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‘The resource trans people need right now’ MEG-JOHN BARKER
‘An excellent book’ JOS TWIST
‘Straightforward and accessible’ JENNIE KERMODE

This empowering self-help guide provides advice and strategies for trans and/or non-binary people on a range of common mental health issues including anxiety, depression, body image, trauma, suicidal thoughts and dissociation. It provides advice on neutralising negative thoughts, coping with transphobia, coming out, dealing with imposter syndrome, and implementing achievable self-care strategies and mindfulness techniques.

Whether you are in a crisis or just looking for ways to improve your life, this reassuring guide is there for you to use in the way that helps you the most, regardless of where you are in your transition, or if you decide not to transition in conventional ways. Combining therapeutic expertise alongside first-hand experience, the book also highlights the importance of understanding and being proud of who you are, to help you live life to the fullest.

Gain control of your life with self-hypnosis ¿ the power of positive suggestion ¿ to accomplish you goals and improve your health and well-being.

By breaking free of your own self-limiting beliefs, you’ll discover the unlimited potential of who you really are. It’s time to get over your self!

There is an insidious, global identity theft occurring that has robbed people of their very recognition of their true selves. The culprit-indeed the mastermind of this crisis-has committed the inside job of creating and promoting the idea that we are all a separate self, which is the chief source of our daily distress and dissatisfaction.

No more than a narrative of personhood pieced together from disparate neural activations, the self we believe ourselves to be in our own minds-although quite capable of being affirming, inspiring, and constructive-often spews forth a distressing flow of worry and second-guessing, blaming and shaming, regret and guilt. This book offers an antidote to this epidemic of stolen identity, isolation, and self-deprecation: no-self (a concept known in Buddhist philosophy as anatta or anatman).

The No-Self Help Book turns the idea of self-improvement on its head, arguing that the key to well-being lies not in the relentless pursuit of bettering one’s self but in the recognition of the self as a false identity born in the mind. Rather than identifying with a small, relative sense of self, this book encourages you to embrace a liberating alternative-an expansive awareness that is flexible and open to experiencing life as an ongoing and ever-changing process, without attachment to personal outcomes or storylines.

To help you make this leap from self to no-self, the book provides forty bite-sized chapters full of clever and inspiring insights based in positive psychology and non-duality-a philosophy that asserts there is no real separation between any of us.

So, if you’re tired of “self-help” and you’re ready to explore who you are beyond the self, let The No-Self Help Book be your guide.

Put your best foot forward and make the most of student life with these essential self-care tips

It’s supposed to be one of the most exciting times of your life, but between lectures, essays, deadlines and socials, looking after yourself can often fall to the bottom of your to-do list. Making time in your day for just a few small, achievable acts of self-care can have a big impact on all areas of student life.

It’s time to put your own well-being front and centre. Packed with bite-sized tips and encouraging advice to help improve your overall health and happiness, this book will help you survive and thrive in this exciting new chapter.

Inside you will find:
– Helpful information on ensuring your mental health is well looked after
– Kind advice for dealing with exam stress and social anxiety
– How to cope with being away from home
– Useful tips on navigating financial stresses
– The best ways to look after your physical health

Dr. Alfred J. Malinowski’s book provides a comprehensive resource on self-care for those working in the field of psychotherapy.

Beginning with an exploration of the role and duties of the mental health practitioner, Dr. Malinowski describes how the demands of practice can lead therapists to diminished psychological well-being. He explores the impact this can have and, through an examination of the latest research, reiterates the importance of the self-care of the practitioner. He presents a number of self-care techniques and strategies and explains how they can be applied to maintain psychological, spiritual, physical and social well-being. A final section explores the need for additional training for psychotherapists in the area of the hazards and self-care, both in graduate courses for future clinicians and to help experienced therapists continue learning and practicing self-care principles in their daily lives.

Highlighting the importance of self-care in the psychotherapy profession, this book will be of immeasurable value to psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and other mental health professionals.

Tune in to you

This tracker is a useful tool to help you map out your overall well-being over time. Whether you want to check in with yourself and track daily habits or learn about what shapes your emotions, this book is the perfect place to start.

With monthly trackers to record sleep, exercise and more, plus a selection of activities to let your creativity flow, this journal helps you practise daily self-care for lasting health and happiness.

An invaluable guide to dealing with distressing voices from leading experts

Hearing voices can be highly distressing and impact our health, well-being and day-to-day lives. This self-help guide explains what voices are, what causes them and how to cope with this distressing experience..

Using clinically proven cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques, this book will help you to recognise the link between your thoughts, beliefs and relationships, and the distressing voices you hear. This book will help you to:

· Understand the voices and cope with them more effectively
· Explore and re-evaluate beliefs that you hold about yourself and the voices
· Develop some assertiveness skills
· Set personal goals for the future

Transform your relationship with yourself! This is the ultimate guide to embracing self-love and living a life with more self-compassion

We all know the value of treating other people with kindness – so why do we often forget to extend the same courtesy to ourselves?

Learn a radical new approach to self-love with this beautiful handbook. Through a combination of practical tips and actionable advice, Self-Kindness will help you to deepen your self-love and grow your happiness.

You will learn how to:
– Find peace within yourself and nurture a more positive mindset
– Look after your mind and body to develop greater self-confidence
– Enrich your overall health and well-being with diet and exercise
– Tap into the uplifting power of affirmations

Whether you’re at the beginning of your journey to self-acceptance, or you’re a seasoned self-love advocate, let this guide celebrate and support you as you continue on the path to self-kindness, joy and well-being.

When Fariha Róisín was growing up in Australia, she struggled to fit in. As a Bangladeshi Muslim, she tried to assimilate as best she could, which ultimately meant distancing herself from her South Asian heritage and identity.

Years later, now living in the United States, she realised that the customs and practices that had once made her different were now being made palatable for mass consumption. “Trends” like turmeric, ghee, ashwagandha, and meditation – part of the everyday fabric of her culture – were now being sold at a premium, stripped of their meaning, by white people to white people.

In Who is Wellness For? Róisín, an acclaimed writer and poet, explores the way in which the wellness industry has appropriated and commodified global healing traditions, discarding context, credit, and meaning along the way. Wellness culture, she suggests, has become a luxury good, one built on the wisdom of Black, brown, and Indigenous people; and yet one that also excludes these very people from participation.

In this deeply intimate and revelatory investigation of wellness, Fariha not only asks ‘Who is wellness for?’ but also carves a path towards a revolutionary self-care based future that is truly inclusionary for all.

Find inner confidence with this step-by-step workbook to help you build your self-esteem

Healthy self-esteem is key to having a good sense of well-being – it allows us to move through life with confidence, joy and resilience, to seek out new opportunities and to be kind to ourselves.

It can often be challenging to feel good about who we are. However, The Self-Esteem Workbook contains practical advice, effective tips and guided exercises based on trusted cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to help you build your self-esteem.

Use the workbook either on its own or alongside therapy to help you grow your confidence and achieve long-term self-belief.

Inside the book, you will find:
– A relaxed and supportive approach, allowing you to calmly complete the exercises at your own pace
– A hands-on attitude to boosting self-esteem, offering a wealth of tips and advice for working through your worries
– Clear and actionable advice on making lifestyle changes to support and improve your mental well-being
– Exercises grounded in research-supported CBT techniques

Not available from JKP in Australia or New Zealand

How can we build children’s self-esteem and sense of well being? This book aims to guide teachers, youth workers, counsellors and parents through a range of accessible personal development exercises for children and adolescents, introducing relaxation, visualisation and meditation skills. There are step-by-step guidelines for planning, presenting and integrating inner-life skills programs in-group work as well as family and group communication games.

Readers will learn new methods for teaching relaxation and quiet inner focus, movement meditations, and exercises that develop emotional, spiritual and intellectual awareness and self-esteem. These exercises aim to help students gain new-found creativity, a language to articulate their feelings, and skills for attaining a calm and balanced outlook.

Modern life is stressful and complicated; it can be all too easy to feel that we’re just not up to it, and so our self-esteem suffers. This pocket guide is designed to help you explore your self-esteem issues and break free from the bad habits that affect your quality of life. Packed full of guidance, techniques and exercises grounded in the latest behavioural science, this book will help you:

– Ease the internal dialogue that chatters away within you
– Improve your well-being and resilience
– Create a fuller, more enjoyable and meaningful life

Written by an experienced therapist, and illustrated with examples drawn from many years of practice, this helpful little book could be your ticket to a calmer, more confident life.

Discover 12 simple steps to boost self-esteem and improve your emotional well-being

This short but essential book will quickly and clearly advise children on how to improve their self-esteem. From changing the way you think about yourself to building up life skills, not being afraid of failure and improving body image, everyone can learn to believe in themselves and know that they are special.

The 12 Hacks series helps readers to improve their mental health not just now, but for the rest of their lives. These simple steps might seem obvious to some, but it is important to raise awareness of these relatively simple steps that people can take to improve their overall mental and physical well-being.

Children need only dip into just one page of this book to pick up useful life skills – read the whole book and children will have the knowhow needed to look after themselves better and build awareness and resilience for the challenges that are yet to come.

Wellness encompasses every aspect of your life, from the spiritual to the social.

Treating your mind and body with equal care and compassion, this little book is brimming with beneficial tips and healing quotations. It will guide you on the path to greater well-being for lasting health and happiness.

This beautiful book is filled with simple self-care tips and ideas to help you nurture your well-being every day

Self-care comes in many guises, but at its heart it’s anything you do to take care of yourself. It could be five minutes of gentle breathing, time reserved for pursuing a hobby, or the joy of a hot shower – as long as it leaves you feeling restored and refreshed.

Within these pages you will find a raft of simple but effective tips to help on your journey, including:
– Why self-care is key to happiness and health
– Finding the best methods for you
– How to fit self-care into a busy schedule
– Inspiration to nourish your mind, body and soul
We all need to take time out every now and again to recharge our batteries. Whenever you find your energy fading, dip into this beautiful book and find strength again.

Soothe. Create. Connect. Play. Nourish.
In these uncertain times, it can be hard to know what to do, but help is at hand with this uplifting guide to keeping positive and staying connected and safe. It’s crammed with mood-boosting activities, creative ways to get inspired, mindful exercises to maintain health and well-being, and self-care tips to soothe away your stress and make you feel good.

Do you and your partner fight all the time? Do you love each other, but simply drive one another other up a wall? Do you worry that you’ll eventually burn out from all the conflict, arguments, and hurt feelings, and that your relationship will deteriorate? If you’re seeking ways to increase love and intimacy and decrease reactionary behaviours like criticism, blaming, withdrawing, and defending, this book can guide you toward a place of harmony and understanding

Based in the revolutionary science of attachment theory and evidence-based emotionally focused therapy (EFT), this is an effective, research-based road map for helping high-conflict couples break free from painful and destructive habits. With this book, you’ll uncover the root cause of your conflicts-both as individuals and as a couple. You’ll also find simple strategies for creating an emotionally secure environment, as well as tips for managing triggers, de-escalating arguments, and cultivating a real and lasting connection.

Feeling emotionally safe and secure in our relationships is a primal need, and it is integral for our health and well-being. If you’re ready to transform conflict and chaos into unshakable closeness, this book will guide you, every step of the way.

Self-care for new mums is a necessity, not a luxury, so make sure you factor in me-time throughout baby’s first year with the help and advice in this book

Motherhood is a life-changing, magical experience, but it’s also a time in your life that’s emotionally charged and physically exhausting. Not only that, but you’re trying to care for a tiny human being who needs you 24/7. Self-care couldn’t be more important to you than it is right now.

As you experience your first year of motherhood, let this little book be your helping hand from the early days to your child’s first birthday. Packed with tips and quotes, it offers quick, simple ways to help you look after yourself, covering a number of topics such as:
– Recovering from birth
– Feelings and relationships
– Sleep deprivation
– Confidence and self-kindness
– Healthy living for you and baby
– Avoiding the comparison trap
You deserve as much love and attention as you give, so let the advice in this book help you boost your well-being and feel like a fully functioning, confident new mum.

Self-care made simple

Self-care means taking time to look after yourself, and often it can seem like just another task to go on an endless to-do list. The reality is that most of us just don’t have the time or energy to commit to a fully-fledged wellness routine amid the demands of everyday family life.

Packed with quick tips and creative self-care ideas – and written with mothers in mind – this book will show you how to maximize your well-being in the minimum amount of time. By simplifying self-care and focusing on its essentials, you’ll learn how you can truly nourish your mind, body and soul with whatever time, energy and resources you have available.

You can’t pour from an empty cup, so let the advice in this uplifting little book inspire and empower you to take charge of your emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.

THE REFRESHED PAPERBACK EDITION OF LIFETONIC – with an introductory note by Ashley Roberts

Do you feel overwhelmed by daily life?
Are you tired of feeling like everyone else is further ahead than you?
Do you want to reclaim your passion for life and start enjoying the present moment?
Do you want to ditch your self-doubt and be fiercely confident?

It’s time to let Jody Shield change your life.

Jody is an accredited success coach, motivational speaker and is globally known as the go-to well being consultant. Having reached burnout in her own life, Jody is committed to helping others overcome the stress, anxiety and fear we are faced with in the modern world; showing us how to reignite the fire in our souls and channel self-care in its truest form.

Whether you want to work on yourself, your relationships or simply find balance and fulfil your potential, Jody’s revolutionary method and powerful self-help tools will transform the way you think and give you the energy and purpose to power up your happiest, brightest you.

If you seek long-lasting positive change, this is the book you need, right now.

‘Jody is absolutely amazing, I’m incredibly inspired by her energy. She’s kept me grounded and allowed me to let go of things that were holding me back.’ – Ella Mills, Founder of Deliciously Ella

‘Jody makes meditation cool, spreading her amazing message of self-love and how to reconnect with your true self’ – Madeleine Shaw, Bestselling Author, Cook and Nutritional Therapist

‘Fascinating’ Stylist magazine

‘A powerful reminder that we cannot discuss ‘wellness’ without also talking about the elephant in the room: money. This book isn’t just about getting reconnected with a helpful app or spreadsheet but something much more important than that: it will inspire you to reconnect with yourself.’ Emma Gannon

Financial Wellness and How to Find It takes finance out of the business pages and into our personal lives. It tells us that the way we think about money has a lot to do with the way we think about ourselves, and the stories we believe about what we deserve.

When you feel bad about money, it’s hard to feel good about life. We focus on health and wellness as essential for happiness, but so often we choose to bury our heads in the sand when it comes to taking positive action over our finances. Financial wellness doesn’t mean being rich, having a portfolio of stocks and shares, or being #debtfree. It’s about understanding your emotions around money, knowing who you can turn to for support and being aware of your subconscious beliefs about self-worth.

Melanie Eusebe, founder of Money Moves, shares the tools and resources you need to reset your relationship with money, and take charge of your financial happiness, whatever your situation, and regardless of the economy.

Financial Wellness and How to Find It is empowering and essential reading for anyone who ever earned a paycheque (and spent it).

Discover how you can cut the stress, catch up on sleep and breathe a little easier with 50 practical tips to really make you feel happier!

The world is a pretty stressful place, especially right now, and we all need some help reminding us to take care of ourselves. But the good news is that there are loads of easy tips and tricks to keep yourself feeling happy, from customising your own bedtime ritual to how to resolve arguments with your parents. Complete with simple breathing exercises, yoga poses and even advice on the best food to eat when you’re feeling down, this is a one-stop guide to transform worried kids into happy, confident ones.

Author Suzy Reading, a mum of two as well as being a chartered psychologist and yoga teacher, knows that the emotional wellbeing of children is just as important as their physical health. Good mental health allows children to develop the resilience to cope with whatever life throws at them and grow into well-rounded, healthy adults. Funny, engaging and practical – and brought to life with illustrations by Alex Paterson – this is the ideal book to help readers cope with their emotions and face each day raring to go.

‘I’m a firm believer that if you have something to say that might benefit others then you should speak up about it! There are ways to move forward and improve your outlook; small changes might just make a BIG difference, in the same way they have for me.’

The last two years have been a game-changer for Made in Chelsea’s Louise Thompson and she is feeling stronger than ever, both mentally and physically. In Live Well with Louise she shares her personal story for the first time, opening up about her battles with anxiety, self-confidence, her relationship with food and alcohol, and the pressures of social media. Falling in love with fitness and food have played a huge part in her journey; in the book she shares her favourite 30-minute home workouts and over 70 of the delicious recipes she loves to cook, along with lots of practical tips on how to focus on the good, simple stuff that can help us stay positive amidst the stresses and ups and downs of daily life.

For Louise, a happier wellbeing is about getting stronger in every sense, eating good food, being active, discovering the things you really enjoy, learning new skills, connecting with people, embracing imperfection and letting go of the past. Through her own experiences, she wants to inspire readers to make positive changes and motivate them to stay on the right path once they’ve found it.

(Fitness and recipes have been developed alongside qualified professionals)

The secret sauce of Reinvent the Wheel is a simple, yet powerful image, the Well Being Wheel, created by the author to reinforce her revolutionary process for achieving total well-being. Created to restore her own well-being and turbo-charge her success, The Well Being Wheel is used by thousands of business high-achievers as a tool for optimizing their health, happiness and work performance.

Each succinct chapter highlights a spoke of the Wheel: 6 for BODY, 6 for MIND and 6 for SPIRIT along with instructions to readers for customizing the 18 spokes for themselves. Exclusive interviews and original content from well-being fueled “Exceptional Executives,” including John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, and Kevin Johnson, CEO and President of Starbucks, who excel at a specific “spoke” of the wheel, reinforce the concepts and inspire readers. These extraordinary business leaders offer a fascinating look into the daily habits and strategies that fuel their lives, and in doing so, prove that well-being does drive success.