The Power of Trauma: Conquering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
by Ute Lawrence
In this candid and illuminating guide, author Ute Lawrence details the symptoms of the disorder, the therapies and programs that eventually led her to a more balanced and fulfilling life, and interviews with the professionals who aided her along her journey from a paralyzing experience to a pilgrimage of self-discovery.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children.
Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
by Rick Hanson
If you change your brain, you can change your life. Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s — and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world.
by Jonathan H. Ellerby Ph.D.
Join Jonathan Ellerby for a journey into a world more amazing than you can imagine—a place of unlimited power, potential, and peace: your inspired self.
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease.
How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
by Dalai Lama
Each one of us is responsible for all of humankind, and for the environment in which we live…We must seek to lessen the suffering of others. Rather than working solely to acquire wealth, we need to do something meaningful, something seriously directed toward the welfare of humanity as a whole. To do this, you need to recognize that the whole world is part of you.
What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better
by Dan Baker
Research has shown that the root of unhappiness–fear–lies in the oldest, reptilian part of our brains, and negative reactions are often dictated by primal instincts. We’re literally “hardwired for hard times.” In What Happy People Know, Dr. Baker uses evidence from the new science of happiness to show us how we can overcome this genetic predisposition toward negative reactions and lead a truly rich, happy, and healthy life.
AFTERSHOCK THE UNTOLD STORY OF SURVIVING PEACE by Matthew Green
Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen and done things that have no place in civilian life? In Aftershock, Matthew Green tells the story of our veterans' journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return.