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In Tears
Self Help2023 · 240 pp

In Tears

Silje Baarli Salvesen

Crying is the first thing we do in this world. The crying kickstarts our lungs and our lives outside the uterus. As children we cry a lot, and there is no difference between boys and girls, but somewhere along the road to growing up the crying becomes more feminized and by some made into a problem. Crying in public affects the surroundings and can cause discomfort, sympathy, disgust, and empathy, because crying has both a forgiving and a provoking effect. Children’s choirs, fights, spiders, funerals, and sports performances can all be tear-inducing since all feelings can trigger crying. This book considers emotional crying. Emotional crying is unique to humans. It’s extremely natural and normal but can at the same time be both embarrassing and problematic. Crying moves, engages, and provokes, and it has a surprising news value. The author Baarli Salvesen considers the social, historical, cultural, and psychological aspects of crying. And why do some people cry only once every ten years, while others cry ten times a week?

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What I Tell Drunk Boys Who Come Over Pretending They Don't Want To Talk About Panic Attacks
Self Help2023 · 216 pp

What I Tell Drunk Boys Who Come Over Pretending They Don't Want To Talk About Panic Attacks

Aslak Hartberg

Every month on average six men between the ages of 20 and 30 years commit suicide in Norway, according to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Two of three who commit suicide before they turn 25 years old are men. Men are overrepresented in statistics about depression and panic attacks. Despite this they rarely ask for help. Aslak Hartberg, a Norwegian rapper, has written a book about anxiety which is especially aimed at men. The consequences of anxiety are often poorer quality of life, people staying home and in the worst cases disappearing from working life. Luckily panic attacks are possible to eradicate. The author describes his book as “a self-help book for those who do not like self-help books.” This is the personal story of Hartberg himself, about how his panic attacks took over his life. It’s not a provocatively positive self-help book with solutions and expert recipes, but instead a brutally honest story from man to man about how he found his peace and got rid of his anxiety. By using cognitive therapy, he explains what the cause of the fear is, how and why it appears, and how one can stop it. This is a personal story with a literary and captivating language, which also guides the reader along their way out of the anxiety, through theory, cognitive and physical exercises.

Saving Big
Self Help2023 · 208 pp

Saving Big

Marie Olaussen

Saving Big puts economy and smart money management on the agenda, without wrapping the topics in foreign words, incomprehensible terms and graphs which require a degree in economics to understand. Here you can get the tips and inspiration you need for your day-to-day life and your wallet, from an author who’s had the first-hand experience of being completely broke. In Saving Big you get tips for how to cut your expenses, increase your income and save money by not spending it on unnecessary things – so that you can have more money for what you actually want to spend your money on. The book is chock full of surprising, fun and super useful saving tips, and the author puts all the expenses from a day-to-day under a magnifying glass – from food, clothes and beauty products to housing, cars and gardens. And so much more! In addition to this you get smart tips for investing as well as practical tips for how you can turn the hundreds you have saved into even more – and not least teaching you how to make your new, good money habits last.

Bitesize Psychology: Understanding Communication
Self Help2023 · 128 pp

Bitesize Psychology: Understanding Communication

Kjersti Kvam / Catrin Sagen

Understanding Communication: The most important things to know is the book that can make us better at communicating with one another and with ourselves. Every day we communicate non-stop. We give messages, ask questions, react, signal how we’re feeling, scream out in anger, cry tears, present our opinions, show our love, chat, send texts, call, and write. We applaud when we’re excited, we bang our fist on the table when we’re angry, and we stare at the ground when we want to avoid something. But do you really know how you communicate and how others perceive and receive it? And do you understand what others try to convey to you? Misunderstandings are the root of many mental loads, but the more you know and understand about communication, the better you will get at expressing yourself and receiving information from others in a clear and precise manner. Understanding Communication is the first book in the Bitesize Psychology series, which considers the important everyday psychology we live with. In Understanding Communication the author asks the questions we all have, and the psychologist Catrin Sagen, one of the most well-known voices of therapy in Norwegian media, pours out her wise and human knowledge about the topics.

Naturally Pain-free
Self Help2023 · 264 pp

Naturally Pain-free

Audun Myskja

Do you have a headache, back pain or aching in your legs? In Naturally Pain-free doctor and holistic therapist Audun Myskja shows how you can treat your pain yourself. We may be in pain because of an acute injury, chronic inflammation, wear and tear, feelings that have been suppressed in the body, or traumas and shocks that have not been addressed. The brain may forget, but the body keeps score. In this book you’ll receive guidance to understand what pain actually is and what actually happens on the inside – anything from pain signals to the brain and tense breathing, to tight muscles and blockages in the body’s flow system. For more than four decades Audun Myskja has developed and tested different methods of self-treatment of pain through simple and natural means. He’s given many patients their lives back through methods of pain treatment which is based on one’s own resources. In this book he shares his best relief and healing techniques, such as strength and stretching exercises, breathing techniques, pressure points, visualization, and sound. The book also contains unique stories about people who are now living new and pain-free lives, or whose pain is no longer controlling their day-to-day – including the author’s own experience of managing pain. Pain can come with huge costs, mostly for the individual, but also for the society. Insight and effective tools help us understand and manage the pain – and can in many instances lead to a pain-free life.

The Pulse Cure
Self Help2023 · 208 pp

The Pulse Cure

Torkil Færø

Many people wear fitness watches – but are they making the most of the tool they have at their disposal? Accessible and highly informative, The Pulse Cure’s approach to wellness and self-improvement is both motivating and realistic. Do you want to know how you can get more willpower, vibrancy and energy? How much you specifically can manage or need to work out, sleep and read, and how you can prevent serious disease? With The Pulse Cure and a heart rate monitor as a guide, you can achieve all of this. The Pulse Cure is ideal both for those who often feel a little bit under the weather, tired and want their energy back, and for those who feel good but would like some more vitality and to improve their willpower, their endurance and excess energy. You will sleep better, feel more energised and happier and be more present in each moment. And you will have a much larger chance to live a healthy and active life when you get older.

Out of the Brain Fog
Self Help2023 · 144 pp

Out of the Brain Fog

Erik Hexeberg / Sofie Hexeberg

Do you find it difficult to maintain your concentration? Do you feel like your head is stuffed with cotton? Do you dread the next day at work, an exam or a social gathering because you are tired and feel like your memory is failing? In Out of the brain fog you get knowledge and advice on how you can get back to being yourself again! More and more people seem to be affected by brain fog. It is not a medical diagnosis, but a phenomenon that can occur in a number of different conditions, for example food protein intolerance, high sugar intake and insulin resistance, and as a side effect of various diseases. Brain fog can feel like having cotton, wool or fog in your head. It makes you less attentive than normal, may cause problems maintaining concentration, remembering when things have happened and struggling to get work tasks done effectively. Fortunately, there is advice to be had! Sofie and Erik Hexeberg are doctors and dietary specialists with extensive experience in using food as medicine. Many of their patients regain their energy, memory and concentration by avoiding foods they don’t tolerate. In the book, you gain knowledge about what brain fog is, and effective tools to get rid of it. The authors offer a range of practical advice, instructive patient stories and easy-to-use recipes. You can also follow your own recovery from week to week by filling in simple forms. If you feel foggy, don’t despair: With this order of good, tested and proved tools you will get much better or recover completely!

Yoga Magic
Self Help2023 · 240 pp

Yoga Magic

Vibeke Klemetsen / Jannicke Wiel

A unique and magical yoga book which can transform weariness into happiness! The yoga profiles Vibeke Klemetsen and Jannicke Wiel spread real yoga magic with this inspirational and applicable book. Practical poses, breathing exercises and meditations against physical and mental everyday ailments go hand in hand, and you get smart tools to feel better in your body and mind. The goal is to increase the feeling of being in charge of your life and yourself when you need it the most. Yoga being magical means that it can change something inside you. Use the book as an encyclopedia based on how you’re feeling day-to-day and what you need to strengthen. Use it when you’re feeling down, uneasy, or out of balance, when you need calm, energy and happiness, and when you want to treat yourself well. The yoga poses can be practiced individually or made into a sequence or a flow, and the meditations and breathing exercises which are included with each pose can be practiced independently of the physical poses. Based on their own experiences the authors present their poses in a new way, where they put emphasis on attitude as well as the pose.

Instruction Manual for Couples
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2022 · 168 pp

Instruction Manual for Couples

Siri Dalsmo Berge

Did you know that a good relationship can strengthen your immune system, lower your blood pressure, and make wounds heal faster? On the other hand, relationship troubles can triple the risk of heart attacks, increase the risk of infection and can cause more buildup of plaque in the arteries. In this fascinating and entertaining book GP and researcher Siri Dalsmo Berge shows how your relationships and health are connected. Through stories from both her life as a doctor and her personal life, she offers specific and research-based tools for better relationships and increased quality of life. Instruction Manual for Couples – the road to a healthier relationship highlights the benefits for your health related to relationship issues in a whole new way. It’s all put together with warmth, a bit of cheek and a large dose of hope – which offers you belief that improving your lives together is possible.

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How We Become
Self Help2022 · 144 pp

How We Become

Malin Eberhard-Gran / Siri Vangen

What was your life like before you were born? How We Become is a timely, impactful, and accessible answer to the ultimate question: “How did I become me and where do I come from?” Two of Norway’s leading pregnancy and maternity experts take you on the gripping and surprising journey of how we start life. Week by remarkable week. What does everyday life look like, living in a womb? Can we remember anything from our time there? When do we start to hear sounds? Do we form a relationship to others before we’re born? How do we experience our own birth? Take a sneak peak into the womb and follow how we develop from one tiny cell into a unique, screaming baby made up of thousands of billions of cells. Lively illustrations and digestible chapters create a delightful pace to this mind-expanding journey. How We Become combines research and illuminating history, with a refreshing voice that captivates you. 'At a time when pregnant women are inundated with information of varying quality, it is invaluable to have this book. Easy to understand and insightful about the most important thing in life - pregnancy.' Kari Løvendahl Mogstad. Medical Doctor, specialist in general medicine and author. 'As a reader, one is left humbled and in awe of the fine-tuned mechanisms behind the development of each of us.' Guttorm Haugen. Professor and head of the fetal medicine section, Oslo University Hospital.

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Elias & Benjamin
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2022 · 208 pp

Elias & Benjamin

Lars Petter Kjær

How do you process grief after a suicide? And how do you deal with the feelings of guilt, powerlessness, shame? The feeling of not having done enough? Lars Petter Kjær lost both of his sons to suicide in the space of six months. In this book, he reveals how painful suicide is for the those left behind, and he shares his grieving process with the reader by writing about his children’s upbringing, his role as a father, the feeling of losing control, and the destructive desperation he suddenly found himself having to deal with. The twins where very close. They were both resourceful, but where also suffering from high functioning autism (Asperger). It could be hard for them to understand both their own feeling as well as the feelings and reactions from others. Kjær is a psychologist and a father who has been an active part of his children’s lives. He is an optimist and used to getting things done. He has a wish to understand his children and does his best so that they can take part in life, in activities and vacations, everyday joys and the possibility of things getting better. In this book the worst you can imagine has happened. But faced with such a total crisis Kjær chooses that life must go on. He writes his way through the grief and unwraps layer upon layer of the children’s lives, his role as a father, the process of grief, the powerlessness, and the destructive desperation he is himself thrown into. Suicide is one the most common cause of death for young men, and in this book the author also points to how destructive suicide is for relatives losing their family members to suicide. But this book is a book that is meant to help, a book about working one’s way through grief and choosing life.

Are You Proud of Me, Dad?
Self Help2022 · 352 pp

Are You Proud of Me, Dad?

Tormod Huseby

It is possible to free oneself from past humiliation, neglect and abuse, and to be rid of shame and embrace all aspects of oneself. Through twelve personal stories from the therapist’s office, psychiatrist Tormod Huseby shows us how to break free of a life restricted by self-criticism, perfectionism and unfortunate strategies in order to be loved and understood, and to regain one’s freedom and love for life. The fear of being exposed as a bad person and feelings of abandonment, anxiety and depression are common among many people who were rejected or neglected as children. Tormod Huseby also shows us why he thinks that social culture fails us by not recognising our deep need for relationships and closeness.