Showing results for "Ruminations" in Psychology

Manage anxiety effectively with simple, practical, life-giving strategies to find equilibrium and focus on what you love.

Psychotherapist and spiritual counselor Nancy Colier offers the key to breaking free from the repetitive and obsessive thinking that is causing your stress, anxiety, worry, and unhappiness: Change your relationship with your thoughts. Using a powerful blend of mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), you'll learn how to surrender your thinking mind, and end repetitive thinking, rumination, and self-criticism - freeing you up to discover a life of self-compassion, presence, peace, and joy.

Rumination—obsessive thinking about an idea, situation, or choice that can interfere with normal life—is a common and destructive issue that can negatively impact romantic relationships. You may feel anxious, worried, hopeless, and frustrated, but even if you know your overthinking is a problem, it can be seriously hard to stop. In Stop Overthinking Your Relationship, certified couples therapist Alicia Muñoz draws from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness to offer an effective, four-step approach to reduce rumination and change negative thinking patterns.

Imagine waking in a hospital bed to find your frail pale arm punctured by an IV transferring fluids and nutrients into your weak, stiff body. You just had a seizure precipitated by your chronic struggle with unacknowledged eating disorders (ED). Living Full is author Danielle Sherman-Lazar's story. Filled with pop culture references, humor, and delivered with raw honesty about the escalating and dangerous behaviors of a person acting out the mental illness of ED, Living Full chronicles Danielle Sherman-Lazar's step-by-step descent into the nightmare that is full-blown ED.

On the surface, thinking is considered a good thing… but when you go overboard, you start bumping into problems. Overthinking causes your mind to get cloudy and negatively hamper your judgement. And since you spend too much time wallowing in negative thoughts and scenarios, your stress levels become elevated. This, in turn, can make it difficult for you to make sound decisions. In this master guide, Amy Williams will teach you how to stop overthinking, eliminate negative thoughts, declutter your mind, improve self-esteem, build mental toughness, and unlock your mind’s limitless potential!