Essential Wellness

More than 78 million American adults are nearing the age when unexpected aches and pains, weight gains, sudden illnesses, and confusing mental changes begin to occur. As children, our questions about how our bodies will change are met with knowledge and patience - anything to make the transition as seamless as possible. But at 50 or 60, there’s no one to help us figure out whether the changes we’re experiencing are a cause for concern or just a normal part of aging. Is This Normal? is a guidebook that focuses on putting this generation at ease by answering their most common questions.

This practical guide helps therapists from virtually any specialty or theoretical orientation choose and adapt mindfulness practices most likely to be effective with particular patients, while avoiding those that are contraindicated. The authors provide a wide range of meditations that build the core skills of focused attention, mindfulness, and compassionate acceptance. Vivid clinical examples show how to weave the practices into therapy, tailor them to each patient's needs, and overcome obstacles.

If you have depression, you may struggle with intense and painful emotions. You might lack motivation or feel disconnected from the world around you. And you may give up hope that you'll ever feel better. It's important to know that you aren't alone, and there are skills you can use to find your way out of the darkness and into the light.

The Fat Busy Family Guy covers Brent's incredible weight loss of over 80 pounds in under five months and how he did it without disrupting his busy schedule of a nine to five job with two children at home, no fad diets and no long workout sessions. The Essential Guide to Autophagy is the follow-up book that dives into the real science behind autophagy, a natural process the body enters into at certain times of the day.

People all through history have used fasting of different types for spiritual or health reasons without fully understanding why it works or how to get the most out of it. In The Essential Guide to Autophagy, we look at what it is, how it works, and all of the different ways you can make it work for you.

To Know Your Self is based on the essential teachings of Sri Swami Satchidananda, founder of Integral Yoga. When you know yourself—your true Self—then you know everything, and you understand everyone.

Intuitive Eating is a groundbreaking approach to nutrition that recognizes the body's natural hunger signals. There are numerous benefits associated with eating intuitively, including improved mental health, self-esteem, body image, weight stability, and dietary patterns. Structured around the ten principles of intuitive eating, this comprehensive professional manual offers psychotherapists, dieticians, and nutritionists session-by-session techniques to effectively teach others how to implement the core tenets of intuitive eating, and promote a healthy and nourishing relationship to food.

You think you’re doing everything right. You switched to whole-grain varieties, you avoid red meat, and you only buy low-fat dairy products. Most nutritionists and dietary experts would congratulate you on doing a great job. But what they don’t know (or pretend to not know) is that such “healthy” diets may harm your body immensely and can cause a spectrum of inflammatory diseases.

It's easy to decide to adopt a healthier lifestyle - for instance, going for ketogenic diet - but difficult to follow through. The core reason why people fail to go through is they either don't have the practical information that can help them ease into the new lifestyle or they get fed up by eating the same boring and bland stuff day in and day out. Eating well in a ketogenic diet is now possible with this book which has a wonderful and amazing variety of healthy recipes that will help you achieve all your weight loss and health resolutions in 2020.

Traditional psychiatry, psychotherapy, and pastoral counseling - many Christian parents have tried these methods to help their troubled tweens, teens, and young adults, but have found that nothing works. These parents are frustrated, feel criticized by their church community, and no one seems to understand their teen, with caregivers providing outdated advice. In Your Teen’s Miraculous Brain, Dr. Nina Farley-Bates combines Christian principles and scientific methodology to bring relief to struggling families, gleaning from her 20 years of experience to help teens thrive.

What you will find inside: Practical tools, wisdom and guidance you can learn and use immediately. Theories to explore more deeply that will enhance your success. Professional and personal development questions to boost your initial practice. Reassurance that you can achieve the outcomes you want for your clients despite being new to the field.

While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens.

Intermittent fasting is a scientifically backed approach for health optimization and longevity. This is a comprehensive overview of Intermittent Fasting and its relevance to women over 50, with motivating tips for a seamless and sustainable experience. It offers evidence-backed benefits for women in menopause, like weight loss, menopause relief, and longevity.

Essential oils are regenerating and oxygenating. They are the immune defense properties of plants and are so small in molecular size that they can quickly penetrate the tissues of the skin. Essential oils are lipid-soluble and are capable of penetrating cell walls, even if they have hardened because of an oxygen deficiency. In fact, essential oils can affect every cell of the body within 20 minutes and are then metabolized like other nutrients.

Do you want to naturally heal your body without the need of harmful pills and other forms of false medicine? Essential oils will make you feel like a new person and also make cleaning so much easier. Explore what essential oils can do and choose how you will best put them to use.

You're about to discover how to heal your mind, body, and soul with help from Mother Earth using essential oils. In this book we offer you comprehensive details about the types of essential oils to use, various kinds of benefits they offer, the safety precautions to take while using them, and much more. This book is a treasure chest for all those who are conscious about their health, beauty, weight, lifestyle, mind-set, and more.

Essential oils have been around for thousands of years, helping ancient cultures to cure ills, to reduce pain, and feel invigorated. Although we in the West have traditionally used medication to help us feel better, more and more people are now realizing that essential oils can play a significant part in our health too.

I was executive director for a nonprofit for those with mental illness, I gave speeches from Washington DC to Berkeley. People told me to write a book, so I did. It was about 20 pages. Basically, it was on of my speeches. I decided I didn't know enough to write a book and to take a year to do some research. That research extended over four years. I self-published it five months before the advent of Kindle. I updated it, added about 80 pages and published a second edition in January of 2019.

Are you looking to optimize your health, lower stress, and lose weight? Have you been exploring various diet plans but haven't found one that suits your lifestyle? What if you could achieve your health goals through a simple, flexible eating pattern rather than a restrictive diet? The solution you've been searching for might be intermittent fasting.

The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe firsthand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering.