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Known for his magnetic and radiant personality, Frank spends his time training thousands of clinicians around the world on how to help clients with complex trauma make sense of their suffering. But underneath this charismatic exterior are his dark family secrets, including the marks of child abuse from his father and the invisible scars of shame.

Social connection is as essential for our health and happiness as a balanced diet and regular exercise. It reduces our risk of stroke, heart disease, and Alzheimer's. It enhances our creativity and adds years to our life span. Yet many of us struggle to form strong and meaningful bonds—and the problem lies not with our personalities but with a series of cognitive biases that stop us from fulfilling our social potential. In The Laws of Connection, David Robson describes the psychological barriers that lead us to keep others at a distance and offers evidence-based strategies to overcome them.

Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age? Tough Broad is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must.

Teachers are brain changers. Unfortunately, in traditional public, public-charter, private, parochial, and home schools across the country, most teachers lack an understanding of how the brain receives, filters, consolidates, and applies learning for both the short and long term. Neuroteach was therefore written to help solve the problem teachers and school leaders have in knowing how to bring the growing body of educational neuroscience research into the design of their schools, classrooms, and work with each individual student.

Dreaming is one of the most deeply misunderstood functions of the human brain. Yet recent science reveals that our very survival as a species has depended on it. This Is Why You Dream explores the landscape of our subconscious, showing why humans have retained the ability to dream across millennia and how we can now harness its wondrous powers in both our sleeping and waking lives.

As the culture wars rage, and masculinity has been politicized from all sides, feminist writer and mother of three boys Ruth Whippman finds herself conflicted and scared. While the right pushes a dangerous vision of fantasy manhood, her feminist peers often dismiss boys as little more than entitled predators-in-waiting. Meanwhile her home life feels like a daily confrontation with the triumph of nature over nurture.

Now that the stigmas against psychedelic medicine are finally lifting, there’s a lot of curiosity—and confusion—about these powerful compounds. How can psychedelics be used safely? What are the risks? Can they truly help heal the wide variety of conditions that has garnered such international attention? In Psychedelic Revival, Sean Lawlor invites you on a deep dive into the science, spirituality, and practice of psychedelic healing—a revival of both the first wave of pre-1960s research and ancient healing traditions with plant medicines.

The Chair and The Valley is a raw, gut-wrenching, and amazing story about healing from trauma and starting over. It is a testament to the importance of chosen family, the restorative power of nature, and the strength it takes to build a new life in the face of fear and doubt. Banning takes listeners through his fraught relationship with his family, the mistreatment he suffered at the hospital, the lawsuit against the owners of the facility, and his desire to make sense of what happened to him. We witness Banning navigate the difficult landscape of trauma and his battle to live a normal life.

When celebrated BDSM educator Tina Horn first launched Why Are People Into That?!, publications from Vice to Buzzfeed heralded it as one of the best sex podcasts around. Each episode centered around a different fetish or fantasy, thoughtfully examining why, exactly, different strokes work for different folks. From sex workers and scientists to artists and activists, Tina’s wide range of guests helped educate fascinated listeners across the world on the wide spectrum of humanity’s appetites.

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. The Last Human Job explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other in these settings is valuable and worth preserving.

In So Emotional!, Dr Rebecca Ray takes listeners on a journey to approach their painful feelings using the tool of reframing to process them and provide a springboard for growth. Turn failure into expansion, fear into courage, and frustration into flow, and learn the tools to flip experiences to find meaning and a way forward.

Addiction has been called a moral failing, a social problem, a spiritual crisis, a behavioral disorder, and a brain disease. It has also been called a class issue, a supply problem, a problem of learning, a memory disorder, and a result of trauma. And some propose that addiction is neither a disease nor a problem, but a transgressive expression of freedom, a maligned sub-culture, a therapeutic relationship. Even the term ‘addiction’ is open to question.

Con su experiencia en la consulta terapéutica y la divulgación, conocimiento de los más recientes estudios sobre el tema y mucho sentido del humor, el psicólogo y sexólogo César Galicia responde a 51 preguntas comunes (y no tan comunes) sobre los recovecos (ejem) de la sexualidad humana. El deseo, el placer, las prácticas que nos gustan y las que no, la salud, el cuidado y todas nuestras actitudes ante el sexo tienen su espacio en este audiolibro, que te dará una mirada abierta, informada y refrescante sobre eso en lo que todos pensamos, pero que no todos sabemos cómo decir.

Comprenda y supere los desafíos de salud mental más prevalentes en la adultez, como la depresión, la ansiedad, el trastorno bipolar, la esquizofrenia, los trastornos de la personalidad, el trastorno obsesivo compulsivo, el trastorno de estrés postraumático y muchos más.

Die Lügen, die eine Depression erzählt, isolieren und entmutigen Betroffene. Eine der Wahrnehmung verzerrenden Lügen lautet zum Beispiel: "Dir wird es nie wieder besser gehen". Was es daher dringend braucht: Ein Buch gegen diese negative Abwärtsspirale, einen mitfühlenden Leitfaden, um psychische Erkrankungen zu entmystifizieren und die Gespräche darüber zu erleichtern. Betroffene werden verstanden, und sehen, dass sie damit nicht allein sind. Auch Freunde und Angehörige finden Hilfe und konkrete Tipps für einen einfühlsamen Umgang mit den Betroffenen.

Calm the Chaotic Mind is divided into three sections. In the first section, you learn the calming techniques to overcome life's everyday stressors. In the second section, you discover a unique cognitive restructuring model to manage your thoughts and emotions. In the third section, you'll gain an in-depth understanding of the tools that you can use to design a calm and peaceful lifestyle.

Seeking Help: The importance of seeking support and therapy for women with ADHD who struggle with emotional withdrawal. Seeking Help: The importance of seeking support and therapy for women with ADHD who struggle with emotional withdrawal Women with ADHD who experience emotional withdrawal face unique challenges that can impact every aspect of their lives, from relationships to work to mental health. It's crucial for these women to recognize the signs of emotional withdrawal and seek help in the form of support and therapy.

Beauty and the Brain: The Aesthetic Compass NeuroAesthetics: Where Consciousness and the Physics of the Universe Meet explores how we as a society perceive beauty. This fascinating book provides an explanation of how aesthetic appreciation occurs by a match of the structure of the brain and external forms. It also describes the brain mechanisms by which humans perceive beauty and how the logarithmic spiral form common in the universe is the same form inside the human brain. The listener will learn deep truths about how humans perceive beauty by sharing certain fundamental logarithmic spiral brain maps and logarithmic spiral forms external to the brain, such as Hurricanes, Galaxies and Snail Shells.

What causes addiction, and how should we treat it? Today it is understood primarily as a brain disease, yet in this bold reimagining of addiction, pioneering psychiatrist Elias Dakwar argues that this is false. It fails to explain, among other things, why many people can enjoy drugs without developing a dependency on them. In The Captive Imagination, Dakwar argues that addiction is an existential challenge, requiring a more philosophical and multidisciplinary approach, as well as a lens through which we can better understand ourselves.

Conquer the NCE: Study Guide for the National Counselor Examination is your essential resource for mastering the NCE and achieving certification. This comprehensive guide covers all key areas of the exam, including human growth and development, social and cultural diversity, counseling and helping relationships, group counseling, career development, assessment and testing, research and program evaluation, and professional orientation and ethical practice. With in-depth explanations and practical examples, this study guide equips you with the knowledge and confidence to excel. Whether you're...