Penguin Books Australia

In today's fast-paced, complex society, it's crucial to find ways to increase productivity, simplify, and stay sane. The fifth edition of this highly successful guide emphasizes how organization helps people survive tough times, assists them with life's challenges, and can lead to a happier, more peaceful life.

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One size doesn't fit all. For many people the combined use of several approaches gives them their best shot at effective coping...

However, when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it becomes a disabling disorder.

Secrets of top performers who thrive under pressure and maintain an edge over the competition.

Athletes regularly face win-lose situations, but so do business leaders, soldiers, litigators, and even average people making crucial decisions about their lives. Most of us crumble under extreme pressure. But a few not only succeed, they thrive. These people are clutch. Can the rest of us learn to be like...

In Wired for Joy , researcher and New York Times bestselling author Laurel Mellin presents a simple yet proven way to train your brain to move through stress and back to joy.  Her method focuses on rewiring the emotional brain-the cauldron of our stress-rather than the thinking brain, which has been the focus of most other stress-busting methods.

Loretta LaRoche is sick to death of diets and diet books.  Not a day goes by without an article appearing in the media that reveals how certain foods could be harmful or helpful to our health.  Our meals have become either demonic or divine.  We've forgotten how to be in the 'right relationship' with one of the greatest pleasures we have in life: eating .  As a result, we're fatter...

Loretta LaRoche has been called 'the Erma Bombeck of stress reduction'-and in the helpful and hilarious pages of this entertaining book, her enormous talent for finding the funny detail to defuse even the most difficult situation has never been sharper.

Relax-You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left is filled with practical exercises, hilarious anecdotes, and specific advice for coming to terms with today's...

Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace is an important step on the healing journey. This book with its accompanying stress-reduction CD , will help you deeply relax. It will enable you to release the acute and chronic stress we constantly carry in our bodies and our minds. It can help you remove the blocks and obstacles to your inner peace and joy, and prevent and heal stress-related illness and...

BESTSELLING AUTHOR DR. FRANK LAWLIS, the chief content advisor for The Dr. Phil Show, has brought psychological relief to millions.  In his latest book, he addresses one of the most common challenges of everyday life - dealing with stress.

A complete plan for controlling nearly every cause of stress-- and responding more calmly and effectively to the stresses you can't control!

When does normal teenage behaviour become something you really need to worry about? When to Really Worry by Dr Michael Carr-Gregg will help you find out.

In this insightful book, one of Australia's leading authorities on adolescent mental health, Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, offers practical information on the symptoms, causes and treatment for everything from ADHD and eating disorders to anxiety and depression...

At the core is a group of enjoyable exercises. Perform them once a year, or as often as you feel necessary, and you'll discover a new clarity about yourself and your life, and the most profitable way to structure your goals and ambitions.

Once you start using The Life Priorities...