Health & Fitness
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From Daylight to Dark
Finding Work in an Inaccessible World by Valerie D. Maidment
When Valerie Maidment was a baby, doctors diagnosed her with hydrocephalus, a condition that causes excess fluid to build in the brain. After the second surgery at age 9, she was declared healthy; she lived a happy, normal life, graduating from...
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Fuel Your Recovery!
Healing with Nutrition in the Journey from Addiction by Nicole Fetterly
Finally, a holistic guide to aid in healing from alcohol and drug addiction with better nutrition! In Fuel Your Recovery, Nicole Fetterly shares how she battled her addictions to alcohol and cannabis for over a decade. And yet her life as a...
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Into The Light
Surviving A Life With Mental Illness by E. Pauline Spurrell
Did you know that most people are affected by mental illness, either by experiencing it themselves or by being close to someone who does? Into the Light: Surviving a Life with Mental Illness brings help and hope to everyone who lives with mental...
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I'm Not Crazy, I'm Celiac
Gluten-Free/Low-Fodmap Cookbook by Lynda Board
After receiving a celiac disease diagnosis in her late thirties, author Lynda Board knows the difficulties of implementing a celiac-safe, reliable, gluten-free diet. People who don’t understand celiac disease thought she was crazy when eating out...
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Laughter, Learning and Gratitude on a Journey with Alzheimer's
by Marlene Loney
This is a book about Alzheimer’s that is funny, positive and heartfelt. The author Marlene Loney documented the twelve year journey with her mother in short stories and ultimately reframed the tragedy of Alzheimer’s into a positive life changing...
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Delegate and Disappear
Invisible Wounds and Mefloquine-Messed Minds by Bruce Given
Overlapping with and compounding the impacts of post-traumatic stress disorder, mefloquine toxicity is a condition caused by anti-malarial drugs once routinely used in the Canadian Armed Forces—issued and ordered to be taken by tens of thousands...
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Obesity
Does it need a Self-Balanced Lifestyle? by Lee B
What contributes to an unhealthy lifestyle? Often linked to decreased physical activity and lack of healthy choices in diet, The Public Health Agency of Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey Data, as well as Canadian Health Measures Survey...
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Swallowed by a Jaguar
A Mother's Memoir on the Loss of an Adult Child by Deborah Pearcey, Amber Landgraff and Michelle Retterath
Through the eyes of her devoted mother, Deborah, Swallowed by a Jaguar unveils the vibrant journey of Amber Landgraff, a passionate woman who lived fiercely despite numerous challenges. From an early age, Amber found inspiration in fine art,...
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The Safe Word is PINEAPPLE!
Mayor to Manic - My Journey Through Crazy by Gerry Taft
A creepy club. A sketchy fast food restaurant. Ultra wealth and urban poverty. A weird night during a political conference in Vancouver turns author Gerry Taft's life—and mind—inside out. Believing he’s about to die, with visions of good and evil...
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Stuttering and its Management
What the Brain Tells Us by William G. Webster
In Stuttering and Its Management, William Webster shares his academic research into brain mechanisms underlying stuttering, as well as his lifelong journey as a person who stutters. Webster explores the patterns of patterns of brain activation in...
