Essential Wellness

Blending two households can feel overwhelming, especially when managing relationships, parenting styles, and financial complexities. Many families face these struggles, but achieving a harmonious and well-adjusted blended family is within your reach. This guide offers practical solutions and proven strategies to help you confidently navigate the journey.

Meal prep is the latest health trend and involves the purchasing of uncooked food in bulk and then storing it chopped, semiready, or ready to heat in preparation for weekly meals. This enables families to prepare ahead for their week. "Failing to plan is planning to fail," according to food gurus. Gyeong's book accentuates why meal preparation is so important in an age of busy lives where the limitations of time cause so many bad food choices.

You've got your new dog, you've got the bowl, the collar, and the lead. Now what? This puppy doesn't seem to understand anything you say! You got your pet to be your companion - and yet all you seem to do is yell at her! Let's change this right away: instead of focussing on what you don't want your dog to do, focus on what you do want. Instead of having unnecessary battles over trivia, build up terrific games your dog longs to play with you. Soon your unruly dog will be saying, "Yes? What would you like me to do for you?"

The solar plexus chakra is the third step on a staircase that leads up from the base of your spine toward enlightenment. Bestselling author and chakra expert Cyndi Dale has curated contributions from nine energy medicine practitioners that will teach you everything you need to know about this radiant energy center. The third entry in Llewellyn's Chakra Essentials series, this book features many hands-on practices, including guided meditations, mantras, vibrational remedies, and recipes to heal and activate the solar plexus.

Instead of saying “This is what you do,” then leaving you to it, Beverley takes you by the hand and troubleshoots all the games so that you can get them absolutely right. And the joy is that this is all achieved without shouting, force, or intimidation. Just pure undiluted fun! This first book in the series of Essential Skills for a Brilliant Family Dog introduces you to the concepts of how to get what you want from your dog, and then sends him off to sleep for you.

Have you ever been in a position when you felt compelled to break emotionally? Do you ever wonder why your emotions get the best of you at times? Have you ever pondered over what the term "emotional flexibility" means and why it is so vital to health? Wesley Holland has highlighted the most fundamental characteristics of creating emotional flexibility in his book, Emotional Flexibility: Essential Guide to Master Stress and Build Resilience for a Better Life. This book not only explains but also teaches the notion of bending rather than breaking.

In inspiring passages and simple exercises, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us what he calls “the art of suffering.” He gives us teachings and tools for transforming suffering as well as ways to touch moments of happiness and smile even while suffering is still there. Written with characteristic simplicity and wisdom, these insightful meditations—born from the Zen master’s lifetime of Zen practice and peacemaking—teach us how to come back to ourselves, calm our body and mind, and not let suffering overwhelm us.

Conocido comúnmente como “el Doce y Doce”, Doce Pasos y Doce Tradiciones contiene 24 ensayos fundamentales escritos por Bill W., el cofundador de A.A. ensayos que han ayudado a millones de miembros de A.A. de todas partes del mundo a lograr su sobriedad y mantenerla un día a la vez, y asegurar que su “Comunidad” --Alcohólicos Anónimos en su totalidad-- esté allí para ellos mañana.

Therapy fails sex workers. Despite the wide range of sex work—from street-based to OnlyFans—clinicians too often focus on what they think sex workers need, instead of building trust, developing rapport, and really doing the work to understand the unique stressors that make quality mental health care essential for sex worker communities. Sex-positive therapists Theo Burnes and Jamila Dawson break down everything that mental health providers need to know to work effectively with sex workers, while dispeling the tired, pervasive myths that continue to impact treatment today.

I suffered from severe and frequent migraines that disrupted my life and made me miserable. Throughout years of herbal and nutritional training, wildcrafting and making herbal recipes, all the while dealing with migraine headaches, I learned effective ways to not only treat migraines, but to prevent them as well. I wrote this book to share with migraine sufferers who may be looking for relief with gentle, holistic treatments that work to eliminate the problem, not just the symptoms.

When we study the body, the difference between Western and Eastern medicines is that Eastern medicine looks at the body as an interdependent unit, and not individual parts. This book is my ambition to permeate this cohesive methodology into everyone’s holistic healing journey, and to concurrently give people a toolbox of recipes and techniques ranging from essential oils for relieving anxiety, inflammation, and breathing ailments, as well as using Feng Shui for facilitating better energy flow in Meridians that might be blocked.

The words “you have multiple sclerosis” can be very frightening. There is no cure, symptoms are potentially debilitating, and there is no way to prevent it. While a diagnosis often requires ongoing lifestyle adjustments, with the proper treatment it is possible to have a fulfilling life. Understanding the condition and treatment options are the first steps to advocating for yourself or your loved ones living with MS.

NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business is a straight-talking, highly practical guide to using NLP to significantly improve your results at work. Whether you want to be a better leader, manager, negotiator, salesperson, or decision-maker, you can learn proven NLP techniques that will boost your career as well as the performance of colleagues and the organization itself.

As your parents age, you may find that you want or need to broach the often - difficult subject of finances. In Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations with Your Parents About Their Finances, you'll learn the best ways to approach this issue, along with a wealth of financial and legal information that will help you help your parents into and through their golden years.

Exercise isn’t only for the young and agile. And you don’t need special equipment and an expensive gym membership to start getting stronger and healthier. All you need is a chair. Chair exercises specially tailored for seniors that you do at your own pace will get you fitter and feeling better than you have in years. This guide will show you how you can change from being achy and tired to being flexible, energized, and enjoying life to the fullest.

How do you feel when you pass a bakery and smell the aroma of freshly baked pastries? Most of us, just want to take a moment and savor the scent and in that moment, it just feels so calming. This clearly shows that scent plays a huge role in our physical and mental well-being. This is where the use of aromatherapy and essential oils comes in.

Anxiety is a natural first-time reaction in the face of danger. It is the body’s automatic fight-or-flight response triggered when your body senses any form of threat, when you are under pressure, or even when you are facing a situation that is challenging. Taking a job interview, exam, or going out on a first date can leave you with anxiety. This simply means that anxiety isn’t necessarily a bad thing. As a matter of fact, anxiety doesn’t necessarily result in something bad.

Preventing Cancer offers a quick insight into cancer-causing factors, foods that fight cancer, and how the three spices - turmeric, ginger, and garlic - can not only spice up your food but potentially make all your food into cancer-fighting meals. While there are many other herbs and spices that help fight cancer, these three spices work together and complementarily. In addition, the medicinal value of these spices has been proven over thousands of years use.

Do you often feel stressed, tense, or even anxious? Would you like to live a healthier and happier life instead? Then you have come to the right place: The Yoga Bible for Beginners will allow you to reconnect with your deepest self again, so you can experience deep joy, contentment, and inner peace. Learn why successful people like Beyonce, Ryan Gosling, and Arianna Huffington all practice yoga! Yoga can help restore balance between body and mind. For example, one study showed that yoga can normalize levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

Boundaries are our way of setting limitations and rules around us in order to protect ourselves. This is crucial for inner child healing as we reparent and protect our wounded inner child. Drawing from the principles of inner child healing, this book offers a step-by-step approach to establishing and nurturing six essential boundaries. Boundaries for Inner Child Healing offers practical guidance, actionable strategies, and real-life examples to help you navigate the complexities of boundary setting and maintenance.