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The Joy of Solitude: How to Reconnect with Yourself in an Overconnected World

"An engaging, practical guide through the promises and paradoxes of solitude, offering science-backed advice for getting the most out of your alone time and deepening your relationship with yourself and others. Solitude is part of the human experience. But just like other relationships, your relationship with solitude can be satisfying, intimate, and enhance your well-being, or it can leave you wanting, stuck in a cycle of sadness, anxiety, or anger. Regardless of whether you're starved for "me time" or struggling with loneliness, most of us have never thought carefully about how to get the most out of the time we spend by ourselves. As a result, we're missing out on what could be a deeply enriching aspect of our lives. But how can we unlock the positive power of solitude? In The Joy of Solitude, Robert Coplan draws from diverse fields including psychology, neuroscience, literature, and sociology to guide readers through solitude's many dimensions and its profound effects on mental health and well-being. In this enlightening book, you will discover: -The many different types of solitude, ranging from enjoyable to challenging, each influencing personal experiences in unique ways. -Why choosing to spend even fifteen minutes alone each day can help stabilize your mood, recharge your battery, and spark creativity. -A deeper understanding of extraverts and introverts and their (often misunderstood) relationship to solitude. -What alone time looks like in a world where social connection is always a click away. -Groundbreaking scientific insights into the effects of both loneliness and "aloneliness." -The surprising ways that time alone can enhance relationships with others. -Practical strategies for harmonizing moments of social engagement and solitude, crucial for achieving optimal life satisfaction. The Joy of Solitude is a vital resource for those who wish to understand the complexities of solitude and its potential to enhance mental health, creativity, and self-discovery. Whether you seek affirmation for your love of solitude or strive to find balance within it, Coplan's insights are indispensable tools for enriching your relationship with yourself and others."

Robert J Coplan (Author), Kevin R. Free (Narrator)

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How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories: Notes from a Frustrated Black Psychologist

"A clinical psychologist tells his story of navigating the field of psychology as a gay Black man. In How I Know White People Are Crazy and Other Stories, Dr. Jonathan Lassiter pulls back the curtain on the mental health system and reveals the hurdles that Black psychologists and students are forced to endure in the field. He tackles how white ideology has harmed Black patients and how it dominates America's mental health practices. As a Black gay man working as a psychologist under culturally insensitive supervisors and colleagues in America, he grows more frustrated with the exclusive talk of Sigmund Freud, and the narrowness of psychology study, with no one like him to vent to. All this takes a mental and physical toll on him. Using his expertise in research, his own therapy, and keeping a healthy dose of hip-hop/R&B music in his ears, Dr. Lassiter discovered a way where we can center culture in our healing. Through a series of essays, he demands that the lived and cultural experiences of people of color, LGBTQ+, and disabled communities are made a part of psychology practices so that we can understand, live in, and navigate this frustrating world. This thought provoking, funny, and searing indictment of the mental health system for patients, students, and professionals alike will leave you thinking differently about the psychologists in your life."

Jonathan Lassiter (Author), Jonathan Lassiter (Narrator)

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The Workbook for Healing Developmental Trauma: Tools and Techniques from the NeuroAffective Relation

"A comprehensive workbook for understanding and treating developmental trauma using the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) Includes practical exercises for understanding ACEs, addressing C-PTSD, nurturing post-traumatic growth, identifying survival styles, and more Designed for clinicians, trauma therapists, and practitioners of the NeuroAffective Relational Model, this workbook offers a blueprint to NARM's transformative approach to healing developmental trauma. Authors Laurence Heller, PhD, and Brad Kammer share practical skill-building exercises that deepen your own relationship to the material as you learn new, evidence-based, and highly effective ways to work with clients' trauma. Complete with detailed charts, visually engaging graphics, and practitioner-focused questionnaires, this workbook provides tools for use in clinical sessions as well as personal professional growth. In an easy-to-apply format, the Workbook will explore: - The 5 adaptive survival styles: Learn how developmental needs for connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love-sexuality are disrupted by trauma and map onto adaptive survival strategies - The 4 pillars of NARM: Understand and apply key therapeutic skills that support healing and post-traumatic growth - The NARM Relational Model: Facilitate trauma resolution and real therapeutic growth via a dynamic, embodied process - The NARM Emotional Completion Model: Support clients in identifying their primary emotions, reflecting the emotion's intention, and building new relationships to unresolved emotional conflicts - The NARM Personality Spectrum: Use 10 psychobiological traits to understand and assess client self-organization Heller and Kammer offer personal and therapist-oriented reflection questions to ground your work with NARM and assist you in integrating the model's nuances. Each section is designed to help practitioners translate NARM's advanced concepts into actionable strategies that deepen the therapeutic process-and whether you're new to NARM or seeking to refine your practice, the Workbook equips you with the resources to guide your clients toward profound healing and growth."

Brad J. Kammer, Laurence Heller (Author), Brad J. Kammer, Laurence Heller (Narrator)

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Salvation: Black People and Love

"“A manual for fixing our culture…In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process.”—Black Issues Book Review New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural critic bell hooks continues her exploration of the meaning of love in contemporary American society, offering groundbreaking, critical insight about Black people and love. Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African Americans. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of Martin Luther King, Jr., James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou, the liberation movements of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, or hip hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what love’s got to do with it. Combining the passionate politics of W.E.B. DuBois with fresh, contemporary insights, hooks brilliantly offers new visions that will heal our nation’s wounds from a culture of lovelessness. Her writings on love and its impact on race, class, family, history, and popular culture will help us heal and create beloved American communities."

bell hooks (Author), January LaVoy (Narrator)

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The Human Place in Nature: Evolution, Context and Choice

"This book explores a new approach to understanding the evolution of mind and consciousness by examining the perceptual abilities of animals and the way they experience their world. It offers a science-based, bottom-up approach to our own conscious worldview by seeing it through the eyes of others. Human ecologist John Schooneveldt emphasizes the role of context in evolution and the way animals internalize and engage with the contextual properties of their world that are meaningful for them. The core argument is that a context, which is subjective and comprised of the perceptual capacities, offers new insights into the evolution of mind. Rather than seeing biological evolution in terms of the emergence of mindless forms and cultural evolution as the emergence of disembodied minds, the book seeks to integrate these two perspectives through the rigorous mapping of contexts. Key Features - Reveals an understanding of animal minds - Formulates a hypothesis for the evolution of consciousness - Includes a discussion of the origin of technological innovation - Provides a rationale for the ecology of mind - Proposes a theory of the evolution of language - Outlines the science of experience and how it influences choice - Explains the role of context and choice with respect, especially to human ecology"

John Schooneveldt (Author), Mike Cooper (Narrator)

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Notes on Being a Man

"Bestselling author, NYU professor, and cohost of the Pivot podcast, Scott Galloway offers a path forward for men and parents of boys. Boys and men are in crisis. Rarely has a cohort fallen further and faster than young men living in Western democracies. Boys are less likely to graduate from high school or college than girls. One in seven men reports having no friends, and men account for three of every four deaths of despair in America. Even worse, the lack of attention to these problems has created a void filled by voices espousing misogyny, the demonization of others, and a toxic vision of masculinity. But this is not just a male issue: women and children can't flourish if men aren't doing well. As we know from spasms of violence, there is nothing more dangerous than a lonely, broke young man. Scott Galloway has been sounding the alarm on this issue for years. In Notes on Being a Man, Galloway explores what it means to be a man in modern America. He promotes the importance of healthy masculinity and mental strength. He shares his own story from boyhood to manhood. He explores his parent's difficult divorce, working through his anger and depression issues, trying to make money, and raising two boys. He shares the sometimes funny, often painful, lessons he learned along the way. Some of these lessons include: - Being a good dad means being good to their mother. - Action absorbs anxiety. - Find what you're good at-follow your talent. - Get out of the house. - Take risk and be willing to feel like an imposter. This is a key to professional success-and masculinity. - Acknowledge your blessings-and create opportunities for others. Be of surplus value. - Be kind. That's the secret to success in relationships. With unflinching honesty, Scott Galloway maps out an enriching, inspiring operator's manual for being a man today."

Scott Galloway (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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Where Did Everybody Go?: Why We're Lonely but Not Alone

"In the bestselling tradition of Mary Roach and A.J. Jacobs comes a fresh and powerful deep dive on loneliness, illuminating the complexity of this misunderstood social phenomenon and why people need people. According to a report by the US Surgeon General in 2023, one out of every two American adults are lonely. Author and podcaster Don Martin was one of them: in 2020, as the COVID pandemic raged and Don's once-vibrant social life was reduced to Zoom calls and Animal Crossing, he realized that lockdown did not create these feelings—they just amplified them until they could not be ignored. He wondered: how did we get here? What exactly is loneliness, anyway? How is it measured, and how is it useful to us as a species? Blending thorough research with humor and personal insight from his own experience, Don takes listeners on a loneliness deep dive, all the way from the conception of the term itself in the 1800s through the death of the American mall and rise of social media, which is too often blamed as the root cause of a centuries-old problem. Along the way, he talks to everyone from prominent researchers in the space to historians, city planners, and other writers and creatives working through this ever-evolving topic from unique angles. You'll learn about how loneliness affects different age groups and communities, the history and future of third places, the ways loneliness can deteriorate your physical health, and how everything from capitalism to the placement of garages in modern home construction ultimately impact our social bonds. Don leaves listeners with an action plan, sharing insights on how we can build a more connected future for ourselves and our neighbors. Fascinating, witty, and ultimately hopeful, Where Did Everybody Go? is perfect for fans of Mary Roach and Jennie Allen."

Don Martin (Author), Don Martin (Narrator)

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What to Say and How to Say It to Your Teen: A Parent's Guide to 30 Tricky Conversations

"There are things we absolutely need to talk to our teens about, but what we say, how we say it, and when we say it make all the difference between them embracing truth and becoming the person God designed them to be—or driving them away. Will they listen? How will they take it? These are legitimate worries that can keep us from saying anything—or have us second-guessing everything we did say. What to Say and How to Say It to Your Teen is your field manual to clear, compassionate communication with the son or daughter who no longer thinks you have all the answers—even though they have more questions than ever, like Why can't I have my phone in my room at night?; Why do I have to go to church?; How can God allow bad things to happen?; What can I do about the anxiety or depression I'm feeling?; Why can't I just date for fun?; Why do I have to get a job?; and Why does it matter who I hang out with? From shifting views on gender to questioning faith to struggling with honesty or respect or porn, the teen years are tough. They're also some of the most important years for you to offer guidance. This book will help you handle thirty of the trickiest conversations you need to have with your teen."

Mark Shoemaker, Tim Shoemaker (Author), Brandon Pollock (Narrator)

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Mindfire: Diary of an Anxious Twentysomething

"When your mind is on fire, how do you extinguish the flame? Here’s one thing college doesn’t teach you: Adulting is hard. Studies show that millennials and Gen Z-ers are two of the most anxious generations in history—approximately 50 percent of adults ages eighteen to twenty-four suffer from anxiety. Mindfire takes readers along on the emotional journey that is growing up, and offers insight on the anxiety that comes with it. Written by twenty-two-year-old journalist and influencer Carrie Berk, this book is a raw and vulnerable exploration into the parts of being in your twenties that aren’t always pretty. Berk, who was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and OCD at eighteen, shares intimate diary entries that unveil what it’s like learning to cope in her adulting era. What do you do when panic strikes unexpectedly? Or when you’re plagued with intrusive thoughts on vacation? How about when you lose someone for the first time? Anxiety can make you question your core beliefs and leave you more confused than ever. Berk shows how there is hope, happiness, and strength to be found in forging your path forward. Mindfire is a road map for anyone who has ever struggled with mental health—and felt alone. Packed with real-life therapy definitions and self-care suggestions, Mindfire shows how you can level up and learn to love yourself—anxiety and all."

Carrie Berk (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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The Self-Compassion Workbook for BPD: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Find Self-Forgiveness,

"If you have borderline personality disorder (BPD), you likely struggle with unstable relationships, or live with a constant fear that you’ll be abandoned. You may experience unexpected mood swings, explosive anger, or intense emotions. And to make matters worse, you may have feelings of shame, guilt, or low self-esteem as a result of your diagnosis. You aren’t alone, and there are skills you can learn to manage your symptoms and cultivate unwavering self-compassion and self-forgiveness. This workbook can help you get started. Grounded in powerful and proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and self-compassion, this step-by-step workbook offers evidence-based strategies to manage intense emotions and cultivate the self-acceptance needed to thrive. Using the core skills of DBT, you’ll learn to work through difficult thoughts, stay grounded in the present moment, and improve your relationships with others. You’ll also find self-compassion exercises to help you heal the stigma, shame, and feelings of unworthiness associated with BPD. More and more, studies show there is a powerful link between self-compassion and emotional health. This workbook will show you how to forgive and love yourself, and build the skills needed to live a vital, fulfilling life."

Amanda Smith LCSW (Author), Julienne Irons (Narrator)

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Making Space for What Matters: Find Freedom from Clutter and Hoarding with Acceptance and Commitment

"If you hoard—or have a loved one who hoards—you may feel helpless, hopeless, or ashamed. The thought of letting go of belongings may fill you with anxiety, dread, or grief. And you may wonder if you’ll ever experience the freedom of living without the weight of this debilitating behavior. It’s important to know you are not alone, and that hoarding isn’t your fault. This book will help you find your way out of the clutter and chaos, and into the life you truly want. Written by a team of mental health professionals and grounded in evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this book offers a values-based approach to finding lasting freedom from hoarding. Based on cutting-edge research, this book will help you unravel the stories your mind has created about you and your belongings. You’ll also discover how emotions and thoughts play a role in hoarding behaviors, and how you can declutter to live a life more closely aligned with your deepest values. Most importantly, you’ll learn to move beyond feelings of shame and guilt that are associated with hoarding, and cultivate the self-compassion, self-awareness, and self-understanding needed to make real, lasting changes."

Clarissa W. Ong PhD, Jennifer Krafft PhD, Michael E. Levin PhD, Michael P. Twohig PhD (Author), Amber Dekkers (Narrator)

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