Does negativity rule your life? Discover a transformational approach to reclaiming joy, peace, and love. Stuck in an endless cycle of despair? Feeling blocked at every turn? Can't seem to find the light in your day? Experienced healer, teacher, and author Borut Lesjak has spent over twenty years helping clients overcome tough situations and find their way back to hope. Now he's here to share his straight-to-the-point suite of tools to address those deep wounds in less than one month. Self-Love Healing Quick Reference: Five Grounding Tools For Your Daily Practice is a concise and well-organized guidebook to restoration using the simplest of techniques. By following Lesjak's grounded daily plan and learning to stay in the moment with this highly practical approach, you'll soon feel the fog clearing. And as your own truth becomes clearer with each day, any anger, sadness, and hurt will evaporate in favor of a potent sense of feeling in charge of your own destiny. In Self-Love Healing Quick Reference, you'll discover: A full, twenty-eight-day program designed to ground you in natural practices that rekindle your happiness An honest, direct, and caring manual to changing your life Powerful daily meditation and breathwork techniques to help you feel strong How to reconnect with simple, earthly emotions, so you're ready to take on any challenge Ways to embrace life no matter how it comes, energy healing tools, and much, much more! Self-Love Healing Quick Reference is a pragmatic resource packed with no-nonsense methods to assist you in recovering your wellbeing. A companion to the in-depth Love Yourself Through series, if you like structured roadmaps and concrete tactics all wrapped in a loving methodology, then you'll adore Borut Lesjak's straight-from-the-heart toolbox. Buy Self-Love Healing Quick Reference to begin your transformation today!

This short, accessible guide introduces readers to Sæ-sii meditation, which differs from the vast number of other meditative methods in that it relies solely on the inner voice as a guide. What sets Sæ-sii meditation apart is that it can be done anywhere without the use of any visual cues, aromas, or special music. This is extremely beneficial in situations that require people to instantly escape mentally, and can even be done with their eyes open.Readers will learn how this simple method can help them overcome difficult situations and unlock-and resolve-deep personal issues. The path to learning this valuable practice has been broken down to its simplest form so as to reach the largest audience. In twenty-five easy, unintimidating lessons, readers receive practical step-by-step methods, allowing them to calm their minds and connect to their internal teachers.Using simple yet profound techniques that are easy to adapt, I combine my own insight, knowledge, wisdom, and humor to guide the readers on a joyful journey of self-discovery that ultimately leads to their bliss.

Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self. Sara suffered a debilitating fear of asserting herself. Spencer experienced crippling social anxiety. Bonnie was shut down, disconnected from her feelings. These patients all came to psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel seeking treatment for depression, but in fact none of them were chemically depressed. Rather, Jacobs Hendel found that they’d all experienced traumas in their youth that caused them to put up emotional defenses that masqueraded as symptoms of depression. Jacobs Hendel led these patients and others toward lives newly capable of joy and fulfillment through an empathic and effective therapeutic approach that draws on the latest science about the healing power of our emotions. Whereas conventional therapy encourages patients to talk through past events that may trigger anxiety and depression, accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), the method practiced by Jacobs Hendel and pioneered by Diana Fosha, PhD, teaches us to identify the defenses and inhibitory emotions (shame, guilt, and anxiety) that block core emotions (anger, sadness, fear, disgust, joy, excitement, and sexual excitement). Fully experiencing core emotions allows us to enter an openhearted state where we are calm, curious, connected, compassionate, confident, courageous, and clear. In It’s Not Always Depression, Jacobs Hendel shares a unique and pragmatic tool called the Change Triangle—a guide to carry you from a place of disconnection back to your true self. In these pages, she teaches lay readers and helping professionals alike • why all emotions—even the most painful—have value. • how to identify emotions and the defenses we put up against them. • how to get to the root of anxiety—the most common mental illness of our time. • how to have compassion for the child you were and the adult you are. Jacobs Hendel provides navigational tools, body and thought exercises, candid personal anecdotes, and profound insights gleaned from her patients’ remarkable breakthroughs. She shows us how to work the Change Triangle in our everyday lives and chart a deeply personal, powerful, and hopeful course to psychological well-being and emotional engagement.

Discover the transformative power of grounding-a simple yet profound practice with the potential to enhance your overall well-being. "The Healing Benefits of Grounding: Practice Earthing to Generate Greater Well-Being; Improve Energy, Blood Flow, and Sleep; and Reduce Pain, Inflammation, and Stress" unveils the hidden virtues of this ancient practice, now validated by modern science, to help you reconnect with the earth and harness its healing energies. This enlightening guide explores grounding, how it works, and why it's beneficial. The book illustrates how reestablishing your physical connection with the earth can have profound health benefits, from reducing cardiovascular risks and boosting blood circulation to alleviating stress and improving sleep. The book is structured to provide a comprehensive overview of grounding: Learn the scientific underpinnings behind the effectiveness of grounding in reducing inflammation, fatigue, and pain. Discover various grounding techniques-outdoor and indoor options are covered to accommodate different lifestyles and needs. Understand how to utilize grounding equipment effectively to maintain your connection with the earth, even indoors. Explore anecdotal evidence and personal stories highlighting the life-changing benefits of grounding in your daily routine. With its user-friendly instructions and practical advice, "The Healing Benefits of Grounding" is your ultimate guide to living a healthier, more grounded life. Whether you're a wellness enthusiast seeking to enhance your health regimen or an individual grappling with chronic pain or stress, this book provides invaluable insights and solutions that are easy to implement in your daily routine. Don't just take our word for it-try grounding yourself. Witness how this natural practice can calm your mind, heal your body, and restore vitality. Embrace the ground beneath your feet and step into a healthier, more balanced life.

Kristin Neff, Ph.D., says that it’s time to “stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind.” Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your highest potential and a more contented, fulfilled life. More and more, psychologists are turning away from an emphasis on self-esteem and moving toward self-compassion in the treatment of their patients—and Dr. Neff’s extraordinary book offers exercises and action plans for dealing with every emotionally debilitating struggle, be it parenting, weight loss, or any of the numerous trials of everyday living.

This manual presents the first empirically studied, integrative treatment approach developed specifically for co-occurring PTSD and substance abuse. For persons with this prevalent and difficult-to-treat dual diagnosis, the most urgent clinical need is to establish safety--to work toward discontinuing substance use, letting go of dangerous relationships, and gaining control over such extreme symptoms as dissociation and self-harm. The manual is divided into 25 specific units or topics, addressing a range of different cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal domains. Each topic provides highly practical tools and techniques to engage patients in treatment; teach "safe coping skills" that apply to both disorders; and restore ideals that have been lost, including respect, care, protection, and healing. Structured yet flexible, topics can be conducted in any order and in a range of different formats and settings. The volume is designed for maximum ease of use with a large-size format and helpful reproducible therapist sheets and handouts, which purchasers can also download and print at the companion webpage. See also the author's self-help guide Finding Your Best Self, Revised Edition: Recovery from Addiction, Trauma, or Both, an ideal client recommendation.

Self-care is critical for effective and ethical counseling practice and this inspirational book offers diverse, realistic perspectives on how to achieve work–life balance and personal wellness from graduate school through retirement. In addition to the authors’ unique perspectives as professionals at different stages of their careers, guest contributors—ranging from graduate students, to new professionals, to seasoned counselors—share their experiences and thoughts about self-care, including what challenges them most. Both personal and conversational in tone, this book will help you to create your own practical self-care action plan through reflection on important issues, such as managing stress, establishing personal and professional boundaries, enhancing relationships, and finding meaning in life. "Counselors face the obstacle of remembering to care for themselves while focusing on caring for others. In Counselor Self-Care, Drs. Gerald Corey, Michelle Muratori, Jude Austin, and Julius Austin lead 52 contributing authors in a book rich with living events and defining moments. Multiple stressors are described and met with multiple solutions. There is so much great content here that can be embraced by those who do the noble work of being present for others." —Tom Skovholt, PhD, LP, Professor, University of Minnesota; Author of The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout and Compassion Fatigue Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for the Helping Professions, 3rd Edition "Self-care is often discussed in counselor training and supervision, but not in its full scope. Counselor Self-Care provides breadth and depth by addressing the many facets of self-care. The authors combine personal narratives and anecdotes from experienced mental health professionals with self-assessment questions and self-care improvement strategies. The level of vulnerability and insight from the authors, and those who share their stories, is informative and rare to find. Assign this book as reading for yourself, your students, and your supervisees to motivate nurturing of the self." —Philip Clarke, PhD, Associate Professor, Wake Forest University *Requests for digital versions from ACA can be found on www.wiley.com *To request print copies, please visit the ACA https://imis.counseling.org/store/detail *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]