Just For Fun

Description: Shares plant-based and refined sugar-free recipes that encourage a healthy relationship with food, and includes stories from the author that chronicle her struggles, victories, and lessons from finally achieving a body-positive approach to food.

Description: An essential exploration of why and how women's sexuality works based on groundbreaking research and brain science that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.

Description: "365 bite-size daily readings that make it easy to put beauty nutrition know-how to practice in everyday life. Organized by the four seasons, the readings explore every aspect of what it means to eat pretty, offering simplified nutritional science, seasonal recipes, motivating goals and challenges, self-care exercises, and uplifting "mealtime mantras" that prompt self-reflection throughout the day."--Provided by publisher.

Description: "The definitive guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happiness. Notice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent. As a society we suffer from nature deficit disorder, but studies have shown that spending mindful, intentional time around trees--what the Japanese call shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing--can promote health and happiness. In this beautiful book--featuring more than 100 color photographs from forests around the world, including the forest therapy trails that criss-cross Japan--Dr. Qing Li, the world's foremost expert in forest medicine, shows how forest bathing can reduce your stress levels and blood pressure, strengthen your immune and cardiovascular systems, boost your energy, mood, creativity, and concentration, and even help you lose weight and live longer. Once you've discovered the healing power of trees, you can lose yourself in the beauty of your surroundings, leave everyday stress behind, and reach a place of greater calm and wellness"-- Provided by publisher.

Description: In Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness--Provided by publisher.

Description: The Angry Therapist shares his insights with everyone in this powerful guide--covering essential topics, from vulnerability and posturing to workouts and women. After some deep soul searching, John Kim came to a realization that he was a miserable f*ck who might just be to blame for the problems in his life. His blog, The Angry Therapist, is an admission that, while he was a licensed therapist and life coach, he was no better than the people who sought his advice. Through it, Kim evolved from behaving like a boy to living like a man--and showed his clients how to do so as well. Here Kim delivers the dos and don'ts for stepping up and into manhood, which he defines by transparency and strength of character. Kim takes you on a rugged, rough and tumble road trip of self-exploration and discovery, sharing his wisdom and insights. We are not born men. We are born boys. The transition from misery to meaning is an internal process that requires work: reflection, pain, courage, and sometimes, a rebirth. With this book as your guide, you will love hard, walk tall, and find a life filled with purpose and passion.

Description: A new kind of career playbook for a new era of feminism, offering women a new set of rules for professional success: one that plays to their strengths and builds on the power they already have. Weren't women supposed to have "arrived"? Perhaps with the nation's first female President, equal pay on the horizon, true diversity in the workplace to come thereafter? We aren't quite there yet. The old rules didn't get us as far as we hoped, but we can go the distance, and we can close the gaps that still exist. We just need a new way. There are many reasons to be optimistic about the future, says Krawcheck. The business world is changing fast--driven largely by technology--and it's changing in ways that give us more power and opportunities than ever.

Description: A lifestyle program for resetting your brain and body to its "factory settings," to help fight fatigue, anxiety, and depression and to optimize cognitive health for a longer and healthier life. The human body was honed under unique conditions that no longer exist. The modern world has changed dramatically since our days as hunter gatherers, and it has caused widespread anxiety, stress, and disease, leaving our brains in disrepair. But science proves that the body and brain can be healed with the intervention of lifestyle protocols that help us to regain our cognitive birthright. Max Lugavere expands his Genius Foods plan, which focused on nutrition and how it affects brain health, and expands it to encompass a full lifestyle protocol. We know now that the health of our brains--including our cognitive function and emotional wellness--depend on the health of our gut, endocrine, cardiac and nervous systems as there is a constant feedback loop between all systems. The Genius Life shows how to integrate healthy choices in all aspects of our daily routines: eating, exercising, sleeping, detoxing, and more to create a healthy foundation for optimal cognitive health and performance. Among his groundbreaking findings, you will discover: A trick that gives you the equivalent of a "marathon" workout, in 10 minutes; How to get the benefits of an extra 1-2 extra servings of veggies daily without eating them; The hidden everyday chemicals that could be making you fat and sick; How to boost melatonin levels by up to 60% for deeper sleep without supplements. The book features an achievable prescriptive 21-day plan for Genius Living that includes daily workouts, meal plans, and meal prep tips, and accompanied with helpful suggestions for healthy swaps and snacks.

Description: Have you wondered why some 60-year olds look and feel like 40-year-olds and why some 40-year-olds look and feel like 60-year-olds? While many factors contribute to aging and illness, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn discovered biological markers, called telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes telomeres, which protect our DNA She discovered that the length and health of one's telomeres provides a biological basis for the long hypothesized mind-body connection. Dr. Blackburn, along with health psychologist, Dr. Elissa Epel, discovered that there are things we can do to improve and lengthen our telomeres to keep us vital and disease-free.--From statement at NoveList.

Description: Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. She explores ways women can cultivate resilient responses to the challenges they face.--From dust jacket.