming emotion of gratitude. In this illustrated book, you will find the opportunity to consciously and deliberately develop your own skill to feel gratitude more deeply, and give it more freely. And you will be challenged to turn the passive holiday noun 'Thanksgiving' into the active, year-long verb 'Thanks-Giving'"--Provided by publisher.

"Kabat-Zinn focuses on how mindfulness really can be a tool to transform the world. He explains how democracy thrives in a mindful context, and why mindfulness is a vital tool for both personal and global understanding and action in these tumultuous times"--OCLC.

Presents a blend of positive psychology and strategies for coping with change, loss, and everything else life throws your way. Focuses on changing the responses to negative thoughts, feelings, and life situations and harnessing daily rituals and self-care to shift to a more positive perspective.

Jennifer Ashton, M.D., has witnessed firsthand the impact of a loved one?s suicide. When her ex-husband killed himself soon after their divorce, her world?and that of her children?was shattered. Though she held a very public position with one of the world?s largest media companies, she was hesitant to speak about the personal trauma that she and her family experienced following his death. A woman who addresses the public regularly on intimate health topics, she was uncertain of revealing her devastating loss?the most painful thing she?d ever experienced. But with the high-profile suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, Dr. Ashton recognized the importance of talking about her experience and the power of giving voice to her grief. She shared her story with her Good Morning America family on air?an honest, heartbreaking revelation that provided comfort and solace to others, like her and her family, who have been left behind.

Offers an insight into experiencing joy and contentment the Danish way, focusing on the concept of Hygge and incorporating it into everyday life.

"Distills the best practices used by elite athletes, artists, and top business performers to create a system that can be applied to any test for higher performance"--OCLC.

The author theorizes that people limit themselves with negative self-talk and presents a series of seven assertions to help people move past their self-imposed limitations.

Rae Earl offers her personalized advice on the A to Zs of mental health, social media, family and friendship.

"A licensed family therapist and YouTube personality clarifies the difference between mental health and mental illness, answering common questions to reduce stigmas while offering advice on how to pursue beneficial therapy"--OCLC.