Personal Care

Andy Beal suffered a massive stroke and heart attack at the age of 44. The entire right side of his body was paralyzed. He had trouble thinking, talking, and answering the simplest of questions. Just two days later, Beal walked out of the hospital in what doctors call a "remarkable recovery". That remarkable recovery was in part due to the heart health improvements Andy Beal made just eight months earlier.

He wants to do something new, maybe a little bit righteous. She sees herself leading a nonprofit or creating a medical device that saves lives in the remotest parts of the world. However, the search process has changed radically from the last time they looked for a job.

Being a caregiver for aging parents, close friends and family, and other elders in your life is an overwhelming experience, whether you are one who has stepped into this role without warning or one who is also contemplating their own care plan. Now in its fourth edition, The Complete Eldercare Planner will help you navigate today’s complex caregiving landscape while addressing your unique needs.

As a Black woman, I know all too well the unique challenges and obstacles we face in pursuing our dreams. But I also know the power of manifestation and the impact it can have on our lives. Through my own journey and working with other Black women, I've seen firsthand the incredible transformation that can occur when we tap into our inner strength and harness the power of manifestation.

In this inclusive history and guide to skin care and beauty, journalist and founder of Very Good Light David Yi teaches us that self-care, wellness, and feeling beautiful transcends time, boundaries, and binaries - and that pretty boys can change the world.

This audiobook will help you cultivate the qualities that every fearless and fabulous woman possesses. It will arm you with 10 powerful strategies that will help you overcome your fears and live the extraordinary life you’re meant to live. It will encourage you to challenge old ways of thinking and kick the status quo to the curb - in your most gorgeous pair of Jimmy Choos, of course!

Loss hurts. It's tough to go through, and painful to watch. Do you know someone who's grieving and wish you could help? Are you the one grieving and wonder if what you're going through is normal? Do you wish those around you understood you better? This book has answers.

Discover a world where every word speaks to the heart, every affirmation fuels the soul, and every man feels seen, heard, and inspired. Positive Affirmations for Black Men is a transformative book designed to uplift and empower black men at every stage of their journey.

As women, we have become professional self-critics. We've become so convinced by society that we need to attain a level of perfection that just isn't real. Whether it's trying to get skinnier, look younger, get that promotion, please our parents, get fuller lips or rid ourselves of cellulite - we're on a never-ending mission to change and it always winds up making us feel like crap. In this straight-up girlfriend's guide, lifestylist and wellness coach Cara Alwill Leyba encourages women to discover what makes them sparkle so that they can design the lives they desire and deserve.

Have you ever experienced the so-called pleasure freeze? It’s what happens when you feel guilty when you are doing well, and others are not happy. The second, or sacral chakra, dictates how we begin to relate to others outside the family dynamic and the creative exploration of life, relationships, and sexuality. Being creative in nature, this chakra’s main focus is allowing the individual to discover what they enjoy, to form hobbies, to create loving and exciting relationships, and to even experience creativity in lovemaking and sexual eroticism.

Throughout this audiobook, parents of kids with PANDAS (pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with strep) and PANS (pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome) share their answers to these questions and more. In stories of heartbreak and healing, they describe how the symptoms of these disorders really look behind closed doors and how relentlessly fighting for the right diagnosis and treatment led their kids to heal, slowly.

We've all been there, sitting uncomfortably in a paper gown as a doctor impassively describes our prognosis. Sometimes it's simple and treatable. Other times we get news we can't fathom and then are faced with decisions that are literally life and death. In this revolutionary book, physician, behavioral scientist, and bioethicist Peter Ubel, M.D., reveals how hidden dynamics in the doctor/patient relationship keep us and our loved ones from making the best medical choices.

Have you been thinking about conceiving a baby, but with no luck so far? Have you gone through a terrible loss with your pregnancy and wish to avoid it happening again? Do you want to possess the knowledge about your fertility that you deserve to have? There is plenty of information about our bodies that we, as women, are just expected to have. Although we learn the basics of reproduction and anatomy, there is simply so much more to fertility and healthy pregnancy that we aren’t told.

In How to Raise a Doctor: Wisdom from Parents Who Did It!, Dr. Dale Okorodudu draws from the lessons of parents who strategically and successfully guided their children to become medical doctors, without forcing it upon them. It turns out that for many of these parents, it really wasn't that difficult. After interviewing more than 75 parents of physicians, Dr. Dale provides their most essential instructions for raising doctors in this practical and powerful book. These are key strategies that you can begin applying today.

"[E]veryone's health—including that of the next generation—may depend more on the health of society and the healing of nations than on the conquest of disease." Norman Cousins' experience with a massive heart attack is used as a case study in how to mobilize inner resources to overcome fear and panic. He also he generalizes from his experience with life-threatening illness to examine the experience of life-threatened humanity.

Wards of the State by journalist and author Claudia Rowe widens an eye-opening case from a true-crime lens to an exploration of the foster care-to-prison pipeline. The system is broken—hundreds of thousands of children every year leave America’s $30 billion dollar foster care system and enter its prisons, where in some cases, 75 percent of inmates are former foster kids. Through the stories of eight former foster kids, Rowe illustrates exactly where, when, and how the system is failing the children that it parents.

Tauche ein in die Welt der Selbstfürsorge mit „Self Care – So gibst du dir die Liebe, nach der du dich sehnst“. Dieses Hörbuch ist dein persönlicher Begleiter auf dem Weg zu mehr Lebensfreude, innerer Balance und einem erfüllteren Leben. Mit leicht umzusetzenden Routinen und wertvollen Impulsen zeigt es dir, wie du die Liebe und Aufmerksamkeit, nach der du dich sehnst, in dir selbst findest. Egal, ob du dich gestresst oder ausgebrannt fühlst oder einfach mehr Harmonie in deinen Alltag bringen möchtest – Selbstfürsorge ist der Schlüssel, um wieder zu dir selbst zu finden.

Self-care is a necessary part of being alive, not something we resort to when we're at our most burned out, vulnerable, and desperate. This is a comprehensive guide to making self-care part of your everyday life. From Coping to Thriving is designed to give you the self-knowledge and awareness you need to start integrating self-care into your life, instead of integrating self-care around your life.

Un hermoso y sabio libro que enseña a afrontar el dolor y la muerte para vivir con plenitud. Profundo y práctico a la vez, sin pretensiones filosóficas ni teológicas, este libro aboca los temas relativos al final de la vida con conocimiento y seriedad pero además con un lenguaje sencillo y cálido. Un obra que toda persona debería leer para perder el miedo a la muerte y aprender a llevar y superar el duelo por la pérdida de los seres queridos.

Studies show that Black women often feel like they have to live up to unreasonable standards as women, employees, caregivers, and family members. Having to work twice as hard to fight against racial bias, gender inequalities, and countless microaggressions. This self-care book, written from a Black woman’s perspective, provides seven core principles for achieving physical, mental, and spiritual health.