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National Wellness Month 2022: Digital Resources

August Celebrates National Wellness Month

E-books

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Fitness for Every Body: Strong, Confident, and Empowered at Any Size

In Fitness for Every Body, Meg shares her personal story and inspires you to celebrate your own body for all its capabilities. Featuring a dozen step-by-step, full-body workouts, this book is more than a workout guide or a training manual. It’s a reminder that you’re more than just your weight, that you are stronger than you believe, and that just because you might not be thin, doesn’t mean that you can’t be an athlete. Your body is capable of doing incredible things—you just have to let it.

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Love Your Body Feed Your Soul: Self-Care Rituals and Recipes for Your Inner Goddess

The ultimate guide to self-love, health, beauty, and happiness. This is a wellness book that goes way beyond the surface, grounding you in the intrinsic beauty of plant-based foods, while elevating you with inspired skin care recipes and sacred routines that tap into your inner glow and intuition. Filled with vibrant photos that turn you on to the sensuality and real pleasure of sacred beauty, healthful cuisine, and conscious rituals, Summer Sanders, author of Raw and Radiant, dives deep beyond the food and into the heart to awaken the senses and shine light on a new way of connecting to food, health, and life.

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Make Yourself Cozy: A Guide for Practicing Self-Care

Freshly baked bread. Cloud-like pillows. Lavender tea. Katie Vaz's book on self-care shows readers how slow, cozy warmth can help them deal with the anxieties and challenges of everyday life. Filled with tips for creating the perfect atmosphere of coziness (super soft blankets, fluffy robes, and something binge-worthy on TV).

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Manifesting Happy: How to Maintain Self-Care Amid Challenging Behaviors and Challenging Times

Manifesting Happy is a journey of self-care for educators. The book is recognition of the essential capacity that educators fulfill each and every day. By combining two foundational theories, the dimensions of wellness and applied behavior analysis, readers will create a comprehensive self-care plan by which they can manifest a stronger sense of self and well-being. The book provides an overview of the eight dimensions of wellness and introduces opportunities to gain a better sense of holistic balance.

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Healthy Habits Suck: How to Get Off the Couch and Live a Healthy Life... Even If You Don't Want To

Salad instead of steak? Exercise? Skipping that second beer or glass of wine? Healthy habits are the worst. Blending humor and irreverence with the science of behavior change, a health psychologist and runner who's never experienced a ""runner's high"" offers practical, counterintuitive strategies and a playful approach to help readers live a healthier life--even if they really want to just sit on the couch and eat ice cream.

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

As a therapist, Lori knows a lot about pain, about the ways in which pain is tied to loss, and how change and loss travel together. She knows how affirming it feels to blame the outside world for her frustrations, to deny ownership of whatever role she might have in the existential play called My Incredibly Important Life. When a devastating event takes place in Lori's life, she realizes that, before being able to help her patients, she must first learn how to help herself.

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

A leading expert on habit formation reveals practical strategies to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

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Self-Care for New and Student Nurses

Self-Care for New and Student Nurses presents self-care practices that must be learned and used consistently and in multiple settings to prepare new nurses for the clinical stressors to come. Filled with methods, tips, and exercises, this will book will guide new and student nurses to prioritize their own health needs in order to avoid burnout and premature exit from the nursing profession.

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Why We Sleep : Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert--Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab--reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better. Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity.

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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

A habit expert from Stanford University shares his breakthrough method for building habits quickly and easily. With Tiny Habits you'll increase productivity by tapping into positive emotions to create a happier and healthier life. Dr. Fogg's new and extremely practical method picks up where Atomic Habits left off.

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Fitness For Dummies

What exactly is new in fitness? In the exercise world, there's something new in equipment, research, classes, gadgets, videos, and Web sites just about every day. The last few years have also seen the invention and marketing of new schlock "like pills that claim to eliminate cellulite or burn extra carbohydrates and machines that purport to tone your thighs "without any effort on your part".

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Yoga For Men: Build Strength, Improve Performance, Increase Flexibility

Written by Dean Pohlman, sports coach and author, this yoga book for men is focused on yoga's functional fitness benefits and less on the spiritual or emotional aspects. A wonderful gift and fitness resource, Yoga For Men: Build Strength and Improve Performance will help men meet their performance goals, play harder and feel better.

Habit Swap: Mindfulness Skills to Change Habits for Good

All of us have bad habits that we'd like to change-but where do we start? From the author of the highly successful The Here-and-Now Habit, this practical guide offers everyday mindful practices for replacing unhealthy habits with healthier ones. With this book, readers will learn to break free from the most common and challenging harmful behaviors-such as overeating, excessive drinking, procrastination, or compulsive texting-and discover the freedom and peace that come with living a more conscious life.

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Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body.

Jessamyn Stanley, a yogi who breaks all the stereotypes, has built a life as an internationally recognized yoga teacher and award-winning Instagram star by combining a deep understanding for yoga with a willingness to share her personal struggles in a way that touches everyone who comes to know her. Now she brings her body-positive, emotionally uplifting approach to yoga in a book that will help every reader discover the power of yoga and how to weave it seamlessly into his or her life.

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