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Esta colección de lecturas avanza por el año de calendario un día—y una página—a la vez. Cada día aparece una cita favorita de la literatura de A.A. seguida por la reflexión personal de un miembro de A.A., ofreciendo así una lectura diaria inspirada e inspiradora.

In story format, US Marine Corps veteran and yoga teacher Rishi Eric Infanti outlines the parallel of his marine corps experiences and his journey as a yoga teacher. He threads the eight limbs of yoga from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and his seven-week exposition to Mysore, India, to deepen his understanding and practice of yoga, Ayurveda, and fine art as vehicles for healing.

The story of a family's dramatic clinical and emotional journey as they try to understand why their third-grader is failing school. They assume that his problems stem from anxiety and stress because Dad is serving in the US military in Iraq. The child's blackouts are finally identified by a neurologist's evaluation, and the cause is epilepsy! The parents are devastated. Will Conner ever be able to live a normal life?

"Your re-connection to your soul is the goal". Mindfulness is at the heart of an impactful and lasting meditation practice, but a lot of us have trouble taking that first step. Where do I start? Am I doing it right? How do I even know it's working? The good news is, you've already started! How? Simply by breathing. The Power of Breath leads you through life's unexpected surprises, losses, and turning points that make finding a simple and unique meditation practice that much more important.

With age comes mobility issues caused by muscle weakness, bone density loss, disease, and other conditions related to aging. While you can’t avoid aging, you can avoid falling and getting injured by building strength and restoring balance. You can improve your fitness and get stronger at any age. You just need to know the right exercises that can help you achieve these fitness goals...and more importantly, how to do these workouts safely. Let this audiobook be your guide.

What do you do when you can’t fall asleep? Do you toss and turn for hours while your mind muddles through worries and to-do lists? If you have found that counting sheep simply doesn’t send you softly into a slumber, then the Just Relax, Recite, and Rest book can help provide the solution you need.

Written by nationally recognized and award-winning nurse practitioner, Dr. Scharmaine Lawson, NP, this practical guidebook seeks to redefine the nature of long-distance nursing in our post-pandemic world. Drawing on essential insights and reflections on our rapidly evolving healthcare system, House Calls 101 provides a wealth of information on in-home care, telemedicine services, remote patient monitoring, and much more.

Written by members of the Chronic Pain Anonymous 12-step fellowship, Stories of Hope presents the tools and principles of the 12 steps as catalysts for emotional, mental, and spiritual transformation. Each of the courageous men and women who contributed to this collection shares their journey from despair to hope.

The Warfighter Nutrition Guide contains strategies and recommendations for all aspects of performance nutrition for military service members. It covers the spectrum of nutritional needs to optimize the performance of warfighters under the most rigorous conditions. Despite differences across military commands, this guide is designed to provide military service members with science-based, effective nutritional strategies to optimize performance during operations and to preserve health.

California Senator Omer Rains had been a politician on the global stage, a power-broking lawyer of A-list celebrities, and conqueror of some of the highest mountains in the world. But when a paralyzing brain aneurysm and stroke hit him at age 61, he became more helpless than a small child. In Back to the Summit, Rains takes readers on a courageous journey toward recovery, both physical and spiritual, as he reflects on the people, events, and American history that shaped his life and gave him the strength to dare to walk again.

Having worked in the emergency services for more than 15 years, Dan Farnworth has seen it all. There was the time he was called to take away a dead body - only for the 'corpse' to jolt back into life and demand to know what he was doing in her house. Earlier in his career, he unwittingly disturbed a crime scene as he shared the sad news of the victim's death with her son.

Life After Cancer Treatment is a booklet for people who have completed cancer treatment. This booklet covers your new normal, getting follow-up medical care, and how to talk with your doctor, following a survivorship care plan, ways to manage physical changes, body changes and intimacy issues, coping with your feelings, and going back to work.

Adam Smith has a tent, blankets, a water bottle, friends, and a school voucher. What more could he need? He’s doing great overall, but winter is coming fast, the gangs know his face, and he is failing cooking class! Choices have to be made. Stay and fight, or run? But if he stays, how will he survive? And if he runs, will she come with him?

Since its birth in 1948, the powers that be have chipped away at the NHS. Now, Britain's best-loved institution is under greater threat than ever, besieged by a deadly combination of underfunding, understaffing and the predatory private sector. In the wake of the pandemic, we have come to accept a 'new normal' of permanent crisis and years-long waiting lists. But, as Gavin Francis reveals in this short, vital book - it doesn't have to be this way, and until recently, it wasn't.

Oh, you want dinner to be convenient? You’re up for cooking it, but not the planning and preparation? What a drag it is maintaining a large inventory of fresh ingredients, and if you don’t, then that’s an extra trip to the store. There are simple ways to replicate what these services do for you that require only a similar amount of effort on your part. We will expand on all of the downsides to meal kits, and then give you solutions to replicate them.

A 15-year-old boy who calls himself Adam Smith is alone and poor, struggling to survive. Adam must work to eat and stay warm and clothed. During his difficult journey toward adulthood, he deceives his way back to school, makes friends and enemies, contemplates the mysterious world of relationships, and discovers a secret that might just save his life and the lives of many others in the dangerous city.

Dans cet audio, une musique douce accompagne la voix du praticien. Sous l'effet de cette technique, vous ressentirez un calme profond. La sophrologie exercera une influence sur le centre du sommeil et, le soir, vous pourrez vous endormir de plus en plus facilement, dormir toutes les nuits dans un état de détente et de récupération optimales afin d'être tout à fait "dispo" le lendemain matin. L'action apaisante est très rapide, elle se manifestera dès les premières séances. La pratique régulière de cette technique débouchera sur un mieux-être et une diminution de votre émotivité. Elle vous permettra de canaliser votre énergie, de rester calme en toutes circonstances et de mieux vivre votre quotidien.

In A Commitment to Compassion, Avram R. Kraft, MD, reminds us that each of us can make a difference. Avram makes that difference against a medical landscape, but in sharing his wisdom, insights, doubt, and vulnerabilities, he invites all of us to consider what compassion means and how it can be part of our daily living. As he states in a chapter called "Repairing the World", “Every day, we have an opportunity to make an impact on one another. You are only as good as what you bring to the table and not what you remove from it.”

There had been worse times before, moments when life had thrown her curveballs that felt impossible to overcome. Yet, nothing could prepare Teresa for the day she discovers her husband’s lifeless body— a haunting image that sears itself into her memory, forever. In the days that follow, she struggles to comprehend the depths of his pain and the silence that now fills their home. Alone and reeling from disbelief, Teressa must confront the unbearable weight of her grief while facing a future she never envisioned.

Blindspots is a professional manual that will guide you step-by-step through the licensed professional counselor licensure process as well as illuminate possible blind spots they didn't warn you about in graduate school!