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In this series of talks, best-selling author and leading expert on depression Professor Paul Gilbert explores how depression affects us in different ways and offers insights into strategies that can help us cope and lift depression. Paul outlines how we can work on our thoughts, feelings and behaviours and try to develop and employ self-kindness when we feel at our worst.

Maybe you’ve tried similar techniques without success or are skeptical about alternative health approaches. This book is designed to help you get past those doubts, offering a supportive, step-by-step guide that anyone can follow to improve their mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

In Vaxxers, we hear directly from Professor Gilbert and her colleague, Dr Catherine Green, as they reveal the inside story of making the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and the cutting-edge science and sheer hard work behind it. This is their story of fighting a pandemic as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Sarah and Cath share the heart-stopping moments in the eye of the storm, they separate fact from fiction, they explain how they made a safe vaccine in record time with the eyes of the world watching and they give us hope for the future.

This book contains basic steps on mindful eating, an ancient technique that will teach you to break the habitual magical cycle of overeating and help you to start controlling your nutrition plan and habits. By listening you will be able to learn how to practice the basics of the technique in order to get the balance back to your life and onto your plate. You will learn how to savor and appreciate your food.

The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care. You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated - and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central problem is that too much medical care has too little value.

Do you want to learn more about reflexology? Would you like to know how to self-perform reflexology and practice it on others? The history of reflexology is fairly broad and fairly extensive. What it comes down to is the fact that there is a lot of history that is loaded with the application of physical touch to make people cope with their suffering, whether physical, mental, or spiritual.

From two of the world's top scientists and one of the world's top science writers (all parents), Dirt Is Good is a Q&A-based guide to everything you need to know about kids and germs. "Is it OK for my child to eat dirt?" Jack Gilbert and Rob Knight are bombarded with questions like this every week from parents all over the world. Google a question like this, and you'll be overwhelmed with answers. The Internet is rife with speculation and misinformation about the risks and benefits of what most parents think of as simply germs, but which scientists now call the microbiome.

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time”. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment.

This book will easily show you how to create your own essential oils. Essential oils are starting to rival some traditional forms of medicine for new ways to treat certain diseases and health conditions.

You have big dreams… Yet it seems there’s always something standing in your way, and reaching them feels impossible. It’s overwhelming, and it’s far less scary to hit the snooze button, roll back over, and carry on living life as you know it… But your fear is what’s really holding you back… and you can overcome it. Every setback you face is an opportunity in disguise, and you can push past every limit that stands in the way of your dreams.

Hypnosis has been around for centuries, but we barely understand it. More than just another magician's secret stage trick, hypnosis can also be a natural ability that can be used effectively as a psychological tool to help us deal with emotional difficulties.

Tired of people labeling you as a forgetful person or blowing up on you for checking the score instead of listening to their story about work or a dream they had? Well, there's a reason for that. It's because you're not listening to them. In fact, no matter who you are, we can all learn to listen better. It's going to change the way you see others, the world around you, and how successful you are.

Do you know the fastest way to real intimacy? It's as simple as listening. We can all learn to listen better. Why? Because active listening is going to revolutionize your life. It's going to change the way you see others, the world around you, and how successful you are. If you want better intimacy with lovers or friends, better progress in your career, more sex, or you just want to be smarter and wiser, then start listening.

The book discusses issues of blind low vision and their families. It is difficult for families of blind low vision to know how they can assist or help their family member. The book provides practical advice and solutions for both the family member and blind low vision person in how to manage with the aim of providing advocacy skills for parents and empowerment for the blind low vision person.

The audio book provides a framework for managing ongoing and sudden changes it relates to vision loss and blindness. The book provides a focus on living well, how to manage change of circumstances as well as to provide solutions around employment, accommodation, managing in the medical environment. The book outlines the necessary tools to manage independently or with family.

Les Piluliers, une baladodiffusion améliorant la compréhension de votre médication!Nous avons développé ce balado pour encadrer davantage l’ensemble des patients dans la prise en charge de leurs problèmes de santé. À l’image d’un pilulier, nous espérons que cette baladodiffusion vous sensibilisera davantage quant à la prise de vos médicaments (et limitera les oublis !). Veuillez noter que les épisodes et leur contenu ont été révisés par Sandrine Vézina, pharmacienne, avant leur publication.

If you've struggled with sleep problems or disorders then this book can be for you. Or maybe you're just interested in living a longer, healthier and more present life. I think you're going to learn a thing or two. There are many causes for your inability to sleep. It could be just as simple as daily stresses, or we substitute sleep for more work or more play. Some may have medical or mental health conditions that wreak havoc with our sleep.

So what is adrenal fatigue syndrome? What can I do to feel better? Adrenal fatigue is one of those officially nonexistent ailments. However, it affects thousands of people. Symptoms range from perpetual tiredness to being totally debilitated. If you have been exhausted for months, but cleared of any recognized illness, or if you are being treated for your symptoms, but are not seeing improvements, this audiobook will answer your questions and put you back on the road to vitality.

This is the story of my 10-year struggle with infertility due to PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome). As I struggled to become a mother, all aspects of my life were affected. I met many trials including doctors unwilling to treat me because I was overweight.

Jane B. Night has a degree in health information management and works in medical information services. Normally, she uses her insider knowledge to create vibrant characters who work in healthcare settings, but in this audiobook she shares her industry knowledge with her listeners. Learn what medical records are, who can see your records, why you should request your records, how to get errors fixed, and more.