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Mind and Body FitnessAugust 2015
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"Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul." ~ Jim Valvano (1946-1993), American basketball coach
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| Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children by Rita EichensteinParents whose children have learning disorders or other issues can find a wealth of advice on their kids' needs, but there are far fewer resources to help them address their own reactions to having an "atypical" child. In Not What I Expected, pediatric neuropsychologist Rita Eichenstein offers hopeful and empowering advice to parents about handling their feelings and learning to take care of themselves as well as their kids. Using concrete examples and engaging anecdotes, she guides parents away from emotional traps and into healthy, appropriate family lives. |
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| When Kids Call the Shots: How to Seize Control from Your Darling Bully... by Sean GroverIf your child's behavior has escalated from assertiveness to bossiness and conflict, this may be just the book to help you get your parenting style back on an even keel. Psychotherapist Sean Grover identifies key patterns that can lead to parent-child conflict -- and to the parents' feeling out of control -- by compassionately but firmly showing the way to more effective parenting and a brighter future for both parents and children. Publishers Weekly praises the "empowering, motivating approach" in When Kids Call the Shots. |
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| How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your... by Julie Lythcott-HaimsIn How to Raise an Adult, former Stanford University Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising Julie Lythcott-Haims offers important correctives to "helicopter parenting." Defining overparenting and explaining why it's harmful, she draws on interviews with teachers and employers to offer telling anecdotes about parental micromanagement. She then lays out a plan to liberate both parents and offspring from stifling codependency and bring children up to be self-sufficient, competent adults. Her advice will be helpful whether the children are in their "twos" or their twenties, though it focuses on families who expect their kids to go to college. |
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| The Tricky Art of Co-Existing: How to Behave Decently No Matter What Life... by Sandi ToksvigThough social manners may be viewed by some as unnecessarily artificial behavior, author Sandi Toksvig recognizes that etiquette helps reduce friction among people who may have different expectations and smooths the way even for those with similar backgrounds. Primarily addressing young adults, she emphasizes the common sense in etiquette and even the occasional downside of good manners. This easy-to-follow and easy-to-swallow guide, full of entertaining historical anecdotes and trivia, provides a valuable resource to anyone who wants to know how to get along gracefully -- and to those looking for amusing tales for the dinner table. |
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| Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer by Susan GubarOvarian cancer has a mortality rate of 70%, partly because there are neither tests for early diagnosis nor any distinctive symptoms. Treatments may include radiation or chemotherapy, but a more radical therapy is "debulking," or the removal of partial or whole organs in the lower abdomen. In this direct and wrenching memoir, feminist scholar and author Susan Gubar relates her diagnosis and treatment, which included debulking surgery, her remission and eventual recurrence, and the decisions she had to make about treating her cancer when it returned. Memoir of a Debulked Woman also shines a light on the failures of the medical establishment. |
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| The Chemotherapy Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Get... by Judith McKay and Tamera SchacherIn this comprehensive guide to chemotherapy treatment for cancer, authors Judith McKay and Tamera Schacher, nurses certified in oncology, present information for patients about its effects and side-effects. Drawing on their own expertise and that of a nutritionist and a psychiatrist, they define chemotherapy and discuss how it works. In addition, they offer information on treatment plans and blood tests, physical side effects, nutrition, and emotional issues. Accessible and thorough, this book also provides reassurance through understanding. Be sure to pick up this 3rd edition, which updates the 1998 book by McKay and others, The Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy Survival Guide. |
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| Everybody's Got Something: A Memoir by Robin Roberts with Veronica ChambersRobin Roberts, well known as a co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America, conquered breast cancer in 2007-08, only to learn in 2012 that she had acute leukemia. In Everybody's Got Something, Roberts candidly discusses her treatment, grieving the loss of her mother at the beginning of it, and the life-giving moral support of family, friends, and colleagues. After conquering her leukemia, she triumphantly returned to television in 2013. This "soulful memoir" (Publishers Weekly) provides inspiration both to patients facing cancer treatment and to their friends and families. |
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| Anticancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-SchreiberWhen psychiatry professor and cofounder of Doctors Without Borders David Servan-Schreiber had completed treatment for brain cancer, he asked his oncologist if there were lifestyle habits that might influence the possibility of a recurrence. When the doctor said there weren't, Servan-Schreiber went on to do his own research into how diet, environmental risks, and psychological stress affect cancer. He discovered considerable scientific literature on this topic, and in Anticancer he discusses these factors. While offering information and inspiration to people who want to deploy all possible weapons against these dread diseases, he emphasizes that alternative approaches may supplement but never replace conventional medical treatment. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Prince George's County Memorial Library System 6532 Adelphi Rd. Hyattsville, Maryland 20782 301-699-3500http://www.pgcmls.info/ |
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