Drawing on her years of professional experience as a clinical psychologist, the author offers expert advice and powerful coping techniques for fortifying and maintaining mental health, even in the most trying of times.
Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Dr Julie's simple but expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient no matter what life throws your way. Written in short, bite-sized entries, you can turn straight to the section you need depending on the challenge you're facing - and immediately find the appropriate tools to help with.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 (8)
1 On Dark Places
1 Understanding low mood
9 (11)
2 Mood pitfalls to watch out for
20 (14)
3 Things that help
34 (10)
4 How to turn bad days into better days
44 (9)
5 How to get the basics right
53 (14)
2 On Motivation
6 Understanding motivation
67 (5)
7 How to nurture that motivation feeling
72 (10)
8 How do you make yourself do something when you don't feel like it?
82 (12)
9 Big life changes. Where do I start?
94 (5)
3 On Emotional Pain
10 Make it all go away!
99 (6)
11 What to do with emotions
105 (9)
12 How to harness the power of your words i
114 (6)
13 How to support someone
120 (7)
4 On Grief
14 Understanding grief
127 (5)
15 The stages of grief
132 (6)
16 The tasks of mourning
138 (8)
17 The pillars of strength
146 (5)
5 On Self-doubt
18 Dealing with criticism and disapproval
151 (11)
19 The key to building confidence
162 (11)
20 You are not your mistakes
173 (6)
21 Being enough
179 (10)
6 On Fear
22 Make anxiety disappear!
189 (6)
23 Things we do that make anxiety worse
195 (5)
24 How to calm anxiety right now
200 (5)
25 What to do with anxious thoughts
205 (18)
26 Fear of the inevitable
223 (10)
7 On Stress
27 Is stress different from anxiety?
233 (6)
28 Why reducing stress is not the only answer
239 (5)
29 When good stress goes bad
244 (7)
30 Making stress work for you
251 (13)
31 Coping when it counts
264 (13)
8 On a Meaningful Life
32 The problem with `I just want to be happy'
277 (7)
33 Working out what matters
284 (9)
34 How to create a life with meaning
293 (4)
35 Relationships
297 (20)
36 When to seek help
317 (4)
References 321 (12)
Resources 333 (2)
Acknowledgements 335 (4)
Index 339 (8)
Spare tools 347
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Dr Julie Smith
Jahr:
2022
Verlag:
London, Michael Joseph
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ISBN:
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Sprache:
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