21 Best Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Books
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 21 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) audiobooks below.
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The Lord Is My Courage
- By: K.J. Ramsey
- Narrator: K.J. Ramsey
- Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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4.71(493 ratings)
4.71(493 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDRead by the author. Walking through Psalm 23 phrase by phrase, therapist and author K.J. Ramsey explores the landscape of our fear, trauma, and faith. When she stepped through her own wilderness of spiritual abuse and religious trauma, K.J.Read by the author.
Walking through Psalm 23 phrase by phrase, therapist and author K.J. Ramsey explores the landscape of our fear, trauma, and faith. When she stepped through her own wilderness of spiritual abuse and religious trauma, K.J. discovered that courage is not the absence of anxiety but the practice of trusting we will be held and loved no matter what.
How can we cultivate courage when fear overshadows our lives? How do we hear the Voice of Love when hate and harm shout loud? This book offers an honest path to finding that there is still a Good Shepherd who is always following you. Braiding contemplative storytelling, theological reflection, and practical neuroscience, Ramsey reveals a route into connection and joy that begins right where you are.
The Lord is My Courage is for the deconstructing and the dreamers, the afraid and the amazed, for those whose fear has not been fully shepherded but who can’t seem to stop listening for their Good Shepherd’s Voice.
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Invisible Storm
- By: Jason Kander
- Narrator: Jason Kander
- Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 05, 2022
- Language: English
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4.57(1377 ratings)
4.57(1377 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USD“A truly special book. This combination of honesty, thoughtfulness, urgency, and vulnerability is not common in leaders, and Jason demonstrates boundless occupancy of all of these traits.” – Wes Moore, New York“A truly special book. This combination of honesty, thoughtfulness, urgency, and vulnerability is not common in leaders, and Jason demonstrates boundless occupancy of all of these traits.” – Wes Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore
From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kander comes a haunting, powerful memoir about impossible choices—and how sometimes walking away from the chance of a lifetime can be the greatest decision of all.
In 2017, President Obama, in his final Oval Office interview, was asked who gave him hope for the future of the country, and Jason Kander was the first name he mentioned. Suddenly, Jason was a national figure. As observers assumed he was preparing a run for the presidency, Jason announced a bid for mayor of Kansas City instead and was headed for a landslide victory. But after eleven years battling PTSD from his service in Afghanistan, Jason was seized by depression and suicidal thoughts. He dropped out of the mayor’s race and out of public life. And finally, he sought help.
In this brutally honest second memoir, following his New York Times best-selling debut Outside the Wire, Jason Kander has written the book he himself needed in the most painful moments of his PTSD. In candid, in-the-moment detail, we see him struggle with undiagnosed illness during a presidential bid; witness his family buoy him through challenging treatment; and, giving hope to so many of us, see him heal.
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The Little Book of Self-Soothing
- By: Robin Raven
- Narrator: Robin Raven
- Length: 3 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.5(8 ratings)
4.5(8 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDRegulate your emotions, defuse your triggers, control your thoughts, and find your calm no matter where you are using the practical and proven self-soothing activities in The Little Book of Self-Soothing.Stressful experiences are an unfortunate andRegulate your emotions, defuse your triggers, control your thoughts, and find your calm no matter where you are using the practical and proven self-soothing activities in The Little Book of Self-Soothing.
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Stressful experiences are an unfortunate and unavoidable part of everyday life. While you can’t always predict, control, or eliminate triggering events, you can limit the impact these events have on your emotions and state of mind by practicing self-soothing.
In The Little Book of Self-Soothing, you’ll find 150 self-soothing activities that immediately help you manage your emotions and reduce feelings of distress or anxiety. The practical and proven techniques will help you find peace in the moment and stop negative feelings from taking control of your emotions. Some of the activities include:
-Wrap Yourself in Warmth
-Reimagine Judgmental Thoughts
-Breathe to Your Belly
-Hold Your Heart While Humming
-Savor the Spices
With The Little Book of Self-Soothing you can regulate all your emotions, control your thoughts, defuse your triggers, and find your calm no matter where you are. -
Trauma and Recovery
- By: Judith Lewis Herman
- Narrator: Alison Mathews
- Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 10, 2019
- Language: English
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4.37(10915 ratings)
4.37(10915 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThe groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score)Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placingThe groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score)
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Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war.
This edition includes a new epilogue by the author assessing what has–and hasn’t–changed in understanding and treating trauma over the last three decades.
Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud,” Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we heal. -
Beautifully Broken
- By: Paige Wetzel
- Narrator: Christine Lakin
- Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 13, 2020
- Language: English
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4.37(38 ratings)
4.37(38 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDRestore your faith in love and family with one Army wife’s courageous story of how she helped her husband recuperate from losing both of his legs while serving in Afghanistan.Paige received the phone call that every military wife prays willRestore your faith in love and family with one Army wife’s courageous story of how she helped her husband recuperate from losing both of his legs while serving in Afghanistan.
Paige received the phone call that every military wife prays will never come. Her husband, Army Sergeant Josh Wetzel, stepped on an improvised explosive device while patrolling in Afghanistan. The blast resulted in the immediate loss of his legs. His survival was uncertain, and in the days to come, this traumatic incident began an unbelievable journey of faith for them as a couple.Paige’s vulnerability as she struggles physically, emotionally, and spiritually, will remind you of the power of commitment and love in the face of adversity. You will discover the bravery and grit of a woman who stood behind the battle lines but faced a battle of her own to save her marriage and her family. As a military wife, Paige had to come to terms with the priorities of the military: God, Country, and then Family.... Read more -
Credible
- By: Deborah Tuerkheimer
- Narrator: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 05, 2021
- Language: English
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4.36(240 ratings)
4.36(240 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence examines why we are primed to disbelieve allegations of sexual abuse–and how we can transform a culture and a legal system structured to dismissIn this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence examines why we are primed to disbelieve allegations of sexual abuse–and how we can transform a culture and a legal system structured to dismiss accusers
Sexual misconduct accusations spark competing claims: her word against his. How do we decide who is telling the truth? The answer comes down to credibility. But as this eye-opening book reveals, invisible forces warp the credibility judgments of even the well- intentioned among us. We are all shaped by a set of false assumptions and hidden biases embedded in our culture, our legal system, and our psyches.
In Credible, Deborah Tuerkheimer provides a much-needed framework to explain how we perceive credibility, why our perceptions are distorted, and why these distortions harm survivors. Social hierarchies and inequalities foster doubt that is commonplace and predictable, resulting in what Tuerkheimer calls the “credibility discount”–our dismissal of claims by certain kinds of speakers–primarily women, and especially those who are more marginalized.
The #MeToo movement has exposed how victims have been badly served by a system that is designed not to protect them, but instead to protect the status quo. Credibility lies at the heart of this system. Drawing on case studies, moving first-hand accounts, science, and the law, Tuerkheimer identifies widespread patterns and their causes, analyzes the role of power, and examines the close, reciprocal relationship between culture and law–guiding us toward accurate credibility judgments and equitable treatment of those whose suffering has long been disregarded.
#MeToo has touched off a massive reckoning. To achieve lasting progress, we must shift our approach to belief. Credible helps us forge a path forward to ensuring justice for the countless individuals affected by sexual misconduct.
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Perfectly Wounded
- By: Mike Day
- Narrator: Mike Day
- Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 07, 2020
- Language: English
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4.33(3 ratings)
4.33(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDThe incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot twenty-seven times while deployed in Iraq.On the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq’s Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day, his team of Navy SEALs, and a group ofThe incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot twenty-seven times while deployed in Iraq.... Read moreOn the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq’s Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day, his team of Navy SEALs, and a group of Iraqi scouts were on the hunt for a high-level al Qaeda cell. Day was the first to enter a 12×12 room where four terrorist leaders were waiting in ambush. When the gunfight was over, he took out all four terrorists in the room, but not before being shot twenty-seven times and hit with grenade shrapnel. Miraculously, Day cleared the rest of the house and rescued six women and children before walking out on his own to an awaiting helicopter, which flew him to safety.While in the hospital, the Navy SEAL lost fifty-five pounds in two weeks. It took almost two years for Day to physically recover from his injuries, although he still deals with pain. Like so many veterans, doctors diagnosed Day with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury — the invisible wounds of war.Perfectly Wounded is the remarkable story of an American hero whose incredible survival defies explanation, and whose blessed life of service continues in the face of unimaginable odds. -
Every Memory Deserves Respect
- By: Michael Baldwin
- Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 25, 2021
- Language: English
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4.33(112 ratings)
4.33(112 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDAn introduction to EMDR, a proven trauma therapy with the power to heal, cowritten by a world-renowned therapist and a patient who experienced transformative relief through EMDR therapy. Trauma is a part of life. You or someone you care about hasAn introduction to EMDR, a proven trauma therapy with the power to heal, cowritten by a world-renowned therapist and a patient who experienced transformative relief through EMDR therapy.
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Trauma is a part of life.
You or someone you care about has probably experienced trauma, whether “big-T” trauma, such as emotional, physical, or sexual abuse or the more common but no less significant “little-t” trauma that can result from divorce, job loss, painful childhood experiences, or any situation where you felt worthless, afraid, or powerless. Untreated trauma can lead to long lasting effects such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and difficulties maintaining intimate relationships.
But the good news is that we can heal–and it doesn’t have to take a lifetime. EMDR (which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a unique type of psychotherapy proven to help people recover from trauma and improve the quality of their lives.
Cowritten by a patient who experienced transformative relief from trauma through EMDR therapy, and a world-renowned psychologist who explains exactly how and why EMDR works, Every Memory Deserves Respect provides clear information while offering inspiration and hope.
Through compelling science and personal stories we learn how trauma is stored in the brain and body, continuing to cause pain and suffering, and how EMDR frees us by repatterning our thinking and emotional reactions. It explains why talk therapy has only a limited impact on trauma recovery, describes what to expect from gentle and targeted EMDR therapy, and offers guidance on how to find a therapist who is just right for you. -
The Theater of War
- By: Bryan Doerries
- Narrator: Adam Driver
- Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.32(714 ratings)
4.32(714 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThis compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author’s celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition. For years, Bryan DoerriesThis compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author’s celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition.
For years, Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient tragedies for current and returned servicemen and women, addicts, tornado and hurricane victims, and a wide range of other at-risk people in society. Here, drawing on these extraordinary firsthand experiences, Doerries clearly and powerfully illustrates the redemptive and therapeutic potential of this classical, timeless art: how, for example, Ajax can help soldiers and their loved ones grapple with PTSD, or how Prometheus Bound provides insights into the modern penal system. Doerries is an original and magnanimous thinker, and The Theater of War–wholly unsentimental but intensely felt and emotionally engaging–is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will inspire and inform listeners, showing them that suffering and healing are both part of a timeless process.
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Emotional Inheritance
- By: Galit Atlas
- Narrator: Galit Atlas
- Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 25, 2022
- Language: English
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4.26(1406 ratings)
4.26(1406 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDAward-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients’ stories–and her own life experiences–to shed light on how generational trauma affects our lives in this “intimate, textured, compassionate” book (JonAward-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients’ stories–and her own life experiences–to shed light on how generational trauma affects our lives in this “intimate, textured, compassionate” book (Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of Mindfulness).
The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don’t always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living to our full potential, create gaps between what we want for ourselves and what we are able to have, and haunt us like ghosts.
In this transformative book, Galit Atlas entwines the stories of her patients, her own stories, and decades of research to help us identify the links between our life struggles and the “emotional inheritance” we all carry. For it is only by following the traces those ghosts leave that we can truly change our destiny. ... Read more -
Call of the Wild
- By: Kimberly Ann Johnson
- Narrator: Kimberly Ann Johnson
- Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 13, 2021
- Language: English
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4.19(340 ratings)
4.19(340 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDFrom trauma educator and somatic guide Kimberly Ann Johnson comes a cutting-edge guide for tapping into the wisdom and resilience of the body to rewire the nervous system, heal from trauma, and live fully. In an increasingly polarized world whereFrom trauma educator and somatic guide Kimberly Ann Johnson comes a cutting-edge guide for tapping into the wisdom and resilience of the body to rewire the nervous system, heal from trauma, and live fully.
In an increasingly polarized world where trauma is often publicly renegotiated, our nervous systems are on high alert. From skyrocketing rates of depression and anxiety to physical illnesses such as autoimmune diseases and digestive disorders, many women today find themselves living out of alignment with their bodies.
Kimberly Johnson is a somatic practitioner, birth doula, and postpartum educator who specializes in helping women recover from all forms of trauma. In her work, she’s seen the same themes play out time and again. In a culture that prioritizes executive function and “mind over matter,” many women are suffering from deeply unresolved pain that causes mental and physical stagnation and illness.
In Call of the Wild, Johnson offers an eye-opening look at this epidemic as well as an informative view of the human nervous system and how it responds to difficult events. From the “small t” traumas of getting ghosted, experiencing a fall-out with a close friend, or swerving to avoid a car accident to the “capital T” traumas of sexual assault, an upending natural disaster, or a life-threatening illness–Johnson explains how the nervous system both protects us from immediate harm and creates reverberations that ripple through a lifetime.
In this practical, empowering guide, Johnson shows readers how to metabolize these nervous system responses, allowing everyone to come home to their deepest, most intuitive and whole selves. Following her supportive advice, readers will learn how to move from wholeness, tapping into the innate wisdom of their senses, soothing frayed nerves and reconnecting with their “animal selves.”
While we cannot cure the painful cultural rifts inflicting our society, there is a path forward–through our bodies.
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Odysseus in America
- By: Jonathan Shay
- Narrator: David Strathairn
- Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.18(389 ratings)
4.18(389 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDIn this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier’s homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.Seamlessly combining importantIn this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier’s homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.
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Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation with an impassioned plea to renovate American military institutions, Shay deepens our understanding of both the combat veteran’s experience and one of the world’s greatest classics. -
The Joy of Saying No
- By: Natalie Lue
- Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Harper Horizon
- Publish date: January 10, 2023
- Language: English
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4.05(37 ratings)
4.05(37 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDRead by the author. Are you still playing a role you learned in childhood to please others, such as the Good Girl/Boy, the Overachiever, or the Helper? Though these kinds of roles may have gained us attention and affection, they prohibited us fromRead by the author.
Are you still playing a role you learned in childhood to please others, such as the Good Girl/Boy, the Overachiever, or the Helper? Though these kinds of roles may have gained us attention and affection, they prohibited us from becoming our true selves.
People-pleasing–putting others ahead of ourselves to avoid something negative or to get something we want or need–runs rampant in our society. Saying yes when we should say no leaves us stuck in frustrating patterns. And when we don‚Äôt say yes authentically, we say it resentfully, which leads to more problems than if we’d said no in the first place.
The Joy of Saying No will help you identify your people-pleasing style and habits. A six-step framework then teaches you how to discover the healing and transformative power of no to
- establish healthier boundaries,
- foster more intimate relationships and fulfilling experiences, and
- reconnect with your values and authentic self.
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Mental Fitness
- By: Paul Wood
- Narrator: Christopher Brown
- Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 30, 2022
- Language: English
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4.03(57 ratings)
4.03(57 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDThe bestselling author of How to Escape from Prison, prisoner-turned-psychologist Paul Wood on developing the mental strength and fitness to take on all of life’s challenges Getting and staying mentally fit, just like getting and maintainingThe bestselling author of How to Escape from Prison, prisoner-turned-psychologist Paul Wood on developing the mental strength and fitness to take on all of life’s challenges
Getting and staying mentally fit, just like getting and maintaining a high level of physical fitness, involves hard work, effort, and consistency. Our level of mental fitness determines how effectively we can flourish through adversity, realise our potential, and be happier with our lives – regardless of what the universe has in store.
We all know about mental stress (or we think we do). We’ve definitely all experienced it, and none of us like it. Yet this is not a threat to be avoided. Mental stress is perfectly analogous to physical stress: it is the mind’s way of telling us that what we are attempting to perform is challenging our resource. This is a catalyst for growth, and a sign we are pursuing our potential. When we experience stress, we have a choice: we can heed that signal and give up – after all, we’re meant to stay in our psychic comfort zone all the time, right? Or we can recognise the discomfort we are feeling is simply nature’s way of enabling us to rise to the occasion.
In Mental Fitness you will learn how to:
- Increase your mental fitness, just as you would increase your physical fitness
- Get closer to your potential by working proactively to maintain your mental fitness
- Experience the right level of stress (this is what makes us get fitter)
- Cope effectively for longer before you get fatigued or exhausted (it doesn’t mean you don’t feel the struggle)
- Pay attention to the indicators of fatigue to avoid burnout and unnecessary misery
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Women
- By: Carole Brody Fleet
- Narrator: Christa Lewis
- Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 08, 2016
- Language: English
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4(7 ratings)
4(7 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDReal-life stories and practical advice on life-altering topics are shared by women from all walks of life New York Times best-selling author and CBS News contributor Lee Woodruff tells the story of how her husband Bob Woodruff (ABC NewsReal-life stories and practical advice on life-altering topics are shared by women from all walks of life New York Times best-selling author and CBS News contributor Lee Woodruff tells the story of how her husband Bob Woodruff (ABC News correspondent) nearly died as the result of a roadside bombing in Iraq. Kristen Moeller of Tiny House Nation on A&E describes the devastating wildfire that destroyed her home and how she overcame losing literally everything. No matter the trauma or challenge situation and in her inimitable style beloved by millions, Carole Brody Fleet ensures that readers are well-equipped with the tools and techniques to thrive after any tragedy — with a hopeful heart and peaceful mind intact.
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The Anatomy of Anxiety
- By: Ellen Vora
- Narrator: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 15, 2022
- Language: English
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3.89(897 ratings)
3.89(897 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDFrom acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora comes a groundbreaking understanding of how anxiety manifests in the body and mind–and what we can do to overcome it. Anxiety affects more than forty million Americans–a number that continues toFrom acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora comes a groundbreaking understanding of how anxiety manifests in the body and mind–and what we can do to overcome it.
Anxiety affects more than forty million Americans–a number that continues to climb in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While conventional medicine tends to view anxiety as a “neck-up” problem–that is, one of brain chemistry and psychology–the truth is that the origins of anxiety are rooted in the body.
In The Anatomy of Anxiety, holistic psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora offers nothing less than a paradigm shift in our understanding of anxiety and mental health, suggesting that anxiety is not simply a brain disorder but a whole-body condition. In her clinical work, Dr. Vora has found time and again that the symptoms of anxiety can often be traced to imbalances in the body. The emotional and physical discomfort we experience–sleeplessness, brain fog, stomach pain, jitters–is a result of the body’s stress response. This physiological state can be triggered by challenging experiences as well as seemingly innocuous factors, such as diet and use of technology.
The good news is that this body-based anxiety, or, as Dr. Vora terms it, “false anxiety,” is easily treated. Once the body’s needs are addressed, Dr. Vora reframes any remaining symptoms not as a disorder but rather as an urgent plea from within. This “true anxiety” is a signal that something else is out of balance–in our lives, in our relationships, in the world. True anxiety serves as our inner compass, helping us recalibrate when we’re feeling lost.
Practical, informative, and deeply hopeful, The Anatomy of Anxiety is the first book to fully explain the origins of anxiety and offer a detailed road map for healing and growth.
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The Myth of Closure
- By: Pauline Boss
- Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.81(268 ratings)
3.81(268 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDHow do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved? The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this audiobook, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings ofHow do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?
The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this audiobook, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as caused by ambiguous loss, losses that remain unclear and hard to pin down, and thus have no closure. Collectively the world is grieving as the pandemic continues to change our everyday lives.
With a loss of trust in the world as a safe place, a loss of certainty about health care, education, and employment, lingering anxieties plague many of us, even as parts of the world are opening back up again. Yet after so much loss, our search must be for a sense of meaning, and not something as elusive and impossible as “closure.”
This book provides many strategies for coping: encouraging us to increase our tolerance of ambiguity and acknowledging our resilience as we express a normal grief, and still look to the future with hope and possibility.
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Keep Pain in the Past
- By: Chris Cortman
- Narrator: Jack de Golia
- Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.8(65 ratings)
3.8(65 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDHeal psychological wounds on your own Move on from the emotional trauma of your past: Contrary to what many people believe, we can recover from emotional trauma relatively quickly and completely on our own, without thousands of dollars spent onHeal psychological wounds on your own
Move on from the emotional trauma of your past: Contrary to what many people believe, we can recover from emotional trauma relatively quickly and completely on our own, without thousands of dollars spent on therapists. Whether it’s extreme trauma such as sexual abuse or the horrors of war, or less dramatic but, psychologically speaking, just as serious wounds involving shame and guilt, we don’t need to spend years in intensive therapy to recover. Keep Pain in the Past explains a process that allows you to do most, if not all, of the recovery on your own.
Train yourself in psychological self-healing: While most people know what they can do on their own to treat physical ills–like using ice on a muscle sprain–they don’t realize that they can apply certain psychological principles to treat anxiety, depression, and many other conditions. Keep Pain in the Past will teach you the critical twenty-first century skill of treating psychological wounds on your own.
Treat yourself and heal old wounds: As much as people may suspect that some trauma from their past is affecting them negatively, they struggle to do anything about it. They take refuge in denial, avoidance, or addictions rather than grapple with that long-ago emotional pain–because honestly, surfacing that pain hurts. Keep Pain in the Past will help you identify and face this pain and find closure on your own. Use Dr. Chris Cortman’s easy-to-master method to remember, feel, express, release, and reframe the trauma that has been haunting you for years.
Learn from the success of others: Follow their example in healing yourself. Discover how Sheri, a thirty-seven-year-old attorney, recovered from panic attacks that seemed to come out of nowhere. Follow the journey of Mark, a twenty-nine-year-old army veteran who experienced the horror of war in Afghanistan, as he healed from the downward spiral that had caused him to lose his job and become increasingly uncommunicative with his family. Explore how Melinda, a forty-two-year-old professor who struggled to sustain a romantic relationship, confronted her torturous childhood and has now found love that is still going strong after three years.
Keep Pain in the Past achieves what conventional therapy does not. After reading this book, you will be able to:
Confront the emotional baggage of your pastReach closure by completing the eventDiscover a life unhaunted by the trauma of your past
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The Only Girl in the World
- By: Maude Julien
- Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 08, 2019
- Language: English
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3.75(5371 ratings)
3.75(5371 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0030.98 USDFor readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman’s rise above an unimaginable childhood. Maude Julien’s parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimateFor readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman’s rise above an unimaginable childhood.
Maude Julien’s parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor–raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to “eliminate weakness.” Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment.But Maude’s parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family’s paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity.
By turns horrifying and magical, The Only Girl in the World is a story that will grip you from the first minute and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.... Read more -
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story
- By: Barbara Leaming
- Narrator: Eliza Foss
- Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 28, 2014
- Language: English
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3.73(735 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThe untold story of how one woman’s life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma. Barbara Leaming’s extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’The untold story of how one woman’s life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma.
Barbara Leaming’s extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ brutal, lonely and valiant thirty-one year struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that followed JFK’s assassination.
Here is the woman as she has never been seen before. In heartrending detail, we witness a struggle that unfolded at times before our own eyes, but which we failed to understand.
Leaming’s biography also makes clear the pattern of Jackie’s life as a whole. We see how a spirited young woman’s rejection of a predictable life led her to John F. Kennedy and the White House, how she sought to reconcile the conflicts of her marriage and the role she was to play, and how the trauma of her husband’s murder which left her soaked in his blood and brains led her to seek a very different kind of life from the one she’d previously sought.
A life story that has been scrutinized countless times, seen here for the first time as the serious and important story that it is. A story for our times at a moment when we as a nation need more than ever to understand the impact of trauma.
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End Anxiety!
- By: James G. Meade
- Narrator: Jeffrey Hedquist
- Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDCurrent events these days are fraught with political animosity, global pandemic, warfare, gun violence, and economic insecurity. The troubling times that we live in leave us uncertain where we stand and in what direction we are going. It is withCurrent events these days are fraught with political animosity, global pandemic, warfare, gun violence, and economic insecurity. The troubling times that we live in leave us uncertain where we stand and in what direction we are going.
It is with good reason that anxiety levels have peaked and the affliction has extended to almost every segment of society–whether we like to admit it or not. We may not be able to change the world, but this book by James G. Meade, PhD, shows us how we can help ourselves.
The problem is real, so what can we do about it? In End Anxiety!, James Meade offers an instant and lasting solution–the Transcendental Meditation(r) program, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
This may at first seem like a novel approach to the issue, but studies of the effects of Transcendental Meditation(r) on the mental states of its practitioners have been ongoing for over fifty years, and the findings are conclusive: Transcendental Meditation can have a real and powerful positive impact on our mental health, especially in terms of mitigating anxiety, stress, and depression.
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