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From classical Greece to Roe v. Wade, a long-overdue history of abortion through changing social and cultural climates.

Have you ever questioned why, despite the avalanche of self-help books and optimization hacks, we remain embroiled in multiple global health crises? Populations worldwide are gaining life-shortening excess weight (even in poorer countries), and water contamination is rampant (even in richer countries). In such dire circumstances, a gratitude journal won't help.The stark reality is that we've been sold a monumental lie. The obsession with individual health optimization has distracted us from the real game-changer: holding governments accountable for policies that can significantly extend our lifespans. Even where progress has been made, such as the UK's indoor smoking ban, other issues arise. Lax policies on vaping mean two-thirds of young vapers don't know their products contain nicotine. Meanwhile, breathing the air in Delhi is akin to smoking 10-15 cigarettes daily, cutting life expectancy by 17 years. And in many poorer regions, ultra-processed foods are mistakenly seen as healthier than local, wholefood diets due to aggressive marketing.So, what can we do - not just as individuals but as a society - to enhance our longevity? How Not to Die (Too Soon) urges readers to learn from other nations' successes and failures. Why are the British generally less healthy than the Danes? Why does Japan have a higher life expectancy than the United States? How can developing countries like India, Senegal, and Ghana avoid the health pitfalls that have ensnared affluent nations?Drawing from global case studies, cutting-edge research, and two decades of expertise in global public health, this book dismantles the myth that culture and politics are immutable. It shows that change is possible, citing surprising examples like Amsterdam's successful transformation from a car-focussed city into a cycling capital. How Not to Die (Too Soon) is a vital, transformative guide that shifts the focus from individual responsibility to societal accountability. It's time to demand the changes that will save lives.

¿ Provides profiles for dozens of absolutes, exploring their physical and emotional healing properties as well as myths, poems, and stories that evoke the experience of plant absolutes ¿ Explains the author's unique system for working with absolutes centered on viewing the body as made of story and emotions ¿ Shares recipes for making absolute blends for specific conditions and teaches how to create blends to express specific feelings One of the most concentrated forms of fragrance, cherished in natural perfumery and aromatherapy, floral absolutes are created through a gentle heatless extraction process that coaxes the aromatic signature from delicate plant materials such as flowers. Absolutes contain the essential oil of the plant and a higher density of coloring, waxes, and other constituents, giving them healing effects often different from the plant's essential oil. As aromatherapist Candice Covington explains, absolutes convey the synergistic story of the plant through its scent. They offer healing effects for the body, yet their greatest strength lies in their effects on the emotions and spirit. Covington provides profiles for dozens of absolutes, exploring their physical and emotional healing properties and their mythos-stories, poems, and experiences that convey the subtle qualities of each absolute directly to the subconscious-giving you a deeper, intuitive understanding of how to use each plant and its absolute. She also examines the energetic signatures of base oils, which are required for working with essential oils and absolute blends. She explains her unique treatment system for using absolutes centered on viewing the body as made of story and emotions, which conveys why you would apply certain oils/blends to specific parts of the body. She shares recipes for making absolute blends for specific conditions and also teaches how to intuitively create blends to express specific feelings. Revealing the power of scent to help us blend and balance emotions, this book shows how aromas can reawaken us to ourselves and reconnect us to the greater story of Nature.

¿ Presents the spiritual, emotional, and physical healing properties of 30 common plants and their spirits ¿ Explains how to intuitively, energetically, and spiritually connect with plant spirits and their healing medicine ¿ Shares the author's personal story of awakening to the divine powers of plant spirits Sharing her personal story of awakening to the divine powers of plant spirits, medical intuitive Laura Aversano takes you on a journey deep into sacred connection with the elemental world of nature where plants are animated intelligent beings. Aversano explains the process of how to intuitively, energetically, and spiritually connect with plant spirits and their healing medicine, including how to make your own plant spirit essences. She presents the stories and remedies of 30 common plants whose spirits she has worked with energetically over the years to nurture herself and her friends, family, and clients. She shares her inner experience with each plant, including visitations from the fairy, deva, or spirit that endows and protects each plant. For each plant she includes a plant spirit prayer and explores its spiritual, emotional, and physical healing properties. The 30 plants and their spirits she introduces include Astragalus, Black Cohosh, Calendula, Lilac, Motherwort, Mugwort, Poke, Rosemary, Violet, Wormwood, and Yarrow. Revealing that when we call upon a plant spirit, we immediately come into Divine relationship with the plant kingdom, Aversano shows how we each have the power to heal ourselves and our loved ones-and that each plant has a divine purpose to help us heal.

Twenty years ago, The Reiki Sourcebook revolutionized the Reiki community with its comprehensive coverage of the history, practice, and philosophy of the system of Reiki. It meticulously tracks every significant aspect from the system's inception in early 1900s Japan to the West and back to Japan. This anniversary edition celebrates the depth of research and clarity that this book has brought to the Reiki community. With an introduction for beginners and a chronological history that answers questions like Where did the attunement process come from? and Which hand positions are correct?, these pages explain and illustrate techniques from both Japan and the West. This is the definitive manual for anyone with a particular interest in the system of Reiki, Japanese healing practices, or a more general interest in complementary health. Reiki authors and teachers Bronwen Logan and Frans Stiene, co-founders of the International House of Reiki, have worked with the system of Reiki and conducted research on its Japanese origins across Europe, Asia, North America, Australia, and Japan. Bronwen, who now resides in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia, has since launched her own initiative, Reiki with Bronwen, to further explore and teach the practice. Frans has returned to his roots and teaches from his hometown of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Together, they continue to share their extensive knowledge and experience with Reiki practitioners worldwide.

If you know ten women, then you know endometriosis. At least one of them has it.

Unlock your inner glow with face massage. Discover facial massage and face yoga routines to transform your physical appearance and your inner well-being. Discover the power of nurturing your skin and your spirit from home. This book will show you how to achieve a naturally beautiful complexion with easy-to-follow daily routines in facial massage. Facial massage has many proven benefits, from aiding digestion to respiratory health. Top facialist Ksenija Selivanova explains the science behind lymphatic drainage and its impact on vitality. Learn specialized massages to:· release tension, reduce anxiety and aid restful sleep· lessen the appearance of existing lines, prevent new ones, reduce puffiness and brighten the whole face· improve concerns such as double chin, crow's feet, mouth lines, headaches and forehead tension, teeth grinding and jaw clenchingWith easy-to-follow rejuvenating rituals that take as little as two minutes, you can integrate face massage self-care into your life to unlock your inner glow, regardless of age or budget. Embrace the power of touch, and let your inner radiance shine through.

She Sits and Shells Peas is the fourth in an ever-expanding series of mind-body-soul books that comprise tiny personal essays and short poetic pieces. In this work, the author reflects on life and love, and the continuous joyous journey of her becoming. Sitting and shelling peas is a mindful mindless art of tuning into one's inner self. Ilis continues to entertain while inviting the reader to engage in periods of introspection. She shares mystical moments, happy happenings, and joyful oracles as they reveal themselves along the way.Simple, ordinary language has become her trademark style as she artfully crafts essays and poems which transports the reader along this soul adventure. \Stories are birthed out of everyday living, and demonstrate the beauty and magic in nature and the so-called mundane, experiences missed by many.

Stigma and Social Support on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program delves into the daily complex lives of individuals on the program and the hardships the program has on participants. The author provides examples of experiencing stigmatization while on SNAP and possible methods to help improve, or lessen, the stigma with the use of positive social support. The chapters include the author's personal experiences on SNAP, factors influencing enrollment, overall views of the program, stigma, disclosure concerns of enrollment, social support, and implications from the findings. Chapters addressing statistical findings and theory application are also included. Stigma and Social Support on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program provides an in-depth view on the themes of stigma while enrolled in SNAP such as embarrassment, feelings of failure, fear of being perceived as lazy, and feelings of judgment. This book serves as a useful tool for researchers of stigma and welfare programs, as well as for policy makers to improve aspects of the program that are causing some of the most vulnerable populations such as typically unrepresented and exploited groups (e.g., immigrants, migrant/temporary workers, and racial/ethnic minorities) to feel more stigmatized than other groups.

How to manage your mental health at work and create supportive environments for teams you lead Drawing on popular influencer Kody Green's inspirational story as a diagnosed person with schizophrenia who succeeded in finding and maintaining a job across diverse industry sectors including production, distribution, office settings, and management, Minds Over Meetings: A Personal Perspective on Wellness in the Workplace provides practical strategies for fostering an understanding, empathetic, and supportive and inclusive work environment as well as self-care and coping strategies to help all professionals manage their mental health better at work. Backed by the latest research findings in the field and emphasizing the vital role of open and honest communication, Green explores topics including: Finding available accommodations through employee assistance programs (EAP) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Retaining talent in the workplace by promoting education and fighting stigma Building relationships between friends and colleagues to strengthen teamwork Minds Over Meetings: A Personal Perspective on Wellness in the Workplace earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all individuals seeking to thrive in the workplace through effective management of their mental health, along with all managers and business leaders seeking to create an open and supportive environment to improve worker wellbeing.

Your ticket to a healthier brain and a healthier you! Your brain, like every part of your body, needs and deserves all the TLC you can give it so you can live a long and healthy life. In Brain Health For Dummies, neuroscientist and author Dr. Sarah McKay walks you through some simple and easy steps you can take-right now-to get smarter, stay healthier, and better support the elders in your life. This is the ultimate, evidence-based guide to help you understand how your brain works around the clock to keep you sharp, healthy, and happy. It offers straightforward advice to help you optimize your brain health, including: How to lessen your chance of disease and decline by managing common health risks Simple lifestyle tips to help you maintain a healthy brain at every stage of life Sex- and age-specific strategies to help keep your brain in top form Optimal performance is something your brain works on all day long. Make sure you're living your best life by learning how to maintain your hardest-working organ with Brain Health For Dummies. Grab a copy today!

Surveys indicate that over half of workers are experiencing burnout.Burnout results from chronic work stress and when we experience it, we feel exhausted and depleted. Our performance suffers and we can feel disconnected and cynical about our work. Burnout can also lead to more significant physical health and mental health problems. Working mothers and those in the helping professions are especially vulnerable to burnout.Many of us yearn for a map which will take us from languishing to flourishing, narrated by an expert who has climbed the same mountain. This book is that map - distilling a century of science into a three-step recipe for treating burnout: Soothe, transcend, then move. Start Here is crafted for easy readability for the overwhelmed reader. Sentences and chapters are short. The research is supported by relatable personal stories applying their lessons in real life. Professional design and illustrations increase accessibility and an abbreviated 'shortcut' journey is offered through the text for those lacking time, energy or attention. This warm, culturally-informed manual is the emotional life manual that you want your smart friend to write...

Explains the cognitive, emotional, and physical dimensions of dance in a spectrum of stress management approaches. This book offers lessons learned from the experiences of people of different cultures and historical periods, as well as knowledge, on how to resist, reduce, and dance away stress in the disquieting times of the 21st century.

Anticipating and planning your organization's response to an emergency situation isn't just a good idea: it's a federal requirement. Since 1989, OSHA has issued numerous standards that explicitly require employers to have emergency action plans for their workplaces and dozens more regulating specific materials and processes that affect the health and safety of employees. This book makes the task of identifying and understanding OSHA's emergency response requirements virtually effortless by compiling and summarizing the most relevant requirements_53 general and 95 industry-specific_found in Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 29 Parts 1910, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1926, and 1928.

AI innovations in digital health offer unprecedented opportunities to facilitate human health and provide tools and techniques that reduce overall costs. This book discusses the use of AI to improve diagnostic accuracy, the use of remote diagnostic tools, medical robotics applications, drug discovery, technology-driven solutions, and more.

This vital daily practice guide provides targeted wisdom on common symptoms of the menopause, as well as clear, actionable lifestyle advice. It is supplemented with illustrations, 18 class videos, specifically curated 15-30-minute capsule practices, and contributions from leading figures such as Jo Darling and Dr Radhika Vohra.

The New York Times bestselling author of Practical Intuition presents a transformational program to heal your past, transform your present, and create the future you deserve A consultant to billion-dollar companies and the brightest lights of Hollywood, Laura Day, in her breakthrough book, Practical Intuition, explained how anyone can train themselves to gain full access to the powers of the intuitive brain. Only Laura's closest friends, however, knew that behind the book's phenomenal success was a dark family history--one that came to provide her with profound insights into human nature. Now, Day has combined those insights with her intuitive training to create a method of self-discovery and renewal that will change your life. The Prism reveals seven points in our growth as children and adults that can either hinder us--or help us thrive. By using intuitive methods to examine our roles, beliefs, and realities, we can, step by step, create meaningful health, inner peace, and personal growth, improving everything from relationships to wealth, and turning our life's wrongs into rights. Developed over a decade with thousands of students and based on her unique approach that combines scientific principles, wisdom from ancient traditions, and her own intuitive intelligence, Day's program has repeatedly proven to be effective and world-changing. Every human is born to thrive, she believes. The Prism is your guide to that future.

Discusses recent scientific evidence in the use of nutraceuticals in the prevention and management of heart disease. Demonstrates various nutraceutical components used in the management and prevention of cardiovascular diseases and hypertension in human beings. Summarizes functional foods, and various nutraceuticals for CVDs.

This startling exposé shares the truth behind the transgender indoctrination movement targeting our children. WARNING: Contains adult content, which can't be avoided when talking about sexuality, genital surgery, and more in the trans lifestyle."It's cool to be trans!" Shockingly, that's what our children are being led to believe by not only the media and the transgender community, but also by some school employees, other adults in their lives, their peers, social media, and even politicians! If you have a child in school, a child about to enter school, or an adult child heading to college, after seeing the headlines in the news, you are likely concerned about what your child may be exposed to. And, you should be! Some bad actors are seeking to indoctrinate our children into the transgender community. After all, the more members they have, the stronger they are, and the more legislation they can push. But, what if a child who is not trans thinks he or she is based on these brainwashing techniques? How can we, as parents, protect our children from being emotionally and possibly physically mutilated based on this indoctrination? Here's the good news! Many children and teens are claiming to be trans to get attention. Everybody wants to be part of the "in crowd" and, unfortunately, trans is the cool thing to be now. With the correct intervention, parents and/or therapists can stop this behavior. Most children who do actually have "gender dysphoria" outgrow it with no medical intervention. With the correct therapy, children and young adults CAN recover from "gender dysphoria!"Transgender Mindbender, the second in a series of "anti-woke" books by this author, will help children recognize when they are being manipulated to the advantage of groups that do not have Christian morals, and do not care about your child's mental or physical health.Our children are being used as pawns in social and political experiments and it is time that we, as parents, put a stop to it. The only way to do that is to teach our children the right way to live, and how to recognize when someone is trying to indoctrinate them into a particular mindset that can wreak a lifetime of emotional and physical trauma. Through this series of books by Clout Publishing, we aim to help parents do just that.

Chris Shelton offers this book as a guide for understanding and incorporating the theories and practices of specific exercises focused on balancing your body's energy. Although the practices in this book originated in ancient China, these exercises are meant to benefit all people. The system as a whole is known as "Qigong." "Qi" refers to the life force energy that emanates within all things, material and non-material, and "gong" means work, or skill. Practicing the meditations and exercises described in this book will certainly give your Qi a boost, and you will finish feeling revitalized and refreshed, rather than worked-out and exhausted. Each day of practice will bring greater and greater benefits, gradually refining your health and vitality-your fundamental nature-as one would refine ore into gold. As the founder of Morning Crane Healing Arts Center in San Jose and Los Angeles, California, Chris believes in self-empowerment, teaching that no matter your life circumstances, you can take control of your health in order to enjoy life, free from pain.

Chronic Pain Rehabilitation is your essential guide to taking control of your pain.

The long-awaited autobiography of Caroline Redman Lusher, the visionary behind Rock Choir, the UK's largest contemporary choir. In this emotional narrative, Caroline recounts her journey from dreaming of becoming a pop star to becoming the founder of the phenomenon that is Rock Choir, with over 32,000 members across 400 groups in the UK.

Many times in life, the unexpected happens to us, or to someone else, and many times it is a tragic incident. In 2017 our youngest son took his own life. It was unexpected. It was a complete surprise. To us, he seemed to be living a full, God-honoring life. How do you explain such a tragedy? How do you explain that unexpected tragedy in your life? There is a reason for that, which is explained in the Bible. This book will help you make sense out of things, which ordinarily, in your human understanding, makes no sense. Using the Bible as our guide, we will pull back the curtain of the unexpected and find not only answers, but hope that will help you to cope with your shock and grief. This book contains answers to questions about life's incidents and tragedies we can't explain in human terms. We will draw the curtain back on God's perspective and plan, and the spiritual warfare that is at play in all our lives. We cannot always see behind the scenes when events happen, but this book will give you hope and healing in knowing that God is in control and has a plan in it all.

This open access book explores epistemic justice in mental healthcare, bringing together perspectives from psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, activists, and lived experience researchers. Through eight chapters, authors identify threats to the agency of people who hear voices, experience depression, have psychotic symptoms, live with dementia, are diagnosed with personality disorders, and face serious mental health issues while receiving palliative care. Considering the power asymmetries in clinical interactions, where patients are vulnerable and healthcare professionals are uniquely placed to offer support, this book reaffirms the importance of recognizing patients as agents and collaborators. Topics covered include trust in the therapeutic relationship, dignity at the end of life, the social dimension of health, stigma in an acute ward, the harm caused by biases and stereotypes, the role of clinical communication, and the promise of digital health. Students, academic researchers, practitioners, as well as mental health charities will benefit from this timely collection.

Transform your life through better nutrition. Feel your best with this modern guide to natural supplements. From acne to anxiety, strength to sleep, cure your ailments, boost your energy and transform your health with this practical and accessible guide from a qualified nutritional therapist.

A new book in the Headline Health series, this time an expert guide to managing diabetes.