Women, Work, and Autoimmune Disease is a book for women who live with chronic illness, encouraging them to stay employed to preserve their independence and sense of self. Rich with information and inspiration, it is the voice of warmth, wisdom, understanding, and compassion.Filled with tips, tricks and first-person accounts from women who have made similar choices in their own lives, this unique book is a resounding call for self-reliance and resilience. The book identifie...

When youíre recovering from a medical emergency, the work-life equation can be thrown into turmoil. Joan Friedlander, herself diagnosed with a chronic illness over twenty years ago, knows this personally and can show you how to get back in the game, whether youíre a self-employed entrepreneur, a small business owner, or re-entering the traditional job market. For those recovering from a health crisis, living with disability, or adjusting to life with a chronic disease, health comes first b...

“We just asked the movie stars how they did it. What did they use? How often? Where did they get it? How can we do it, too? And they told us. We couldn’t believe it either.”Kym Douglas, host of the Lifetime makeover show Queen and the image consultant on The View, and celebrity journalist Cindy Pearlman had always wanted to know how the A-list stars looked so, well, A-list. It turns out that even the most carefully guarded stars were more than hap...

Written by one of the country’s leading complementary fertility specialists, The Baby-Making Bible draws together Emma Cannon’s years of experience and success in treating couples hoping to get pregnant. Her special plan blends the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine with the highest standards in Western medical practice. Whether you are trying for a natural conception or undergoing treatment for assisted conception, she offers a practical plan you can follow to create a fertile en...

Dr Libby’s The Calorie Fallacy is a ground-breaking book that challenges the very core of weight loss convention and dogma. It will turn everything you thought you knew about calories and diets on its head…  How many of us have been told that if we burn more calories than we eat, weight loss will be inevitable? How many of us have discovered that this century old philosophy does not seem to apply to our body no matter how hard we work, in this modern world?  In a ...

Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, the creator of Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type, the blood type diet series with more than two million copies in print, now brings readers a targeted plan for managing the symptoms of menopause.With specific tools not available in any other book for preventing and treating such symptoms as hot flashes, insomnia, loss of libido, and osteoporosis. This volume includes tools that will help you treat and prevent menopausal symptoms including a...

Research shows that building muscle helps the body burn more calories 24/7 and that resistance training is the most effective way to torch body fat. Yet that message is still lost on many women who fear that weight lifting will make them bulky, turn their skin green, and give them Incredible Hulk muscles like their boyfriends'. Women have more options than step aerobics or running on a treadmill to shed pounds: They can weight-train in a very specific manner designed to make the most of a ...

After serving in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide and civil war, Lieutenant Colonel Stéphane Grenier returned to Canada haunted by his experiences. Facing post-traumatic stress disorder and an archaic establishment, he spent ten years confronting--and changing--the military mental health system from within.Coining the term “Operational Stress Injury” to allow the military to see mental injury in the same light as a physical wound, Grenier founded the Operational Stress Injury Social...

Playful, simple, and beneficial yoga poses and mental exercises set in your real life to help alleviate pain and stress. No mat, big class, or huge time commitment required - just your commitment to feeling better and being happier!"Highly recommended as a way to create healthy habits for a more peaceful, happy life." -- New York Journal of BooksSold globally in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Canada and MoreTranslated and sold in RussiaAdvice from the book and author f...

Great Systems of Yogaby Ernest Wood"This is a short review of the major schools of yoga, including Hindu, Buddhist and Sufi varieties. Wood, whose translation of the The Garuda Purana is also at this site, was a founding Theosophist and wrote extensively on Hinduism, and Yoga in particular. His works on the subject are written for Western readers, and where he needs to use Sanskrit or other esoteric terms, he takes care to explain them. He was a practicing Yogi for most...

What if, despite the ever-increasing stress in your professional and personal lives, you were able to live resiliently? You eat healthy, sleep well, and have the time and energy to exercise. You perform well in a demanding work environment, are the best possible version of yourself for your loved ones, and are becoming healthier every day.Much of our physiological hardwiring still dates back to when we were cave people. The human body hasn't evolved to our twenty-first-century, str...

A GROUNDBREAKING SELF-CARE PROGRAM FOR PREGNANT AND POSTPARTUM WOMEN. Let BabyBod® get you into the best shape for delivery and then get your sexy back on as a mom! This revolutionary program, tested on over 100 women, will give you phenomenal results, even if it’s been years since you had your last child. It’s the first DIY program to bridge the gap between medical care and the special fitness needs of women like you. Written by leading Women's Heath Physical Therapist, Marianne Ryan,...