Considers health of the body, mind, and spirit, offering advice on how to make sense of contradictory media information, understand the link between mental and physical health, and recruit support during illness.

Written by a trusted family physician, this indispensable guide equips parents to assess their children's health--physically, emotionally, relationally, and spiritually--and then to create a practical and realistic plan to improve and nurture their children to become highly healthy.

God's design for the highly healthy life provides a powerful balance of physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual health---even for the teen years! Teens face choices every day that either enhance or threaten their whole health. At school, through the media and friends, teens are hit with influences they have never faced before. Your teen needs your help now more than ever! *How can you coach your teen through the threats of drugs, alcohol, addiction, and sexually transmitted diseases? *What can you do about nutrition, eating disorders, self-image, and the frightening rise of obesity? *How does a parent respond to tattoos, piercings, and internet porn? *Is there a way to navigate the pressures of academics, sports, and over-commitment to find the healthy balance of stimulation and rest? *What physical changes are normal? When is it time to seek medical care? How do you find the best doctor? *How does a parent ease fears and adjustments, respect privacy, and intervene when needed? Good news. The doctor is in! Dr. Walt Larimore has seen it all---as a family physician, a dad, a medical journalist, and now your doctor on call. He equips you to powerfully protect and enhance your teen's health during these critical (and often scary) teen years. *ASSESS YOUR TEEN'S HEALTH: Use the simple 4 Wheels tool to identify the weakest 'spokes' in your teen's health. *FIND THE SPOKE THAT'S BROKE: Zero in first where your teen's health is most out of balance. Discover timeless principles coupled with late-breaking research and answers to your questions. *BENEFIT FROM IMMEDIATE ACTION: Follow practical, achievable advice, resulting in positive changes in your teen's life. Discover how your teen can experience God's Design for the Highly Healthy Life.

Work. Family. Church. Exercise. Sleep. The list of demands on our time seems to be never ending. It can leave you feeling a little guilty--like you should always be doing one more thing. Rather than sharing better time-management tips to squeeze more hours out of the day, Kelly Kapic takes a different approach in You're Only Human. He offers a better way to make peace with the fact that God didn't create us to do it all. Kapic explores the theology behind seeing our human limitations as a gift rather than a deficiency. He lays out a path to holistic living with healthy self-understanding, life-giving relationships, and meaningful contributions to the world. He frees us from confusing our limitations with sin and instead invites us to rest in the joy and relief of knowing that God can use our limitations to foster freedom, joy, growth, and community. Readers will emerge better equipped to cultivate a life that fosters gratitude, rest, and faithful service to God.

Easy to use, this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Alternative Medicine keeps pace with the latest findings and developments in alternative medicine. Here is the most comprehensive, current, well-balanced, and trustworthy information available from both a scientific and a biblical perspective.

Months—and sometimes years—of planning go into creating the perfect wedding. But when the last piece of wedding cake is eaten and the rice is thrown, many couples realize they’ve not put much thought into their honeymoon. Because it’s imperative to let the honeymoon and sexual relationship for a couple set the tone for their life as a couple together, two respected physicians draw from their extensive premarital counseling experiences to compile this invaluable guide of honeymoon essentials. It’s all here—from birth-control options, a calendar for travel arrangements, medications to have on hand to God’s design for the honeymoon. There are even ideas which will help each couple assemble a custom “honeymoon kit.” “Bride’s Eyes Only” and “Groom’s Eyes Only” chapters offer solid advice for the sexual relationship. A one-week devotional section with daily reflections for the first week as husband and wife will help launch any marriage with the right spiritual foundation. The time couples invest in preparing for this important week of marriage and life together will reap years of rewards!

When Walt Larimore, MD, moved his young family to Kissimmee, Florida, to start a small-town medical practice in 1985, he had no idea he was embarking on an enterprise that would change his life in ways both large and small. Dr. Larimore shared some of these heartwarming and heartbreaking tales in The Best Medicine. Now he offers up more charming stories of his time as a family physician in a rural, small-yet-growing town in The Best Gift. Ideal for anyone wrestling with the inevitable and difficult storms of life, as well as fans of Dr. Larimore's popular Bryson City series, The Best Gift is a tender and insightful collection of stories chronicling one young doctor's spiritual growth as a physician, husband, father, and community member. Filled with characters colorful and crusty, warmhearted and hotheaded, witty and winsome, these captivating stories glow with drama, heartbreak, warmth, love, and humor. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll learn some of life's greatest lessons. And you'll wish Dr. Larimore was your doctor.