Body Wellness

For years, we've understood the connection between trauma and mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety. But somatic psychology has recently shown that our bodies hold on to trauma, and trauma can manifest in physical symptoms. In addition, we now know that developmental trauma can result in profound emotional stress and lead to serious diseases. Building on this knowledge, this cutting-edge guide offers simple skills for connecting and calming your body, balancing your emotions, and rewiring old patterns of reactivity for better self-regulation.

Healing Sex is the encouraging, sex-positive guide for all women survivors of sexual assault- heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, coupled, and single - who want to delight in their own sexuality. While most books on the topic broach sexuality to reassure women that it's all right to say "no" to unwanted sex, Healing Sex encourages women to learn how to say "yes" - to their own desires and on their own terms.

You want to quit smoking but every day you continue to procrastinate. Like a bad song on repeat, you feel stuck in a loop with a smoking addiction that you don't want. There is no right or wrong way to go about quitting smoking, but laid out within this audiobook are 14 so-called "rules" that are proven to be the keys that can unlock your mind to think differently about smoking.

Clinical psychologist Dr. Arielle Schwartz has spent years helping those with complex PTSD—also referred to as C-PTSD—find their way to wholeness. She also knows the territory of the healing firsthand, having walked it herself. This audiobook provides a map to the complicated, and often overwhelming, terrain of C-PTSD with Dr. Schwartz’s knowledgeable guidance helping you find your way.

Red light therapy is a therapeutic technique that will use red low-level wavelengths of light to treat a variety of health conditions. It has been known to help with persistent wounds, scars, wrinkles, weight loss, and more.

A trauma-informed approach to healing body and mind: an evidence-based yoga program for survivors, clinicians, and yoga teachers Research-backed and trauma-informed, this book introduces a yoga program that helps readers heal from the cognitive, emotional, and physiological symptoms of PTSD...

This book isn't about perfection. It's about reclaiming your body, spirit, and piece — one breath, one sip, one honest truth at a time. Written during a time of deep recovery and transformation, Balanced Body, Nourished Soul is part guide, part emotional journey. It invites you to reconnect with your body through simple, powerful, movement. To hydrate not just with water, but with purpose. And to listen to the wisdom your soul's been whispering all along.

Nutritionist and beauty expert Kimberly Snyder helps dozens of A-list celebrities get red carpet ready - and now you're getting the star treatment. Kim used to struggle with coarse hair, breakouts and stubborn belly fat, until she traveled the world, learning age-old beauty secrets. She discovered that what you eat is the ultimate beauty product, and she's developed a powerful program that rids the body of toxins so you can look and feel your very best.

Eating healthy plays a major role in the prevention and recovery from infectious diseases like COVID-19 and the flu, as well autoimmune diseases and even cancer. Now more than ever, it's important to fuel your immune system with protective, micronutrient-rich foods. The Nutritarian eating plan is designed to maximize health and longevity and the recipes are outstanding!

Maybe you’re looking for an alternative treatment for a medical condition, or want to know about the dangers and side effects of marijuana. Or, maybe you simply want to educate yourself about this drug so you can have an informed opinion. Whatever your motivation for uncovering the truth about marijuana, you’re in the right place. Marijuana is a potent and complex drug with a wide range of effects. With everything you need to know about the drug at your fingertips, you can be empowered to make the best decision about whether to use or avoid it.

Today, more than ever, we find ourselves bombarded with different toxins. Unknowingly, many of the foods we eat and the environments we are in are littered with pesticides, unhealthy preservatives, and pollution. On top of that, we are under more pressure than ever. Be it at work, in our social lives, or even online.

Break the cycle of anxious thinking and rumination that are at the root of insomnia. In this much-needed guide, a trained mindfulness expert teams up with a behavioral sleep specialist to present evidence-based meditations in an innovative four-week protocol clinically demonstrated to address the emotional stresses and anxieties that lie at the root of sleep issues. Following this guide, listeners will learn to unwind their mind, relax their body, feel less tense, and finally get the sleep they need.

A guided tour through the body’s innate healing powers. Many of us have learned to ignore, deny, or even mistrust the wise messages our bodies give us. The result is that when trauma strikes, a time when we need every aspect of our beings to master the challenge, we may find ourselves disconnected from our greatest strengths. Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, who has spent 30 years studying the gifts of the body and teaching thousands how to reclaim them, began to recognize this strength, which she likens to a GPS, when she herself experienced a life-threatening trauma.

Step into the world of Tai Chi with Valerie Cruz’s transformative guide – a journey that blends meditation, movement, and mindfulness to elevate your well-being. Whether you're brand new to Tai Chi or looking to refine your practice, Tai Chi: Transform Your Mind, Body, and Spirit with 24 Forms and Mindful Meditation is your complete roadmap to mastering this graceful art.

Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? Why do you duck your head when you drive into an underground parking garage? Why are your kids so enthralled by video games? The answers to these questions can be found in a new understanding of how your brain interacts with your body, the space around your body, and the social world.

Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory, Frank's book has reached a large and diverse following, including the ill, medical professionals, and scholars of literary theory. In this new edition, Frank adds a preface describing the personal and cultural times when the first edition was written.

More than three decades ago, Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School proposed a theory in his multimillion-copy best seller The Relaxation Response, which stated that by calming the mind, one could calm the body and alleviate stress, pain, and illness.

Acclaimed author, process-oriented therapist, and earlier Jungian analyst Arnold Mindell teaches us how to find the power to make our own choices and control our own lives. Drawing on his experiences with "witch-doctors" and shamans in Africa, Japan, Russia, and India, Mindell leads us on a "death walk" through our worst fears and deepest emotional crises to wake our inner shaman - which he calls our "dreamingbody." Methods for tapping the wisdom hidden in crises free our own internal sorcery for use in our daily lives. These methods enable us to become whole from within and to avoid the phantoms of unrealistic hopes and desires that limit our lives.

This groundbreaking work of practical, popular science reveals that fat is much smarter than we think. Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringing—and, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part of our body. You may not love your fat, but your body...

This audiobook was inspired from a Canadian mother aspiring to cleaner daily living for her whole family. The recipes in this audiobook have been tested in our community with five star reviews. You will love using these century old traditions with a modern twist of natural, homemade products and you will see how easy they are to use in everyday life. Soon you will be replacing all your toxic commercial products with your own custom skincare and cleaners. Your family will love you for it!