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Bloomsbury presents The Power of Self-Healing: Take action over your trauma, written and read by Dr Sarah Woodhouse Empowering and important – this fascinating book will forever change how you approach trauma healing – Julia Samuel MBE, psychotherapist and author Take back control in this...

Almost 10 years after learning that her son is autistic, Julie Green was also diagnosed, shedding light on a lifetime of feeling othered and misunderstood. Motherness traces Julie's journey from childhood to early motherhood, when she must advocate for her son while navigating her own struggles. With more girls and women being diagnosed in the last decade—many of them later in life—the face of autism is changing. Motherness provides a rich, intensely personal account of what it is like to be autistic through the lens of both a mother and child.

On February 29, 2000, John Price took out a restraining order against his girlfriend, Katherine Knight. Later that day, he told his coworkers she had stabbed him and that if he were ever to go missing, it was because Knight had killed him. The next day, Price didn’t show up for work. A coworker was sent to check on him. They found a bloody handprint by the front door, and they immediately contacted the police. The local police force was not prepared for the chilling scene they were about to encounter.

There is an undeniable mental health crisis on campuses these days. More students are anxious, depressed, drinking, and self-harming than ever before. The statistics are startling: 50% of mental health issues begin by age fourteen, 75% by age twenty-four, while suicide is the second leading cause of death among young adults. And yet even while more students are struggling, more students than ever are breaking through stigma, seeking help, and sharing openly in person and social media about their challenges.

For generations, society has measured intelligence and worth by a narrow, one-size-fits-all standard, leaving countless brilliant, unconventional minds overlooked and underestimated. Green Capes challenges that story. Drawing on cutting-edge research in positive psychology, this groundbreaking guide reveals how neurodivergent and cognitively challenged individuals can tap into their unique strengths, build resilience, and live deeply fulfilling lives—without conforming to someone else’s definition of “normal.”

"What if the suffering that we call depression contains experiences and lessons without which we cannot be fully alive?" This is one of the many startling questions that Giving Up Without Giving Up invites us to ask ourselves. Depression seems to be a contemporary epidemic, a condition understandably feared and avoided by all. Yet this book explores the possibility that we have much to learn from the desert times in our lives, when it feels as though we are losing everything, most of all any sense of who we are.

A guide to talk to your kids about tough, existential topics like climate change, war, pandemics, and more, in order to create a healthy home, and process your emotions so that you can take meaningful action. Everyone—especially young children, teenagers and young adults—now reports higher...

In Heal Your Daughter: How Lifestyle Psychiatry Can Save Her from Depression, Cutting, and Suicidal Thoughts, Green delineates a new branch of psychiatry, Lifestyle Psychiatry, and details how this new field can help parents to help their daughters to heal from depression and related problems. From this book, listeners will learn what steps they can take to help their daughters to reshape their daily habits so that, in turn, they can reclaim the foundations of their physical and mental health.

Read by the authors. Realizing how little control we have over our lives can make us fearful and anxious--or it can lead to greater intimacy with God, a richer prayer life, and a joyful eternal perspective. Seasons of grief, pain, and loss of control are inevitable. Despite our best efforts and...

Bloomsbury presents Time to Breathe by Bill Mitchell, read by Bill Mitchell and Stephanie Racine. Ever feel like you’re so busy and stressed that you forget to breathe? Right now life has never seemed more overwhelming. The COVID pandemic, working from home and lockdowns have turned our...

25 unflinching stories and essays from the front lines of the radical mental health movement Overmedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy, involuntary hospitalization, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are the struggles of those labeled...

Bloomsbury presents The Burnout Doctor: Your 6-step recovery plan by Dr Claire Ashley, read by Nathalie Buscombe ‘A must-have guide’ – Dr Hazel Wallace, founder of The Food Medic Learn how to thrive at work while protecting your health. If you find yourself feeling increasingly overwhelmed...

Bloomsbury presents The Long Covid Self-Help Guide by Specialists from The Post-Covid Clinic, Oxford, read by Gavin Osborn. The first practical, accessible self-help guide to managing symptoms of Long Covid. More than 1 million people suffer from Long Covid in the UK (with 400,000 people...

5-Minute Anxiety Reset is a power-packed guide distilled from thousands of hours of data mining and dozens of peer-reviewed studies. Inside, you’ll discover five science-backed micro-resets—from 30-second diaphragm locks and one-minute humming hacks to ice-pack facial immersion and ear-massage—that drop your heart rate, boost vagal tone, and knock out panic in under five minutes.

An unseen industry profits every time your pulse spikes. News alerts, open office plans, and endless social feeds keep your nervous system locked in fight-or-flight while telling you it is just modern life. Anxiety rates climb year after year and most people either medicate the symptoms or try to power through. Neither path works for long.