The real facts about your “girls” and how to take care of them“This all-in-one, indispensable breast health guide captures exactly what teen girls and their moms really need: practical, easy-to-read, great advice. It’s one of the best gifts you can give to your girl.”—Harvey Karp, M.D., F.A.A.P., author of The Happiest Toddler on the Block, board member of Healthy Child, Healthy WorldGirls are as anxious and confused about their br...

Awakening to the Wisdom of MenstruationThis book helps you:Understand how cultural attitudes affect women's healthIdentify the different phases of your periodLearn natural ways to relieve menstrual symptomsDevelop your ability to process premenstrual feelings constructivelyUnderstand the menstrual altered state of consciousness and how it supports your spiritual and psychological developmentCreate space in your life for self-renewing retrea...

A teen's guide to her menstrual cycle and reproductive health from a national bestselling women's health author.Should I be concerned if my cycles are rarely twenty-eight days?Why do I often feel so emotional before my period?And how can I know when my period's really going to start?!If you're a teenage girl, you've probably asked yourself these questions and many more. Now Cycle Savvy has the answers that will help you understand w...

A guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels.This holistic guide offers practical advice to support women through postpartum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels—and provides women with a roadmap to this very important transition that can last from a few months to a few years.Kimberly Ann Johnson draws from her vast professional experience as a doula, p...

The Shere Hite Reader presents wide-ranging analysis on the individual and society from a renowned thinker on psychosexual development. The book includes new science in addition to previously published material, reflecting Hite's three decades of work probing the roots of human identity through questionnaires and theory.For the first time Hite formalizes her thinking on male adolescence, that boys feel tortured by the new social role they are forced to assume at puberty requiring a ...

While some couples are lucky and manage to become parents from the first attempt, others have to try for many months or even years, until the dream comes to life. Statistics show that about 85% of women become pregnant within the first year of trying. This means you stand good chances to have the baby you want if you are patient long enough and if you are consistent in your trials.It also means you don’t need to worry before 12 months have passed since you started to “work” towards...

Used by over 200 million women since the 1960s, the Pill is one of the most commonly prescribed medicines - and has repeatedly been established as one of the least harmful ever formulated. However, there are some risks, and a number of "Pill Scares" have been reported in the media - often causing women to give up the Pill without finding a satisfactory alternative. More choices than ever are now available to users of hormonal contraception, and it can be difficult for doctors or family pla...

Natural remedies for vaginal dryness should be able to solve the problems of post child-birth, tightening the walls of the vagina and making sex pleasurable once more. Such a remedy would even be welcomed by women over 50, where sexual response, physiology, psychology and a few other nuts and bolts make the issue complex. Researchers must love complexity to dally in the possibilities of hormones and their replacement, or in products, creams, pills and "female viagra." But they waste valuab...

Find out what happens when you are dealing with fibroids and you have little money and no health insurance to deal with it. At some point something has to give. You've gone to the doc and the box twice in one year for pain in your right side. Everyone seems to think you have one of two things: kidney stones or your appendix might be ready to blow. They send you on your way with a few pain meds and say if the pain continues you should go to the emergency room. A third time that year you fin...

Everything teenagers need to know about nutrition, health, fitness, emotions, and sexuality.Some teen issues are timeless: self-consciousness and uncertainty over rapidly changing bodies, tumultuous feelings, and dramatically changing lives. Many parents remember vividly their own youthful struggles. But today’s teens face challenges and possibilities that their parents never imagined: cyberbullying, pressure to sext, new attitudes about sexual orientation and gend...

Colette Dowling's uplifting book celebrates the myriad possibilities for women who are now turning 50. "Red hot mamas" are the dozens of women (some famous, some not) who are defying stereotypes to discover renewed power and vitality at midlife. In honest, empowering language, the women share with readers their energetic approaches to menopause, career changes, family life, and intimacy.