Books — Self-Care

All Books on Self-Care (67)

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  Breathe to Heal

  Break Free From Asthma

  by Sasha Yakovleva, K. P. Buteyko, A. E. Novozhilov

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  Super Mind

  How to Boost Performance and Live a Richer and Happier Life Through Transcendental Meditation

  by Norman E. Rosenthal, MD

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  Transcendental Meditation

  The Essential Teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  by Jack Forem

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  Healing Your Emotional Self

  A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame

  by Beverly Engel

  4.6/5
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  Connecting with Loneliness

  A Guided Journal: Prompts to Discover Self-Love, Build Connection, and Embrace Joy

  by Jessie Everts, PhD, LMFT

  4.4/5
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  Self-Care Check-In

  A Guided Journal to Build Healthy Habits and Devote Time to You

  by Gg Renee Hill

  4.4/5
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  Start Where You Are

  A Journal for Self-Exploration

  by Meera Lee Patel

  4.4/5
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  Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve

  Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism

  by Stanley Rosenberg

  4.5/5
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  The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory

  The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe

  by Stephen W. Porges

  4.6/5
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  The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy

  Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation

  by Deb Dana

  4.6/5
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  Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection

  50 Client-Centered Practices

  by Deb Dana

  4.6/5
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  The Compassionate Mind Approach to Difficult Emotions

  Using Compassion Focused Therapy

  by Chris Irons

  4.5/5
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  The Compassionate Mind Workbook

  A Step-By-Step Guide to Developing Your Compassionate Self

  by Chris Irons, Elaine Beaumont

  4.5/5
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  Mental Wellness

  A holistic approach to mental health and healing. Natural remedies, foods, lifestyle strategies, therapies

  by DK Publishing, Pat Thomas (Editor)

  4.2/5
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  The Book of Light

  Illuminate Your Life with Self-Love

  by Nia the Light

  4.5/5
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  Practice You

  A Journal

  by Elena Brower

  4.4/5
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  The Empath’s Empowerment Journal

  Your Self-Care Companion

  by Judith Orloff

  4.4/5
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  Tending to the Sacred

  Rituals to Connect with Earth, Spirit, and Self

  by Ashley River Brant

  4.6/5
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  The Bloom Book

  A Flower Essence Guide to Cosmic Balance

  by Heidi Smith

  4.4/5
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  The Breathing Book

  by Christopher Willard, Olivia Weisser, and Alison Oliver

  4.4/5
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  No Bad Parts

  Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

  by Richard C. Schwartz

  4.6/5
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  The Wim Hof Method

  Activate Your Full Human Potential

  by Wim Hof

  4.6/5
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  Affirmations for the Inner Child

  by Rokelle Lerner

  4.3/5
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  Self-Healing with Reiki

  How to Create Wholeness, Harmony & Balance for Body, Mind & Spirit

  by Penelope Quest

  4.4/5
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  Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business)

  Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

  by Tabitha Brown

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  The Self-Care Solution

  A Year of Becoming Happier, Healthier, and Fitter- One Month At A time

  by Jennifer Ashton, M.D.

  4.3/5
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  The Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide to Dealing with Toxic People

  How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators

  by Shahida Arabi, MA

  4.4/5
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  Savor Every Bite

  Mindful Ways to Eat, Love Your Body, and Live with Joy

  by Lynn Rossy, PhD

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  Good Morning Intentions

  Sacred Rituals to Raise Your Vibration, Find Your Bliss, and Stay Energized All Day

  by Britt Deanda and Tara Schulenberg

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  Thoughts and Feelings

  Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life

  by Matthew McKay, PhD, Martha Davis, PhD and Patrick Fanning

  4.5/5
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  Quick Calm

  Easy Meditations to Short-Circuit Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience

  by Jennifer R. Wolkin, PhD

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  Surviving a Borderline Parent

  How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds & Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem

  by Kimberlee Roth and Freda Friedman, PhD, LCSW

  4.5/5
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  After the Rain

  Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

  by Alexandra Elle

  4.6/5
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  Befriending Your Body

  A Self-Compassionate Approach to Freeing Yourself from Disordered Eating

  by Ann Saffi Biasetti

  4.4/5
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  Mindful Eating

  A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

  by Jan Chozen Bays, MD

  4.3/5
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  The Inner Child Workbook

  What to do with your past when it just won't go away

  by Cathryn L. Taylor, M.A., M.F.C.C.

  4.4/5
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  Radical Compassion

  Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

  by Tara Brach, PhD

  4.6/5
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  The Compassion Book

  Teachings for Awakening the Heart

  by Pema Chödrön

  4.4/5
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  Mirror Work

  21 Days to Heal Your Life

  by Louise Hay

  4.5/5
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  True Refuge

  Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

  by Tara Brach, PhD

  4.6/5

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Related Quotes

• "Self-care is central to life itself."

  — Paul Gilbert

  The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy

• "When people start to love themselves more each day, it is amazing how their lives get better."

  — Louise Hay

  Meditations for Personal Healing

• "After years of individual counseling with clients, and conducting hundreds of workshops and intensive training programs… I find that there is only one thing that seems to heal every problem, and that is to love yourself."

  — Louise Hay

  Meditations for Personal Healing

• "Compassion involves developing the courage to be open to our anger and rage, not some kind of ‘soothing it away’. Indeed, to say it again, soothing is useful to act like a safe haven but also in preparation to courageously engage with what we need to."

  — Paul Gilbert

  The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy

• "If we have not experienced ourselves as unconditional love, we have more work to do, because that is who we really are."

  — Father Thomas Keating

  The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation

• "Our sense of self-worth is much less easily shaken if it is derived from a deeply held sense of self-compassion and self-respect, rather than being contingent on fulfilling certain ideals."

  — Erin Olivo

  The Self-Acceptance Project

• "We know how to be kind and compassionate to others when they’re feeling bad about themselves or are suffering in some way. We know what to say and do. We just have to remember to do it for ourselves."

  — Kristen Neff

  The Self-Acceptance Project

• "The loving Adult is both father and mother to the Inner Child, regardless of whether we are a man or a woman."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding: Becoming a Loving Adult to Your Inner Child

• "All of us face the job of becoming a loving mother and father to our Inner Child."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding: Becoming a Loving Adult to Your Inner Child

• "… caring for the self means learning to regulate our emotions when we can through our rhetoric; and, when we cannot, learning to let our emotions wash over us without allowing them to dictate our words and control our behavior."

  — Jeremy David Engels

  The Art of Gratitude

• "Perhaps the biggest tragedy in our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns. Entangled in the trance of unworthiness, we grow accustomed to caging ourselves in with self-judgment and anxiety, with restlessness and dissatisfaction."

  — Tara Brach

  Radical Acceptance

• "May you become the gracious and passionate subject of your own life."

  — John O’Donohue

  To Bless the Space Between Us

• "Make… soul care a way of life, and you may discover what the Greeks called eudaimonia—a good spirit, or, in the deepest sense, happiness."

  — Thomas Moore

  Care of the Soul

• "When one is at home in oneself, one is integrated and enjoys a sense of balance and poise. In a sense that is exactly what spirituality is: the art of homecoming."

  — John O’Donohue

  To Bless the Space Between Us

• "May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within."

  — John O’Donohue

  To Bless the Space Between Us

• "It takes time and practice to develop the ongoing consciousness: “Am I being a Loving Adult to my Inner Child?”"

  — Margaret Paul, PhD

  Inner Bonding

• "If we do not accept the responsibility of being both the father and mother to our Inner Child, then our Child will seek elsewhere for someone to do it."

  — Margaret Paul, PhD

  Inner Bonding

• "By reparenting our Inner Child, we can release and heal the pain from the past."

  — Margaret Paul, PhD

  Inner Bonding

• "When your relationship exhibits consistently high levels of secure functioning, you and your partner automatically increase the resources you’re able to use for personal development, mutual physical and mental health… You become more resilient as individuals and as a couple, able to manage the slings and arrows of life and its unknowns."

  — Stan Tatkin

  We Do

• "It is only when we are willing to do our own inner work and take full responsibility for our own Inner Child that we can change the dysfunctional, codependent parenting that dominates our society. As we become healthy, so will our children and their children, leading to a healthy society."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "Even when we try hard to be good parents, when we are not being loving to our own Inner Child, we are teaching our children to be unloving to themselves."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "For a strong and lasting partnership, both of us must be connected to our own inner feelings, as well willing to be open to learning about the other’s."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "The most important thing we can learn about loving each other is the paradox that we must learn to love ourselves first."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "Those of us who have suffered from extreme physical, sexual, and emotional abuse have a big challenge trying to create a loving Inner Adult."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "When our Inner Child feels consistently unloved by our Inner Adult, the Child’s false beliefs, adopted in childhood when parents were unloving, are reinforced—beliefs that we are bad, wrong, unlovable, unimportant, inadequate, defective in some way."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "When our Inner Child is feeling consistently loved by our Inner Adult, he or she is a wondrous being—trusting, creative, imaginative, curious, passionate, playful, energetic, enthusiastic, spontaneous, soft, sensitive, sensual, with an incredible sense of wonder and aliveness. Delighted just to be alive, he or she is open and receptive to new ideas and experiences."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "When you are being loving to yourself, your shame lessens and your self-esteem rises."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "Inner Bonding is a process of connecting our Adult thoughts with our instinctual gut feelings, the feelings of our “Inner Child,” so that we can live free of conflict within ourselves."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "Self-care is not a selfish act; it is an act of generosity for self and others."

  — Joanne Cacciatore

  Bearing the Unbearable

• "Solace and care come from many sources. Others who listen deeply, attentively, and nonjudgmentally can be found in the least expected places. Take note, pay attention, and seek help from those willing to be present with you. Time with these kinds of people can carry you through perilous terrain."

  — Joanne Cacciatore

  Bearing the Unbearable

• "The practice of conscious “abdominal” breathing… is the bridge between the conscious and unconscious functions of our nervous system."

  — Alexis Brink

  The Art of Jin Shin

• "Ultimately, self-acceptance relates to the opening of the heart. It has to do with the long, hard journey of loving ourselves."

  — Mark Nepo

  The Self-Acceptance Project

• "The person to whom we have the highest moral obligation is the one over whom we have the highest influence, and that is our future self. So, if you want to give yourself a gift tomorrow or next year, or perhaps in the next lifetime, treat yourself well."

  — Rick Hanson

  The Self-Acceptance Project

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