The staff members at the Center for Wellness and Counseling embrace a concept of health that encompasses the whole person. They work in partnership with students, faculty, and staff to support healthy learners in a healthy learning environment, and to promote student development and student success.
For more about their services for Augsburg students, including free, confidential personal counseling, visit the CWC Web page.
Meditation Audiobooks: Guided Mindfulness
Guided Mindfulness Meditation, Series 1 (4-CD set) by Call Number: BF 637 .M56 K33 2002 v. 1By opening to an awareness of how things actually are in the present moment, we often taste very deep states of relaxation and well-being of both body and mind.
Guided Mindfulness Meditation, Series 2 (4-CD set) by Call Number: BF 637 .M56 K33 2002 v. 2A core training tool to begin and deepen a daily meditation practice, and to bring mindfulness into every aspect of life.
Guided Mindfulness Meditation, Series 3 (4-CD set) by Call Number: BF 637 .M56 K33 2002 v. 3With Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, Jon Kabat-Zinn leads you with friendliness and care through 10 mindfulness landscapes.
Supporting Wellness
Handbook of Mindfulness : Theory, Research, and Practice by Call Number: BF327 .H366 2016Leading scholars explore mindfulness in the context of contemporary psychological theories of attention, perceptual processing, motivation, and behavior.
Test Anxiety Prevention (CD) by Call Number: LB3060.6 .R67 2005Helps test-takers reduce tension and gain control of their emotions, using alternative learning strategies to enhance performance and boost confidence prior to -- and during -- a test.
Taking the Anxiety Out of Taking Tests by Call Number: LB 3060.6 .J65 1994ISBN: 9781572240681Publication Date: 1997Gathers techniques used by psychologists to treat anxiety disorders and distills them into step-by-step exercises applicable to the academic test-taking environment.
Radical Self-Acceptance (3-CD set) by Call Number: BF575 .S37 B796 2000This 3-disc course from Dr. Tara Brach explains how feelings of shame and unworthiness are the source of many problems we experience with our relationships, careers, creative endeavors, and most fundamentally, our spiritual unfolding.
Waking, Dreaming, Being by Combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain.
The Yoga of Sleep (2-CD set) by Call Number: RA786 .N53 2010In The Yoga of Sleep, Dr. Rubin Naiman invites us to open the gracious gift each night presents, and return to the deep serenity that lives at our core.
Mindful Eating and Body Image
Bite by Bite (2-CD set) by Call Number: RM 222.2 .R684 2006An essential step-by-step program to help you determine what you are truly hungry for, and create a healthier relationship with food.
Do I Look Fat? Gay Men, Body Image and Eating Disorders (DVD) by Call Number: BF 697.5 .B63 D6 2005Seven men who are gay or bisexual and suffer from eating disorders talk about the gay male community's obsession with the issue of fat.
Meditation Audiobooks: HealthJourneys Series
A Meditation to Support Your Recovery from Alcohol and Other Drugs (CD) by Call Number: BF 637 .M4 H43 A43Designed by psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek to reduce addictive craving, ease withdrawal, teach potent new relaxation skills, help the body reverse organ damage, restore vitality, increase self-esteem, and reinforce a 12-step program
A Meditation to Help with Anger and Forgiveness (CD) by Call Number: BF 637 .M4 H43 A54Designed by psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek to promote feelings of acceptance and forgiveness of self and others; motivate and heal; reduce anger and blame; evoke compassion and empathy; encourage feelings of safety and support; offer a preview of the emotional liberation that comes with forgiveness.
A Meditation to Help You Combat Depression (CD) by Call Number: BF 637 .M4 H43 D47Designed to reduce despair and self-hatred; mobilize energy; reduce fatigue; reconnect with inner strength; reduce anxiety; and marshal spiritual support.
A Meditation to Ease Grief (CD) by Call Number: BF 637 .M4 H43 G75Designed by psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek to help listeners release grief, find peace, accept feelings, regain energy, and encourage hope and inspiration for the future.
Guided Meditations for Help with Panic Attacks (CD) by Call Number: BF 637 .M4 H43 P36Guided imagery combines healing imagery, powerful music and state-of-the-art understanding of the mind-body connection to reduce or eliminate acute anxiety and panic attacks.
Guided Self-hypnosis to Free Yourself from Procrastination (CD) by Call Number: BF 637 .M4 H43 P76This program is designed to help procrastinators put the most effective parts of the brain in the driver's seat and develop the best strategies for getting things done.
A Meditation for Relaxation and Wellness (CD) by Call Number: BF 637 .M4 H43 R45Designed by psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek to promote feelings of peace, calm, safety and support. Intended to help face any stressful situation, or for general anxiety.
A Meditation to Help You with Healthful Sleep (CD) by Call Number: BF 637 .M4 H43 S54Designed by psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek to promote peaceful sleep, create relaxed feelings of safety and calm, and release muscular tension in the body. Second track has only music.
Meditations to Relieve Stress (CD) by Call Number: BF 637 .M4 H43 S77Four-section program designed by psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek.
Meditations to Support Successful Relationships (CD) by Call Number: BF 637 .M4 H43 S83Four different imagery exercises designed by psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek to help explore inner difficulties non-judgmentally, promote empathy, release grief, and open the heart.
Guided Imagery for Posttraumatic Stress : Healing Trauma (CD) by Call Number: BF 637 .M4 H43 T73Intended to reduce isolation, terror, shame and despair; restore a sense of inner goodness, hope, growth, purpose and meaning; and replenish self-esteem and a sense of spiritual connection and protection.
Books on Confidence, Joy, and Forgiveness
The Chemistry of Joy by Call Number: RC 489 .R3 E48 2006Offers a unique blend of Western science and Eastern philosophy to show you how to treat depression more effectively, and what you can do today to create a happier, more fulfilling life.
The Chemistry of Joy Workbook by Publication Date: 2012If you are ready to reclaim your life from stress, depression, or anxiety and find deep, profound happiness, this book will be your guide.
Forgive for Good by Call Number: BF 637 .F67 L87 2003Based on scientific research, this groundbreaking study from the frontiers of psychology and medicine offers startling new insight into the healing powers and medical benefits of forgiveness.
Hardwiring Happiness by Call Number: BF 204.6 .H36 2013Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences but slowly from the good ones. You can change this.
About Reserves
Your computer doesn't have a disc drive? No problem!
A lot of the resources that the CWC has put on reserve are audiobooks or DVDs. Ask for a “DVD writer” at the Circulation Desk.
See us to check out:
- DVD Writer (external disc drive)Call Number: DVD WriterUSB 2.0 external DVD +/ RW optical drive for disc burning and disc playing. Connects with a computer or laptop's USB port to play or burn DVDs or CDs
- Apple Macbook LaptopCall Number: Apple MacBook Air ComputerThis 13-inch Mac laptop has up to 12 hours of battery life. Model A1466 (silver color)
- ThinkPad Laptop (Windows computer)Call Number: ThinkPad LaptopLenovo ThinkPad Yoga notebook computer