Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age
A cradle-to-grave guide to female autistic experience combining personal accounts with academic research, with chapters on childhood, education, employment, healthcare, gender identity and ageing.
Busting out at 50! Breast implant illness is bigger than we know. From new cancers and undetected ruptures, best-selling author Andi Lew helps you hold your precious self in the healthiest way possible when removing your implants. A transformational journey changing your mindset from trauma to triumph and navigating the explant journey.
A woman's guide to power and freedom through yoga and tantra Revised and Updated Edition, Includes New Preface: 'Author's Warning'
In this courageous and radical book, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli explores the sexual politics of yoga from a perspective that sees womens spiritual transformation as the most revolutionary force.
Science tells us that breastfeeding and breastmilk provide all the nutrients and antibodies to give babies the very best start, with health benefits for babies and mothers.
As the backbone of early nutrition, breastfeeding is a key influence on adult health, intellect and longevity. Research shows that people who were breastfed as babies are ......
Examining the treatment of hot flashes in menopause through an integrative lens, this book combines Chinese medicine approaches - including acupuncture and herbal medicine - with current Western frameworks of research. It covers pathophysiology, diagnosis, current research and adjunctive therapies, and suggests a fresh and interlinked approach to ......
An Evidence-Based Guide to Support Emotional Wellbeing
Following growing popularity in aromatherapy, this comprehensive and wide-ranging guide offers expert guidance on how to use essential oils safely to support womens mental health across all ages. Conditions addressed include anxiety, depression, panic disorders, as well as discussion on grief, pregnancy, postpartum, PMS, and menopause.
This is an intimate, empowering collection of stories focussing on Black experiences of menopause. Each story centres lived experiences and contains contributions from a diverse range of people spanning various heritages, sexual orientations, gender identities, and ages allowing for a nuanced understanding of this rite of passage.
Nutrition for Peak Performance in Female Team Sport Athletes
With 80 delicious, healthy, and simple fueling and recovery recipes, sample training meal plans, practical advice, and specific guidance for the female team sport athlete, this book will help the reader eat to win!
Focusing on women's pelvic health through yoga therapy, this evidence-based resource covers the intersections of biomechanics, self-study through yoga philosophy, emotional resilience, pain science and dynamic strategies for pelvic embodiment. Integrating pedagogical frameworks that differentiate yoga therapy from pelvic floor physical therapy, ......
A Holistic Guide to Supporting Women on Their Menopause Journey
Bringing together western medical science and eastern wellbeing for menopause education, this book helps yoga teachers develop their understanding of menopause and women's health as well as support their students. Petra Coveney - creator of Menopause Yoga (TM) -shares yoga, breath and meditation practices, poses, and CBT and self-enquiry methods ......
Being a woman in the health care system is inherently hazardous to your health. Women often experience misdiagnosis and ignorance of their symptoms, in part because for centuries females were excluded from important medical research. This work reveals the gender bias that can cause harm. Tips and tools guide women to better health outcomes.
You kept it together through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, as well as, the regular responsibilities of life. But even now after treatment, you are still afraid. Behind the practiced smile, you live in fear until the next mammogram. Live Fearlessly introduces readers to the philosophy of yoga and mindfulness practices for those who desire to ......
This book aims to break the cultural silence surrounding polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) by weaving together stories of personal experiences with the condition, alongside cutting-edge psychological and social science research.
Hot flashes. Vaginal atrophy. Social stigma. The comics in this unapologetic anthology prove that when it comes to menopause and its attendant symptoms, no one needs to sweat it alone. Featuring works by comics luminaries such as Lynda Barry, Joyce Farmer, Ellen Forney, and Carol Tyler, Menopause is the perfect antidote to the simplistic, ......
Staying Fit, Healthy and Confident on Entering a New Phase of Life, A Practical Guide Based on Anthroposophical Medicine
Change can be unwelcome, but it usually brings new opportunities and the possibility of a fresh start. When the great change of the menopause begins to make itself felt in the life of a woman, the subsequent loss of fertility and the signs that one is getting older can trigger a life and identity crisis. In this essential guide, written from the ......
All You Need to Know from a Breast Cancer Researcher and Survivor
Talking To My Tatas gives breast cancer patients and survivors easy access to the latest science from breast cancer researcher and survivor Dana Brantley-Sieders. From surgery, tumor genomic testing, and cutting-edge therapies to mental health, sexual health, and avoiding pseudoscience scams, she delivers the goods with a side of humor and hope.
Barbie comes in a curvy model now, Sports Illustrated features full-size swimsuit models, and fashion designers are focusing more on curvy women. There’s a healthy conversation going on now about body image and self-esteem, and Chicken Soup for the Soul is part of it, with this collection of 101 stories celebrating all the different ......
In More of You Amanda Martinez Beck gives fellow fat women who have been pushed to the margins of acceptance hard-won wisdom on how to thrive. This book will challenge the status quo, teaching readers to resist shame and guilt and instead to embrace their bodies, take up space, and learn to navigate the world in ways that allow them to flourish.
A history of Toxic Shock Syndrome In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source. Their condition, which doctors dubbed 'toxic shock syndrome' (TSS) was rare, but observed with increasing frequency over the next few years in ......
"Hot flushes, night sweats, insomnia... How on earth do I cope with symptoms of the menopause?" There is no single answer to this question.
Based on up-to-date research, this book provides an honest account of the pros and cons of the different options for managing the menopause so that you ......
In this new, updated version of the groundbreaking book, gynecologist and leading womens health expert Dr. Lauren Streicher-who in a direct, clear, and often humorous way-reveals the following: What your doctor isnt telling you; robotic hysterectomy and why it is becoming so popular.
A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self
Women today are more knowledgeable about sex than ever before -- but many still struggle with sexual myths, self-doubt, and "embarrassing" questions. This trusted book has already helped many thousands of women understand how their bodies work and take charge of their sexuality. The authors are experienced therapists who present solid, ......
Offers thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to deal with pain What can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative and courageous in carrying pain in our lives? In this genre-bending work that is equal parts memoir and scholarly criticism, L. Ayu Saraswati provides thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to ......
Offers thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to deal with pain What can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative and courageous in carrying pain in our lives? In this genre-bending work that is equal parts memoir and scholarly criticism, L. Ayu Saraswati provides thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to ......
Naheed Ali does it again in his new book on osteoporosis. Offering readers insight into symptoms, treatment, risk factors, prevention, and outcomes, he provides a one-stop spot for all your questions surrounding osteoporosis.
Urinary incontinence is an under diagnosed and under reported condition. Women are more likely to experience it due to issues with the pelvic floor brought on by pregnancy and menopause. This is a treatment plan for women to cure their own incontinence issues. It also allows women to identify with other women through the anecdotal stories that ......
Dealing with Pain, Cysts and Abnormal Menstruation
This integrative approach delivers a wealth of case histories and practical advice to help treat women with endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) holistically, using acupuncture and TCM alongside Western medicine for both diagnosis and care.
A Cheat Sheet for Navigating Midlife, Feeling Great, and Aging Well
The Glow Code is an entertaining and engaging lifestyle manual offering concrete, actionable advice from women experts across many fields to help women aged 35 and beyond navigate midlife, feel great and age well. It answers all the pressing questions women in this age category have. Does collagen powder prevent wrinkles? Do I need to give up the ......
Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change
"This reassuring consideration of a deeply personal matter teams seamlessly with a reasoned, emphatic call to action." - Booklist, Starred Review • A Booklist Top 10 Book on the Environment & Sustainability 2024
Challenges and Rewards of Ordinary Women Stepping on Stage
This book offers an insight into the bikini category of natural female bodybuilding by revealing benefits and challenges encountered and experienced by ordinary women who decide to become bikini bodybuilders.
This book examines media and clinical discourses and their impact on women with PCOS. Findings from the study reveal that while women with PCOS have limited agency in constructing and representing their identities and ontologies in traditional media, by networking in participatory new media, these women can reclaim their agency.
This book focuses on reproductive justice through a culturally-centered and intersectional lens. The autoethnographic nature of each chapter allows contributors to unpack issues surrounding reproductive justice from their perspectives and allows readers to look towards understanding the issue from a personal and structural level.
Stop Being A Lab Rat. Start Making Better Choices For Your Table.
This easy to read, easy to follow best seller will change the way you think about food, health, weight loss and dieting…. TODAY! Most importantly, it will change the way you live your life…. NOW!
Focusing on a practical approach to obstetrics, this straightforward and authoritative handbook for acupuncturists and Chinese medicine doctors covers both a full understanding of the process of pregnancy and birth, and the common conditions occuring. Each chapter is devoted to a particular issue, and provides a full description of the symptoms ......
