Creative Care

At one time heart disease was a death sentence. By the middle of the 20th century, it was killing millions, and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On September 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time.

Introducing "Beauty from Within", the ultimate guide to DIY beauty products, handcrafted with love and care. This 500-page eBook will help transform your beauty regimen by showing you how to create natural and organic beauty products, right in the comfort of your own home. Chapter one starts with a deeper understanding of your skin and hair. Every woman is unique, and so is her skin, but everybody deserves pure, natural and effective beauty products. By understanding your skin and hair type, you will be able to create highly personalized and effective beauty products. Chapter two introduces...

Puzzle Competitions! That is Bella’s life. At age three, she shows her precociousness to Mama and family friend, Alice. Like the young Bobby Fisher, Bella becomes famous, but home life is holding her back. Single mother Roxanne loves Bella but doesn’t know anything about parenting. She leaves Bella alone in the hot and humid trailer while she frequents the local bar. Mama forgets her birthday EVERY SINGLE YEAR and brings home one of many boyfriends who, like a cockroach, only comes around when something is enticing – in this case, it’s money. Carl seems like a good father figure at ...

Discover how making art—even as a beginner—can bring more happiness, healing, and meaning into your life. In Make Art, Find Joy, you’ll learn how to use creative expression as a powerful tool for emotional well-being, personal growth, and everyday joy. Whether you're an experienced artist or haven’t picked up a paintbrush since childhood, this uplifting guide will help you reconnect with your inner creativity in a way that feels playful, pressure-free, and deeply fulfilling. Through practical tips, daily art rituals, and inspiring encouragement, this book explores how to: Overcome ...

As a Black woman, I know all too well the unique challenges and obstacles we face in pursuing our dreams. But I also know the power of manifestation and the impact it can have on our lives. Through my own journey and working with other Black women, I've seen firsthand the incredible transformation that can occur when we tap into our inner strength and harness the power of manifestation.

Whether you’re just starting out or looking to level up your fishkeeping skills, Mastering the Art of Tropical Fishkeeping is your go-to guide for setting up and maintaining a stunning tropical aquarium.

Things are scary right now. We’re all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it’s easy to feel helpless. But we’re not helpless: We have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and other ways of living are possible. Full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency, Never Say You Can’t Survive is the perfect manual for creativity in unprecedented times.

Self-care is the practice of taking an active role in protecting one's own well-being and happiness. In order to do so, we must get in touch with who we are at our core. Only then can we realize how we need to show up in the world—how we want to express, without any apologies, our most authentic selves. Lessons from the Empress focuses on what the tarot can teach us about ourselves and provides exercises to strengthen our confidence in our own creative expression.

A Quick Guide to Relationship-Based Care outlines the basics of Relationship-Based Care®. This valuable resource is ideal for orientation of the entire workforce in organizations implementing Relationship-Based Care, or any form of patient-centered care. Written in easy-to-understand language, this book will help everyone in the organization understand how they can become part of something truly meaningful. This resource will be a game changer for all organizations implementing Relationship-Based Care.

I want to give a voice to the ones who cannot speak, be it, a baby, a child or an elderly. It takes me so long to have the courage to write a book, to have my voice heard, and eventually to self-publish it. It has been a long journey in the last 7 years and not an easy one when I took my professional work to Singapore. This book is written from the perspective of the Asian Culture in Singapore. It is not a technique or method book. It is written from a place of reflection on the process emerged from the research and from my own journey, both personally and professionally. I am grateful for ...

Welcome to The Art of Seeing, a transformative eBook that will change the way you see the world around you. In a world that often feels chaotic and overwhelming, it's easy to lose sight of the beauty that surrounds us. The Art of Seeing helps you develop a new perspective, one that allows you to focus on the beauty, joy, and meaning that exists in your everyday life. The mind is a powerful tool, and this guidebook helps you harness that power to see the world through a new lens. The book is divided into 20 chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of the art of seeing. In chapter one, ...

American taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research, but over half of these studies can't be replicated due to poor experimental design, improper methods, and sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn't just hold back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent of a death sentence for terminal patients. In Rigor Mortis, Richard Harris explores these urgent issues with vivid anecdotes, personal stories, and interviews with the top biomedical researchers. We need to fix our dysfunctional biomedical system - before it's too late.

It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult it can be to replicate one of nature’s greatest creations. Part investigative journalism, part medical mystery, Ticker is a dazzling story of modern innovation, recounting 50 years of false starts, abysmal failures, and miraculous triumphs.

Do you want to be your own boss and work with animals you love each and every day? If you have a passion for animals and you want to be in more control of your schedule and how much you make, then this audiobook is for you. Just imagine what life would be like being your own boss, setting your own hours, and being in control of your income. With a mobile grooming business, these kinds of things can become a reality. By following the strategies outlined in this audiobook, you can build the mobile grooming business of your dreams.

The US healthcare system desperately needs radical reform to rein in costs, reduce harm, expand access, and become customer centric...Imagine what real change in our healthcare system would mean for you, the economy, and our future. Real change requires disruptive innovation. As citizens, employers, entrepreneurs, healthcare workers, elected officials, and patients, it is time for us to drive the change. Authors Aaron Fausz and Terry Howell explain how we can disrupt, dismantle, and rebuild.

Whether you are acquiring a new parrot or looking to improve the bond you have with your parrot, The Parrot Bliss Bond will help you create a quality life for your parrot. Learn to meet their physical requirements and to understand how to care for them as best as possible, giving you the ability to have the blissful companion you can.

Have you ever dreamed of owning an in-house daycare? Have you ever dreamed of impacting your community in a positive way? Then this book is for you—with insight that will save you years of struggle and heartache. In this book, I will lead you down the path of success in the daycare business. I will share with you my story of how my wife and I started the business with very little money and turned it into a booming enterprise. Where we lacked in money we more than made up with in faith in God.

It's all too easy to get caught up in the often monotonous nature of our day to day—moving from one rote task to the next, only to rinse and repeat the next day. Weirdness, however, is an easily accessible antidote to these feelings of languishing. The quirky, eccentric, and peculiar can take us out of our normal habits of thought and perception, surprising us by breaking up our routines and reminding us that there's more to life than the everyday.

Unlock the secrets to thriving bonsai–no green thumb required! Are you overwhelmed by the endless rules and techniques of bonsai care? With straightforward guidance, even beginners can make a bonsai thrive!

In this book, author Dr. Tom Cavanagh shares insights into the theories and thinking that are the foundation of his work. This work is dedicated to helping schools create a culture of care, based on restorative justice principles and practices and culturally appropriate relationships and interactions.