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Mind and Body Fitness April 2017
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| Grief Is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss by Kenneth J. DokaIn Grief Is a Journey, Kenneth Doka, a gerontologist and consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America, explains that each person grieves in their own manner: grief is an individual journey, even when other people share the same loss. Grief also arises from all kinds of loss -- not just the death of a loved one, but, for example, the end of a relationship. A "grief inventory" at the end of the first section helps readers find guidance for their situations to profit most effectively from the book's reassuring and down-to-earth advice. |
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Husband's Guide to Breast Cancer: A Complete & Concise Plan for Every Stage
by Todd Outcalt
Author Todd Outcalt is not only a United Methodist pastor who has supported parishioners dealing with illness: he has accompanied his own wife through her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. In this straightforward guide, he emphasizes the husband's role in coping with a diagnosis, listening to his wife and expressing his own feelings, and understanding details of treatment. Though many breast cancer guides omit the question of dying, Outcalt faces it squarely and offers suggestions on handling bereavement. Husband's Guide to Breast Cancer is addressed to men, but female partners and other family members may find helpful advice in its pages.
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| The Fibromanual: A Complete Fibromyalgia Treatment Guide for You and Your Doctor by Ginevra LiptanPeople who suffer from fibromyalgia experience pain, fatigue, brain fog -- and frustration that it's so difficult to find a health care provider who can help. In The Fibromanual, Dr. Ginevra Liptan relates her struggles as a fibromyalgia patient, explains the combination of treatments (both conventional and alternative medicine) that have helped her, and outlines a step-by-step plan for recovery based on four Rs (rest, repair, rebalance, and reduce). There's medical information on fibromyalgia you can review with your doctor, as well as a directory of fibromyalgia health care providers. This encouraging manual offers hope to those who are suffering from this baffling condition. |
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| The New Generation Breast Cancer Book: How to Navigate Your Diagnosis and Treatment... by Elisa PortThe availability of medical information proliferates as fast as the Internet grows, but the wide range of resources can also be confusing. This up-to-date book by Elisa Port, a leading breast surgeon, tames the wilderness of information and provides a well documented guide covering topics from screening to moving forward after treatment. Tips and debunked myths appear in boxes throughout; discussions of treatment options help with decision-making. Port includes information on heredity, men's breast cancer, and what friends and family need to know. Her tone in this all-in-one guide is both encouraging and practical. |
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Pathways to Possibility: Transforming Our Relationship with Ourselves, Each Other...
by Rosamund Stone Zander
Drawing on her expertise in family systems therapy, author Rosamund Zander provides a guide to replacing the scripts of our childhood with more realistic stories that can direct us toward healthier self-images and relationships with others. While rebuilding our sense of identity is hard work, Zander outlines some key starting points for the journey to more fulfilling maturity. This accessible book provides explanations of scenarios that hold us back as well as examples of stories that help, concluding with a set of "games" to practice new behaviors. Best of all, the writing in Pathways to Possibility is "fresh, compelling, and uplifting" and offers advice even for "the most well-adjusted adult" (Booklist).
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