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Sufferers of chronic pain learn how to adapt their lives and negotiate their discomfort with the techniques illustrated in this book. A wide range of approaches for managing persistent pain are described, offering chronic pain sufferers options th...
Manage Your Pain: Practical and Positive Ways of Adapting to Chronic Pain
One winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham's father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never have killed himself, and yet he had. His death made a mystery of his entire life. Who was he? Why did he do it? And what was the impact...
On the Threshold of Hope offers hope and healing to men and women who have been traumatized by sexual abuse. Dr. Langberg's insights and the quotations from many survivors assure readers that they are not alone and that Christ, the Redeemer, can h...
Migraine headaches are familiar and generally treatable ailments. Less understood are migraine auras or scotoma, visual distortions-sometimes accompanied by headache and sometimes not-that make it difficult, sometimes impossible, to see clearly. M...
In today's modern world, there's no need for anyone to run twenty-five miles to deliver a message, as Pheidippides did from Marathon to Athens around 500 B. C. However, hundreds of runners each year run 26.2 miles at hundreds of marathons worldwid...
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powy...
Yogilates is the future of fitness. It is the unifying essence of yoga and the powerful, therapeutic value of Pilates fused together into one system. Yogilates gives a more balanced and complete workout than when either discipline is done separate...
Yogilates(R): Integrating Yoga and Pilates for Complete Fitness, Strength, and Flexibility
This book is for anyone who wants to have it all WITHOUT sacrificing their health, sense of humour or sanity along the way. The Journey to 7 steps. I have been a naturopath and aromatherapist for 24 years. Throughout that time most of my clients h...
A wonderful, helpful book filled with information and guidance. Treats this serious subject with sympathetic feelings. An excellent guide allowing us to understand that we are not alone with our grief. Anyone who has a pet should read it. -Dog Wee...
Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable onslaught of new experiences that such a mov...