Confidence and Body Image: Learning to Feel Comfortable in Your Own Skin
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

Confidence and Body Image: Learning to Feel Comfortable in Your Own Skin

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 The Body Is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor

📖 More Than a Body- Lexie Kite, PhD & Lindsay Kite, PhD

📖 Body Kindness- Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN

📖 The Beauty Myth- Naomi Wolf

🎧 The Body Image Podcast

🎧 Food Psych Podcast- Christy Harrison

🎧 Maintenance Phase

🎧 Unlocking Us- Brené Brown

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How Childhood Experiences Can Show Up in Our Present-Day Behaviors
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

How Childhood Experiences Can Show Up in Our Present-Day Behaviors

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents — Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD
📖 Running on Empty — Jonice Webb, PhD
📖 What Happened to You? — Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD
📖 Attached — Amir Levine, MD & Rachel Heller, MA
📖 The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk, MD
🎧 Speaking of Psychology: Attachment Bonds — American Psychological Association
🎧 Being Well: Becoming Securely Attached to Yourself
🎧 Speaking of Psychology: How Parents and Their Adult Children Can Build Strong Relationships — American Psychological Association

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Implementing Boundaries With Confidence: Learning to Protect Your Peace Without the Guilt
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

Implementing Boundaries With Confidence: Learning to Protect Your Peace Without the Guilt

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 Set Boundaries, Find Peace — Nedra Glover Tawwab
📖 The Set Boundaries Workbook — Nedra Glover Tawwab
📖 Boundaries — Henry Cloud & John Townsend
📖 The Power of No — Vanessa Patrick, PhD
🎧 You Need to Hear This with Nedra Tawwab
🎧 How to Be a Better Human: How to Set Boundaries and Find Peace — TED
🎧 WorkLife: How to Set Boundaries with Therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab
🎧 The Verywell Mind Podcast: How to Set Boundaries with Therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab

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Stress & Burnout: When Running on Empty Becomes Your Normal
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

Stress & Burnout: When Running on Empty Becomes Your Normal

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle — Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski
📖 The Burnout Challenge — Christina Maslach & Michael P. Leiter
📖 Slow Productivity — Cal Newport
📖 The Gifts of Imperfection — Brené Brown
📖 Can't Even — Anne Helen Petersen
🎧 Speaking of Psychology: Why We're Burned Out and What to Do About It — APA
🎧 Speaking of Psychology: How to Keep Stress From Harming Your Health — APA
🎧 Feminist Survival Project — Emily & Amelia Nagoski
🎧 Speaking of Psychology: “Bossware” and Burnout — APA

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Sports Performance: The Mental Side of the Game
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

Sports Performance: The Mental Side of the Game

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 The Champion’s Mind — Jim Afremow, PhD
📖 Mind Gym — Gary Mack
📖 The Confident Mind — Nate Zinsser, PhD
📖 The Inner Game of Tennis — W. Timothy Gallwey
📖 How Champions Think — Jim Afremow, PhD
📖 Mind Games — Annie Vernon
🎧 Sports Psychology Coaching — Eli Straw
🎧 The Sports Psychology Podcast — Dr. Patrick J. Cohn
🎧 The Mental Barbell Podcast
🎧 The Champion Within

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Perfectionism: When “Good Enough” Never Feels Good Enough
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

Perfectionism: When “Good Enough” Never Feels Good Enough

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 The Gifts of Imperfection — Brené Brown
📖 The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control — Katherine Morgan Schafler
📖 The Perfection Trap — Thomas Curran
📖 How to Be Enough — Ellen Hendriksen
📖 Overcoming Perfectionism — Roz Shafran, Sarah Egan & Tracey Wade

🎧 Speaking of Psychology: Why Do We Push Ourselves to Be Perfect?
🎧 Speaking of Psychology: Perfectionism: When Good Is Never Good Enough
🎧 Being Well: Embracing Perfectionism
🎧 Exam Study Expert: Perfectionism, Self-Compassion and Making Progress
🎧 Perfecting Imperfectionism

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Depression & Seasonal Depression: Understanding the Changes Beneath the Surface
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

Depression & Seasonal Depression: Understanding the Changes Beneath the Surface

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression — Andrew Solomon

📖 Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy — David D. Burns, M.D.

📖 Reasons to Stay Alive — Matt Haig

📖 The Upward Spiral — Alex Korb, Ph.D.

📖 Winter Blues: Everything You Need to Know to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder — Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.

🎧 The Hilarious World of Depression

🎧 The Psychology Podcast — Scott Barry Kaufman

🎧 Therapy Chat — Laura Reagan, LCSW-C

🎧 The Savvy Psychologist

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Understanding Grief: Giving Yourself Permission to Heal
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

Understanding Grief: Giving Yourself Permission to Heal

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 It’s OK That You’re Not OK — Megan Devine

📖 Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief — David Kessler

📖 Moving On Doesn’t Mean Letting Go — Gina Moffa

📖 Healing After Loss — Martha Whitmore Hickman

📖 The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion

🎧It’s OK That You’re Not OK with Megan Devine

🎧All There Is with Anderson Cooper

🎧Grief Out Loud — The Dougy Center

🎧Good Mourning

🎧Terrible, Thanks for Asking

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How to Communicate Better: Building Healthier, Stronger Connections
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

How to Communicate Better: Building Healthier, Stronger Connections

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection — Charles Duhigg

📖 Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life — Marshall B. Rosenberg

📖 Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most — Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen

📖 The Relationship Cure — John Gottman

📖 How to Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk — Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

🎧 Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

🎧 The Gottman Relationship Podcast

🎧 The Jordan Harbinger Show

🎧 10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Back-to-School Struggles & Mental Health
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

Back-to-School Struggles & Mental Health

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens - Jennifer Shannon

📖 The Emotional Lives of Teenagers - Dr. Lisa Damour

📖 How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk - Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

📖 The Self-Driven Child - William Stixrud and Ned Johnson

🎧 Good Inside with Dr. Becky

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Mental Health & Technology: Finding a Healthy Balance
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

Mental Health & Technology: Finding a Healthy Balance

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 The Anxious Generation — Jonathan Haidt

📖 Screenwise — Devorah Heitner, PhD

📖 Growing Up in Public — Devorah Heitner, PhD

🎧 Speaking of Psychology — American Psychological Association

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Finding a Healthy Balance Between Work and Life
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

Finding a Healthy Balance Between Work and Life

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less — Greg McKeown

📖 Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle — Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA

📖 The One Thing — Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

🎧 Mel Robbins Podcast

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Understanding Anxiety: More Than Just Worry
Courtney Ruggles Courtney Ruggles

Understanding Anxiety: More Than Just Worry

Books & Podcasts Recommend On This Topic

📖 The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook — Edmund J. Bourne, PhD

📖 Unwinding Anxiety — Judson Brewer, MD, PhD

📖 The Worry Trick — David Carbonell, PhD

🎧 The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

🎧 The Hilarious World of Depression

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