Your Perfectly Pampered Pregnancy: An Expectant Mom's Guide to Health, Beauty, Lifestyle, and Self Care for 9 Months and Beyond
Author: Colette Bouchez
The moment a pregnancy is announced, all eyes are on baby. But what about Mom? Not only is her body changing, everything about her lifestyle is turning upside down.
A revolutionary new kind of self-help guide, Your Perfectly Pampered Pregnancy puts Mom at center stage, with hundreds of tips on how to have the healthiest, most vibrant pregnancy possible.
Culling advice from top medical, beauty, and style sources worldwide , award-winning health reporter Colette Bouchez delivers sound medical advice as well as beauty and lifestyle tips to keep Mom happy and healthy, ensuring baby will be healthier and happier as well.
Highlights include:
*The five most common pregnancy complaints—and how to beat them
*The beauty, hair, and skin care products that are safe to use—and what to avoid
*How to choose maternity clothes without losing your sense of style
*Natural and relaxing ways to beat stress, overcome sleep problems, and handle pregnancy fears
*How to treat painful—and often embarrassing—pregnancy problems naturally and easily, and how to know when it’s time to seek a doctor’s help
*Advice on how to blend your career obligations with impending motherhood—and look and feel great while doing it!
*How to make pregnant sex the best sex of your life
Written in the caring, one-on-one tone of a best friend, Your Perfectly Pampered Pregnancy is a unique (and long overdue) addition to the booming baby category.
Publishers Weekly
With this volume, Bouchez (Getting Pregnant) aims to fill one of the few holes left in the ever-expanding pregnancy book category by giving instructions for pampering a woman heavy with child. She points out that as mothers "concentrate on doing everything for our baby, too often, it seems, we can begin to lost sight of ourselves." But a good way to have a happy, healthy pregnancy is to "be kind to yourself, stay in touch with who you are, and treat yourself with the loving care and respect that you deserve." To that end, Bouchez guides readers through treating the common complaints of pregnancy, maintaining a sense of style and being a "hot mamma," enjoying sex and more. Friendly "real life" and "mother knows best" sidebars offer down-to-earth advice; quotations from experts (like the editors of Natural Health and Good Housekeeping) lend an air of authority. This is, however, more than just a pampering book-it gives a reassuring sense of what a woman can expect from pregnancy and advice for taking wonderful care of herself through it all.
Library Journal
With this collection of ideas about self-care during pregnancy, Bouchez (The V Zone) strives to reach the readers of titles like What To Expect When You're Expecting and The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy. When it comes to details about the physiological challenges of pregnancy and postpartum living, she succeeds, making good use of her extensive research. However, she provides conflicting information on other topics, such as fish consumption during pregnancy. The topically organized work features drop-in quotes from celebrities on appearance and fitness during pregnancy, as well as chapters on makeup, exercise, stress, employment, and sex. Its frank, if sometimes cute, discussion of pregnancy may be appreciated by public library patrons. An optional purchase for larger collections.-Jennifer Burek Pierce, Indiana Univ. SLIS, Indianapolis Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Author: Kenneth W Wanberg
This sequel is a 21-session, 42 hour program including 10 manual guided therapy projects. Level II Therapy assists in developing individualized treatment plans. It is designed for clients with higher levels of AOD disruption and psychosocial problems who need intervention over longer periods of time. The program builds on the core concepts and ideas of DWC Education with a more intensive and therapeutic approach. The primary objectives are preventing recidivism and relapse with the overarching goal of developing strategies for responsible living and change.
Table of Contents:
Session 1: Program Orientation: Understanding and Engaging the Change Process Session 2: Program Orientation: In-Depth Assessment and Targets and Tools for Change Session 3: Pathways to AOD Outcomes and Addiction Session 4: Reviewing Your Problem Outcome Symptoms and Patterns Session 5: Managing AOD Cravings and Urges Session 6: Skills in Cognitive Self-Control: Recognizing and Changing Negative Thoughts Session 7: Skills in Cognitive Self-Control: Recognizing and Changing Error in Thinking Session 8: Skills in Cognitive Self-Control: Managing Stress and Depression Session 9: Skills in Cognitive Self-Control: Recognizing and Managing Anger Session 10: Social and Relationship Skills Building: Learning Communication Tools and Skills Session 11: Social and Relationship Skills Building: Starting a Conversation Session 12: Social and Relationship Skills Building: Giving and Receiving Positive Reinforcement Session 13: Social and Relationship Skills Building: Learning Problem Solving Session 14: Social and Relationship Skills Building: Assertiveness Skills Session 15: Social and Relationship Skills Building: Practice Refusal Skills Session 16: Social and Relationship Skills Building: Developing and Keeping Intimate Relationships Session 17: Strengthening Recidivism and Relapse Prevention Skills Session 18: Relapse and Recidivism Prevention: Your Relapse Recidivism Prevention Plan and Lifestyle Balance Session 19: Community Responsibility Skills: Strengthening Character and Prosocial Values and Behavior Session 20: Community ResponsibilitySkills: Understanding and Practice Empathy Session 21: Community Responsibility and Relationship Skills: Resolving Conflicts and Negotiation Skill Development
