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"Now in its sixth edition and recommended by therapists worldwide, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook has been the unparalleled, essential resource for people struggling with anxiety and phobias for almost thirty years. Living with anxiety, panic disorders, or phobias can make you feel like you aren't in control of your life. If you're ready to tackle the fears that hold you back, this book is your go-to guide. Packed with the most effective skills...
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Bernadette is a frightfully intelligent wife and mother whose intense allergy to Seattle specifically, and to people in general, has driven her to hire a virtual assistant in India to execute even her most basic tasks. Then her daughter, Bee, insists on a family trip to Antarctica as her reward for getting perfect grades in middle school, and Bernadette is faced with the daunting prospect of actual human interaction. And then Bernadette disappears....
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Penguin Books
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[2022]
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239, [4] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals). Phobias and manias are deeply personal experiences, and among the most common anxiety disorders of our time, but they are also clues to our shared past. The award-winning author Kate Summerscale uses rich and riveting...
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"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : AVOID STUFF. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
7) Water steps
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Eleven-year-old Kyna, terrified of water since her family drowned in a storm that nearly took her life as well, works to overcome her phobia when her adoptive parents, Irish immigrants with a mysterious past, rent a cabin on Lake Champlain for the summer.
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Brandon is terrified of everything especially the wooden dummy, Slappy, that Ray got from Jonathan Chiller's HorrorLand gift shop. In order to throw his big New Year's Eve party, Ray's parents make him promise to leave Brandon alone, but strange, mean-spirited things keep happening to his little brother, and Slappy always seems to be around for it.
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"Parenting a teen isn't easy, but parenting an anxious teen is especially challenging. Written by a psychologist and expert on adolescent anxiety, this essential book will show you what really works to overcome all types of teen anxiety and how to apply specific skills to support your teen. Most parents find it frustrating when common sense and logical methods such as reassurance don't seem to work to allay their teen's anxiety. They want to know:...
10) American panda
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A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
11) The snow blazers
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Little, Brown and Company
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2017.
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First edition.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"The Dinotrux are lost in the snow, but Skya has bigger problems. She is afraid of snow! Can the Trux find their way home, and will Skya overcome her fear?"-
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From his twenty-year background as a multi-cultural New York State Certified Driving Instructor, Delroy Smart demonstrates his ability to understand and connect with your driving difficulties on a personal level. Smart's unique and compassionate coping strategies will uncover your strengths and make you forget that driving an automobile could ever feel this easy.
Goodbye Driving Anxiety is a marvelous and illuminating example of what one person can...
13) The anxiety healer's guide: coping strategies and mindfulness techniques to calm the mind and body
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Discover practical, natural, on-the-go solutions for combating anxiety with this must-have guide.How can you begin holistically tackling your anxiety whenever the moment strikes? In The Anxiety Healer's Guide licensed counselor and creator of the Instagram account @TheAnxietyHealer Alison Seponara brings her expertise and commitment to healing anxiety to the world. While the journey toward recovery might look different for everyone, this portable...
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"Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not. Bugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the lake... no thanks. On top of that, she just failed her swim test and hates being in the water-it's terrifying. But her grandparents are strong believers in their family knowing how to swim, especially having grown up during a time of segregation...
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Roger Baker, der nach Jahren der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit dem Thema "Panikattacken" selbst Betroffener wurde, zeigt eine klare Perspektive auf: Es ist möglich, Panikattacken zu überwinden, aber es ist eine Illusion, für immer von allen Angstzuständen frei sein zu wollen. Was jeder Patient verlieren kann, ist die Angst vor der Angst. Und zu diesem Ziel hin gibt es praktische und für jeden realisierbare Schritte, die in diesem Buch...
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Eliot Marshall has always been a fighter-from overcoming bullies and bigots who targeted his half-black, half-Jewish heritage to using his martial-arts prowess to become part of the UFC. But beneath his badass exterior, Eliot struggled with severe anxiety, until he learned to live a life of true purpose.
In The Gospel of Fire, Eliot shares his incredible story of breaking down and learning to build himself back up by acknowledging his shortcomings,...
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A novel of utopia, science fiction, and alien vampires. In the 24th century, Megan Thereau is a journalist invited to a secret enclave, a place long thought to be a myth, only to find a community of humans and alien vampires living in harmony. Soon after she arrives, the village is besieged from within as well as without, as a mysterious illness strikes the populace, and an adept from an ancient vampire cult invades to wreak havoc. As she investigates...
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Anxiety has the power to stop kids in their tracks, preventing them from exploring and growing into independent teens and young adults. Casey, the fourteen year old narrator of Playing with Anxiety: Casey's Guide for Teens and Kids, knows all too well how worry can interrupt fun, ruin school, and take control of a family. In this companion book to Reid Wilson and Lynn Lyons' parenting book, Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle...
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Stress is a very dangerous and debilitating condition – over time, with too much stress and anxiety, you can put your health at risk and this is never a good thing. Because everything we do is an emotional challenge, it's very easy to become stressed out especially when you are having "one of those weeks" but there are ways to avoid serious stress overkill.
By using the ideas in this book, you will find it easier to do three things;
- Understand...
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Do you or a loved one suffer with anxiety, panic attacks, agoraphobia or suicidal thoughts? Then perhaps this is the book for you. Written by Gayle Gullick after a 9 year struggle to get her life back after suffering daily,hourly,with panic and depression that left her crippled and cowering in fear, Like most people who suffer with this illness, all she wanted to do was to have her life go back to normal. But as she discovered during the process of...
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