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Alone Together
Self Help2027

Alone Together

Tormod Huseby

In an era where we have never been more connected, yet so distanced from one another, psychiatrist Tormod Huseby explores in this insightful book why so many struggle with intimacy, belonging, and genuine connection today. Statistics show that loneliness is a major health risk, affecting seven out of ten students and nearly two million adults. Writing with warmth and wisdom, Huseby explores the many forms this difficult emotion can take: lonely in a crowd, loneliness in transitions, existential loneliness, loneliness in togetherness, or the feeling of standing alone in a competitive, materialistic society. This book is for anyone who wants to understand loneliness, overcome the shame of feeling isolated, and better understand our modern society. Drawing on his many years as a therapist, Huseby shows how feeling lonely actually connects us to the world’s largest community. Through fresh perspectives, he guides us toward building stronger relationships and finding our way back to what we long for most: to belong.

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The Little Grandparent Handbook
Self Help2026 · 120 pp

The Little Grandparent Handbook

Ingrid Lund

The relationship between grandparents, children and grandchildren can be the heart of a family — or its greatest challenge. With empathy, clarity and gentle humour, The Little Grandparent Handbook offers a compassionate guide to navigating modern family relationships across generations. Written by family therapist and professor Ingrid Lund, this book provides practical tools and real-life stories to help grandparents, adult children, and grandchildren build strong, balanced, and joyful connections, ensuring harmony without overstepping boundaries.

Diagnosis Uknown
Self Help2026 · 176 pp

Diagnosis Uknown

Cathrine Abrahamsen

Do you live with long-term, unexplained symptoms or pain, trapped in a body ruled by exhaustion, discomfort or fear? Diagnosis: Unknown helps you reclaim control of your health. With compassion, science and practical insight, Dr. Cathrine Abrahamsen offers clarity for the confused mind, concrete tools for daily coping, and, perhaps most importantly, proof that your symptoms are never your fault. A specialist in general medicine and researcher, Abrahamsen has developed a groundbreaking approach called ICIT (Individual Challenge Inventory Tool), based on mind-body science and thoroughly tested in clinical studies published in eClinicalMedicine, a journal from The Lancet. Through ICIT, Abrahamsen teaches how stress and life strain can trigger the immune, nervous, and hormonal systems causing pain, fatigue and anxiety. You’ll learn to understand your body’s alarm signals, calm your system, and rebuild joy and participation in everyday life. Whether you live with chronic pain yourself or want to support someone who does, this book opens the door to understanding, healing and hope.

Groundbreaking mind-body method, proven in The Lancet
Chaotic Times
Self Help2026 · 275 pp

Chaotic Times

Aina Haugaard / Kaveh Rashidi

Do you sometimes feel trapped in a blur of sleepless nights, cold dinners, and endless worries while everyone tells you to enjoy every moment? You’re not alone! In Chaos Time!, Norway’s most popular general practicioner, Kaveh Rashidi, and midwife Aina Haugaard, parents of three children under five, guide readers through the beautiful, maddening reality of raising small children. With humour, honesty, and science-based advice, they tackle everything from bedtime battles and toddler tantrums to family meals, screen time, and how to stay connected as a couple when life feels like a never-ending circus. Drawing on their medical experience and their own chaotic home life, Rashidi and Haugaard cut through the noise of conflicting parenting advice to help you find your own way — without guilt, pressure or perfectionism. Because while chaos is inevitable, it’s also where connection, laughter and real parenting happen. Chaos Time! reminds us that three quarters of the time we’ll ever spend with our children happens before they start schoo so maybe it’s time to stop counting down and start finding the joy in the mess.

The Female Brain
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2026 · 240 pp

The Female Brain

Ann-Marie de Lange

Our brains are shaped by hormones, yet science has long ignored how profoundly this affects women. In The Female Brain, cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Ann-Marie de Lange explores how hormonal rhythms sculpt the female brain across every stage of life, from puberty and the menstrual cycle to pregnancy, motherhood and menopause. Drawing on new research and personal stories, she reveals the astonishing adaptability of the female brain: how it grows stronger, more complex and more resilient through change, loss and transition. Why do so many women experience brain fog, mood shifts or changes in memory and focus? What really happens inside the brain during pregnancy or menopause? De Lange challenges the long-standing medical bias built on male physiology, offering a new, evidence-based perspective on women’s neurological health. Both enlightening and empowering, The Female Brain combines cutting-edge science with lived experience to show that women’s biology is not a limitation — it is a source of strength. “This book contributes to increase the understanding of how the physical changes experienced by women, affects the psyche. … The author writes about complex topics in a very good way.” SYKEPLEIEN “Ann-Marie de Lange’s book The Female Brain should become common knowledge for all thinking and feeling persons. … Generally, the book is full of perspectives that gives renewed respect for the enormous changes women experience, physically and cognitively. The writer is personal in a way that must have taken courage and is able to reflect upon difficult emotions while drawing on her field of expertise.” FORSKERFORUM “Ann-Marie de Lange writes with that rare combination of the researcher’s precision and the storyteller’s warmth. … The most striking thing about the book may be its respect for the reader. De Lange never underestimates women’s ability to understand complex research, but neither does she drown her language in an academic fog. The language is easy to read, without becoming overly simplified.” APOLLON

Presents new peer-reviewed brain research directly linked to women's life experiences.
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The Power of Sound
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2026 · 288 pp

The Power of Sound

Audun Myskja

Discover the transformative power of sound for your health and well-being. Dr. Audun Myskja, a renowned physician, researcher, and author with over 20 best-selling books, presents his latest groundbreaking work: The Power of Sound. With deep insights into the intricate connection between mind and body, Dr. Myskja explores how music, song, tones, and various frequencies profoundly impact our health. Drawing on cutting-edge scientific research and decades of clinical experience, The Power of Sound reveals how different forms of sound—from listening to music to using our own voices—can act as powerful therapeutic tools. This book offers compelling, scientifically-backed knowledge on sound's effects on living organisms, complete with practical exercises and patient examples to guide you. If you're seeking inspiration and practical methods to harness sound for healing, vitality, and overall well-being, this essential guide offers a fresh perspective on health.

Calm / Chaos
Self Help2026 · 128 pp

Calm / Chaos

Marthe Christine Valle

We live in restless times. Despite prosperity, freedom and knowledge, more of us than ever struggle with anxiety, loneliness and a fragile sense of belonging. Why are we so uneasy, and how can we raise children who can face life’s challenges without escaping into distraction or denial? Calm / Chaos is a powerful and timely book about meeting life’s turbulence with acceptance, clarity and community. Known as both a celebrated artist and activist, Marthe Valle is also a nurse specialising in mental health and addiction. Through her long-running Calm / Chaos programme for schools and parents, developed in collaboration with the Norwegian Women’s Public Health Association, she explores how modern parenting has become dominated by insecurity and performance while core values like resilience, responsibility and connection are quietly eroding. Drawing on years of professional experience, research in psychology and personal stories, Valle offers concrete tools and deep insight into how we can handle life’s inevitable discomforts and teach our children to do the same. She calls on readers to rediscover the power of comunity, to lead with love and strength, and to cultivate calm within the chaos of the modern world.

Self-Worth – A Journey of Coming Home
Self Help2026 · 136 pp

Self-Worth – A Journey of Coming Home

Cecilie Benneche

Self-Worth – A Journey Home by Cecilie Benneche You can only belong to the world when you belong to yourself. To feel at home in yourself is to belong — not only to others, but to your own life. Yet many of us spend years feeling like strangers to ourselves. In this compassionate and insightful book, psychologist Cecilie Benneche describes low self-esteem as a form of homelessness: we lose our sense of self and feel unsafe in relation to others, trapped in constant comparison and self-doubt. Life becomes a competition with filled with questions like – Am I good enough? Do I measure up? With warmth and clarity, Benneche explores perfectionism, performance pressure, and the inner critic that keeps us small. Her message is simple yet powerful: self-worth can be reclaimed. You’ll learn to recognize the mechanisms that hold you down, understand where they come from, and find the courage to meet yourself with kindness instead of judgment.

Trauma – The Price We Pay to Survive
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2026 · 208 pp

Trauma – The Price We Pay to Survive

Mari Kjølseth Bræin

When safety is lost, survival takes over. We adapt by becoming invisible, controlled, strong on the outside while turmoil brews within. These adaptations help us endure, but they come at a cost: tension in the body, self-blame, shame, and the persistent feeling of never being truly safe, even when the danger is long gone. In Trauma – The Price We Pay to Survive, clinical psychologist Mari Kjølseth Bræin explores how attachment wounds and trauma shape the brain, body and nervous system and how we can begin to heal. With warmth and clarity, she shows how early experiences of fear, neglect, or broken bonds continue to echo through adult life, influencing our choices, our relationships, and the way we see ourselves. This is a book about how we survive and how, slowly, we can learn to live again.

The Breaking Point
Self Help2025 · 185 pp

The Breaking Point

Jørgen Flor

The cup overflows. You start seeing red. It can happen when the dog won't stop barking or the six-year-old refuses to get dressed. It can happen in the car on the way to work when yet another idiot runs a red light, or it can happen in the evening after four glasses of wine, during what was supposed to be a nice time watching TV with the spouse. Most of us have experienced different variations of losing control. Maybe you've seen a colleague who suddenly cries in a meeting without understanding why? Sometimes the breaking point comes in a way that's visible to the outside. Other times the breaking happens hidden inside us, and can manifest itself in burnout, depression, addiction disorders and much more. People break down in different ways. For some, the temper rises fast without having time to think, while for others it slowly bubbles over. Why do some people break down in a certain situation, when they managed to remain calm during a seemingly more stressful moment? Is it true that some people never lose their grip? In this book you will learn to understand yourself and your own emotional life better, in addition to gaining better insight into what the breaking point of the people around us may be. Psychologist and author Jørgen Flor writes passionately about strong emotions and how they manifest in us. He helps you to better understand when enough is enough, and how to avoid acting rashly and thus prevent the negative consequences that can have. The Breaking Point is about understanding how different situations in life affect you and your relationships, and about the importance of talking about feelings, and that vulnerability and violence are connected.

The Amazing Sleep
Self Help2025 · 208 pp

The Amazing Sleep

Bjørn Bjorvatn

A groundbreaking book that will transform the way you think about sleep and reveal how deeply it shapes your health and everyday life. Norway’s leading sleep scientist, Bjørn Bjorvatn, takes you on a fascinating scientific journey to show how the hours you spend on the pillow directly influence your brain, body, and long-term well-being. Drawing on the latest research, he explains how chronic sleep deprivation can disrupt cognitive function, weight regulation, immunity, and even increase the risk of serious disease, while good sleep can literally extend your life expectancy. In a time when many struggle to get a good night’s rest, and others underestimate just how essential sleep really is, Bjorvatn offers clear, evidence-based advice to help you understand your own sleep needs, overcome sleep problems, and create the best conditions for deep, restorative rest. He also uncovers the powerful role sleep plays in mental health, learning, memory, and creativity. Through specific examples, the scientist and doctor reveals the many ways sleep shapes our lives: from how it influences critical political decisions made in the dead of night, to how it impacts exhausted parents in important moments, and even how technology changes our perception of sleep quality. You spend a third of your life asleep. This book gives you the knowledge you need to finally understand what happens in your body and brain while you sleep – and what really happens when you don’t.

Contains all the latest research on sleep by Norway's sleep expert
Understand Your Child Through Astrology
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2025 · 128 pp

Understand Your Child Through Astrology

Nina Skjemstad

Understand your child's unique personality through the principles of astrology Discover a new dimension in parenting with Understand Your Child Through Astrology. This insightful book combines astrological wisdom with modern knowledge to give a unique tool for understanding and supporting a child's individual development. Each child is a unique combination of heredity, environment and free will. By exploring a child's star sign, you can gain deeper understanding of the child's personality, needs and potential. It provides practical advice for strengthening a child's self-esteem, identity and coping abilities, while promoting empathy and respect in relationships. Understand Your Child Through the Astrology is not a book for putting children into boxes, but a tool for opening up new perspectives and insights. It encourages reflection and awareness, and gives you the opportunity to meet the child where they are, with understanding and love.