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Can you imagine a world where drug companies throw bake sales to make ends meet? A world without all the jaw clenching, nail biting, and stress-induced melt downs? Eighty percent of health problems today are due to the downstream effects of stress, so learning to break free from stress could dramatically improve your mood, your relationships, your health—and your life. In Wired for Joy, researcher and New York Times bestselling author Laurel Mellin presents a simple yet proven way to train your brain to move through stress and back to joy. Her method has been called the missing link in health care, as it focuses on rewiring the emotional brain—the caldron of our stress—rather than the ...
The ability to self–nurture and set effective limits is the root of human maturity, and the foundation for emotional, behavioural, and spiritual balance. Fortunately, the skills to self–nurture and set effective limits can be fine–tuned and readers will learn them via a wealth of practical examples, colourful case histories, and scientific findings that are both fascinating and easy to understand. These skills are effective for a wide range of psychological and addictive problems––from alcoholism and other addictions to overeating, overworking, overspending, and perfectionism.
Want lasting weight loss? According to New York Times bestselling author and UCSF associate clinical professor Laurel Mellin, Ph.D., the universal pathway to a healthy body weight is to become wired for joy. Start by learning how to get from high-stress states to joy in under four minutes, then use the same techniques to switch off food cravings and activate positive moods, relationship pleasure, and body pride. This game-changing book delivers the same breakthrough program used by physicians, nutritionists, and psychologists in groups and coaching nationally. The science behind the method that the book maps out, emotional brain training (EBT), is cutting edge. Its easy-to-learn tools have b...
The Stress Solution: A Revolutionary New Method for Emotional Resilience Laurel Mellin, Ph.D. The Stress Solution, by New York Times bestselling author Laurel Mellin, Ph.D., delivers a new, proven, scientific approach to stress and a personal pathway to transformation. Based on a revolutionary method, Emotional Brain Training (EBT), we all have hidden pathways in our brain that take us from stress to joy - and the EBT stress solution technique enables us to use them rapidly - in about four minutes. By releasing stress on the spot, we wire our inner world for hope, love, and joy. According to Mellin, a health psychologist and associate professor emeritus at the University of California, San F...
The Solution explains that there are six causes of weight problems and provides six corresponding cures--two mind, two body, and two lifestyle--which work together to help nurture emotional needs, set realistic limits and expectations, replace body shame with pride, turn off negative societal messages, and improve health despite one'e genetic makeup. 20 charts & graphs.
From a New York Times best-selling author and health psychologist, "What's my number?" is a game-changing book for all self-helpers! It gives us a simple, profoundly effective way to instantly update how we process daily life to meet the high-stress demands of our times. Stress overload has caused us to enter the age of the emotional brain when we need emotional tools to unlock the brain's power for health, happiness, and purpose. Based on emotional brain training (EBT), by asking ourselves one simple question - What's my number? - we can use the natural power of our own emotions to: crush cravings and regain control, clear away ineffective beliefs, deal with workplace stress, relieve anxiety, depression, and hostility, resolve conflicts in relationships, boost our sense of purpose, and create joy in our lives!
Tired of feeling stressed out? Enter the age of brain-based health! This breakthrough book by New York Times bestselling author Laurel Mellin, Ph.D. will give you everything ou need to appreciate that issues with mood, habits, relationships, and productivity are caused by a few faulty brain circuits. The solution is to enter the age of brain-based health and learn easy, proven techniques to shut off these wires and the harmful chemical surges they cause, and activate healing chemicals that bring us optimal well-being. The motivator for many people? Self-reliance, and less dependency on medications and procedures. The techniques work rapidly (in one to four minutes), so you can feel the difference right away. Using them over time promotes lasting results. Enter the age of brain-based health, and you will never look back!
Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan's premier cartoonist DRAWING FROM MEMORY is Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the renowned artist he is today. Shunned by his father, who didn't understand his son's artistic leanings, Allen was embraced by Noro Shinpei, Japan's leading cartoonist and the man he came to love as his "spiritual father." As WWII raged, Allen was further inspired to consider questions of his own heritage and the motivations of those around him. He worked hard in rigorous drawing classes, studied, trained--and ultimately came to understand who he really is. Part memoir, part graphic novel, part narrative history, DRAWING FROM MEMORY presents a complex look at the real-life relationship between a mentor and his student. With watercolor paintings, original cartoons, vintage photographs, and maps, Allen Say has created a book that will inspire the artist in all of us.
This comprehensive reference volume surveys the development of crusts on solid planets and satellites in the solar system.
Gossip Girl meets Mad Max in this breakneck thriller from an international bestselling author where the line between rich and poor is the line between life and death. 'The windows on all the skyscrapers are smashed . . . No power, no lights, no people . . .' When Skye Rodgers and her twin brother Red move to Manhattan, rumours of a coming global apocalypse are building. But this doesn't stop the young elite from partying without a care. Then Skye joins an exclusive gang known as the Secret Runners of New Yok. But this is no ordinary clique. They have access to an underground portal that can transport them into the future. And what Skye discovers there is horrifying . . . What would you do to survive?