I am not overly vain and I have resigned myself to getting old and not being able to do as much as I could in my youth. But I have had a full, even luxurious head of hair my entire life and if I can...

Waking Mathilda by Claire Crisp recounts the chain of events from 2009 when she took their youngest two-year-old daughter to the National Health Service in England to be innoculated against swine flu. It was not long after that Mathilda’s whole persona changed from a lively...

The word “nourish” to some people means to eat food that is good for you. Stephanie Hrehirchuk has recreated the concept of nourishing to mean doing anything that is good for you. For instance, creating a new habit not to eat sweets would be nourishing....

Ben'oni L'Benyamin: From Sorrow to Strength: My Journey with Depression is a nonfiction motivational self-help book written by Rabbi Sara Berman. Berman, who is an ordained Rabbi and a board-certified chaplain, had worked in the Neuropsychiatric Institute as part of her participation in UCLA’s chaplaincy...

At the Root by Kimberly Miles is the author’s journey toward the importance of taking responsibility for her health and managing her life after realizing the importance one's mouth plays in one’s overall health and well-being. Many of us go through unexplained health problems that...

An important thing to know when entering LCSW, Rev. Sheri Heller’s comprehensive and analytically deep book, A Clinician’s Journey from Complex Trauma to Thriving, is that this is not a self-help book; it does not prescribe a process for healing complex trauma, except to emphasize...

Healing Naturally and Primary Reflexes by Margaret Mulder is actually a book unlike any I have ever read before. I have done a lot of reading about natural healing, but I have never heard of primary reflexes. Primary reflexes, as you might surmise from the...

In Take Back Your Life: Find Hope and Freedom from Fibromyalgia Symptoms and Pain, Tami Stackelhouse provides an honest, straightforward perspective on living with fibromyalgia. The author sheds a positive light on an otherwise unbearable condition. While explaining the symptoms of fibromyalgia, Stackelhouse also outlines...

Have you ever thought about the various elements of the healthcare system and its effects on everything else that surrounds it, from HMO, malpractice insurance, and politics to infant mortality and the elderly? It was as if Bernard Leo Remakus had a crystal ball or...

Moving Beyond The Unspoken Grief by Sarah Lnyy is an autobiographical account of one doctor’s journey of IVF and everything it involves toward having a child. The book begins with an introduction to Sarah, who is a medical doctor herself, and her experiences in medical...