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Treat stress, anxiety, depression, and more with simple herbal remedies that calm your mind, build a healthy nervous system, and promote lasting peace. In this informative guide, renowned herbalist Rosemary Gladstar profiles 21 herbs proven to be effective at soothing common ailments like insomnia, panic attacks, skin conditions, and migraines. With simple directions for making herbal mixtures that can be used in delicious teas, tinctures, and capsules, Gladstar shows you how to harness the power of nature to achieve a more relaxed and fulfilling life.

After 10 years of dismissive (or downright wrong) diagnoses, the author was finally told she had rheumatoid arthritis the week of her 40th birthday. Stunned and angry, she decided to not let RA interfere with her plans for a great life. Fifteen years into her journey with RA, she’s learned a lot of tricks that make living with RA easier.

About 75% experience dissociation at some point. It often emerges as a coping mechanism to trauma, profoundly impacting daily life, cognition, and relationships. If not addressed, it can increase vulnerability to further trauma. This guide helps you explore dissociation's complexities, providing a roadmap to understanding, self-discovery, and healing. With practical strategies, you can work toward a more integrated and balanced self.

Diverticulitis is very common, can be dangerous, and there are rapidly increasing numbers of sufferers. Everyone has more than a 50 percent chance of suffering from diverticulitis before the age of 60. Dr. Joan McClelland describes, in her easily accessible style, the symptoms, the types of diverticulitis, the complications, and the treatments, including alternative and herbal remedies. This book also tackles the psychological aspects of diverticulitis, and the benefits of exercise and diet.

As parents, we all want to raise happy and successful children. But sometimes, we find ourselves struggling to navigate the complex world of parenting. That's why I'm excited to introduce you to The Parenting Guide for Nurturing Empathy, Independence, and Resilience in Children–a comprehensive guidebook that will help you create a healthy and thriving environment for your child.

Soothe aches, pains, ease fever, treat infections and tend to scrapes and bruises with herbal medicines easy enough to make in the home kitchen. In this Storey BASICS® guide, bestselling author and master herbalist Rosemary Gladstar shows you how to use 56 common herbs to safely address a wide range of everyday ailments. Covering everything from burns, wounds, and bruises to headaches, congestion, and insomnia, Gladstar offers dozens of easy-to-make recipes for herbal remedies that will soothe your woes without the harsh ingredients found in commercial pharmaceuticals.

For more than 30 years, best-selling author and popular herbalist Rosemary Gladstar has been touting the health benefits of fire cider—a spicy blend of apple cider vinegar, onion, ginger, horseradish, garlic, and other immune-boosting herbs. Her original recipe, inspired by traditional cider vinegar remedies, has given rise to dozens of fire cider formulations created by fans of the tonic who use it to address everyday ills, from colds and flu to leg cramps and hangovers.

Have you ever wondered what happens after we die? Or felt an inexplicable connection to a place, person, or moment in time—as if your soul had been there before? You're not alone. Across every culture and generation, people feel the quiet pull of something deeper—something eternal. Reincarnation: A Universal Gift and the Eternal Journey of the Soul is a transformative guide for seekers, skeptics, and spiritually curious minds alike. Whether you're questioning your life’s purpose or exploring past-life memories, this book offers profound insight into the soul’s journey across lifetimes.

Promote vibrant health and radiant beauty, soothe everyday ailments, and ease persistent stress with these simple, natural cures for everything from dry skin and infant colic to cold symptoms and insomnia.

In this easy-to-digest, straight-to-the-point book, Rachael will teach you about the best most powerful crystals that will take you from down-and-out to living your best life possible, with relatable real-life situations and real-life solutions, in five easy steps. Follow her journey as she turned her life around in the most epic way with crystals - from absolute rock bottom to having mind-blowing business opportunities land in her lap, huge improvement in health, and blitzing her way through mental trauma to become an absolute warrior.

"Confessions of a Section 8 Landlord" is a candid account of the challenges and rewards of managing low-income housing. This gripping collection of stories exposes the raw reality of self-managing a twelve-unit apartment complex in one of America’s most dangerous cities. With a sense of humor and a touch of horror, the author recounts their experience with tenants who go to great lengths to save on rent, run-ins with the local gang leaders, and multiple squatters who turn the property into their own.

The goal of this audiobook is to rewire your brain from negative self-talk to positive and uplifting ones. This is not something that will happen overnight, but with dedicated effort, this audiobook can transform your attitudes and help you to start your day on a positive note. The affirmations can be said out loud or in your head, whatever works for you. Listen to this while getting ready in the morning or on your way to work! I hope that this audiobook can help you change your mindset from negative to positive.

Have you ever felt left behind by the rapid changes in technology? Tired of relying on others to solve your device dilemmas? Whether for yourself or a loved one, mastering the iPhone 15 is easier than you think! This simple guide is tailored specifically for seniors, offering clear, easy-to-follow instructions with a touch of humor.

In this highly accessible handbook, best-selling author and herbal medicine expert Rosemary Gladstar offers her time-tested, safe and gentle natural recipes, along with simple care advice, for addressing children's everyday health needs. Parents of babies and toddlers will discover how easy it is create a home medicine cabinet of herbal remedies for addressing everything from colic to cradle cap, diaper rash, earaches, colds, cuts, teething, and more.

Hahaha! Aren't they all fools? They think that I'm the most qualified candidate for this task. I have six years of experience doing this exact task. I've done it before. I can do it again with ease.... But what if I fail? Why are these statements familiar? The imposter syndrome is a bummer. The subconscious brain loves playing tricks on us and catastrophizing is the meanest of all. The imposter syndrome will have you believe that you're a fraud, a nowhere cog in an engine.

Teaming up with several top Lhasa Apso breeders, author Vanessa Richie has written the go-to book that should be in any new Lhasa owner's library! This truly is a "complete guide" to the Lhasa Apso. In the minutes of this comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand audiobook, you'll learn everything you need to know to successfully raise your Lhasa from puppy to old age. Not your stereotypical small dog, a Lhasa Apso can be incredibly loving and affectionate, and we want to help you bring out those positive aspects to this ancient Tibetan breed. 

This book will help you understand the necessity of sleep, the problems that occur when sleep goes wrong, and how to fix them. We also explore the fascinating history of sleep and how ancient cultures viewed and regarded sleep. Listening through these chapters will give you a greater appreciation of how good-quality sleep can benefit and change your life. You will learn how to help yourself get a better night’s sleep, how to identify sleep problems that you may have, and how to solve them. Everyone deserves a good night’s sleep!

Astrology at Its Simplest is a great listen. The book is full of information regarding astrology. The book is a complete guide, not just for beginners. All the basic fundamentals of astrology are compacted into this short, highly entertaining, yet informative book. Everything a beginner needs to know about astrology ranging from its history to its applications to intricate explanations of its core principles can be found perfectly organized and ready to be consumed within the chapters of this book. Listen and enjoy!

Need to get organized? This book will lead the way! If you are hoping to learn how to think about your clothes, your wardrobe, and your closet in a way that will help you first organize this area of your life, and then maintain the system you develop, this audiobook is for you. By focusing on thinking skills, this audiobook will allow you to adapt an organization style that will fit your lifestyle, whether it is one of luxurious self-indulgence, or Spartan-like simplicity. Get started today on improving your life from the inside out. 

A collection of insights, Life Hacks is meant to bring you to a new awareness of how we are constantly experiencing life from the inside out. You are invited to join the author on a journey towards discovering how our "negative" attributes have not only been helpful to us, but essential to our survival; How our thoughts and ideas about life sometimes get us "stuck" (and how to get unstuck), and how we always will and have always had access to an internal GPS system.