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The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture of shame around women's bodies, and it's no wonder women are unsure what to expect during the menopause transition and beyond. Menopause is not a disease--it's a planned change, like puberty. And just like puberty, we should be educated on what's to come years in advance, rather than the current practice of leaving...
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Urged as we are to trim our tummies and attack our abs, it takes guts - courage, determination, and daring - for a woman to honor her belly and discover the shining soul power it contains. By celebrating our bellies instead of trying to reshape them, we can: boost vitality, release stress, spice up sexual pleasure, unleash creativity, increase confidence and compassion, and amplify inner guidance. The Woman's Belly Book presents playful exercises...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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When a serious illness strikes a family, it's natural for most of the attention to go to the sick one. The problem is that kids who aren't sick sometimes get lost in the shuffle. This can be hurtful in scary and confusing ways. This story, along with candid, open-ended interviews with kids ages 4-16, was created to help you understand what it's like for children confronting the uncertainty of serious illness and what you can do to help. They share...
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Most parents start out wanting to raise healthy eaters. Then the world intervenes. In Kid Food, nationally recognized writer and food advocate Bettina Elias Siegel explores one of the fundamental challenges of modern parenting: trying to raise healthy eaters in a society intent on pushing children in the opposite direction. Siegel dives deep into the many influences that make feeding children healthfully so difficult - from the prevailing belief that...
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In her most candid and revealing book yet, acclaimed broadcast journalist and Baby Boomer Joan Lunden delves into the various phases of aging that leave many feeling uncomfortable, confused, and on edge. In her hilarious book, Lunden takes the dull and depressing out of aging, replacing it with wit and humor. After all, laughing is better than crying--unless it makes you pee! Whether you're in your 40s, 50s, 60s, or more, this book is full of helpful...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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The trip from the womb to the world is the longest, most traumatic journey a human will ever take. One result is to send newborns into months of what is much like severe jet lag. Their first sleeping patterns are nearly random. They need to learn night from day and adjust sleep patterns to fit their new world. This dance of adjustment - of children to the world and parents to children - is what Go to bed! is all about. (Learning Seed, USA).
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Did you know, every woman has a tipped uterus, and ovarian cysts are usually normal (even when they burst)? Have you ever wondered how to balance your hormones, why you have to repeat yourself at the doctor's office or why your yeast infection keeps coming back? Have you agonized about your pap smear results or worried that you may have cancer? What exactly is a pap smear anyway? In Do You Have a Tipped Uterus: 69 Things Your Gynecologist Wishes You...
15) Baby body signs: the head-to-toe guide to your child's health, from birth through the toddler years
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Bantam
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2010.
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17) Risking Our Kids
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Kanopy Streaming
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2015.
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Exploring the 'Modernity Paradox', could we be the last generation of humans that live longer than our parents? Have we lost sight of how to care for our kids? Fiona Stanley puts forward a powerful argument for the need to protect the future of our kids. A spark ignited in Fiona Stanley, when as a young medical intern, she was unable to improve the health of a young Aboriginal boy because of the environment he lived in. His death set her on a blazing...
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A book of hope, Younger Next Year for Women shows you how to become functionally younger for the next five to ten years, and continue to live thereafter with newfound vitality. Learn how the Younger Next Year plan of following "Harry's Rules"--a program of exercise, diet, and maintaining emotional connections--will not only help you turn back your physical biological clock, but will improve memory, cognition, mood, and more. In two new chapters, prominent...
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Ballantine Books
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2020.
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"Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What's expected of women and what it's really like to be a woman in today's world are two very different things--and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them. How can you 'love your body' when every magazine cover has ten diet tips for becoming 'your best self'? How do you 'lean in' at work when you're already operating at 110 percent and aren't recognized for it? How can you...
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