"Former Chief of Anesthesiology at Bakersfield Heart Hospital and founder of the Pain Management Institute of California emerges from healing his own chronic pain and severe depression following a personal health crisis to advocate 12 holistic principles of wellness based on Eastern spiritual practices"--

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive for Great Health! will help readers use positive thinking to improve their health with its inspirational stories and useful medical information. The mind-body connection is powerful. Our brains are our most trusted ally in improving our physical health, whether it’s recovering from a short illness, managing symptoms, or keeping healthy. This new book highlights that positive relationship and will help readers with its combination of inspiring Chicken Soup for the Soul stories written just for this book and accessible leading-edge medical information from expert clinical psychologist and Harvard Medical School instructor Dr. Jeffrey Brown.

The star of HGTV’s Flip or Flop Christina Anstead partners with celebrity nutritionist Cara Clark to help women remodel their lives—in mind, body and spirit. Christina Anstead, star of HGTV’s Flip or Flop and Christina on the Coast, is known for her boundless energy, positive attitude, and radiant looks. But what was hidden from fans of her popular television shows was a very real health crisis, including a diagnosis of autoimmune disease, infertility, and the emotional and physical exhaustion of going through a divorce with two young children—all in the public eye. The stress of managing it all wreaked even more havoc on her already strained body. It wasn’t until Christina met nutritionist Cara Clark that she discovered a path that allowed her to regain her health and heal in body and mind. In The Wellness Remodel, Christina chronicles her health journey and shares what she’s learned about the importance of creating balance and prioritizing physical and mental self-care. Divided into three parts—”Gut Rehab” (food and nutrition); “Building a Strong Foundation” (exercise); and “The Rewire” (mindfulness)—the book will be an accessible guide to full-body wellness, offering simple strategies anyone can put into action for immediate results. Christina and Cara will also share their simple cooking strategies built for the real world of working parents and busy weeknights, including sixty of their favorite recipes, complete with beautiful photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Inspiring, informative, fun, and empowering, The Wellness Remodel will give readers everything they need to nourish the body, keep it strong, and help their spirit flourish.

This is an empowering book for anyone who wants to prevent heart disease and for those with a history of heart disease-a book for us all. Those who have survived a heart attack or an open heart surgery and who manage their heart disease will find wisdom, hope, and a dedication to restore and maintain their heart health. Readers have peace of mind because they now have a plan to optimize their heart health. They are empowered because they have accessible tools to make lifestyle changes which will positively affect their feeling of wellness, and they have hope in knowing that they have the possibility to improve their health and vitality, starting where they are now, and that they are not alone on their wellness journey. Written as a heart-to-heart conversation from Mary to you, this relatable book is full of useful tips and concepts you can adopt easily. Working with the information in this book and the easy-to-follow steps to track your health progression will create positive, measurable health improvements. Heart to Soul Cardiac Wellness shows how you can make positive changes to your lifestyle and health to protect yourself from heart disease, while also optimizing your overall health. What makes Heart to Soul Cardiac Wellness unique is that it is an accessible 9-week comprehensive holistic heart health and wellness plan, complementing the science of Western medicine, created by a cardiac ICU nurse and endorsed by medical doctors.You are invited to join Mary's community of Cardiac Thrivers. Your heart will be uplifted!

Twenty years ago, at age twenty-nine, Andrea Sullivan was a high-level executive at HUD in a state of what she now calls "dis-ease": stressed out, thirty-pounds overweight, with a face full of acne. Moved by a desire to help her community and herself in a "meaningful way," she quit her job and decided to become a doctor. She applied and was accepted to Bastyr Medical School for Alternative Medicine and became a naturopathic physician. Since then, Dr. Sullivan has been at the vanguard of naturopathic medicine and has helped hundreds of African Americans create dramatic and lasting lifestyle changes. Unlike traditional doctors, naturopathic physicians, with the aid of herbs, roots, and other natural remedies, treat the patient, not the disease. Here, in easy-to-understand language, Dr. Sullivan provides an overview of alternative medicine (paying close attention to naturopathy), discusses the African American tradition and its link to naturopathic medicine, and delves into stress, high blood pressure, arthritis, obesity, depression, and diabetes (all problems that plague African Americans), and prescribes an overall guide to maintaining health and keeping disease at bay. In "A Path to Healing, Dr. Sullivan makes a convincing case for naturopathic medicine as the best way to prevent disease and treat chronic illnesses, while not discounting the use of traditional Western medicine, especially in cases of traumatic injury.

In 7 Keys to Spiritual Wellness, best-selling author Joe Paprocki provides a prescription for spiritual health based on the rich wisdom of Catholic Tradition. Through his nondogmatic, downright inviting style of writing, Paprocki makes this book eminently accessible to non-Catholics and "seekers" as well. Recognizing that the spiritual immune system is weakened almost daily by toxic patterns and attitudes that negatively impact our ability to live in a harmonious relationship with God and others, Paprocki offers seven enduring and reliable strategies for achieving spiritual wellness. After identifying practical ways to integrate each of these strategies into daily living, he describes seven persistent dangers to our spiritual well-being and how these dangers manifest themselves in our lives. At its core, 7 Keys to Spiritual Wellness helps us see the Christian faith not as a collection of rules and doctrine, but as a spiritual path--a path whose guideposts for spiritual wellness are sure to lead us to a more meaningful life and to a much richer experience of our faith.

In the last few decades, Western medicine has seen incredible advances in technology to treat the sick. That's the good news. The bad news is that with the demands on their time, falling reimbursements from the government, improved medications, and restrictions imposed by insurance carriers, doctors often depend more on computers than on their own instincts and experience in caring for their patients. As a neurologist who deals daily with crippling and sometimes fatal conditions, Dr. Bhupendra Khatri has become increasingly aware of the mind-body connection and the incredible power of the subconscious to heal, postpone death, and deal with unspeakable circumstances. The many stories in Healing the Soul: Unexpected Stories of Courage, Hope, and the Power of Mind describe the lessons the author has learned from his patients, as well as current research about the resiliency of the human spirit. Within these pages are stories of courage, inexplicable medical miracles, and disappointing transactions with intractable insurance companies. Dr. Khatri has been encouraged many healthcare providers, journalists, and patients to share these stories, as well as his research into issues he raises in the book, in hopes of inspiring patients and their families and shedding light on little-known contradictions in the U.S. healthcare system.