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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise August 2017
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Beautiful Money : the 4-week Total Wealth Makeover
by Leanne Jacobs
"This revolutionary four-week wealth plan shows you how to stop chasing money and start creating joyful, powerful, and meaningful wealth. Most of us believe that pounding our way through our days is the only way to prosperity and success. We sacrifice time with our loved ones, our weekends, our vacations, and perhaps even our sanity, in exchange for a paycheck. We put ourselves and our health at the bottom of our priority list and give everything to the great pursuit. We want to have it all, but don't find satisfaction in any of our achievements. Instead, we find ourselves sitting in our offices and big houses feeling unhappy, broke, burnt out, and unfulfilled. Beautiful Money offers another option.
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| Careful: A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds by Steve CasnerResearch psychologist and NASA safety specialist Steve Casner studies the reasons people have accidents and finds that human psychology is a major cause of all kinds of mishaps -- from cutting a finger in the kitchen to falling off a high wire. In Careful, he discusses six common human failings and recommends ways to overcome them in order to avoid being injured or killed. With gentle humor, he also encourages having compassion towards those around us. |
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| Fitter Faster: The Smart Way to Get in Shape in Just Minutes a Day by Robert J. Davis with Brad Kolowich, Jr.If you think you need an exercise routine but you're having trouble launching one, Fitter Faster offers science-based advice to teach you why and how to get moving. This accessible and engaging manual by journalist Robert Davis and Certified Personal Trainer Brad Kolowich starts with motivational advice, provides facts about workout techniques, and includes a chapter on maximizing the benefits of your exercise. Ending with a section on workout routines, this book will quickly put you on the road to better fitness. |
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| When Your Child Has Food Allergies: A Parent's Guide to Managing It All by Mireille SchwartzIn When Your Child Has Food Allergies, author Mireille Schwartz assembles what she's learned as a person with allergies and mother of an allergic child. This easy-to-follow guide provides advice on understanding and treating allergies, keeping children safe from exposure to allergens, and dealing with schools and group events. There's a chapter on allergen-free cooking, too. If there's an allergic person in your family, or you just suspect someone has an allergy, pick up this up-to-date and thorough handbook. |
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Sleep: How to Get It, and Why
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| Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes by Tom RathIn Eat Move Sleep, motivational author Tom Rath explains that diet, exercise, and sleep are all necessary to good health and longevity. Providing details on how to eat well, exercise effectively, and get plenty of rest, he lays out a plan for balancing your lifestyle. He emphasizes that better sleep = greater productivity, contradicting the belief that overwork + sleeplessness = success. If you want to achieve more while feeling healthier, try Rath's upbeat and realistic advice. |
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End The Insomnia Struggle : a Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Get to Sleep and Stay Asleep
by Colleen Ehrnstrom
This book provides step-by-step guidance for developing your own treatment plan according to your particular challenges with insomnia.With this book, you ll have everything you need to overcome the relentless thoughts, ruminations, and stress of insomnia. Utilizing these evidence-based strategies and easy-to-use tools, you ll finally get to sleep, stay asleep, and wake up rested and ready to face the world as your best self, day after day.
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| Goodnight Mind: Turn Off Your Noisy Thoughts & Get a Good Night's Sleep by Colleen E. Carney and Rachel ManberAccording to sleep specialists Colleen Carney and Rachel Manber, insomnia is the most common sleep disorder in the general population. If it's your story too, check out this guide to using behavioral therapy to help you quiet your mind and get a good night's rest. Starting off with an explanation of their method, Carney and Manber provide tips and tricks for getting ready for sleep, relaxing, and calming your mind. Sleep well! |
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| The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna HuffingtonFollowing a scary episode of exhaustion, journalist and Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington dug deeply into the science of sleep and wrote this informative book about it. Describing a global culture in which being sleep-deprived can be a badge of honor, she argues persuasively that people who get by on less than seven hours of sleep per night should change their ways. Then she describes techniques for getting more rest, targeting different age groups and lifestyles. The Sleep Revolution is an eye-opening and potentially life-changing tract. |
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Sound Asleep : The Expert Guide to Sleeping Well
by Christopher Idzikowski
Presents a guide to sleep, discussing such topics as the physiological basis of sleep, dreaming, the use of pills and potions, and the impact that changes in attitude, nightime rituals, and environment can have on the quality of sleep
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