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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems
Now with new material, including a new foreword by Kate Manne, a reading guide, and an afterword from the author.
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.
Fat Talk is a stirring, deeply researched, and groundbreaking book that will help parents learn to reckon with their own body biases, identify diet culture, and empower their kids to navigate this challenging landscape. Sole-Smith draws on her extensive reporting and interviews with dozens of parents and kids to offer a provocative new approach for thinking about food and bodies, and a way for us all to work toward a more weight-inclusive world.
In late 2018, Michael Harding was in a hotel room in Blanchardstown
experiencing severe pains in his chest. He eventually phoned an
ambulance and was admitted to hospital, suffering from an acute
heart attack. Here, in Chest Pain, he looks at the months before
the heart attack when he kept the signs of failing health from his
beloved and instead retreated into solitude -- and with his own
inimitable style and humour takes us with him through the months
after a stent had been inserted in his heart, where he travels the
roads of Donegal in a camper van in a journey back to the beloved,
and to himself. Chest Pain is a thought-provoking, spell-binding
memoir about togetherness and what it means to be alive.
“Do you want an interactive workbook that will support you in following
THE raw vegan healing protocol that was intended for our species? Then
this book is for you!”
Struggling with our own conditions and illnesses, we set out to find a
cure. We studied the teachings of multiple natural healers, and
eventually we healed ourselves, removed all imbalances from our bodies
and reversed our conditions fully. We used the same protocols
irrespective of the condition name as we had found the root cause of
all conditions/”diseases” to be the same (congestion through
acid/alkaline imbalance). Within this series of different volumes, we
share our experiences.
This is a strategically composed workbook which contains invaluable
information, a series of tips, pointers, and protocols which are geared
towards healing you naturally.
With the help of this workbook companion, you will now be able to
achieve your individual health goals easily.
It is now your turn to experience instant positive changes in your life
and health. Good luck on your journey.
A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow
Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle
mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences
can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure
of language and the grasping for language' On 10 June 2020, the
scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria. In this
tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker
text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her
beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life
of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter's fierce love for a
parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the
nature of grief.
It's time to make your mental bandwidth work for you. Being an
educator is more stressful than ever, and teachers and
administrators must constantly shift gears to stay on top of the
newest initiatives and students' ever-changing needs. Educator
Bandwidth: How to Reclaim Your Energy, Passion, and Time provides
the tools and strategies to reduce stress, avoid burnout, and
regain the time that gets lost to interruptions, temptations,
competing demands, and task-switching. The first step is to
understand how much stress is weighing on your own mental
bandwidth. Professional development experts Jane A. G. Kise and Ann
Holm have developed the Brain Energy and Bandwidth Survey to help
you self-assess the six key factors that contribute to bandwidth:
Balance between priorities Filtering through possibilities Mental
habits that improve focus Physical habits that fuel the brain
Connection with others Workload and time management Kise and Holm
combine the latest neuroscience research with their own extensive
experience working with educators to bring the most effective
strategies and habits that help you manage your mental bandwidth
and prioritize drains on mental energy. When you can establish good
habits, focus on what's possible within your locus of control, and
balance priorities, you can improve your educator bandwidth and
feel more engaged, centered, and effective in your work.
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