Body Care

Your autonomic nervous system is responsible for the constant but mostly subconscious communication between your brain and body. When you experience stress, anxiety, or trauma, your nervous system formulates responses to keep you alive. But you can also become trapped in survival mode if you’re consistently exposed to unsafe environments, toxic relationships, or destructive thought patterns. Mind-body practitioners Jen Mann and Karden Rabin now provide the first in-depth look at nervous system regulation, somatic therapy, Polyvagal theory, the vagus nerve, and the mind-body connection.

Herbalist Maria Noël Groves shows you how to read your body’s signals and support your own wellness with herbal remedies and other natural treatments. You’ll learn how each of your major body systems—respiratory, digestive, immune, nervous, memory, reproductive, circulatory, and more—optimally function, and you’ll discover how to use natural remedies to nourish and repair problem areas, restore lost vitality, support your body as a whole, and prevent future problems.

Between micro- and macro-aggressions at school, at work, and everywhere in between, it’s tough to prioritize physical and mental wellness as a Black woman, especially with a constant news cycle highlighting Black trauma. Now, with The Self-Care for Black Women you’ll find more than 150 exercises that will help you radically choose to put yourself first.

Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies, and fatness is not a death sentence. Body Respect debunks common myths about weight, including the misconceptions that BMI can accurately measure health, that fatness necessarily leads to disease, and that dieting will improve health. The authors also help make sense of how poverty and oppression - such as racism, homophobia, and classism - affect life opportunity, self-worth, and even influence metabolism.

Most of us are constantly plugged in and stressed out - tethered to our phones and e-mail, overworked and inactive at our desk jobs, and out of touch with what our bodies and our brains really need. Clean Mind, Clean Body is your reset button, an immersive experience in mental and physical self-care that will transform your daily routine and your habits.

Ever wanted to learn how to love yourself and connect with yourself like never before? Then this is the book for you. Who are you? What are your values? How do you even begin to connect with yourself…your true, universal self? These are questions so many women are struggling with all over the world, and despite so much talk about finding out who we are, it feels as though the answers are still far beyond our reach. With endless social pressures, cultural norms, and the ever-shifting tide of this hyper-connected world, Black women are continuously challenged in new, and frankly, exhausting...

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or where the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule.

Self-care is a necessity for any modern woman, and this book helps you prioritize number one with a little help from the magic of witchcraft. The Witch’s Book of Self-Care has advice for pampering your body, mind, and spirit with spells, meditations, mantras, and powerful activities to help you to keep healthy, soothe stress, relinquish sadness, channel joy, and embrace your strength. Learn how easy it is to connect to the earth, harness your personal power, and add a little magic to your everyday life for a better you.

All Natural & Organic Body & Skincare Recipes Are you looking for natural, holistic self-care products? Did you know you can make most of them yourself? In my book, All Natural & Organic Body & Skincare Recipes, I will teach you Over 100 All Natural, Safe Treatments for your hair, skin, and nails. To begin, I will walk you through a step-by-step explanation of how your nails, hair, and skin works. You might be surprised to find that these anatomical components are remarkably similar in structure and functionality. Understanding their significance and roles will help you appreciate them and ...

All you need to know about this ancient Eastern technique of Acupressure. Almost every imaginable ailment can be alleviated using acupressure. Not only is it safe to use, but you can perform it on your own, anywhere, and with no required tools. Stimulating the key points on the skin triggers the body's natural capacity to self-heal. Just by knowing where to locate the potent points for various organs and the meridians associated with them, you can get relief from pain, fatigue, anxiety, nausea, depression, erectile dysfunction, low libido and hot flashes in menopausal women. Step By Step ...

Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class, preparing herself for what was to come. Entering a room with stainless-steel tables topped by corpses in body bags is shocking, no matter how long you've prepared yourself, but a strange thing happened when Montross met her cadaver.

Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn’t mean she felt well. Instead, the fear lingered, and she found herself always on the alert, braced for signs that the illness had reemerged.

This American Girls Book About Puberty audiobook is a must-have resource for any girl looking to understand her body better, build self-esteem, and practice good hygiene and self-care habits. With easy-to-follow language, this audiobook covers everything from the female reproductive system and the menstrual cycle to skin and hair care, nutrition and exercise, emotional health, and building healthy relationships. The Girls Body Care 101 is a comprehensive guide that every growing girl should have in her library.

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care. The Black Panther Party's health activism was an expression of its founding political philosophy and also a recognition that poor Blacks were both underserved by mainstream medicine and overexposed to its harms.

This audiobook is full of advice, tips, and facts from pediatrician Dr. Cara Natterson about how the body changes. Boys will find age-appropriate answers to questions about voice changes, acne, bad breath, shaving, and everything in between.

Our best-selling body book for girls just got even better! With all-new and updated content for girls ages 8 and up, it features tips, how-tos, and facts from the experts. (Medical consultant: Cara Natterson, MD.) You'll find answers to questions about your changing body, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and everything in between.

In part one of this audiobook, you will: learn everything about skin care, master the art of making basic skin care products from scratch, organize and pair your natural ingredients for different skin types like a pro, discover top tips and tricks to store homemade products, and more....

Book 2 in our best-selling body book series for girls just got even better! With all-new and updated content, this title features tips, how-tos, and facts from the experts. This thoughtful advice audiobook will guide you through the next steps of growing up. With expert contributors, this audiobook covers new questions about periods, your growing body, peer pressure, personal care, and more!

Tired of battling self-doubt and limiting beliefs that hold you back? Struggling to find inner peace and balance in a chaotic world? Ready to break free from negative thought patterns and rewrite your life story? Michelle Woods, a resilient Black woman who triumphed over adversity, has harnessed the power of daily affirmations to overcome challenges. Now she's here to inspire and uplift with her transformative affirmations of self-love, resilience, and empowerment. "Daily Self-Care Affirmations for Busy Black Women" is an empowering guide that nurtures self-love, confidence, and empowerment...

Many believe how they treat their bodies does not affect their walk with God. They do not exercise regularly or eat healthy food. Nor is it a priority. Spirituality, yes; physical health, no. They subtly have placed a wall between the two. God has called us to be good stewards of our bodies. We have a responsibility before God and others to care for our bodies. I have a good friend, a head nurse in an urgent care facility in Washington. He often sees patients who check into urgent care due to excess eating, drinking, unhealthy eating, and so forth. He told me that people often think that ...