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Conquering Depression, Fear, or Anxiety
Triumph over fear: a book of help and hope for people
with anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias
By Jerrilyn
Ross 616.85 Ross
Mastering your mood: temperament types, comfort zones,
and the psychobiology of emotions
By Melvin Kinder
152.4 Kinder
Getting your life back: the complete guide to recovery
from depression
By Jesse Wright
616.85 Wright
End the struggle and dance with life: how to build
yourself up when the world gets you down
By Susan Jeffers
158.1 Jeffers
Dark nights of the soul: a guide to finding your way
through life’s ordeals
By Thomas Moore
204.42
Painfully shy: how to overcome social anxiety and
reclaim your life
By Barbara G. Markway 616.85
Markway
The anxiety & phobia workbook
By Edmund J. Bourne
616.85 Bourne
Taking Care and Control of Yourself
Self nurture: learning to care for yourself as effectively
as you care for everyone
By Alice Domar and Henry Dreher
305.42 Domar
Spring cleaning for the soul: love lessons for life:
an inspirational guide for finding financial and spiritual abundance right
where you are
By Joy Krause
158.1 Krause
The success principles: how to get from where you
are to where you want to be
By Jack Canfield
158 Canfield
Finding your own north star: claiming the life you
were mean to live
By Martha Beck
158.1 Beck
Choices: taking control of your life and making it
matter
By Melody Beattie
170.44 Beattie
Never good enough: freeing yourself from the chains
of perfectionism
By Monica Ramirez Basco 155.2 Basco
In control: no more snapping at your family, sulking
at work, steaming in the grocery line, seething at meetings, stuffing your
frustration
By
Don’t worry, make money: spiritual and practical ways
to create abundance and more fun in your life
By Richard Carlson
332.024 Carlson
Finding Happiness
Happiness is a choice
By Barry Neil Kaufman
158 Kaufman
The pursuit of happiness: who is happy and why
By David G. Myers
158 Myers
Feeling good: the new mood therapy
By David D. Burns
158.1 Burns
How to want what you have: discovering the magic and
grandeur of everyday existence
By Timothy Miller
170 Miller
The nine fantasies that will ruin your life and the
eight realities that will save you
By Joy Browne
158 Browne
Stumbling on happiness
By Daniel Gilbert
158 Gilbert
Happiness: lessons from a new science
By P.R.G. Layard
170 Layard
The saints’ guide to happiness: everyday wisdom from
the lives of the saints
By Robert Ellsberg
248.4 Ellsberg
The art of happiness: a handbook for living
By the Dalai
Lama 294.3 Bstan…
Your tomorrows can be different from your yesterdays
By H. Norman Wright
248.4 Wright
Battling Addiction
7 tools to beat addiction
By
Hooked but not helpless: kicking nicotine addiction
By Patricia L. Allison
362.296 Allison
Controlling your drinking: tools to make moderation
work for you
By William R. Miller
613.81 Miller
Alcoholism, drug addition, and the road to recovery:
life on the edge
By Barry Stimmel 362.29
Stimmel
Achieving Mind-Body Wellness
Stop being your symptoms and start being yourself
By Arthur Barsky and Emily Deans 616 Barsky
Mind your heart: a mind/body approach to stress management,
exercise, and nutrition for heart health
By Aggie Casey
613 Casey
Instant emotional healing: acupressure for the emotions
By Peter T. Lambrou 616.89
Lambrou
Brain fitness: anti-aging strategies for achieving
super mind power
By Bob Goldman
153.1 Goldman
Managing Stress
When your body gets the blues: the clinically proven
program for women who feel tired and stressed and eat too much
By Marie Annette Brown
616.85 Brown
Good stress, bad stress: an indispensable guide to
identifying and managing your stress
By Barry Lenson 155.904
Lenson
StressRelief
for disasters great and small: what to expect and what to do from day one
to year one and beyond
By Georgia Witkin 155.9
Witkin
The how-to-be book: a fable with exercises to take
the stress out of your life
By Thomas Thiss 155.9
Thiss
Dealing with Grief
On grief and grieving: finding the meaning of grief
through the five stages of loss
By Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler 155.9 Kubler-Ross
Awakening from grief: finding the way back to joy
By John E. Welshons 155.9
Welshons
Life after loss: conquering grief and finding hope
By Raymond A. Moody
155.9 Moody
Mourning and dancing: a memoir of grief and recovery
By Sally Downham Miller 155.9
Miller
The grief recovery handbook: the action program for
moving beyond death, divorce, and other losses
By John W. James
152.8 James