Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
10 best books like Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children (Jean Illsley Clarke): Black Hole, The Wonky Donkey, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic, Light on Yoga, Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions, Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha, Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists, The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it,...
| Author | Craig Smith |
| ISBN | 1869439260 |
So I jumped on the bandwagon and got this for my boys after seeing the video of the hilarious Scottish granny reading it to her grandson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co...
Just try saying "he was a stinky dinky lanky honky tonky winky wonky donkey" out loud. If that doesn't make you...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
| Author | Bessel A. van der Kolk |
| ISBN | 0670785938 |
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
| Author | Esther Perel |
| ISBN | 0060753633 |
Esther Perel takes on tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. She invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.
In...
| Author | B.K.S. Iyengar |
| ISBN | 0805210318 |
Light on Yoga has become the bible for hundreds of thousands of people who practice Yoga daily with the Iyengar method, for exercise, meditation, or simply relaxation. With more than 600 photographs depicting all the postures and breathing exercises, it remains the fullest, most practical, and most...
Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth
| Author | Grantly Dick-Read |
| ISBN | 0953096467 |
Although "Childbirth Without Fear" is a catchy title, I think a more accurate title would have been "Childbirth Without Ignorance." The basic gist is that the more a mother knows about the mechanics of childbirth, the more she is able to relax and break the fear-tension-pain cycle that leads to [in Dick-Read's...
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
| Author | Russell Brand |
| ISBN | 1250141923 |
A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery
-This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification is not...
Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha
| Author | Satyananda Saraswati |
| ISBN | 8186336141 |
Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha is recognised internationally as one of the most systematic yoga manuals today. Since it's first publication by the Bihar School of yoga in 1969 it has been reprinted thirteen times and translated into many languages. It is the main reference text used by Yoga teachers...
Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists
| Author | Thomas W. Myers |
| ISBN | 0443063516 |
An accessible and comprehensive approach to the anatomy and function of the fascial system in the body combined with a holistic overview of myofascial therapy. Many different therapists now use myofascial techniques to influence postural change and pain relief. This book demonstrates exactly...
The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess
| Author | Lou Schuler |
| ISBN | 1583332944 |
I would love to do a feminist deconstruction of this book. A "women's" fitness book written by a man with workouts designed by another man? A book that claims to be about lifting but instead emphasizes weight loss, "looking like a goddess" and being stronger but not looking strong? A book that constantly...
