Change Control

Hormonal contraception is something most women will use at some point during their life. But the reach of the pill goes far beyond the small number of targeted effects we take it for. It affects almost every system in our body. Column inches and anecdotal conversations prove there are many questions about the pill and its effects yet until now we have known very little about. In this trailblazing book expert psychologist Dr Hill reveals the latest science on the pill and how it's changing women and the world, for better and for worse.

Millions of people worry that drinking is affecting their health, yet are unwilling to seek change because of the misery and stigma associated with alcoholism and recovery. They fear drinking less will be boring, difficult and involve deprivation, and significant lifestyle changes. This Naked Mind offers a new solution. Packed with surprising insight into the reasons we drink, it will open your eyes to the startling role of alcohol in our culture.

Are you in charge of your life? Or are you being swept away by things that are seemingly out of your control? In Rewire Your Mindset, the bestselling author of The Fitness Mindset, shows you how to take control of your mental, emotional and physical world. If you have ever set a goal for yourself and then self-sabotaged the moment you hit it, let fear dictate what you do, been emotionally broken by a failure, lacked confidence and felt full of self-doubt or let negative people influence you, then this is the book for you.

This is not a diet book. Are you ready to change your life? Welcome to the James Smith revolution. Self-confessed disruptor of a billion-dollar diet industry, James is armed with every tool you’ll ever need to achieve incredible results from dieting, training and staying in shape to identifying the fads, phonies and nonsense that get in the way of genuinely lasting progress.

Every self-help product, self-improvement resource, and dieting program either explicitly or indirectly points to the fact that we are not good enough the way we are; that we need to change something about ourselves to become happy. If we are trying to lose weight so that we can feel better about ourselves, what we are saying is that our body is not sufficient and that it has become an obstacle to us in our pursuit of feeling happy. Because it is a barrier, we develop a sense of resistance to it.

It's not you; it's your schedule. Does it sound like magic? It's not. We've all heard of circadian rhythms - those biological processes that give us jet lag and make us night owls or early birds. But few of us know just how profoundly these diurnal patterns affect our overall health. Bad habits - like skipping meals, squeezing in workouts, working late into the night and then trying to catch up on sleep during the weekend - disrupt our natural cycles. A growing body of research on chronobiology reveals just how sensitive the human body is to these rhythms all the way down to the genetic level.

Fear is designed to paralyse us, to keep us safe from the risk of rejection and failure. But change and growth are often on the other side of such risk, so how are we to get there if fear is so controlling? The loudest guest, explored in this fascinating new book, is fear. Author and psychologist, Dr. Amy Silver, believes that if you reduce the control that fear has on you, you take back control of your life. Fear is merely a guest in your mind, albeit a noisy one, and you are the host.

You will never diet again. Say goodbye to calorie counting, restrictive food bans, or other forced behaviors. In Mini Habits for Weight Loss, you will learn how to lose weight naturally in the precise way your body and brain are meant to change.

Leading sports and performance psychologist Bill Beswick sees sport as a story of human connection. When faced with physical challenges, pressure and fatigue, the mind is the athlete and the body is simply the means. Changing Your Story explores how the way we think and feel is vital for releasing positive energy and improving our performance. Beswick's 20 lessons will bestow resilience and guide you through the process of harnessing the full power of your physical abilities.

The Lose Your Belly Diet is built around a very clear, research-based concept: eating food that nourishes and protects the microbes in your gut paves the way for weight loss and a slimmer middle. Most importantly, having great gut health is linked to good health and well-being throughout your body. Scientists in this rapidly growing field are finding connections between the gut microbiome and a healthy immune system and gastrointestinal system, as well as autoimmune diseases.

The key for you is understanding more about yourself and your long-held beliefs about what is possible for you. Using hypnosis, combined with the years of experience of a professional team of success coaches, you can unlock the mindset of what it takes to get to and stay at your desired weight.

How can you control something that you can’t see or understand? Is the ego bad or good? Does it want to hurt me or help me? Before you can start changing your behavior, you need to start understanding the complexity of the ego. It sounds more complex than it is but once you know what the ego really wants and how you can work around it, you can see the results in as little as 12 days. Controlling your emotions and having control of all your decisions shouldn’t be a mystery but your birth right.

Dry eye disease can affect your quality of life in many ways. This book will teach you how to get your life back! Stop hopping from one treatment to the next, and find out how to naturally treat your dry eye without medications. Dr. Zigler will take you on a journey to understand the process behind dry eye disease, so that you can conquer yours. This book will cover potential causes of dry eye, treatments you can try at home, and natural remedies. It will challenge you to think about all diseases in a different way and rethink how they are treated.

Unlock the secrets to overcoming the madness of modern times and become the best version of yourself with this timeless mind hack. The moment you check your social media, you’re greeted with that familiar feeling of dread upon seeing all the terrible news from the world. You often wonder how you can grow resilient with all the devastating news on top of your personal struggles. Lastly, you can’t help but ask yourself, “Will I ever find inner peace so I can have a more fulfilling life?”

New York Times bestselling authors Katty Kay and Claire Shipman are on a mission to reclaim power for women. In the wake of sweeping changes in the way we work, the veteran journalists challenge pre­conceived notions of what power is and what it’s good for, along with the insidious, mostly hidden structures of the status quo that hold women back.

Your body fights to keep you within a range of about 15 pounds—also known as your "setpoint weight". New research reveals that you can lower your setpoint and end that battle for good by focusing on the quality of calories you eat, not the quantity. With The Setpoint Diet, you will reprogram your body with a 21-day plan to rev up your metabolism, eliminate inflammation, heal your hormones, repair your gut, and get your body working like that of a naturally thin person—permanently.

Have you ever had a memory that, when brought up again, brings out the worst emotions in you? Perhaps it's an overwhelming sense of fear that you feel, despair, grief, or embarrassment. It takes control of your current self, and although the experience happened yesterday, a year ago, or even a decade ago, the vividness of that memory has a huge impact on how you perceive the world today. What if you could rewrite that memory and associate new feelings with it? Would you choose to be happy with, satisfied with, or even entertained by that memory instead?

You don't need a diet plan. You need a health transformation - from the inside out. For more than 20 years, The Baby Book author William Sears' advice has been trusted by millions of parents across the country, and around the world. Now, along with his daughter Erin, a health coach and fitness instructor who went through her own transformation, losing 70 pounds and radically improving her health, Sears turns his science-based guidance to creating better health for everyone.

Desperately looking for answers to save her daughter from addiction to drugs and alcohol, Shelly Jo found tools to reduce addictions; and help children to adults beat the struggles of cravings, emotions, and weight gain. Feed your brain-brain food. What you eat matters. Get rid of negative self-talk.

From internationally syndicated fitness columnist and author James Fell comes a no-nonsense guide on how to get in shape, fix your finances, alleviate depression and change your life for good. We’ve all been there. Wanting to change your life forever but doing it only in fits and starts. Feeling inspired to be disciplined one day, then falling back into old habits on the next. Or changing for a few weeks or even months, but then slipping back into familiar behaviours.