Recommended Resources
Great book about using Self-Hypnosis:
Strategic Self-Hypnosis: How to Overcome Stress, Improve Performance, and Live to Your Fullest Potential
The classic, best-selling guide to self-improvement through self-hypnosis has been updated with new, more effective techniques. Dr. Straus provides step-by-step guidance to help you overcome stress, bad habits, and negativity, enabling you to reach your peak potential and achieve maximum performance in all areas of your life.
Great book about the Practice of Hypnotherapy:
The Practice of Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Hypnosis
This comprehensive manual for practitioners of cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy integrates traditional hypnotherapy with cognitive-behavioural therapy techniques, based on current evidence and best practices. Authored by a specialist with over fifteen years of experience, it is essential reading for those interested in modern, evidence-based clinical hypnosis and the use of mental imagery techniques.
Great books about ACT:
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
This empowering book presents the insights and techniques of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Learn how to clarify your values, develop self-compassion, and find true satisfaction with this bigger and better guide to:
• Reducing stress and worry
• Handling painful thoughts and feelings more effectively
• Breaking self-defeating habits
• Overcoming insecurity and self-doubt
• Building better relationships
• Improving performance and finding fulfilment at work
The ACT Workbook for Depression and Shame: Overcome Thoughts of Defectiveness and Increase Well-Being Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
Drawing on the techniques of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a cutting-edge form of cognitive-behavioral therapy, The Confidence Gap explains how to:
• Free yourself from common misconceptions about what confidence is and how to build it
• Transform your relationship with fear and anxiety
• Clarify your core values and use them as your inspiration and motivation
• Use mindfulness to effectively handle negative thoughts and feelings.
Great books about raising expat kids:
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
Third culture kids (TCK)—children of expatriates, missionaries, military personnel, and others who live outside their passport country—have unique issues with personal development and identity. David C. Pollock and Ruth E. Van Reken bring to light the emotional and psychological realities that come with the TCK journey.
Raising Up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids: A Practical Guide to Preventive Care
In Raising up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids, Lauren Wells has gifted us with a gentle guide and a preventive health primer, unique in the field of third culture kid literature. If you are working with, raising, or love third culture kids from any part of the globe, this book will give you practical ways to be proactive about the way you raise up third culture kids.
Misunderstood: The impact of growing up overseas in the 21st century
Misunderstood by Tanya Crossman examines the profound impact of international life on children who live abroad and eventually return to their home countries, using personal stories to introduce the concept of the Third Culture. This book offers valuable insights and practical suggestions for families living overseas and those who support them."
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Great books about raising kids in general:
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
A revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children. By applying these discoveries to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and foster vital growth.
Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
Offering perspective-shifting parenting principles and troubleshooting for specific scenarios—including sibling rivalry, separation anxiety, tantrums, and more—Good Inside is a comprehensive resource for a generation of parents looking for a new way to raise their kids while still setting them up for a lifetime of self-regulation, confidence, and resilience.