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Learn about yourself, and how to manage your menopause symptoms, take back control of your life and restore balance.

Myths of Menopause illuminates this stage of the female hormone odyssey with insights from leading experts, empowering women with the wisdom and understanding to navigate this journey.

Learn the truth about a particular sport performance myth, based on the most credible evidence available.

An essential book for anyone with psoriasis, as well as those who support them, including their family, friends and clinicians.

This ground-breaking will show you that intuition is a practical, learnable, and immediately applicable skill that will accelerate your career.

This self-help book is the first of its kind: written by a highly experienced clinical psychologist, who has lived with endometriosis herself. Drawing from the evidence-based compassion focussed therapy approach to provide you with essential coping skills to manage the psychological impact of the condition.

This book helps you to understand what is happening to you in the aftermath of trauma and how to cope with these impacts.

You know what chronic pain is like, but you may be surprised to find out what is actually going on, and how you can harness this to get better.The traditional ways of treating pain are not as effective as they could be. Yet they remain the predominant way in our society and healthcare system. We need to turn this on its head, focus on your needs and create a bespoke way forward according to the life you want to lead.Based upon the latest research, pain science and philosophy of chronic pain, this book will help you understand your symptoms and experiences before offering you a range of ways to reconnect with what matters and move forward. When you understand your pain, the landscape changes - understand your pain to change your pain.Drawing directly from the clinic, Richmond offers you skills and strategies together with the know-how to create your own unique practice to ease your pain and live your best life.

Written for athletes, coaches and anyone wanting to achieve more, it turns sports psychology on its head, providing a practical kitbag of ways to succeed. This book will teach you a sustainable way of dealing with difficult thoughts, managing your emotions and harnessing them to help you perform to the best of your ability.

Current statistics suggest that between one in seven and one in eight women will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives. Being diagnosed with breast cancer can leave you feeling anxious and depressed, fearful of the treatment to come and concerned about your mortality. The treatment itself can have a significant impact on your wellbeing as you are faced with marked changes in your physical appearance, sense of self and energy levels.There is lots of information available regarding cancer and its treatment, but little to help you cope with the emotional fall out. There are some excellent support services available but access to high quality evidence-based psychological interventions to help you cope is limited.This self-help book is the first of its kind: written by a highly experienced clinical psychologist, who has herself gone through the devastating impact of breast cancer, drawing from the evidence-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) approach to provide you with essential coping skills. This book takes you through what your journey may look like through diagnosis, treatment and recovery, and explains the ACT skills that can help you to cope with the emotional impact of this disease and its treatment. The ACT approach enables you to respond differently to the painful thoughts and feelings that will arise during your cancer journey. Rather than fighting with them, the skills in this book help you to acknowledge and step back from your difficult thoughts and feelings so that you can focus on living your life in a way that will positively impact your physical and emotional wellbeing.

Outlines the principles of sport and endurance psychology and shows how these principles can be applied to the pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience. You will learn what approaching this experience as a positive challenge could look like, by drawing on and adding to what you already have in your mental skills toolbox.

Levels of healthcare staff stress, turnover and sickness absence are deeply damaging our ability to care for those in our communities. This book is relevant for psychologists, psychosocial practitioners, healthcare leaders and those with an interest in staff support and wellbeing in healthcare settings.

For many decades, women and girls' cricket has been under-represented, under-financed, undervalued and lacking in true organisation. Despite this, many thousands of female players over the years have fought against the barriers, developed their skills and fallen in love with this incredible sport.Recent years have seen an explosion of female participation, broadcast coverage, new teams, new clubs, new competitions and an undeniable sense that women and girls' cricket is establishing itself as the most significant growth area of the game. We've seen full houses at Lords and the MCG, we've seen the success of the Hundred, the Women's Big Bash, the prospect of a Women's IPL and most importantly, thousands of new players across the world benefitting from everything cricket has to offer.What is needed now, is to build on these successes, to provide resources and information for clubs, schools and coaches to start, to grow and to coach their own programmes.This book is the answer.Lydia Greenway has written a full guide on coaching, administration, formats, techniques, EDI and more. Packed with practical advice, the book has original contributions from some of the most influential players, administrators, coaches and broadcasters in the world, including: Charlotte Edwards, Alyssa Healy, Heather Knight, Kate Cross, Ebony Rainford-Brent, Henry Moeran, Nat Sciver, Isa Guha, Lisa Sthalekar, Mel Jones, Lisa Keightley, Alex Hartley, Clare Connor, Ali Mitchell, Charles Dagnall, Katherine Brunt, Amy Jones and more.

In Myths of Mindfulness, clinical psychologist and Zen master Dr. Richard Sears explores the history, misconceptions, and realities behind the increasingly popular practice of mindfulness. Dr. Sears also provides practical and profound insights for enriching your life and health.

Olympic Champion, Amy Williams MBE guides you through your entire sporting journey so you can turn your potential into high performance. Featuring original insight from some of Britain's greatest athletes, this is an invaluable resource for all those involved in any sport.

Becoming a True Athlete offers a counterpoint to the win-at-all-costs culture of sport that is so prevalent and destructive today. By drawing on ancient wisdom and modern psychology the book describes how athletes can achieve more of their athletic potential, enhance well-being and think more deeply about the true meaning and value of sport.

I Can will teach young athletes the mental skills needed to be successful in sport; handle competition nerves, push harder, get braver, build confidence, improve emotional control, concentrate more, deal with setbacks and injury, feel comfortable competing and maintain wellbeing.