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On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety

ANDREA PETERSEN - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety. A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been...
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Duped: Why Innocent People Confess – and Why We Believe Their Confessions

Saul Kassin Ph.D - ?Prometheus
Format: Hardcover

Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact, it happens all the time - in police stations, workplaces, public schools, and the military. Psychologist Saul Kassin, the world's leading expert on false confessions, explains how interrogators...
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What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma

Mike Mariani - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

A deep examination of what happens after life-altering events, from car accidents to incarceration, and how we forge new identities when our lives are cleaved irrevocably into a before and after"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger," the saying - adapted from Nietzsche's...
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Clearing the Fog: From Surviving to Thriving with Long Covid?A Practical Guide

James C. Jackson PsyD - ?Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

"An essential guide" (Mark Hyman, author of Young Forever) to navigating life with the cognitive and mental health impairments that often accompany Long Covid. Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the shocking mortality figures obscured the fact that death is not the only adverse...
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Body Aware: Rediscover Your Mind-Body Connection, Stop Feeling Stuck, and Improve Your Mental Health with Simple Movement Practices

Erica Hornthal - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

An at-home mindful movement practice--cultivate resilience, dispel emotional blockages, and live your best life with the power of movement.When we talk about movement, most of us think "exercise." But the way we move our bodies--how we walk, roll, dance, stretch, connect, and take...
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Hot and Unbothered: How to Think About, Talk About, and Have the Sex You Really Want

Yana Tallon-Hicks - Harper Wave
Format: Paperback

An acclaimed sex therapist's practical, playful, and inclusive guide that teaches you how to discover your deepest sexual desires, communicate your wants and needs, define your boundaries, and have the sex you want.While popular culture is saturated with sex, the gap between informed...
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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Oprah Winfrey - Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Through wide-ranging, and often deeply personal conversation, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Perry explore how what happens to us in early childhood - both good and bad - influences the people we become. They challenge us to shift from focusing on, "What's wrong with you?" or "Why...
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The Teen Interpreter: A Guide to the Challenges and Joys of Raising Adolescents

Terri Apter - ?W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An insightful, revealing, and practical guide to adolescents' inner world, from a renowned psychologist.Once children hit adolescence, it seems as if overnight "I love you" becomes "leave me alone," and any question from a parent can be dismissed with one word: "fine."...
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The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life

ANYA KAMENETZ - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

"Blending scholarly evidence and the experiences of numerous families, The Art of Screen Time is a well-researched and reassuring guide to raising kids in a world where technology is everywhere." -danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensFinally...
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Resilient Grieving: How to Live with Loss That Changes Everything

Lucy Hone - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. A growing body of research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow - by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering...
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