Audiobooks narrated by Hadi Hajjar

Complex Ptsd Recovery: Understanding and treating Complex Trauma Using EMDR and Concepts from Individual Psychology

"Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a severe accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or who have been threatened with death, sexual violence or severe injury. PTSD can occur in all people of any ethnicity, nationality, culture, and age. PTSD affects approximately 3.5 percent of U.S. adults every year. An estimated one in 11 people will be diagnosed with PTSD in their lifetime. Women are twice as likely as men to have PTSD. People with PTSD have intense, disturbing thoughts and feelings related to their experience that last long after the traumatic event. They may relive the event through flashbacks or nightmares; they may feel sadness, fear, or anger; and they may feel detached or estranged from other people. People with PTSD may avoid situations or people that remind them of the traumatic event, and they may have strong adverse reactions to something as ordinary as a loud noise or an accidental touch. People with a diagnosis of PTSD are defended and insecure about many things in life. It is essential to create a safe place where people can explore and share their experiences and understand why they are experiencing life as they do to begin the healing process in a therapeutic environment. This book may offer much to promote the healing and growth of those affected by complex trauma."

Brittany Forrester (Author), Hadi Hajjar (Narrator)

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The Viking Myth: Understanding Vikings’ History and Mythology, their Cultural Role and Influence on the Popular Imagery

"Vikings are a part of everyday life. Their omnipresence is remarkable for people who lived around a thousand years ago. They are a marketing device, a tourist attraction, and a subject on the national curriculum. They appear at museums, Viking festivals, comic strips, films, novels, and children's history books. They are a focus of academic controversy, with scholars waging an ongoing war over the proper interpretations of the Viking past. They lend themselves readily to use in constructing various national and regional identities. Vikings are a vibrant part of modern popular culture. Although the Viking Age ended nearly a millennium ago, Viking images are everywhere today, functioning as marketing devices, role models, and sources of regional/national pride and identity. This audiobook examines the causes of the Vikings' adoption as popular cultural icons and how Vikings are used. The book also turns to a chronological overview of political, literary, and archaeological developments that have influenced the evolution of Viking images."

Mike Parson (Author), Hadi Hajjar (Narrator)

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A Complete Guide to Parent Attachment: How To Help Children To Heal From Trauma And Learn The Skills They Need For Successful Relationships

"Parents everywhere seek a close emotional bond with their babies. They also strive to develop a parenting style that works with their values. Some parenting models favor treating children as little adults to be reasoned with. Others take an approach that stresses rule-following. They all aim to create self-reliant adults who can maintain healthy relationships and have their own families. Raising and trying to heal a child with a disorder of attachment or serious attachment disturbance is a daunting challenge. Parents struggle alone with the overwhelming sense that something is terribly wrong but do not know what it is or how to fix it. Often, children with severe attachment problems manage to divide the adults in their lives, pitting the outside world against the family. This is usually a defensive strategy that helps them prevent closeness with their parents — the thing they most fear! Sadly, the outside world often misunderstands this, and the parents are blamed for the problems. What is important to remember is that the child’s behaviors are symptoms of distorted thinking and feeling that came from early experiences with primary caregivers. We cannot talk children out of these ways of being. We cannot punish children out of these ways of being (indeed, doing so may only worsen!). Instead, we need to help children experience their way out of these habits of relating by offering them healthy relationships that provide the nurturing experiences they required when they were younger. The kind of experience they most need experiences with new or recovered parents who can really feel what it is to be them; help them make sense of what has happened to them in a way that does not mean they are unlovable and unworthy, and learn new ways of relating that allows emotional connection and trust to grow. That can be a challenge when the child actively pushes against the parent’s attempts to love and care for the child."

Brittany Forrester (Author), Hadi Hajjar (Narrator)

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Defiant Children: When your Kid isn’t just Difficult

"Learning to communicate and manage frustration is part of growing up. But some children don’t master those skills. Suppose their frequent angry outbursts and aggressive behaviors interfere with family life, making friends, or school performance. In that case, they may have the oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), which, by some estimates, affects up to 16 percent of school-age children. Though no statistics are available for younger children, experts say that most children with ODD show signs of the disorder in the preschool years. Oppositional defiant disorder describes a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, and/or spitefulness that lasts at least six months in multiple settings. It occurs almost daily in children younger than 5 and at least once a week in older children. (By 6 or 7, most children have learned to express anger in productive, socially acceptable ways.) Examples of anger and irritable mood include frequent loss of temper and being easily annoyed or resentful. Argumentative and defiant behavior includes refusing to obey rules, continually challenging authority, being deliberately annoying to others, and/or blaming others for mistakes or bad behavior. He says that many children with ODD have other mental health challenges, such as anxiety, mood disorders, and language and learning disorders. Trauma, parenting, styles, and other environmental issues may also contribute. As with many mental health conditions, ODD occurs on a continuum. Children with mild ODD may show symptoms only at home or only at school. Moderate ODD may be the diagnosis when a child’s ODD behaviors happen in two settings. ODD is classified as severe when the acting out is seen in three or more locations."

Brittany Forrester (Author), Hadi Hajjar (Narrator)

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Branding Psychology: How brand provides intangible benefits overshadowing its tangible benefits

"Numerous studies have shown that people buy feelings and experiences, not things. When you see a cute puppy, certain hormones fill your brain, becoming loving and affectionate. You don't care about the exact hormone process in your brain, but the puppy certainly makes you feel good. There is an intense psychological component to marketing a business or creating a successful brand. In essence, branding is designing a campaign to induce popularity and loyalty among customers. To do this, one must understand the audience's psychology, giving you the ability to entice consumers who will mentally connect and relate to your brand's identity. Every individual consumer has an entirely separate and possibly stressful life outside your market. Busy lives mean that consumers do not have the mental bandwidth to consider every product on the market. To establish a long-lasting relationship, the brand provides intangible benefits that sometimes overshadow the tangible benefits. It is getting tougher with the explosion of communication technology, where people stay connected to update information. The emergence of branding topics has been witnessed with the blast of branding categories that apply to manufacturing and service industries. The brand is a logo, symbol, name, or design that creates a trademark or signature that distinguishes goods or services. Building a strong provides additional value that looks simple from the customer's point of view but is a great deal for a firm to survive the stiff competition in the market. The brand is a critical element to superior quality products, especially in the saturated market; hence, a trusted brand must satisfy customer needs and deliver excellent quality on attributes that matter to customers, low cost of quality, overall cost leadership, and effective positioning."

Mike Parson (Author), Hadi Hajjar (Narrator)

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Living With The Presence Of Absence: The Grief of Loss and the Solitary Journey that Leads to a New Life Beyond Death

"We live our lives in numerous ways because of our crucial relationships. Our interactions shape who we are and define who we are; they become inextricably linked to our sense of self (or self-concept) and therefore become a living part of us. It's excruciatingly difficult to lose one of these vital relationships since we lose a piece of ourselves when we lose a significant friendship. As a result, grieving is not a phenomenon that occurs out there in the world. Instead, it takes place within each mourning person's sense of self, which has been individually wounded and injured due to such losses. Grief work is thus a personal activity of healing and regrowth of self-identity. Grief ends when we are no longer in desperate need of the person or object we have lost and can operate correctly without them. This isn't to say that we don't get sad when we think about past losses; it only means they aren't as crippling as they once were. So if you are looking for a book that helps you understand the process behind the grief of loss, face bereavement that involves you or someone you know, this is the book you are looking for"

Jim Colajuta (Author), Hadi Hajjar (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Hadi Hajjar

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