Health and Wellbeing

In this major new work, Father Thomas Keating reflects on the wisdom and legacy of the Alcoholics Anonymous Twelve-Step Method and its connections to, and similarities with, the Christian mystical traditions of centering prayer and Lectio Divina.

This can be the last weight-loss book you ever read. Finally, make peace with food and have a body you're proud of by drawing on the wisdom and grace already inside you. Replace cravings with calmness. Relate to food as a loving friend, not a feared enemy.

In this companion to his first book, An Unchanged Mind, John A. McKinnon provides invaluable advice to all parents of teenagers and young adults. Using case studies gathered from his years helping parents with troubled adolescents, Dr.

For many parents of troubled teenagers, a therapeutic programme that takes the child from the home for a period of time offers some respite from the daily tumult of playing up, lies and tension that has left the family under siege.

What lies behind America's historic romance with the gun? Why does it have such a troubled relationship with alcohol and drugs? Why is it so wedded to consumerism and so resistant to the evidence of climate change?

A popular and respected blogger in Québec, Canada, Élise Desaulniers is a food ethics and animal rights advocate who is, also, interested in public policy, philosophy and feminism. In CASH COW, she takes a hard look at the dairy industry and how it has persuaded the general public of the naturalness and value of cows' milk in the human diet.

You're interested in becoming a vegan but aren't sure what it will be like. You've just started out on your vegan journey and you're feeling isolated and wondering how to deal with friends and family. You've been a vegan for so long that you've forgotten the original impetus for your making the change and want to feel renewed.

What is as simple as eating an apple? And yet, what could be more sacred or profound? Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the natural order and with our cultural heritage. But it is increasingly clear that the choices we make about food today are leading to environmental degradation, enormous human health problems and unimaginable cruelty toward our fellow creatures.

Interweaving sacred traditions with modern nutritional and environmental science, LOTUS OF THE HEART is a guidebook for living well in today's challenging world. Arguing that what we do to others, we do to the planet and ourselves, Tracey Glover shows us how to release ourselves from the illusion of separation and see how we are truly connected in myriad ways - to our neighbours, our families, ...

Foreword by Peter Singer. In this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives and communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. He argues that, given our present situation, with entire societies dependent on using animals, we need a very pragmatic approach.

Grief and love are at the centre of the human and divine drama. How we find our way through the mazes of these losses and gains determines our character, meaning, purpose and our legacy. When clergyman, psychotherapist and spiritual director, Hal Edwards, lost Betsy, his wife of fifty years, he was perhaps as well placed to chart his passage through that maze as anyone.

This title provides essential information on the benefits that vitamins, other nutrients and lifestyle modifications can offer in an integrated treatment of depression.

The Ancients lived by a feminine cosmology of creation, where everything was born and dissolved through a sacred universal Womb. Within each of us, whether female or male, lies a holographic blueprint of this Womb of Creation, connecting us to the Web of Life.

We all have experienced disappointment, sadness, rejection, or the loss of something meaningful in our lives. When you are wounded, innate animalistic instincts for self-protection kick in as a means for survival. These behaviour patterns are a natural and necessary coping strategy, at first.

The newest treatment for pain is one of the oldest, most effective strategies for pain-free living: meditation.