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Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches (Updated and Expanded Edition)
The doctrine of adoption―God’s decision to adopt sinful men and women into his family―stands at the heart of Christianity. In light of this, Christians’ efforts to adopt beautifully illustrate the truth of the gospel. In this popular-level and practical manifesto, Russell Moore encourages Christians to adopt children and to help other Christian families to do the same. He shows that adoption is not just about couples who have struggled to have children. Rather, it’s about an entire culture within evangelicalism―a culture that sees adoption as part of the Great Commission mandate and as a sign of the gospel itself.
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That Picture of You: A dramatic real-life story of adoption and reunion
Few adoption memoirs can be as moving as this! That Picture Of You tells the story of Susan finding herself pregnant at the age of fifteen, and sent two hundred miles away to give birth in secret. When her baby is forcibly taken for adoption after just eight days, Susan grows to womanhood with no idea if her daughter is even. When she goes on tragically to suffer a miscarriage, a hospital counsellor encourages the playwright to set her grief out on the page. Half A Million Women is the result. But when the play is by pure coincidence performed on her long-lost daughter’s twenty-first birthday, no-one could possibly have imagined the real-life drama about to unfold off-stage. The remarkable real-life story made national headlines. That will come as no surprise when you read the dramatic events of the heart-wrenching reunion of mother and daughter. A truly dramatic story capturing spirit of time and place, this deeply moving and warmly funny book is ultimately, above all, joyful.Read more
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You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
Mississippi, 1967. It’s the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers’ maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice.In You’ll Forget This Ever Happened, Laura Engel takes us back to the Deep South during the turbulent 1960s to explore the oppression of young women who have committed the socially unacceptable crime of becoming pregnant without a ring on their finger. After being forced to give up her newborn son for adoption, Engel lives inside a fortress of silent shame for fifty years—but when her secret son finds her and her safe world is cracked open, those walls crumble.
Are you still a mother even if you have not raised your child? Can the mother/child bond survive years of separation? How deep is the damage caused by buried family secrets and shame? Engel asks herself these and many other questions as she becomes acquainted with the son she never knew, and seeks the acceptance and forgiveness she has long denied herself. Full of both aching sadness and soaring joy, You’ll Forget This Ever Happened is a shocking exposé of a shameful part of our country’s recent past—and a poignant tale of a mother’s enduring love.
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An Adopter’s Guide to Adoption
A step-by-step guide to the adoption process in England written by an adoptive mum of two. The guide provides tips and information about how to prepare for the adoption process, what each stage of the assessment involves, how matching works and what happens once your child is home. The guide is packed full of information which is put into context with examples of the writer’s experience of the process.Read more
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Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child
Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond – whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences. Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray describes how to use the latest thinking on attachment in your daily parenting. She reveals sensory techniques which have proven to help children bond – straightforward activities like keeping close eye contact or stroking a child’s feet or cheeks – and explains why routines like mealtimes and play time are so important in helping children to attach. The book offers positive ideas for responding to immediate crises like difficult behaviour and meltdowns, but importantly also offers longer-term strategies to help children to develop the skills they need to cope as they grow up – the ability to plan, concentrate and be in control of their emotions. Offering fascinating insights into how children who struggle to attach can be helped, this book is full of easy-to-use ideas which will help you to enjoy the many pleasures of bonding and attaching with your child.Read more
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From Gypsy to Jersey: An Adoption Journey
From Gypsy to Jersey, chronicles how my parents came to adopt me from Romania and how, all these years later, I followed the trail to my birth mother and made the journey back to Romania to connect with my Roma (Gypsy) family and roots. It also explores the conditions and history of the country around the time of my birth and what I learned about the Roma culture.
I am telling my story in the hopes of inspiring other adoptees and giving them the courage to learn more about their past.
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Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma
Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs. They need particular care to build attachment and overcome trauma. This book provides professionals with the knowledge and advice they need to help adoptive families build positive relationships and help children heal. It explains how neglect, trauma and prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol affect brain and emotional development, and explains how to recognise these effects and attachment issues in children. It also provides ways to help children settle into new families and home and school approaches that encourage children to flourish. The book also includes practical resources such as checklists, questionnaires, assessments and tools for professionals including social workers, child welfare workers and mental health workers. This book will be an invaluable resource for professionals working with adoptive families and will support them in nurturing positive family relationships and resilient, happy children. It is ideal as a child welfare text or reference book and will also be of interest to parents.Read more
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How to Adopt a Child: Your step-by-step guide to adopting and parenting
From understanding what adoption is, through to step by step guidance on the entire process and the challenges that come up along the way, this is the only book you will need to read on adoption.
Written by an author who was adopted herself, who has looked after over twenty children and who works with a fostering and adoption agency that deals specifically with breakdowns, this book will teach you how to confidently navigate the system and build a strong and lasting relationship with your child.
Whilst very much being the unvarnished truth, this is an empowering guide that will ensure you feel in control and know where to turn to for help no matter what:
With a positive attitude and the right tools, adopting a child can be very rewarding – don’t try to overthink it, don’t try to love, just do right by them and as you learn about each other the love, kindness and acceptance will grow.
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Reuben’s Story: From birth to adoption: The story of an older child’s experiences in foster care, leading to adoption | Adoption gift | Adoptee story
Reuben is adopted when he is old enough to remember his time with his birth family, various foster care placements, and the transition to his adoptive family, after meeting his adoptive parent, Taylor, at an activity day. Reuben’s account is written in his own voice, which makes the story engaging and accessible to young readers.This book is based on a true story of a boy’s journey from birth, through foster care, to adoption, as an older child. It can be used to help older adopted children with life story work, where the events can be related to and compared to their personal experiences. It is also a useful teaching tool for inclusive classrooms, and can be used to normalise adoption and foster care.
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Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues
A much-needed anthology addressing a variety of potential psychological and physiological concerns, Adoption Therapy, Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues is a must-read for adoptees, adoptive parents, first families, and vitally, mental health professionals.
With writing by adoptees, adoptive parents, and clinicians, Adoption Therapy is a first-of-its-kind and wholly unique reference book, providing insight, advice, and personal stories which highlight the specific nature of the adoptee experience.
Topics Include:
•The psychological dangers in leaving trauma and grief buried and unaddressed
•The importance of community in healing the wounds of separation
•Understanding the physical and psychological effects of transracial adoption
•Attachment—including the inability to attach, inappropriate attachment, and the myth of Reactive Attachment Disorder
•Conception by rape: an adoptee speaks out
•Co-dependency, intimacy, and creating closeness
•The life-long effects of pre- and perinatal trauma
•Processing complex trauma, complex grief, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
•Specific concerns for Late Discovery Adoptees
•The relationship among trauma, anger and rage, and substance abuse
•For adoptive parents and adoptees: red flags when working with a therapistRead more
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Becoming an Adoption-Friendly School: A Whole-School Resource for Supporting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma or Loss – With Complementary Downloadable Material
Adopted children who have experienced loss, abuse or neglect need additional support for their emotional development, and are more likely to have special educational needs. This useful resource provides a complete plan for creating adoption-friendly environments in primary, secondary and specialist schools.
The book is grounded on new research which gathered together testimonies from over 400 school staff members, adoptive parents and adoption specialists. With realistic consideration of pressures and limitations currently faced by schools, it gives advice on eight key areas for school development, including communicating with parents, training staff, using resources wisely and recognising children’s individual needs. Completing the toolkit is a broad selection of photocopiable and downloadable plans for establishing adoption-friendly frameworks, and for demonstrating good practice to staff, pupils, families and school inspectors.
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My Forever Family: from fostering to adoption
Follow Oliver as he goes through the ups and downs of the ‘Fostering to Adoption’ process. Simple, Easy to understand text for 2 to 6 year olds or children with limited understanding who are about to go through the fostering adoption processsimplified version for 2 to 6 year olds or children with limited understanding (Version 2 also available for 3 to 9 year olds).Being a foster carer myself, i struggled to find a simple way to explain the process to the young foster children in our care, Especially babies, toddlers and young children that were going into new ‘Forever’ Familys’. Then i came up with the idea for this book, a simple, easy to understand story of the basic process, It has helped myself and the children i care for by just giving them some idea of the adoption process and hopefully it will be of help to foster carers, adopting parent, social workers (and children) who also have to go through this traumatic time.Read more
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Music Therapy in Adoption and Trauma: Therapy That Makes a Difference After Placement
Music therapy is a valuable method of support and treatment for those dealing with trauma within the adoption community. Music Therapy in Adoption and Trauma offers a timely and much-needed perspective for music and creative arts therapists, as well as families themselves.
Addressing topics such as contemporary adoption processes, potential resulting trauma, attachment and adoption breakdown, the book looks at why music therapy specifically can help. Throughout, it centres the value of lived experience in increasing understanding of trauma and effective support.
Following a decade of dramatic change within the adoption practice, this book is an invaluable resource for those looking to support individuals and families impacted by adoption.
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Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children, Second Edition: A Family Friendly Approach
Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other ‘little treasures’, a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child’s early history and a chronology of their life.
Fully updated, this clear and concise book shows a unique family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book which promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within new families. Joy Rees’ influential model works chronologically backwards rather than forwards, aiming to reinforce the child’s sense of belonging and security before addressing the child’s past and early trauma. The book contains simple explanations of complex concepts, practical examples, helpful suggestions and includes some simple checklists. This new edition has been expanded to include fostered children and those living in kinship care or with a special guardian.
Perfect for social workers, adoption agencies, adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers, Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children is a refreshing, innovative and common-sense guide.
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Worried Whippet: A Book of Bravery: A Book of Bravery (For Adults and Kids Struggling with Anxiety)
There’s so much to be anxious about in this world: meeting new people, unfamiliar sounds, and worst of all, the seagulls that try to steal your chips. Worried Whippet counters that anxiety with humor and heartfelt inspiration.
Worried Whippet is a whimsically illustrated book that inspires you to take a cue from one anxious little dog, to muster up your courage, and step out into the world with hope. Follow along as one fearful little whippet named Jess, made popular on TikTok and Instagram, journeys out of her cozy bed to join her friends and conquer all the things that scare her most.
In these pages, you fill find:
- Simple, yet profound, short stories on bravery, featuring Jess and her friends
- Encouraging messages for adults coping with anxiety (that kids will also understand)
- Inspiration for overcoming irrational fear and becoming a little braver every day
- Musings on friendship, love, and happiness
- Illustrations featuring English beaches and countrysides that will translate worry into whimsy for adults and kids
This is a fantastic gift to give for graduations, birthdays, holidays, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, National Dog Day, National Brave Day, pet adoptions, as a gift of encouragement, or for anyone who loves dogs.
Keep Calm and Whippet On.
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The Primal Wound: Understanding the adopted child
Since its original publication in 1993, The Primal Wound has become a classic in adoption literature and is considered the adoptee’s bible. It is a must read for adopted people, adoptive families, birth parents and adoption professionals. CoramBAAF worked with the author to produce the first British edition of this classic title.The Primal Wound has revolutionised how we think about adoption. Over the years, thousands have read this classic and found in it profound insights and revelations on what being adopted means to adopted people.In this book, Nancy Verrier, a psychotherapist and adoptive mother, elaborates on what she calls the primal wound the wound that results when a child is separated from his or her mother and the trauma that it causes. She examines the life-long consequences this can have for adopted people, as they are growing up and into adulthood, underpinning this with information about pre- and perinatal psychology, attachment, bonding, and the effects of loss.
This is a demanding book. It can be a difficult and painful read because of the emotions it evokes in all members of the adoption triad. But it can also bring relief as it can be a great help in acknowledging, understanding, and validating the wounds created by the trauma of separation between mother and child. This understanding can help adopted people, adoptive parents and birth parents. It can provide validation for the experiences and feelings of adoptees, who have often felt misunderstood; it can bring solace to birth mothers, who have long been denied the truth of their loss; and it can be a source of information for adoptive parents, so that they can better understand and respond to their children.
The Primal Wound offers adopted people validation for their feelings, explanations for their behaviour, and a context in which to situate and make sense of their experiences. It is a must for anyone struggling with unexplained feelings and insecurities caused by adoption, and has been described as life changing , a light bulb experience , a revelation and a journey of discovery.
The insights which it brings to the experiences of abandonment and loss will contribute not only to the healing of adoptees, adoptive families, and birth parents, but will bring understanding and encouragement to anyone who has ever felt abandoned. This is essential reading for anyone involved in adoption.
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Our Beautiful Chaos: An Adoption Memoir
“An important read for prospective adopters in the UK as well as the professionals who support them.” Anna, Social Worker“For anyone going through or considering the adoption process, it is a must read. As an adopter, it makes you feel validated. Thank you Rachael for sharing your journey.” Louise, Adopter
Our Beautiful Chaos is an inspiring, confronting and an evocative read. Combining clear experience and knowledge, we follow the heartwarming true account of one couple who found they were achieving all of their life goals except the one thing they wanted most; a family.
Navigating infertility and ultimately the adoption process, Rachael writes about bringing their children home with a well balanced sensitivity and striking honesty. Heart-wrenching and emotional, there are moments of hope and relief in which you feel the struggles and triumphs alongside this family.
Told with a raw authenticity, both thought-provoking and moving, you find yourself engaged as their lives transforms physically, emotionally and mentally. As well as an insight into the UK adoption process, the powerful voice captures the depth of love for their children and the beautiful family dynamic they have created.
“Not just for adopters, this is a must read for anyone finding they are struggling to adjust to the parenting load.” Liz, Foster Carer
“This is the book I wish we had before we started out. It fills in so many gaps in training that social workers either don’t have the time to tell you or worry will scare you off. I loved this book; your honesty about the process, our own hidden expectations, other’s expectations, the frustrations had me laughing, crying and having rants with my partner.” Jem, adoptive parent.
“I love that you were so honest about the pressures of being a Mum … it gave the good and bad of adoption and also so informative. I am going into this process with open eyes” Helen, prospective adopter.
“I went through several tissues during this book. Thank you Rachael, I can’t wait to share this with my friends and family who just don’t get it.” Nicola, adoptive parent.
“I couldn’t stop reading it, it was honest, not pretentious and gave the good and bad of adoption but also so informative. I would definitely recommend.” Jen, prospective adopter.
“Beautifully written, open and honest account of the highs and lows of building a family through adoption. The statistics and facts add to the background, however the detail and personal memories shared build the story.” Jo, adoptive parent.
“Honest and thought provoking and so vividly written I could feel every emotion as if I were in your shoes. I will be recommending to all of my future adopters.” Olivia, adoption social worker.
“As a fellow adopter, it validated experiences we’ve had and we were able to resonate with it all – infertility through to family of five. A truly wonderful memoir, it felt like we were alongside you for the ride.” Charlotte, adoptive parent.
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Parenting with Theraplay®: Understanding Attachment and How to Nurture a Closer Relationship with Your Child (Theraplay® Books & Resources)
Theraplay® is an attachment-focused model of parenting that helps parents to understand and relate to their child. Based on a sequence of play activities that are rooted in neuroscience, Theraplay offers a fun and easy way for parents and children to connect. Theraplay is particularly effective with looked after and adopted children.
By providing an overview of Theraplay and the psychological principles that it is based on, parents and carers will gain an understanding of the basic theory of the model along with practical ideas for applying Theraplay to everyday family life. Through everyday case studies and easy language, parents will gain confidence and learn new skills for emotional bonding, empathy, and acceptance in the relationship with their child.
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The Unofficial Guide to Therapeutic Parenting for Childhood Aggression and Violence
“Parenting a distressed child puts us in an extraordinary situation, which demands extraordinary parenting.”
The reasons why distressed children may behave violently can be complex; this book sets out the biological, psychological, and environmental reasons as to why your child may be displaying violent behaviours and helps you develop strategies to reduce the incidence of violence, de-escalate violent situations and repair relationships following incidents.
With the aid of this guide, develop a language to enable children to understand their emotional states in a safe environment. Expertly written by award-winning author, columnist and adoptive parent Sally Donovan and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist Carly Kingswood; learn how to care for yourself and the children in your lives.
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Our Adoption Journey
This is the true story of Jayne, Dan, their son Charlie and their adoption of Jessie, a baby girl. Told by Jayne herself, this deeply personal memoir follows the joyful highs and heart-breaking lows of the journey that led them to their new adopted daughter. This book provides a fascinating insight into the adoption process, how it feels for those who are adopting, and how families are able to grow together.Read more
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Adoption After a Biological Child: A biological and adoptive mother’s story of attachment and unconditional love | adopting from foster care after … Kinship Care and Special…
From the author of award-winning children’s story books, Delly Duck, Room in the Nest, Adopting a Little Brother or Sister and other adoption and fostering children’s stories, comes an emotional and informative account of the unique challenges and joys of adopting after having a biological child.When Holly and Jon Marlow decided to adopt a child from foster care, they wondered how much having a birth child already would affect the adoption process, and how the process would affect their daughter. With warmth and vulnerability, Holly shares her personal experiences, delving into the approval and matching process, introductions, attachment issues, therapeutic life story work and navigating contact with her son’s birth family.
This book appeals to fans of Sally Donovan’s “No Matter What,” Lisa Faulkner’s “Meant to Be” and Sarah Naish’s series on therapeutic parenting. It makes an ideal gift for anyone adopting who already has a child in their family.
Please click on the author’s name to see more titles by Holly Marlow, about adoption, foster care, kinship care and special guardianship.Read more
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A journey through a psychotic breakdown
“A journey through a psychotic breakdown” shatters taboos about coping with mental illness
Written in first-person, ‘A journey through a psychotic breakdown’ by Douglas Gonçalves, tells the moving account of the executive when he faced a psychotic episode that made him a spectator of his own fate and changed his life forever.
São Paulo, December 2022 – In 2004, Douglas Gonçalves, a 34-year-old hotelier from São Paulo, embarked on a personal journey after having a psychotic episode. He now faces the transformations he experienced, shedding light on his memories, his past, his traumas, and untying the plots of destiny.
The book is a memoir about his experience of having a psychotic episode. It is divided into three parts: the first part describes the onset of his psychosis, the second part describes his time in a psychiatric hospital, and the third part describes his recovery, the narrative culminates in the treatments for the disease, through an engaging and dynamic reading free of prejudice.
Throughout the book, Gonçalves writes honestly and openly about his experiences. He does not shy away from describing the difficult and painful aspects of his psychosis, but he also writes about the hope and healing that he found through treatment. The author’s account provokes reflections on the current causes that trigger this disease and demystify the issue. According to medical statistics, one in four people will have mental health problems throughout their lives, which will greatly affect their personal, professional, and social existence.
Spirituality and Health
In the author’s opinion, the narrative aims at warning people who are prone to develop psychotic episodes, and helping families to quickly identify them. It also wishes to alert doctors to a more patient-centred treatment approach: an associative diffusion between spirituality and health, which refers to the relevance of spirituality in the treatment of mental illnesses.
Ancestry and affection
The narrative was written as a journal, in a simple and direct, sometimes humorous style. It highlights challenging moments, as the dramatic experience lived by the author in New York during the September 11 attacks; marriage concerns; familiar conflicts; and professional dilemmas, all leading to the breakdown. Gonçalves offers the reader a moving analysis, so much so in the post-pandemic world.
“When we face crucial situations and repeatedly disrespect the limits of our body, the brain finds ways to “turn us off” through the self-preservation instinct”, the author examines. And he adds: “The journey is individual but enriching. The search for understanding the deeper psychological causes, change in habits, spiritual re-education, acknowledging that nothing happens by chance: these were fundamental factors to reinstate the balance of the biological, psychological and energetic bodies”, he concludes.
“A Journey Through a Psychotic Breakdown”
Honest and raw: The author’s account of his psychotic breakdown is honest and raw, and it provides a unique and personal perspective on mental illness.
Empowering: The author’s journey to recovery is empowering, and it shows that it is possible to overcome mental illness and live a full and meaningful life.
Educating: The book is also educating, and it provides readers with a better understanding of what it is like to experience a psychotic breakdown.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Espaço SER, an ecumenical non-governmental organization, who assists people under emotional distress, personality disorders, depression, chronic anxiety, or other syndrome with self-destructive symptoms and suicidal ideation. Offers Complementary Integrative Practices based on the Ottawa Charter – WHO as a complementary treatment to the psychological and psychiatric ones.Read more
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A Journey to Healing Your Inner Child: A Practical CBT Workbook and Journal: Unlock The Power to Heal Emotional Triggers, Overcome Past Traumas, and Eliminate Fear of…
Uncover practical and compelling methods that will empower you to heal from your past traumas, reconnect with your inner child, and start living a peaceful and meaningful life through this must-have guide!
Do you ever find yourself feeling stuck or held back by past traumas? Are you looking for constructive ways to heal and move forward? In A Journey to Healing Your Inner Child, embark on a transformative exploration of healing techniques and exercises that can help you overcome past traumas and understand the concept of your inner child.
In this book, you’ll discover the power of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and journaling as tools for healing your inner child. By unraveling negative thoughts and behaviors, you can break free from the chains of your past and cultivate a healthier mindset for the future.
Dedicated life coach Cameron J. Clark is passionate about empowering women to overcome their past trauma, make changes in their lives, and thrive in their newfound selves. Using her expertise, extensive research, an empathetic voice, and personal experiences, she is committed to taking you on a transformative journey of love and healing. Are you ready to learn how?
Inside A Journey to Healing Your Inner Child, you’ll discover:- A comprehensive introduction to CBT including what it is, how you can apply it practically, and how it is going to enable you to connect with your inner child.
- A step-by-step guide into IFS, how it will empower you to connect with your inner child, understand it better, and start catering to its need
- More than 50 straightforward, enjoyable, and effective exercises that will enable you to understand your inner child’s wounds and embark on a compelling healing journey, no matter how overwhelming this has been for you before.
- The best ways to cope with trauma, parent your inner child, and embrace your dream journey.
- Practical methods to regulate your emotions, manage your triggers, and ultimately overcome the fear of abandonment, even if you’ve struggled with this in the past!
Embark on a journey of self-discovery and healing by diving into this essential guide.
Uncover the power within you to heal, eliminate your fears, and nurture your inner child towards a brighter future. Grab A Journey to Healing Your Inner Child now!Read more
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When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. ‘A very important subject’ – ITV’s This Morning
‘An extraordinary and important book. Read it immediately’ Claudia Winkleman
‘Superbly written, this deeply moving book underlines how truly precious mother-daughter relationships are, and never more so than in those teenage years’ Gloria Hunniford
‘Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading’ Jamie Theakston
A gripping memoir of two battling narratives and a mother-daughter relationship stretched to its absolute limits.
Roxy was 13 years old when she was coerced then blackmailed into sending explicit photos, which were spread around her school. The shame led to self-loathing. The blame led to a psychotic breakdown. Roxy started hearing voices. Then she started seeing things…
What happens when your teenager starts to lose it, and then you lose each other? What happens when you can’t tell your mother you desperately need help? And how can a family move past a devastating mental health crisis?
When You Lose It is a brutally honest true story, written from two perspectives, of consent, coercion and shattering consequences.
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Mental Health and Me: Stories From Teenagers
An authentic and compelling look at mental health issues, as experienced by real-life young people
Mental Health and Me brings together seven stories of teenage struggles, from body image issues to drug abuse, as experienced by real-life teenagers. First produced as animated documentaries by the BBC, each story has unique honesty and is brought to life with sophisticated, but accessible graphic artwork.
This book will help young people to better understand mental health issues, empathise with those who are struggling and possibly even see their own experiences reflected, making them feel more supported and less alone.
The stories are supported by specialist advisory notes supplied by the UK mental health charity MIND.
The mental health issues in the book include:
Addiction
Anorexia
Anxiety
Bullying
Depression
Self-harmRead more
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It’s OK to Talk: A Practical Guide to Mental Health for Men
A supportive guide filled with actionable tips and advice to open up the conversation around men’s mental health
The most powerful thing we can do to support our mental health is to talk about it
For all of us, our mental health is just as important as our physical health – so why do we feel so ashamed to talk about it? It’s time to end the stigma and the silence around mental health, and this clear, approachable guide is here to show you how.
From tips on navigating mental-health issues to advice on reaching out to others, this book is packed with guidance on how to look out for your well-being – as well as how you can help those around you.
Topics covered include:
– Anxiety, stress and depression
– Suicidal thoughts
– Self-care and mindfulness methods
– How to open up and communicate
– Where to seek further adviceWith practical tips and valuable insights, this book will improve your awareness of mental health, offer tools and techniques to enable you to manage it better, and empower you to live a happier, healthier life.
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Karate for Mental Health
“Karate for Mental Health” by Les Bubka, a renowned Karate practitioner and pioneer in the field, is an exceptional book that delves into the transformative power of Karate in fostering mental well-being. Through a captivating blend of historical insights, personal accounts, and expert interviews, Bubka, a prominent figure in the British Karate community, paints a vivid picture of how Karate has become an invaluable tool for individuals coping with various mental health challenges.
One of the book’s strengths lies in Les Bubka’s meticulous exploration of the history of the “Karate for Mental Health” project, a movement he spearheaded with unwavering passion. With his deep knowledge of Karate and mental health, Bubka provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how this initiative originated and evolved over time. Through his pioneering work, he has tirelessly advocated for the use of Karate as a means to empower and uplift individuals facing mental health struggles.Read more
£10.40Karate for Mental Health
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Innocent Victims: A true story of abuse, mental illness and heartache
Join Mia Campbell on an extraordinary journey through her gripping memoir, Innocent Victims. From the turbulent streets of 1960s and 1970s Glasgow to her triumph over abuse, trauma, and mental illness, Mia’s story is an inspiring testament to the power of resilience and healing. This book offers solace, hope, and practical self-help strategies for women navigating mental health challenges and recovering from childhood abuse and loss.
Mia Campbell spent her childhood in one of the most deprived areas of Glasgow, notorious for its gangland culture, poverty and violence. One of seven, Mia had a chaotic childhood as her alcoholic parents moved from place to place to escape the debt collectors; she had very little schooling and was often so hungry that she’d have to raid the middens in search of sustenance. Mia tells of a life characterised by abuse, mental illness and heartache.
Experience Mia’s remarkable journey of resilience and healing in a story that the reader will find profoundly moving. Innocent Victims is a powerful memoir that will touch your heart and inspire your own path to recovery.
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The Adulting Manual: Mental health, self love, body acceptance and all the things in between
An interactive manual for when being an adult is a bit too much, featuring stickers and pull-out postcards.You know those things you’re supposed to know how to do as an adult, but you really don’t know? Ever been in that situation where you’re looking for the adult in the room, and then you realise YOU are the adult? Yeah, that. There’s adulting, then there’s adulting for the messy mind. Sometimes you just need extra maps and a GPS. This manual is for adults that sometimes need a little extra help.
From top small talk tips to use next time you’re at the hairdressers to advice on how to ask for help, this interactive journal offers a safe place for people to explore their mental health and express themselves.
Written by Milly Smith, a mental health and body acceptance advocate and public speaker. Milly uses her Instagram account @millykeepsgoing to send positive messages to her 170,000 strong following.
Milly’s wise words are accompanied by the whimsical and quirky illustrations of Katie Abey. Katie’s motivational and pun-filled illustrations have a huge appeal to adults.
Milly’s wise words are accompanied by the whimsical and quirky illustrations of Katie Abey. Katie’s motivational and pun-filled illustrations have a huge appeal to adults.Read more
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How to improve and protect your mental health: Happier Self Worth Connected Resilient
Psychologists think of your mental health as being on a continuum – at one end is mental illness, and at the other is mental health. At different times, depending on what is happening in your life, you are at different points on this continuum.
Many people sit in the middle of the continuum, neither mentally healthy nor mentally ill. The American psychologist Cory Keyes called this ‘lethargic mental health’. He also discovered that you could move along the mental health continuum to become mentally healthy, what he called having ‘flourishing mental health’.
If you have flourishing mental health, you experience far more positive emotions, feel better about yourself, feel more connected to others, and you are up to six times less likely to develop common mental disorders such as depression or anxiety than someone with languishing mental health.
This book explains how you and those closest to you can move from lethargic to flourishing mental health by introducing research-validated mentally healthy habits and skills into your daily life.
Habits such as keeping a simple gratitude diary have been found by research psychologists to be effective in increasing the number of positive emotions you experience. There are also skills you can learn, such as using the Optimistic Framework, which will positively impact your mental health.
This book is written to be both accessible to you, whilst also properly referencing the research that underpins each habit and skill.Read more
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The Art of Feeling Better: How I heal my mental health (and you can too)
‘Matilda finds the perfect way to describe those human moments nobody talks about’ – Dr Julie Smith, bestselling author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
You deserve to feel better
Sometimes it can be difficult to stay grounded through life’s challenges, and sometimes it can even be difficult to enjoy its high points. In The Art of Feeling Better, Matilda Heindow, illustrator behind the much-loved Instagram @crazyheadcomics, takes us from her first therapy visit when she was struggling to the day she woke with joy in her heart again, to reveal the techniques, tools and ways of thinking that really helped.
Complete with over 50 original illustrations, Matilda shares personal stories and down-to-earth advice to help you understand:
– How to turn that negative inner voice into a friend
– How to recognise the habits that put you on a downward spiral
– What to do with difficult feelings, so that you invite better ones inLike a hand holding yours, this beautiful, comforting book will remind you, even in your darkest moments, to treat yourself like someone worth taking care of – because you are.
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Never Let Go: How to Parent Your Child Through Mental Illness
How to help your child with mental illness through partnering, not parenting.
Never Let Go is a supportive and practical guide for parents looking after a child with a mental illness. Suzanne Alderson understands the agonising struggle of bringing a child back from the brink of suicide, having spent three years supporting her own daughter through recovery. Her method of ‘partnering, not parenting’ has now helped thousands of other parents through her charity, Parenting Mental Health.
Combining Suzanne’s honest personal experience with expert input from psychologists, this book provides parents with the methods and knowledge they need to support, shield and strengthen their child as they progress towards recovery. Chapters include a background to the mental health epidemic, why a new method of parenting is crucial, how to change your thinking about mental health and practical advice on solutions to daily problems including accepting the new normal, dealing with others, and looking after yourself as well as your child.
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Mastering Mental Health 2-in-1: Overcoming Overthinking and Anxiety – The Ultimate Guide to Calm Your Mind (The Personal Transformation Series)
Don’t let overthinking and anxiety control your life!
With this 2-in-1 book bundle, you’ll get two of Kirk Teachout’s best-selling books, “Overcoming Overthinking” and “Overcoming Anxiety”. In these comprehensive guides, Teachout provides readers with practical techniques to calm an overactive mind, conquer fears, and reduce anxiety, ultimately helping you to live a more peaceful, confident, and fulfilling life.
“Overcoming Overthinking” will help you take control of your thoughts, paving the way to mental freedom. In this insightful book, you will discover how to:
- Calm an overactive mind to keep it from overwhelming you
- Understand how your thoughts create your feelings and decide your reality
- Make decisions without getting bogged down by analysis paralysis and procrastination
- Identify triggers of overthinking and prevent them from taking over your life
- Replace overthinking tendencies with healthier habits
- Use reflection questions, action steps, exercises, and simple techniques to reduce anxiety and feel better quickly
Meanwhile, “Overcoming Anxiety” will guide you through understanding, coping with, and conquering your anxiety. The book includes:
- Practical advice to pinpoint personal anxiety triggers and deal with them effectively
- Methods to distinguish between an anxiety disorder and ordinary anxious feelings
- An exploration of the ways anxiety may be affecting your physical health
- Techniques to conquer social anxiety when therapy itself is an anxiety trigger
- A guide to anti-anxiety foods that can contribute to a worry-free diet
- A how-to guide for 30+ relaxation techniques, breathing exercises, and grounding techniques
- Daily practices that can help you to live with less anxiety
No matter how severe your overthinking and anxiety might be, this 2-in-1 book bundle provides the tools to tackle your mental health challenges head-on. This bundle is your first step towards self-mastery, personal power, courage, confidence, and charisma. Don’t let overthinking and anxiety stop you from living your best life. Your journey toward a calmer, more fulfilling, and happier life starts today!
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CBT for Young People: The Complete CBT Workbook for Kids, Children, Teens, and Adolescents: Improve Mental Health, Overcome Anxiety, Depression, Low … Anger, and Develop…
Searching for anxiety books for kids, teens, and adolescents that effectively address mental health challenges? Discover the comprehensive CBT workbook for adults to support young people in overcoming anxiety, depression, anger, low self-esteem, and more…Struggling to find the right tools to help young people manage anxiety, depression, anger, and low self-esteem? Want to make a positive impact but are overwhelmed by information and time constraints? Look no further. CBT for Young People is your go-to anxiety book for teens, kids, and adolescents. This guide will help you master the evidence-based therapy that revolutionized mental health treatment.
With 30 years of experience in teaching and therapy, author Alison Triste equips you with the knowledge and techniques needed to help children, teens, and adolescents navigate their emotions, build resilience, and improve emotional regulation for a happier future.
This extensive workbook for teens and kids will provide you with the tools and expertise you need to support the emotional well-being of young people.
You will also gain access to 100 downloadable worksheets, questionnaires, and activities designed specifically for children and teens. By reading this book, you will gain the confidence to help young people with low self-esteem and cope with uncomfortable emotions.
Inside CBT for Young People, you’ll find:
- A clear, concise introduction to CBT, cognitive behavior therapy for kids and its effectiveness in treating young people’s mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, OCD, low self-esteem, and anger.
- A step-by-step guide to applying the Cognitive Behavioural Map (CBM) for assessing and addressing children’s and teenagers’ emotional challenges, such as low self-esteem in childhood and adolescence.
- In-depth explanations of common mental health disorders like depression, anxiety, and OCD in kids, their symptoms, and evidence-based treatments.
- Hands-on strategies and techniques to help young people build emotional resilience, cope with stressors, and develop healthy emotional regulation skills.
- An emotional regulation workbook with over 100 downloadable worksheets designed to engage, educate, and empower young minds on their journey to emotional well-being.
- And much, much more!
With an incredible 425 pages, printed in vibrant color, CBT for Young People provides you with a treasure trove of invaluable information and guidance.
This extensive resource goes above and beyond, granting you access to an exclusive online portal. Here, you’ll be able to freely download and print the Cognitive Behavioural Map (CBM), assessment worksheets, and disorder-specific worksheets at your convenience.
Imagine the difference you’ll make in the lives of young people as you utilize these practical resources, all meticulously designed to help them on their path to emotional well-being. Don’t settle for less; join those dedicated to making a real, lasting impact, and embrace the transformative power of CBT for Young People.
Don’t miss this opportunity to transform the lives of kids and teenagers with the power of CBT. This mental health self-help resource also includes depression workbooks, PTSD workbooks, and anger workbooks for teens.
Get your copy of “CBT for Young People” today and start making a real difference in the emotional wellbeing of the young people you care about!
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Mood Tracking Journal: Daily Mental Health journal Notebook | For Tracking Your Mood, Sleep, Activities, Anxiety, Stress | Helps Encourage Positive Thinking
This mood tracker journal notebook lets you record how you’re feeling from day to day. Simply write about what’s happening in your life and how certain events and activities make you feel.You can use the mood tracker journal whenever you want to. The more you use it, you’ll soon be able to see a pattern of how you’re feeling and under what conditions trigger certain emotions.
Includes monthly color coded mood tracking table for identifying mood patterns overs 12 months.
Book Features:
Monthly Mood Tracking Table
- 12 Month color coded tracker for identifying mood patterns
Daily Mood Tracker Pages
- Date/Day
- Hours slept
- Energy level
- Stress Level
- Water intake
- Today I felt..
- Meals
- Remember to do…
- What contributed to negative emotions?
- Medications
- Notes/Journal entry
and more…
Book Details:
- Size: 8.5 x 11 Inch
- Premium matte finish softcover
- Printed on high-quality white paper with 243 pages
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Positive Mental Health Journal & Wellbeing Log Book: I Can And I Will Watch Me – Set Goals, Track Moods, Anxiety, Energy, Sleep & Even Log Food Intake.
A Positive Mental Health Journal & Wellbeing Log Book!
A positive and productive way to keep track of your mental health and general wellbeing. Ideal for anyone suffering from mental health conditions including – anxiety, depression, stress, bipolar and other mood related conditions.
Each journal has a repeating daily template of two 8″ x 10″ inch pages – which is undated and so can be written in as frequently or infrequently as required. On each daily entry page, you will find:
- Space to log your mood, anxiety and energy levels in the morning, afternoon and evening.
- Some simple prompts to fill out including things such as – What did you struggle with today…. what one thing could have improved today…. what was the best part of today…
- Space to set 3 goals each day.
- Space to track exercise.
- Space to log meals, snacks and water intake each day.
- End on a positive note, by sharing something you’re proud of each day.
- Plenty of space to write – two pages per day!
This type of book could be used to take to therapy sessions, or simply for personal use and self reflection. A simple way to start taking care of your mental and physical wellbeing.
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Mental Health Coloring Book: Inspirational Coloring Book for Stress Relief for People With Anxiety and Depression
PERFECT SELF-CARE GIFT FOR MENTAL HEALTHThe perfect coloring book to reach out for when you are having a tough time. Featuring comforting phrases and stress-relieving designs, color your way through difficult times with this brilliant anti-stress therapy.
Inspirational, super cute and beautiful Designs For Hours of mindfulness and relaxation!!!
What’s Inside:
- Comforting phrases designed around beautiful patterns, swirls, mandalas, flowers etc.
- Single-sided coloring pages that allow for the pages to be removed and framed.
- Large-format of size 8.5″ x 11.0″ with pages printed on bright white paper.
- Makes a great gift on any occasion.
!!!Get Your Copy And Embark On A Journey of Self-Love and Self-Care!!!
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Mental Health and Digestion: Breaking Free From Emotional Struggles through Gut Health (Harmony of Wellness Series)
Your gut has a direct and chatty hotline to your brain. However, their only topic of discussion is your health.
If you want to discover the larger-than-life machinations behind the curtains, it’s the best conversation to eavesdrop on.
You live in a biome and a biome resides in you. More specifically, helpful bacteria form a microbiome within your digestive system. Your food, drinks, and environment impact your gut tract. And the health of this tract in turn affects your temperament, mentality, and overall well-being.
Despite what popular fiction says, you use way more than 10% of your brain. In fact, with an active life and balanced diet, you can utilize up to 200%!
Your gut is synonymous with a secondary brain, which is why it’s so chummy with your headquarters!
Author D.R. Darcy is back with a brilliantly organized book that explores the intricate links between the gut’s significance in and the brain’s dominion over your life. See how refining digestion and gut health causes positive cascading effects on your body, mind, and emotions.
Inside Mental Health and Digestion, understand how to:
influence the gut-brain axis.
improve your relationship with food
address your mood and health by balancing hormones
tackle emotional and physical struggles with nutritional strategies
improve digestion to support sleep and immune functions
And a lot more!
This book also contains specific exercises guaranteed to enhance your overall health.
Get started with the right kinds of food to help reduce anxiety while boosting your health as well!
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Mental Health Nurse In Progress Please Wait – Student Planner: Mental Health Nursing Student Planner, To-Do List and Homework Organizer for Middle and … and Appreciation…
Undated Nursing Student Planner Gifts for Mental Health Nurse
Are you a nursing student that needs to organize their schedule, classes, assignments, projects, homework, life, and more? Then this student planner is perfect for you! Easily plan out your month in advance so you know what to expect, list out your assignments and due dates so you never miss a thing, plan out your projects, and use the study planner to ace your tests. Being a nursing student is no easy task, but this student planner will make your life as a nursing student manageable and productive! Start using this planner at any time since it is undated.
Student Planner Features:
- 8.5in x 11in
- 100 pages
- Undated – start using this planner at any time!
- Page for your yearly goals
- Study planner pages
- Unique nursing themed cover
- Flexible feel
- Matte cover
Study planner pages Include section of:
- Study hours
- Subjects to study
- Time table
- Topics & chapters to review
- Study plan
and More…
Crush your nursing school schedule and courses with this amazing student planner for nurses! Get yours today!
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Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. Perfect for fans of Empire of Pain and Dope Sick.
In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types have actually increased in number and severity.
Using a wealth of studies, interviews with experts, and detailed analysis, Dr James Davies argues that this is because we have fundamentally mischaracterised the problem. Rather than viewing most mental distress as an understandable reaction to wider societal problems, we have embraced a medical model which situates the problem solely within the sufferer and their brain.
Urgent and persuasive, Sedated systematically examines why this individualistic view of mental illness has been promoted by successive governments and big business – and why it is so misplaced and dangerous.Read more
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