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Interoception is one of our most important - and most mysterious - senses. It's how our bodies tell our brains what we're feeling - when we're hungry, when we're cold, how we're feeling in ourselves and how to respond to stress or panic. Little understood until now, unlocking its mechanics could...

Did you know that walking can improve your cognitive skills? That strengthening your muscular core reduces anxiety? That light stretching can combat a whole host of mental and bodily ailments, from stress to inflammation? We all know that exercise changes the way you think and feel. But scientists are just starting to discover exactly how it works. In Move!, Caroline Williams explores the emerging science of how movement opens up a hotline to our minds. Interviewing researchers and practitioners around the world, she reveals how you can work your body to improve your mind. 

Fibromyalgia is characterised by fatigue, muscle aches, wandering chronic pains, depression, and anxiety. It often develops slowly, usually over several years. This book will help you to understand the symptoms of fibromyalgia and provides tools you can use to feel better.

If your mind has a mind of its own, this is the audiobook that will teach you how to discipline it and stop it wandering off.... Can you really rewire an adult brain? In theory the answer is yes, but there's a problem: no one seems to know exactly how to do it. In Override, science journalist Caroline Williams sets off on a mission for the answer. Delving into the latest studies on brain plasticity, she tries to square her findings with brain plasticity - that the brain adapts physically as we learn something new.

Thirteen-year-old orphan Black Bee Bright (B. B. for short) is funny, quirky, precocious, and adventurous. But B. B. has a secret. She’s captive on an island in “the middle of very tropical nowhere” because she’s forced to hide her true identity as a royally born princess from her parents’ enemies in Raven World.

Im Alltag mit seinen ständigen Reizen fällt es uns oft schwer, auf unseren Körper zu hören. Die Biologin und Wissenschaftsjournalistin Caroline Williams wendet den Blick bewusst nach innen und zeigt in ihrem unterhaltsamen und zugänglichen Buch, wie die neue Wissenschaft der Interozeption uns dabei helfen kann, uns selbst und andere besser zu verstehen, uns „zu fühlen". All das ist Interozeption: Die Wahrnehmung und Interpretation von Signalen aus unserem Körperinneren durch unser Hirn und unser Nervensystem.

This podcast is just about a Librarian talking about the life of a full time working mom with kids and a husband. I mean, sounds boring, but it's actually quite entertaining! I'm not your average Librarian that you think about with glasses and a bun on top. I'm more of the kind who dances, sings, acts, and more, all while doing my side job as a human taxi for my kids! Take a listen!

The Story by Nathaniel Farcas: A young man comes home, but home is not what he thought it was...and I guess it is a supernatural tale.