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Scars of Gold
A midwife's personal story of birth trauma and recovery
Sharon Stoliar
2023 Honorable Mention
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Non-Fiction - Health - Medical
Reviewed by Stephanie Lynn for Readers' Favorite
Scars of Gold by Sharon Stoliar is a powerful and eye-opening look at one woman's life-changing medical trauma at the hands of those she trusted most with her health. Hospital malpractice and neglect aren't unheard of, but Sharon's shocking account shows how quickly and easily it can happen. In Scars of Gold, she recounts her case and the painful steps she's taken since on her difficult road to recovery as she attempts to regain her life and independence. Hers is a relevant and heartbreaking account of one woman's story, but as she came to find out, it didn't end when she left the hospital. Along with the help of friends and family, Sharon's story is an inspirational read of her learning to redefine herself. The damage done was permanent, but her faith and determination only grew as she set out to make a difference.
Scars of Gold by Sharon Stoliar grabbed my attention from the first page. Stoliar writes in a beautiful conversational style as if she's right there with the reader as she recounts her story. I found myself reading halfway through in a single sitting, and if I hadn't needed to stop to deal with chores, I'd have finished this one in a single sitting as well! Sharon's story is unique, but her struggles with ACS (Acute Compartment Syndrome) are not something to be glossed over. Her case and the medical professionals' disregard for her care is a frightening problem, and issues like these only seem to be increasingly commonplace in hospitals today. Determined to raise awareness to protect others from the struggles she faced, she tells her story in Scars of Gold. This is a quick read but a deeply emotional one. I hope her inspiring and powerful story helps others on their path to healing and their search for answers as much as it's helped me.
Scars of Gold by Sharon Stoliar is a powerful and eye-opening look at one woman's life-changing medical trauma at the hands of those she trusted most with her health. Hospital malpractice and neglect aren't unheard of, but Sharon's shocking account shows how quickly and easily it can happen. In Scars of Gold, she recounts her case and the painful steps she's taken since on her difficult road to recovery as she attempts to regain her life and independence. Hers is a relevant and heartbreaking account of one woman's story, but as she came to find out, it didn't end when she left the hospital. Along with the help of friends and family, Sharon's story is an inspirational read of her learning to redefine herself. The damage done was permanent, but her faith and determination only grew as she set out to make a difference.
Scars of Gold by Sharon Stoliar grabbed my attention from the first page. Stoliar writes in a beautiful conversational style as if she's right there with the reader as she recounts her story. I found myself reading halfway through in a single sitting, and if I hadn't needed to stop to deal with chores, I'd have finished this one in a single sitting as well! Sharon's story is unique, but her struggles with ACS (Acute Compartment Syndrome) are not something to be glossed over. Her case and the medical professionals' disregard for her care is a frightening problem, and issues like these only seem to be increasingly commonplace in hospitals today. Determined to raise awareness to protect others from the struggles she faced, she tells her story in Scars of Gold. This is a quick read but a deeply emotional one. I hope her inspiring and powerful story helps others on their path to healing and their search for answers as much as it's helped me.
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Alzheimers: The Uncertain Journey
Navigating The Challenges. The Indispensable Guide for Caregivers and Families
Renée Despres; Guy Slowik
2023 Honorable Mention
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Non-Fiction - Health - Medical
Reviewed by Randy B. Lichtman for Readers' Favorite
As a reader with health administration experience, I have read several books on Alzheimer’s disease; however, Alzheimer’s: The Uncertain Journey by Dr. Renee Despres and Guy Slowik is one of the most thorough and practical ones I have ever read on this subject. This extraordinary book is easily readable by those with no background experience in healthcare and is extremely interesting reading for those with experience in this area. It is a roadmap through a disease that is uncertain. The resources and ideas presented can assist caregivers, families, and healthcare professionals. The perspective is a very empathetic one, providing real-life situations, including case studies, with practical tips on how to help those in their care. The authors focus on all aspects of caregiving including emotional and family issues; effective communication; Alzheimer’s and other dementias: stages, causes (as known), behaviors, and medications; safety and injury prevention; tools and gadgets for improved independence; approaching the driving issue; and the transformative power of music, art, and pets.
In addition, the issues of appropriate placement in a variety of settings are discussed including level of care; selection of a facility; admitting an Alzheimer’s patient to a hospital with challenges; financial considerations (including Power of Attorney, Living Wills, Guardianship, etc.); and even explaining to children and teens how to accept and assist the family member. The resources are excellent and often suggest searches are offered for the reader to research through Google and other resources ways to assist their loved one. Alzheimer’s: The Uncertain Journey is an amazing guide for those needing assistance in dealing with a loved one or someone who is challenged on how best to help their loved one. The authors bring a variety of expert backgrounds to the book. The knowledge, practical techniques, and wisdom apply to those who are caring for patients with Dementia, not limited to Alzheimer’s disease. I give this book my highest recommendation for providing an amazingly thorough guide for caregivers, families, and healthcare professionals!
As a reader with health administration experience, I have read several books on Alzheimer’s disease; however, Alzheimer’s: The Uncertain Journey by Dr. Renee Despres and Guy Slowik is one of the most thorough and practical ones I have ever read on this subject. This extraordinary book is easily readable by those with no background experience in healthcare and is extremely interesting reading for those with experience in this area. It is a roadmap through a disease that is uncertain. The resources and ideas presented can assist caregivers, families, and healthcare professionals. The perspective is a very empathetic one, providing real-life situations, including case studies, with practical tips on how to help those in their care. The authors focus on all aspects of caregiving including emotional and family issues; effective communication; Alzheimer’s and other dementias: stages, causes (as known), behaviors, and medications; safety and injury prevention; tools and gadgets for improved independence; approaching the driving issue; and the transformative power of music, art, and pets.
In addition, the issues of appropriate placement in a variety of settings are discussed including level of care; selection of a facility; admitting an Alzheimer’s patient to a hospital with challenges; financial considerations (including Power of Attorney, Living Wills, Guardianship, etc.); and even explaining to children and teens how to accept and assist the family member. The resources are excellent and often suggest searches are offered for the reader to research through Google and other resources ways to assist their loved one. Alzheimer’s: The Uncertain Journey is an amazing guide for those needing assistance in dealing with a loved one or someone who is challenged on how best to help their loved one. The authors bring a variety of expert backgrounds to the book. The knowledge, practical techniques, and wisdom apply to those who are caring for patients with Dementia, not limited to Alzheimer’s disease. I give this book my highest recommendation for providing an amazingly thorough guide for caregivers, families, and healthcare professionals!
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If Your Mouth Could Talk
An In-Depth Guide to Oral Health and Its Impact on Your Entire Life
Kami Hoss
2023 Bronze Medal
256 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Health - Medical
Reviewed by Rabia Tanveer for Readers' Favorite
If Your Mouth Could Talk: An In-Depth Guide to Oral Health and Its Impact on Your Entire Life by Kami Hoss is not your average self-help book. Our dental health may be the most underrated yet the most overlooked at the same time. In the grand scheme of things, we forget why oral health is essential - not just for our breath and teeth, but also for our gut system and overall health. Kami Hoss reiterates how our oral health can impact our lives; from affecting our mouth health to affecting our sleep, emotional health, and affecting psychological health as well. Your oral health goes “beyond brushing and flossing” and the author explains that well.
I love how If Your Mouth Could Talk has just five chapters and a conclusion. It is effective without being overbearing, which in my opinion, is the perfect way to drive the message home. Although the target audience of this book is parents who are concerned about the dental and oral health of their children, I believe this book can help more people. Dr. Kami Hoss gives little tips, raises awareness, and makes sure parents/readers are aware of what is truth and what is just a myth. The language is simple yet powerful; the combination ensures the information is digested. The pace is perfect, nothing is rushed, and never did I feel like the information was going over my head. Reading it was a pleasure and educational at the same time.
If Your Mouth Could Talk: An In-Depth Guide to Oral Health and Its Impact on Your Entire Life by Kami Hoss is not your average self-help book. Our dental health may be the most underrated yet the most overlooked at the same time. In the grand scheme of things, we forget why oral health is essential - not just for our breath and teeth, but also for our gut system and overall health. Kami Hoss reiterates how our oral health can impact our lives; from affecting our mouth health to affecting our sleep, emotional health, and affecting psychological health as well. Your oral health goes “beyond brushing and flossing” and the author explains that well.
I love how If Your Mouth Could Talk has just five chapters and a conclusion. It is effective without being overbearing, which in my opinion, is the perfect way to drive the message home. Although the target audience of this book is parents who are concerned about the dental and oral health of their children, I believe this book can help more people. Dr. Kami Hoss gives little tips, raises awareness, and makes sure parents/readers are aware of what is truth and what is just a myth. The language is simple yet powerful; the combination ensures the information is digested. The pace is perfect, nothing is rushed, and never did I feel like the information was going over my head. Reading it was a pleasure and educational at the same time.
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Coming Full Circle
Healing Trauma Using Psychedelics
Shannon Duncan
2023 Bronze Medal
256 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Health - Medical
Reviewed by Emma Megan for Readers' Favorite
Coming Full Circle: Healing Trauma Using Psychedelics by Shannon Duncan is a detailed guide to experimenting with various psychedelic substances. Even though purchasing, possessing, or supplying psychedelics is illegal in most countries, the potential of psychedelics to help heal emotional trauma cannot be denied. This story dives into the bad reputation of psychedelics and the misconceptions and misinformation about how they can be used for healing. It's about Duncan's experience using these powerful substances and his process of healing that benefitted him. It is part memoir and part informative guide where Duncan talks about his traumatic experiences, emotional wounds, and what it means to use psychedelics as a medicine.
Coming Full Circle by Shannon Duncan is the most informative, thoughtful, and helpful book I've read on psychedelic substances. I highly appreciate every piece of information and advice he shares. This well-written guide offers a powerful, hopeful, and unorthodox approach to healing where Duncan sheds new light on guided medicine work for healing trauma. He explains what it involves, and the profound ways someone might evolve and change through it. If you're suffering from the devastating effects of trauma and deep emotional wounds and are interested in considering this path to healing, this is a great start. It teaches you what to expect and how to prepare your body and mind. It helps you to properly prepare and begin this ongoing cathartic journey of self-awareness, personal growth, and healing. Most importantly, it teaches you how important it is to have qualified support for the psychedelic journey and how to identify if someone is qualified to help you with your specific needs. This is a remarkable must-read.
Coming Full Circle: Healing Trauma Using Psychedelics by Shannon Duncan is a detailed guide to experimenting with various psychedelic substances. Even though purchasing, possessing, or supplying psychedelics is illegal in most countries, the potential of psychedelics to help heal emotional trauma cannot be denied. This story dives into the bad reputation of psychedelics and the misconceptions and misinformation about how they can be used for healing. It's about Duncan's experience using these powerful substances and his process of healing that benefitted him. It is part memoir and part informative guide where Duncan talks about his traumatic experiences, emotional wounds, and what it means to use psychedelics as a medicine.
Coming Full Circle by Shannon Duncan is the most informative, thoughtful, and helpful book I've read on psychedelic substances. I highly appreciate every piece of information and advice he shares. This well-written guide offers a powerful, hopeful, and unorthodox approach to healing where Duncan sheds new light on guided medicine work for healing trauma. He explains what it involves, and the profound ways someone might evolve and change through it. If you're suffering from the devastating effects of trauma and deep emotional wounds and are interested in considering this path to healing, this is a great start. It teaches you what to expect and how to prepare your body and mind. It helps you to properly prepare and begin this ongoing cathartic journey of self-awareness, personal growth, and healing. Most importantly, it teaches you how important it is to have qualified support for the psychedelic journey and how to identify if someone is qualified to help you with your specific needs. This is a remarkable must-read.
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The Stress Book
Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
D. Terrence Foster, MD.
2023 Silver Medal
294 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Health - Medical
Reviewed by Marie-Hélène Fasquel for Readers' Favorite
The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life by D. Terrence Foster, MD. is a comprehensive approach to help us reduce our levels of stress. These were already high before the pandemic, and they are (understandably) much higher now generally speaking. This is a burning issue and Dr. Foster wrote this guide to help us navigate the most complicated challenges in the quest for more quiet and calm. The book includes four main sections including the basics of stress and its management, the physical actions, the mental actions, and the community actions we can put in place to reduce our stress levels.
The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life by D. Terrence Foster, MD. is a completely holistic guide that will help and support many of us navigate life in a complicated world. In fact, the environmental crisis, the pandemic, the wars, and our continued hunger for progress are all factors of aggravated stress. This book helps us deal with stress one baby step at a time, one section at a time. We need to focus on the physical actions we can take to feel better, quieter, then the mental ones and the community ones. This guide is deeply holistic and comprehensive. We are given grids and worksheets to help us evaluate our stress levels, and to identify what really stresses us out. Dr. Foster’s Action Plan is devised for us to implement diverse actions to improve our lifestyles and make us less prone to stress. This book is amazing and simple to understand even if the author explains in detail the science behind stress. The index and list of resources and links are extremely helpful too. Thank you for this gem of a book.
The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life by D. Terrence Foster, MD. is a comprehensive approach to help us reduce our levels of stress. These were already high before the pandemic, and they are (understandably) much higher now generally speaking. This is a burning issue and Dr. Foster wrote this guide to help us navigate the most complicated challenges in the quest for more quiet and calm. The book includes four main sections including the basics of stress and its management, the physical actions, the mental actions, and the community actions we can put in place to reduce our stress levels.
The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life by D. Terrence Foster, MD. is a completely holistic guide that will help and support many of us navigate life in a complicated world. In fact, the environmental crisis, the pandemic, the wars, and our continued hunger for progress are all factors of aggravated stress. This book helps us deal with stress one baby step at a time, one section at a time. We need to focus on the physical actions we can take to feel better, quieter, then the mental ones and the community ones. This guide is deeply holistic and comprehensive. We are given grids and worksheets to help us evaluate our stress levels, and to identify what really stresses us out. Dr. Foster’s Action Plan is devised for us to implement diverse actions to improve our lifestyles and make us less prone to stress. This book is amazing and simple to understand even if the author explains in detail the science behind stress. The index and list of resources and links are extremely helpful too. Thank you for this gem of a book.
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Captured by COVID
Deceit, Conspiracy & Death—A True Story
Michael E. Bowers
2023 Gold Medal
156 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Health - Medical
Reviewed by Maria Victoria Beltran for Readers' Favorite
Captured by COVID: Deceit, Conspiracy and Death - A True Story by Michael E. Bowers is a chilling memoir that details the author's harrowing experience while being treated for Covid-19. On December 31, 2020, Michael, his wife Diane, and son Brandon tested positive for Covid-19. While his wife and son recovered, Michael's condition deteriorated, and he was admitted to Soin Medical Center. His health declined to the point that he had to go on a ventilator and was placed in a medically-induced coma. While in the intensive care unit, he suffered nightmares and hallucinations. Treated for post-traumatic disorder after his discharge from the hospital, Michael recounts the terror and trauma he suffered in vivid details that seem all too real. This is his story.
Michael E. Bowers' Captured by COVID is a detailed and immersive narrative about the author's terrifying memories while under treatment for Covid-19. It is also a heartwarming book about the significance of the love and support of family and friends. Until recently, Michael had a hard time remembering what was real and what were hallucinations during his ordeal, and it is incredible how he can recall the scenes in such graphic detail. This book should be beneficial for studying the post-intensive care syndrome of patients recovering from the disease. As the world slowly emerges from the far-reaching effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, this book reminds us that we should also pay tribute to the health workers who were on the frontline in fighting the disease. Highly recommended!
Captured by COVID: Deceit, Conspiracy and Death - A True Story by Michael E. Bowers is a chilling memoir that details the author's harrowing experience while being treated for Covid-19. On December 31, 2020, Michael, his wife Diane, and son Brandon tested positive for Covid-19. While his wife and son recovered, Michael's condition deteriorated, and he was admitted to Soin Medical Center. His health declined to the point that he had to go on a ventilator and was placed in a medically-induced coma. While in the intensive care unit, he suffered nightmares and hallucinations. Treated for post-traumatic disorder after his discharge from the hospital, Michael recounts the terror and trauma he suffered in vivid details that seem all too real. This is his story.
Michael E. Bowers' Captured by COVID is a detailed and immersive narrative about the author's terrifying memories while under treatment for Covid-19. It is also a heartwarming book about the significance of the love and support of family and friends. Until recently, Michael had a hard time remembering what was real and what were hallucinations during his ordeal, and it is incredible how he can recall the scenes in such graphic detail. This book should be beneficial for studying the post-intensive care syndrome of patients recovering from the disease. As the world slowly emerges from the far-reaching effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, this book reminds us that we should also pay tribute to the health workers who were on the frontline in fighting the disease. Highly recommended!
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How To Control Your Alcohol Consumption
Learn to drink responsibly so that you can enjoy a drink rather than depend on it
Jason Newman
2022 Finalist
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Non-Fiction - Health - Medical
Reviewed by Daniel D Staats for Readers' Favorite
While most books about alcohol problems demand abstinence, Jason Newman has taken a more moderate approach in How to Control Your Alcohol Consumption. Jason explains what is considered one drink and how many drinks are deemed healthy for the average person per day. The key to responsible drinking is controlling your drinking instead of letting the drinking control you. Of course, some need to abstain, but Jason writes for those who can manage their drinking. To help explain why moderation in drinking is required, Jason shares the various dangers involved in drinking. You are in charge of setting boundaries and making them stick. Jason gives you the skills needed and the encouragement to help you achieve sobriety while still enjoying the occasional drink. Only when you have become completely honest with yourself and those around you can you choose to either abstain or curtail.
The reader will find no preaching or lecturing in How to Control Your Alcohol Consumption by Jason Newman. Instead, his style of writing is compassionate and informative. He gently leads the reader on a trip to explore the types of people who drink alcohol and the dangers of drinking to excess. Jason explains in layman terms the needs and skills for being sober. He spends time explaining how to set boundaries and how to best communicate the limits you set. Instead of condemning those who relapse, Jason speaks words of encouragement. This book is full of compassion, inspiration, motivation, and encouragement. Jason offers his readers wisdom from his life as a former heavy drinker that learned how to control his alcohol consumption.
While most books about alcohol problems demand abstinence, Jason Newman has taken a more moderate approach in How to Control Your Alcohol Consumption. Jason explains what is considered one drink and how many drinks are deemed healthy for the average person per day. The key to responsible drinking is controlling your drinking instead of letting the drinking control you. Of course, some need to abstain, but Jason writes for those who can manage their drinking. To help explain why moderation in drinking is required, Jason shares the various dangers involved in drinking. You are in charge of setting boundaries and making them stick. Jason gives you the skills needed and the encouragement to help you achieve sobriety while still enjoying the occasional drink. Only when you have become completely honest with yourself and those around you can you choose to either abstain or curtail.
The reader will find no preaching or lecturing in How to Control Your Alcohol Consumption by Jason Newman. Instead, his style of writing is compassionate and informative. He gently leads the reader on a trip to explore the types of people who drink alcohol and the dangers of drinking to excess. Jason explains in layman terms the needs and skills for being sober. He spends time explaining how to set boundaries and how to best communicate the limits you set. Instead of condemning those who relapse, Jason speaks words of encouragement. This book is full of compassion, inspiration, motivation, and encouragement. Jason offers his readers wisdom from his life as a former heavy drinker that learned how to control his alcohol consumption.
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Take Charge of Your Happiness, Bellyfat and Sexiness
A Woman’s Rapid Reset for Body, Mind and Hormones
David Musgrave
2022 Honorable Mention
352 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Health - Medical
Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite
Take Charge of Your Happiness, Bellyfat and Sexiness: A Woman’s Rapid Reset for Body, Mind and Hormones by David Musgrave is a book that every woman should read. It addresses some of the issues that women have to deal with every day —concerns with weight loss, hormonal imbalances, staying fit and happy, and more. This book provides informative, well-researched material that will help any woman feed the essential components of their being, transforming who they are in mind, body, and soul. The author has a good understanding of hormonal processes and how they create change in women and he provides powerful insights into the way the female brain works. Topics like stress, thyroid, and sex hormones are brilliantly explored.
Take Charge of Your Happiness, Bellyfat and Sexiness is a terrific book that will help women eat properly, understand and take control of the way stress affects their bodies, tap into their energy hormone and use it to transform their lives and reach deeper levels of happiness, find ways to balance sex hormones while understanding obstacles to dieting, find tools to detoxify the brain and the body, and a lot more. David Musgrave writes with an authoritative yet compassionate voice as an expert on women’s health and the way the female body works. This book contains truths that will startle readers and tools that any woman can use to literally transform their life. Readers will start seeing women differently after reading this book. What I found particularly interesting is the author’s explanation of why dieting fails in most cases and how simply and clearly the ideas in this book are expressed. It is a gift to be shared; simply revolutionary.
Take Charge of Your Happiness, Bellyfat and Sexiness: A Woman’s Rapid Reset for Body, Mind and Hormones by David Musgrave is a book that every woman should read. It addresses some of the issues that women have to deal with every day —concerns with weight loss, hormonal imbalances, staying fit and happy, and more. This book provides informative, well-researched material that will help any woman feed the essential components of their being, transforming who they are in mind, body, and soul. The author has a good understanding of hormonal processes and how they create change in women and he provides powerful insights into the way the female brain works. Topics like stress, thyroid, and sex hormones are brilliantly explored.
Take Charge of Your Happiness, Bellyfat and Sexiness is a terrific book that will help women eat properly, understand and take control of the way stress affects their bodies, tap into their energy hormone and use it to transform their lives and reach deeper levels of happiness, find ways to balance sex hormones while understanding obstacles to dieting, find tools to detoxify the brain and the body, and a lot more. David Musgrave writes with an authoritative yet compassionate voice as an expert on women’s health and the way the female body works. This book contains truths that will startle readers and tools that any woman can use to literally transform their life. Readers will start seeing women differently after reading this book. What I found particularly interesting is the author’s explanation of why dieting fails in most cases and how simply and clearly the ideas in this book are expressed. It is a gift to be shared; simply revolutionary.
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Life Giving Dementia Care
Let's Talk: How to Bring Confidence, Compassion and Joy Into Your Role as a Caregiver
Toni Kanzler
2022 Bronze Medal
237 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Health - Medical
Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
Life Giving Dementia Care: Let's Talk: How to Bring Confidence, Compassion and Joy Into Your Role as a Caregiver by Toni Kanzler is a self-help educational guide that first comes straight from the author's heart and, ultimately, is the culmination of their extensive personal experience as a carer. This is not a textbook, which is why the “first” matters. This is a partnership, a helping hand on a journey that may at some point become necessary in our own lives if it isn't already. Kanzler breaks the book down into four distinct and interconnected parts that are as straightforward as the support they contain: The Early Stage, The Middle Stage, The Last Stage, and The After Stage.
Life Giving Dementia Care landed in my lap about nine months after I lost a family member to Lewy Body[LBD], which was a years-long commitment and one that could have been made easier with Toni Kanzler's book. Still, looking back, I am able to empathize with so much of what Kanzler provides and I have no doubt whatsoever that readers will have moments of vigorous nodding, such as when Kanzler talks about the importance of keeping a behavior log, and moments of pain, like the goodbye you knew would always come but are still caught off guard by how organically it happens. Kanzler's Q&A section and the appendix and resources just make an already great book even better. I am so grateful for the compassion and care that went into writing this book. Very highly recommended.
Life Giving Dementia Care: Let's Talk: How to Bring Confidence, Compassion and Joy Into Your Role as a Caregiver by Toni Kanzler is a self-help educational guide that first comes straight from the author's heart and, ultimately, is the culmination of their extensive personal experience as a carer. This is not a textbook, which is why the “first” matters. This is a partnership, a helping hand on a journey that may at some point become necessary in our own lives if it isn't already. Kanzler breaks the book down into four distinct and interconnected parts that are as straightforward as the support they contain: The Early Stage, The Middle Stage, The Last Stage, and The After Stage.
Life Giving Dementia Care landed in my lap about nine months after I lost a family member to Lewy Body[LBD], which was a years-long commitment and one that could have been made easier with Toni Kanzler's book. Still, looking back, I am able to empathize with so much of what Kanzler provides and I have no doubt whatsoever that readers will have moments of vigorous nodding, such as when Kanzler talks about the importance of keeping a behavior log, and moments of pain, like the goodbye you knew would always come but are still caught off guard by how organically it happens. Kanzler's Q&A section and the appendix and resources just make an already great book even better. I am so grateful for the compassion and care that went into writing this book. Very highly recommended.
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The Stress Book
Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
D. Terrence Foster, MD.
2022 Silver Medal
294 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Health - Medical
Reviewed by Marie-Hélène Fasquel for Readers' Favorite
The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life by D. Terrence Foster, MD. is a comprehensive approach to help us reduce our levels of stress. These were already high before the pandemic, and they are (understandably) much higher now generally speaking. This is a burning issue and Dr. Foster wrote this guide to help us navigate the most complicated challenges in the quest for more quiet and calm. The book includes four main sections including the basics of stress and its management, the physical actions, the mental actions, and the community actions we can put in place to reduce our stress levels.
The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life by D. Terrence Foster, MD. is a completely holistic guide that will help and support many of us navigate life in a complicated world. In fact, the environmental crisis, the pandemic, the wars, and our continued hunger for progress are all factors of aggravated stress. This book helps us deal with stress one baby step at a time, one section at a time. We need to focus on the physical actions we can take to feel better, quieter, then the mental ones and the community ones. This guide is deeply holistic and comprehensive. We are given grids and worksheets to help us evaluate our stress levels, and to identify what really stresses us out. Dr. Foster’s Action Plan is devised for us to implement diverse actions to improve our lifestyles and make us less prone to stress. This book is amazing and simple to understand even if the author explains in detail the science behind stress. The index and list of resources and links are extremely helpful too. Thank you for this gem of a book.
The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life by D. Terrence Foster, MD. is a comprehensive approach to help us reduce our levels of stress. These were already high before the pandemic, and they are (understandably) much higher now generally speaking. This is a burning issue and Dr. Foster wrote this guide to help us navigate the most complicated challenges in the quest for more quiet and calm. The book includes four main sections including the basics of stress and its management, the physical actions, the mental actions, and the community actions we can put in place to reduce our stress levels.
The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life by D. Terrence Foster, MD. is a completely holistic guide that will help and support many of us navigate life in a complicated world. In fact, the environmental crisis, the pandemic, the wars, and our continued hunger for progress are all factors of aggravated stress. This book helps us deal with stress one baby step at a time, one section at a time. We need to focus on the physical actions we can take to feel better, quieter, then the mental ones and the community ones. This guide is deeply holistic and comprehensive. We are given grids and worksheets to help us evaluate our stress levels, and to identify what really stresses us out. Dr. Foster’s Action Plan is devised for us to implement diverse actions to improve our lifestyles and make us less prone to stress. This book is amazing and simple to understand even if the author explains in detail the science behind stress. The index and list of resources and links are extremely helpful too. Thank you for this gem of a book.
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