Personal Care

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.

Shadow work—the process of exploring your pain, trauma, and imperfections—is a powerful tool to help you embrace and accept yourself, even the parts that are difficult. Shadow Work gives you everything you need to get started with a clear explanation of what shadow work is, how it works, and how it helps you, as well as guided meditations and affirmations to walk you through your own shadow work. Written by licensed therapist Jor-El Caraballo, this book is the perfect companion for your self-exploration journey.

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.

If you’re like many moms out there, your number one priority is usually everyone else. Driving the kids from one activity to the next, ensuring everyone’s fed and clothed, the list of duties is endless! But if you’ve fallen into this trap, you could be creating the opposite effect to the one you desire because the best gift you can give your children is a whole and healthy you! Whole and healthy in body, spirit, and soul.

There currently is no cure for Alzheimer's disease - though it can be treated. For the last 15 years, John Zeisel, PhD, has spearheaded a movement to treat Alzheimer's non-pharmacologically by focusing on the mind's strengths. I'm Still Here is a guidebook to Dr. Zeisel's treatment ideas, showing the possibility and benefits of connecting with an Alzheimer's patient through their abilities that don't diminish with time, such as understanding music, art, facial expressions, and touch.

For too long, Black women have been conditioned to believe that emotions are a weakness, leading to a generation of broken and damaged women who believe in the "ride or die" mentality. But it's time to break that cycle and change the narrative.

Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children in their search for a stable, loving family. Beam shows us the intricacies of growing up in the system - the back-and-forth with agencies, the rootless shuffling between homes, the emotionally charged tug between foster and birth parents.

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.

Saturday, October 10, 1998. Fielding Marshall is hiking on the Appalachian Trail. His beloved dog - a six-year-old golden retriever named Gonker - bolts into the woods. Just like that, he has vanished. And Gonker has Addison's disease. If he's not found in 23 days, he will die.

The search begins. Fielding and his father, John, are dispatched to the field. They have the family's other dog, Uli, in tow. Combing the trails, Fielding and his father bond like never before.

Caring for someone with dementia can be a challenging, heartbreaking experience … but it can also be rewarding, fulfilling and meaningful. Most dementia caregivers find that the first, and sometimes most difficult step, is accepting the diagnosis and adjusting to a new normal. In Day to Day: Living With Dementia, Angela Lunde, M.A., an expert in dementia care at Mayo Clinic, helps you take that first step and chart your path toward living well, even in the face of dementia.

Anam Cara is a Celtic term meaning, "soul friend". In the days of the Druids, an Anam Cara served as a confidante, an advisor, and confessor. This book reintroduces the power of having a "soul friend". Today, we can enjoy this spiritual benefit. A soul friend listens, understands, and is never judgmental. By clearing one's conscience, learning to let go, forgive, and atone, we experience the magical power of our soul. We are reborn and begin to realize our potential.

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.

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.

Are you and your partner curious about sobriety or better managing your drinking? In Sober Love, Dr. Joseph Nowinski offers practical advice and proven strategies to help couples end their relationship with alcohol—and redefine their relationship with each other. Alcohol misuse can become an insidious problem for many couples. As a psychologist with extensive experience in designing effective treatment programs, Dr. Nowinski describes how and why people—and couples—develop alcohol problems

After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one, she did something incredible. Equipped only with YouTube instructional videos, a small bank loan and a mile-wide stubborn streak, Cara built her own house from the foundation up with a work crew made up of her four children. It would be the hardest thing she had ever done.

As a black woman, you’re not only subjected to high expectations for your gender but also social and economic pressures brought about by discrimination and racism. That’s hard enough for anyone to deal with. How much more if the odds are constantly stacked against you for simply being YOU? We get it. As black women, you must learn how to break the toxic cycle of shame, guilt, and oppression. And, for this to happen, you need to learn the emotional, mental, and spiritual tools to put yourself first.

"[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.

Si eres como muchas mamás, tu prioridad número uno suele ser siempre los demás. Desde llevar a los niños a sus actividades hasta asegurarte de que todos estén bien alimentados y vestidos, tu lista de tareas parece no tener fin. Pero aquí está el detalle: al descuidar tu propio bienestar, podrías estar afectando las conexiones que más valoras.

Parenting comes with a lot of joys and a lot of responsibilities too. As your little baby grows up, you want them to develop a love of learning, which they will have for the rest of their life. While there are many ways to awaken this love of learning, raising your child the Montessori way is one of the most effective methods. Although the thought of raising a child using the Montessori philosophy might seem a bit daunting, understanding this philosophy will help you understand that it's not that difficult at all.