Do you want to change your relationship with painful thoughts and feelings that are holding you back from making changes to improve your life? InAcceptance and Commitment Therapy For Dummies, you'll discover how to identify negative and unhealthy modes of thinking and apply Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles throughout your day-to-day life, creating a healthier, richer and more meaningful existence with yourself and others.

Closely connected to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), ACT is an evidence-based, NICE-approved therapy that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies mixed in with commitment and behaviour-changing strategies to help people increase their psychological flexibility in both their personal and professional lives. With the help of this straightforward and authoritative guide, you'll find out how to target unpleasant feelings and not act upon them—without sending yourself spiraling down the rabbit hole. The objective is not happiness; rather, it is to be present with what life brings you and to move toward valued behaviour.

• Shows you how to banish unhelpful thoughts
• Guides you to making room for painful feelings
• Teaches you how to engage fully with your here-and-now experience
• Helps you cope with anxiety, depression, stress, OCD and psychosis

Whether you're looking to practice self care at home or are thinking about seeing an ACT therapist,Acceptance and Commitment Therapy For Dummies makes it easier to live a healthier and more productive life in spite of—and alongside—unpleasantness.

Vital Memory and Affect takes as its subject the autobiographical memories of ‘vulnerable’ groups, including survivors of child sexual abuse, adopted children and their families, forensic mental health service users, and elderly persons in care home settings. In particular the focus is on a particular class of memory within this group: recollected episodes that are difficult and painful, sometimes contested, but always with enormous significance for a current and past sense of self. These ‘vital memories’, integral and irreversible, can come to appear as a defining feature of a person’s life.

In Vital Memory and Affect, authors Steve Brown and Paula Reavey explore the highly productive way in which individuals make sense of a difficult past, situated as they are within a highly specific cultural and social landscape. Via an exploration of their vital memories, the book combines insights from social and cognitive psychology to open up the possibility of a new approach to memory, one that pays full attention to the contextual conditions of all acts of remembering.

This path-breaking study brings together a unique set of empirical material and maps out an agenda for research into memory and affect that will be important reading for students and scholars of social psychology, memory studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and other related fields.

This book provides insight into significant and particularly difficult autobiographical memories among vulnerable groups.

New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and International Thriller Writers, Inc., present a collection of remarkable stories inFirst Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization’s bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before-published stories packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem.

• A cunning criminal thinks he can use a child to take the rap for his crimes.
• A hospital intern turned body snatcher
• A priest who comes face-to-face with his wife’s murderer on death row.
• A Confederate soldier comes home to his love, but changed by more than just the war…he comes back wrong.
• The discovery of a flying saucer in the ocean depths brings one man to the brink of a massive revelation.
• A dying man’s last request proves to his ex-wife that he’s still rotten to the core.
• A clandestine operative finds himself caught in a wicked game of confusion…but who is calling the shots?

No matter what type of thriller you listen to, you’ll find something here that will entertain you…and perhaps a new writer you’ll cherish for years to come.

This book brings together work by 130 photographers that has appeared in Eyemazing over the last ten years, including images by Michael Ackerman, Bettina Rheims, Sally Mann, and Roger Ballen, and by emerging talents whose first international exposure has been in the magazine. The photographs are organized into two sections, “Dreams and Memories of a Past Life” and “Our Body, Our Cage. Our Body, Our Home,” and are accompanied by supporting essays and profiles of the artists.

It's Christmas Eve, Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over:

?Birmingham Museum of Art
?Jazz Hall of Fame, Birmingham
?Samford Hall, Auburn Uni
?Rocket Park, Huntsville
?St. John's Episcopal, Montgomery
?Vulcan Satue, Birmingham
?Union Station, Montgomery
?Skyscrapers, Mobile
?Ivy green (Helen Keller), Tuscumbia
?Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa

'Ho, ho ho!' laughs Santa. 'Merry Christmas, Alabama!'