Compulsive Disorders

In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, decluttering expert and author Dana White identifies the mindsets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter....

Joe Dispenza, DC, has spent decades studying the human mind-how it works, how it stores information, and why it perpetuates the same behavioral patterns over and over....

One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it....

People who experience unwanted, intrusive, or frightening thoughts often suffer shamefully and struggle silently for fear of what the thoughts might mean about them. In this powerful book, two anxiety disorder experts offer powerful and proven-effective CBT skills....

In this unique guide, you'll find proven-effective tips and tools using CBT to help you tolerate uncertainty, face specific worrying scenarios, and gradually reduce the compulsion to incessantly seek reassurance....

Best-selling author and personal development trainer, Scott Allan, wants you to defeat procrastination, eliminate negative self-talk, and overcome lazy tendencies to delay hard work. In this hands-on, practical guide, you'll learn Scott's step-by-step method to destroy bad habits....

Women's recovery can differ from men's, and each person's recovery is in many ways unique. That's why Stephanie Covington has designed A Women's Way Through the Twelve Steps to help a woman find her own path - and find it in terms especially suited to the way women experience life....

Discover how to apply the minimalist mindset to every aspect of your life by changing the way you think about your home, career, relationships, family, and money. The Minimalist Way will help you take it one step at a time with simple exercises and activities....

The number of people who become involved with partners who abuse them emotionally and/or who are emotionally abusive themselves is phenomenal, and yet emotional abuse is the least understood form of abuse....

One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps has established itself as a classic....

Few challenges in life are as difficult as regaining a wife's trust - and few are as ultimately worthwhile....

Rewire Your OCD Brain will show you how and why your brain gets stuck in a loop of obsessive thinking, uncertainty, and worry; and offers the tools you need to short-circuit this response and get your symptoms under control-for good....

In Letters to a Young Therapist, Dr. Pipher shares what she has learned in 30 years as a therapist, helping warring families, alienated adolescents, and harried professionals restore peace and beauty to their lives....

We never stop to question what's going on with us internally, so we keep mindlessly piling it all on: clothes with tags still on them, electronics we get just to impress people, and the precious slots in our agendas that we fill with things we don't actually want to do....

In Lose the Clutter, Lose the Weight, organizing guru Peter Walsh comes to the rescue with a simple six-week plan to help listeners....

From one of the nation's preeminent experts in the study of women and emotion, a breakthrough new book based on the author's award-winning research....

If you have body-focused repetitive behaviors such as hair pulling or skin picking, you may feel embarrassed about seeking help. But there are proven-effective strategies you can use to overcome these behaviors and improve your overall quality of life—this book will show you how....

In Addiction to Love, recovering love addict Susan Peabody explains the variety of ways this disorder plays out, from the obsessively doting love addict to the addict who can't disentangle from an unfulfilling, dead-end relationship....

From psychologist Dr. Robin Zasio, The Hoarder in You provides practical advice for decluttering and organizing and explains how extreme cases of hoarding offer lessons for us all....

Narrated with wry wit, unflinching candor, and resounding insight, Shala takes listeners on a riveting journey into the dark and dimly understood inner workings of OCD and its frequent co-conspirator, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)....

When someone has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it can affect the entire family. This book is an essential guide to help family members cope with their loved one's compulsive behaviors, obsessions, and constant need for reassurance....

In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you're eating, what you're eating, or why you're even eating at all....

Here one will find not only a wide range of succinct and useful assessment procedures, but also a highly specific, research-based, and modularized treatment program. In addition, there are dozens of questionnaires and interview protocols to be used in both assessment and intervention....

Learn what obsessive compulsive disorder is, and how it differs from a similarly named disorder called obsessive compulsive personality disorder....

In her landmark book, Dr. Tamar E. Chansky creates a clear road map to understanding and overcoming obsessive-compulsive disorder based on her successful practice treating hundreds of children and teenagers with this disorder....

Tell a New Story offers an easy-to-follow, five-step approach using the STORY acronym to help uncover your patterns and transform the way you think and talk about yourself. Rowan weaves a tapestry of powerful emotions through personal storytelling. She expounds on struggles that teach lessons on how to dissolve the habits that hold you back from living your dream life. Rowan will help you recognize the patterns that are keeping you stuck in the same old story, and instead, guide you to rewrite a new and empowering version of yourself that you love.

By using the power of daily affirmations combined with journaling, EFT tapping, NLP, and asking yourself challenging questions, you can have a dramatic positive impact on your OCD symptoms like many others who have used these techniques. This workbook is particularly suitable for adults and teenagers, as the techniques are simple to understand and work for both males and females. These affirmations, combined with other self-help techniques, can be used daily to improve your emotional and mental fortitude and give you the tools that can help you outwit the tricks OCD can play on you.

More than six million Americans have OCD. If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it is likely that your persistent, obsessive thoughts and time-consuming compulsions prevent you from fully enjoying life. But when you are accustomed to avoiding the things you fear, the thought of facing them head-on can be frightening and overwhelming. Life can be really tough for those suffering from OCD, but here's the good news: With the right knowledge and guidance, you can manage your OCD.

Do self-sabotaging behaviors hold you back from achieving your goals? Do you easily give in to instant gratification instead of maintaining motivation and willpower? Have you lost all hope on realizing your dreams because you simply can’t stop failing? Success goes beyond mere talent, skill, and intelligence. Achieving your goals goes beyond vision boards and positive thinking. You’ve probably heard all about this before—anything worth having in life requires unwavering perseverance, motivation, and willpower to always do better.

Conventionally, it was believed that intrusive thoughts are characteristics of people diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorders, anxiety disorders, and PTSD. But recent peer-reviewed studies suggests that such intrusive thoughts are common in even otherwise healthy individuals. Popular practices of helping oneself involve attempts at thought suppression—but that helps only a little. One needs more strategies than distraction to help in a better way. This audiobook is an attempt to bring you the solution for getting rid of unwanted and intrusive thoughts in a crisp, simple format.