The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
By: Stephen W. Porges
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Bridging the gap between research, science, and the therapy room. When The Polyvagal Theory was pub…
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1. Healing the Shame that Binds You
By: John Bradshaw
4.09
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
“I used to drink,” writes John Bradshaw, “to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I dran… read more
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"Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are."-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
"Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive."-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
"True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love."-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
"Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically."-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
2. Bad Dreams and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.69
Format: 224 pages, ebook
In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history… read more
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3. In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
By: Peter A. Levine , Gabor Maté
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
**Unraveling Trauma in the Body, Brain and Mind--a Revolution in Treatment** In this culmination of… read more
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4. The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion
By: Simon Marshall , Lesley Paterson
3.44
Format: 272 pages,
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5. Healing Trauma
By: Peter A. Levine
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Audio CD
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than 23 million Americans suffer from an… read more
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6. Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
By: Alan W. Watts , Mark Watts
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mark Watts compiled this book from his father's extensive journals and audiotapes of famous lecture… read more
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7. Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship
By: Laurence Heller , None
3.69
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Although it may seem that humans suffer from an endless number of emotional problems and challenges… read more
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8. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
By: Gabor Maté
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more
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9. The Making of a Therapist (Norton Professional Books)
By: Louis Cozolino
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Lessons from the personal experience and reflections of a therapist. The difficulty and cost of tra… read more
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"Therapists are never “done"-Louis Cozolino, The Making of a Therapist (Norton Professional Books)
"Most therapists grew up struggling to be loved and accepted by others. Because of these early experiences, many of us find it difficult to believe others can be of help to us. We carry this struggle …"-Louis Cozolino, The Making of a Therapist (Norton Professional Books)
"The things most people need to learn in therapy are related to attachment, abandonment, love, and fear. We are trying to access basic emotional processes that are organized in primitive and early-dev…"-Louis Cozolino, The Making of a Therapist (Norton Professional Books)
10. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
By: Peter A. Levine , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma... Waking the Tigeroffers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It… read more
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11. Self-Reliance and Other Essays
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) propounded a transcendental ideali… read more
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12. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more
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"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
13. Anchored
By: Deb Dana
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Discover your body’s neural pathways to calmness, safety, and connection. An intense conversation,… read more
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14. Wisdom of Your Body
By: Hillary L. McBride
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body.Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of … read more
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"She cupped her hands around the remnant flame of spirit inside me, protecting the flickering light until it grew stronger, and then placed my own hands around the flame and made me the protector of t…"-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body
"Transcendence is beautiful, but I'm not convinced it's the full picture. One of my psychology professors used to remind us that if there are only two options and one of them is bad, then we aren't se…"-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body
15. Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
By: Thor Hanson
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
- Треть нашего рациона состоит из «пчелозависимых» продуктов.- Гималайские виды шмелей способны лет… read more
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"In the past, people around the world heard the buzzing of bees as voices of the departed, a murmured conveyance from the spirit world. This belief traces back to the cultures of Egypt and Greece, amo…"-Thor Hanson, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
16. Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices
By: Deb Dana
4.34
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third … read more
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17. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
By: Resmaa Menakem
4.40
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trau… read more
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"At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love."-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
"In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we're broken or we've healed from that brokenness. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human gro…"-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
18. Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
By: Mark Epstein
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is … read more
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"The ego's instinctive favoring of itself is eroded by a sense of the infinite"-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
"There is much self-esteem to be gained from learning how and when to surrender."-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
"The most important events in our lives, from falling in love to giving birth to facing death, all require the ego to let go."-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
"We are already equipped to meet whatever befalls us. Life's challenges are challenging, but there is room for faith, for confidence, even for optimism."-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
19. Activate Your Vagus Nerve: Unleash Your Body’s Natural Ability to Overcome Gut Sensitivities, Inflammation, Autoimmunity, Brain Fog, Anxiety and Depression
By: Navaz Habib
3.80
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
Repair your vagus nerve and experience amazing health and wellness benefits Your vagus nerve is … read more
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20. The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
By: Deb Dana
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This book offers therapists an integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work w… read more
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"The job of the autonomic nervous system is to ensure we survive in moments of danger and thrive in times of safety. Survival requires threat detection and the activation of a survival response. Thriv…"-Deb Dana, The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
21. Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges
By: Mona Delahooke
4.49
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
A NEW approach to solving behavioral challenges. In Beyond Behaviors , internationally known pedia… read more
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22. Introduction to Internal Family Systems
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.28
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A highly accessible introduction to a therapeutic approach that brings our inner “parts” into harmo… read more
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23. Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
By: Stanley D. Rosenberg
3.84
Format: 239 pages, ebook
Techniques et exercices pour améliorer le bien-être physique, émotionnel et social Thérapeute crâni… read more
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"It doesn’t matter how much you drive around, you will never get to where you want to go if you don’t have the right map."-Stanley D. Rosenberg, Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
24. You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life (Book of Awesome Series, The)
By: Neil Pasricha
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
#1 international bestseller Publishers Weekly bestseller The Globe and Mail (Toronto) The Toronto S… read more
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25. Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
By: Dimitris Xygalatas
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering anthropologist takes readers on a journey through the rich tapestry of human ritual—s… read more
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"Costly rituals help communities grow stronger, and this can have major implications for their long-term survival and prosperity."-Dimitris Xygalatas, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
"Ceremony is a primordial part of human nature, one that helps us connect, find meaning and discover who we are: we are the ritual species."-Dimitris Xygalatas, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
"We spontaneously engage in ritualized behaviors when we face stressful and uncertain situations, and we intuitively expect those ritualized actions to have an effect."-Dimitris Xygalatas, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
"The logic behind these initiations provides an efficient solution to a pressing cooperation dilemma: in order for a group to survive, it must rely on the loyalty of its members."-Dimitris Xygalatas, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
26. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
By: Jane Ward
4.16
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Re… read more
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27. The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
By: Stephen W. Porges
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Bridging the gap between research, science, and the therapy room. When The Polyvagal Theory was pub… read more
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28. The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
By: Jeffrey J. Kripal
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A “flip,” writes Jeffrey J. Kripal, is “a reversal of perspective,” “a new real,” often born of an … read more
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"The materialist interpretation of the world and of science itself is protected not by the facts or by the data of our honest experiences, but by what is essentially social and professional peer press…"-Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
29. Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change
By: Nicole Vignola
4.33
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
YOUR VERY OWN NEURO-TOOLKIT FOR A GOOD LIFE. CHANGE YOUR MIND TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Discover the n… read more
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30. A Wild and Sacred Call: Nature-psyche-spirit (S U N Y Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
By: Will W. Adams
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An ecopsychological, ecospiritual exploration of humankind's relationship with the rest of nature. read more
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31. Polyvagal Theory and the Developing Child: Systems of Care for Strengthening Kids, Families, and Communities (IPNB)
By: Marilyn R. Sanders
4.62
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
How sustained disruptions to children’s safety have physical, behavioral, and mental health impact … read more
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