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"We all know people who seem capable of connecting with almost anyone. They are the ones we turn to for advice, the ones who ask deep questions but also seem to hear what we are trying to say. What do they know about conversation that makes them so special? And what can they tell us about how communication really works? Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg argues, understand--some by intuition, some by hard-won experience--that there is a science to...
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One of the world's leading performance psychologists and a retired US Navy Commander, Dr. Potterat spent over three decades working with thousands of top performers from the military, sports, first responder, and business worlds, helping them raise their psychological game. He's been the performance psychologist on teams that have won the MLB World Series and the FIFA World Cup. Potterat distills his insights into five mental disciplines for high...
3) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health--and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...
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"Most parents are not child psychologists and that's why it can be hard to discern what are normal childhood anxieties and what is more problematic . However, even with childhood anxieties, parents can learn how to raise resilient, independent, and healthy children with the help of licensed clinical psychologist, Regine Galanti, PhD. Galanti offers a research-based, practical guide for parenting through all ages and stages with strategies to help...
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"¿Tienes un dolor persistente y por más que vayas al médico y sigas paso a paso su tratamiento, no mejoras? ¿Te acaban de diagnosticar una enfermedad y no puedes comprender por qué ha llegado a tu vida de esta manera y en este momento? Los malestares pueden ser físicos, pero también tienen un importante factor emocional que solo se puede entender con un enfoque integral. Los dolores y padecimientos son maneras en las que nuestro organismo...
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"We are in the midst of a global mental health crisis: more than one in six American adults now take psychiatric medication. The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease is expected to triple by 2050. Depression is now the number one cause of disability in the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has quadrupled reports of anxiety and depression. Although medications may ease suffering for some, in Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, Dr. Georgia Ede argues that the...
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"The pandemic struck and the world reacted as we collectively faced a large and dangerous unknown. These years of change and stress during childhood - a time of rapid growth and development, was the equivalent of pressing pause on critical aspects of our kids' development. The prolonged stress and change took a toll on us all, but especially on our kids. Back on Track is the book for every parent who has worried about their child and wondered if they...
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"Diet Starts Monday is a no-BS guide to body acceptance in a looks-obsessed world. Plus-size TV personality and body confidence advocate Laura Adlington has struggled with her weight (and the weight of other people's opinions) her entire life. Here, in conversation with experts including doctors, psychologists and nutritionists, Laura reveals just how detrimental diet culture is to health, and explores where our true worth lies. Packed with personal...
10) Piglet: a novel
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"When Piglet's fiancé reveals a horrible betrayal two weeks before their wedding day, she decides to proceed with the event, but her life slowly starts unraveling in the lead-up to the big day"--
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"¿Te ha pasado que de tanto amar te olvidadas de tus sueños, tu proyecto de vida, tus valores y tus sentimientos más profundos? Estamos acostumbrados a dar en eceso y recibir muy poco o nada en nuestras relaciones de pareja, y lo peor de todo es que lo normalizamos. No resignamos a una relación desquilibrada por la creencia de que el verdadero amor no espera nada a cambio, como si la ecuación amorosa solo tuviera un integrante. Para Walter...
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"Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--
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" ... courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his beautiful schoolteacher wife Jillian [are] a seemingly perfect couple whose lives are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes. But neither Spencer nor Jillian knows that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives in this heart-stopping psychological thriller"--Container.
15) The genius of empathy: practical skills to heal your sensitive self, your relationships & the world
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"Ignite empathy as a superpower for transformative personal healing, deeper relationships, and more potent work in the world."--
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"A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety. Anyone who struggles with overeating knows what it's like to feel out of control-and to feel the guilt attached to it. While ordinary anxiety feels like something that happens to us, the siren song of food cravings feels like something we should be able to control. The result is a toxic cocktail of shame and self-loathing...
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"Few things in the world have a more profound effect on your life than the parents who raised you. When your parents are pathologically self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, the pain they cause is deep and often difficult to put into words. You may experience anxiety, depression, complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), low self-esteem, addiction, or other mental health conditions as an adult. And you may even feel like it was...
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"A must-have guide to optimizing your life for wealth and success, from bestselling author, NYU professor and co-host of the Pivot podcast Scott Galloway. Today's workers have more opportunities and mobility than any generation before. They also face unprecedented challenges, including inflation, labor and housing shortages, and climate volatility. Even the notion of "retirement" is undergoing a profound rethink, as our lifespans extend and our relationship...
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