Life Care

A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of life in America.

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.

A courageous memoir that spans 40 years of Dinaaz Lentin's life experiences within our health care system. The story is raw, thought-provoking, and a brilliant look at complications and uncertainties when a medical challenge being faced is rare and uncertain. An extremely powerful example of how self-belief and trusting your own gut instinct can allow you to overcome any of life's challenges.

Consider our youngsters; they do not have a care in creation as they live for the moment. I question why we don't learn from youngsters instead of going between past tense and future tense. Recognizing that the past is defunct can't be rewound and the time to come is yet to come along. Human beings by nature feel comfortable and unquestioned in memorizing the past and designing the future. May we ever augur precisely what will occur in the next minute?

As director of the world's largest abortion clinic and the nation's most prominent abortionist, Dr. Bernard Nathanson presided over 60,000 abortions. As co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League, he helped make abortion legal. Then, in a conversion that made headkines and astonished both sides of the abortion debate, he renounced his profession to become a pro-life advocate. But Dr. Nathanson's journey was not over.

As women, we have become professional self-critics. We've become so convinced by society that we need to attain a level of perfection that just isn't real. Whether it's trying to get skinnier, look younger, get that promotion, please our parents, get fuller lips or rid ourselves of cellulite - we're on a never-ending mission to change and it always winds up making us feel like crap. In this straight-up girlfriend's guide, lifestylist and wellness coach Cara Alwill Leyba encourages women to discover what makes them sparkle so that they can design the lives they desire and deserve.

Imagine having a fully trained, highly skilled service dog by your side—one who enhances your independence, anticipates your needs, and provides unwavering support in every situation. Elite Service Dog Mastery: Transforming Canine Partners into Lifesavers–The Essential 3-in-1 Guide is your comprehensive roadmap to achieving exactly that.

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.

So unbeschwert wie ein Sommertag, so ernst wie das Leben manchmal sein kann Früher haben sie fast jedes Wochenende im alten Ferienhaus der Familie verbracht, heute treffen sie sich dort nur noch zu besonderen Anlässen: Cecilia, Jonas und Marika Ritter wohnen in alle Winde verstreut, leben ihre eigenen Leben, versuchen, ihre eigenen Krisen zu bewältigen. Als die Eltern sich trennen, das Haus verkaufen wollen und damit ihr sicherer Hafen wegzubrechen droht, wollen sie ein paar letzte Wochenenden gemeinsam dort verbringen.

Do you need to reduce stress in your life? Need a laugh? Are you feeling mired in parental guilt? This book will show you how to laugh in the rain, even if your umbrella has holes!

Clare would give anything to extend her teenage daughter’s life. So when her domineering husband continues to deny their child’s cystic fibrosis, she’s forced to declare their marriage over.

It took less than four hours for Sarah Bailey and her younger brother Curtis to lose everything they knew. She lost her school, her mudpie stations, her church, her father, and her name. Everything they own is packed in garbage bags as they are moved to a new foster home. It’s supposed to be a safe haven for them, but as Sarah—now called Anna—learns, their so-called safety comes at a horrific price, as she is groomed and abused by her new foster mother.

El intestino tiene un papel vital en la conducta y las emociones, así como en los sistemas nervioso, inmunitario y endocrino. Tanto es así que de su equilibrio dependen tu salud física y mental, pero si además no tienes en cuenta otros factores igual de importantes, nunca gozarás de ese bienestar general.

Rarely are human dilemmas out of the news. And what medical science can do and ought to do—or ought not to do—impinges on our personal lives, families and societies. John Wyatt examines the issues surrounding the beginning and end of life against the background of current medical-ethical thought. Writing out of a deep conviction that the Bible's view of our humanness points a way forward, he suggests how Christian healthcare professionals, churches and individuals can respond to today's challenges and opportunities.

Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution - one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today.

Best known for her debut novel, How to Be an American Housewife, Margaret Dilloway is a John Gardner Fiction Book Award finalist. In The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns, 36-year-old Gal Garner lives according to a strict plan. Only happy when caring for her roses, she dreams of one day bringing her own variety to market. But when her teenage niece arrives for an unexpected visit, the organization of Gal’s life evaporates.

I'll be the first to admit that more and more people out there are so much more open and kinder than society would have been 20 years ago, but there's still a long way to go. Not least of all, because our ability to treat mental health personally is still very much in its infancy. What works wonders for someone may do nothing for another, and what worked for you yesterday may leave you still in despair tomorrow. Rather than seeing this as a reason to throw the towel in and give up, I want you to see it as a reason to go out there and find another approach.

Annette Januzzi Wick wants to find the perfect care home for her proud, Italian mother, who is slipping further into dementia. In this memoir, she shares gripping truths about mistakes she makes before ultimately finding a place where her mother develops a crush, heckles an Elvis impersonator, and magically bonds with her daughter through Frank Sinatra’s songs.

Are you facing the task of caring for an aging relative, a child, or a loved one through a serious illness? This book is a real-life approach to handling the multitude of problems that crop up each day.

When her daughter desperately needed a lung transplant to survive, Janet Murnaghan rallied against the outdated restrictions in health care that would limit her daughter's options. Transplant laws, restricting access to lungs based on arbitrary age restrictions, meant Sarah's options were limited. The injustice of her daughter's fate spurred Janet to start a public battle against outdated health-care regulations and a battle to save Sarah's life.