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Kicking Sick: Your Go-To Guide for Thriving with Chronic Health Conditions

Amy Kurtz · Sounds True
Pages: 168
Format: Print book

More than half of us in the US are struggling with a chronic medical issue - and too many are young women who should be enjoying their best years. Amy Kurtz gets it. Starting in her mid-teens, she endured two "perfect storms" of illness that progressed into her twenties. It earned...
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Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience

ALLISON PATAKI · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched...
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The Power of When: Discover Your Chronotype--and the Best Time to Eat Lunch, Ask for a Raise, Have Sex, Write a Novel, Take Your Meds, and More

Michael Breus · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Learn the best time to do everything--from drink your coffee to have sex or go for a run--according to your body's chronotype. Most advice centers on what to do, or how to do it, and ignores the when of success. But exciting new research proves there is a right time to do just about everything,...
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Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health

Jay Lemery · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 180
Format: Hardcover

Many of us have concerns about the effects of climate change on Earth, but we often overlook the essential issue of human health. This book addresses that oversight and enlightens readers about the most important aspect of one of the greatest challenges of our time. The global environment...
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The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

Ian Morgan Cron · InterVarsity Press
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

Ignorance is bliss -- except in self-awareness. What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships -- and even keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality...
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Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Momentand Your Life

John Ph D Kabat-Zinn · Sounds True
Pages: 166
Format: Audiobook

An Invitation to the Practice of Mindfulness We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours. The practice of mindfulness holds the possibility of not just a fleeting sense of contentment, but a true embracing of a deeper unity...
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Superhealing: Engaging Your Mind, Body, and Spirit to Create Optimal Health and Well-being

Elaine Ferguson MD · HCI
Format: Paperback

From Hippocrates in ancient Greece to the medical healers of today, the impact that the mind-body connection has had on overall health has been widely recognized. And while advancements in technology are vast, the constraints of conventional medicine are an impediment to successfully preventing,...
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The Autoimmune Protocol Made Simple Cookbook: Start Healing Your Body and Reversing Chronic Illness Today with 100 Delicious Recipes

Sophie Van Tiggelen · Fair Winds Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

The Autoimmune Protocol Diet is gaining attention as the top health-supportive diet for the 50 million people suffering from autoimmune conditions; however living the AIP way can feel confusing and overwhelming. You may have no idea where to start and are overwhelmed by the seemingly endless...
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Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

JAN CHOZEN BAYS · Shambhala
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

Mindfulness can restore the healthy relationship with food we were meant to have.Food. It should be one of life's great pleasures, yet many of us have such a conflicted relationship with it that we miss out on that most basic of satisfactions. But it is possible - and not really all that...
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The Alzheimer's Solution: A Breakthrough Program to Prevent and Reverse the Symptoms of Cognitive Decline at Every Age

DEAN SHERZAI · HarperOne
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A revolutionary, proven program for reversing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline from award winning neurologists and codirectors of the Brain Health and Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical CenterOver 47 million people are currently living...
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The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

Alison Gopnik · Farrar
Pages: 302
Format: Print book

One of the world's leading child psychologists shatters the myth of "good parenting"Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call "parenting" is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting...
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The Woman Missing in the Mirror: Your Foolproof Guide to Getting Back to the Best Version of You... Body, Mind and Soul

Dean Mitchell · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 185
Format: Paperback

Dean Mitchell's first book, The Woman Missing in the Mirror, began as a means to bridge the gap between a woman's true physical potential and her ability to actually achieve it. In a deliberate attempt to not offer "just another fitness book for women" filled with fancy...
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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

MARK KURLANSKY · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's...
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Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks

Dave Asprey · Harperwave
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and author of the bestselling The Bulletproof Diet comes a revolutionary plan to upgrade your brainpower - in two weeks or less.For the last decade, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Asprey has worked with world-renowned doctors and scientists to uncover...
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Psychobook: Games, Tests, Questionnaires, Histories

Julian Rothenstein · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Who knew a trip to the therapist could be so much fun, even aesthetically rewarding? Beyond sharing feelings or complaining about your mother, Psychobook reveals the rich history of psychological testing in a fascinating sideways look at classic testing methods, from word-association games...
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