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Expecting perfection, inviting excuses, and harboring self-doubt are all distractions that can keep you from staying on track during weight loss. Though these challenges can be discouraging, don’t let them — or your goals — stop you from living your life. Drs. Lillis, Dahl, and Weineland, authors of the audiobook The Diet Trap, encourage you to explore what it would be like to invite imperfection, forgiveness, and perseverance into your health journey.

Today we have a helpful excerpt from the audiobook The Diet Trap: Feed Your Psychological Needs and End the Weight Loss Struggle Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, by Dr.s Lillis, Dahl, and Weineland. When weight loss difficulties, fad diets, and obstacle after obstacle make it difficult to stay motivated, the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy detailed in this audiobook is sure to help you get back on track. With a focus on self-love and emotional health, these strategies are proven to encourage positive results and and a new confidence in your health journey.

In this episode, Drs. Lillis, Dahl, and Weineland help make staying on track during weight loss a little bit easier by sharing tips about common doubts and distractions.

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“If you’ve tried to lose weight before and struggled to take it off or keep it off, this could be the right audiobook for you. If you’ve ever beat yourself up, scolded yourself into exercising, blamed yourself for cheating on a diet, or just struggled to find meaning and vitality in the healthy habits you were trying to build, we have an alternative. This audiobook presents a different path to weight loss, and more healthy living in general.”

authors, "The Diet Trap"

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When you eat without shame or guilt\u2014free of old beliefs about what you should and should not eat\u2014the results might surprise you. Today Dr. Lynn Rossy, author of the audiobook The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution<\/em><\/a>, covers the basics of mindful eating. Dr. Rossy shares that what you choose to eat, when you choose to eat it, and how you eat it, should be your top priorities.<\/p>\n

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Today we are sharing an excerpt from the audiobook The Mindfulness Based Eating Solution: Proven Strategies to End Overeating, Satisfy Your Hunger, and Savor Your Life, written by Dr. Lynn Rossy. This audiobook offers an innovative and proven-effective program to help you slow down, savor each bite, and actually eat less. This unique, whole-body approach will encourage you to adopt healthy eating habits by showing you how to listen to your body’s intuition, uncover the psychological cause of your overeating, and be more mindful during mealtime.

In this episode, Dr. Lynn Rossy explains the basics of mindful eating and how choosing to be intentional with what and how you eat can have a great impact.

Lynn Rossy, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Missouri’s wellness program for faculty and staff. She developed Eat for Life, a mindfulness-based intuitive eating program that successfully helps people overcome eating issues, improve body image, and enhance weight loss. She is on the board of directors of The Center for Mindful Eating.

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Are there unhealthy habits you would like to change? Why is it that for all our good intentions and heroic willpower we’re often unsuccessful, and end up right back where we started? How can we overcome unhealthy habits for good? Dr. Amy Johnson shares her insights how to break habits—once and for all—without using willpower. Dr. Johnson is author of the audiobook “The Little Book of Big Change: The No Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit.”

Today’s episode presents a conversation with life coach and social psychologist, Dr. Amy Johnson. Dr. Johnson is the author of the audiobook The Little Book of Big Change: The No Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit. After struggling with anxiety, panic attacks, binge eating and bulimia for years, she discovered a spiritual framework that freed her from her painful habits. The Little Book of Big Change shares practical, cutting-edge, and surprisingly counter-intuitive techniques that don’t rely on willpower. No matter what your bad habit is, you have the power to change it!

In today’s conversation, Dr. Amy Johnson talks about techniques you can use to learn how to break habits for good—without using willpower!

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Each time you feel deeply peaceful, your personal thinking is taking a relative break. Each time you’re in the throes of anxiety, urges or general uneasiness, your thinking has revved back up. This audiobook aims to point you back toward the wisdom that is already within you, so that you can use it as a guide.

Author of the Audibook, "The Little Book of Big Change"

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Do you struggle with creating and maintaining healthy habits? Today, Dr. Ted Zeff, a psychologist who specializes in working with highly sensitive people, shares some of the elements involved in creating and keeping helpful habits for the New Year. Taking small steps, and looking into your life goals hold the key to unlocking and forming new habits. All it takes is the right structure and some self-compassion!

Today we are sharing an excerpt from Dr. Ted Zeff’s audiobook, The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an Overstimulating World. If you are part of the 20% of the population that struggles with overstimulation, you know how difficult it can be to navigate daily life. Dr. Zeff offers help for working with the difficulties of being a highly sensitive person, so you can focus on the gifts and connections of your sensitivity.

In this episode, Dr. Ted Zeff shares great advice for fostering self-compassion while helpful habits for the New Year.

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By understanding, accepting, and appreciating your sensitive nervous system and by learning practical methods to deal with your sensitivity, you will gradually be able to identify and release any false beliefs that there is something inherently wrong with you.

The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide

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After a difficult loss or breakup, don’t go through it alone! Instead, focus on ways to build a support system. Though heartbreak can make us want to remain alone, putting in the effort to recognize who you can lean on and how they can help can make all the difference in the healing process. By reflecting on what kind of help you need from those you love, you begin the journey of healing after a breakup.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from Dr. Christina Hibbert’s inspirational audiobook Who Am I Without You? 52 Ways to Rebuild Self-Esteem After A Breakup. Finding yourself suddenly alone after being in a relationship can cause you to question your identity, but Hibbert’s book has 52 techniques, based in cognitive behavioral therapy, that help you become stronger and more confident than before. 

In this episode, Dr. Christina Hibbert explains the value in building a support system when healing after a breakup.

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This audiobook is a guide for women of all ages experiencing all levels of heartache. I’ve written it with the exact words and tools I’ve used to help my friends, family, and clients through their breakups, divorces, and other life transitions.

This audiobook is about helping you break through the pain of your breakup so that you may discover healing, and showing you the way to lifelong self-esteem and joy.

Who Am I Without You?

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The discovery of our life purpose begins with looking at the path that we’re on now. Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook Why?: What Your Life is Telling You About Who You Are and Why You’re Here, written by Dr.s Matthew McKay, Sean Olaoire, and Ralph Metzner. This excerpt discusses the six great archetypal pathways that can help you to express your talents and realize your mission: the teacher/communicator, the healer/peacemaker, the warrior/guardian, the explorer/scientist, the builder/ organizer, and the artist/designer. The wisdom of these archetypes can be a helpful guide to find your true path in life.

Do you wonder what your true path in life is? We each have a purpose and a mission. However, uncovering this purpose can be challenging, and often daunting. If you are like most, you have probably asked yourself, “Why am I here?” But where do you turn for answers? Religion? Psychology? Spirituality?

Why?: What Your Life is Telling You About Who You Are and Why You’re Here will help you to create your own cosmology that unites your beliefs with your life’s mission, helps you recognize that individual mission, and outline exercises to bring you into alignment with this mission via personal practices.

In this excerpt, Drs. McKay, Oloaire, and Metzner reveal the six great archetypal pathways that can help you find your true path in life

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“At its core, this book allows the modern Western mind to explore the deep meaning of an ageless, universal truth: Earth is a place where souls are sent to evolve. Why? goes beyond philosophy and offers practical guide- lines for mindfully participating in one’s own evolutionary process.”

Author, "The Untethered Soul"

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Knowing how to stop an overreaction when it is in full swing can seem intimidating and perhaps even out of reach. It might feel that once it begins, there is no stopping it. Though you might not be able to control what triggers you, you can learn to tune in to your body and take an active role in remaining calm. Today, Dr. Judith Siegel, author of the audiobook Stop Overreacting, will share techniques that can help you return to a state of emotional equilibrium.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook Stop Overreacting: Effective Strategies for Calming Your Emotions, written by marriage and family therapist Dr. Judith Siegel. If you struggle to control your emotions in triggering situations, you’ll find relief in using Dr. Siegel’s exercises and research to put an end to these unwanted situations. You can stop your feelings from getting the best of you and unlearn the habit of overreacting 

In this episode, Dr. Siegel explains how to stop an overreaction by learning to recognize the early signs and put calming techniques into action.

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Exercising impulse control is a basic idea that becomes very difficult when you just want to send that text or email and say what you really think. Letting your mind make decisions when angry might seem like the easiest option, but in the long run it is more healthy to build impulse control and learn to curb your anger. You can’t always control your emotions, but you can learn to direct your reactions and build positive mental pathways for the future.

Today we are sharing an excerpt from Healing the Angry Brain: How Understanding the Way Your Brain Works Can Help You Control Anger and Aggression, an audiobook written by Dr. Ronald Potter-Efron. When anger runs your life, it can also run your brain, developing pathways and habits for your emotions to follow in future. Take control of this process by understanding the different parts of your brain, the emotions they control, and the ways you can rewire it. You don’t have to let your anger be the boss of you!

In this episode, Dr. Ronald Potter-Efron clarifies the purpose of the prefrontal cortex and details techniques that help train your brain to learn impulse control to help you avoid making decisions when you’re angry.

Ronald Potter-Efron, MSW, PhD, is director of the anger management clinic at First Things First Counseling in Eau Claire, WI. He is author of many books about anger, including Angry All the Time, Letting Go of Anger, Rage, and The Handbook of Anger Management.

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In Healing the Angry Brain, I’ll suggest techniques that can help you change your brain, to end anger’s dominance and to be more flexible and effective in your daily life.

Healing the Angry Brain

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Do you have questions about mindfulness meditation? Dr. Arnie Kozak has answers. Dr. Kozak is a psychotherapist, assistant professor in psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and workshop leader at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. He is author of the audiobook The Awakened Introvert: Practical Mindfulness Skills to Help You Maximize Your Strengths and Thrive in a Loud and Crazy World. Today he answers frequently asked questions about mindfulness meditation.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from psychotherapist Dr. Arnie Kozac’s popular audiobook The Awakened Introvert: Practical Mindfulness Skills to Help You Maximize Your Strengths and Thrive in a Loud and Crazy World. If you are an introvert, this audiobook will show you how to tap into your inherent introvert strengths and awaken your potential using mindfulness meditations and cognitive behavioral techniques.

In this episode Dr. Arnie Kozak offers answers to frequently asked questions about mindfunless meditation.

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The Awakened Introvert

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If you struggle with asserting yourself and communicating effectively, you’re not alone — it’s a problem faced by many. In this excerpt from her audiobook, psychologist Dr. Julie De Azevedo Hanks encourages you to examine the way you assert yourself at work and at home, sharing strategies for getting your message across clearly and confidently.

Today we’re listening to an excerpt from The Assertiveness Guide for Women: How to Communicate Your Needs, Set Healthy Boundaries, and Transform Your Relationships, written by Dr. Julie de Azevedo Hanks. Although it can be all too easy to stay quiet and not express yourself, dangerous repercussions in the form or regret or worry may rise to the surface. These consequences can be avoided by learning to understand and express your emotions. This audiobook will help you begin your journey to becoming a strong  and assertive communicator.

In this episode, Dr. de Azevedo Hanks shares her tips on asserting yourself to improve communication using boundaries, nonverbal cues, and having the confidence to say “no.”

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Author, "The Chalice and the Blade"

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