The Complete Self-care Guide to Holistic Medicine


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The Complete Self-Care Guide to Holistic Medicine is the most comprehensive mainstream guidebook available on holistic healing. Unlike any other health guide, it presents alternative and mainstream therapies side by side, providing full treatment programs for more than sixty-five illnesses and health problems --ranging from backaches to migraines, from arthritis to common colds. The book features an easy-to-follow wellness program and covers every possible range of illness that can be treated from home.Robert Ivker, D.O., is currently designing some of the first accredited courses in holistic medicine at our nation's medical schools. Ivker and his coauthors, Robert A. Anderson, M.D., one of the founding pioneers of board-certified holistic medicine in America, and medical writer Larry Trivieri, Jr., senior editor of Alternative Medicine, have crafted an essential guide that belongs in every home.




Self-Care in Healthcare: Caring for Yourself as You Care for Others


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Many of us are running on empty and on autopilot, neglecting our health. We are challenged by severe time constraints and great expectations to do more with less, resulting in strained tolerances, shortened and divided attention spans, and sudden injury, illness, or crisis that halt us in our tracks. THERE IS A BETTER WAY. Effective self-care is about recognizing our values, beliefs, influences, perspectives, and motivations that drive our behaviors and shape our outcomes. This book highlights the challenges faced in our healthcare system and offers insights and resources to support living a healthier and happier life. It is a guide for healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers, and organizations. It proposes that we explore how we define, manage, deliver, experience, and MODEL care. It calls for a paradigm shift to a more engaged, transparent, and collaborative model that has an emphasis on self-care.




Health at Home


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This volume will help to reduce health care costs and improve your quality of life by providing answers to your questions about symptoms and their solutions.




The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care


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Discover the best way to care for yourself--day by day and season by season. Embrace the ancient principles of Ayurveda to become a more integrated, whole, and healthy version of yourself. This detailed guide walks you through the steps of foundational Ayurvedic practices that can be easily integrated into your existing self-care routine--from self-massage, oil pulling, and tongue scraping to breathing practices, meditation exercises, and eating with intention--to uplift your physical health and state of mind. In The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care, you will: Get acquainted with the tradition of Ayurveda and better understand your doshas (metabolic tendencies) and basic Ayurvedic anatomy. Discover the art of self-care by exploring daily routines and seasonal practices to prevent imbalances in the body and mind. Find out what foods, spices, and herbs carry medicinal qualities that support cleansing, rejuvenation, and management of common ailments.




The Book of Self-Care


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Real wellness isn't just the absence of injury or illness. Janssen shares a consciousness- and compassion- based system for navigating wholeness in mind, body, and soul. This whole-body approach is the start of a vital, fulfilled life.--




The Heart of Healing


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"'The Heart of Healing' is the perfect book for those seeking to deepen their understanding of healing. Health-care professionals and the chronically ill know that this is a life-long journey of growth and development."--Page 4 of cover.




Radical Remedies


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A modern, approachable holistic health guide that focuses on physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Radical Remedies urges readers to take an active concern for their overall health and well-being by reconnecting with nature and honoring their own emotional history and experience. Focusing on twenty-five of the most nourishing herbs, this book shows how they can be used to remedy stress, depression, and insomnia, soothe tension in the body, and comfort a broken heart. With insights on gut health, emotional balance, and the importance of whole foods, readers will discover practices and strategies to survive and thrive every day. Learn to make recipes like Ashwagandha Chai, Sacred Spark Infusion, Lemon Balm and Orange Peel Honey, and Banish the Blues Tincture or follow instructions for a Honey Mallow Soothing Face Mask or a Gotu Kola Rose Facial Oil. While balance or vitality is never achieved through a singular act or quick fix, this guide details a deep well of practices and self-care that can aid you in the toughest of times.




Healing Groovy


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Did you know that dis-ease can become disease if left unresolved, and that 85% of all disease is caused and/or exacerbated by stress? Today, more than ever, there is a need to put health back into health care. Self-care is health care. This book shares proven holistic philosophies and easy-to-do practices taken from over 5,000 years of documented research to help enhance your circulation, relaxation, and inner balance - all important for overall well being. My hope is that you, your family, friends, and/or co-workers will benefit from this hands-on realistic holistic guide. Wellness awareness is the best path to true prevention."Healthy Regards,Sandra Sigur, Reflexologist, LMT, CYI, SCS, Aromatherapist




Nurturing Wellness Through Radical Self-Care


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A necessity for 21st century living. A practical means for daily balancing. Indrani Maity, ND, D.Ay., Integrated Ayurvedic Naturopathic Energy Medicine Center Nurturing Wellness through Radical Self-Care: A Living in Balance Workbook guides the reader not only to emotional and physical healing, but also to lasting emotional well-being. Mental health professionals will find this complete mindfulness-based program valuable to create a well-planned and flexible holistic approach to client care. The book also gives individuals self-help tools to participate in their own recovery and achieve lasting wellness from the comfort of home. There are a few wise women I know, and Janet is one of them. She is one truly gifted in matters of the heart. Her new book, Nurturing Wellness through Radical Self-Care, is a fitting follow-up to Pathways to Wholeness. Janet manages to embrace a complex field with a gentleness that makes the material accessible and eminently useful. A. T. Augoustides, MD, FAAFP, ABIHM It took me so long to learn how to find joy, this book gives people easy to follow plans to quickly harmonize all the systems in their body and find not only joy but peace and health. I feel the major benefit is the programs ability to help lift anyone out of the fight or flight response into a more positive balance and mindset. Thank you, Janet, for this gift. Ill be recommending this to the parents I work with. Becky Henry, Founder of Hope Network, LLC, and award-winning author of Just Tell Her to Stop: Family Stories of Eating Disorders Janets many years of experience working with clients as a therapist plus her in-office research and extensive studies make her a perfect guide and teacher if you are looking for ways to improve your life. The text a is timely gift to humanity! Anne Merkel, PhD., Energy Psychologist Coach, The Ariela Group of Wholistic Services




Crystals for Self-Care


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From the bestselling author of Lunar Living comes the ultimate guide to crystals and how they can help you live your best life. This is the one book you need in order to understand how crystals can enhance your everyday life and look after you. In Part 1, Kirsty explores what crystals are, how they work, before going on to explain how you choose, care for and programme them, and how to go about using them. Then, in Part 2, Crystals for Self-Care delves deeper into the many areas in which crystals work their magic. Chapters include Crystals for Love and Relationships, Crystals for Stress and Anxiety and Crystals for Work and Business. Crystals for Self-Care will leave you feeling empowered, supported and ready to embark on your own crystal journey!