Health - Psychology
Winner
Swipe: The Science Behind Why We Don't Finish What We Start
Tracy Maylett
Tim Vandehey
Why is it so hard to finish what we start? Every day we wake up determined to engage with life—to finish that novel, overcome work challenges, repair a strained relationship, or reach fitness goals. Despite our best intentions, we fall short. Are we doomed to a lifetime of regret?
Reaching goals after repeated frustration starts with understanding the impulse known as the Swipe, a side effect of our high-tech culture. Drawing on disciplines from neurobiology to business and based on a massive database, Tracy Maylett and Tim Vandehey reveal a powerful psychological process that makes us disengage from what (or who) we care about most—often when we’re heartbreakingly close to real breakthroughs.
In Swipe, readers learn how this mechanism works and recognize when they’re caught on the “Hamster Wheel.” They’ll discover how to short-circuit the Swipe, reengage, and finally finish what they start.
Health - Psychology
Winner
Frazzlebrain: Break Free From Anxiety, Anger, and Stress Using Advanced Discoveries in Neuropsychology
Gina Simmons Schneider Ph.D.
FRAZZLEBRAIN is the first known book to address the link between anxiety, anger, and stress while employing groundbreaking remedies from neuropsychology. Readers of FRAZZLEBRAIN will learn how focused thoughts, intentional behaviors, and healing experiences shape the structure and function of the brain. They learn how to tame cynicism and hostility and generate more hopeful thoughts. Readers explore the relationship between the gut and the brain. They learn how time spent in nature heals the nervous system. Daily, routine, and random acts of kindness help connect us to others and strengthen resilience. Readers learn how to create healing experiences that can help the brain recover from trauma. Cultivating positive emotions changes brain chemistry and promotes good health and stronger relationships. FRAZZLEBRAIN includes 23 mood-boosting exercises to settle the nervous system and provide immediate relief from anxiety, anger, and stress.
Health - Psychology
Finalist
The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
D. Terrence Foster, MD
The Stress Book takes a comprehensive approach to stress management and prevention and how modifying your lifestyle and taking practical steps can help significantly reduce the level of stress you are experiencing.
This book intends to help people struggling with challenging situations in most aspects of life, such as stressful jobs, complex personal or toxic relationships, finances, business, etc. Over forty approaches to stress reduction, management, and prevention are covered in this book, giving you practical guidance applicable to most of life's problems and circumstances.This book's goal, in part, is to help prevent people from getting involved in these and other difficult situations that may be stressful before stress is manifested.
The Stress Book will significantly improve people's lives at any level of society who may be experiencing stress in their personal, business, or professional lives. Thereby enabling them to live a longer, more prosperous, and enjoyable life.
Health - Psychology
Finalist
Dear Psychosis,
Sarah Martin
What would you do if you received a message from a stranger telling you that your daughter, who is travelling alone in Turkey, is having some sort of mental ill health episode?
Dear Psychosis, is a confronting, frightening, dramatic and a no-holds-barred account of a family’s experience following their daughter’s psychotic episode in Istanbul, and her later diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
To some it may be a warning, to others a story of hope. Most of all, it shows how the love and care given by strangers and the courage, strength and fortitude of a family paved the way for their daughter’s recovery and inspired the family to break the silence around mental illness.
This book will give you strength, hope, awareness, resilience, empathy and knowledge - whether you are a carer, a loved one or experience mental ill health yourself.
Dear Psychosis, is a powerful story that needs to be heard.
Break. The. Silence.