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The Five Hurdles to Happiness

And the Mindful Path to Overcoming Them

By: Mitch Abblett

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The Five Hurdles to Happiness

And the Mindful Path to Overcoming Them

By: Mitch Abblett

A practical approach to becoming aware of the "five hindrances"--the negative qualities that inhibit living the awakened life--and to breaking free of them in order to live more mindfully, effectively, compassionately. Five obstacles stand in between you and true happiness. What are they and how can you overcome them? Buddhist traditions teach that there are five negative qualities, or hindrances, that inhibit people from living an awakened life. Here, Mitch Abblett gives this teaching a modern, secular interpretation and helps you identify the hurdles that are blocking your contentment—desire, hostility, sluggishness, worry, and doubt—and how you can take your first steps to overcoming them. Combining traditional wisdom with contemporary psychology and using examples from his psychotherapy practice, Abblett uses the hurdles as a frame for engaging you in a process of contemplating your own life and learning to lean into your experience rather than merely repeating bad habits. By doing this, you can break free from the hurdles and live more mindfully, effectively, and compassionately.

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Shambhala Publications

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161180728X

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Prizeworthy

How to Meaningfully Connect, Build Character, and Unlock the Potential of Every Child

By: Mitch Abblett

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Prizeworthy

How to Meaningfully Connect, Build Character, and Unlock the Potential of Every Child

By: Mitch Abblett

Gold Nautilus Book Award Winner Learn how skillfully prizing kids (rather than mindlessly praising) can be a game changer in your relationship as a parent, teacher, or helper. Our culture is addicted to "good job!"--our all-purpose, feel-good, non-specific, or high-bar-setting verbal praise--especially when we talk to our kids. However, research shows that generic praise is insufficient and sometimes even backfires in nudging them toward their potential or helping kids navigate challenging moments. Praise can put too much emphasis on controlling results, and kids can experience it as pressure and learn to fear failing in adults’ eyes. By contrast, prizing is a game-changing mindset and set of specific skills that can help kids convert moments of emotional pain or stuckness into opportunities and possibilities for healthy change and growth. Prizing brings kids and adults together into a shared space in the present moment where conflict can dissolve, connection can thrive, and needed changes arise. In Prizeworthy, clinical psychologist Mitch Abblett introduces us to the skills of prizing and shows us what it looks like and how to do it in real-life situations. For example, techniques like "SNAPPing Out of Delusions of Outcome Control with Your Children" or "Light-Touch Goal-Setting with Your Kids" add an important layer of validation, compassionate presence, and skillful action to your relationships. Abblett also shares stories of how prizing has made a real difference in the lives of young people, parents, and professionals. He offers a host of scientifically-sound mindfulness and positive psychology-based practices for cultivating prizing at home, and in educational and therapeutic settings.

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1611808766

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The Heat of the Moment in Treatment: Mindful Management of Difficult Clients

By: Mitch Abblett

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The Heat of the Moment in Treatment: Mindful Management of Difficult Clients

By: Mitch Abblett

How to warm up to the clients that stop you cold. Have you experienced the anger, fear, doubt, and frustration that most clinicians feel but rarely put words to? Have you ever overreacted to a client in session or found yourself overwhelmed by the work with that client in your caseload? Are you looking for tools to manage your most “difficult” clients? Chances are, you’re like all other clinicians: At times you play “tug-of-war” with those in your care. The Heat of the Moment in Treatment is for clinicians looking to explore, reassess, and transform the way they treat their most difficult clients. With carefully designed mindfulness-based exercises, self-assessments, and skill development activities, this workbook helps clinicians understand their own role in therapeutic interactions, as well as how to proactively respond to tough client behavior in ways that improve the prospects for successful treatment. Author Mitch Abblett acts as a sensitive, expert guide, laying out a roadmap for the toughest of clinical encounters that almost all therapists face, whether seasoned or just starting out. His use of relatable metaphors, rhetorical questions, and stories from his own experience allows readers to reflect upon their own psychotherapy practice without feeling like there is one right way to deal with challenging clients. The Heat of the Moment in Treatment will help clinicians move beyond assumptions and reactive impulses to their “difficult” clients. Readers will gain proactive clinical leadership skills, while learning how to expand mindful awareness of self and others to access compassion and empathy for any client—even when the “heat” of moment-to-moment interaction in session is hard to tolerate.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393708845

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9780393708844

The Five Hurdles to Happiness

And the Mindful Path to Overcoming Them

By: Mitch Abblett

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0834841525

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Mindfulness for Teen Depression

A Workbook for Improving Your Mood

By: Mitch R. Abblett,Christopher Willard

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Mindfulness for Teen Depression

A Workbook for Improving Your Mood

By: Mitch R. Abblett,Christopher Willard

In Mindfulness for Teen Depression, two teen experts offer powerful tools based in mindfulness and positive psychology to help you ease symptoms, work through troubling thoughts and feelings, and thrive in all aspects of life. If you’re a teen with depression, you may often feel sad, lonely, and unmotivated. And it can be especially difficult to do well in school, make friends, and take those important steps toward adulthood. But it’s important for you to know that your depression is not your fault, and that it doesn’t have to define you. Most importantly, there are steps you can take to feel better. With this powerful workbook, you’ll learn effective skills based in mindfulness and positive psychology to help you manage difficult emotions, gain distance from negative thoughts, and enhance your awareness of the present moment. You’ll also discover tons of activities and exercises—such as mindful meditations, walking, yoga, healthy eating and sleeping tips, and more—to help you care for your body as well as your mind. Depression can make it seem like you're viewing the world through dark or distorted glasses. When you're depressed, it’s even hard to see yourself clearly. This book will empower you to feel better, more energized, and start reaching for your goals—one step at a time.

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New Harbinger Publications

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1626253846

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9781626253841

Helping Your Angry Teen

How to Reduce Anger and Build Connection Using Mindfulness and Positive Psychology

By: Mitch R. Abblett

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Helping Your Angry Teen

How to Reduce Anger and Build Connection Using Mindfulness and Positive Psychology

By: Mitch R. Abblett

Are you at your wits’ end dealing with an angry teen? This important guide offers frustrated parents powerful mindfulness tips to navigate heated moments of interaction with their child, as well as skills based in positive psychology to foster compassion, caring, and lasting connection. Does your teen get angry easily or act out? You aren’t alone. Parenting a teen is hard enough, but parenting an angry teen is especially difficult. You might feel unable to keep your own cool during disagreements, or even worry that your relationship with your teen is doomed. So, how can you make sure you stay grounded when the drama rises and reestablish a sense of connection? Written by a psychologist and teen expert, this book offers techniques based in mindfulness, compassion, and positive psychology to help you face the challenges that parenting an angry teen presents. You’ll discover the clinical and psychological underlying conditions that can contribute to teen anger, skills for improving communication, and mindfulness tips for staying calm yourself. In addition, you’ll learn skills for reestablishing a compassionate and connected relationship. If you’re ready to take control of your own reactions and start reconnecting with your angry teen, this book will help guide the way.

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1626255784

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From Anger to Action

Powerful Mindfulness Tools to Help Teens Harness Anger for Positive Change

By: Mitch R. Abblett

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From Anger to Action

Powerful Mindfulness Tools to Help Teens Harness Anger for Positive Change

By: Mitch R. Abblett

A comprehensive mindfulness program to help teens understand and channel anger into healthy expressions of creativity, advocacy, and empowerment. Sometimes you just feel pissed off, and that’s okay. Maybe you missed a deadline in school, flunked a test, didn’t get invited to a party, or feel angry about something you saw on the news or online. We’ve all been there. It’s impossible to go through life never feeling angry. But what if, instead of letting your anger take control, you were able to harness it in constructive ways? This book will show you how. With this guide, you’ll find powerful mindfulness tools to help you listen to your anger, connect with your core values and goals, and make positive changes that will truly empower you. Instead of resorting to outbursts, you’ll learn to channel the incredible energy of your anger into self-advocacy, social action, and productivity. You’ll also find stories from other teens just like you who’ve successfully redirected their anger into creating positive change. If you’re ready to change your relationship with anger and transform it into fuel for change and creative possibility, this book will guide you, every step of the way.

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1684032318

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Helping Your Angry Teen

How to Reduce Anger and Build Connection Using Mindfulness and Positive Psychology

By: Mitch R. Abblett

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How to Reduce Anger and Build Connection Using Mindfulness and Positive Psychology

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From Anger to Action

Powerful Mindfulness Tools to Help Teens Harness Anger for Positive Change

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Powerful Mindfulness Tools to Help Teens Harness Anger for Positive Change

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Book's by Mitch Abblett

The Five Hurdles to Happiness

The Five Hurdles to Happiness

Prizeworthy

Prizeworthy

The Heat of the Moment in Treatment: Mindful Management of Difficult Clients

The Heat of the Moment in Treatment: Mindful Management of Difficult Clients

The Five Hurdles to Happiness

The Five Hurdles to Happiness

Mindfulness for Teen Depression

Mindfulness for Teen Depression

Helping Your Angry Teen

Helping Your Angry Teen

From Anger to Action

From Anger to Action

Helping Your Angry Teen

Helping Your Angry Teen

From Anger to Action

From Anger to Action

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