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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Discover how to finally manage and minimize the stress in your life with these inspiring lectures. Packed with scientifically-backed behavior modifications and cognitive exercises, popular Great Courses instructor Dr. Kimberlee Bethany Bonura’s course helps you build a personal stress management toolkit so you can better manage your stress response.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Does self-care sound uncomfortably self-focused and egotistical to you? If so, remember that caring for yourself is a crucial component of your own resilience, as well as giving you the energy and ability to help others. Learn how the Wheel of Life exercise can help you determine where you’re lacking in self-care, and how to create and manage your own Self-Care Journal to improve your resilience.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Research shows we thrive when we embrace problems, confident that we're resilient enough to work through them. In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," you’ll learn how to create greater resilience. Whether you’re a trauma survivor or someone who is simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life, your life will be enriched when you proactively increase your resilience.
84) Methadonia
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Methadonia is the borderland between high and straight, where recovering heroin addicts on methadone "maintenance" exist. Passing the time on benzos and other prescription drugs that enhance the methadone, addicts find themselves in Methadonia for years, or decades. Selected for the prestigious New York Film Festival and featured on HBO, this unflinching, intimate film reveals the culture of addiction through the eyes and lives of men and women stuck...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
We often think of physical resilience as our body’s physical strength and fitness (the stronger we are, the quicker we’ll bounce back). But that’s only part of it. Learn about the additional skills needed to recover well from physical stress, illness, or injury. You’ll see that building physical resilience is not just what you do, it’s also how and why you do it.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This practice will guide you through the steps of preparing for sleep. You’ll learn how to focus your attention on the good things that happened during your day as you start to settle in. You’ll enjoy relaxing all parts of the body (front, back, and sides), getting rid of tension wherever you’re carrying it. The guided meditation at the end of the practice might lead you directly into sleep.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Our mind has the power to make or break our ability to recover from adversity. While we can’t completely control what we think, we can control how we understand and react to those thoughts. Explore the important relationships between your thoughts, belief systems, and core values, and learn why psychological flexibility is the foundation of mental resilience.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Arousal plus your value judgment equals your stress level. And what you respond to in life isn't the raw stimuli you experience (like a traffic jam) but your perceptions of these stimuli. Explore this idea in a lecture that recasts the stress continuum as a positive-negative curve instead of a line.
Publisher
Normal Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A decade after the award-winning film about autism, Normal People Scare Me, Taylor Cross is at it again in this sequel documentary wherein he interviews former and new cast members and family about attitudes and first-person perspectives/experiences in autism today.. In the NORMAL PEOPLE SCARE ME TOO, Taylor asks such questions as “What’s hard for you?” “What are you really good at?” “What do you want educators, parents and others to know...
90) Certain Proof
Publisher
Footpath Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
With an introduction by Academy-Award winning actor, Chris Cooper, this feature-length documentary is about three children living with significant communication and physical disabilities struggling against the public schools in an emotional battle to prove their worth.. Over the course of two and a half years, CERTAIN PROOF follows the lives of Kayla, Josh and Colin, three children with cerebral palsy. Despite multiple disabilities, they fight to...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Today’s teens are more exposed to illegal, prescription and over the counter drugs than ever before. Many teens are starting to see drug use as part of the normal teenage experience whether to escape, self-medicate, get instant gratification, or hide feelings of low self-esteem and lack of confidence. This program discusses the ways teens can resist pressure to try drugs, ways they can say “no” to their friends and the dangers and consequences...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this program we'll learn about the importance of a good night's sleep, sleep disorders and the treatment options for insomnia. We spend about one-third of our time asleep and more than 75% of Americans between the ages of 20 and 59 report having difficulty sleeping on a regular basis. People over 60 may not sleep as deeply as those of a younger age. Sleep is just as important as diet and exercise and the amount of sleep you need depends on your...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
HEARTSOUNDS is an award winning movie that has been featured in 12 film festivals. It tells a story about a young woman's lifelong fascination with penguins and how they transformed her life in time of need. There are 40 species of these flightless birds that make their home in the South Pole. Newborns must stay out of the ocean until their feathers are waterproof and depend on their parents to provide food and shelter. Like humans, not all penguin...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this program we'll learn the connection between anxiety and depression, the habits that contribute to anxiety that you can break and what to tell yourself the next time you are depressed. Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in the U.S. affecting forty million adults. About half of those that are diagnosed with anxiety disorders also suffer from depression. Experiencing occasional anxiety and worry is normal but people with anxiety...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Vaccines are widely regarded as one of the greatest achieves of modern medicine and save millions of lives every year. But there are an increasing number of families who decide, for one reason or another, not to vaccinate their children. As a result, diseases that were almost eradicated in the developed countries are returning.. We hear from various families that are against vaccination. Some of them believe in natural and alternative medicines, others...
97) Cafeteria Man
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The USDA estimates 32 million school kids consume up to 50% of their calories at school, contributing to the obesity epidemic among young people. What does it take to reform school lunch programs and provide healthful, tasty meals to our nation’s kids? Cafeteria Man takes a behind the scenes look at Tony Geraci’s sweeping, tenacious efforts to kick start school lunch reform in Baltimore’s schools, a large urban district that serves 83,000 students,...
99) Bastards' Road
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Walking 6000 miles, Marine Veteran Jonathan Hancock confronts unprocessed trauma from war. Jon’s insight and humor gives a uniquely positive approach to the post-war topic. A hopeful story of resilience meant to inspire all audiences.
100) Free the Mind
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and anxiety to the study of compassion and kindness, those qualities cultivated by Tibetan meditation practice. The results of Davidson's studies at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, are portrayed in FREE THE MIND as they...
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