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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. --Publisher's description.
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2022.
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"Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy. In this book, Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to connect to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism, we subject our bodies and minds to work at an unrealistic, damaging,...
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2012.
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Bardacke, a pioneering nurse-midwife and founder of the University of California San Francisco's Mindful-Based Childbirth Preparation course, provides expectant families everywhere with the tools they need to reduce the stress, fear, and pain associated with pregnancy and childbirth.
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2012.
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In 2010 the Department of Veterans Affairs cited 171,423 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans diagnosed with PTSD, out of 593,634 total patients treated. That's almost 30 percent; other statistics show 35 percent. Nor, of course, is PTSD limited to the military. In twenty years as a therapist, Susan Pease Banitt has treated trauma in patients ranging from autistic children to women with breast cancer; from underage sex slaves to adults incapacitated...
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[2024]
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Stressed and over-scheduled? Design an adaptable yoga ritual that can be done in 20 minutes or less, while leveraging off-the-mat yoga habits throughout your day to find clarity and ease. Includes adaptations for anxiety, weight loss, injury, and prenatal yoga — invaluable for beginners and seasoned yoga teachers alike." Sage and simple, playful and real, Yoga Life gives us permission to source our practice from within while respecting the traditions...