Partners in Healing: Simple Ways to Offer Support, Comfort, and Care to a Loved One Facing Illness
Author: William Colling
When a spouse becomes seriously ill, the healthy partner often feels a profound sense of helplessness and despair. This book offers a new sense of empowerment for the intimate partners of people living with serious health problems. The book consists of fifty short chapters, each explaining why and when to use a given strategy and concrete step-by-step guidance in how to do it. The author, a psychotherapist and researcher, also shares his reflections and insights from two decades of clinical practice treating couples who are going through serious illness.Partners in Healing is divided into seven subject areas:Strategies of self-care for the caring partnerWays of involving family and friends in a network of supportSimple massage and touch techniques to bring comfort and reduce symptomsSimple energy healing techniquesDistant healing using transpersonal imagery, mediation, and prayerForms of “affirmative communication” that provide reassuranceSimple rituals of caring and nourishment
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Wheat-Free Cooking: Practical Help for the Home Cook
Author: Rita Greer
Do you suffer from sore, itching eyes, sinusitis, headaches or palpitations? Do you have constant digestive problems, skin rashes or inexplicable mood swings? You could well be allergic to wheat, the major cause of allergy in our diet and a staple food that is an ingredient in almost every food you buy - not only bread, biscuits and breakfast foods but soups, sauces, pickles, casseroles, puddings and chocolate. This helpful informative book, by a writer with twenty years' experience of devising special diets, could change your life. Wheat-Free Cooking gives you a guide to the numerous symptoms, physical and mental, that could point to wheat allergy; advice on how to identify the hidden wheat in many ordinary foot items you buy regularly; how to banish all trace of wheat from your kitchen; how to ensure that your wheat-free diet is nutritionally balanced; and a wide range of recipes catering for every meal of the day, all guaranteed wheat-free. Wheat-Free Cooking uses economical, easily obtainable ingredients that are simple to prepare, and it allows you to eat types of food that normally contain wheat - even bread, cakes and pastries! It enables you to cook meals that will tempt every member of the family, entertain in style and indulge your taste-budes to the limit. And everything you eat will be good for you.
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