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Women's Issues
Reviews of books dealing with all aspects of women's and feminist issues, including women's rights and advocacy.
Author
Kathy Reed
Publisher
Outskirts Press
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Multiple Sclerosis: The Many Faces of the Disease
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
Victor R. Volkman
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction, Second Edition
Victor Volkman has created a tool that takes the mystery out of one of the more remarkably effective clinical procedures in a way that can help millions of people revitalize and improve their lives. To those desperate people who have experienced trauma or tragedy, this process is a pathway to dealing with their feelings and getting on with their lives.......
Author
A.T.W.
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
3 Review Copies Left
Got Parts? An Insider's Guide to Managing Life Successfully with Dissociative Id
Got Parts? was written by a survivor of DID in association with her therapist and therapy group. This book is filled with successful coping techniques and strategies to enhance the day-to-day functioning of adult survivors of DID in relationships, work, parenting, self-confidence, and self-care.......
Author
Sharon Wallace
Publisher
Modern History Press
3 Review Copies Left
Surviving a House Full of Whispers
Sharon suffered continual physical and sexual abuse from her stepfather for seven years. Unfortunately, no one would listen to her or believe her story. At age 16, she finally finds the courage to flee from her tormenters. Social Services find her the first of a string of temporary jobs between which she criss-crosses England trying to find a safe haven.......
Author
Lynda Bevan
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
2 Review Copies Left
Life Without Jealousy: A Practical Guide
Ask yourself...
- Do you feel the need to be frequently checking up on your partner?
- Are you suspicious when you meet new people?
- Do you often question your partner about where they are going and who they are seeing?
- Do you withdraw from your partner without giving an explanation as to why you doing this?.......
Author
Sherry Quan Lee
Publisher
Modern History Press
4 Review Copies Left
Chinese Blackbird (Reflections of America)
Critical Acclaim for Sherry Quan Lee's Chinese Blackbird
"Quan Lee eloquently expresses how painful and confusing it can be to embrace the many complex identities that one body can contain.......
Author
Sandra L. Ceren
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
3 Review Copies Left
Look Before You Leap: A Premarital Guide for Couples
Ready to Tie the Knot?
Originally published as a highly recommended professional text for premarital counselors, the research based quizzes, exercises, and case examples are now available for couples planning to marry. The materials can help you discover more about yourselves and your partner and determine readiness for marital challenges.......
Author
Sandra L. Ceren
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
Essentials of Premarital Counseling: Creating Compatible Couples (New Horizons in Therapy)
b>Expand Your Clinical Practice with this Practical Hands-on Guide
- Teach conflict resolution skills to your couples
- Introspective quizzes expose more of couples¿ inner lives and past history to each other
- Real-life exercises let couples practice cooperative decision- making and compromise before a crisis happens.......
Author
Nancy Wesson
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
Moving Your Aging Parents: Fulfilling their Needs and Yours Before, During, and After the Move
Whether whittling down to the essentials for a parent moving into a room or two or downsizing for ourselves, ignoring the spirit and basing decisions on health and safety alone could have devastating results.......
Author
Marjorie McKinnon
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
Repair for Kids: A Children's Program for Recovery from Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse
R.E.P.A.I.R is Recognition, Entry, Process, Awareness, Insight, and Rhythm
Enter a Six-Stage Program with your child to cross the Bridge of Recovery and make available a whole new world of hope:
- Uncover and acknowledge feelings by discovering emotion
- Build self-esteem and optimism with the "Magic Mirror".......
Author
Marjorie McKinnon
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse
R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!
- Recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse.
- Enter into a commitment to transform your life.
- Process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy.......
Author
Tami Brady
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
3 Review Copies Left
Strategies: A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Journey
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
David M. Matthews
Publisher
Wheatmark
No Review Copies Left
Every Man Sees You Naked: An Insider's Guide to How Men Think
Employing equal measures of wit and wisdom, Emmy Award-winning composer/writer/producer (The Young and the Restless, The Nanny, Half & Half) David M. Matthews leads you on an amusing yet highly informative journey through the seamy underbelly of the male mind.......
Author
Catherine Jones
Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong Books
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Eating for Pregnancy: The Essential Nutrition Guide and Cookbook for Today's Mothers-to-Be
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
Barbara Sinor
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
3 Review Copies Left
Gifts From The Child Within: Self-discovery and Self-recovery Through Re-Creation Therapy, 2nd Edition
Gifts From the Child Within brings a refreshing approach to guiding its reader to understanding the initial or underlying basis to their emotional suffering due to past childhood trauma. This recovery book is geared toward both professional and layperson.......
Author
Lynda Bevan
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
3 Review Copies Left
Stop Being Pushed Around!: A Practical Guide (10-Step Empowerment)
Something is not quite right and you're not sure what it is...
- Are you getting pushed around?
- Do you feel you need to do everything asked of you by your partner or anyone else?
- Do you feel you have to fulfill all your partner's needs no matter what?.......
Author
Nancy Oelklaus
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
Journey From Head to Heart: Living and Working Authentically
Journey From Head to Heart is...
- A Toolkit for those who are exhausted from solving neverending problems, working harder and harder and not arriving at the destination where they truly want to be.......
Author
Lynda Bevan
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
Life Without Jealousy: A Practical Guide
Ask yourself...
- Do you feel the need to be frequently checking up on your partner?
- Are you suspicious when you meet new people?
- Do you often question your partner about where they are going and who they are seeing?
- Do you withdraw from your partner without giving an explanation as to why you doing this?.......
Author
Heyward Bruce Ewart III
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
AM I BAD? Recovering From Abuse (New Horizons in Therapy)
Find Your Way to Freedom Today!
If you were abused or neglected as a child, chances are that you have been your whole life, whether you are a man, a woman, or a teen. Child abuse so mangles the personality that the victim unconsciously attracts abusers throughout the life cycle.......
Author
Lori Radun
Publisher
Mom Coach Press, an imprint of Wyatt-MacKenzie
1 Review Copies Left
The Momnificent Life: Healthy and Balanced Living for Busy Moms
Authentic and empowering, The Momnificent! Life ~ Healthy and Balanced Living for Busy Moms by Lori Radun is an important work of nonfiction, which can play a significant role in creating healthy families based on the concept that mothers are role models and that the path to a happy family begins with a happy mother.......
Author
Tami Brady
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
Regaining Control: When Love Becomes a Prison (New Horizons in Therapy Series, 4)
- Only 1% of the world's assets are held in the name of women.
- 70% of people in abject poverty¿living on less than $1 per day¿are women.
- Over half the women of this generation do not themselves receive, from either employment or the state, enough to 'get by'.......
Author
Tami Brady
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
The Complete Being: Finding And Loving the Real You
Like many people, I used to spend a good deal of my time fantasizing about the life I wish I had. Caught in the mindset of “I could never do that,” “why can't I be more like so and so,” and “nothing is ever going to change”, I felt my dreams slipping away. But one simple question, why not?, changed my life forever.......
Author
Lynda Bevan
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
Life After Your Lover Walks Out: A Practical Guide (10-Step Empowerment Series)
Your long-time partner has just walked out on you forever:
- Do you feel paralyzed or afraid to move on?
- Does the thought or sight of your old partner with someone else fill you with rage?
- Are you worried or anxious about how to get by financially on your own?.......
Author
Susan R. Blaske Williams
Publisher
Infinity Publishing
No Review Copies Left
Making it Home: How to Run your Household Like a Business...And Find Your Heart Along the Way
"Making It Home" is more than just a book full of how-to suggestions. It is a book that guides women into a journey of self-discovery where "home" is not a place or a building but something that happens within their own hearts.......
Author
Amy Barth
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
101 Tips For Recovering From Eating Disorders: A Pocket Book of Wisdom
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
Selena Rezvani
Publisher
Praeger
4 Review Copies Left
The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won't Learn in Business School
Over the course of a year, Selena Rezvani interviewed women executives in various industries, roles, and job functions, including Jamie McCourt, president of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Denise Incandela, president of Saks Direct at Saks Fifth Avenue, Roxanne Spillett, president and CEO of Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and Naomi Earp, chair of the Equal Employment Opport.......
Author
Colette Petersen
Publisher
Outskirts Press
3 Review Copies Left
30 Isn't Old
You can be successful at 30!
Being successful does not mean being perfect or having the perfect life. It's about having the best life for you. With a focus on all that is positive and fabulous about being a woman on the verge of turning thirty, this book is vital for any woman nervous about leaving her twenties.......
Author
Ernest Dempsey and Victor R. Volkman
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. II, No.1)
Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. II, No. 1) January 2010
Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through poetry, memoir, essays, fiction, humor, media reviews and psycho-education.......
Author
Holli Kenley
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
Breaking Through Betrayal: and Recovering the Peace Within
Are you ready to finally recover your peace of mind?
We are living in a time where betrayal abounds. Tragically, most of know or know of someone who has been scarred by the betrayal bandit. In whatever form it takes (financial, political, personal, social, legal, environmental, cultural, etc.......
Author
Editor: Stephanie Marohn
Publisher
Elite Books
4 Review Copies Left
Goddess Shift: Women Leading for a Change
For millennia, woman have been without a strong leadership voice in human affairs. No more! Women are now in positions of power in every branch of government, business, and social organization. They are providing a new style of collaborative and visionary leadership, which is changing the way society functions.......
Author
Liliane Desjardins
Publisher
Life Scripts Press
5 Review Copies Left
Rewriting Life Scripts: Transformational Recovery for Families of Addicts
Finally a treatment approach that embraces the whole family!
In one sense, alcoholics and drug addicts are the fortunate ones. They have to learn a new way to live or risk death, incarceration, and loss of everything they hold dear.......
Author
Dr Kathleen Albertson PhD
Publisher
CreateSpace
3 Review Copies Left
Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine for Women's Health: Bridging the Gap Between Western and Eastern Medicine (Volume 1)
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
Jacquie Lewis-Kemp
Publisher
Zoe Life Publishing
5 Review Copies Left
Blessed Assurance
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
Ernest Dempsey
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
4 Review Copies Left
Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. II, No. 2)
Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. II, No. 2) April 2010
Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through poetry, memoir, essays, Opinion, fiction, humor, media reviews and psycho-education.......
Author
Diana M. Raab
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
Healing With Words: A writer's cancer journey
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
Sweta Srivastava Vikram
Publisher
Modern History Press
5 Review Copies Left
Because All is Not Lost: Verse on Grief (World Voices)
Sweta Srivastava Vikram is a multi-genre writer living in New York City. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals, online publications, and anthologies across six countries and three continents. Sweta has attended several writing residencies and workshops in the United States and Europe. She is a VONA writer and a graduate of Columbia University.......
Author
Marjorie McKinnon
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
5 Review Copies Left
It's Your Choice! Decisions That Will Change Your Life
Are you ready to have balance and harmony in your life?
It's Your Choice! Decisions That Will Change Your Life is a work of personal discovery. Marjorie Mckinnon shows you how to create a perfect world through positive growth in what she calls the six dimensions: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, social, and financial.......
