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Essential Art Therapy Exercises: Effective Techniques to Manage Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD
Leah Guzman ATR BC - 2020
Art therapy activities like drawing, painting, and sculpting will help you better understand your state of mind in order to gain control over your emotions and improve your self-esteem.From drawing a representation of your favorite song, to writing affirmations and taking photos to match, these therapeutic exercises will help you overcome the mindsets that are holding you back and lead you toward inner peace. Some take only five minutes, others up to an hour, but all of them explore a range of artistic mediums, so you can choose exactly what works for you.Essential Art Therapy Exercises offers:
The art of getting better—These sophisticated exercises are a springboard for insight, self-expression, mindfulness, acceptance, and self-compassion.
Insights and questions—Every activity describes its benefits and offers thoughtful prompts to help you get the most out of each experience.
No experience required—You don’t need to be an artist to use art therapy. It’s about the experience of creating—without worry or judgement.
Let art therapy help you paint, draw, and write your way to a happier frame of mind.
The Spiritual Awakening Process
Mateo Sol - 2016
No matter what we do or where we go, we always seem to carry a gaping void of emptiness and isolation within us. Although we try to fill this hole with money, possessions, lovers, careers and addictions, we eventually wind up feeling desolate and alone, not knowing what to do with our lives. Suddenly, after a traumatic experience or spontaneous catalyst, it is common for us to experience a sacred rebirth of “waking up” to life. This chaotic period is known as the spiritual awakening process.The Spiritual Awakening Process is a book walks you through the beginning stages of reconnecting with the loving and eternally wise place within you known as your Soul.In these pages, you will discover:1. What is happening to you,2. Why you’re experiencing a spiritual awakening,3. The three internal spiritual worlds to explore,4. How to retrieve and integrate any fragmented pieces of your psyche,5. What spiritual “traps” you need to be mindful of, and6. How to communicate with your soul.Through the Soulwork practices of Inner Child Work, Self-Love and Shadow Work, this book helps you to personally initiate deep psychological healing. By removing the blocks and walls that surround your Soul, you will be able to access deep levels of joy, creativity, energy, courage, peace, fulfillment, freedom, and love.The Spiritual Awakening Process is a psychospiritual manual that is composed of various articles that we have published on our website in the past. We have also added extra content to help illuminate your path and guide you through this sacred time of life.
The Tao of Joy Every Day: 365 Days of Tao Living
Derek Lin - 2011
This volume of 365 life-transforming readings brings the sacred teachings of the Tao to our everyday lives. The Tao of Joy Every Day contains Taoist sayings, insights, and stories-all designed to clearly provide understanding of what makes our lives meaningful, especially in a world that can seem hurried and crazed.For the spiritual reader interested in books that can expand awareness and sensitivity to everyday life,
Staying Sober: A Guide for Relapse Prevention- Based Upon the CENAPS Model of Treatment
Terence T. Gorski - 1986
Staying Sober: A Guide for Relapse Prevention- Based Upon the CENAPS Model of Treatment (Paperback).
Mindfulness: A Step-By-Step Beginners Guide on Living Your Everyday Life with Peace and Happiness by Becoming Stress Free (Buddhism - Stop Your Worries, ... Your Stress and Anxiety with Meditation)
Isaiah Seber - 2016
Give it a shot; read this book and try your hand at mindfulness for a few days. I promise you won’t regret it. Whether you decide to totally transform your life to one of mindfulness and peace, or you simply want to add a few mindful moments into your day, you will see an improvement. Mindfulness has been proven as a stress reducer and life improver, take your shot now.10 Benefits of Mindfulness:
1. Increased Happiness2. Reduced Stress3. Better Social Relationships4. Weight Loss5. Emotional Intelligence 6. Less Anxiety7. Reduced Depression8. Improved Health9. Increased Focus 10. New Experiences
Alcoholics Anonymous
AAWS - 2018
The author is a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Bill W. & Dr. Bob. It is the originator of the seminal "twelve-step method" widely used to attempt to treat many addictions, from alcoholism and heroin addiction to marijuana addiction, as well as overeating, sex addiction, gambling addiction, and family members of alcoholics, with a strong spiritual and social emphasis.
Seven Days Sober: A Guide to Discovering What You Really Think About Your Drinking
Meredith Bell - 2012
Power Manifesting: Unlock Your Full Potential as a Leading Edge Creator
Nick Breau - 2020
Mad Diet: Easy Steps to Lose Weight and Cure Depression
Suzanne Lockhart - 2016
1 in 4 Western women is taking antidepressants and two thirds of us are obese or overweight. Something is clearly very wrong. Mad Diet® lifts the lid on what is really going on with our food and provides an EASY STEP GUIDE to restoring your mind and waistline.Suzanne Lockhart is Vice President of a multi-national food science organisation. In a career spanning over 20 years working with government agencies, global food manufacturers, farming groups and grocery retailers, she has insider knowledge of the politics and production of our food.After being diagnosed with depression in 1989, Suzanne has spent over two decades investigating the impact of a Western diet on physical and mental health. Mad Diet is the result of 25 years of study and her front-line experience as a senior food industry executive.
LETTING GO: How to accept change, free up your thought patterns and start living life to the fullest
Romuald Andrade - 2016
Mara is cynical, weary, and frustrated and does not know what to do about it until she meets a psychologist who is able to show her a better way out. But is it too late for Mara? Will she lose the relationships she cherishes in her life? Will she be able to apply the advice to better her current situation? As with all of Andrade’s books, this one is filled with actionable advice you can put into effect immediately. In addition to the fable, the book includes a detailed framework examining the root causes of mental frustration and how they can be fixed.
Personal Energy Management: Discover Powerful Ways to Effectively Manage Stress, Improve your Health, Boost your Energy Levels and Live a Fulfilled Life
R. Sridhar - 2018
It operates on certain laws and works on specific principles. If you want to know the secret recipe to treat insecurity, manifest abundance, attract wealth, heal pain, strengthen your aura and discover the way to become resilient, this book by R Sridhar is for you. Sridhar is a personal energy coach and mentor, as also consulting editor with The Times of India Group in Mumbai, India. He has spent nearly 30 years researching about personal energy and understanding how everything we do in spirituality is based on the laws of physics. He is also the founder of the global prayer and support group, Connect-Ticket. It comprises people who selflessly pray for others and believe in making goodness fashionable. In this book, you will learn how to feel energy, how to understand the electromagnetic nature of the human body, how to use the five elements - air, fire, water, earth and space - to replenish yourself, and how to understand the concept of positive and negative energy. After reading the book, you will realise that, energy is simply energy. You make it positive or negative depending on your perspective.
You've Got This: And Other Things I Wish I Had Known
Louise Redknapp - 2021
What Happens in Tomorrow World?: A Modern-Day Fable About Navigating Uncertainty
Jordan Gross - 2021
Each prize reacts in one of the four typical responses most people have to facing uncertainty. And it is through those reactions, and subsequent actions, that they—and we—learn how our own response to uncertainty can either help or harm ourselves, those around us, and society as a whole.An urgently needed instrument for managing the anxiety and ambiguity we all face in our daily lives, this book will help readers thrive in challenging situations. Through this memorable story, you’ll learn:-How to embrace the uncertainty all around us-Why no one response works in every single uncertain situation-Why various personality types require different responses -How to identify the types of people who do well in uncertainty-Why it’s crucial to prevent a negative response-Why those who are hyper-aware of uncertainty thrive in it-Why it’s important to take action, no matter how uncertain you feelIn the spirit of Gibran’s The Prophet, What Happens in Tomorrow World? presents readers a modern-yet-timeless, unique, and useful toolbox on how to confront and manage the overwhelming amount of uncertainty we face every day.
Worthy of Her Trust: What You Need to Do to Rebuild Sexual Integrity and Win Her Back
Stephen Arterburn - 2014
Trust can be rebuilt in your marriage! With patient, loving, self-sacrificing effort, it’s possible that one day your wife will risk her heart with you again. And she may even have more respect and love for you than before. In Worthy of Her Trust, Jason Martinkus relates how he repaired his own marriage after revelations of sexual addiction. Along with Stephen Arterburn, Jason offers exercises and tools rooted in counseling principles to help your marriage begin again. This comprehensive guide discusses: · How to be truly and effectively transparent · Combating the “he must not love me” myth and other untruths· What to do about the Internet, office temptations, and travel· Encouragement for wives who wonder if trust can ever be restored · The “five-minute phone call” and other daily trust-building strategies· What meaningful forgiveness and restitution look like· The Amends Matrix—a concrete exercise to admit past wrongs and cast a vision for a faithful futureIncluding insights from Jason’s wife, Shelley, Worthy of Her Trust guides you through the process of rebuilding your relationship so it is stronger than ever.
SARK's Journal and Play! Book
S.A.R.K. - 1993
Your "inside child" will peek out to want, wish, find pleasure, and amaze you. "We need your creative spirit in action," says SARK, "because there is only one of you. . . . So share your dreams and let them get really big."