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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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| The Five Elements: Understand Yourself and Enhance Your Relationships... by Dondi DahlinBasing her examination of personality types on the traditional five elements identified in Chinese philosophy, author Dondi Dahlin helps you discover more about your personality and better understand those of others. In five chapters, she describes the traits associated with water, earth, air, fire, and metal, providing enjoyable quizzes to help you discern your dominant elements and understand their significance. If you're intrigued by human behavior, including your own, check out this informative handbook. |
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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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What if This is Heaven?: How Our Cultural Myths Prevent Us From Experiencing Heaven on Earth
by Anita Moorjani
Following her near-death experience as shared in the New York Times bestseller Dying to Be Me, Anita Moorjani knows well the truths that exist beyond common knowledge and acceptance. The clarity she has gained has led her to further understand who she was born to be. Part of that truth has involved contemplating the cultural myths infused into our everyday lives. Passed down from generation to generation, these myths are pervasive and influential. From the belief we reap what we sow to the idea we must always be positive, cultural myths are often accepted as truths without questioning. Moorjani asserts it is now time for questioning in order to help us reach our fully informed, authentic selves. Moorjani explores these common myths in their real-world existence while presenting examples from her own life that reveal the falsehoods beneath the surface. By freeing ourselves from these ubiquitous expectations, we can break open an honest pathway to life as it was meant to be lived.
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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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After a Stroke: 500 Tips for Living Well
by Cleo Hutton
An essential resource for all stroke survivors and their families and caregivers. Updated and expanded new edition of the popular resource written by a stroke survivor who has spent 24 years helping other survivors live life to the fullest potential. After a Stroke: 500 Tips for Living Well is filled with practical tips and support to help you cope with the lifestyle changes that come in the wake of a stroke.
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How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom
by Jonathan Fields
Drawn from the intersection of science, spirituality, and the author's years-long quest to learn at the feet of masters from nearly every tradition and walk of life, this book offers a simple yet powerful model, the "Good Life Buckets"--spend 30 days filling your buckets and reclaiming your life. Each day will bring a new, practical yet powerful idea, along with a specific exploration designed to rekindle deep, loving, and compassionate relationships; cultivate vitality, radiance, and graceful ease; and leave you feeling lit up by the way you contribute to the world, like you're doing the work you were put on the planet to do. How to Live a Good Life is not just a book to be read; it's a path to possibility, to be walked, then lived.
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Menopause Confidential: A Doctor Reveals the Secrets to Thriving Through Midlife
by Tara Allmen
An authoritative guide to understanding and navigating the hormonal changes and health challenges women experience at midlife and beyond sifts through contradictory recommendations to offer cutting-edge strategies on subjects ranging from mammograms and osteoporosis to natural and traditional therapies.
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Prevent, Survive, Thrive: Every Woman's Guide to Optimal Breast Care
by John G. West
Confusing media and conflicting advice surrounding breast health can make it challenging to know what's best. In the United States this year, more than 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Dr. John West wants to help you avoid becoming part of that statistic. Drawing from the latest scientific findings in the field of breast care, he goes into detail about the things most women don't know about their annual exams, like when you should insist on an ultrasound instead of trusting the mammogram, or even how to do a thorough self-examination in the months between your visits to the physician. He lets you know exactly what kind of pain is normal and what should be investigated further. He even offers lifestyle advice to help you lower your risk factors; things as small as how often you exercise or where you carry your cell phone can have an impact on your future health. Prevent, Survive, Thrive provides clear, accurate guidelines for prevention and early detection, letting you to take control of your health.
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| Co-Parenting with a Toxic Ex: What to Do When Your Ex-Spouse Tries to Turn the Kids... by Amy J.L. Baker and Paul R. FineIn this workbook, parenting expert Amy Baker and psychotherapist Paul Fine provide easy-to-use instructions to support divorced parents whose former partners carry acrimony over into relationships with the children. The book's sample dialogues, written exercises, and mindfulness techniques guide readers through maintaining a safe emotional space and dealing with interference from co-parents. This helpful tool makes established psychotherapy and parenting practices easily accessible to an embattled parent. |
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| iRules: What Every Tech-Healthy Family Needs to Know About Selfies, Sexting, Gaming... by Janell Burley HofmannBefore author Janell Hoffmann gave her 13-year-old his first iPhone, she wrote a contract about using it, which they both signed. Then the contract appeared on Huffington Post and went viral as "iRules." In this book, Hoffmann adds details and examples to the basic concepts, covering issues such as manners, passwords, responsibility, and cyber-bullying. She also talks about how parents can enjoy social networking while monitoring their kids' online presence. The book includes a workbook section, a list of safe networking sites (for 2013-14; additional resources are on her website at janellburleyhofmann.com/references-resources/), and glossaries, in addition to valuable user-friendly advice. |
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It's OK to Go Up the Slide: Renegade Rules for Raising Confident and Creative Kids
by Heather Shumaker
In It's Ok To Go Up the Slide, Shumaker takes on new hot-button issues with renegade rules such as: - Recess Is A Right - It's Ok Not To Kiss Grandma - Ban Homework in Elementary School - Safety Second - Don't Force Participation. Shumaker also offers broader guidance on how parents can control their own fears and move from an overscheduled life to one of more free play. Parenting can too often be reduced to shuttling kids between enrichment classes, but Shumaker challenges parents to reevaluate how they're spending their precious family time. This book helps parents help their kids develop important life skills in an age-appropriate way. Most important, parents must model these skills, whether it's technology use, confronting conflict, or coping emotionally with setbacks. Sometimes being a good parent means breaking all the rules.
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| Beyond Intelligence: Secrets for Raising Happy Productive Kids by Dona Matthews and Joanne FosterWhile many people believe that intelligence is determined at birth, educators Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster explain that it consists of a variety of abilities that change throughout childhood. Families can foster their kids' intelligence by reading to and with them, discerning and supporting their interests and learning styles, and encouraging their creativity. With memorable anecdotes and helpful checklists, this engaging book helps parents understand developmental concepts, make wise educational choices, and nurture their children's successful intellectual growth. |
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| Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Calm... by Susan StiffelmanIf you're tired of the drama around getting ready for school, homework-vs-screen time, and chores, Parenting Without Power Struggles may be the book you need. Family therapist Susan Stiffelman shows you how to be a team leader instead of a control freak around the house, inspiring your kids' ability to collaborate rather than bringing out their tendency to resist authority. Indicating that each child's personality is different, she explains how to work with their abilities rather than imposing expectations that may not work for them. This thoughtful and engaging book will help you raise "joyful, resilient kids," as Stiffelman's subtitle suggests. |
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