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Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
by Eric Greitens

The Navy SEAL, humanitarian and best-selling author of The Heart and the Fist draws on ancient wisdom and personal experience to counsel readers on how to promote personal resilience and overcome obstacles through positive action.

Bouncing Forward: Transforming Bad Breaks into Breakthroughs
by Michaela Haas

Learn how to become stronger, happier, and more resilient in the face of life's inevitable setbacks through twelve inspiring stories from survivors of cancer, addiction, PTSD, the Holocaust, loss of a love one, and childhood abuse. Michaela Haas, PhD, presents these stories with practical methods on how to transform pain into a journey to wisdom, love, and purpose.

Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts
by Guy Winch

Prescriptive and unique, Emotional First Aid is essential reading for anyone looking to become more resilient, build self-esteem, and let go of the hurts and hang-ups that are holding them back.

Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life's Darkest Hours
by Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis

A teacher who saved the lives of 15 elementary school students during the Sandy Hook shooting shares her experience with others in the hopes that they too can overcome their own personal tragedies, regardless of their magnitude.

How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World
by Colin Beavan

The author of No Impact Man presents a guide to living a meaningful and fulfilling life in service to one's community and the environment, drawing on inspiration from classic literature, philosophy and modern science while outlining specific lifestyle change recommendations.

When Bad Things Happen to Good Women: Getting You (Or Someone You Love) Through the Toughest Times
by Carole Brody Fleet

When Bad Things Happen to Good Women is a survivor's toolkit by a leading expert in surviving tragedy and thriving afterward.

Yoga Therapy for Stress & Anxiety: Create a Personalized Holistic Plan to Balance Your Life
by Robert Butera

A guide to creating a stress-free life through yoga practice and the lesser-known lifestyle aspects of yoga, including exercises, breathing techniques, meditation, and yoga poses for relaxation, improved attitude and sleep, and self-acceptance.

The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
by David A. Carbonell

A psychologist and anxiety expert, revealing how anxiety hijacks the brain, offers proven and effective techniques based in acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavior therapy to help readers break the cycle of worry, once and for all.

The Everything Guide to Overcoming PTSD: Simple, Effective Techniques for Healing and Recovery
by Romeo Vitelli

Presents an overview of post traumatic stress disorder and details symptoms, treatment options, resources, and long-term prospects for recovery.

The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook: A Guide to Healing, Recovery, and Growth
by Glenn R. Schiraldi

An important updated guidebook for those suffering from a traumatic experience provides information on coping mechanisms, emotional triggers, the mental defenses that protect us from further harm, and much more.

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Showing the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult illnesses, an award-winning science journalist, sharing stories from those who have overcome ACEs, explains how we can reset our biology and help our loved ones find ways to heal.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk

A forefront expert on traumatic stress outlines his own take on healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others and experience pleasure.

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety
by Tamar E. Chansky

Newly revised and updated, an authoritative resource written by a prominent childhood-anxiety expert guides parents through a proven program that will help their children overcome their fears, worries and anxieties to lead happier, healthier lives.

The Anxiety Cure for Kids: A Guide for Parents and Children
by Elizabeth DuPont Spencer

Filled with up-to-date, practical advice that can be used by parents, teachers, coaches, doctors, therapists, school nurses and others, this reassuring guide helps adults and children understand the powerful ways in which anxiety works and how to overcome its negative effects.

How to Like Yourself: A Teen's Guide to Quieting your Inner Critic & Building Lasting Self-Esteem
by Cheryl Bradshaw

An accessible guide to overcoming self-critical habits shares strategies for being kind to oneself, self-forgiveness and moving forward with confidence.

The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Overcome Fear, Worry & Panic
by Jennifer Shannon

A guide for teens whose anxieties are interfering with their developmental milestones draws on techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to explain how to overcome obstacles and focus on goals.

Conquer Your Fears & Phobias for Teens: How to Build Courage & Stop Fear from Holding You Back
by Andrea Umbach

Guides teenagers in overcoming their anxieties and fears through the use of cognitive behavioral therapy, showing how to cope with the thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviors associated with phobias.

Don't Give Up, Don't Give In
by Curtis L. Ivery

Provides advice for young black men on how to deal with relationships, manage their emotions, and take on challenges with confidence.

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