Heal mind, body, and soul with this collection of self-care rituals and tips. Never has the idea of mindfully checking in with ourselves and creating a "whole body" health - health that is more than simply the absence of illness - been so appealing. In this guide to self-care, wellness and beauty educator Mary Beth Janssen reveals how introspection, ritual, and love can help cure existential woes. She profiles a wide range of activities and exercises, including:Karma Cleanse: How to cultivate/give lovingkindness, compassion, and forgiveness in yourself, and then pay it forward.Intention, meditation, and breathwork techniques: Exercises for calm and centered living.Emotional Housecleaning: How to deal with unprocessed emotions "stuck" within yourself.
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9781454926313
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Hardcover
The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care
By Borges, Anna
Some days you need a pick-me-up, some days you need a life preserver. "For most of us," writes Anna Borges, "self-care is a wide spectrum of decisions and actions that soothe and fortify us against all the shit we deal with." You may already practice some form of self-care, whether it's taking an extra-long shower after a stressful day, splurging on a ~fancy~ dinner, or choosing Netflix over that friend-of-a-friend's birthday party. But when life gets so overwhelming that you want to stay in bed, some more radical care is crucial to maintain your sanity.The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care is here to help you exist in the world. Borges gathers over 200 tips, activities, and stories (from experts and everyday people alike) into an A-to-Z list - from asking for help and burning negative thoughts to the importance of touch and catching some Zzz's. Make any day a little more OK with new skills in your self-care toolkit - and energy to show up for yourself.
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9781615196104
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Hardcover
Self-Care Down There
By Bhandal, Taq Kaur
Take control of your vaginal health and bring your own standards of beauty to your intimate parts with this book offering frank, practical, and accurate beauty and wellness advice for the vagina and surrounding area. Get the lowdown on how to take care of your nether regions with this fun and frank guide focused on helping you maintain your private parts. Covering everything from everyday cleanliness to internal and external safe health advice as well as tips regarding the groom-or-not-to-groom debate and sex-friendly good habits to practice, Self-Care Down There will help you keep your private parts in tip-top shape while expressing the true you! Founder and CEO of IM With Periods and menstrual cycle charting coach Taqdir Kaur Bhandal has dedicated her career to offering wellness advice to women.
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9781507212363
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Paperback
Happy Starts at Home
By Rebecca, West,
Use your home as a tool to make better changes happen in your life. Through aligning your heart, home and health, experience first-hand how small changes make a big difference. What does it take to be happy at home? It's not about buying or not buying a new couch. It's about whether your home is working for you in the best way. Your home can directly improve your well-being and contentment with better health, sleep, relationships, and ultimately decrease your stress levels to increase your all-round happiness. Whether getting a geographical cure without actually relocating or redecorating to feel best in your space, design expert Rebecca West is the perfect guide. Along with beautiful photographs, there are a variety of self-assessment activities to connect your financial, emotional, and physical health to your space to ensure it nurtures your vision.
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9781782498452
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Who Is Wellness For?
By Roisin, Fariha
The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness.Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts to assimilate, she distanced herself from her South Asian heritage and identity. Years later, living in the United States, she realized that the customs, practices, and even food of her native culture that had once made her different - everything from ashwagandha to prayer - were now being homogenized and marketed for good health, often at a premium by white people to white people.
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9780063077089
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Hardcover
Self-Care All-in-One For Dummies
By Beatty, Georgette C
Take charge of your personal health and well-being with this trusted, all-in-one guide to self-careThere's an old saying that goes, "You can't pour from an empty cup." It means that you can't take care of others unless you take care of yourself. And it's never been truer than it is today.In Self-Care All-in-One For Dummies, you'll master the fundamentals of making sure that your cup is always full, so you can give to others without draining your reserves of energy and health. From mindfulness to resilience, fitness, and clean eating, this comprehensive resource takes a holistic look at what it means to take care of yourself and offers you a how-to guide to healthy and fulfilling behaviors.In this book, you'll find:Concrete strategies for incorporating self-care practices into your busy, everyday lifeDiscussions of how to manage stress and maintain a mindful and calm demeanor and attitude in the face of modern challengesAn emphasis on being kind and gentle with yourself, ensuring that you don't hold yourself to an impossible or unrealistic standardWe're all looking to improve our lives, lift our spirits, and increase our well-being.
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9781119875055
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Paperback
Go Gently
By Wright, Bonnie
An inspiring and approachable tip-filled guide to changing your habits, living more sustainably, and taking action, by Greenpeace ambassador Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter movies) Go Gently is a guide for sustainability at home that offers simple, tangible steps toward reducing our environmental impact by looking at what we consume and the waste we create, as well as how to take action for environmental change. The title reflects Bonnie Wright's belief that the best way to change our planet and ourselves is through a gentle approach, rather than a judgmental one. This is a book of do's rather than don'ts. It's also an invitation to Wright's followers to join her on this journey to sustainability.Going through every room in her home, Wright helps us assess which products are sustainable, and alternatives for those that are not.
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The Book of Self-Care
By Janssen, Mary Beth
Heal mind, body, and soul with this collection of self-care rituals and tips. Never has the idea of mindfully checking in with ourselves and creating a "whole body" health - health that is more than simply the absence of illness - been so appealing. In this guide to self-care, wellness and beauty educator Mary Beth Janssen reveals how introspection, ritual, and love can help cure existential woes. She profiles a wide range of activities and exercises, including:Karma Cleanse: How to cultivate/give lovingkindness, compassion, and forgiveness in yourself, and then pay it forward.Intention, meditation, and breathwork techniques: Exercises for calm and centered living.Emotional Housecleaning: How to deal with unprocessed emotions "stuck" within yourself.
The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care
By Borges, Anna
Some days you need a pick-me-up, some days you need a life preserver. "For most of us," writes Anna Borges, "self-care is a wide spectrum of decisions and actions that soothe and fortify us against all the shit we deal with." You may already practice some form of self-care, whether it's taking an extra-long shower after a stressful day, splurging on a ~fancy~ dinner, or choosing Netflix over that friend-of-a-friend's birthday party. But when life gets so overwhelming that you want to stay in bed, some more radical care is crucial to maintain your sanity.The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care is here to help you exist in the world. Borges gathers over 200 tips, activities, and stories (from experts and everyday people alike) into an A-to-Z list - from asking for help and burning negative thoughts to the importance of touch and catching some Zzz's. Make any day a little more OK with new skills in your self-care toolkit - and energy to show up for yourself.
Self-Care Down There
By Bhandal, Taq Kaur
Take control of your vaginal health and bring your own standards of beauty to your intimate parts with this book offering frank, practical, and accurate beauty and wellness advice for the vagina and surrounding area. Get the lowdown on how to take care of your nether regions with this fun and frank guide focused on helping you maintain your private parts. Covering everything from everyday cleanliness to internal and external safe health advice as well as tips regarding the groom-or-not-to-groom debate and sex-friendly good habits to practice, Self-Care Down There will help you keep your private parts in tip-top shape while expressing the true you! Founder and CEO of IM With Periods and menstrual cycle charting coach Taqdir Kaur Bhandal has dedicated her career to offering wellness advice to women.
Happy Starts at Home
By Rebecca, West,
Use your home as a tool to make better changes happen in your life. Through aligning your heart, home and health, experience first-hand how small changes make a big difference. What does it take to be happy at home? It's not about buying or not buying a new couch. It's about whether your home is working for you in the best way. Your home can directly improve your well-being and contentment with better health, sleep, relationships, and ultimately decrease your stress levels to increase your all-round happiness. Whether getting a geographical cure without actually relocating or redecorating to feel best in your space, design expert Rebecca West is the perfect guide. Along with beautiful photographs, there are a variety of self-assessment activities to connect your financial, emotional, and physical health to your space to ensure it nurtures your vision.
Who Is Wellness For?
By Roisin, Fariha
The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness.Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts to assimilate, she distanced herself from her South Asian heritage and identity. Years later, living in the United States, she realized that the customs, practices, and even food of her native culture that had once made her different - everything from ashwagandha to prayer - were now being homogenized and marketed for good health, often at a premium by white people to white people.
Self-Care All-in-One For Dummies
By Beatty, Georgette C
Take charge of your personal health and well-being with this trusted, all-in-one guide to self-careThere's an old saying that goes, "You can't pour from an empty cup." It means that you can't take care of others unless you take care of yourself. And it's never been truer than it is today.In Self-Care All-in-One For Dummies, you'll master the fundamentals of making sure that your cup is always full, so you can give to others without draining your reserves of energy and health. From mindfulness to resilience, fitness, and clean eating, this comprehensive resource takes a holistic look at what it means to take care of yourself and offers you a how-to guide to healthy and fulfilling behaviors.In this book, you'll find:Concrete strategies for incorporating self-care practices into your busy, everyday lifeDiscussions of how to manage stress and maintain a mindful and calm demeanor and attitude in the face of modern challengesAn emphasis on being kind and gentle with yourself, ensuring that you don't hold yourself to an impossible or unrealistic standardWe're all looking to improve our lives, lift our spirits, and increase our well-being.
Go Gently
By Wright, Bonnie
An inspiring and approachable tip-filled guide to changing your habits, living more sustainably, and taking action, by Greenpeace ambassador Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter movies) Go Gently is a guide for sustainability at home that offers simple, tangible steps toward reducing our environmental impact by looking at what we consume and the waste we create, as well as how to take action for environmental change. The title reflects Bonnie Wright's belief that the best way to change our planet and ourselves is through a gentle approach, rather than a judgmental one. This is a book of do's rather than don'ts. It's also an invitation to Wright's followers to join her on this journey to sustainability.Going through every room in her home, Wright helps us assess which products are sustainable, and alternatives for those that are not.