Practical Health

Few diabetes books focus specifically on the day-to-day issues facing people who use insulin. Diabetes educator Gary Scheiner provides the tools to "think like a pancreas"—to successfully master the art and science of matching insulin to the body's ever-changing needs. Comprehensive, free of medical jargon, and packed with useful information not readily available elsewhere.

Do you struggle to prioritise your health amongst the demands of a busy lifestyle? Are you afraid of growing old and not thriving in your later years? Then maybe biohacking is for you. Biohacking is all about hacking your biology and environment so you can live better for longer. It involves making small, incremental changes to your lifestyle and diet today that will improve your health, vitality and wellbeing into the future.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has been proven to help adolescents and teens get through some of the toughest times in their lives—from chronic stress and worry to panic attacks, phobias, and overwhelm. In DBT Skills for Teens with Anxiety, licensed psychologist and DBT Certified Clinician Atara Hiller shares practical therapy techniques from five areas of DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and the Middle Path—to help you find calm and control even when life feels unbearably hard.

Getting an adult diagnosis for ADHD can be VERY tough. It can be very challenging to know what to do next, or to even be sure that you definitely have ADHD even if you got your diagnosis. (Especially with how many ‘ADHD symptoms’ are shared online these days!) But, once you’ve confirmed the diagnosis, it's common to then think ‘What Now?’ Luckily, you can start by using this audiobook to help you learn how to work with your ADHD instead of against it, and begin to actually understand the ways ADHD can benefit your life, once you know your strengths.

Specially crafted with a warm, heartfelt, and friendly tone, this practical book explores the proven benefits of dialectal behavior therapy, along with how we can best equip today’s young people with the emotional tools they need to achieve balance, stability, and wellness in their lives. Drawing on a powerful mix of psychological insights, user-friendly advice, and fun worksheets to help you on your journey to a happier life, the DBT Workbook for Teens seeks to dispel the mysteries around DBT.

In this moment of your busy day, you're invited to experience deep rest and relaxation. Yoga Nidra, or "yoga of sleep", bridges the conscious and unconscious, allowing you to reconnect to your true inner self. The 10-step course in Practical Yoga Nidra teaches everything you need to know to start experiencing the proven benefits of Yoga Nidra meditation: clearer focus, better sleep, decreased anxiety, and more.

Have you ever wondered why science can appear so contradictory and confusing? Why it seems like there’s a study to “prove” or “disprove” just about any claim about diet, exercise, and lifestyle? And what it really takes to protect yourself from bad science and benefit from good science? If so, then Fitness Science Explained is for you. It’s a crash course in hearing, understanding, and applying scientific research to get fitter, healthier, and happier, and it’ll get you up to speed quickly regardless of your educational background.

Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their eighties. The first guide of its kind, Eightysomethings changes our understanding of old age with an upbeat and emotionally savvy view of the uncharted territory of the last stage of life. With insight and humor, Dr. Katharine Esty describes the series of dramatic and difficult transitions that eightysomethings usually experience and how, despite their losses, they so often find themselves unexpectedly happy.

Are you tired of letting your fear of flying hold you back from exploring the world, connecting with loved ones, or advancing your career? If you've tried other solutions with little success, it’s time to take a different approach. How to Overcome Your Fear of Flying: Practical Tips to Help You Board That Next Flight, by Tony Brenner, is your comprehensive guide to confronting and conquering your flying anxieties.

Anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum is much more common than many people know, and yet there are so few resources available to struggling new moms. The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook offers powerful strategies grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you control your worry, panic, and anxiety.

Discover the healing power of your garden with "Herbal Remedies & Natural Healing From Your Garden." This engaging guide reveals how to harness the potent benefits of plants for health and wellness. Begin your journey with the basics of herbal gardening, learning to grow herbs both indoors and out, and selecting the right plants for your needs. Dive into effective techniques for harvesting, drying, and storing herbs, and explore easy-to-follow recipes for creating tinctures, teas, oil infusions, and salves.

It’s not your fault. That’s the first thing to remember when you’re facing issues created from a narcissistic mother. Narcissistic personality disorder is a severe mental disease, and living with one who suffers from it can be very challenging. You need to stop struggling and start living a life free from negativity. This guide will help you to recognize the behavior of a narcissistic parent, become aware of the problem, and start a path to recovery. With it, you will stop self-blame, regain self-esteem, and be able to face the trauma from your past with a different view.

If you're a trauma survivor or someone living with PTSD, you're not alone. Author, international award-nominated speaker, and mental health advocate Jessi Beyer is a fellow survivor and has helped thousands of people discover alternative ways to reclaim their lives. Now she's here to help you find a path to healing through nine powerful integrative methods. How to Heal is a complete guide to a range of healing methods that can serve as effective additions or alternatives to traditional talk therapy.

The Mindfulness Approach to Health Behaviour Change (MATHC) takes the listener through a six stage experiential process that delves into the intricate landscape of change theory and therapeutic strategies to aid the transformative process.

Trouble sleeping, panic attacks, knots in your stomach, excessive worry, doubts, phobias - anxiety comes in many shapes and sizes, and affects millions of people. But you don’t have to suffer anymore. In Retrain Your Anxious Brain, renowned therapist and anxiety expert John Tsilimparis, MFT, shares the groundbreaking program he’s created to help hundreds of people (himself included) free themselves from crippling anxiety and live healthier, happier lives.

Fuel for Thought by leading sports dietitian Renee McGregor is a practical and trustworthy guide to sports nutrition, whether you're a world-class or real-world athlete, or just someone who wants to improve their relationship with food. Cutting through the jargon and misinformation, Renee draws on over twenty years' experience of working with sportspeople from a range of disciplines and backgrounds to provide straightforward, accessible advice about how you can fuel your adventures.

Are you stuck in the exhausting cycle of striving for perfection—overwhelmed, stressed, and afraid to let go? Does the fear of failure hold you back from enjoying life and focusing on what truly matters? You’re not alone, and there is a better way forward. In Perfectionism Detox Workbook, you’ll discover 9 transformative strategies to silence your inner critic, align your efforts with your values, and embrace progress over perfection.

The sooner you start to take action on your poor gut health, the faster you will see and feel the results. Are you ready to dramatically improve your skin health, energy levels, digestive health, and overall well-being? If so, then you will want to listen to this audiobook.

Speed-read people, decipher body language, detect deception, and get to the truth. We live in a world where dishonesty and lies are seemingly everywhere. From fake news and problematic media outlets to corrupt management in our workplaces and selfish friends, there’s no doubt that as you grow older, you become more cynical and more distrusting of the world and the people in it. What if there was a way to spot the lies and take yourself closer to the truth? Well, there is, and it’s all detailed in this very audiobook.

Health journalist and skeptic Eminé Kali Rushton was converted to an Ayurvedic approach during pregnancy when she discovered how eating and living according to the ancient Indian principles of Ayurveda rebalances the body for the better. Ayurveda teaches that we each have a dosha - a basic body type that defines our personality and physical well-being, from the foods we crave to those that spark intolerances and increase weight gain. This book is the first to decode this 5,000-year-old science of well-being specifically for busy modern lives.