Kelly Bouldin Darmofal suffered a severe TBI in 1992; currently, she holds a Masters in Special Education from Salem College, NC. Her memoir, Lost in My Mind: Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), tells her story of tragedy and triumph. Kelly will be teaching "TBI: An Overview for Educators" at Salem College. Kelly's "tips" were learned during two decades of recovery and perseverance.

This audio was created with the help of recovering alcoholics and addicts, those who belong to various 12-step groups, chemical dependency counselors, and chemical dependency professionals who understand the importance of partnering meditation and addiction. Listen to this program to reduce the craving for drugs and alcohol by encouraging the development of powerful, self-calming techniques that support impulse control naturally. Pump up your motivation and perseverance with hypnotic mental images of the body restoring itself to health, with vitality and a general zest for living.

This guided meditation for caregiver stress is designed to offer relief, comfort and self-care for caregivers who may be growing weary and disheartened from looking after a family member or friend in need of taxing levels of physical or emotional care. It is also useful for professional providers experiencing the occupational stress of caregiver burnout. This includes reminders of the caregiver’s strength, resourcefulness and tenacity; a sense of being surrounded by protection, support and appreciation; and an emphasis on the need for self-consideration and self care for caregivers.

This complete set of tracks of guided imagery for PTSD can be used alongside other treatment approaches, as well as a stand-alone healing tool. Empowering and effective, this highly regarded guided meditation set for PTSD treatment increases self-esteem, confidence and sense of self-worth. The separate track of affirmations bolsters the PTSD treatment process with quick, positive reminders in a briefer format which listeners can hear while engaged in other activities, including driving.

This guided meditation for IBS and inflammatory bowel disease consists of state-of-the-art, research-based guided imagery and affirmations to help people successfully manage and reduce the distressing, painful symptoms of IBS and IBD, naturally and holistically. The guided meditation for IBS is also designed to work well with more traditional treatment approaches, and is appropriate for conditions known as spastic colon, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

This guided meditation for ADHD and improving focus and concentration is for anyone looking to successfully marshal the coherent, focused energy needed to learn, work, or reach an intended goal, in a natural, holistic way.

Designed for either muscular or migraine headaches, this research-proven guided meditation for head and neck pain can amplify the positive impact of headache medication, as well as provide stand-alone headache relief for those suffering from chronic headache pain. The combination of expertly layered narrative and calming music reduces head and neck pain by relaxing tense muscles in the upper body, neck and head, as well as offering images of blood vessels opening, widening and evening out.

Guided imagery for chemotherapy is a holistic, mind-body therapy that consists of healing words and images, set to soothing music, to achieve specific healing goals. Repeated listening once or twice a day for two to three weeks ensures maximum impact on physical comfort and positive attitude. This particular audio program has been distributed by oncology nurses in chemo units nationwide. The immersive, hypnotic, calming guided imagery and affirmations on this chemotherapy meditation program provide a sense of peace, control and mastery during a difficult time.

This guided meditation for anger teaches listeners how to better respond to debilitating anger and blame by listening repeatedly to simple images and metaphors, such as envisioning the loosening of tight cords that have been wrapped around the heart, constricting its natural energy and flow. The wisdom of this guided meditation for anger is that it sidesteps those mind traps by working directly with body sensation and symbolic images.

If you or someone you love has suffered a traumatic event, you know the devastating impact it can have on your life and your spirit. Life-threatening accidents, illnesses, assaults, abusive relationships—or a tragedy like 9/11—all can leave deep emotional wounds that persist long after physical scars have healed. Survivors become “invisible heroes,” courageously struggling to lead normal lives in spite of symptoms so baffling and disturbing that they sometimes doubt their own sanity.

Designed for those searching for ways how to heal a broken heart and those getting over a breakup or divorce, this guided meditation for heartbreak helps alleviate physical, psychological and emotional pain naturally, by reconnecting listeners to their own core of inner strength and basic, inborn sense of wholeness. This meditation for a breakup also instills reminders of a sense of purpose, lovability, and hope for the future, while envisioning the eventual return to living each day with an open, joyful heart.

This guided meditation contains hypnotic suggestions, healing guided imagery and affirmations for boosting your immune system naturally. It is designed to promote general wellness and resilience; support the body’s normal, ongoing protection against any encroaching bacteria, viruses, or cancer cells; and even target cold and flu prevention. If you are interested in an effective immune system meditation to enhance wellness and prevent disease, this combination of superb cellular imagery with exquisite music is the holistic guided imagery tool you are looking for.

This mix of six brief, favorite-pick relaxation and meditation exercises offers a convenient and portable toolkit of quick relaxation techniques to maintain emotional balance and relieve stress fast. These guided imagery and meditation exercises for stress provide speedy access to a peaceful, healing mind state—especially useful when time is short and pressure is mounting. Different meditation exercises will appeal at different times, depending on inner mood and external circumstances. Mix and match however you wish.

Created by foremost guided imagery and trauma psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek, this guided meditation for healing posttraumatic stress was made with the help of trauma experts as well as sufferers of posttraumatic stress. Empowering and effective, this guided PTSD audio program increases self-esteem, confidence and sense of self-worth, while it reduces distress and depression. A separate track of affirmations bolsters the PTSD treatment process with quick, positive reminders in a briefer format

Guided imagery is a holistic, mind-body technique that consists of healing words and hypnotic images, set to soothing music, to provide natural help with relaxation and self-calming. Repeated listening once or twice a day for two to three weeks ensures maximum impact. A separate track of affirmations shows how to relax in a briefer format, with positive statements designed for listening on the go or even while driving. The images on this relaxation meditation audio heighten feelings of love and safety, pump up serotonin and promote a state of energized calm.

In this highly listenable and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition. In addition to his five basic steps - a set of lifelong habits that will improve your health and control your insulin levels - Dr. Fung explains how to use intermittent fasting to break the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight - for good.

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

In Atomic Attraction Christopher Canwell takes us on a journey through the dark waters of attraction. What turns women on? What makes them choose one man over another? And how can you become truly desirable and attractive? This book answers these questions by combining the latest scientific research with real-life case studies to show you, the listener, how to ignite the fires of attraction and captivate those around you.

Meditation makes you more productive because it lets you earn back time. For each minute you spend meditating, you'll earn around nine minutes back, as Chris Bailey - author of The Productivity Project and Hyperfocus - will show in this candid and counter-intuitive guide to the productivity benefits of meditation.

Mel Robbins is back! The international bestselling phenomenon and creator of The Five Second Rule and Kick Ass with Mel Robbins returns to help you tackle the single biggest obstacle you face: fear. This life-changing Audible Original features a powerful mix of one-on-one life-coaching sessions and a personal narrative with vital take-aways that you can start using immediately.

Thousands of books have been written about the latest and greatest diets that will help people lose weight and improve health. But a key element in any successful nutritional health program is a tried-and-true method that most people haven't thought about - yet it could be revolutionary for taking health to the next level. This ancient secret is fasting.

Although clinical research has been conducted on narcissism as a disorder, less is known about its effects on victims who are in toxic relationships with partners with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Individuals with this disorder engage in chronic devaluation and manipulation of their partners, a psychological and emotional phenomenon known as "narcissistic abuse". Unfortunately, the full extent of what narcissistic abuse entails is not taught in any psychology class or diagnostic manual.

If you ask a Finn, they will likely be as baffled as you are. That’s why Melanie Dower, an expat who has been living in Finland for the past decade, has taken up the charge. Her vantage as an outsider entrenched in Finnish culture uniquely positions her to identify the keys to Finnish happiness that elude the rest of the world and that Finns take for granted. From sauna to strong social safety nets, Finnish life is made up of a constellation of habits and structures that leave its residents relaxed, healthy, and fulfilled.

It’s not just you. Stress levels are at an all-time high—so much so that a recently convened panel of medical experts in the US has recommended that all adults under the age of 65 be screened for anxiety. In How to Release Anxiety, Gabby Bernstein offers simple, actionable steps for feeling better, living with more ease, and showing up for those around us. Gabby’s unusual advice: Rather than manage your anxiety, what if you befriended it? Gabby posits that what we befriend, we can ultimately be at ease with. So she invites us to get curious.

95 percent of decisions are based on feelings. Not logic. Not rational thought. Feelings. Can you feel the pull of emotions, hunger, guilt, pain, jealously, depression, and everything else weighing on every decision that you make? Business owners, entrepreneurs, regular people looking to get in shape, anyone with a goal that isn't terrified of tough love - you need to listen to F--k Your Feelings - as soon as possible! In this audiobook you'll learn how to use personal mind control techniques to control the way your brain is wired and much more.