Sep 23, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Health & Wellbeing, Psychology \ Mental Health, Victoria
ISBN 9781923333208
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Ancient Realms New Directions
Imagine that you wake overseas one night and think you are in hell. In this darkness you fight oriental demons and dodge laser beams. You are strapped to the bed of a baffling building, tended by people you don’t recognise. Then imagine you are home again, and that you gradually get better on no medication. You take a year off to travel.
What would you then think and feel? Far from being broken you finish a medical degree and study psychiatry whilst holding on to your secret. Spin forward forty years after a career in community psychiatry. You decide to study and Beyond Bipolar- Ancient Realms New Directions is incepted, about living mood and psychotic disorders from the inside and the outside.
About the Author
Australian born psychiatrist Dr James Le Bas PhD is the author of Beyond Bipolar, Ancient Realms, New Directions. As a sufferer himself, his career was awakened in a basement ward in Manilla, the first of four hospitalisations for psychosis, depression, and mania. His new book explores the role of ostracism in the determination of what he has termed the tripolar disorders and incorporates the models of Jaak Panksepp and Jeffrey Gray. In his new book he deals with the difficult issues – love, addiction, and loss, as he faces up to the mystery of mental illness, both at large and within himself, with his new mode of understanding – the Tesseract.
Aug 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Addiction & Recovery, Australian, New South Wales, Poetry, Psychology \ Mental Health
ISBN 978-1-923265-42-4
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Dive into the raw, unfiltered world of All My Bad Habits. This is a collection all about the chaos and beauty of going through the waves and motions of this crazy, beautiful and complicated world. Whether it’s falling in love so hard you feel your bones crack on the sidewalk
or realising you have an inner child who’s wounds need your attention. Along the way we pick up habits that are a product of this profound, beautiful and utterly scary experience of growing up as a young adult. The people that come through the doors of our life come in so many unexpected forms, and he would change everything.
Join the club and witness the weave of words with a deft hand, exploring themes of love, loss, addiction, and redemption. This collection is a testament to the power of vulnerability, capturing the essence of our most intimate flaws and the redemptive beauty found within
them. Bold, introspective, and profoundly honest, All My Bad Habits is a journey through the heart’s darkest corners and back into the light.
Aug 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Memoir, New South Wales, Psychology \ Mental Health, Sydney
ISBN 978-1-923214-41-5
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Living with Schizophrenia
“My dad found me on the street and he approached me and said hello, but I told him to piss off because I thought he was someone with a mask and that he wasn’t my father. It was very damaging for my dad to cop this. To think that I thought my dad was a man with a mask … I was so far gone. I told him I nearly tried to rip the mask off his face because I was so sure it wasn’t him. ”
Misdiagnosed, angry, and homeless, James’ journey through life became a nightmare for him and others around him. paranoid schizophrenia.
Afterall, that’s how it can be with paranoid schizophrenia.
Jul 18, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Health & Wellbeing, Psychology \ Mental Health, Reference, Self-help \ Personal Development, Western Australia
ISBN 978-1-923214-22-4
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Changing the direction of your life to be resilient.
Everyone has challenges in their life, this is part of a normal life. Resilience is the ability to experience
these challenges and keep living a good life. It is not having a perfect life, it is more not getting derailed by the challenges and stuck in them.
Resilience is often marketed as a bunch of strategies like mindfulness, self-care, gratitude, and ‘boom’ you are resilient. These approaches generally don’t work. That is because they don’t address the problems in your life and they don’t give you a reason to do the work. They don’t answer questions like: Why should I engage in healthy relationships or mindfulness? Why should I forgive someone? Why am I so angry? A self-care walk is lovely to do, but you have to understand why you are going on the walk and do something about that.
This book will help you to understand your challenging experiences, and why some have impacted you and others have not. You will see why you set poor boundaries, give up on things too easily, or have conflict in relationships. It will also help you to develop better coping skills – embracing both your emotions and your practical side to work though challenges. Most importantly, this book will help you to redefine your worth. When you understand your value, you will work to change what is not working in your life.
Once you make different choices, you will experience a turning point. This is when you turn away from the current path you are on and start to travel on a more helpful one. These turning points aren’t always large changes, but they are enough to help you to live a resilient life. I hope through reading this book you experience your own turning points, and that you get to live the life you want. Life can throw some big challenges, but if you know how to manage them you can be resilient.
About the Author
Dr Mandie Shean has completed a Bachelor of Education (primary), Bachelor of Arts with First Class
Honours (Psychology), and combined Masters/PhD in community psychology (Resilience in adolescence)
at Edith Cowan University.
She is a registered teacher and psychologist. She has worked as a primary teacher for 20 years, a school psychologist in government schools, and a lecturer in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University (ECU). She is currently working in a K-12 school as the College Psychologist and holds an adjunct position at ECU.
Mandie’s research and practice is focused on increasing family, student, and teacher wellbeing. She believes in developing healthy community that support individuals to the be the best version of themselves
Jul 16, 2024 | *, *Featured books, Australian, Health & Wellbeing, LGBTQ+ Non-fiction, Manual \ Training Material, Parenting & Family, Psychology \ Mental Health
ISBN 978-1-923214-18-7
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An epic teen guide for autistic girls and gender diverse youth
Well, so are we, and we remember exactly what it was like as a teen. That’s why we’ve created this epic teen guide—because we want you to have all the info we wished we had back then!
We packed it with insider knowledge, personal stories, and helpful tips, so you don’t have to go on this journey alone. We’ll go through all the stuff you need to know as an autistic teen girl, or autistic gender diverse teen, from home and school life, to friends and relationships, puberty and all the tricky stuff like mental health, and bullying.
Learn heaps about autistic identity and culture, and discover how to embrace yourself exactly as you are.
Jun 4, 2024 | *Featured books, Autobiography, Health & Wellbeing, Memoir, Parenting & Family, Psychology \ Mental Health, Queensland
ISBN 978-1-923214-71-2
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My wild ride to motherhood and all the obstacles in between
A raw and honest memoir of one woman’s journey to becoming a mother; faced with a series of traumatic events riddled with zesty personality and a brutal sense of humour. With the aim to bring awareness to the depths of physical and psychological warfare that exists in motherhood, the book is not only for mothers or those who have suffered significant loss, but also for the partners, the friends and the family to see through an unfiltered lens.
