Holistic Wellness

Arranging ofrendas. Brewing pericon into a healing tea. Releasing traumas through baños and limpias. Herbalist and curandera Atava Garcia Swiecicki spent decades gathering this traditional knowledge of curanderismo, Mexican folk healing, which had been marginalized as Chicanx and Latinx Americans assimilated to US culture. She teaches how to follow the path of the curandera, as she herself learned from apprenticing with Mexican curanderas, studying herbal texts, and listening to her ancestors.

Holistic and integrative medicine is an approach to healthcare that focuses on treating the whole person, rather than just the symptoms of a particular illness or condition. This approach considers a person's physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual well-being, and how these factors interact to affect overall health. Unlike conventional medicine, holistic and integrative medicine seeks to address the underlying causes of illness or imbalance and promote healing from within. This approach emphasizes the importance of prevention, self-care, and patient empowerment.

The Practical Guide to Postpartum Self-Care will support you every step of your journey, delving deeply into the often overlooked emotional and mental health aspects of the postpartum experience. Whether you are a first-time mom or a seasoned parent, you'll discover effective self-care strategies empowering you to navigate postpartum life with confidence, self-compassion, and resilience.

More than your average exercise regimen, yoga has helped enthusiasts discover personal equilibrium and maintain it for a lifetime. In Yoga for Weight Loss, renowned physician and longtime yoga practitioner Loren Fishman demystifies the scientific link between yoga and weight control, outlining its medical, physiological, biological, and spiritual impact....

This book is designed to help you reach full potential and unlock true holism through the help of plant allies. It is through countless hours of personal research and exploration that I created a guide to becoming your own herbal practioner, by encouraging exploration and creativity in conjunction with wise and time-tested knowledge. Herbalism, as a transformative art, is a way to get back to our roots and the source of potent medicine that our ancestors have used for millennia before us.

Many people feel completely burnt out but do not understand how this affects their body or what they can do about it. Unfortunately, mainstream medicine has almost nothing to offer the person who wakes up feeling exhausted and unable to cope with the smallest stress. Having helped people for more than twenty years to recover from these illnesses, Jo Dunbar passes on her knowledge and experience in this accessible book.

What do health and healing - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - really mean? After decades researching this question, Patricia Muehsam, MD, offers a revolutionary new way to think about health. Muehsam invites listeners to travel beyond medicine, to Absolute Health. It involves being, not doing, and it’s available to all of us, in this very moment.

Based on extensive research into the business records of mountain entrepreneurs, country stores, and pharmaceutical companies, Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia is the first book to unearth the unique relationship between the Appalachian region and the global trade in medicinal plants. Historian Luke Manget expands our understanding of the gathering commons by exploring how and why Appalachia became the nation’s premier purveyor of botanical drugs in the late-nineteenth century.

Este libro es una guía completa diseñada para redefinir su relación con su cabello. No se trata solo de tratamientos superficiales; es un manifiesto para cultivar un cabello vibrante y sano desde dentro. En un mundo en el que nuestros cabellos están sometidos a diversos factores de estrés, este enfoque holístico pretende nutrir no solo las hebras, sino también las raíces de nuestro bienestar. Descubra el profundo impacto de la nutrición, las elecciones de estilo de vida y las prácticas conscientes en la vitalidad de su cabello.

Stephanie Rose Bird grew up surrounded by forests, listening to the stories of her ancestors and learning African healing ways. From an early age, she dedicated herself to herbalism and living a spiritually fulfilled life in harmony with nature. Now, the wisdom she as accrued is gathered in this impressive encyclopedic work of African Healing and herbal medicine. Stephanie teaches you how to garden and harvest in unison with the seasons, and how to use herbalism and magic—derived from ancestral and spiritual helpers—to heal.

Join Skip Archimedes, holistic health coach and inspirational speaker, as he leads you through the 10 key steps to living long, living strong, and living happy. After an introduction on what "living forever young" really means and why it's so important, Skip tells his own inspirational story and explains how it led to the development of the life-changing secrets in this book. Then the 10 main chapters focused on those key steps begin: breathe, move, nourish, rest, love, shine, believe, learn, commit, and live.

An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting-edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow.

All current & efficient formulas of the autogenic training (made in Germany) for holistic relaxation in about 25 minutes. Enjoy this recognized deep relaxation method without music, only with a calm, guiding voice and gentle nature sounds in the background. This compact relaxation exercise from SyncSouls is a great everyday companion for applying the autogenic training on a regular basis. It supports getting quickly into a deep and comprehensive relaxation.

Do you constantly experience pain? Are you tired of popping pills and hearing about surgeries? Would you like to integrate alternative pain relief methods without developing dependency? How about adopting holistic healing methods without overspending or experiencing any side effects?

Sabrine Callaert Dietz hat es speziell für Menschen geschrieben, die entweder chronisch krank sind und nach alternativen Heilmethoden suchen oder sich für Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention interessieren. Es bietet einen ausführlichen Leitfaden, um den Körper in die Selbstregulation und damit in die Heilung zu bewegen.

Vegan: How to Be a Vegan in a Meat Eater's World - The Vegan's Guide to Thriving and Surviving by Mary Thibodeau teaches you how to enjoy your vegan journey. You'll learn how to combat common misconceptions about veganism in our culture and feel secure in your choice with Mary's essential tips.

This book is the result of four decades of learning from personal experience, practice, study and ongoing exploration into how the body works. A good working body not only performs best but looks better too. In these chapters, you will find the author’s best tips to help the body, work, feel and look better. She presents distilled experience to offer essential understanding as a solid base for optimum good health. This understanding creates a positive effect within and results in a youthful appearance on the outside.

V.K. Ramsey's very personal book approaches addiction recovery in a new and very different way from what addicts or their family members, as well as codependents, have been offered so far. He clearly highlights that fighting with and eventually facing addiction is something that deserves respect, support, and love!

A holistic treatment guide can help readers delve into healing the body using herbs and the powers within. With many people so discouraged by Western Medicine and the side effects that it brings, holistic treatments are becoming more and more popular. Though these methods have been around since the dawn of time, having a book that brings it all together for those who are learning would help to bring understanding to those who have little.

Whether you're an adult dealing with substance abuse or a friend or family member supporting someone in recovery, Holistic Health Accelerator: Achieve Recovery in 10 Easy Steps Without Relapsing offers a positive mindset on personal growth and practical answers for mind, body, and spirit healing for a drug-free life.