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The challenges smart and creative people encounter - from scientific researchers, genius award winners, to bestselling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered lawyers and academics - often include anxiety, over-thinking, mania, sadness and despair. Specifically, the challenges that smart people face, including: · "racing brain syndrome" · living in an anti-intellectual culture · finding ideas worth loving · dealing with boredom and hypersensitivity · finding meaning in their lives and their work · struggling to achieve success In WHY SMART PEOPLE HURT, psychologist Dr. Eric Maisel draws on his many years of work with the best and the brightest to pinpoint these often devastating challenges and offer solutions based on the groundbreaking principles and practices of natural psychology. His thoughtful strategies include using logic and creativity to cope with the problems of having a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hat. With a series of questions at the end of each chapter, he guides the reader to create his or her own roadmap to a calm and meaningful life. WHY SMART PEOPLE HURT is a must-read for parents of gifted children as well as the millions of smart and creative people that are searching for a more meaningful life.

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Get the Inside Scoop on Teenage PsychologyOur teens are our future so it’s only right that we invest in understanding them! This guide book provides solutions to improve teenage issues and interpersonal communication. Helpful guide to understanding teenage psychology. In Why Smart Teens Hurt, Dr. Eric Maisel, best-selling author of Why Smart People Hurt, and one of the world’s leading experts on the issues of childhood, shares a unique exploration of the teen problems adolescents face. Maisel guides us on what it’s like to inhabit the racing, often troubled realm of teenage psychology, and he provides powerful strategies to help parents and smart teens alike.Healthy ways to address teenage issues. Teen parenting books usually look at teenagers as objects. But Why Smart Teens Hurt empowers parents to be empathetic towards their teens while also understanding the struggles of adolescence and teenage behavior. Parents will gain a new level of understanding and a new appreciation of their smart teen’s reality.Inside, you’ll find: A comprehensive breakdown of teenage psychology Strategies and solutions to help your smart teen reach their full potential A uniquely crafted reading experience for both parents and teens If you liked books such as Smart but Scattered Teens, Focus and Thrive, or Scattered to Focused, you’ll love Why Smart Teens Hurt.

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Release the Generational Trauma of Shame“Karen is the wise voice you want whispering in your ear when shame knocks on your door, reminding you that you are so much more than your relationship with your mother.” —Maggie Reyes, master certified marriage coach & bestselling author of The Questions for Couples Journal#1 New Release in Adult Children of Alcoholics and Parent & Adult Child RelationshipsWhat is your relationship to shame? How can you overcome it and live an intentional life of vulnerability? You Are Not Your Mother guides readers on how to see shame, and live separately from it. Shift away from shame and turn to radical forgiveness. Grow your internal self acceptance and resilience with this guide for women. Packed with meditative prompts to help you explore your relationship to shame. You are Not Your Mother caters to your inner desires to be seen, heard, and known. The toxic generational trauma and unhealthy relationships stop with you!Explore your personal roots to shame with an expert. As a top authority on recovering from growing up in toxic families, Karen C.L. Anderson walks you through her shame story, her relationship with her narcissistic mother, and the simple practices she has developed to alleviate guilt from unhealthy relationships. Author of bestselling Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters with over 150,000 copies sold, Karen offers tools to process, understand and move beyond childhood trauma so you can not only survive, but thrive.Inside, you’ll find: Karen’s story on dealing with a narcissistic mother and how she overcame her shame Journal prompts, mind-body practices, and simple exercises to release shame and toxic habits A guide on how to finally identify shame, and how to embrace living free from it If you enjoy therapy books and content on emotion management, then this book is for you! If you liked I’m Glad My Mom Died, Mother Hunger, or Uprooting Shame And Guilt, you’ll love You Are Not Your Mother.

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Journaling Techniques for Growing, Healing, and Creativity “When Lynda [Monk] talks about her own journaling practice, a spirit of flexibility infuses her approach.”—Rebecca Kochenderfer, Journaling.com#1 Best Seller in Writing Skills Writing GuidesThe Great Book of Journaling provides calming tools for quelling worry and anxiety from psychotherapist Eric Maisel. As well as expert writing tips from Lynda Monk, Director of the International Association for Journal Writing.Journal Writing for High Self-Esteem. This is the next-generation book on journaling techniques that introduces a younger generation to the immense benefits of journaling and provides all journal writers with the tools they need to grow, heal, and deepen their personal writing experience.Utilize Therapeutic Writing. Journal writing can promote individual healing, creativity, and community-building. The Great Book of Journaling offers multiple perspectives on journaling techniques in an easy-to-use, practical format, along with providing a comprehensive introduction to various techniques and methods for deepening your personal writing. Learn from the Best. We’ve rounded up 40 of the top journal experts in the world to explain exactly what journal writing can do for you! The Great Book of Journaling is full of practical tips, evidence-based research, and rich anecdotes from their coaching, teaching, therapy work with journal writers, or their personal journal writing. The Great Book of Journaling can help: Create high self-esteem, self-love, and self-confidence Improve your health and your sense of wellbeing Calm your worry and anxiety Serve your creative needs Deepen your personal writing Readers of books on journal writing such as Mindfulness Journal, The Self-Discovery Journal, or No Worries will love The Great Book of Journaling.

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Change Not Only What You Think—But How You Think2021 INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist!#1 Best Seller in Creativity Self-HelpExperience a complete mental fitness and cognitive change program through simple visualization exercises. Eric Maisel, PhD. guides you through techniques that change not only what you think—but how you think.Your mind is yours to redesign, redecorate and create! The idea that you are what you think has concerned philosophers from Marcus Aurelius to the Buddha. Today, this age-old message is delivered via cognitive behavioral therapy and CBT techniques. Dr. Maisel moves cognitive change a giant step forward by describing the room that is your mind and how human consciousness is experienced there. Packed with visualization exercises, this accessible guide makes redesigning your mind and changing what you think easy and simple, an upgrade to the CBT method.Visualization exercises for easy assembly. That room that is your mind is a space that you can decorate, air out, furnish, and turn into a truly congenial place. By practicing these easy-to-understand visualization exercises, you can redesign your mind and change not only what you think but how you think. Each of these techniques addresses major challenges like depression, anxiety, addiction, procrastination, and loneliness and promote cognitive growth, trauma healing, and fundamental change.Inside, you’ll also find information that could help you: Increase your creativity Reduce your anxiety Rid yourself of chronic depression Recover from addiction Heal from past trauma Achieve emotional wellbeing Live your life purposes If you enjoyed books like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple, Feeling Better, or The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, then you’ll love Redesign Your Mind.  

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