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Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Challem explains the reasons why so many of us feel tired, including stress, eating habits, hormones, illness, aging, thyroid issues and adrenal fatigue. The book provides simple ways to beat fatigue and live a more energized life through nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle changes.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While burnout may seem like the default setting for the modern era, Petersen argues that burnout is a definitional condition for the millennial generation. It is born out of distrust in the institutions that have failed us, the unrealistic expectations of the modern workplace, and a sharp uptick in anxiety and hopelessness exacerbated by the constant pressure to 'perform' our lives online. She examines the phenomenon through a variety of lenses, and...
Author
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Get to the root cause of your fatigue and reclaim your vitality. Living with fatigue can feel hopeless and confusing, with traditional medical approaches focusing on managing symptoms rather than understanding and addressing underlying causes. But healing is possible when you learn to decode your fatigue and apply the right interventions, in the right sequence, at the right time. After suffering from chronic fatigue for seven years, renowned health...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Emory University sociologist who coined the term languishing-low-grade mental weariness that affects our self-esteem, relationships, and motivation-explores the rise of this phenomenon and presents a comprehensive guide to flourishing in a world that demands too much. If you're muddling through the day in a fog, often forgetting why you walked into a room . . . If you feel emotionally flattened, lacking the energy to socialize or feel joy in...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves Christmas. For a decade she's hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her a bestseller even as her chronic illness has always kept the kind of love she writes about out of reach. But when her diversity-conscious publisher insists she write a Hanukkah romance, her well of inspiration suddenly runs dry. Hanukkah's not magical....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A guide to improving digestive health and alleviating related disorders outlines an integrative cleansing plan based on the author's own struggles with IBS to explain how to incorporate probiotics and nutrients while eliminating triggers and toxins.
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Do you ever feel like: You're teetering right on the edge of burnout? You want to make a higher contribution, but lack the energy? You're running faster but not moving closer to your goals? Everything is so much harder than it used to be? As high achievers, we've been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. That if we aren't perpetually...
11) Fighting fatigue in multiple sclerosis: practical ways to create new habits and increase your energy
Author
Publisher
Demos Health
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Honest and hilarious, a humorist, in this cautionary tale, examines how treating ourselves with never-ending self-improvement projects is a recipe for burnout, and takes a good hard look at the dark side of self-help.
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Inside of you, there is a spark--it's what animates you, and without it, you could not live. This energy creation isn't mystical, nor is it spiritual; it is science. We know from research that our cellular machinery transforms the food we eat and the air we breathe into the electricity that fuels us. With the right lifestyle inputs, we glow with energy; but when the demands on our bodies exceed our capacity--as is true for so many of us--we become...
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times best-selling author presents a radical alternative to psychotropic meds: discerning the meaning in your symptoms and your struggle as a way to reclaim your health and your self. For years, we've been telling ourselves that our difficult feelings--sadness, rage, shame, intensity, worry--are somehow "not okay." And, all too often, we've relied on the promise of pharmaceuticals to tamp them down. The fact is, though, that these feelings...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For the past six years, Whitney Dafoe has been confined to a bedroom in the back of his parents' home, unable to walk, to eat, to speak. The sound of music causes him pain. At one point, the formerly healthy, young, freelance photographer, faced starvation as his 6'3" frame withered to 115 pounds. In desperation, Whitney and his parents went from one specialist to another, and still no answers. Then, finally, a diagnosis: the mysterious disease myalgic...
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis. Notes from a Sickbed recalls the next eight years of her life-largely housebound-with honesty, a pointed wit, and a lively visual imagination"--
18) Ill feelings
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography, and literary nonfiction to uncover author Alice Hattrick's and their mother's medically unexplained chronic illnesses"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A literary, historical exploration about the way in which our industrialized lives have made us sick--from diarist Alice James and the 19th century neuraesthenics to current day chronic and stress-related illnesses--that seeks to answer the question who gets sick, and why?"--
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