Personal Care

The Caregiving Con - How to Spot and Stop In-Home Senior Fraud addresses the billion-dollar problem that afflicts countless vulnerable older adults who have been victims of this crime. Family members are bewildered, outraged and frightened when they discover a loved one whose trust has been placed in an opportunist (whether a relative or outsider) who is neither caring nor giving, but instead is continually taking advantage of the senior.

Contrary to popular belief, retirement homes are not the only option for our population’s aging members anymore. Adult Family Homes designed to allow senior citizens to live mostly independently with access to a variety of amenities, provide an alternative for individuals or couples who can no longer safely live on their own but don’t want to relegate themselves to assisted living facilities. Investment in this innovative category of senior living is a relatively new opportunity that many are not aware of.

Faces of Foster Care has heartfelt and frank messages from people around the country who have been involved in some way with foster care. Told like mini memoirs, their inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking stories bring us into their lives and show us unique perspectives of foster care in the United States.

Many people have already been implementing CBD into their self-care routines and are loving all the many soothing benefits it brings. But with so many products and supplements now available in the marketplace, it can be difficult to figure out what will work best for you. In The Little Book of CBD for Self-Care you'll find 200 CBD-powered activities that can boost your self-care experience. From stretching exercises using CBD to soothe sore muscles, to skin-calming face mask recipes, to CBD-fueled smoothie breaks, you'll find all the tools to start feeling your best.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Pregnancy and Child Care and learn about how to have a safe pregnancy and care for your new born.

Filled with real-life stories and practical advice, Called to Care starts by helping you honestly assess your motivation to help - sometimes the wrong motivation sets the stage for an unsuccessful experience. From there, the book shows what adoption and foster care really look like in a variety of situations, from domestic and international adoptions to short-term foster care and foster-to-adopt arrangements. Also included is how churches and individuals can minister to refugees.

Self-care is everywhere - but sound bites on this trendy subject tend to focus more on face masks and bubble baths than on its key objective: mental health. Formerly at BuzzFeed, Borges helped popularize the self-care movement in the first place, and her book distills the “self-care internet” into an A to Z list with over two hundred entries - from soul-searching prompts to simple pick-me-ups. Listeners can tailor their own routines by choosing among Borges’s strategies, which cover four distinctive realms of self-care: physical, mental, social, and spiritual.

No one can prepare you for the sleep deprivation of having a newborn. The truth is, there is no magic wand - but there is straight-forward, actionable advice that will set your baby on a path towards a settled night's sleep. Baby sleep guru Rosey Davidson has been helping new parents with sleep for over a decade. She knows first-hand that every baby is different and that no parent needs to suffer with sleep struggles long term. In this empowering and non judgemental book, Rosey sets out clear, practical solutions to help you make the right sleep decisions for your family.

Stress Management for Women is your gentle, empowering guide to finding peace in a fast-paced world. With practical, science-backed tools, this book helps you create space for yourself and live with more balance, intention, and ease.

In the tradition of Cynthia Heimel and Chelsea Handler, and with the boisterous iconoclasm of Amy Sedaris, Julie Klausner's candid and funny debut I Don't Care about Your Band sheds light on the humiliations we endure to find love - and the lessons that can be culled from the wreckage. I Don't Care about Your Band posits that lately the worst guys to date are the ones who seem sensitive. It's the jerks in nice guy clothing, not the players in Ed Hardy, who break the hearts of modern girls.

The world can often feel like a very scary, complicated and messy place. It's not always clear what is the correct thing to say, the best thing to do or the right way to be. Hope This Helps offers an easy guide that can help you feel and do better, and gives guidance on things that can appear incredibly difficult to navigate. Centring tolerance, kindness and empathy, the audiobook takes us back to our roots as a human race of simply wanting to connect, be heard and enjoy life.

Self-Care for the Real World is a combination of friendly advice, personal stories, exercises, and recipes. The audiobook is a practical guide to self-care for real people with busy lives. The authors are sharp and funny, and they acknowledge there is no one way to practice self-care. They're not here to give strict instructions or preach drastic life changes, but to offer small suggestions to help you toward becoming the best version of yourself.

Emotional stark statt emotional überlastet Gerade Mütter tragen oft besonders viel emotionale Last. Sie begleiten Kindergefühle und versuchen gleichzeitig, die belastenden Gefühle aus ihrer eigenen Kindheit zu bewältigen. Sie moderieren die Großelternkonflikte, sorgen für das Familienklima, hören verständnisvoll der Kitaleiterin zu und sind im Job nicht selten das "offene Ohr" für andere oder zuständig für die gute Stimmung.

Breathing Through Foster Care is an honest and sometimes raw account of the daily joys and challenges of fostering. This honest glimpse into an imperfect family offers practical tips on how to avoid the missteps they made. It also provides many strategies they learned along the way to maintain a healthy family with children who have experienced trauma.

Being a family doctor isn’t easy. Why? Because you’re either an employed physician or a doctor trying to survive on your own. Both are making doctors quit their profession every day. You have heard about direct primary care as an option, but you have been bombarded with misleading advertising, confusing recommendations, and bad information from those who fear taking the leap.

Die Bestsellerautorin gibt anhand der häufigsten Eltern-Fragen ganz konkrete und schnell umsetzbare Tipps. Morgendlicher Stress, ständiger Geschwisterzoff, die Schwiegermutter, die immer wieder spitze Bemerkungen macht... In vielen Situationen fragen sich bedürfnisorientierte Eltern verunsichert: Wie gehen wir damit um? Was wird dem Kind und unserer Familie gerecht?

Feminismus! Gleichberechtigung! Vereinbarkeit! Große Worte, die im Alltag so schwer mit Leben zu füllen sind. Auch, weil die gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen nach wie vor hinterherhinken. Können wir mehr tun, als wütend zu sein oder zu resignieren? Können wir dem Leistungsdruck und der Erschöpfung etwas Nachhaltigeres entgegensetzen als das ewige »Nimm dir Zeit für dich selbst«? Wir können!

Gleichberechtigung jetzt. Wer heute gleichberechtigt leben will, kann nicht auf die Politik von morgen warten, sondern muss selbst handeln. Doch wie macht man das, aus eingefahrenen Geschlechtermustern in Partnerschaft, Sorge- und Erwerbsarbeit ausbrechen? Die Autorin des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers "Raus aus der Mental Load-Falle" und Diplompsychologin Patricia Cammarata gibt Bereitwilligen den sprichwörtlichen Vorschlaghammer in die Hand, um trotz eines nervig unbeweglichen Systems neue Wege zu ebnen.

Showcasing the confidence she's gathered from her own life journey, Kim Gravel—beloved QVC star and creator of Belle by Kim Gravel and Belle Beauty—invites you to discover the person you were created to be. Collecting Confidence, reminds you that you are not your current circumstance. You are not your current habits. Where you are right now is simply your starting place to become who you're meant to be.

I love being a Spice Girl, but what I am proudest of is being a mum. Even though I had all the real-life girl power of the actual Spice Girls on speed-dial, my incredible partner and my mum, I had so many worries and questions I couldn't always ask out loud. What I really, really wanted was one easy-to-digest, honest book that would give me support without judgment - that might even make me chuckle occasionally.