Recommended Reading/Listening List

Getting stuck in a big black cloud of despair and hopelessness where you feel isolated and lonely can seem eternal if not terminal. You’re exhausted most of the time and you’ve lost interest in everything, even life itself sometimes – Depression. But it doesn’t have to be like that.  In this inspiring, breakthrough book the myths around depression are exposed, the truth is uncovered and exactly how you can beat depression step by step is revealed. Stepping Out of the Cloud will change how you think about depression and give you new hope and energy into breaking free of it forever

Identifying your predominant personality-type changes the way you approach life. If you know yourself – and, equally important, if you understand other people – you can confidently tackle your career and your personal relationships knowing exactly where you are coming from – and what everyone else is seeking. What this book presents you with is a revolutionary framework with which to comprehend your own needs, and the needs of others. Based upon the concept of evolutionary psychology, it reveals the determinants at the core of our characters – those very skills and psychological attitudes that we have inherited from our ancestors.

Griffin and Tyrrell are the foremost teachers of effective psychotherapy for depression in Europe. Without ‘psychobabble’, false sentiment or jargon, they make it easy to understand the causes of depression and why so many of us are so vulnerable to it. More importantly, they describe how to overcome it. Thousands throughout the UK and Ireland have already benefited from their approach. Now you can too.  ‘How to lift depression […fast]’ shatters many myths. It provides clear guidelines, with case histories, for helping people get out of depression, even those at high risk of committing suicide. Just reading it can raise your mood and put joy, pleasure and meaning back into life, even in the bleakest of circumstances.

The authors describe one of the most important psychological insights of our age: how we are all born with a rich natural inheritance – a partially formed mind containing a genetic treasure-house of innate knowledge patterns: ‘the human givens’. We all experience these givens as physical and emotional needs, powerful forces that must be satisfactorily met in our environment if our minds are to unfold and develop to their fullest potential. Includes a new chapter on the biological basis of content blindness – caetextia – that blights the lives of millions. Ultimately this book is uplifting and practical because it brings hope in these troubled times by clearly spelling out what each child and adult needs in order to develop well, how to help those who aren’t and who are suffering severe mental distress, including depression and post-traumatic stress.

We all know that exercise is good for the body. But did you know that it can transform your mind? This new scientific revolution will teach you how to boost brain cells, protect yourself against mental illness and dementia, and ensure success in exams and the workplace. Follow the SPARK! training regimen and build your brain to its peak performance. This book will change the way you think about exercise – and, for that matter, the way you think.

Grief can be your best friend, or your worst enemy.  Whether we are grieving for a loved one or for a time in our lives that has passed, each loss we face brings with it an element of change.  Our abilities to step out of the old and adjust to the new can often be held back by our fear of these changes, preventing us from defining a new, positive pathway.  Whatever your loss, and however you are adjusting to it, this book can help you move forward into a state of acceptance.  Whether you keep it by your bedside, in your desk, or tucked into a bag, Good Grief is the little voice telling you that you can do it, and that you are not alone.