Personal Care

There are plenty of books and resources about how to properly care for your new baby, but what about caring for yourself? Maria Lianos-Carbone, founder of AMotherWorld.com, outlines the proper care and feeding of mothers during their baby's first year. From the physical and emotional changes a new mom will undergo to rekindling intimacy with her partner, Oh Baby! A Mom's Self-Care Survival Guide for the First Year keeps the focus on moms.

From the sterile isolation of infertility and its treatments to the emotional rollercoaster of adoption and foster care, Rachel McCracken gets it! She gets the heartache and the sorrow of the desolate valley called Infertility. She gets the dedication and work that it takes to blend a family. She gets the commitment and purpose one needs to help children rise from the ashes of abandonment and fear. Rachel's new book, Chasing Kites: One Mother's Unexpected Journey Through Infertility, Adoption, and Foster Care weaves her real-life experiences of struggle, heartache, and loss into a wonderful narrative of faith, hope, and the joy that can come through it all.

In Parenting by Heart, Pinky McKay encourages parents to trust their own instincts, and connections with their children. Practical advice is offered with Pinky's trademark humour and covers birth choices, breast-feeding, postnatal depression, sleep, crying, gentle discipline, and building self-esteem (yours and your child's!). Along the way Pinky gives excellent advice for dealing with unwanted inquiries from family and friends.

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.

Listeners learn various breathing techniques, mindful movement through yoga and gentle stretching, and gratitude and loving-kindness practices. The chapter on mindfulness in stressful situations teaches listeners to respond rather than react, utilize the power of pause, and cultivate resilience. The book concludes by reflecting on the transformative journey listeners have undertaken. It encourages them to embrace mindfulness and self-care as lifelong practices, celebrating progress rather than perfection.

Teaching has never been easy, but these days, it seems to keep getting harder. As the pressure builds, many educators are calling it quits on a profession that once felt like a calling. Planning to Stay offers a hopeful alternative.

What keeps most people from success is not their lack of skills or ability, but other factors that can create obstacles that prevent you from reaching your fullest potential: Procrastination, low self-esteem, toxic thinking, and negative situations among many other factors can have a major impact on how well we progress and achieve in life. Perfectionism is another obstacle that can stand in the way of moving forward, while failure and imperfections can help us lead a path to a lot more success than imagined.

Frankie put in the application to be a personal assistant without thinking she would actually get the job. She did. Working for one of Hollywood’s most desirable actors and unabashed flirt proves to be more challenging than any job she has had before. Of course, when the lines between work and play get blurry, she has to let him break a few rules to avoid breaking her heart.

No matter what you want to achieve in life and where you are starting from, if at the end of the day you feel like you’ve squandered another 24 hours and haven’t progressed with your goals—this is the audiobook for you!

Don’t go through all the feels alone! Take care of your emotional health and embrace motherhood without losing yourself. An amazing resource for postpartum health that guides you to stay centered and grounded, while you care for your precious little one. Manage your new identity without the overwhelm or guilt, and feel peace instead of pressure.

¡Felicidades! Si llegaste hasta acá, reconócete por todas las muestras de amor propio que has tenido, sin embargo, el amor propio es un camino de toda la vida. Te damos herramientas para continuar y no parar.

What if the advice you’re told on how to live your life is outdated and will only make you miserable? “Go to school, get good grades, so you can get a good job, so you can attract a ‘quality’ woman, so you can marry her and have kids.” Despite the evidence it doesn’t work, it still gets pushed as the ideal to strive for. It’s time to reinvent what is the ideal life for a male.

The American child welfare system is bent toward protecting adults, not children. Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where kids can thrive?

Empathy is something we all feel at one time or another in our lives. It is a necessary human experience and the ability to have a compassionate sense of feeling for another person. You may not have considered yourself an empath before, because our culture hasn't considered it for a long time. It's a valid diagnosis for a person and empaths often end up being accused of being overly sensitive, sometimes sick or depressed, anti-social, and reclusive. If you think that you may be an empath and want to find out how to help you embrace your gift, then don't look any further.

We all go through bouts of depression. It's common now to feel depressed from time to time. Sometimes it happens when we face a challenge or disappointment in life. Other times it happens because of our brain chemistry.

Step into a transformative experience tailored exclusively for Black women with this powerful audiobook. Unlike many self-help audiobooks that skim the surface, this one delves deep into the unique challenges and strengths of Black women, offering actionable guidance and deep cultural wisdom in every chapter.

Your relationship ended. It’s hard to not think about it. Your heart hurts, and your stomach is in knots. You hate the way you feel. Whether you were the one being broken up with, or you were the one who initiated the breakup - either way, the emotions of a breakup are difficult to grapple with. Self-Care After a Breakup can help!

Life after divorce can be overwhelming, but it can also be a transformative journey of self-discovery, growth, and new possibilities. Embracing New Beginnings: A Journey of Rebuilding After Divorce is a compassionate and empowering guidebook crafted to support and inspire individuals navigating the challenges of post-divorce life.

The post-partum period is challenging. Everyone - your mom, well-meaning strangers, and your OB/Gyn - constantly tells you to get more sleep, make sure you're eating well-balanced meals, and drink lots of water. But every time someone offers you a bit of advice, you want to throw your hands to the sky and shout, "But how?"

The affirmations in this book are enriched by our history that intertwines to bring us into the 21st century and our day-to-day lives. Throughout this book, you will find a respite to the special needs of Black women that are bountiful for their journey to motivate them to that next level of where they want to be mentally, physically, and spiritually.