Health Steps

Your gut doesn’t just play an important role in digestion, but also in your overall physical and mental health. Because it’s intricately connected to various functions of your body, including your brain and your immune system, your gut’s well-being is critically tied to how well your body and mind function. So if you want to finally fix those digestive issues, skin problems, mood swings, and weight struggles, taking care of your gut is key.

We all want to feel less anxiety, guilt, anger, and sadness. We want to obsess less and be less lonely, and free ourselves from our demons, compulsive habits, and stress. But as humans (unlike rocks), we experience all of these. And, paradoxically, trying to avoid and control them only makes things worse. Having struggled with serious mental illness for many years himself, Mark Freeman has become a dedicated mental-health advocate and coach. He makes the case that instead of trying to feel less and avoid pain and stress, we need to build emotional fitness, especially our capacity for strength, balance, and focus.

In The Language of the Heart: Bill W.’s Grapevine Writings, listeners will find Bill’s initial inspirations for what became the Twelve Traditions, his battles with chronic depression and spiritual pride, memories of an all-night drinking spree, and a vivid description of how he came to organize the Twelve Steps (there were six in the first draft). For anyone in recovery from alcoholism or addiction, this uplifting and poignant collection provides a view into the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous as well as deep insights on emotional sobriety and personal struggle.

In this fully updated fourth edition, Dr. Marc Weissbluth, one of the country's leading pediatricians, overhauls his groundbreaking approach to solving and preventing your children's sleep problems, from infancy through adolescence. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles.

Over half of Americans live with a chronic illness, primarily due to the over-consumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates. The Selah award-winning book 7 Steps to Get Off Sugar and Carbohydrates provides a day-by-day plan to wean your body off of these addictive products and regain your health. These changes in your eating habits will start your lifestyle journey to the abundant life Jesus wants you to experience. Not a life filled with disease and poor health.

When you stop drinking, it takes up to 10 days for the alcohol to completely leave your system. It’s a tricky time. You get cravings, and your thinking becomes emotional. Most people struggle in the early days. But now, there’s a modern, scientific solution. The 10-Day Alcohol Detox Plan walks you through the detox period painlessly and explains everything you need to carry on with your personal sobriety goals, whether short-term, such as Dry January, or long-term.

Are you struggling with the shadows of past trauma, persistent anxiety, or the weight of depression? ‘The ACT Solution’ offers a transformative path to reclaiming your life through the powerful principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). In this comprehensive guide you are provided with practical tools and compassionate insights to help you break free from the grips of mental distress. Whether you're dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, battling chronic anxiety, or navigating the depths of depression, this book is your roadmap to healing and growth. Inside, you'll ...

As parents of twins and multiples know, double the fun can be double the sleep deprivation. Now, in Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins, beloved pediatrician and renowned sleep authority Dr. Marc Weissbluth combines specialized advice for parents of twins with his tried-and-true sleep-training methods to show exhausted moms and dads how to get their babies to sleep on their own, stay asleep, and sleep regularly.

Have you ever thought about combating rising food costs by growing fresh fruit, products, and even herbs? Have you thought about it, but you are not an expert on greenhouse gardening? If the thought of saving grocery costs by growing your own products and then eating them fascinates you, then you are in the right place! Greenhouse gardening keeps your plants sheltered from the elements even when temperatures drop. There are various types, sizes, and materials; keep on reading, and you will discover how to find the one that best suits your needs. Greenhouse Gardening for Beginners is for you...

The ACA Fellowship Text was anonymously written by ACA members and provides guidance on working the 12 -step ACA program, leading to recovery from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional family. ACA WSO has adapted AA's steps (with permission from AA) to address the effects of childhood trauma and neglect and offer hope to ACAs worldwide.

Offering an entertaining and in-depth dive into everything you need to know about gout, Ultimate Gout Cure Handbook is all you need to begin treating gout yourself today. With a comprehensive look at gout, its prevention, cure, and remediation, you will be entertained and educated as you are carefully guided through the often-times conflicting recommendations of cutting gout out of your life.

Is anxiety running your life? Does it dictate where you go, what you do, or who you spend time with? Does it keep you trapped in a bubble of fear and panic? Anxiety can happen anytime, anywhere - that's why you need simple, in-the-moment skills to stay grounded when worry takes hold. This user-friendly guide will help you gain the upper hand on anxiety, and stop avoiding the people, places, and things that make you anxious - and start living the life you were meant to live.

Through 12-step work, exercises, and journal-keeping, Facing Love Addiction compassionately and realistically outlines the recovery process for love addicts. Mellody’s fresh perspective and clear methods work to comfort and motivate all those looking to establish and maintain healthy, happy relationships.

Since the McKenzie Method was first developed in the 1960s, millions of people have successfully used it to free themselves from chronic back and neck pain. Now, Robin McKenzie has updated his innovative program and added a new chapter on relieving shoulder pain.

Long ago, Indigenous healers used the earth’s herbs to ease pain, uplift spirits, and find balance. Their ancient wisdom lives on in remedies—potent, natural, and time-tested—that you can still use today. This book unlocks that knowledge—no expertise needed. Want to brew a tea that melts stress? Grow herbs that heal colds naturally? Feel more connected to nature? It’s all here—step by step, with sacred plants you can nurture anywhere and much more. Weave this herbal wisdom into your life and thrive!

Mary Pearl T Understanding and Applying the 12 Steps of Alanon features funny stories about becoming honest about harms done resisting, making amends, and then enjoying relief when you do. She talks about her gradual spiritual awakening as she grows in Alanon.

What Are “Health Hacks”? Easy. Health hacking is a quick and no-nonsense way to improve health & fitness TODAY. If you seek to boost your performance and enjoy a longer, healthier, more vibrant life, this is the way. When it comes to life, things rarely go as planned. Sometimes, we just don’t have the time to overhaul our entire lifestyle. Although health and fitness are important, many of us are not reaching the level that we want or should. Health hacks are strategies, exercises, and natural health shortcuts that change the game in our favor. Instead of wasting time, we get the ...

Imposter Syndrome doesn’t just affect middle-aged suits in big board rooms. The typical thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are part of the imposter experience - things like overwork, perfectionism and procrastination, hiding out, playing small and holding back – are common for so many of us. This is not just a different name for self-doubt. It is pervasive and goes directly to your sense of self-worth and belonging. You don’t need a confidence hack. You need to go to the root cause of your feelings of unworthiness and learn to trust that you are enough.

Struggling with the endless cycle of blood-sugar spikes and crashes? The Diabetes Playbook hands you the proven game plan to seize control and score big on your health goals. Whether you’re newly diagnosed or a veteran of the diabetes trenches, this comprehensive guide equips you with every tool you need to master your condition with confidence—and a dash of humor. Inside, you’ll discover: A Winning Strategy for Every Quarter Turn diet, movement, sleep, and stress into powerful allies. Learn how to carb-count like a coach, adjust insulin with precision, and build a daily routine that ...

I didn’t set out to write a post-pandemic health book. The seeds of this book were sown over a decade ago. Yet its core message––stress causes disease and lost stress resilience can be recovered––couldn’t be more timely. Each day brings new stories of health challenges presented as mysterious and unsolvable. Rising rates of anxiety, depression, long COVID, post-pandemic stress disorder, and a raft of physical and mental ailments all attest to the centrality of stress in disease and the global hit to stress resilience we have collectively experienced. While acknowledging these ...