Health Steps

Drawing on more than two decades of research at The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia), founder Joseph A. Califano, Jr., presents a clear, commonsense guide to helping kids stay drug-free. All parents dream of a healthy, productive, and fulfilling future for their children; Califano shows which specific actions work and what parents can do to teach, protect, and empower their children to have the greatest chance of making that future come true.

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.

If your spouse or partner has OCPD, you have come to the right place. We will teach you how to make your situation easier so that you can live with your spouse's off-putting personality traits and enjoy a better quality of life.

With so many people struggling to lose weight and keep it off, what is the secret to losing weight and keeping it off for good? That is what Hike Your Way to Better Health and Happiness will show you. Following the three simple steps in this book, I went from being a couch potato to hiking almost 19 miles to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and back out one day. I have tried them all and failed them all, just like you, but the information in this book is altogether different from the rest!

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!

Welcome to "Steps to Longevity: The Path to a Healthier, Longer Life," a comprehensive guide dedicated to exploring the profound impact walking has on our health and lifespan. In a world brimming with complex health advice and fitness trends, walking emerges as a refreshingly simple, yet incredibly powerful, tool in the quest for longevity. This book is born out of a desire to illuminate the often-underestimated benefits of walking, drawing upon cutting-edge research, expert insights, and practical wisdom to guide you on a transformative journey towards improved health and vitality. Walking...

What is the essence of Zen meditation? Why is it considered one of the most celebrated spiritual practices of all time? What are the basic steps of its practice? What is the essence of the revolutionary philosophy behind it? And how can its regular practice allow you to conquer spiritual progress and inner peace starting today? Zen Meditation in Easy Steps answers these and other profound questions, presenting the basic teachings of Zen Buddhism. With a bonus selection of Zen spiritual tales, this beginner’s guide contains the basic steps of Zen meditation.

When these vital nerves suffer damage, their functionality becomes compromised, giving rise to a spectrum of distressing symptoms encompassing pain, numbness, and muscle weakness. While the exact origins of peripheral neuropathy often remain elusive, it can emerge as a consequence of diverse factors such as diabetes, infections, or other underlying health issues.

This is my latest book on how to use AA principles to improve your character, the caveat being that this method is only for the truly desperate who have lost all because of their impulsive, compulsive and obsessive personality. Absolutely not for everyone, this book can only help those with an immense desire to change their life around. Incredible results have been experienced by millions of once desperate people who used this method of recovery. However their success was acquired only because of their horrendous dilemma and overall failure with life. They were highly motivated to do what ...

Anger is everywhere - and it has real risks, including heart disease and depression. So, how can you break free from painful, self-defeating, and dangerous anger traps? Drawing on the gold standard treatment for anger-cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) - and informed by the no-nonsense approach of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) - this workbook is chock-full of powerful tools, exercises, and self-assessments to help you overcome destructive anger, once and for all.

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.

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.

Here we are at the midpoint in our lives. Our kids are grown, and we’ve established ourselves socially with a core group of friends. You and your significant other have survived the often-rocky conditions that occur in a union, and although things are generally going well, something seems to be missing. Despite the many failed attempts, those few extra pounds have been impossible to lose. Getting up in the morning has become a daily challenge, and sleep does not come easily, with endless thoughts racing through our heads.

Are you tired of feeling stuck in old emotional patterns, struggling with trust, or battling self-doubt? It’s time to heal the wounded parts of your inner child and step into the life you deserve. Written by Rhea Jacobs, a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and EMDR Therapist with over a decade of experience, this book is more than just a guide—it’s a transformative healing journey.

Approximately 50 million people suffer from Alzheimer’s worldwide. In the US alone, 5.5 million people have Alzheimer’s - about 10 percent of the worldwide Alzheimer’s population. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder that damages and eventually destroys brain cells, leading to memory loss, changes in thinking and other brain functions. While the rate of progressive decline in brain function is slow at the onset, it gets worse with time and age.

Anxiety is a normal part of human existence. In healthy doses, it can provide the motivation needed to make decisions or perform. Left unchecked, however, it begins to wreak havoc on your psyche, affecting your ability to solve problems and leaving you at the mercy of your limbic brain, which only knows the freeze, fight, or flight response.

By the end of this book, you should have the necessary mental tools for becoming assertive, rather than aggressive, and calm when necessary. If you’re tired of being controlled by this unpredictable emotion, take matters into your own hands and listen to this useful guide.

This book contains useful information on the exercise of walking and how you can benefit from getting into a daily habit of long walks. You'll learn the most important elements needed to make your walking plan a success.

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.

It’s a fact: Your body has the ability to help itself when given the proper nutrition. As long as we’re dealing with a health care system that is failing us, we have no choice but to respond to Mother Nature’s call to help ourselves naturally. Yota Kouyas Gerrior, RHN, has been researching holistic health and the nutritional aspects of holistic health for over 10 years. Now, she has brought together her qualifications and extensive knowledge to provide you with a comprehensive guide to holistic health.