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For Those Seeking Peace of Mind
Searching for ways to alleviate anxiety or make mindfulness practices work for you? This collection combines insights and how-tos on subjects such as stress, meditation, and various psychological disorders to keep you (and your brain) feeling your best.
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Cheat Sheet / Updated 11-13-2024
The coping strategies or, resourcingskills, that you practice are essential for EMDR to be successful. Even outside of EMDR, these skills are foundational to helping yourself regain control of your mind and tap into living the life you want to create. Research shows that the more you practice and engage in healthy coping/resourcing skills, the more regulated and content you will feel.
The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is now recognized as one of the most effective treatment modalities for trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction, and beyond. EMDR For Dummies is a user-friendly guide for patients who need an introduction to what this type of therapy can do for them—hint: it can help a lot.
An effective skills-building resource for achieving real change with dialectical behavior therapy Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is the type of talk therapy with the most evidence-base for people who experience painful swings in emotions and volatile relationships. It is most commonly applied in the treatment borderline personality disorder who also experience suicidal thinking and behaviors and in recent years, therapists use it for other mental health conditions as well.
Learn how to create healthy personal and relationship boundaries Boundaries are limits we establish for ourselves and implement through action or communication. Personal Boundaries For Dummies gives you all the basics on what boundaries look like (spoiler: they aren't "one-size-fits-all”), along with step-by-step instructions for figuring out what your boundaries are and communicating them with others.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-30-2024
There’s a lot to know about personal boundaries. But that doesn’t mean you need to wait until you understand all there is to know before you get started.The following are simple, actionable tips to help you start setting boundaries, along with specific actions you can put into practice immediately for some quick, powerful wins that instantly improve your boundaries.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-12-2024
Tips for chasing away feelings of lonelinessEverybody feels lonely at times. When it happens, it’s good to have strategies in mind to help you thwart the feeling and keep it from growing into a more chronic issue. Here are just a few suggestions you can try.
Be kind to yourself. Opening up to others can be tough.
Article / Updated 12-07-2022
Knowing how much burnout you may be experiencing may begin to give you clues about how to tackle the whole phenomenon of burnout in your life. Shall we see how you fare on the burnout quiz?Note that whatever you score on this quiz, it is not a representation of you being “good” or “bad” but rather a guide to let you know what you may want to focus on or what sort of support you need to become the thriving and happy person you want to be.
Your essential guide to beating burnout and finding fulfillment Chronic, unmanaged stress—at work, at home, or in other areas of life—can lead to burnout. Burnout For Dummies shows you the way toward understanding and overcoming this all-to-common condition of modern life. Many of us find ourselves living in a state of constant resignation, which sucks the joy out of life and can be detrimental to our physical health.
Tackle anxiety and depression head-on with this practical workbookIf you're one of the millions of people affected by—or whose loved ones are affected by—anxiety and depression, you're probably looking for strategies to help subdue or even transcend these debilitating and painful disorders. In that case, Anxiety and Depression Workbook For Dummies is a great place to start.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 08-31-2021
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy that works on changing negative thinking patterns and unhelpful behaviors, and pushes for healthier behavioral changes. With DBT, you have multiple ways of dealing with some of life’s most challenging psychological problems. These include strategies that focus on changing behaviors, as well as those that will help you succeed when you can’t change difficult situations.