Showing results by publisher "Phoenix Books" in Health & Wellness

The authors of the best selling Girlfriends share their secrets for great relationships with boyfriends. They explore what they honestly think about men, the agony and ecstasy of dating, falling in and out of love, what long-term relationships really offer us, and how to travel blissfully along the road of male-female relationships. From recognizing the right man to deciding when to get serious, surviving infidelity, and dividing household chores, you'll get some insights to the perpetual question: What makes a great relationship?

The meeting rooms are the focus of recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous—a place where members share stories, enjoy a sense of fellowship, and begin healing. Living in the Solution: Understanding and Using the Wisdom of the Rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous will give those interested in the recovery process profound insight and a sense of the experience. From accompanying sensations, struggles, challenges, newly acquired attitudes, and new life strategies—to the crudeness, toughness, seriousness, profundity, results, and gratitude—it's here in this powerful work.

Endorsed and supported by the Hope Heart Institute, Chicken Soup for the Soul presents inspirational stories and positive, practical medical advice for caregivers and patients. Partnering with the nation's top medical experts and organizations, this audiobook features the perfect blend of emotional support and vital information about heart disease to positively affect the listener's life.

The Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series delivers inspirational stories followed by positive, practical medical advice for caregivers and patients on today's most pressing health topics. It provides the perfect blend of emotional support and vital information about weight loss.

This recording explains what causes diabetes, how to prevent it, and most importantly how to live well once you've developed the condition. Most of us know what we should do—this recording gives you the inspiration you need to actually follow through. This audio features inspirational stories plus information on diet, lifestyle, diagnosis, procedures, caregiving, emotional concerns, and alternative therapies from some of the world's foremost experts.

Chicken Soup for the Soul partners with top doctors to give you the information you need to survive—and the positive inspiration to thrive. Each recording features inspirational stories plus information on diet, lifestyle, diagnosis, procedures, caregiving, emotional concerns, and alternative therapies from some of the world's foremost experts.

Chicken Soup for the Soul joins forces with top doctors to provide cutting-edge medical information and positive inspiration—everything you need to thrive. Each recording features true stories from actual patients and advice about diet and lifestyle adjustments. Also included are overviews of diagnoses, medical tests, and procedures, as well as information about caregiving and emotional concerns—all from the medical sector's most informed experts.

Joe Eszterhas knows a lot about darkness. A writer of sinister, sexually graphic, violent films like Basic Instinct and Jagged Edge, he awoke one hellishly hot day in 2001 and found God. Or, rather, God found him. Crossbearer is the powerful, poignant story of how a streetwise, cynical man who must overcome his addictions to stay alive found faith in some of the most mundane sources: a game of baseball, a child's photo of a cloud, a dying mother's dying roses.

In the United States alone, 1 in every 5 deaths results from heart failure. Norman Cousins should know—a massive heart attack nearly killed him. Here is the dramatic account of that trauma, the events leading up to the attack, his intensive rehabilitation program, and his recovery. Cousins' experience is an inspirational case study in how to mobilize inner resources to overcome fear and panic.

Intuition is that flash of insight that comes out of nowhere when we least expect it. This language of the soul arises from beyond the world of cause and effect as we understand it, and speaks to us directly from our innermost selves. In Living Intuitively, author Bruce Way, an inspirational speaker, writer, consultant, and practicing clairvoyant, shows the listener how to use intuition to enable growth and release creativity. His program includes a series of guided workshops, practical exercises, and meditations.

Well over 50 percent of Americans use nutritional supplements to reduce the number of diseases that affect us, slow down the aging process, increase our vitality and strengthen our immune systems. Yet with all the hype and sometimes contradictory claims, it's easy to become confused when deciding which ones are right for you. Brenda Adderly's Introductory Guide to Nutritional Supplements provides thoroughly researched and unbiased information.

This audio contains two best sellers that relate the extraordinary, courageous life of actress Jill Ireland. These revealing autobiographies cover the joys and tragedies of Ireland's life, from her marriage to movie star Charles Bronson, to their family of seven children, to her courageous battle with breast cancer, and the fight to save her 22-year-old son from the maze of drug addiction. These memoirs are candid, inspiring works from a truly remarkable woman.

Both motivating and prescriptive, The Hourglass Solution suggests a new way of thinking about choices in life and how mid-life can be a time of renewal and expanded choices rather than a time of restrictions and the status quo. Identifying ways to get life "unstuck," The Hourglass Solution guides the reader through the process of redefining choices for the second half of his or her life.

Dave Barry exposes natural childbirth for what it is: a pop phenomenon of the 1960's that, along with paisley bell-bottoms and creative sideburns, deserves a rest. His new book gives parents-to-be the hard facts they need. He examines the new federal law requiring prospective fathers to free themselves from their self-made macho prison - to laugh, cry, love and just generally behave like certified wimps.

You can achieve vibrant health and energy! In this special audio presentation, Stuart M. Berger M.D., goes beyond his phenomenal bestseller The Immune Power Diet. Drawing on medical and scientific research, Dr. Berger explains how an individual can a create a unique "digestive personality." Learn how to use the Nutritional Pyramid for a healthy diet, determine your individual needs for vitamins and minerals, and identify the food sensitivities that affect your health.

The "web" has become our most powerful ecological image of the interconnectedness of all creatures, yet this image predates science, it is present in every culture's anthology. Chief Seattle said "Whatever man does to the web, he does to himself." Award-winning journalist Richard Louv explores the fragile network that connects people and the strands that make it up: nature, childhood, adulthood, spirit, purpose, and community.

Here, in their own words, are seven children who confronted life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, sickle cell anemia, disability, and AIDS. Ranging in age from 7 to 17, these children from different backgrounds and with different personalities, share uncommon courage, a vibrant spirit, and piercing candor and eloquence about how to seize life, to glorify it, and be grateful for its gifts. Through poems written at Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp and conversations with loved ones, they reveal their attitudes towards life, illness, remission, religion, family, and friends.

We are now able to lengthen our lives, prolong our healthy and vital years, and reduce the risk of chronic, debilitating illnesses that have come to define old age. In this amazing work, Dr. Stuart Berger — the physician who taught millions to be healthy and live longer — describes his breakthrough anti-aging discoveries and explains what they can do for you. You will be able to repair the damages of age and in some cases actually reverse the aging process. Feel the years drop away as you keep your heart, vascular system, and brain young and vigorous.

At age 40, people are basically at the halfway mark in their lives, one that often induces a so-called "mid-life crisis." In Lessons at the Halfway Point, Michael Levine takes a thought-provoking look at this milestone birthday. With wit and humor, Levine examines one man's courageous journey to understand life from the perspective of reaching this halfway mile marker.

Are you so accustomed to feeling just "okay" that you've forgotten what it's like to feel really great? Would you like to feel your very best each and every day—now and for the rest of your life? If the answer is yes, you are a candidate for the "Medical Makeover." Developed by Dr. Robert M. Giller and presented by Olympic Gold Medalist Bob Seagren, the Medical Makeover is a revolutionary approach to health care.