Health books

Comprehensive and Effective Recovery Program for Women with Eating Disorders

A resource to help you overcome the struggle of emotional eating, realize your self-worth, and live the life you deserve.

One in five women suffer from eating disorders. While this issue is primarily associated with teenage girls, doctors report that a growing number of women are also developing these disorders later in life or have hidden these problems for years. For women in their thirties, forties, fifties, and beyond, issues of loss from divorce, death, empty nest syndrome, marriage, and career pressures can trigger an eating disorder.

Eating disorder self-help. You might find yourself juggling careers, marriages, and families, all while struggling with eating disorders for years. Healing Your Hungry Heart is that friend you can lean on. Psychotherapist Joanna Poppink offers a comprehensive and effective recovery program for women with eating disorders, based on her thirty-year professional practice treating adults with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. She shares her personal struggles with you about bulimia, along with stories from a wide range of clients she has counseled and a step-by-step program that identifies:

• Early warning signs
• Challenges to early recovery
• Triggers to emotional eating
• Impact on sex life and family relationships

Real solutions. This psychotherapist's program includes journaling, meditations, exercises, quizzes, and resources to support and speed the recovery process. For women struggling with emotional eating, this book offers hope, understanding, and real solutions.

If you tried books like You Can Drop It, Intuitive Eating, or Atomic Habits, then you’ll want to read Healing Your Hungry Heart.

This book brings together two seemingly disparate worldsthe world of hard, evidencebased science and the world of experientiallybased healing to provide a multipronged approach to self-healing ailments. The AtoZ format makes reference easy.

For each of over 100 heath issues, you'll find seven healing options that can help readers activate their inner healing resources ranging from food and dietary strategies to powerful meditation techniques and from timetested flower essences to ways of invoking "power animals." For some ailments, readers may need just one option, for others, two or three, and sometimes all seven approaches as they try to deal with difficult problems to achieve longterm relief.

Holistic Health for the Mind and Body

“This combination book/workbook is sure to be a welcome companion to anyone seeking to bring vitality and radiant health into their lives.”—Neal Barnard, founder and president, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

The Joy Factor explores the mind-body connection of holistic health in a way that anyone can understand. With simple, easy-to-implement practices, you’ll be looking—and feeling—healthier in no time. 

Mind your mind to mind your body. Have you ever been physically fine but felt bad all the same? A pioneer of the mind-body-spirit approach to wellness, author Susan Smith Jones knows that health starts with your heart—and not your physical one. A positive mindset and a spirit of gratitude sets the groundwork for a more holistic healing of both the body and the mind. Illuminated through sacred practices like breathwork, visualizations, community work, and more, discover a sense of wonder and a youthful zest for life—no matter your age. 

Embrace holistic health in everyday life choices. Discover the benefits of eating a plant-based, whole food diet and how easily exercise becomes a part of your daily routine when you find activities you love to do. After all, it’s the simple things we do for ourselves and our community every day that make us glow with good health—it’s not "all about me"; it’s about how “me” meets the world.

Inside The Joy Factor, discover:

• Recipes, tips, and tricks for healing with food through plant-based and whole foods
• An herbal medicine guide with recipes and explanations of natural remedies
• How to keep a healthy, vibrant, and youthful mindset through meditations, prayer practice, and more

If you like holistic health books like Radical Longevity, The Mindbody Prescription, or Eat to Beat Disease, you’ll love The Joy Factor.

Ultimate Holistic Health

Cutting edge science meets old-age spiritual in this user-friendly guide to help you balance your body's natural energy centers by using safe and natural practices.

An avant-garde handbook for energy healing. Quantum Supplements explains the vibrational properties of vitamins, minerals, and herb/botanicals. This handbook bridges the seemingly disparate scientific and spiritual realms through popular modern-day concepts, dietary supplements and nutrition, and the ancient chakra system to help readers explore the ever-growing field of energy medicine.

Wellness expert Dr. Deanna Minich offers an easy-to-read practical overview of important properties that surround us. Learn about:

• Different types of dietary supplements and how they work
• Physiological and psychological activities of each energy center
• Supplemental nutrients that assist Chakra balance

Quantum Supplements includes many easy to read tables and charts that give you a quick reference guide to which supplements are most appropriate for any and everything from learning how to bolster the immune system, to fighting off frequent colds, to improving circulation, to even battling memory loss.

If you enjoyed books like Herbal Medicine for Beginners, Complete Homeopathy Handbook, or The 9 Steps to Keep the Doctor Away, then you’ll love Quantum Supplements.

Restful Insomnia for the Restless Mind

"Wonderfully creative solutions for the hopeless insomniac, transforming worry and sleepless nights into deep eazzzzzzze." ―Deanna Minich, PhD, CN, nutritionist and author of Chakra Foods for Optimum Health

If you are battling insomnia and telling yourself “I cannot sleep”, this book teaches you how to gain the benefits of sleep without actually sleeping.

If you’ve suffered from countless nights of sleep deprivation, then this book is essential to helping you thrive in the night. Sondra Kornblatt highlights many techniques that help insomniacs gain the benefits of sleep without ever having to sleep. If you can’t fall asleep, then this is the book for you! 

“I cannot sleep”. There are over 70 million people in America who have trouble sleeping. Moving through everyday life without proper sleep can be frustrating and alarming but with this book learn how to properly function from your lack of sleep. If you can’t fall asleep, Sondra teaches the importance of an evening ritual to create internal rest. Instead of leaving your bed worn out by sleeplessness, leave your bed refreshed and ready to conquer the day. Restful Insomnia gives you tools to thrive while functioning on little to no sleep.

Restful insomnia teaches you how to:

• Bring rest to the body with a unique form of night yoga
• Quiet the mind through guided meditation
• Quell the soul's worries through night writing

If you enjoyed books like Say Good Night to Insomnia, Sleep Smarter, or The Sleep Solution, then you’ll love Restful Insomnia.

A Different Approach to the Twelve Step Program That is Neither Cult, Cure, nor Curse

Whether you’re new to the road of recovery or not so new, sobriety isn’t easy. This guide combines real-life stories and sensible advice to help you stay on the road of self-improvement.

Clean and sober twenty days or twenty years─it makes no difference. We all need a little help every once in a while. With it comes a journey that has a message─one of hope, motivation, and healing. Through the avant-garde combination of heartfelt stories from real people and an attainable 12 step program, you’ll connect with this guide and understand that you aren’t in this alone.

There is no perfection, there is no goal, there is only walking the talk one day at a time. Author Barb Rogers has been sober for a long time. And she knows that doesn’t make a difference─what makes a difference is that she’s clean and sober today. Rogers' book offers true stories from an array of perspectives. Learn the secret to staying on track through:

• Understanding how to connect with your innermost being
• Real tales from people who overcame addition
• Achievable advice every step of your journey

12 Steps That Can Save Your Life reminds you that the most important thing is that no matter what difficulties you have, remember to keep working the steps as many times as it takes.

If you enjoyed books like Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps, or A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps, then you’ll love 12 Steps That Can Save Your Life.

Transform Your Diet from Heart-Pounding to Heart-Healthy

#1 Bestseller in Diet Therapy, Diet & Nutrition

A personal nutritionist right in the palm of your hand, this guide will transform your grocery list and encourage healthy eating habits that will have you selecting the best foods for your body.

Here’s a tongue twister. Say cochineal extract, diacetyl, teriary butylhydroquinone, BHA, HFCS, and MSG. It's not just knowing how to pronounce what's in your food, it's knowing what it does and how it can affect you. The average American consumes about 150 pounds of food additives per year. With so many processed foods on the supermarket shelves, it can be hard to navigate the waters to an additive free diet.

Change the way you eat and shop.  A-Z Guide to Food Additives provides heart healthy tips while helping you avoid undesirable food additives. Also, get the rundown on which additives do no harm and may even be nutritious. Put this book in your purse or pocket and head down to your grocery store with a grocery list in one hand and your newfound knowledge in the other.

A-Z Guide to Food Additives delivers:

• Essential nutrition advice
• Hints on what to look for when reading those unreadable ingredient labels
• Tips on buying fresh produce in order to avoid pesticides

Designed with you in mind. This little book will serve as an "additive translator" when navigating through the minefield of additives that may cause allergic reactions. Certain ingredients can contribute to headaches, fatigue, breathing difficulties and bloating. Included are safety ratings for 300 ingredients and reference charts for additives that may cause cancer or allergic reactions or that should be limited for sodium sensitive individuals.

If you enjoyed heart healthy reads such as The Obesity Code, Lose Weight Like Crazy, or How Not to Die, then you’ll love A-Z Guide to Food Additives.

Healing Foods for the Mind, Body, and Soul

Rejuvenate your body and spirit with smart food choices. Nutritionist and yoga practitioner Deanna Minich's Chakra Foods for Optimum Health will teach you how to recover from emotional and physical woes through making the right food choices. Not a diet book, it looks at both the nutritional and spiritual aspects of the foods we eat and how they can heal us.

Nutrition for the soul. Minich drew from her extensive knowledge and highly successful "Nutrition from the Soul" classes to make this essential chakra food guide and cookbook. For each of the chakras, specific affirmations and other practices are offered alongside meal plans and recipes.

Improve your energy, creativity, and heart. Similar to other forms of energy healing, Chakra Foods for Optimum Health looks at your mind, body, and soul holistically. In this book, you will find:

• Specific foods and practices that can help with each chakra
• Lists, charts, and diagrams to help you easily pinpoint what you need
• Clearly explained, actionable information that you can implement in your life today

Readers of chakra books like Essential Chakra Meditation, The Ultimate Guide to Chakras, and Chakra Healing will be inspired and encouraged by Chakra Foods for Optimum Health.

Boost Your Brain Power

Holistic brain exercises, from body and brain games to life-enhancing brain food. Health and science writer Sondra Kornblatt, along with the numerous experts she’s interviewed in A Better Brain at Any Age, can help you put your head on straight through healthy activities for the body and stimulating exercises to boost brain power. Improving your exercise, consuming healthy food, and practicing simple movements can do wonders for your mental and physical health.

Overcome brain fog and enhance memory improvement. In A Better Brain at Any Age, Kornblatt will teach you how to reduce stress and optimize mental agility. Learn how the brain interacts with the body, what habits impact the brain positively and negatively, and how to maximize learning. In this book, Kornblatt provides tips to strengthen memory, cognition, and creativity so you can function better in your active life.

A Better Brain at Any Age offers a complete plan for improving brain health in an engaging and accessible way. In this book, you will find:

• More than 100 extensively researched ideas to improve your memory and mental agility, boost your creativity and overall brain power, and avoid brain overload
• Lively and informative explanations on brain plasticity and how the mind and body work together
• Quick and helpful tips that you can dip into during short breaks or read through cover-to-cover

If you found brain function and memory books like Change Your Brain, Change Your Life; The Brain Warrior's Way; and You Can Fix Your Brain helpful, then you’ll thrive with the brain training tips in A Better Brain at Any Age.

A Bouquet of Ways to Treat Yourself Every Single Day

Whether its remembering to exercise regularly, throwing yourself a party or writing a poem, Little Indulgences is your perfect self-care guide.

Learn to treat yourself often. Being indulgent is not all about being extravagant. Being indulgent can be something as small as buying yourself flowers or cooking a recipe you have been meaning to try. Anything can be considered self-care, and with this book, filled with holistic and emotional care, you can find plenty of luxurious indulgences to help you include self-care in your day.

Find new ways to be good to yourself. Life can be stressful and take a toll on any woman. You can learn new ways to unwind and re-energize with Cynthia MacGregor’s sound advice. Between instant indulgences that reap immediate rewards, or “Rewards Over Time,” that take longer to complete, this book gives you every option you could ever dream of. With Little Indulgences, learn more about:

• Ways to be kind to yourself
• Practicing self-care
• And so much more!

If you enjoyed books like The Little Book of Lykke, Wellness Witch or The Little Book of Life Skills, then you’ll love Little Indulgences!

• Attuning your circadian rhythms
• Uncovering your chronic sleep positions
• Writing a sleep biography
• Crying at night if you want to
• Making friends with your nightmares
• Using Feng Shui to bring on sleep

Your Go-to Guide for Finding Happiness

Life got you down? Discover the cure to gloomy days in this book—packed with wisdom and inspiration guaranteed to bring your smile back.

The obstacles to your happiness. There are a lot of things in life that we worry and stress about. Our jobs, relationships, and possessions are important to us, and because of that, we look to them for happiness. But when they ultimately disappoint us, they act as obstacles to attaining that very happiness we thought they would bring. In this motivational book, author Hugh Prather urges readers to let go of attitudes that hold us back from experiencing happiness.

How to live a happy life. When we recognize and address the obstacles in our lives, we open the door for happiness to come in. But it doesn’t happen without putting in the work. During his years of counseling, Prather learned and developed an actual program for being happy. Through following this program, and examining our own lives, we can learn how to actively work towards achieving the happiness we all long for.

In How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy learn:

• How to find your happy life with the help of concrete exercises
• About the obstacles that may be standing in your way
• The benefits of an inspirational guide that you can return to again and again

If you enjoyed books like Resisting Happiness, How to Be Happy (Or at Least Less Sad), A Year of Positive Thinking, or Get Out of Your Own Way, then your next read should be How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy by Hugh Prather.

The Art of Living Well Year-Round

An abundant sourcebook of ideas, inspirational quotes, recipes, and activities, Simple Pleasures shows you how to appreciate the simple things that make up your daily life.

Secrets to happiness. Happiness in today’s frantic world is to learn how to enjoy less than we can afford. Rediscover the pleasures our grandparents knew when life was quieter and slower. When children without TVs knew how to amuse themselves. When pleasures were made not bought and enjoyed all the more because of it. From the recipe for a homemade herbal bath to quick and easy recommendations for an instant room makeover, the suggestions collected in this book offer a new appreciation for the everyday activities that nurture and comfort you.

Self-care made easy. Organized seasonally and full of touching stories, practical tips, and dozens of satisfying crafts, Simple Pleasures is both a guide to and a celebration of the art of living well. Inside, find self-care tips and learn how to:

• Make your own perfume and body lotion
• Create old fashioned sachets
• Bake the world’s best cookies

If you enjoyed other books in the Simple Pleasures series by Susannah Seton such as 365 Simple Pleasures, Simple Pleasures of the Home, and Simple Pleasures for the Holidays or books like The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care, The Self Care Prescription, or The Spirit Almanac, you’ll love 365 Simple Pleasures.

365 Days of Self-Care Strategies

Aim to be the best version of yourself year round with daily arts and crafts, recipes, and pampering ideas.

Seasonal self-care. 365 Simple Pleasures makes it easier than ever to take care of yourself throughout the year. As the seasons change, so do these self-care ideas. Whether installing a low maintenance cactus garden in the summer or crafting scented candles for the holidays, these self-care activities take good care of the mind, body, and soul.

Self-care made easy. Along with easy, daily activities, author Susannah Seton explains why we enjoy each of these simple pleasures and why simple joys really do go a long way. Inside, find self-care tips and learn how to:

• Release stress with lavender and rosemary crafts
• Pamper yourself with a DIY spa day
• Bake comfort foods like bread and maple candy

If you enjoyed books like The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care, The Self Care Prescription, or The Spirit Almanac, you’ll love 365 Simple Pleasures.  

What to Expect During One of Life’s Biggest Adventures

In a time of such wonderment, feelings of worry are common. Judy Ford’s Expecting Baby helps guide you through these very special months.

An emotional and spiritual handbook for mothers. As magical as pregnancy is, it can be an overwhelming time for many, especially for first time moms. Moms, as exciting as this time is it is extremely common for you to feel scared or worried. In this first-time mom book, author Judy Ford guides you through the ups and downs of all three trimesters, from handling new emotions to learning about your new and ever-changing body.

From morning sickness & stretchmarks to decorating, Expecting Baby has you covered. This is not just any pregnancy book, it’s a book that helps you navigate all your new and confusing feelings, both physically and emotionally. You’ll learn to sift through any troublesome glitches and find satisfaction and delight during your pregnancy. In Expecting Baby, you can learn more about:

• Staying comfortable and encouraged during pregnancy
• Dealing with food cravings and mood swings
• And so much more!

If you enjoyed books like 50 Things to Do Before You Deliver, Pregnancy Day by Day, or The First-Time Moms Pregnancy Handbook, then you’ll love Expecting Baby!

Make Positive Choices with Positive Thinking

"The Power of Positive Choices shows us how to consciously choose what's best in the long run and reminds us we have choices that affect the quality of our lives and helps us create a life of joy." —Patti Breitman, author of How to Say No Without Feeling Guilty

With so much going on in the world, it’s important for us to make choices that bring us closer to the joy and meaningfulness we need and desire in our lives. The Power of Positive Choices starts with the power of positive thinking, which helps us reduce stress and enhance our wellbeing and fulfillment.

Positive thoughts lead to positive choices. The power of positive thinking translates to making positive choices, which result in less stress and more joy, and Gail McMeekin's program shows readers how to do and achieve just that!

Subtract negativity and multiply happiness. Life is too short to spend it living an unhappy life. Thus, the hard work of thinking positive thoughts and having a positive attitude to develop a positive growth mindset is both essential and transformational.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Probing questions to encourage positive thinking and self-reflection
• Helpful self-tests for subtracting negative habits and people from your life
• Wisdom for making choices inspired by the power of positive thinking
• Strategies to effectively reduce stress and live a meaningful and joy-filled life

If you liked The Power of Positive Thinking, Addicted to the Monkey Mind, Empty Out the Negative, Greater Confidence, or New Levels of Influence, you’ll love The Power of Positive Choices: Adding and Subtracting Your Way to a Great Life.