Self-Help: Alternative Women’s Health, and Well-Being Catalog
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Healing Strategies for Women. This is the first book to fully explore the impact that growing up in a dysfunctional family has on a woman's sexuality. Filled with heart, caring, and sensitivity expands the base of knowledge about the female adult child and their healing.

Keep fir, firm, and fabulous-looking longer than you ever dreamed possible! From beauty and weight loss to confidence and self-esteem to sex and nutrition. Turn back your aging clock, crank up your metabolism, discover boundless energy, outwit arthritis and osteoporosis, recharge your passion, slim down permanently, restore your beauty smile...

Fathers are a major influence on a woman's emotional destiny. Your relationships with men, your career and your feelings about yourself have been shaped by your father. And since all fathers are fallible, your dad may not have done a perfect job. He may have been controlling, abusive, or supportive. Or he may have abandoned you through death, divorce, desertion, or univolvement. Honest insightful book can lead you to a deeper understanding of your father's influence on you...

How to help you choose and keep the right partner. You'll learn why you have choosen the partners you have, sexual chemistry, ten types of relationships that won't work, your childhood programming, six essential qualities, how to avoid making the big misstakes, spot fatl flaws, wrong reasons for falling in love, avoid compatibility time bombs. Step-by-step guides for when and how to make commitments, exercises, self-evaluation checklist and guidelines......

How to find love and make it last. Reveals everything you need to know about compatibility and shows you how to create the fulfilling relationship you deserve: the six essential qualities to look for in a mate, how to avoid making the biggest mistakes in love, the ten types of relationships that won't work, compatibility quiz, the true meaning of marriage and the reality of true love....

Being a Woman will change the lives and thinking of many woman today. Suggesting a way to live that is balanced between the adaptive attitude of the homemaker of the fifties and the aggressive woman of the nineties. Reveals why women are frustrated in their intimate lives. Shows how to embrace your femininity and how to expand your capacity for love and bonding. How to reclaim the woman's inherent peace, joy, and serenity.

From the first suspicion of a problem through every stage of diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, recovery, and life after breast cancer, this step-by-step guide contains all the latest information women require if they are to collaborate with their doctors in making truly informed decisions about the care that is right for them

Emotional and physical effects of menopause and aging. Encourages women to take responsibility for their own health and to question the accepted "truths" and those who determine them. Details of the various current treatments for menopause--estrogen replacement therapy, the overblown promises by the medical professionals and drug manufacturers, explores a myriad ofalternative non-medical treatments

These stories honor the strength and reveal the beauty of women's spirits. That which bonds all women are our mutual experiences of loving and learning: feeling the tenderness of love and learning; forging lifelong friendships; pursuing a chosen career; giving birth to new life; juggling the responsibilities of job and family. You will find inspiration, joy and comfort.....

An insightful and prescriptive guide that shows women how to turn anger into a constructive force for reshaping their lives. Illuminates the ccauses and patterns of anger while providing specific strategies for making menaingful and lasting change in important relationships. Explains the difficulties women have not only getting angry but also in using their anger to gain a stronger, and more independent, sense of self...

The first completely practical all-natural master plan for relieving over 150 symptoms of PMS. Combines many years of clinical work, the sensitivity of personal experience, and objective medical information into a pragmatic and useful workbook for the woman suffering from PMS.

Dr. Susan Love, country's leading breast surgeon with scientific expertise with care and compassion. Offers state-of-the-art information from: breast development, size, shape, sexual arousal, breast-feeding, changes with age, breast self-examination, options of plastic surjury, common problems (infections, nipple discharge, and benign tumors, fibrocystic disease, breast pain, lumpy disease). Who is at risk for breast cancer. What risk factors mean. How to prevent breast cancer. Diagnosis, treatment, alternative treatments....

A safe, effective, and revolutionary approach to lowering blood cholesterol that shows you how to cut your risk of heat attack by more than half, use foods and vitamins that actually lower total blood cholesterol, eating the right foods, learn how to control your weight without counting calories, which expensive drugs/side effects to avoid, and increase your chances for a long, healthy life.

Offers reliable information and sympathetic advice to women of all ages on total healthcare. Up-to-date on vital topics, encyclopedia of over 800 medical terms, issues, recommended health examinations, generic equivalents to drugs, health agencies. Illustrated body structures, and body systems.

A thorough and up-to-date resource for making decisions about hormone replacement therapy. Educates women about their own hormones and body chemistry: avoid the unpleasantness of PMS and menopausal symptoms, master an easy transition of hormonal changes. Shows you how easy it is to be self-empowered.

This new way of eating very low fat, low sugar, low salt (Ilike to call it '(clean eating') has made such a difference in my life. "Real cookin is an art form. A gift to be shared. The recipes in this book are my all-time favorites.--Oprah Winfrey.

Exactly what to do every day, physically and mentally, to start looking and feeling fantastic. Simple to follow how to work out, every step of the way. This will sure to change your life...Oprah Winfrey

How learning to be a woman with a life of your own can enrich the life you share with a man. For woman who have earned adult status, has the courage to be herself, to make her own choices and act upon them; for only through independence can she create a loving interdependence with the man who is right for her. How to make your partner a true partner, achieve true intimacy and how to pulee yourself out of the dependency trap. Discusses mother-daughter, father-daughter relationships.....Learn how to arrive at a personal balance---how to define yourself with family, work, and community...

When Prince Charming's dark side begins to emerge. Sometimes attacks may be opening, sometimes so subtly she hardly knows what is happening. The object of the attack? Her self-esteem. She may be criticized, belittled, restricted in her firendships and work, watched over and controlled, and blamed for everything that is going wrong. And she accepts the blame. After all, what could be wrong with Mr. Right? Explores the phenomonon of women who are addicted to men who are emotionally abusive. And what to do about it....

An excellent book, both for physicians treating menopausal women and for menopausal women themselves. In additional to providing extensive information on how to promote good health, it discusses interesting and controversial questions on all aspects of menopausal, osteoporosis, post-menopausal 'zest,' estrogen therapy, exercise, etc. The medical advice is specific and most helpful. Illustrations abound in the readable text. Especially good are the chapters on sexuality and nutrition.

More and more, there is only the full, glorious, alive-in -the-moment, don't-give-a-damn, yet caring-for-every-thing sense of the right now. Indeed, I was about to end this with, There's no second like the next one.--Gloria Steinem The six parts of this book: What If Freud Were Phyllis; The Strongest Woman in the World; Sex, Lies and Advertising;The Masulinization of Wealth; Revaluaing Economics demystified; Doing Sixty.

A woman surgeon explains how unnecessary hysterectomies can--and should--be avoided...and gives straightforward advice on the latest alternatives--both preventive and reconstructive. Provides women with a comprehensive guide to gynecological health--and the good news about alternatives to hysterectomy.

The Complete Guide-Nutrition for Women. How eating right can help you look and feel better. The cutting edge research based on thousands of studies of women's health issues. Dispelling the myths and presents the facts. Women who want to simplify this nutrition puzzle and combine the best advice into one diet with recommendations for particular illnesses or life stages should consult this invaluable guide.

Transform pain, loneliness, and anger into trust, intimacy, and love. Explains why men and women are experiencing such confusion in their relationships, and tell you what to do about it. Women are capable of making profound transformations in their thinking about men and about themselves. How to start building a new model for themselves, that of loving, creative, and powerful adults. Learn how to build your own base of empowerment that will act as a magnet for a healthy kind of love....

A program for all women that creates a happy, healthy relationship with food, one that deactivates the female fat cell. Shows the effects of estrogen, oral contraceptives, pregnancy, menopause, and hormone replacement therapy on fat storage, and how the female fat cell thrives on diets. Three-month plan: eat without guilt, overeating, or gaining weight. Transform your fat-storing body into a fat-burning body by following the six strategies of the OFF Plan...

Her five-step program, "The Meno-Positive approach to a Trimmer Transition. Shows menpausal women how to travel lightly through hormonally treacherous times. She guides them gently toward post-menopausal health, while fiercely protecting their self-worth. First safe and effective weight control program specifically designed for women over 35. It's the solution for the menopausal transition that will set you free from the vicious cycle of diets that don't and won't work.

A practical strategy for navigating the emotional, medical, and financial minefields of trying to have a baby. A comprehensive guide, most up-to-date information of every medical treatment, from the simplest to the most hight-tech. A glance at the ethical and technical future.

Identifies a common phenomenon common to women: a chronic fear of inadequacy masked by driven, achieving behavior. a legacy of self-doubt handed down from mother to daughter, one that is disguised--but not cured--by a frantic quest for self-improvement. Tragic results: eating disorders, work problems, the inability to sustain intimacy in relationships...

A guide for the professional community for psychotherapeutic treatment which encourages women to develop as complete human beings: feminist and nonsexist therapy, assertion training, therapy for lesbians, challenge to professional psychotherapy, and social activism as therapy. Relationships between contemporary psychotherapy and feminism.

Offering practical ways of voyaging inward to learn from the unique knowledge within each of us; and mends the body-mind split by underscoring the wisdom that comes from our bodies. She take you on a voyage through nature, spirituality, and newly discovered capacities of the human brain to show that anything is possible. Citing the untapped potential in all of us to grow and change.

Secrets about sex that men will never tell you. Which men spell trouble from the start. How to get the man you love to open up. The six biggest mistakes women make with men. The five biggest mysteries about men. What men say versus what they really mean. Why men always want to be right. Men's top twenty sexual turnoffs. How to start getting as much as you give...

Finding the Right Men. Avoiding the Wrong Ones. How smart women who are almost magnetically drawn to the wrong men for a number of subtle yet powerful reasons. Specific ways women can open up new opportunities with men and make their relationships happier.

If you're prepared to take a clear-eyed look at your self-diminishing behavior and to make the move to a quality existence...once we muster the courage to take responsibility for your own problems and to tolerate the discomforts of risk, the possibilities for personal growth and joy are limitless.

What women eat can have dramatic impact on whether or not she contracts this disease. This breast cancer prevention diet is designed with all women in mind; whether you want to guard yourself against the onset of breast cancer or protect yourself from recurrence...women at higher risk, postmenopausal, survivors, family history, or precautionary measures...

May cause a shock of recognition in any woman who has ever unconsciously sabotaged her own future or felt afraid of being alone. "The fear is that if we really stand on our own two feet, we'll end up stranded--unwomanly, unlovely, and unloved." To face down that debilitating fear--and come to grips with it--is what it takes to achieve true independence.

Inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child--and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and healing is possible. How to come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future. Clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, changing patterns,many recovery process interviews with hundreds of survivors, and resource guide.

A guide to authenticity and truth-telling in women's relationships. Insights into the countless ways (and whys) that women show the false and hide the real. Truth-telling is the central challenge in women's lives, the foundation of intimacy, self-regard, and joy......

A Woman's Guide To Courageous Acts of change In Key Relationships. A hopeful, respectful, and transforming book that never loses sight of the complexity and richness of women's lives. Where intimacy is challenged by too much distance, intensity, or pain.

Easy-to-use manual provides women with a wealth of knowledge to make informed choices about lifestyle and health care. Help safeguard your health, energy, and vitality...skin, againg, back pain, allergies, sinus, monthly breast tenderness, boost energy, sexual pleasure, manage stress, reverse problems of menopause, strengthen immunity, healing remedies, guard against disease, strenghten bones, energize love life, hormone balance, look younger....

This groundbreaking book, which explores the new male-female climate of the nineties, explains why sexual relations have changed so dramatically in only in the last few years; what social, psychological, economic, and sexual pressures are that have changed them; why women are finding it difficult to find "a good" man, and why men are not really committing themselves to women the way they could be.

What it's like to grow old--NOT gracefully but resourcefully and energetically, what you can expect druing the process and what you can do to make it rewarding. Twelve chapters: from emotional security, marriage, money, sex, beauty and clothes to food, exercise, health doctors, work and the importance of each as one grows older......

Cutting-edge research and most up-to-date information available. Overlooked symptoms of menopause, manage moodiness, irritability, rage, and feelings of anxiety. Herbal remedies and vitamin supplements that work for PMS and menopause-related difficulties, dramatic relief with exercise and diet adjustments. risk and benefits of hormone-replacement therapy, ways to benefit from hormones. Dozens of remedies for hot flashes and headaches. Explicit sugguestions to ease sexual difficulties making it better than ever. Chinese herbs, acupuncture, homeopathic treatments...

The first scientifically sound large-scale study of incestuous abuse of girls, presents the most convincing evidence to date that we have grossly underestimated both the incidence, consequences and understanding of sexual victimization. Myth-shattering conclusions

Menopause, 'gateway to a second adulthood' with a sense of adventure. Erasing the stigma of menopause and " render normalcy to a normal physical process." Brings forth the most current information from the U.S. and abroad and assesses women's options and risks.

Why certain women are more vulnerable to specific kinds of injuries, and developing a detailed program to help each women understand her own body type and create a training program best suited to her special needs

A practical guide for all women wishing to reduce their future risk of the dreaded disease breaset cancer. The recipes will be invaluable for those seeking better health through delicious food. For those interested in prevention.

Victums of verbal abuse, their families, and community professionsals called upon for assisance will find this book a valuable tool.

If your partner: seems irritated or angry at you several times a week; denies being angry when he clearly is; does not work with you to resolve important issues; rarely or never seems to share thoughts or plans with you; or tells you that he has no idea what you're talking about when you try to discuss important problems...you need this book.

Wanting to be thin--but needing to overeat--is the most comon dilemma. Food noursihes empty lives. It softens the threat of cuccess or failure. It "protects" women against sex with a husband or advances from other men. And even when women try to lose weight, insecure husbands can block their efforts. Strategies that will assist you in moving from victim role to attaining your weight goals.....

Everything you need to know to nourish both yourself and your baby-to-be. Bets-Odds Diet, with tips for maintaining proper weight gain, brown bagging at the office, ordering in a restaurant, establishing good eating habits, and safe cheating. 100 specially created recipes. Complete with the most current data on calories, drugs, food additives, the importance of fiber, vitamin supplements, and more....

A pregnancy guide that clearly and soncisely answers the concerns of mothers and fathers-to-be, from the planning stage through postpartum. Month-by-month format. Complete with genetic counseling and other health issues, exercise, childbirth education, travel safety, making love during pregnanct, having a cesarean, guides through labor and delivery, postpartum care, preparing for and beginning breasfeeding, best-odds preganacy and nursing diets

Resolving the most complicated relationship of your life. To get beyond their childhood demons and to break the cycle of mother-daughter bitterness so it does not get passed on to the next generation. To see how their painful childhood relationships with their mothers skew their adulthoods in ways they may not even recognize. Such women often play out their unresolved disaffection with husbands and lovers, coworkers and friends--and especially with their own children.....

She shows how to end the struggles of self-denial and become healthy, fit, and productive. Why the female biology triggers a need for chocolate and other foods, and how women can enhance emotional and physical well-being by repsonding to their vital food messages. Through a five-step plan you will maximize the mood-elevating brain chemicals, boost energy, lose weight, and finally learn how to satisfy food cravings, guilt, overeating..........

Anxiety is a life-sign--a signal from the psyche that old, worn-out habits just aren't working very well anymore, that it is time to make some positive changes. Shows not only how to mange your anxiety, but to also be able to see it as a positive force in your life, and learn to channel it in healthy, constructive ways.

Women and the Blues considers; stress blues, frustration blues, despair blues, family blues, sister blues, age blues, super-woman blues, husband and lover blues..... Clearly and honestly shows survival strategies for dealing with the blues and teaches women how to cope with the circumstances around and within themselves. How to reach deep inside and bring quiet to your painful memories and experiences. Knowing why means a certain freedom, a recognition that you are good...to touch that well of energy within you that accepts who you are and feels the joy in it....

Why Men are Drawn to Women. What makes them want to Stay. Women can learn how to have an effect on their relationships and how to change and enliven them. Offers insights into the behaviors that evoke loving and positive responses in men.

If being in love means being in pain, this book is written for you. Patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors which certain women develop as a reponse to various problems in their family backgrounds. Many women develop due to very clear and understandable dynamics originating in dhildhood, find themselves repeatedly drawn into unhappy and destructive relationships with men. They then struggle to make these doomed relationships work...

Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. Profound insight, wisdom, and love. Potent words and images that will inspire, instruct, and empower women to be true to their own nature, and thus in touch with sources of creativity, humor, and strength.

Hundreds of women doctors reveal their unique self-help advice and insight--and hundreds of other women share their personal stories and inspiration--on the medical and emotional issues that affect women's lives: from aging and body image, to money and nutrition, to sexuality and wrinkles and much, much more!