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Up to 44 in every 1,000 adults suffer from a condition known as Generalised Anxiety Disorder. This is much more than the normal worrying we all do - it can be a debilitating disorder leading to significant personal and social problems and sometimes financial loss. Using established and proven CBT techniques, expert clinicians Kevin Meares and Mark Freeston help listeners to understand that it is their propensity to worry, not the multitude of problems they worry about, that is the root of the problem. 

In this compassionate, science-backed guide, somatic educator Elise Hart reveals why talk therapy alone often isn't enough: trauma lives in your body, not just your mind. Drawing from cutting-edge research in polyvagal theory and somatic experiencing, she offers gentle, body-based practices that actually work, without requiring perfection, hours of practice, or cold plunges.

Do You Worry All the Time? Have you tried to control your thoughts and get your worrying under control? Did it work? If it didn't, try this simple exercise: Take thirty seconds, right here and now, and don't think about something you recently worried about. Think about anything and everything...

Take control of your mind—and reclaim your peace. If anxiety, depression, or intrusive thoughts are holding you back, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers a proven, science-based path to emotional balance and lasting well-being.

The Speakmans have helped countless clients ditch the self-doubt and move on from their social anxieties and self-esteem issues. In Everyday Confidence, the best-selling authors tackle common confidence saboteurs from old behavioural patterns to negative people and toxic situations. In every case, they remind you that you have more power than you think: confidence is an inside job.

Brought to you by Penguin. My mind is full of scorpions. A cerebral itch, impossible to scratch. I know these creatures well, but they know me better. They answer to another name, this nest of scorpions, the writhing black mass that lives inside my head… For as long as Tuppence Middleton can...

You’re not broken. Your body is just overwhelmed. If you’ve been feeling constantly anxious, struggling to fall asleep, or dealing with uncomfortable gut symptoms, you’re not alone. You may have tried to “think your way out of it.” You may have tried relaxation techniques that didn’t last. And you may be wondering why nothing seems to work. The answer is simpler than you think. When your nervous system stays in a constant state of stress, your body can’t fully relax — no matter how hard you try. That’s where this book comes in.

Social anxiety can be crippling. It stops you from getting what you need the most: friends and humans contact. So, if you want to gain control over your social anxiety... There’s a way to help you. Hypnosis can be a powerful tool to reprogram your subconscious mind to release negative messages and beliefs and install empowering positive messages.

An indispensable guide helping parents to understand and recognise various forms of anxiety and how to empower their children in developing adaptive coping strategies. An indispensable guide that empowers parents to understand and recognise anxiety in their children, and to help them to develop...

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS OVERCOMING YOUR CHILD'S FEARS AND WORRIES Does your child suffer from fears and worries that affect their behaviour or keep them awake at night? Fears and worries are very common among children with around 15% thought to suffer from anxiety disorders; the most commonly...

Bloomsbury presents Time to Breathe by Bill Mitchell, read by Bill Mitchell and Stephanie Racine. Ever feel like you’re so busy and stressed that you forget to breathe? Right now life has never seemed more overwhelming. The COVID pandemic, working from home and lockdowns have turned our...

In Make Anxiety Your Superpower, Sarah speaks with 10 people living with different flavours of anxiety, in honest and open conversations about their shared experience. From panic attacks to high functioning anxiety and control, Sarah listens to these incredible, yet all too familiar, stories and shares her philosophy and practical tips to not only help reframe anxiety, but to go one step further...to make it our superpower.

Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes - having meltdowns, getting addicted to things, or shutting down completely at the worst possible moments. Your brain knows it's not good to do these things, but it can't help it sometimes - especially if it's obsessing about trauma it can't overcome. That's where this life-changing book comes in. With humor, patience, science, and lots of good-ole swearing, Dr. Faith explains what's going on in your skull, and talks you through the process of retraining your brain to respond appropriately....

After experiencing his first panic attack on New Year's Day of 2003, Dan Ryckert began a 12-year process of learning how to channel panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder until they became driving forces in his life. Using anxiety as his ally, he was able to land dream jobs within the video game industry and vastly improve the quality of his personal life. In this candid recollection, you'll learn about how he went from having panic attacks during college roll calls to speaking in front of large crowds with minimal interference from anxiety.

If anxiety runs your life—your sleep, focus, or mood—this playbook gives you a simple, science-backed method to shut it down fast. Most people try to calm their thoughts, but anxiety starts in the body. This book shows you how to flip the biological switches that control fear, panic, and spirals—often in under 60 seconds.

In The Covert Narcissist, you’ll uncover the subtle yet destructive behaviors of manipulative individuals who disguise their toxicity behind charm and false empathy. This step-by-step guide exposes the tactics of sociopaths, energy vampires, and emotional predators—helping you identify red flags, escape trauma bonds, and heal from psychological abuse.

Brought to you by Penguin. An empowering, practical guide to the tools of therapy you need to know. From integrative therapist, Abby Rawlinson (@therapywithabby), comes a real-world companion to improving your mental health. Looking at the most common ways we self-sabotage both at home and at...

In recent years, therapy and self-care have become familiar buzzwords, but it's clear that people are having to face their emotional difficulties without the tools and insight to work through them. Enter Real Talk: A book to enable listeners to have genuine, authentic conversations with themselves, and to start the journey of healing their past experiences and cope with the challenges of modern life. Filled with techniques and wisdom from a therapist's toolkit this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health.

It's time to outsmart your worry and anxiety. Drawing on the same cutting-edge psychology presented in author David Carbonell's The Worry Trick, this irreverent, on-the-go guide offers 10 powerful "counter-intuitive" strategies to help you put worry in its place-anytime, anywhere.

If you answered yes to any of these questions, The Essential Guide to Healing Health Anxiety will show you the formula to ending the cycle of worry, fear, and distrust—for good. There’s a big difference between coping with your anxiety symptoms and true healing.