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The Caregiver's Journey: A Roadmap for Navigating Your Path

by Pamela S. Showalter

What began as an effort to manage stress through journaling, The Caregiver's Journey chronicles five years the authors spent caring for a loved one who lived hundreds of miles away. Realizing their hard-earned lessons could help smooth the path of those in similar situations, The Caregiver's Journey serves as a roadmap for anyone navigating the role of caregiver. The chronological narrative, interspersed with tips and recommendations, helps readers better understand their path as caregivers, whi... more

Staying Healthy Living Longer-7 Powerful Principles for a Healthier You!

by Mary DiCaro

What if what you've been told about aging is wrong? Is there a way to prevent and even reverse the chronic diseases of aging?

These are important questions few of us consider until we are confronted with declining health, chronic pain, or a life-altering diagnosis.

Rates of chronic disease continue to rise steeply because the focus has been on symptom suppression and not the root causes and prevention of disease.

The good news is the body provides... more

Grand Theft Weight Loss

by Michael Alvear

Maternal, Morbidity and Mortality in the Bahamas

by Clarice Ingram

In her work as a community health nurse, Clarice Ingraham has discovered that traditionally, Bahamian woman play a major role in the country's society, as do women in all developing countries. The nation is both family-orientated and tourism-dependent. Women are housekeepers and often the sole bread winners in their families. They often work in the hotel industries that comprise about 75 percent of the workforce. Maternal morbidity refers to the rate of incidence of disease, whereas the mortalit... more

Six healing Qigong sounds

by Ricardo Serrano

The theoretical basis of Six healing Qigong sounds (Liu Zi Jue) is the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine (metal, wood, water, fire and earth), and Five Solid Viscera (heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys). The Six healing Qigong sounds gently vibrate, and massage our internal organs, boost our immune system, clear stagnation and stale energy from our body, harmonize our emotions, balance our body and spirit creating a state of inner peace and radiant energy. The sound Xu tonify... more

Saturdays with Daddy (Zaria's Garden)

by Katrina Johnson

Saturdays with Daddy, the first book in the Zaria's Garden series, teaches kids the fundamentals of gardening, helping them build skills that will last a lifetime. Readers will learn about seeds and soils, a return to a more sustainable approach to living and growing food, and how to bring the food that we produce to the family table.

About Daddy

Patrick Johnson has been active in the sustainable agriculture and sustainable living movements for over thirty yea... more

Om for the Home

by Carrie Leskowitz

Your home is a more than an address-it's a reflection of your soul. Your living space mirrors your inner space, telling the story of your life through your physical home. Function and feeling go hand in hand. The sacred place you call home supports the foundation for your inner balance and an empowering, fulfilling life. When limiting beliefs, negativity, and stress surround you, it's time to dive deep into who you are to build an environment where you are at home within yourself. In OM fo... more

The Extraordinary Pause

by Sara Sadik

The Extraordinary Pause is a keepsake testament of the pandemic of 2020-2021 and a tribute to the simple and remarkable efforts people made in the face of the unexpected and unknown. Whether reflecting on what was lost or gained, this book is a wonderful tool for discussing the physical, mental, and emotional impact of this extraordinary event. The text is complimented with thoughtful and poignant illustrations with a minimal color palette and plenty to explore for the young audiences, as well a... more

TBI or CTE

by Mark Tullius

An author with a reckless past set his fiction aside to tackle a critical mission: Help those around him struggling with head trauma and chart a way forward. But a fateful visit to the doctor upended his entire world... Former fighter and Ivy League football player Mark Tullius wanted to support his friends with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). But when presented with a scan of his own grey matter, his life changed forever. After years of lying to hi... more

The Paradox of Ageing

by Patricia Gogay

Almost every country in the so-called developed world is facing the paradox of ageing. Thanks to science, more effective medication and higher living standards, more and more of us are exceeding the “three score years and ten” theoretical limits of the past despite the physical and mental impairments that develop with ageing. For those who are spared dementia or chronic pain, a long life is reason to celebrate. We will have a party when we are 80, an even bigger one if we reach 90 and if we hit ... more

Understanding COVID-19 with your teacher: A long spring break

by ZuZu Ismail

Book 1 "Understanding Coronavirus with your Teacher" beginning on the last day of school before the "extended" school spring break right before the national shutdown due to the pandemic goes into effect. Young Jabore and bestfriend Ahmed take a learning journey in book 1 on how to remain safe during the pandemic. They learn how long to wash their hands, how many feet social distancing is with examples for teachers and students and what emotional effects being away from family and friends they m... more

understanding modern health care

by steve fredman

The Tin Woodsman, Dick Cheney was given a new heart and the scarecrow, Joe Biden, was allowed to keep his brain. (He had an aneurysm that bled). But we don’t live in Oz and there is no wizard. The book starts in the late 1700s when only a few eccentrics believed the world was full of invisible creatures that made us sick. It tells the stories of two centuries of research, disease, and care (including HIV, transplantation and CRISPR) and it ends when John Cain turning down his thumb and allow... more

The Autoimmune Warrior's Healing Key

by Jo Pronger Faulkner

Author Jo Pronger Faulkner was diagnosed with four autoimmune conditions in seven years. Thinking she and her partner, Mike, were going to Nicaragua simply for a long-term get-away, they stumbled upon a new way of living that sparked her interest in the power of plants. Jo's mission became to learn all she could about autoimmune illness, the lifestyle components that contribute to it, and how making different decisions can change everything. The Autoimmune Warrior’s Healing Key is a bala... more

Mum, Dad can you hear me?

by Despina Mavridou

This book is about communication between parents and kids during the divorce period. Irene, the protagonist of the story, offers insight that can help children and divorcing parents work together so the children can experience comfort and healing through this emotional time of their lives. The list of 11 things that Irene asks from mum and dad is the message that all parents should keep in their hearts as they proceed in their separation.

The Smooth River: Finding Inspiration and Exquisite Beauty during Terminal Illness. Lessons from the Front Line

by Richard S. Cohen

The Smooth River is the remarkable story of how a well-known public relations expert and her husband met her stage 4 pancreatic cancer head-on. With vigor and strength, they deployed all they and medicine had to offer. But, in contrast to narrow conventional approaches, the couple developed a far more expansive view of what strength means in response to a crisis for which there are no medical cures. They called this the Smooth River.

This clear-eyed transcendent perspective wa... more

Warrior

by Jessica Duemig

WARRIOR provides a raw, real, uncensored look into the battle against Triple Negative, Metaplastic Breast Cancer. WARRIOR explores the ups & downs of 9 challenging months of a single, career-driven, pre-kid, badass woman. It explores the hard times, the weird stuff, real life, and the “What the fuck do I do now?”

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