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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise April 2021
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Parenting While Working from Home: A Monthly Guide to Help Parents Balance Their Careers...
by Shari Medini and Karissa Tunis
What it is: a well-timed and approachable guide to balancing the competing responsibilities of work, childcare, and schooling when all three take place at home.
Why you might like it: Potentially overwhelming topics are broken down into digestible pieces that include practical steps to help you get started.
Try this next: The Free-Market Family by Maxine Eichner, which explores how many parents got to this stressful place and what can be done to improve work/life balance in modern society.
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Cleaning up your mental mess : 5 simple, scientifically proven steps to reduce anxiety, stress, and toxic thinking
by Caroline Leaf
What it's about: 5 proven steps to help you overcome the unhealthy thinking habits that contribute to anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts, and replace them with positive thinking that leads to health, happiness, and success
Topics include: What happens when we don't use our minds correctly; What is mind-management and why do we need it?; Directing your brain for change;
About the author: "Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a. . . PhD in Communication Pathology and a BSc Logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology" (from author website).
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| Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika JaouadWhat it's about: the moving and bittersweet story of Suleika Jaouad's battle with leukemia and her journey of emotional recovery after surviving the disease.
About the author: Jaouad is an Emmy Award-winning documentarian and columnist for the New York Times.
Reviewers say: "This is a stunning memoir, well-crafted and hard to put down" (from Publishers Weekly). |
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Like streams to the ocean : notes on ego, love, and the things that make us who we are
by Jedidiah Jenkins
What it is: "A moving meditation on the hidden, sometimes difficult topics we must consider to live an authentic life, from the New York Times bestselling author of "To Shake the Sleeping Self" (from Penguin Random House Canada).
What it's about: In the busyness of our daily life, we rarely get the chance to think clearly about the questions that matter most. . . We tuck these questions into the corner of our minds, but they drive our behavior far more than we give them credit for.
Read it for: Jenkins leads readers on a wide-ranging conversation about finding fulfillment in the people and places around us, and discovering the courage to show our deepest selves to the world.
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Know yourself, know your money : discover why you handle money the way you do, and what to do about it!
by Rachel Cruze
What it is: The father-and-daughter personal finance experts behind the best-selling "Smart Money Smart Kids" counsel readers on how to understand one’s individual strengths and vulnerabilities to establish a healthy relationship with money and set more productive financial goals.
Topics include: Discovering your unique money tendencies; Your money fears; How to respond to money mistakes; Discovering what you do with money and why: What motivates you to spend, save, and give money; Discovering what's most important to you; How to change your money and your life --
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Rethink Chronic Pain : Relieve Suffering, Heal Your Body, Own Your Health
by Gaétan Brouillard
What it is: ""Rethink Chronic Pain" identifies the physical and psychological roots of pain and recommends not one single treatment (as the vast majority of advice does) but many."
What's inside: Dr. Gaétan Brouillard "draws on years of experience as an emergency room doctor, clinician, and researcher to explain scientific breakthroughs in pain treatment and how to use medicine and surgery when necessary" (from Hoopla).
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Backbone : living with chronic pain without turning into one
by Karen Duffy
What it's about: The model, actress, best-selling author and former MTV VJ describes how she lives with terrible pain from sarcoidosis and offers inspiration, advice, encouragement and humor for those also suffering with chronic pain.
What's inside: "With a light tone, deft wordplay, and interactive gems such as the Bill Murray Pain Scale, Mastectomy Paper Dolls, and a crown to wear just for getting out of bed.
Who it's for: the massive population living with chronic pain who are eager to be understood and helped, and sends the message that despite the pain, there is a way to a good life" (from bookshop.org).
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Strong at the broken places: voices of illness, a chorus of hope [Electronic resource]
by Richard M. Cohen
What it's about: "Cohen spent three years chronicling the lives of five diverse "citizens of sickness" with ALS, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Crohn's disease, muscular dystrophy, and bipolar disorder."
What's inside: "Though each individual's illness wreaks havoc in a different way, Cohen shows how their experiences are strikingly similar and offer lessons for us all--on self-determination, on courage in the face of adversity and public ignorance, on keeping hope alive, and on finding strength and peace under the most difficult of circumstances" (from publisher description).
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Surviving and thriving with an invisible chronic illness : how to stay sane and live one step ahead of your symptoms
by Ilana Jacqueline
What it is: Written by a blogger who suffers from two autoimmune diseases, Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness offers peer-to-peer support to help you stay sane, be your own advocate, and get back to living your life.
Read it for: Do you live with a chronic, debilitating, yet invisible condition? You may feel isolated, out of step, judged, lonely, or misunderstood--and that's on top of dealing with the symptoms of your actual illness. Take heart. You are not alone, although sometimes it can feel that way.
What's inside: "This book will tell you everything you need to know about living with a complicated, invisible condition--from how to balance sex, dating, and relationships to handling work and school with unavoidable absences" (from
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The lady's handbook for her mysterious illness : a memoir
by Sarah Ramey
What it is: "A revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored."
What it's about: "Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed her health but that doctors couldn't diagnose or treat. Worse, as they failed to cure her, they hinted that her problems were all in her head."
Read it for: "Sarah's pursuit of a diagnosis and cure for her own mysterious illness becomes a page-turning medical mystery that reveals a newly emerging understanding of modern illnesses as ecological in nature," (from Publisher description).
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