Health Steps

This is the age of addiction, a condition so epidemic, so all encompassing and ubiquitous, that unless you are fortunate enough to be an extreme case, you probably don't know that you have it. What unhealthy habits and attachments are holding your life together? Are you unconsciously dependent on food? Bad relationships? A job that doesn't fulfill you? Numb, constant perusal of your phone, looking for what? My qualification for writing this book is not that I am better than you, it's that I am worse.

Tired of traditional diets that leave you feeling frustrated and stuck? Ready to embrace a new perspective on your nutrition? When you hear the word diet, what comes to mind? Your thoughts probably jump to the latest fad that celebrities are raving about or your own experiences with diets that felt restrictive and unrealistic. But at its core, a diet is very different from dieting. One encompasses the foods that you eat, while the other tries to control those foods.

One day your life was normal. The next thing you know, your life is being ruled by the needs of your aging parent. Welcome to the caregiving season. Caregiving for aging loved ones can be incredibly stressful if you are not prepared. But it can be much easier with the right knowledge, tools, and support.

Don’t let the years of yo-yo dieting stop you from embracing a method that has been proven to rejuvenate your cells and enable your bodily systems to work the way they were intended to. If you are ready to lose fat without going on restrictive diets and feel more energized than you have in decades, listen to this audiobook, and join the intermittent fasting revolution today!

Meditation in 7 Easy Steps contains the seven basic lessons and exercises you need to learn the basics of this spiritual practice today and start experiencing a more joyful and peaceful life. Hundreds of research studies show the physical and psychological benefits of meditation practice, published in numerous scientific journals and conducted at prestigious universities and research centers.

Do you find yourself needing constant reassurance to feel secure in your relationships? Do worries about your partner’s feelings dominate your thoughts? If so, you’re not alone. An anxious attachment style affects 20% of people, often stemming from early experiences of inconsistency, loss, or separation. It’s not your fault—but it doesn’t have to define you. With the right tools, you can break free from the fear of abandonment and build healthier, more secure relationships.

In this revised edition of the classic much-loved Facial Gua Sha book, Clive Witham, author of the Gua Sha, Facial Gua Sha, and Holographic Gua Sha series, brings his 20-year gua sha expertise to show you how your body can influence your face and how you can activate the vitality of your skin and muscle tone through ancient Chinese ideas of the natural world. Clive shows you how to view this elegant anti-aging beauty technique through the lens of ancient Chinese wisdom.

Nicotine Anonymous: Fifth Edition was our first effort to describe how we recovered from this powerful addiction and how we maintained our abstinence.

Enhance communication with your partner without feeling as you speak two different languages. What if a few simple skills could radically improve your life, marriage, and your relationship? Imagine a life with your partner without conflicts, anxiety, and trust. Communication in Relationship will teach you how to use easy, actionable activities to strengthen your marriage by working together or working through problems separately, from open-ended conversation prompts to fast quizzes.

Eating is an innate skill that has been overcomplicated by marketing schemes and a dieting culture. It’s time to leave the dieting culture behind for the whole family. It starts with the baby’s first bite! When babies show signs of readiness for solid foods, they can eat almost everything the family eats and become healthy, happy eaters in the process. By honoring self-regulation (also an innate skill) and focusing on a whole-food foundation, we can foster healthier children, parents, and families.

More than one third of adults suffer from insomnia or some other kind of sleep disorder. With time, a lack of sleep lowers our resilience and impacts our health as well as our performance in all areas of life. Restoring hope to the sleepless, psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm reveals how we can improve our sleep naturally. A fast and easy-to-follow six-step program to help you sleep better, The Gift of the Night combines knowledge from sleep science and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with techniques drawn from spiritual traditions and insights from the emerging field of psychedelic therapy.

As a healer, you want to heal, but often, you can feel trapped in a life of exhaustion, burnout, and misery. You are forced to sacrifice your family, relationships, and health - only to realize you still aren’t making the difference you were born to make. Many people have a dream to make a greater difference healing with their own signature soul-satisfying programs, without putting their family at risk, but they have no idea how to do that...until now.

Living with anxiety, depression or struggling with a mental health condition can feel like you’re constantly being thrashed around by strong emotions. On top of the regular challenges of everyday life, it can be exhausting to deal with these emotions. The truth is there is no simple solution to struggling with emotional regulation. As hard as it is, this has be accepted but despite this we can still begin to change.

Two-thirds of us will die between the ages of fifty and seventy. Keep reading if you don’t want to become a statistic… Several years ago, Dr. Jason Bradley found himself 100+ pounds overweight, with bags under his eyes, a surprising amount of hair loss, and more exhaustion than he ever dreamt possible. Busy with an integrated medical center, he was seeing countless patients, making use of just about every modality you could imagine, from general to functional medicine (and everything in between). He loved the work, his colleagues, and his patients. Still, he found himself working longer...

Scientists estimate that in normal conditions a human being regularly has an average of 30,000 to 40,000 daily thoughts. And according to research, depression is always preceded by repetitive negative thinking and not vice versa, and reducing the number of negative thoughts per day actually reduces both the frequency and intensity of depressive feelings and emotions! These crucial findings constitute the starting point of the seven lessons and seven exercises contained in this beginner's guidebook, designed to help you break the habit of negative thinking now!

There is no easy fix when it comes to chronic pain. Opioids are often the first, addictive resort and surgery rarely achieves the pain free outcome promised. But while there is no single fix, there is a way out and it starts with understanding the reason for your pain. This is the powerful approach of The Pain-Free M.i.n.d.s.e.t, where NHS pain consultant Dr Ravindran brings his 20 years of experience to offer you an effective set of techniques that will help you take back control and overcome your pain.

In this excellent aid to the daily application of the AA program, the author of the famous The Little Red Book invokes the image of a three-legged stool to provide insight into the first four of the 12 Steps. These 31 reminders offer useful, practical guidance to anyone walking the road to recovery.

Are you thinking about your future and wonder if you will get to live with some financial stability? Does the stock market seem a bit scary and complicated to you right now? Don’t worry; everyone has been in your shoes when they first started out. The great thing is that you are getting out there at a very young age, and you can start investing from as little as the cost of a pizza! Many adults twice your age still don’t understand the stock market—here you are trying to live a financially independent life by giving yourself an advantage.

This provocative book reveals why sitting in front of a light box can increase your creativity more than listening to a Bach concerto as example. The author Shelley H. Carson, a Harvard psychologist, explains that creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians enjoy; in fact, all of us use our creative brains every day at home and at work. Each of us has the ability to increase our mental functioning and creativity by learning to move flexibly among several brain states.

Forget the beauty treatment and manicure: Your hormones are begging for a different kind of makeover. Improved health and well-being are waiting for you.