Body Care

Your autonomic nervous system is responsible for the constant but mostly subconscious communication between your brain and body. When you experience stress, anxiety, or trauma, your nervous system formulates responses to keep you alive. But you can also become trapped in survival mode if you’re consistently exposed to unsafe environments, toxic relationships, or destructive thought patterns. Mind-body practitioners Jen Mann and Karden Rabin now provide the first in-depth look at nervous system regulation, somatic therapy, Polyvagal theory, the vagus nerve, and the mind-body connection.

Book 2 in our best-selling body book series for girls just got even better! With all-new and updated content, this title features tips, how-tos, and facts from the experts. This thoughtful advice audiobook will guide you through the next steps of growing up. With expert contributors, this audiobook covers new questions about periods, your growing body, peer pressure, personal care, and more!

Our best-selling body book for girls just got even better! With all-new and updated content for girls ages 8 and up, it features tips, how-tos, and facts from the experts. (Medical consultant: Cara Natterson, MD.) You'll find answers to questions about your changing body, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and everything in between.

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or where the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule.

Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies, and fatness is not a death sentence. Body Respect debunks common myths about weight, including the misconceptions that BMI can accurately measure health, that fatness necessarily leads to disease, and that dieting will improve health. The authors also help make sense of how poverty and oppression - such as racism, homophobia, and classism - affect life opportunity, self-worth, and even influence metabolism.

Herbalist Maria Noël Groves shows you how to read your body’s signals and support your own wellness with herbal remedies and other natural treatments. You’ll learn how each of your major body systems—respiratory, digestive, immune, nervous, memory, reproductive, circulatory, and more—optimally function, and you’ll discover how to use natural remedies to nourish and repair problem areas, restore lost vitality, support your body as a whole, and prevent future problems.

All you need to know about this ancient Eastern technique of Acupressure. Almost every imaginable ailment can be alleviated using acupressure. Not only is it safe to use, but you can perform it on your own, anywhere, and with no required tools. Stimulating the key points on the skin triggers the body's natural capacity to self-heal. Just by knowing where to locate the potent points for various organs and the meridians associated with them, you can get relief from pain, fatigue, anxiety, nausea, depression, erectile dysfunction, low libido and hot flashes in menopausal women. Step By Step ...

Ever wanted to learn how to love yourself and connect with yourself like never before? Then this is the book for you. Who are you? What are your values? How do you even begin to connect with yourself…your true, universal self? These are questions so many women are struggling with all over the world, and despite so much talk about finding out who we are, it feels as though the answers are still far beyond our reach. With endless social pressures, cultural norms, and the ever-shifting tide of this hyper-connected world, Black women are continuously challenged in new, and frankly, exhausting...

Between micro- and macro-aggressions at school, at work, and everywhere in between, it’s tough to prioritize physical and mental wellness as a Black woman, especially with a constant news cycle highlighting Black trauma. Now, with The Self-Care for Black Women you’ll find more than 150 exercises that will help you radically choose to put yourself first.

This American Girls Book About Puberty audiobook is a must-have resource for any girl looking to understand her body better, build self-esteem, and practice good hygiene and self-care habits. With easy-to-follow language, this audiobook covers everything from the female reproductive system and the menstrual cycle to skin and hair care, nutrition and exercise, emotional health, and building healthy relationships. The Girls Body Care 101 is a comprehensive guide that every growing girl should have in her library.

This audiobook is full of advice, tips, and facts from pediatrician Dr. Cara Natterson about how the body changes. Boys will find age-appropriate answers to questions about voice changes, acne, bad breath, shaving, and everything in between.

Most of us are constantly plugged in and stressed out - tethered to our phones and e-mail, overworked and inactive at our desk jobs, and out of touch with what our bodies and our brains really need. Clean Mind, Clean Body is your reset button, an immersive experience in mental and physical self-care that will transform your daily routine and your habits.

Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class, preparing herself for what was to come. Entering a room with stainless-steel tables topped by corpses in body bags is shocking, no matter how long you've prepared yourself, but a strange thing happened when Montross met her cadaver.

All Natural & Organic Body & Skincare Recipes Are you looking for natural, holistic self-care products? Did you know you can make most of them yourself? In my book, All Natural & Organic Body & Skincare Recipes, I will teach you Over 100 All Natural, Safe Treatments for your hair, skin, and nails. To begin, I will walk you through a step-by-step explanation of how your nails, hair, and skin works. You might be surprised to find that these anatomical components are remarkably similar in structure and functionality. Understanding their significance and roles will help you appreciate them and ...

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care. The Black Panther Party's health activism was an expression of its founding political philosophy and also a recognition that poor Blacks were both underserved by mainstream medicine and overexposed to its harms.

Between micro- and macro-aggressions at school, the workplace, and even the grocery store, a constant news cycle highlighting Latine trauma, and a general lack of resources for women of color, it’s tough to be a Latina woman and prioritize your wellness, both physically and mentally. With Self-Care for Latinas, you’ll find more than 100 exercises to radically choose to put yourself first. Whether you need a quick pick-me-up in the middle of the day, you’re working through feelings of burnout, or you need to process a microaggression, this book is for you.

The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent, throughout our lives, on others. Yet American law and policy disregard these stubborn facts, with statutes and judicial decisions that presume people to be autonomous, defined by their capacity to choose. As legal scholar O. Carter Snead points out, this individualistic ideology captures important truths about human freedom, but it also means that we have no obligations to each other unless we actively, voluntarily embrace them.

Are you struggling with depression? Are you struggling with feelings of sadness or hopelessness? Do you want to take charge of your mental health and reduce the impact of depression on your life? If so, the 30 Days to Reduce Depression mindfulness workbook may be just what you need. This comprehensive workbook provides a 30-day program that includes daily mindfulness exercises, cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques, and guided self-reflection. Through a series of targeted exercises and prompts, you will learn to identify negative thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to ...

Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory, Frank's book has reached a large and diverse following, including the ill, medical professionals, and scholars of literary theory. In this new edition, Frank adds a preface describing the personal and cultural times when the first edition was written.

Do you know who you are? Are you comfortable with yourself? Are you happy in your own skin? Who determines who you are? How do you think of yourself? Do you love yourself? Knowing your true identity brings freedom! You are not your size, your work, your skin color, or your failures! You are not your actions, feelings, sins, habits, or marital status! You are not your disease, pain, addictions, abuse, or lifestyle! You are not your wealth, education, job, or charity work. You are special, unique, and perfect just the way you are. Having a positive self-identity is only one decision away! The...