An Illustrated Guide to Pathological Demand Avoidance
This book is an essential read for any parent with a PDA child, to help better understand your child, build support systems and carve out some essential self care time guilt free.
How to Build a Neurodiversity-Affirming Future and ChallengeNeuronormativity
This affirming and thoughtful guide outlines how and why we need to fundamentally shift our thinking about neurodivergent people. We need to accept differences rather than framing them as a problem, abnormality or disorder. Welcome to the neurodiversity paradigm.
Help your back pain by understanding it. This book contains the latest and most comprehensive information and research on back pain and how you can overcome it. With a clinical base, this book is the closest someone can come to getting treatment without seeing a physiotherapist.
Teaching Skills of Body Awareness and Supporting Connection with Others
There are some things that many of us take for granted - such as knowing when we are hot or cold, feel hungry, or need to go to the toilet. But how do we know these things, and why do some people struggle to recognise them? Interoception - the ability to identify and act on physical sensations inside the body - is crucial to human well-being. It ......
Research into human evolution indicates that we will face all some form of adversity in our lives. Estimates are that an average individual is likely to face up to three significant adverse events relating to health, relationship or financial loss and 7-9 smaller adverse events like minor accident, injury, theft, bullying.
In this empowering guide, Yenn Purkis and Sam Rose set out honest advice and strategies to help autistic trans and/or gender divergent teens to thrive exactly as they are. Covering a huge range of topics including coming out, masking, building a sense of pride and much more, it is an essential resource for living happily and authentically.
An essential mental health guide for trans people, combining therapeutic strategies alongside the author's first-hand experience. With advice on anxiety, depression, trauma, negative body image, suicide and dissociation, it provides accessible and realistic strategies for everyone regardless of how they identify, to help them to live life to the ......
How to Understand Your Shame and Gain Inner Freedom
Shame can underlie a multitude of common mental health problems including low self-esteem, depression and anxiety. Confronting Shame will help you understand and overcome your shame with reflective exercises in each chapter to rebuild your empathy and compassion towards yourself.
Throughout history and across cultures, sleeping with your baby has been the norm, yet today the practice is fraught with questions, fear, and guilt. Parents are left exhausted, and those who cherish the closeness of cosleeping find themselves doubting their parental instincts.
In Safe Infant Sleep, a globally recognized ......
This queer mental health workbook uses CBT, DBT and ACT to support LGBTQIA+ people with mental health challenges such as anxiety, self harm, shame, trauma, low self-esteem, and eating disorders. With a wealth of strategies, activities, and practical insights, this workbook helps queer people improve their wellbeing based on their personal needs.
A Personalized Self-Care Approach to Managing your Sensory and Emotional
This is the go-to-guide to surviving and thriving as an autistic adult. Featuring customisable, stress-relieving strategies that are easy to implement into busy everyday life to create a calmer, happier you. Packed with lived-experience and professional tips and tricks, this guide works to help you truly look after your autistic self.
What is the difference between fear and excitement and how can you tell them apart? How do the mind and body make emotions? When can anxiety be good? This science-based graphic book responds to these questions and more, revealing just how strange anxiety is, but also how to unravel its mysteries and relieve its effects. ......
An easy-to-use self-help program that is based on methods clinically proven to reduce the recurrence of depression. Revealing the hidden psychological mechanisms that cause chronic unhappiness, this work guides readers through a series of exercises designed to break the mental habits that lead to despair.
This updated edition of Maxine Aston's workbook is packed full of insightful, helpful and easily accessible activities for couples where one partner is on the autism spectrum to understand and accept their differences. This book expands on topics including verbal and non-verbal communication, sexual issues, socialising and parenting, with case ......
How to Run, Swim, Cycle, Sew, or Sing Your Way Through Depression
A powerful, motivational collection of stories from those with mental illness about the activities and hobbies that helped them to heal and recover. From running, swimming and cycling, through to singing, gardening, knitting and yoga, this book will help you to get your life back on track.
Expert advice for conquering the big moments that define us
Our lives are made up of many big moments and it is these big moments that define us. Some of those moments are full of infinite joy – landing your dream job, marrying the love of your life, having your first child, buying your first pad, starting a business.
This book looks at what it means to be an autistic parent, offering practical advice about how to overcome the challenges of parenting when you are autistic and the advantages that being autistic brings to raising children.
