Reviews of books dedicated to well being and health. The books deal with health and body issues including nutrition, exercise, fitness, and any other concerns.
Author
LeslieAnn Butler
Publisher
Nightengale Press
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"This "how-to" book provides a much needed text on dealing with emotional and cosmetic aspects of hair loss, whether from alopecia areata or chemotherapy. It details where to find and how to use products for compensating with this loss. It is written in the same bold and bright style that characterizes LeslieAnn's illustrations." -Janet Roberts, M.D.......
Author
Kathleen E. Yancosek
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
2 Review Copies Left
By targeting adults, this book preserves the dignity of those who must "re-learn" the basics of handwriting by providing an alternative to children s workbooks. All tasks are oriented to the adult learner.......
Author
Kathy Reed
Publisher
Outskirts Press
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Multiple Sclerosis: The Many Faces of the Disease, is a non-fiction autoimmune disease story revolving around Suzanne McCuiston Bradley, my aunt and a woman plagued with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for most of her life.
In the beginning, the focus is on symptoms and early indicators of the disease.......
Author
Sherry Mayo Jones
Publisher
Modern HIstory Press
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Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Jones Mayo
Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor.......
Author
Alan E. Smith
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
1 Review Copies Left
You can enjoy better health right now without prescription drugs with this comprehensive health and wellness guide for mind, body, and spirit
Looking for a map to find your way in the world of complementary or alternative therapies? That's the reason for this exciting new book, UnBreak Your Health(TM)! This is the complete guide to different types of.......
Author
Deborah McCloskey
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
2 Review Copies Left
Addiction: What's Really Going On? contains powerful true-life stories woven together to form a tapestry filled with pain, joy, defeat, and success. The entire book is molded around Deborah McCloskey's heartfelt desire for her clients to be free of drugs.......
Author
Laurie Zelinger Ph.D.
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
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This book helps parents understand and organize the necessary medical and emotional components that accompany their child’s surgery. In an easy to follow timeline for events prior to and following a tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy, the author provides reassuring and accurate guidance that eases the process for the patient and family.......
Author
Jill Osborne
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
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Sam saw something awful and scary! Ms. Carol, a special therapist, will show Sam how to feel better. Children can help Sam feel better too by using drawings, play, and storytelling activities. They will be able to identify and manage their own feelings and difficulties in their lives following a traumatic event, crisis, or grief.......
Author
George W. Doherty
Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press
4 Review Copies Left
Events around the world continue to present challenges for first responders and mental health professionals. Natural and man-made disasters continue. Evidence mounts concerning potential events such as global warming and the effects this may have worldwide.......
Author
George W. Doherty
Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press
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Much discussion follows disasters and critical incidents about returning to normal, but "normal" is never the same again. "Return to Equilibrium", involving integrating the event, its effects, meanings and recognition it's part of one's life can build a new balance and create a new enriched life. Good or bad, experience changes us.......
Author
Victor R. Volkman
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
What Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) Does:
"When accessed with the specific cognitive imagery procedure of TIR, a primary traumatic incident can be stripped of its emotional charge permitting its embedded cognitive components to be revealed and restructured.......
Author
Paul Adcock
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
The Secrets of the "Jungle King" are solid sexual solutions, that allow one to proactively promote potency and prowess, enhance the experience of ecstasy, and banish bedroom boredom and blues.......
Author
Tami Brady
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
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It is estimated that 4-8 million people in the United States suffer with Fibromyalgia. Another one million also have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Some statistics state that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia may directly affect 5% of the world's population.
I am one of the individuals in this growing epidemic.......
Author
Catherine Jones
Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong Books
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Every pregnant woman understands that what she eats and drinks affects the baby developing within her. Yet as a mother-to-be, you’re likely juggling so much that you simply don’t have the time—or energy!—to ensure that you’re always eating right.......
Author
Gloria Arenson, MFT
Publisher
Energy Psychology Press
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Break free from the guilt and shame of not doing what needs to be done! EFT can rapidly eliminate the fears that hold you back. In EFT for Procrastination, psychotherapist Gloria Arenson shows you the hidden programs that lie in your subconscious, sabotaging your best intentions.......
Author
Dawson Church, Ph.D.
Publisher
Elite Books
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Voted Best Health Book, USA Booknews National Awards.
Your genes don't control your health or happiness outcomes; in fact many of the choices you make turn genes on or off. Author Dawson Church applies the insights of the new field of Epigenetics (epi=above, i.e. control above the level of the gene) to healing.......
Author
Dorothea Hover-Kramer
Publisher
Energy Psychology Press
4 Review Copies Left
This book provides a new template for the second half of life, one that it is bursting with energy, health, power, creativity and new beginnings. Rather than settling for less than our dreams, it fills us with the expectation that this period is our second chance to do, and to be, all the things we've ever dreamed of-and more!This is the first book to apply the breakthroug.......
Author
Norm Shealy, MD, PhD, Dawson Church, PhD
Publisher
Energy Psychology Press
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The cutting edge of medicine today is not to be found in invasive therapies like drugs and surgeries. It is in the disciplines that used to be regarded as 'soft' medicine: prayer, intention, energy healing, acupressure, and similar therapies.......
Author
Stephanie Marohn
Publisher
Elite Books
4 Review Copies Left
A new generation is evolving together through the passage of eldership. In Audacious Aging, we collect their voices, full of wisdom, fierceness, compassion and gentleness. They are the graceful and eloquent transformative agents our communities and our planet are now seeking.......
Author
Dirk Chase Eldredge
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
The heart of this book consists of thirteen, riveting, in-depth stories of people who fought back with courage, humor, and a positive attitude. In doing so, they have provided valuable guidance for you, the readers of this inspiring work.......
Author
Niall McLaren M.D.
Publisher
Future Psychiatry Press
4 Review Copies Left
An application of the philosophy of science to psychiatry
Although it's been 140 years since Maudley's groundbreaking treatise, modern psychiatry is in a state of intellectual collapse.......
Author
Patt Lind-Kyle
Publisher
Energy Psychology Press
4 Review Copies Left
Yes, you can teach your old brain new tricks!
Breakthroughs in the scientific understanding of how the brain works have shown us that our brains are constantly rewiring themselves in response to events in our lives.......
Author
Marian K. Volkman (Ed.)
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
3 Review Copies Left
What if we could resolve childhood trauma early, rather than late?
We are understanding more and more about how early traumatic experiences affect long-term mental and physical health:
Author
Oleg I. Reznik
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
We are all patients at some time. Is the medical industry giving us the best treatment possible, at the best price? We all know that it isn’t. My book, The Secrets of Medical Decision Making: How to avoid becoming a victim of the Health Care Machine, shows what goes on behind the scenes of the current medical care and how it impacts the patient.......
Author
Rick Ritter
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
This workbook provides more than 50 questions and exercises designed to empower those with physical loss and disability to better understand and accept their ongoing processes of loss and recovery. The exercises in Coping with Physical Loss and Disability were distilled from ten years of clinical social work experience with clients suffering from quadriplegia, parap.......
Author
Victor R. Volkman (Ed.)
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
3 Review Copies Left
From the Foreword:
TIR offers an opportunity for the members of a CISM team to deal with any accumulated emotional baggage that their involvement in crisis-intervention has created. Training in TIR adds another tool to the toolkit of crisis-intervention techniques and enables peer-support to ad-dress an extended range of crisis-reactions, even those that might.......
Author
Martine Ehrenclou, MA
Publisher
Lemon Grove Press LLC
3 Review Copies Left
What are the chances you'll never have to be there for someone in the hospital? Zero. Given the frightening number of preventable hospital deaths caused by medical errors, you must be a proactive advocate to oversee medical care for your hospitalized loved one.......
Author
William E. Krill
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
3 Review Copies Left
Breakthrough Treatment Offers New Hope for Recovery
Gentling represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who have experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result.......
Author
Shiho Torii
Publisher
One Peace Books
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Who hasn’t worried about his or her weight at one time or another? So I Need to Lose 15 pounds tackles the all-too-serious subject of weight loss with a lighthearted twist. So I Need to Lose 15 Pounds provides an inside look at twenty-seven dieting techniques.......
Author
Michelle May, M.D.
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
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Called "the antidote to ineffective dieting," Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat is a rare prescription for optimal health of the body, mind, heart, and spirit. After twenty years of yo-yo dieting, physician Michelle May discovered a peaceful, joyful relationship with food. Now Dr.......
Author
Rue Hass
Publisher
Energy Psychology Press
1 Review Copies Left
Are you very sensitive to your own feelings and the feelings of those around you? Do you get overwhelmed by external stimuli, such as crowds, loud sounds and hectic environments? Are you deeply affected by the beauty of art, literature, music and nature? Do you get stressed easily? Do you suffer from feelings of inadequacy and sadness? Do you always seek deep and meaningfu.......
Author
Joseph Valdez
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
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Praise for Healing Back and Joint Injuries:
''This book is an outstanding educational resource regarding therapeutic options available for patients afflicted with chronic pain associated with some type of soft tissue injury.......
Author
Amy Barth
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
If you're recovering from an Eating Disorder (E.D.) it's important to take one day at a time. Let 101 Tips for Recovering from Eating Disorders be your companion in healing and you'll be reminded of the strength and wisdom that's already inside you. This book will help you celebrate the good days and develop solid coping strategies for the bad times.......
Author
Niall McLaren M.D.
Publisher
Future Psychiatry Press
4 Review Copies Left
Does psychiatry have a future?
Assailed from many directions, under constant attack for its reliance on "a drug for all problems" and increasingly unable to attract bright new trainees, the specialty is showing every sign of terminal decline.......
Author
Jay Tucker
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
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Ferdinand the Frog awakens one night to a very damp realization. Something doesn't feel right in his bed at all! What can the little guy do to fix the situation?
Luckily for Ferdinand, he has a friend who has experienced the same thing. Ferdinand learns that potty training is all about confidence. There seems to be one huge obstacle, however.......
Author
Diana E. Hoppe
Publisher
Health Reflections Press
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Women's lives are fuller and richer than ever, but often at the expense of sexual intimacy. Dr. Diana Hoppe demonstrates that a woman s libido is a reflection of her overall health, and that a healthy sex drive not only indicates a well-balanced life, but sexual intimacy has significant health benefits.......
Author
James A. Feinstein
Publisher
iUniverse Star, Inc.
3 Review Copies Left
Most people will, at some point or another, either find themselves dressed in a tiny hospital gown or staring at someone else dressed in a tiny hospital gown. Whether from the perspective of a patient, a family member, or a medical professional, we all have a significant stake in the process of medical education.......
Author
Nikolai Shevchuk
Publisher
CreateSpace
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This book describes techniques for improving mental abilities such as general intelligence, attention control and impulse control, speed of thinking, reading and writing performance as well as understanding and getting along with other people. Regulation of mood is also covered.......
Author
Garry Prowe
Publisher
Brain Injury Success Books
4 Review Copies Left
Someone you love has suffered a brain injury. The doctors can not yet make a prognosis. Every brain injury is unique and unpredictable, they say. You have been told to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.......
Author
Lyzz Yamazaki
Publisher
One Peace Books
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Written by Lyzz Yamazaki, a therapist and self-improvement expert, My Life is a revolutionary new book that turns the traditional concept of self-help on its head. While so many self help books on the market endeavor to provide answers, My Life provides something much more valuable: questions.......
Author
Stuart Brown
Publisher
Revitaliser Publishing
2 Review Copies Left
One in every three people in the US, Europe and the UK have elevated cholesterol. So there is a very good chance that you have raised cholesterol and may not even know it.
It is a silent killer, and you need to find out NOW how to combat it and achieve lower cholesterol.......
Author
Dr Kathleen Albertson PhD
Publisher
CreateSpace
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Educates readers about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), (acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine), and how women's health problems are effectively treated holistically versus the typical Western, compartmentalized approach. Acquire a basic understanding of TCM - what it is and how it works - as well as its benefits, risks and potential for treatment.......
Author
Kathy Gruver, MS, LMT, RM
Publisher
Infinity Publishing
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The Alternative Medicine Cabinet is a treasure trove of natural health information. Easy to incorporate, practical advice on everything from natural ways to improve your sleep and conquer depression to weight loss, helping back pain and corporate health. All without drugs or surgery. Valuable information that will allow you to live longer and live better.......
Author
Jacquie Lewis-Kemp
Publisher
Zoe Life Publishing
4 Review Copies Left
Author, Jacquie Lewis-Kemp, chronicles the battles fought and the victories won growing up with juvenile diabetes, diagnosed at the age of seven. She details tips and techniques her parents and she used from childhood, through college, into marriage, childbirth and as CEO of an automotive supplier.......
Author
Dr. Rashid A. Buttar
Publisher
GMEC Publishing
4 Review Copies Left
The Nine Steps to Keep the Doctor Away shows you nine steps that have been clinically proven over the last ten years to be highly effective in promoting overall health. They have provided the essential framework for Dr.......
Author
Diana M. Raab
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey is a compassionate and wry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse and poet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS (early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by another, seemingly unrelated and incurable cancer--multiple myeloma.......
Author
Lisa Pedace
Publisher
Big Shot Press
2 Review Copies Left
Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner (Diet/Nutrition/Food)
National Indie Excellence Award Finalist (Diet)
Ready to lighten up? This easy-to-follow reprogramming guide can help. Filled with humor and fun, The Diet Joke is a laugh-riot, common-sense approach to better health. Who says losing weight has to be so serious?.
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Barbara Sinor
Publisher
Modern History Press
5 Review Copies Left
Whether addicted or not, we all have stories to tell
The stories of tragedy and redemption found within Tales of Addiction are not about the well known celebrities you find in the usual tabloids. Rather, these stories are true-grit tales told by people you will never meet but whose words will haunt you for months, years maybe.......
Author
Alan E. Smith
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
Find better health with your map to the world of complementary and alternative therapies in this comprehensive health and wellness guide for mind, body, and spirit.
Are you sinking into the Quicksand of Pain? Are you stranded in the Mountains of Misery or simply lost in a Forest of Symptoms? Find your way to Hope with the second edition of the award-winn.......
Author
Monika M. Suchy P.T.
Publisher
Selfpublished/author
4 Review Copies Left
Do you have problems sleeping? Read this book and fall asleep effortlessly and naturally.
This book is set up to take you through a blend of different techniques, easy to understand and simple to practice.......
Author
Jay S. Levy
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
3 Review Copies Left
On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless people residing in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help?
"Levy crafts stories of characters who sear the memory: Old Man Ray, the World War II veteran who resents the VA system and regards himself as the de facto night watchman at Port Authority; Ben who claims to be a proph.......
Author
Michelle Pearl
Publisher
Gallery Press Publishing
4 Review Copies Left
In the second edition of this well-received book, atypical fitness guru Michelle Pearl has a message for all those who have suffered with ongoing weight problems: “You are not weak, losing weight has nothing to do with willpower, and you really can be happier, healthier and imperfectly fit.......
Author
Niall McLaren M.D.
Publisher
Future Psychiatry Press
5 Review Copies Left
The long-awaited final installment of the Biocognitive Model Series
Humanizing Psychiatists is the third of a series directed at developing the Biocognitive Model of Psychiatry as the replacement for the three nineteenth century models of mental disorder, psychoanalysis, behaviorism and biological psychiatry.......
Author
Leslie Davenport
Publisher
Celestial Arts
4 Review Copies Left
Tapping into the heart's wisdom through creative visualization is an ancient practice, but today guided imagery is used as an adjunct to conventional medical therapies for health issues ranging from cancer and heart disease to post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.......
Author
J. Lucy Boyd
Publisher
Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
3 Review Copies Left
College students face a number of stigmas when they first leave home and start living on their own. From not having their parents nearby to help clean and answer questions to being responsible for their own cooking and cleaning, the move from High School to College can be a bit of shellshock for many teenagers.......
Author
Marlene Jones
Publisher
Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
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Your body is a temple one that has need of many different things that it normally does not get. The right mixture of oils, with the right amount of different minerals, vegetable, fruit, and plant extracts can provide the body and mind with a much needed, highly therapeutic boost that can have a myriad of different positive effects.......
Author
Susan Frances Dunham
Publisher
Modern History Press
4 Review Copies Left
What would you do if your child suffered with something so severe it affected every aspect of his life?
Susie Dunham, Midwestern mom and former nurse, never suspected her son Michael was anything but a typical college student with big dreams until he developed schizophrenia shortly after his 21st birthday.......
Author
Connie Thompson Titus
Publisher
Tate Publishing
5 Review Copies Left
Are diseased people allowed to have fun in a doctors office? A clinic door swings wide open revealing fervent yet fragile exchange between a one-breasted Gentile and her Jewish medicine man. An unusual prescription for Dancing at Daybreak sparks lively conversation which is not easy to transfer onto paper, but author Connie Titus tries. God knows she tries.......
Author
Amy Barth
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
What is wrong with Will?
Will is a typical six-year-old boy: he loves to tell "knock-knock jokes", collect bugs, and play with other kids. On most school days, Will goes to Nana Winnie's until his mom returns from work. Will enjoys having his Nana as a babysitter.......
Author
Barbara P. Gibson
Publisher
Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
4 Review Copies Left
When it first developed in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP was considered a great advancement in psychotherapy and was widely studied as a means by which to subjectively study language, communication and personal change.......
Author
D.G. Long
Publisher
Outskirts Press
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AT LAST! A WEIGHT LOSS PLAN FOR HUNGRY PEOPLE. If you are tired of the same old weight loss programs and suspect, rightly so, that one-note diets are not healthy, then this is the plan for you.......
Author
Ernest Dempsey and Victor R. Volkman
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. III, No. 3) April 2011
Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psychoeducation.......
Author
Diana M. Raab
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey is a compassionate and wry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse and poet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS (early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by another, seemingly unrelated and incurable cancer--multiple myeloma.......
Author
Chynna T. Laird
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
What would you do if your child suffered with something so severe it affected every aspect of her life?
And what if your cries for help fell on deaf ears at every turn? You'd follow your gut and fight until someone listened. And that's what Chynna Laird did. When she was just three months old, Jaimie's reactions to people and situations seemed odd.......
Author
Sherry Jones Mayo
Publisher
Modern History Press
5 Review Copies Left
Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Jones Mayo
Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. Sherry Jones Mayo has been an Emergency Medical Technician, Emergerncy Room Nurse, and an on-scene critical incident debriefer for Hurricane Katrina.......
Author
Amy Barth
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
What is wrong with Will?
Will is a typical six-year-old boy: he loves to tell "knock-knock jokes", collect bugs, and play with other kids. On most school days, Will goes to Nana Winnie's until his mom returns from work. Will enjoys having his Nana as a babysitter.......
Author
Dr. Theresa M. Kelly
Publisher
Lulu.com
3 Review Copies Left
This textbook, written by bestselling author and metaphysicist Dr. Theresa M. Kelly, offers you straightforward, honest explanations of telepathy through new research initiatives in parapsychology, psychology, neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and related subjects for a semi-technical audience.......
Author
Ernest Dempsey, Victor Volkman
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. III, No. 4) October 2011
Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psychoeducation.......
Author
Nancy Rappaport
Publisher
Basic Books
5 Review Copies Left
In 1963, Nancy Rappaport’s mother committed suicide after a bitter divorce and custody battle. Nancy was four years old. As one of eleven children in a prominent Boston family, Nancy struggled to come to terms with the reasons why her mother took her own life.......
Author
Sherry Jones Mayo
Publisher
Modern History Press
5 Review Copies Left
More True Stories from EMS and the ER
More Confessions shares the raw and honest feelings of emergency service professionals through true 'story behind the story' revelations. Disclosing experiences from both sides of the gurney, Sherry and other EMS, ER, paramilitary, and firefighter responders walk you along their fragile line of sanity.......
Author
Richard A. Singer Jr.
Publisher
Marvelous Spirit Press
5 Review Copies Left
Do you desire to change the world? It all starts with you so let's begin your transformation today!
Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds is a daily journey based on psychological and spiritual principles that have been scientifically confirmed and shown to help create lasting change and personal growth.......
Author
Debra Kelly
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. IV, No. 2) April 2012
Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psychoeducation.......