Daily Relaxer

Just about every day brings some kind of stress into life - and a new opportunity to treat yourself to the benefits of a calm mind and a stress-free body. This is a warm, engaging and effective guide to beating stress, calming down and becoming more centred and focused.

If you have received a cancer diagnosis, you know that the hundreds of questions and concerns you have about what's to come can be as stressful as the cancer treatment itself. But research shows that if you mentally prepare yourself to handle cancer treatment by getting stress and anxiety under control, you can improve your quality of life and become an active participant in your own recovery. Created by leading psychologists specializing in oncology, the Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery program is based on mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a therapeutic combination of mindfulness meditation and gentle yoga now offered to cancer survivors and their loved ones in hundreds of medical centers, hospitals, and clinics worldwide. Let this book be your guide as you let go of fear and focus on getting well.

Five Good Minutes in Your Body offers simple yet effective activities to help us restore and recharge our relationships with our bodies. With these tools we can create a life that is more fulfilling-a life in which we are no longer at the mercy of the stress of our day. The practices can transform the mundane into the extraordinary, and renew our sense of vitality and passion for life. Learning to be mindful of our bodies can be hard in this fast-paced, stressful world. Some of us live from the neck up, forgetting to nourish and appreciate-or even be comfortable in-our bodies. In the western world we often live nearly entirely in the mind. Through mindful practices, this book will help bring us back into our bodies and help us reduce stress, breathe again, and actually enjoy our bodies. We're also incredibly self-critical of our bodies. Who among us hasn't wished they were just a little skinnier, more muscular, taller, had a narrower foot, darker hair, lighter eyes... the list of our inadequacies is endless. We are very self-critical of our bodies and often have distorted perceptions of ourselves. We needlessly compare ourselves to some unattainable-and airbrushed-ideal. This often leads to feeling cut off from our bodies and, ultimately, disembodied. We then end up making unhealthy choices, such as eating foods that don't make us feel good, drinking too much, or even over-exercising, all in an effort to try to feel better about ourselves.

Naturopathic physician and acupuncturist Dan Kenner explains ways he believes individuals with cancer can increase their immunity and rebuild their health, covering detoxification, diet, supplements, lifestyle enhancement, exercise, and emotional and psychospiritual healing.

Modern medicine has developed solutions that allow cancer patients to live longer lives, but depression and anxiety often make these years painful and difficult. This book develops the techniques of behavior activation therapy into practical activities people recovering from cancer can use to recognize and overcome problems with depression and anxiety. Relieved from these two sources of emotional pain and limitation, readers of this book will be able to live life fully and apply their energy to the task of getting better. Successes build on one another, creating a model for ever more positive feelings in the future. The key to success, though, is to keep focusing on engaging in enjoyable behaviors without getting bogged down by pain, frustration, and worry. Keeping on track is easy with the step-by-step approach offered in the book.

The ultimate practical guide to MBSR—with more than 115,000 copies sold—is now available in a fully revised and updated second edition. Stress and pain are nearly unavoidable in our daily lives; they are part of the human condition. This stress can often leave us feeling irritable, tense, overwhelmed, and burned-out. The key to maintaining balance is responding to stress not with frustration and self-criticism, but with mindful, nonjudgmental awareness of our bodies and minds. Impossible? Actually, it's easier than it seems. In just weeks, you can learn mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a clinically proven program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living. MBSR is effective in alleviating stress, anxiety, panic, depression, chronic pain, and a wide range of medical conditions. Taught in classes and clinics worldwide, this powerful approach shows you how to focus on the present moment and permanently change the way you handle stress. As you work through A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, you'll learn how to replace stress-promoting habits with mindful ones—a skill that will last a lifetime. This groundbreaking, proven-effective program will help you relieve the symptoms of stress and identify its causes. This fully revised and updated second edition includes new audio downloads, new meditations, and extensive chapter revisions to help you manage stress and start living a healthier, happier life.

The Adult Psychotherapy PROGRESS NOTES PLANNER PracticePlanners® THE BESTSELLING TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Fully revised and updated throughout, The Adult Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner, Sixth Edition enables practitioners to quickly and easily create progress notes that completely integrate with a client’s treatment plan. Each of the more than 1,000 prewritten session and patient presentation descriptions directly link to the corresponding behavioral problem contained in The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Sixth Edition. Organized around 44 behaviorally-based problems aligned with DSM-V diagnostic categories, the Progress Notes Planner covers an extensive range of treatment approaches for anxiety, bipolar disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dependency, trauma, cognitive deficiency, and more. Part of the market-leading Wiley PracticePlanners® series, The Adult Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner will save you hours of time by allowing you to rapidly adapt your notes to each individual patient’s behavioral definitions, symptom presentations, or therapeutic interventions. An essential resource for psychologists, therapists, counselors, social workers, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals working with adult clients, The Adult Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner: Provides more than 8,000 prewritten, easy-to-modify progress notes summarizing patient presentation and the interventions implemented within the session Features sample progress notes conforming to the requirements of most third-party health care payors and accrediting agencies, including CARF, The Joint Commission (TJC), COA, and the NCQA Include a brand-new chapter that coordinates with the Treatment Planner’s chapter on loneliness Additional resources in the PracticePlanners® series: Treatment Planners cover all the necessary elements for developing formal treatment plans, including detailed problem definitions, long-term goals, short-term objectives, therapeutic interventions, and DSMTM diagnoses. Homework Planners feature behaviorally based, ready-to-use assignments to speed treatment and keep clients engaged between sessions. For more information on our PracticePlanners®, including our full line of Treatment Planners, visit us on the Web at: www.wiley.com/practiceplanners