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When a family member or spouse is struggling with a serious mental illness, readers need practical tools right now. Written by a husband-and-wife team--and drawing on their own lived experience navigating mental illness together--this much-needed guide offers compassionate advice and effective strategies to help readers support their loved one in a crisis, make room for self-care, and create shared goals for recovery.

Whether or not we share our story with others, processing past experiences by writing them down on paper lets us see our trauma in new and more transformative ways. This compassionate guided journal offers powerful exercises, prompts, and write-to-heal techniques grounded in neuroscience to help readers recognize patterns of trauma from their childhood and build resilience by rewriting their brain's internal story.

Combining cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive remediation therapy (CRT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), The Psychosis Workbook offers a targeted approach to help individuals manage their symptoms, sustain their recovery, and achieve better mental health.

Manifestation--also known as the law of attraction--is the act of mentally visualizing one's success. The concept has gained tremendous popularity in mainstream and social media. But for trauma survivors, successful manifestation first involves healing from the pain of the past. Heal Your Past to Manifest Your Future teaches a trauma-informed manifesting approach to help readers regulate their nervous system; reparent their inner child; rewire their brain to release emotional blocks; and achieve the abundance, happiness, and success they deserve.

Victims of narcissistic abuse and gaslighting often experience overwhelming feelings of shame, guilt, humiliation, and a belief that they are fundamentally flawed as a person. Survivors of this abuse need tools to heal and rebuild their sense of self-worth. This powerful workbook teaches readers proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to heal from narcissistic abuse, regulate emotions, set effective boundaries, and build healthy relationships.

Packed with instantly accessible and engaging mindfulness-based exercises, Sober Starting Today Workbook offers a clear, compassionate pathway for anyone seeking to overcome problematic alcohol or drug use. With this workbook, readers will learn effective strategies for pursuing sobriety and achieving freedom from addiction, beginning on day one.

Children of parents who are self-centered, manipulative, and emotionally abusive are often left feeling insecure, anxious, and fundamentally unlovable as adults. From the author of the self-help hit Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, this book takes readers who grew up with emotionally abusive parents on a healing journey to understand what happened in their past; transform deep pain into emotional resilience; and build the loving, meaningful relationship with themselves that they deserve.

People with depression often struggle with low mood, lack of motivation, and feelings of overwhelm that keep them feeling stuck and unable to move forward. Grounded in evidence-based behavioral activation--a powerfully effective treatment for depression--this workbook offers readers an array of actionable strategies to increase their motivation, connect with what matters, manage difficult thoughts and feelings, boost their mood, and build a better life--one step at a time.

The teen years are often fraught with intense emotions. Teens are hypersensitive to judgment from others, and can be highly reactive when parents attempt to set limits. Grounded in cutting-edge polyvagal theory, Staying Connected with Your Teen shines a light on why teens are triggered, and offers nerve-calming strategies to minimize reactivity, nurture a stronger connection, and help parents lovingly guide their teen on the path to adulthood.

Written by two experts in the field, The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Shame offers a step-by-step, evidence-based approach to healing from shame using the core skills of emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness. Using the exercises in this workbook, readers will learn to cultivate nonjudgmental self-acceptance, and discover skills for managing difficult emotions--even in situations that trigger feelings of shame, guilt, or self-directed anger.

Self-criticism and self-blame are often at the root of depression, anxiety, and addiction. These toxic forms of emotional self-harm can lead to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, and interfere with day-to-day functioning. From an expert on self-forgiveness therapy, this workbook teaches proven-effective skills readers can use to develop the ability to forgive themselves, quiet their critical inner voice, and begin to build a life of meaning and purpose.

You never know when negative thoughts will show up, crash your party, cramp your style, and get in the way of living your best life. This take-anywhere, use-anytime guide offers quick, simple, and evidence-based skills drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help readers make peace with their inner frenemy, turn the volume down on negative chatter, and focus instead on what's good in their lives.

Many people want to cut back on their drinking--or even stop altogether. But in a culture that glamorizes the cocktail hour, "white wine playdates," and boozy brunches, many people wonder, What would I do instead? This go-to guide has the answer. With 50 simple skills grounded in mindfulness, readers will have the tools they need to soothe stress, improve their emotional and physical health, and feel more energized and empowered in their day-to-day life--without alcohol.

Whether dealing with a breakup or divorce, work-related frustrations, or a global crisis, everyone struggles with difficult thoughts and feelings at some point in their lives. This take-anywhere guide teaches readers about distress tolerance--one of the four core skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)--and offers quick, effective tools for managing overwhelming emotions so readers can keep their cool in the face of life's inevitable challenges.

Emotional intelligence is a cornerstone of mental health--and something teens need now more than ever. In this timely book, clinical psychologist Melanie McNally directly addresses the urgent teen mental health crisis with proven-effective skills to help young readers increase emotional awareness, learn to self-regulate, manage anxiety and depression, deepen interpersonal relationships, and boost self-confidence.

There's no one-size-fits-all treatment for excessive worrying, but by assembling an arsenal of tools and skills, you can effectively manage your worry. Worrying Is Optional offers a powerful new approach that combines strategies from metacognitive therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help anxious readers build their own customizable "anti-worrying" toolbox. Using these tools, readers will learn to break free from unhelpful thinking patterns and discover that worrying is, in fact, optional.

People who experience neglect or abuse as children often develop an anxious attachment style--resulting in feelings of abandonment and distrust, troubled relationships, and an unhealthy self-image. In this holistic guide, therapist Jennifer Nurick guides readers with an anxious attachment style through a step-by-step process to feel more secure in themselves; cultivate self-worth, self-trust, and confidence; and approach life and relationships from a place of calm, clarity, and connectedness.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the gold standard for treating a wide variety of mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, and stress. In this evidenced-based workbook, CBT expert Michael Tompkins distills the latest research into an easy-to-use workbook to help readers improve overall well-being, and put the life-changing skills of CBT into practice every day.

The DBT Skills Daily Journal merges two powerfully effective treatment strategies--dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and guided journaling--to help readers take a more active role in managing their emotions. In only ten minutes a day, readers will explore the fundamentals of DBT skills--mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness--and find writing prompts to increase self-awareness, gain control over difficult thoughts and emotions, and reduce unhealthy behaviors. This exciting new method for DBT skills-building will have readers quickly writing their way to greater well-being and a more fulfilling life.

Change doesn't have to happen overnight--it can happen at your own pace. A powerful alternative to "abstinence-only" approaches, the "harm reduction" model outlined in this evidence-based workbook draws on practices from motivational interviewing (MI) to help readers explore their relationship with substance abuse, and find the inspiration needed to move forward and create an individualized recovery plan.

For those days when you feel like you just can't take it anymore, this portable pick-me-up offers in-the-moment microskills--based in proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)--to help readers accept what they can't change, move past negative thoughts, calm the chaos of emotional overwhelm, and soothe themselves when life feels difficult.

We can't avoid the things that stress us out, but we can change how we respond. Based on the self-help hit The Stress-Proof Brain and written by a clinical psychologist and neuroscience expert, this journal offers simple, guided prompts to help readers harness the power of positive emotions, "rewire" their emotional response to stress, and cultivate lasting calm.

Today's teens experience an unprecedented amount of stress, and it's affecting everything from their physical health and mental well-being to their grades. This practical, comprehensive workbook teaches proven-effective skills from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)--mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance--to help handle the eight most common teen stressors, so young readers can manage their emotions and feel better now.

As parents, it's the little things we do each day that can make all the difference in raising kind, confident, and conscientious kids. But in the midst of the daily rush, busy parents need effective tools to stay present and manage emotions--both their child's and their own. Building on the success of Raising Good Humans, this in-the-moment guide offers 50 quick, simple ways to help readers stop reacting and start parenting with intention.

In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, a sex therapist offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to help readers nurture intimacy and trust, and cultivate a more secure relationship with a partner who has experienced past sexual trauma. In the book, readers will learn powerful, trauma-informed techniques to help them understand the full impact of their partner's past experience, as well as strategies to increase feelings of safety and connection, and ultimately improve their relationship in the here and now.

Racial stress resulting from discrimination can negatively impact teens' emotional, physical, and mental health with lifelong consequences. This workbook offers Black teens evidence-based strategies to manage emotions in the face of race-based stress due to microaggressions, implicit bias, overt racism, and vicarious racism--and provides tools to help teens feel empowered to resist racism and thrive throughout their lives.

More and more, studies show a distinct link between emotional eating and trauma. This book offers a trauma-informed approach to overcoming emotional eating through mindfulness, self-compassion, and neuroscience principles. With this gentle guide, readers will come to understand the emotional weight of their trauma and cultivate a healthier relationship with their emotions, food, and bodies.

Building on the success of Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens (ISBN: 978-1626258891), teen mental health experts Mary Karapetian Alvord and Anne McGrath present The Action Mindset Workbook for Teens--an evidence-based guide to help teen readers address the unhelpful behaviors that stand in the way of reaching their goals. Whether teens struggle with worry, insecurity, perfectionism, depression, or a lack of motivation, this book offers concrete cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies to help teens take small, doable "action steps" toward positive behavior change.

For board-certified behavior analysts (BCBAs) working in the field, it is essential to enlist the support of parents when working with autistic children. This book teaches BCBAs powerful and proven-effective acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) training skills to get parents on the same page and working with the BCBA to achieve therapeutic goals.

What does it really mean to be psychic or deeply intuitive? Best-selling author and Reiki master Lisa Campion--author of The Art of Psychic Reiki--offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to understanding, developing, and harnessing psychic ability. In this practical guide, readers will learn how to interpret dreams and omens; work with spirit guides; connect with ancestors and soulmates; and experience a deeper, more spiritual life.