Tag archives for mental health
Book Blast! Beyond The Blue
Does any of this sound familiar? · Depression snarls at you like a beast · Anxiety burns through the pit of your stomach like a fireball · You are constantly angry and in conflict with people around you · You drag the weight of a ten-ton trauma Without the right help, any one of…
Book Blast! Why We Argue and How to Stop
Why We Argue and How to Stop: A Therapist’s Guide to Navigating Disagreements, Managing Emotions, and Creating Healthier Relationships You don’t have to go to every argument you’re invited all argue, but understanding why can help you avoid some of those foot-in-your-mouth moments where you say something you know you’ll…
Book Blast! Summits of Self: The Seven Peaks of Personal Growth
Some mountains we face in life are outside of us, towering before us like seemingly impassible roadblocks, yet some mountains are also inside of us. This book is about embracing and working through the challenges within ourselves to move towards a state of psychological wellbeing. Speaker, author and mountaineer Alan Mallory,…
Book Blast! Marathon Man – 35 marathons in 35 days
Irish Runner Magazine - ‘A must-read for 2022.’ Dean Karnazes (New York Times best-selling author and ultra-distance runner) - ‘An intimate and uplifting story of grit, tenacity and healing and one that is sure to stir the soul.’ Marathon Man MARATHON MAN is an uplifting story of an extraordinary achievement – all the…
Book Blast! Home Boys
“Home Boys” is the poignant and humorous story of a beginning career psychologist learning diagnosis and treatment, and discovering ways to connect with troubled teens -- manipulative Timothy, jokester Enrique, wanna-be gangster Antonio, and many more. In the year 2000, Seth C. Kadish began work at Cal Home, a group…
The Selfless Act Of Breathing – A sensitive yet powerful story
'Possessed by a daring turn of phrase and at times a beautifully powerful sense of personal Should be pushed into the hands of friends accompanied by the question: do you feel this too?' -Big Issue A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting over. (more…)
Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“Hilarious, relatable, exasperating, and endearing. For all readers of fiction.” —Library Journal This hilarious and profound debut for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, follows a morbidly anxious young woman—“the kindhearted heroine we all need right now” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author)—who stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic…
Psycho-logical – Why mental health goes wrong
An expertly written, extremely accessible primer on mental health from the bestselling author of The Idiot Brain. One in four people experience a mental health problem each year, with depression and anxiety alone afflicting over 500 million people. Why are these conditions so widespread? What is it about modern life that…
Gill Mann reflects on the joys and difficulties of raising a son with schizophrenia
‘You are a song inside me now, a melody that stirs and bursts into life when I think of you.’ This is a story about love. In her heart-breaking, thought-provoking, and ultimately uplifting memoir, Gill remembers life with her son, Sam, a boy and young man who enchanted and infuriated…