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Mind and Body Fitness December 2016
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| Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave EvansAuthors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans are on the faculty of Stanford University's Design School, but they don't just design objects. They also teach people how to design their own lives. In this easy-to-use guide based on their well-attended "Designing Your Life" course, they explain how you can apply a designer's thought process to your hopes and desires. Once you can define your goal, the book helps you find a path to a career that suits you. Publishers Weekly praises the book's "useful fact-finding exercises, an empathetic tone, and sensible advice." |
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| Finding Calm for the Expectant Mom: Tools for Reducing Stress, Anxiety, and Mood... by Alice D. Domar with Sheila Curry OakesIn this realistic discussion of wellness for pregnant women, Harvard Medical School professor Alice Domar offers reassurance to expectant mothers who think they should be unfailingly calm, happy, and radiant -- when they're not. Pregnancy often produces uncomfortable, if not miserable, body changes, but Domar assures readers that these are both temporary and common. Concluding with an appendix that provides techniques for handling stress and anxiety, Finding Calm for the Expectant Mom compassionately answers the question posed in the first chapter: "Am I Crazy, or Am I Just Pregnant?" |
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| Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World by B. Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire ArrietaAccording to Let Them Eat Dirt, microbes are good for children -- at least, certain microbes. Authors Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta explain how extreme sanitizing contributes to an increased incidence of auto-immune disorders, diabetes, asthma, obesity, and other conditions. Beginning during pregnancy and continuing through lactation, they explain, it's important for essential microbes to pass from the mother to the child. Growing children also benefit from having pets and spending time outdoors. Complete with accessible scientific explanations and handy do's and don'ts lists, this book provides a down-to-earth (as it were) guide to raising healthy kids. |
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| Your Best Health Care Now: Get Doctor Discounts, Save with Better Health Insurance... by Frank LalliWhen award-winning investigative journalist Frank Lalli received a diagnosis of multiple myeloma, it gave him the incentive to find out about health care resources and costs. In Your Best Health Care Now, he shares what he learned about how the Affordable Care Act works, getting the best price for expensive drugs, deciding which cancer screenings are essential, dealing with hospital bills, and more. He concludes with a chapter explaining "The Three Keys to Becoming a Health Care Detective and Getting Your Best Care -- Now." Whether you're facing a challenging diagnosis or just want the best deal on medical care for a healthy life, try this resource-rich, accessible primer. |
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What great parents do : 75 simple strategies for raising kids who thrive
by Erica Reischer
"A golden rule book to parenting best practices, What Great Parents Do concisely presents key strategies to help parents reshape kids' challenging behaviors, create strong family bonds, and guide children toward becoming happy, kind, responsible adults. Psychologist Erica Reischer draws on research in child development and cognitive science to distill the best information about parentingtoday into bite-size pieces with real examples, useful tips, and tools and techniques that parents can apply right away. This book will show you how to do what great parents do so well.
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10 Mindful Minutes: Giving Our Children -- and Ourselves -- the Social and Emotional...
by Goldie Hawn
You can't start too young with teaching stress reduction techniques, as this book by actress Goldie Hawn explains. Hawn isn't known just for her flaxen tresses or bubbly personality -- she's also written a bestselling memoir and established the Hawn Foundation, whose MindUP program teaches children the Buddhist technique of mindfulness. Ten Mindful Minutes provides quick and easy physical and mental exercises that can help children (and adults) reduce stress, manage emotions and behaviors, develop greater empathy, and be happier and more optimistic. It may even help them sleep better at night -- a bonus for parents.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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San Mateo Public Library 55 West 3rd Avenue San Mateo, California 94402 (650) 522-7802www.smplibrary.org |
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