Discover expert advice on crafting effective exercise routines, nourishing your body with balanced nutrition, and prioritizing mental well-being amidst life's demands. Explore essential topics such as sexual health, personal hygiene, reproductive wellness, and digestive health, empowering you to make informed choices about your body and life. With practical tips, empowering strategies, and insightful guidance, "Wellness Wisdom" equips women with the knowledge and tools to thrive in every aspect of their lives. Whether you're seeking to enhance your fitness, manage stress, navigate reproductive health, or cultivate holistic wellness, this book is your trusted companion on the journey to becoming the healthiest, happiest version of yourself.
The latest book by eight times number one best-selling author Dr Libby, Women s Wellness Wisdom, is, quite simply, the book that every woman needs to read. In this unique approach to wellness, designed to specifically address the issues that women of all ages face, readers gain a deep understanding of their body and what it needs in order to not just survive but to thrive. Often, we are simply told to eat healthily because it is good for us. Rarely does a book this beautiful explain the processes of the body, and how they re all interdependent on each other, while offering real guidance on how we can support ourselves in such succinct and easy to understand language. From over two decades of research, Dr Libby takes all the guesswork out of being a woman, providing insight into the questions that plague western women around the world, including: Why some people emotionally eat and how to end this, why our skin breaks out and why we might lose our hair, how estrogen and progesterone affect our bodies and our minds, why we believe `if I don t do it, it won t get done , why we store body fat in a certain place and what we can do about it, why our liver is the number one organ to look after, and why we have big conversations at night, rather than at breakfast. With interactive worksheets, real-life examples and step-by-step guides to making life-transforming changes, Women s Wellness Wisdom is both practical and inspiring. Illuminating how women can thrive in today s fast-paced modern world, and filled from front to back with Dr Libby s unique blend of nutrition, biochemical science and emotional care, this beautifully illustrated book is truly the definitive guide for women about looking after their bodies, minds and hearts.
Wellness Wisdom lifted my energy immediately . . . This book contains a powerful blueprint for what wellness looks and feels like. CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP, M.D., author of Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom, Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and The Secret Pleasures of Menopause "Susan Tate is a joyful, enthusiastic, cosmic cheerleader for life, health, and consciousness. She has managed the almost impossible task of making transformational reading fun and inviting. Wellness Wisdom is a beautiful synthesis of timeless teachings for wellness on all levels-body, mind, heart, and soul." MARC DAVID, author of Nourishing Wisdom and The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, & Weight Loss "As a healer, dancer, and body worker who teaches people to fall in love with their bodies and stay connected to sensation, Susan's words, advice, and insights give us tools for having a passionate and sensual relationship with the body." DEBBIE ROSAS, author of The Nia Technique: The High Powered Energizing Workout that Gives You a New Body and a New Life "Susan Tate weaves stories, humor, wisdom, and science in this easily accessible guide to wellness. I love that it is organized into 31 delicious bites of wellness wisdom. This second edition takes the reader from inspiration to action-right into joyful wellness." DEBORAH KERN, Ph.D., author of Everyday Wellness for Women and co-author of Create the Body Your Soul Desires "Susan opens the door for us to heal from the inside out." This book is a practical holistic wellness tool to help us create our own wellness philosophy that expands beyond body fat and blood pressure! It highlights important wellness dimensions we often neglect such as joy, forgiveness, love, and laughter. I love how practical the information is and how inspiration is delivered through many personal stories. Susan opens the door for us to heal from the inside out. KAREN WOLFE, M.B.B.S., M.A., co-author of Create the Body Your Soul Desires With elegant simplicity, Wellness Wisdom provides a step-by-step guide to sustainable, joyful wellness. This updated edition combines the latest science-based and mind/body healing strategies to lead you gently forward on your wellness journey. In her engaging style, Susan Tate offers nourishing stories, well-researched theory, practical exercises, and a powerful Wellness Bill of Rightsall written with you in mind.
A fresh, new pregnancy guide—the first complete functional medicine book—offering women and their partners a comprehensive approach to maintain and enhance health and wellness before, during, and after pregnancy. The Wise Woman’s Guide to Your Healthiest Pregnancy and Birth combines the expertise of top-tier physical therapist Patricia Ladis—who works with superstar athletes, professional dancers, and celebrities—with Dr. Anita Sadaty, a highly regarded holistic ob-gyn with a celebrity clientele. Together, they have devised a six-step protocol beginning the six months before conception continuing forty days post-birth and beyond, incorporating holistic principles that encourage optimal wellness for mother, partner, and baby. Whether they are in their 20’s, 30’s or 40’s, this book empowers readers to be in tune with their bodies during all stages of pregnancy, and is the first book by a functional medicine dream-team aligning medical and structural body issues to avoid such potential pregnancy outcomes as osteoporosis, sciatica, pelvic prolapse, structural weakness, and postpartum depression. Each of the six stages organizes Ladis and Sadaty’s holistic principles into five easy-to-follow aspects: Body, Movement, Breathing, Nourishment, and Wisdom. They include practical applications such as foods to help reduce internal inflammation, specific exercises—with instructive photos—in each stage, breathing techniques to lower stress, and “pearls of wisdom” backed by science exploring a multicultural history of this special time in a woman’s life. For the first time, a pregnancy guide considers the importance of choices you make six months prior to conception, and the effect on genes. When both members of a couple are calm, fit, and well-nourished, the latest science suggests that together they are less likely to pass on negative genes to a child.
A prominent gynecologist explains how to make the best choices for female reproductive health in this authoritative, easy-to-read guide This book is for every woman who has wished for an unhurried, personal conversation with a sympathetic doctor who will answer her questions about reproductive health. Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, a gynecologist practicing for more than 25 years, presents a complete and up-to-date guide to a healthy reproductive system for women in their teens through middle age. With warmth and understanding, Dr. Minkin and coauthor Carol V. Wright respond to questions about the gynecological issues that concern women today, including sexual activity, contraception, and family planning. Readers of The Yale Guide to Women's Reproductive Health willlearn how the female body works, what problems may arise, and what solutions are available--in short, they will become better prepared to participate in their own health care and to make healthy decisions.
Today seven million African American women are living in their prime, experiencing the joys and challenges of middle age. Now, at last, here is the book that addresses ourtotalhealth needs—physical, emotional, and spiritual. Written by a distinguished physician and a clinical psychologist,Prime Timeis the first complete guide that empowers us to take charge of our lives and attain the well-being we deserve. In many ways, it’s true that we are better off today than our foremothers were: We earn more money, command more respect. Yet in spite of these advances, we still experience more chronic health problems, endure more stress, and live shorter lives than women of other races. That’s whyPrime Timeis both urgent and essential. This groundbreaking book not only lays out a detailed, practical plan for overall healing and for maintaining wellness, it also addresses the underlying attitudes and assumptions that lead so many of us to neglect ourselves and undermine our own health.Prime Timewill help you • Reframe priorities to put yourself and your own health needs first • Interpret the latest medical findings on the Big Four killers and how they affect black women in middle age • Profile your current health with worksheets, quizzes, and assessment tools • Renew sex at midlife by eliminating restricting myths and taboos and finding new paths to pleasure • Reduce anger and “attitude” that block you from attaining good health • Identify the nontraditional signs of depression and anxiety common to African American women Comprehensive, straight-talking, and grounded in science and spiritual truth,Prime Timeis at once a guide to total health in middle age and a celebration of the strength, wisdom, and beauty of African American women in their second half of life.
Creates a new framework for approaching Black womens wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy. This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black womens struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black womens wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both superwoman stereotypes and victim caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women. this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health. from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount
The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls “This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one.”—Jada Pinkett Smith Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and The Rites of Passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. With love, wisdom, and passion, Queen Afua guides us to accept our mission and our mantle as Sacred Women—to heal ourselves, the generations of women in our families, our communities, and our world.
Discover expert advice on crafting effective exercise routines, nourishing your body with balanced nutrition, and prioritizing mental well-being amidst life's demands. Explore essential topics such as sexual health, personal hygiene, reproductive wellness, and digestive health, empowering you to make informed choices about your body and life. With practical tips, empowering strategies, and insightful guidance, "Wellness Wisdom" equips women with the knowledge and tools to thrive in every aspect of their lives. Whether you're seeking to enhance your fitness, manage stress, navigate reproductive health, or cultivate holistic wellness, this book is your trusted companion on the journey to becoming the healthiest, happiest version of yourself.
With the arise of chronic, age and lifestyle-related illnesses, overwhelming stress, toxins and pollution, the society began to value more aspects of personal health than mere physical symptoms – the balance and harmony of mind, spirit and body.
