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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.

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - when people’s lives were at stake.

In this audiobook, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress. Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory. With stories of his own work and those of specialists around the globe, The Body Keeps the Score sheds new light on the routes away from trauma - which lie in the regulation and syncing of body and mind, using sport, drama, yoga, mindfulness, meditation and other routes to equilibrium.

Have you ever noticed that when you do something positive to your body, your mood lifts too? Our minds and bodies are more connected than you could ever imagine and the latest science is proving just that. In this podcast, Psychologist Kimberley Wilson explores a range of activities that can help to boost your focus, energy and overall mental wellbeing. And she’ll reveal her easy take-home tips and tricks that you can add to your daily routine to help you get started right away - whether you want to reboot with a nap, take a cold water splash, or reap the benefits of a burst of morning sun.

Welcome, beautiful soul, to Dreamy Meditations, your oasis of guided meditations.Join us to unplug from the noise of the world, center your thoughts, and embark on a path of enlightenment and serenity. Feel free to subscribe and make each episode a soothing ritual in your day, as you journey towards a more balanced life.Serenity awaits. Breathe, relax, and let our guided meditations be your compass to a calmer, more centered you.Get ready to dive headfirst into a world of pure relaxation and inner peace. Each episode is like unlocking a door to a new enchanting realm, where gentle instructions...

The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness. The Courage to Be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 19th-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, the authors explain how we are all free to determine our own future.

This book will explore 10 powerful and surprising ways your brain handles learning. We’ll uncover why repetition works, how your environment affects memory, why making mistakes can be a good thing, and what sleep and music have to do with learning faster. And we’ll do it without complicated jargon or boring theories.

Find your calm and navigate the chaos of life with Michael Galyon, an experienced mindfulness instructor and certified professional coach. Receive actionable takeaways, guided meditations, and mindfulness exercises that you can easily incorporate into your daily life. With a holistic approach to well-being and a mission to spread kindness, Michael inspires individuals to take charge of their mental and emotional well-being – promoting a calmer, kinder, and more connected world. ~~ Email the show at lettingitsettle@michaelgalyon.com Subscribe to Letting It Settle+ on Apple Podcasts ~~ ...

The SOMA Sound podcast is healing music and natural soundscapes to calm the nervous system for restorative sleep, meditation and deep relaxation. Each episode is a unique immersive experience of ethereal music, ambient piano and nature sounds created to help you reconnect to your body’s natural state of healing and balance. Allow this music to be a powerful force for healing imbalances such as insomnia, anxiety and the effects of chronic stress and trauma. SOMA music is effective for any type of relaxation or healing practice including sleep, meditation, yoga, and massage.

Do you constantly replay past mistakes or worry about the future? Is your mind overwhelmed by negative thoughts and self-doubt? Does anxiety keep you stuck, preventing you from living the life you truly want? Anxiety, stress, and overthinking have a way of trapping us in a cycle of self-doubt and fear. It can feel like no matter how hard we try, we can't silence the noise in our heads. But you’re not alone in this struggle. What if there was a way to break free?

Heal the overthinking that’s hurting your relationship. Do you replay conversations over and over, searching for hidden meanings or imaginary red flags? Exhausted from second-guessing your partner's intentions or your own feelings? Have you ever wondered if you're ruining a good thing simply by overthinking it? You're not alone and you're not broken. Your brain is just overwhelmed by fear, anxiety, and a craving for certainty in love. I’ve been there. I used to spiral after every text, overanalyze response times, and wonder if I was “too much."

Are your emotions getting in the way of your success? Do you struggle to connect with others, manage conflict, or stay calm under pressure? If so, it’s time to master the power of Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Emotional Intelligence Decoded is your complete, practical guide to developing emotional intelligence that works in real life, at home, in the workplace, and in all your relationships.

In the nine lectures of Slow Down: How Doing Nothing Makes Us Better Humans, Constance Kassor, of Lawrence University in Wisconsin, shows you how to do what so many of us desperately need: Take a step back, reassess your priorities, and take some time for yourself. Each lecture focuses on an area in which you can learn how to form better habits, striking a balance between what needs to be done and what you need to thrive. These areas include getting better sleep, cultivating relationships, engaging in creative tasks, incorporating mindfulness into your everyday routine, and much more.

If you are not getting what you want in life, or even if your life is already amazing, by using the new science of Power Manifesting, it will take it to even greater heights of success, happiness and joy, in every area of your life! In the few hours that it takes you to listen to this book and do the techniques, you will start to notice massive changes in levels of motivation and positivity.

A podcast focused on how you can pick up the basics of mindfulness and meditation with the aim of creating a calmer, happier you and a kinder world. Become a friend of the podcast & access exclusive content: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/mindfulnessforbeginners⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

As the country's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secrets of the dead. When death is sudden or unexplained, it falls to Shepherd to establish the cause. Each post-mortem is a detective story in its own right - and Shepherd has performed over 23,000 of them. Through his skill, dedication and insight, Dr Shepherd solves the puzzle to answer our most pressing question: how did this person die?

Eavesdrop on three Jungian analysts as they engage in lively, sometimes irreverent conversations about a wide range of topics as they share what it’s like to see the world through the depth psychological lens provided by Carl Jung. Half of each episode is spent discussing a dream submitted by a listener.

You’ve read the books. You’ve seen the films. Now get inside the heads of your favorite Twilight characters (just like Edward can!) in The Psychology of Twilight. Explore the minds and motives of Bella, Edward, Jacob, and more with a deeper look at the series that’s captured the hearts and psyches of millions. Find out: How Edward and Jacob match up in an evolutionary psychology smackdown for Bella’s and our affection. Whether Bella’s motorcycle-riding and cliff diving in New Moon are suicidal or her salvation. Why vampires and werewolves aren’t so different after all (at least psychologically)The emotional appeal of love stories like Bella and Edward’s. Why being a part of Twilight fandom is good for your psychological health. Snuggle up on the closest chaise, and get ready to revisit the Twilight Saga with some professional help.

Many of us grew up believing in a meritocracy, where hard work and a good education brings rewards. Go to university, get a job, put in the hours and things will be OK. That’s what we were told – but the reality is that life chances and opportunities are no longer shaped by what we learn or earn but by whether we have access to the Bank of Mum and Dad. We’re living in an inheritocracy, where parental support is what matters most – whether that’s covering the cost of university, stumping up for a house deposit or helping with childcare.

We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world? Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45 percent of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live. In his new masterpiece, renowned physician, addiction expert and author Gabor Maté dissects the underlying causes of this malaise—physical and emotional, and connects the dots between our personal suffering and the pressures of modern-day living.