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Full Catastrophe Living
Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn

This book shows you how to use natural, medically proven methods to soothe and heal your body, mind, and spirit. By using the mindfulness meditation practices described, you can learn to manage chronic pain resulting from illness and/or stress-related disorders, discover the roles that anger and tension play in heart disease, reduce anxiety and feelings of panic and improve overall quality of life and relationships.

Full Catastrophe Living is a book for the young and the old, the well, the ill, and anyone trying to live a healthier and saner life in today’s world.

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Authentic Happiness
Author: Martin Seligman

Drawing on groundbreaking scientific research, Martin Seligman shows how happiness is not the result of good genes or luck. It can be cultivated by identifying and nurturing traits that we already possess including kindness, originality, humour, optimism, and generosity.

Seligman provides the tools you need in order to ascertain your most positive traits or strengths. Then he explains how, by frequently calling upon these "signature strengths" in all the crucial realms of life (health, relationships, career) you will not only develop natural buffers against misfortune and negative emotion, but also achieve new and sustainable levels of authentic contentment, gratification, and meaning.

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The Happiness Handbook
Author: Timothy J Sharp

Clinical and coaching psychologist Timothy Sharp gives the reader simple but theoretically-grounded tools to help them accept the things they cannot change, and the tools to change the things they can, to enhance their sense of self, improve their ability to deal with life’s ups and downs, and move towards happier and more productive lives.

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Breaking the Patterns of Depression
Author: Michael D Yapko

Clinical psychologist and depression expert Michael Yapko provides the latest evidence that depression is more a product of learning than a biological reaction, and his book helps sufferers systematically diffuse patterns which contribute to and encourage depression.

Over a hundred easy self-help exercises place the knowledge and ability to control depressions squarely in the sufferers' hands, exploring the problem-solving skills necessary to achieve control.

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Women Who Think Too Much
Author: Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Practically everyone agonizes over decisions or situations from time to time, but overthinkers carry analysis and introspection to unhealthy extremes.In this book Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, explores why people overthink, contends and explains why too much thinking is predominantly a woman’s disease and prescribes a three-step program to overcome overthinking.

Citing many studies (including her own) and occasionally zooming in on particular cases, she offers no-nonsense, reasoned and easy-to-understand advice and strategies, as well as a quiz to help readers recognize their own patterns of overthought.

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The Happiness Trap
AAuthor: Dr Russ Harris

This easy-to-read self-help book is firmly based on the principles of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. The title reflects a key theme: that popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and often make us miserable. The book covers in detail how to use mindfulness skills, values, and effective action to enhance health, vitality, and life satisfaction. Based on a revolutionary new development in human psychology, this book will show you groundbreaking ways to:

• handle painful feelings far more effectively
• escape the grip of self-defeating habits
• rise above your fears, doubts and insecurities
• find more fulfilment in your work
• build more satisfying relationships and, above all,
• create a rich, full and meaningful life. At last, a self-help book that really can change your life!

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