Health/Wellness/Illness
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Last Doctor
Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying An urgently important exploration of the human stories behind Canada's evolving acceptance of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), from one of its first and most thoughtful practitioners. Dr. Jean Marmoreo spent her career keeping people alive. But when the Supreme Court of Canada gave the green light to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in 2016, she became one of a small group of doctors who chose to immediately train themselves in this new field. Over the course of a single year, Marmoreo learns about end-of-life practices in bustling Toronto hospitals, in hospices, and in the facilities of smaller communities. She found that the needed services were often minimal—or non-existent. The Last Doctor recounts Marmoreo's crash course in MAiD and introduces a range of very different and memorable patients, some aged, some suffering from degenerative conditions or with a terminal disease, some surrounded by supportive love, some quite alone, who ask her help to end their suffering with dignity and on their own terms. Dr. Marmoreo also shares her own emotional transformation as she climbs a steep learning curve and learns the intimate truths of the vast range of end-of-life situations. What she experiences with MAiD shakes her to her core, makes her think deeply about pain, loneliness, and joy, and brings her closer to life's most profound questions. At a time when end-of-life care and its quality are more in the public eye than ever before, The Last Doctor provides an accessibly personal, deeply humane, and authoritative guide through this difficult subject.
$24.95
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Languishing
How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down Languishing - the state of mental weariness that erodes our self-esteem, motivation, and sense of meaning - can be easy to brush off as the new normal, especially since indifference is one of its symptoms. Languishers are more likely to feel out of control of their lives, uncertain about what they want from the future, and paralyzed when faced with decisions. Emory University sociologist Corey Keyes examines the ripple effect of languishing on our lives before deftly diagnosing the larger forces behind its rise: the false promises of the self-help industrial complex, a global moment of intense fear and loss, and a failing healthcare system focused on treating rather than preventing illness. Keyes' framework focuses on functioning well: taking simple but powerful steps to hold our emotions loosely, becoming more accepting of ourselves and others, and carving out daily moments for the activities that create cycles of meaning, connection, and personal growth.
$24.95
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How to Winter
Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days A blend of mindset science, original research, and cultural insights for cultivating a positive "wintertime mindset," to vanquish winter blues and find joy and comfort in dark times year-round. Do you dread the end of Daylight Saving Time and grouch about the long, chilly season of gray skies and ice? Do you find yourself in a slump every January and February? What if there were a way to rethink this time of year? Psychologist and winter expert Kari Leibowitz's galvanizing How To Winter uses mindset science to help readers embrace winter as a season to be enjoyed, not endured - and in turn, learn powerful lessons that can impact our mental well-being throughout the year. Inspired by cutting-edge psychological and behavioral science research as well as cultures worldwide that find warmth and joy in winter's extremes, How to Winter provides readers with concrete tools for making winter wonderful wherever they live and harnessing the power of small mindset changes with big impact to help readers embrace every season of life.
$39.00
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How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, this book is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal conundrum of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both suffering and joy, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives. Pollan is also author of many other books including his newest, This is Your Mind on Plants, also available at ODIN BOOKS.
$25.99
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Healthy Caregiving
An encouraging, reflective resource for professionals working in a care sector, including health care, social work, chaplaincy and other related professions. Includes sections on the challenges caregivers face, as well as the gifts inherent in caring for others. Filled with many ideas and examples for sustaining oneself as a caregiver, including self-care, self-compassion, self-reflection and more. A helpful resource during this time of health care duress and burnout.
$24.00
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Healthy Body Healthy Mind Cards
This card deck is designed for people who want to explore the connection between having a healthy body and healthy mind, and related issues. A wide variety of topics are explored including eating, values regarding health, faith, relaxation, exercise and activities, substances, anxiety, depression, risk-taking, healthcare teams, etc. Players can be anyone who wants to explore this interesting topic. 4-14 players.
$29.95
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Heal the Healer
A Self-Care Guide for Wellness Workers and Caregivers If you're like most healers or caregivers, you're probably highly empathic and energetically attuned-but don't always give yourself the same level of care you provide to others. Instead, you go through your days striving to meet the needs of everyone around you. If you struggle with setting boundaries, compassion fatigue, or simply asking for support, Heal the Healer is just the resource you need.
$29.50
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Happily Even After
Daily Practices to Recover Joy After Hardship, Heartache, and Heartbreak In his new book, Happily Even After: Daily Practices to Recover Joy After Hardship, Heartache, and Heartbreak, Jonah Paquette, PsyD, offers a wealth of short, simple practices that lay the foundation for a more meaningful and joyful life. Learn how to seize opportunity during the storms of life to rethink how you live, how you love, and what you prioritize. Heartbreak and hardship may have knocked you down or even changed your life, but they don’t have to be the defining feature of your story. By cultivating these happiness principles, you can start to find greater peace, deeper joy, and closer connection in your life.
$34.95
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Get Moving Keep Moving
Healthy ageing and how physical activity loves you back In Get Moving Keep Moving, Gordon Spence explores why our motivation for physical activity declines over time and how becoming active again helps us age well. Using a unique 4-stage Health Activation Process, Gordon challenges you to Reflect, Project, Inspect and Connect as vital preparation for positive health change. In the book, Gordon explains how you can: Identify forms of physical activity that will suit you best; Take more ownership over your physical pursuits; Examine your physical and mental readiness for change; Gather the help you will need to form positive habits. Returning to exercise in your 30s, 40s and 50s involves challenges Gordon knows well. Using the personal stories of five people - including his own story - Gordon shows how those challenges can be overcome. This makes Get Moving Keep Moving a book about hope: a book about taking charge of your health, joyful reconnection with your physical self, and building a platform for healthy ageing.
$30.95
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Gaslight Effect Recovery Guide
This guided journal helps readers understand the dynamics of challenging and unhealthy relationships, and how to leave one. Author of The Gaslight Effect. In 2007, Dr. Robin Stern coined the phrase to explain the long-term effects of repeated gaslighting, covert emotional abuse that undermines and controls another person by deflecting, twisting, and denying their reality. Gaslighting can happen in a romantic relationship, between family members, or at work. In every case, victims constantly second-guessing themselves, are loathe to make simple decisions, and destabilized from the constant reality shifts. This book will help you identify if you are part of a pattern of emotional abuse and free yourself from that dynamic with crucial mindset shifts. Prompts, checklists, quizzes, and guided reflective questions explore past and present relationships, helping readers gain confidence to leave an abusive partner set boundaries in unavoidable situations, and heal.
$24.99
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Game of Real Life
A one-of-a-kind card game rooted in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, The Game of Real Life uses mindfulness to teach emotional problem-solving and interpersonal skills-plus a 96-page pocket guide to DBT. Be mindful. Solve conflicts. Live better. A fun and accessible way to learn how to cope effectively, The Game of Real Life is based on the principles of DBT, which incorporates mindfulness with therapeutic life skills to combat anxiety, promote active listening, and prevent burnout. But you don't have to go to therapy to play. How does The Game of Real Life work? The Wise Mind-or judge for the round-presents a Conflict Card, revealing a hypothetical situation; Players respond to the conflict by playing a Skill Card from their hand; The Wise Mind awards the player whose Skill Card best resolves the conflict; The player who resolves the most conflicts wins! The Game of Real Life includes a 96-page pocket guide with instructions for gameplay and further information on all of DBT's life-changing skills, from self-validation and self-soothing to identifying emotions and coping ahead for stressful situations. By discussing real-life situations with friends and learning from others, you'll master the skills for staying present, regulating emotions, improving relationships, and, ultimately, increasing your happiness.
$33.99
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Fat Talk
By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that "fat" is bad. By middle school, more than a quarter of them have gone on a diet. What are parents supposed to do? Kids learn, as we've all learned, that thinness is a survival strategy in a world that equates body size and value. Parents worry if their kids care too much about being thin, but even more about the consequences if they aren't. And multibillion-dollar industries thrive on this fear of fatness. We've fought the "war on obesity" for over forty years and Americans aren't thinner or happier with their bodies. But it's not our kids-or their weight-who need fixing. In this illuminating narrative, journalist Virginia Sole-Smith exposes the daily onslaught of fatphobia and body shaming that kids face from school, sports, doctors, diet culture, and parents themselves-and offers strategies for how families can change the conversation around weight, health, and self-worth.
$26.99
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Expecting Mindfully (Pregnancy)
Nourish Your Emotional Well-Being and Prevent Depression during Pregnancy and Postpartum Unlike other mindfulness resources for moms and moms-to-be, this compassionate book is grounded in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, a proven program. The authors are leading experts on the emotional challenges of pregnancy and early parenting--and how to overcome them. Guided meditations and gentle yoga practices help you build crucial skills to prevent depression, ease anxiety, and minimize stress during this unique and important phase of your life. Clear suggestions for how to follow the program day by day are accompanied by moving reflections from a "circle of mothers" working through the same steps. In a convenient large-size format, the book features journaling exercises and other practical tools (you can download and print additional copies as needed). The companion website also includes audio downloads narrated by renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg, plus video clips of prenatal yoga practices.
$24.95
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Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind over Body
In Cure, award-winning science writer Jo Marchant travels the world to meet the physicians, patients and researchers on the cutting edge of this new world of medicine. We learn how meditation protects against depression and dementia, how social connections increase life expectancy and how patients who feel cared for recover from surgery faster. We meet Iraq war veterans who are using a virtual arctic world to treat their burns and children whose ADHD is kept under control with half the normal dose of medication. We watch as a transplant patient uses the smell of lavender to calm his hostile immune system and an Olympic runner shaves vital seconds off his time through mind-power alone.
$23.00
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Comfort Book
THE COMFORT BOOK is Haig's life raft: it's a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to Haig's future self that things are not always as dark as they may seem. Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, science, and his own experiences, Haig offers warmth and reassurance, reminding us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence.
$35.99
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Chronic Pain Care
(Workbook) Based on the author's Behavioral Assessment of Pain questionnaire used by pain care clinics and professionals worldwide, this book offers a clinically proven management technique that addresses the physical, psychological, and social aspects of living with chronic pain. The tools in this book will give you control over your own pain-management process by helping you monitor your responses to pain. Use the assessments to help gauge your levels of physical and emotional pain, sleep habits, and general ability to function throughout the day. Then put the book's practical advice to work to maintain a higher quality of life despite pain. Ultimately, you'll start to achieve higher activity levels and a greater degree of fulfillment.
$47.98
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Marguerite Manteau-Rao Caring for a Loved One with Dementia
A Mindfulness-Based Guide for Reducing Stress and Making the Best of Your Journey Together. Caring for a Loved One with Dementia offers a compassionate and effective mindfulness-based dementia care (MBDC) guide to help you reduce stress, stay balanced, and bring ease into your interactions with the person with dementia. In this book, you'll learn how to approach caring with calm, centered presence; respond to your loved one with compassion; and maintain authentic communication, even in the absence of words. Most importantly, you'll discover ways to manage the grief, anger, depression, and other emotions often associated with dementia care, so you can find strength and meaning in each moment you spend with your loved one.
$34.95
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Emily & Amelia Nagoski Burnout Workbook
Advice and Exercises to Help you Unlock the Stress Cycle We all want to achieve wellness. But wellness is not a state of mind or a state of being-it's a state of action. It's the freedom to oscillate through all the cycles of being human: from effort to rest, sleeping to waking, autonomy to connection. Burnout, on the other hand, happens when we get stuck. The Burnout Workbook will help you notice when you're there and show you how to get unstuck. Feel better, minimize stress, manage your emotions, and live a more joyful life. This workbook will help you learn what true wellness can look like in your life. Based on the book Burnout by the same author.
$24.95
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Arthur Brooks & Oprah Winfrey Build The Life You Want
The Art and Science of Getting Happier Begin a journey toward greater happiness. Drawing on cutting-edge science, learn how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the world to change. These tools can change your life. Build the four pillars of happiness and learn hard-earned wisdom from people whose lives are joyful despite setbacks and hardship. Take control of your present and future rather than hoping and waiting for your circumstances to improve. This is your blueprint for a better life.
$39.99
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Erica Hornthal Body Aware
Rediscover Your Mind-Body Connection, Stop Feeling Stuck, and Improve Your Mental Health with Simple Movement Practices Licensed clinical professional counselor and board-certified dance and movement therapist Erica Hornthal shows how a mindful movement practice can help ease symptoms of depression, build a greater sense of connection and intimacy with loved ones, slow down thoughts to lessen anxiety and panic, and impact how - and what - we feel. Readers will learn to identify where they physically hold their emotions; understand and interpret their body's unique language; explore bodily sensations; identify emotional blockages; and upgrade harmful thought cycles to patterns that instead foster resilience, emotional regulation, and productivity. With a chapter on disability and movement diversity, Hornthal's guide begins to move dance therapy to a more inclusive, non-prescriptive space, helping each of us discover the kind of movement that works best for us.
$23.95
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Malcolm Gladwell Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?
$28.99
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Susan Cain Bittersweet
How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole Bittersweets is a feeling, a tendency toward states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death - bitter and sweet - are forever paired. If you've ever wondered why you like sad music, if you find comfort or inspiration in a rainy day, if you react intensely to music, art, nature, and beauty, then you probably identify with the bittersweet state of mind. Susan Cain mixes research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweet feelings at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, connection, and transcendence.
$24.95
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Gia Marson & Danielle Keenan-Miller Binge Eating Prevention Workbook
Do you feel like your eating gets out of control? When it comes to food, does it feel like your life is controlled by cycles of deprivation and bingeing? Whether or not you've been formally diagnosed with a binge-eating disorder, you know that something needs to change. But like many disorders, what helps one person may not help another. That's why. The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook offers a wide range of evidence-based tools to help you take charge of your eating habits.
$40.95
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Emily & Amelia Nagoski Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! This was named one of the best books of the year by Bookriot. Learn what you can do to complete the biological stress cycle and return your body to a state of relaxation. Find out how to manage the "monitor" in your brain that regulates the emotion of frustration, why rest, human connection, and befriending your inner critic are keys to recovering and preventing burnout. This book has eye-opening science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises to help you find something transformative in these pages, and to create positive change in your life. The Burnout Workbook, by the same author, is also available through ODIN BOOKS.
$23.00
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