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Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope. Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved, how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs, and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began talking...
Author
Publisher
Hohm Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Moms and Dads get sick too, oftentimes seriously. Their lives and those of the rest of the family can change radically, and quickly. This book, Parenting Through Illness, offers immediate, practical and experienced advice for adult family members and others responsible for the wellbeing of children in such times of crisis. The authors are both clinical social workers with years of training and time spent with children and families in crisis. They...
4) The fine art of recuperation: a guide to surviving and thriving after illness, accidents, or surgery
Author
Publisher
J.P. Tarcher
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In The Heal Your Gut Cookbook, readers will learn about the key cooking techniques and ingredients that form the backbone of the GAPS Diet: working with stocks and broths, soaking nuts and seeds, using coconut, and culturing raw dairy. The authors offer encouraging, real-life perspectives on the life-changing improvements to the health of their families by following this challenging, but powerful, diet. The GAPS Diet is designed to restore the balance...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
"Ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medicine; they are wounded storytellers, Frank argues. People tell stories to make sense of their suffering; when they turn their diseases into stories, they find healing." "Drawing on the work of authors such as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard, Norman Cousins, and Audre Lorde, as well as on the stories of people he has met during years spent among different illness groups, Frank recounts a...
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The nutrition and health expert for the TODAY show offers recipes to heal 20 everyday ailments, highlighting five power foods for each ailment. From arthritis to bloating to muscle pain, every day can bring a different challenge, and for some, the pain can be chronic. Every ailment is unique, but targeting each one through your diet can help you to feel better, inside and out. Joy Bauer, the nutrition and health expert for the TODAY show, highlights...