Are you ready to fill your life with joy, courage and vitality?
Learn how to reduce overthinking, clarify your wants and needs, and face your fears with kindness. Life is short. Live boldly.
Resources
There are infinite resources to help guide you along the journey to expanding your sense of joy, connection and wellbeing. Audiobooks, books, worksheets and podcasts are a great way to integrate new learnings into your daily life. New neural pathways require daily reinforcement so try to find a regular way to integrate a new concept daily. Even ten minutes a day can shape your day and your brain anew. *
Strengthen Your Centre of Awareness
Embodying change requires strengthening your moment-to-moment awareness of your emotions, thoughts, sensations and urges. The first step in this process is to start a practice of checking in with your body. This video is a 10-minute demonstration of one such process that I use with my clients. Challenge yourself to practice this process daily.
Confidence, fear and courage
It is normal and natural to feel fear, anxiety, nervousness, stress, self-doubt, and insecurity when expanding your life. Do not aim to annihilate these feelings. Learn to change the way you respond to those feelings so you can continue to take step after step toward a full, rich, joyful life. Confidence is a feeling about a specific area of your life that you gain as you do the work to improve your skills. First comes action, then comes confidence.
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Inspiration & Determination
Social Anxiety
Letting Go
Limiting Beliefs
Schema Therapy
Happiness and Fulfilment
Self-compassion & Self-care
Relationship Therapy
Parenting Skills
Grit - The Power of Passion and Perserverance
By Angela Duckworth
"Grit" by Angela Duckworth shares the research that explains the impact of talent versus practice and commitment on success and achievement. The book inspires you to see that talent alone does not predict success. In fact. it is the people who are able to persevere despite the obstacles that end up achieving and winning. Angela shows you that anyone can learn grit, and the benefits of dong so.
I fight you Fight
By Alex Noble
Alex Noble was only 16years of age when he had a football injury that left him a paraplegic. This is a truly inspirational story of grit and determination as Alex shares his mindset that left him fighting each day to regain the use of his body. Alex has a mindset that is an unbelievable example of what is possible when we learn to master our focus, self-talk and determination. He has found the true meaning of happiness in life despite experiencing such a traumatic event. Yes, it's a tearjerker, but not in a depressing way. Paradoxically, it is a story of possibility, connection and joy!
Not Nice
By Dr Aziz Gazipura
The rest of the book's title sums it up perfectly: "Stop People Pleasing Staying Silent, and Feeling Guilty... And Start Speaking Up, Saying No, Asking Boldly, and Being Unapologetically You." I love this book for anyone who experiences social anxiety or finds it hard to be true to themselves and express their true feelings and thoughts when relating others in their lives.
The Untethered Soul & Living Untethered
By Michael Singer
"Living Untethered" by Michael Singer is a self-help and spiritual guide that encourages readers to break free from the constraints of their own thoughts, emotions, and attachments, in order to lead a more authentic, fulfilling, and spiritually connected life. The book delves into the concept of the untethered soul, which is the idea that we can liberate ourselves from our limiting beliefs, fears, and judgments, to experience greater inner peace and personal growth.
Singer explores various aspects of personal development and spiritual growth, utilizing practical exercises and insightful teachings to help readers cultivate a deeper understanding of their inner selves. Through the process of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and surrender to the present moment, "Living Untethered" guides individuals on a journey towards greater freedom, happiness, and spiritual connection.
The Mind-Body Code: How to Change the Beliefs that Limit Your Health, Longevity & Success
By Dr Mario Martinez
Drawing on research in psychoneuroimmunology, cultural anthropology, and cognitive psychology, Dr. Martinez presents practical tools and strategies to help readers identify and transform limiting beliefs and negative emotional patterns that may be undermining their health and happiness. The Mind-Body Code explores the connection between our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions and their impact on our physical health, well-being, and overall success in life. He presents the science and the meditations to create change at a cellular level.
Reinventing Your Life
By Young & Klosko
This is a self-help version of Schema Therapy. It helps readers identify and overcome self-defeating behaviors, called "lifetraps." The book offers practical strategies and techniques to change negative thought patterns and create healthier, more fulfilling lives. Through self-assessment questionnaires, case studies, and guided exercises, the authors guide readers in addressing issues like abandonment, dependence, mistrust, and vulnerability, ultimately enabling them to break free from their lifetraps and experience personal growth.
The Happiness Project
By Gretchin Rubin
"The Happiness Project" is a memoir and self-help book that chronicles the author's year-long journey to explore the nature of happiness and discover how to create a more fulfilling, joy-filled life. Rubin's approach is based on research in positive psychology, as well as insights from historical and philosophical sources. The book is organized month-by-month, with each chapter focusing on a specific theme and set of resolutions designed to increase happiness.
Discovering the Inner Mother
By Bethany Webster
This self-help book that focuses on the concept of the "inner mother" and its importance in women's emotional well-being and personal growth. The inner mother is the compassionate, nurturing, and supportive voice inside every woman. The book offers guidance and practical tools for women to heal their relationship with their own mothers, nurture their inner child, and ultimately become their own source of love, support, and guidance.
Fight Right: How successful couples turn conflict into connection
By Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman & Dr John Gottman
The Gottman Method is a scientifically validated method of working with couples to improve their intimate relationships. The model and tools are based on decades of research and focuses on what healthy couples do well. The method suggests that it is simply a lack of skill that differentiates healthy from unhealthy relating. Practical, accessible book for couples to start to understand why they struggle with conflict.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriages Work
By Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman & Dr John Gottman
This is another of the Gottman's helpful books and covers all areas of the Gottman's Model - Friendship and Intimacy, Conflict Management and Shared Meaning. As discussed above, The Gottman Method is a scientifically validated method of working with couples to improve their intimate relationships.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
By Faber & Mazlish
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and another of their books "Sibling Rivalry" are two must-have parenting books. Each book offers a practical parenting guide packed with effective practical communication strategies to help parents foster a positive relationship with their children, resolve conflicts, and encourage cooperation. Drawing on their own experiences and research in child development, Faber and Mazlish provide techniques to help parents communicate with their children in a respectful, empathetic, and constructive manner.
Online resources
Centre for Clinical Interventions
Self Help resources
Centre for clinical interventions is a clinical resource that provides free resources for a variety of presenting issues. Practical information sheets are provided about mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety or more general areas of focus like assertiveness or compassion. The same website also has resources to support you if you are caring for someone with a mental health issue.
Beyond Blue
Understanding Depression
Beyond Blue is a fabulous resource for anyone struggling with depression or supporting someone they love who has depression. The site has a video that explains what depression is and can help you identify if you are depressed or have a clinical level of depression.
Insight Timer
Free Meditation app
There are many free apps for learning and practicing meditation. Insight timer offers a wide range of styles and teachers. The key is to spend some invaluable time to find a voice and style that you enjoy and find soothing. For those who have never meditated before you might like to try a body scan meditation as this is a gentle supportive way to relax, calm the mind and also connect with your body and emotions.
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Acknowledgment
*The above resources were developed with assistance from ChatGTP.