Alzheimer’s Disease (€9.99) Frena Gray - Davidson Alzheimer’s Disease - Everything you need to know This book enables carers to understand the disease and learn how best to care for sufferers and for themselves as well. Here are clear, reassuring answers to your most difficult questions and painful dilemmas, such as: * What causes Alzheimer’s disease? * What are the symptoms? * Is there a cure?, etc. |
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (€5.99) John Elsdon Irritable Bowel Syndrome This practical guide is packed with tips and advice on how to conquer irritable bowel syndrome. Some of the subjects covered are: * Making the most of professional medical advice. * Understanding how your digestive system works. * How a high-fibre diet can help you. * What to do if you think that your irritable bowel syndrome has been brought on by worry or stress. * Techniques for relaxing and relieving everyday situations. * Common problem foods and how to find them. * Alternative and natural remedies and how they work. * How to devise and carry out detoxification programme. |
Living With Loss (€6.99) Liz McNeill Taylor Living With Loss Drawing on personal experience and on interviews with other bereaved people, Liz has created a survival handbook for the widowed showing how, over time the healing process can be assisted, and how you can get the mot from friends, organisations and resources to make life enjoyable again. In this book she discusses with a sometimes painful honesty the problems surrounding a suddenly bereaved woman - problems to do with money, sex and children - and her strong and conflicting reaction to the tragedy. She describes how she went through a series of exhausting emotions - grief, anger and despair, to finally take full responsibility for her family and her own life and how, eventually, she learned acceptance and achieved an inner peace. |
Me and My Shadow (€9.99) Carole Mackie Me and My Shadow "Carole Mackie’s story is told with honesty and a directness that moved me into tears. Living with the hidden scourge of multiple sclerosis has demanded all her strength and sometimes exhausted it. Telling the story has taken even greater courage, lying bare the pain and humiliation that most people would rather conceal. MS is a disabling condition, but it is not always the obvious symptoms that hurt most. This book tells the truth about the disease and its insidious effects on living, loving and working. Though this is a moving, personal story of love and loss, it is also profoundly educative. Carole’s story shows how hard it is for other people to grasp the impact of MS. In this respect she has experienced both disappointment and good fortune. Anyone who wants to learn about multiple sclerosis - whether it affects someone they care for or work with, a friend, neighbour or employee - should read Me and My Shadow". |
The Forgetting (€10.99) David Shenk The Forgetting Jonathan Swift once dramatically pointed to a diseased elm and declared ’I shall be like that tree, I shall die first at the top’. As our lifespan continues to expand, the illness he has dreaded has reached epidemic proportions. Today Alzheimer’s afflicts one in twenty over the age of sixty-five. The forgetting is completely absorbing, fascinating, the best of writing, thought - provoking, socially important and imperative to read - with the narrative pull of a well written murder mystery. |
The IBS Handbook (€6.99) Bill Habets The IBS Handbook - A Guide to Understanding and Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome This handbook serves as a definite guide and an informative companion to anyone suffering from irritable bowel syndrome, setting them on the road to maximising all the help available. Here’s just a few of topics included: * How the digestive system works. * Tracking down the foods which don’t suit you. * Preparing for and getting the most out of a visit to your doctor. * Types of drugs which may be prescribed to treat IBS. * Alternative medicines that can help you, including acupuncture, homeopathy, aromatherapy and reflexology. * Stress and its effect upon the normal workings of the digestive system. * How to plan your own high-fibre diet. * Relaxation techniques and how they can help you. * Common troublesome foods that are best avoided. * The use of psychotherapy and hypnotherapy in treating IBS. |
The Rhythm of Compassion (€7.99) Gail Straub The Rhythm of Compassion Using the powerful metaphor of the rhythmic breathing of meditation and drawing examples from the lives of a variety of people, author Gail Straub shows readers how to help themselves while helping others. Written with clarity and wisdom, each chapter contains exercises on how we can get to the root of healing develop compassion and our passion into action to heal ourselves others and the very planet we live on. The Rhythm of Compassion offers good news for anyone who’s ever gotten lost in their own problems or burned out taking care of others. As Gail writes the health of human psyche and the health of the world are inextricably related and we cannot truly heal one without healing the other. Gail Straub has been a teacher and activist for more than two decades. In 1981, along with her husband David Gershon, she founded empowerment training programs. They’ve taught all over America and Europe, Russia, China, and now Gail lives with her husband in the Hudson River Valley in New York. |