Francien Regelink Dope

My (un)settled life with ADHD

Why can't I seem to concentrate? Why am I so easily distracted? Why can I only get something done when the deadline is approaching? Why do some seemingly easy tasks take so much effort? And why do emotions seem to hit me so incredibly hard? Whether you have ADHD or know someone who does, you won't want to miss 'Dope'-a smart, funny, and remarkably candid account of life with ADHD. In 'Dope', Francien offers an unfiltered glimpse into her life, drawing on her own experiences and the latest research...

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Blossom Books BOLD, Zeist | 2025

E-book

Frédéric Garnier Overcoming Shyness

Are you tired of feeling held back by shyness? It's time to break free from your comfort zone and step into a world of self-assurance and empowerment. "Overcoming Shyness" has been designed to provide you with proven and efficient tools for overcoming shyness through deep relaxation and relief techniques for obsessing thoughts. You will learn to deal with the idea of rejection and get rid of tension in order to navigate through social situations serenely, improve classroom performance and lead...

Engels | 1 uur 34 minuten (69 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024

Luisterboek (digitaal)

Hélène van Beek | Martijn van Rheenen Wards of State

Youth care under lock and key in the Netherlands

Wards of State: In the Netherlands, minors who have been placed under state supervision or have been removed from their home environment at the order of Youth Care are what we call wards of state. Youth care in the Netherlands is a market that is driven by perverse incentives, as this book makes clear. A market where expansion and money take precedence over the welfare of young people. A world in which truth and the best possible care are not of paramount importance. The research concerns the...

Engels | 248 pagina's (ePub2, 3,9 MB) | Nobel Boeken, Baarn | 2023

E-book

David Mangene How to not kill yourself

10 tips for troubled times

Men don’t have mental health problems. Well maybe they do, but they struggle to talk about them and to ask for help. David Mangene wants to help this situation by removing the taboo, and encouraging men especially to talk about mental health issues. David has struggled his entire adult life with depression, mania, and suicidal thoughts. In this book he uses humor as a vehicle to write candidly, and quite bluntly at times, about his own life and the reasons to carry on living. “And one last thing:...

Non-fictie

Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Lev., Amsterdam | 2020

E-book

Andy Dennis | Anna Simon Ebola behind the mask

October 2014 and a devastating epidemic of the viral disease Ebola is raging in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The non-governmental aid organisation Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the major actors in the fight against the disease. MSF needs more and more nurses and doctors to work in their expanding Ebola Management Centres. The authors responded to MSF's call for volunteers, and left behind their regular jobs for two months to work in an Ebola Management...

Non-fictie

Engels | 260 pagina's (ePub2, 3,2 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2018

E-book

Carine Green Stress reset

based on a true story

For years, the Antwerp born and raised Carine Green (34) has been suffering from physical complaints, for which she can't find a solution. That's when she meets a mysterious man, J.P. He claims he's able to help her. She meets up with him and, little by little, he shares his insight with her. It's an insight that will change her life for good as well as the life of anyone who reads this book. The cause of pain, of being unhappy, is revealed and a solution is presented to deal with the physical and...

Fictie

Engels | 108 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Beefcake Publishing, Gent | 2016

E-book

Anna Chojnacka Kilimanjaro as medicine

Anna Chojnacka is thirty, married with two young children, and running a thriving company. She's living life to the fullest - until she's diagnosed with MS. While searching for a way to live her life without strong medication, she meets "The Iceman" Wim Hof. To gain strength, she takes his courses, exposing herself to extreme cold. Ultimately, she takes part in a climbing expedition he leads up Mount Kilimanjaro, which not only succeeds, but does so in record time. While she's completing this difficult...

Non-fictie

Engels | 99 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | [Uitgever Onmisbaar], [Amsterdam] | 2022

E-book

Hans Siepel Voices of the soul

the forgotten truth about dementia

This searing memoir, written by a son about his mother's dementia, is set in a town in the Netherlands but the issues reflected are relevant anywhere. The family are devoted, but the mother's decline reveals undercurrents in their relationships. We hear of the conventional medical approach to this difficult area of care but the family reject the medication so frequently prescribed to control patients. For a while, they care for her themselves at home but her increasingly erratic and sometimes violent...

Non-fictie

Engels | ePub2, 1,9 MB | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022

E-book