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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise October 2020 |
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| The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature by Sue Stuart-SmithReflections on the ways that connecting with nature (specifically while gardening) can benefit our bodies and our minds, with a cross-cultural exploration of the history of gardening and the presence of therapeutic gardens in mental institutions and prisons.
Sue Stuart-Smith is a psychiatrist, therapist, and gardener based in the U.K. |
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| Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah TaussigA witty and engaging memoir about the author's life as a wheelchair user, with frank discussions of how disability intersects with issues like sex, dating, self-image, relationships, the media, and more.
Sitting Pretty is a refreshingly candid and welcome voice in the growing body of literature about disability written by disabled people themselves. |
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Active investing in the age of disruption : the confluence of central bank intervention and technology acceleration
by Evan L. Jones
Through his own investment lenses and experiences, Jones provides must-read insights on: Markets in which there is great opportunity for alpha generation. The limitations underlying unique alpha generation strategies . The challenges in outperforming the market in an age of disruption. Core investment tenets that may not hold in the future. Readers committed to outperformance will benefit greatly from Jones' take on the investment process, and how investment professionals much you adaptive learning approaches to excel.
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The Resilience Project : Finding Happiness Through Mindfulness, Gratitude and Empathy
by Hugh Van Cuylenburg
Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-changing realisation: despite the underprivileged community the children were from, they were remarkably positive. He set about finding the answer and in time came to recognise the key traits and behaviours these children possessed were gratitude, empathy and mindfulness.In the ensuing years Hugh worked tirelessly to study and share this revelation with the world.
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Anxiety and Stress Relief
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| The Anxiety Toolkit: Strategies for Fine-Tuning Your Mind and Moving Past Your Stuck Points by Alice Boyes, PhDA straightforward and accessible guide to anxiety, from its evolutionary advantages to how to manage the negative effects it can have on our minds, bodies, and behavior patterns.
The advice inside is grounded in clinical research and the author's experience as a cognitive-behavioral therapist, but is presented in digestible sections that make the topic seem more approachable. |
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Breathwork : how to use your breath to change your life
by Andrew Smart
Delivered in a warm and welcoming tone with eye-catching illustrations by celebrated artist Eric Nyquist throughout, BREATHWORK is a useful and engaging handbook on how to use our breath to foster health and happiness.
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