Suggested Reading

Selecting a Caregiver or In-Home Nurse for Hard of Hearing

This guide takes you through selecting a caregiver whether your loved one is hard of hearing or has total hearing loss. This also includes information on organizations and services that can help, along with valuable advice for caregivers or skilled nurses who might not have experience with people who are hard of hearing.

Eat, Drink, and Be Sedentary.

Epel, E., Prather, A. A., Puterman, E., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2018). Handbook of emotions(pp. 684-705) (L. F. Barrett, M. Lewis, & J. M. Haviland-Jones, Authors). New York: The Guilford Press.

The whole-brain child: 12 revolutionary strategies to nurture your child's developing mind. Vancouver, B.C.: Langara College.

In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children.

The hacking of the American mind: The science behind the corporate takeover of our bodies and brains. NY, NY: Avery.

While researching the toxic and addictive properties of sugar for his New York Times bestseller Fat Chance, Robert Lustig made an alarming discovery—our pursuit of happiness is being subverted by a culture of addiction and depression from which we may never recover.

Fat chance: The bitter truth about sugar. London: Fourth Estate.

Robert Lustig documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years.

The fat chance cookbook: More than 100 recipes ready in under 30 minutes to help you lose the sugar and the weight. Penguin Group.

With more than 100 recipes as well as meal plans, nutritional analyses, shopping lists, and food swaps, he shows us easy ways to drastically reduce sugar and increase fiber to lose weight and regain health – both for ourselves and for our families

The telomere effect: A revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer. London: Orion Spring.

THE TELOMERE EFFECT reveals how Blackburn and Epel's findings, together with research from colleagues around the world, cumulatively show that sleep quality, exercise, aspects of diet, and even certain chemicals profoundly affect our telomeres, and that chronic stress, negative thoughts, strained relationships, and even the wrong neighborhoods can eat away at them.

Mastery of Your Anxiety and Worry: Workbook (Treatments That Work)

New York: Oxford University Press. 2nd Edition. (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the most effective treatments for anxiety. For most people with significant anxiety, working with a cognitive behavioral therapist is also necessary.)

Written by the developers of an empirically supported and effective CBT therapy program for treating GAD, this workbook includes all the information necessary for a client to learn the appropriate skills to combat their excessive worry.

Mindfulness for beginners: Reclaiming the present moment and your life. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, Inc.

With Mindfulness for Beginners you are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and play—and thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are.

Full catastrophe living: Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness. New York: Dell/Bantam Publishing Company.

Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work—which gave rise to a whole new field in medicine and psychology—shows you how to use medically proven mind-body approaches derived from meditation and yoga to counteract stress, establish greater balance of body and mind, and stimulate well-being and healing.

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