Medical
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All They Really Need
Trusting the Wisdom of Nature to Raise Resilient Kids by Dr. Leslie Solomonian and Heather Hudson
All They Really Need is a powerful counter-narrative to fear-based parenting and the artificial answers to life’s basic needs. In a relatable and common-sense way, authors Leslie Solomonian and Heather Hudson address today’s biggest parenting...
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The Mission of Maya and Methuselah
A Medical Guide for Aging in Place by Karen Marie Humphreys
The Mission of Maya and Methuselah guides readers through a practical and well-researched program that will prepare them for their final fifteen to twenty years of life. Geared to people in their forties and older, the preparation focuses on...
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Skull Fragments
Expressions of My TBI LIfe by Len Roach
It’s estimated that one in three people have suffered an acquired brain injury in their lifetime. Yet so little is understood about brain health and its various injuries, especially the daily and personal effects. Author Len Roach knows these...
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Managing Parkinson's
My Sixteen Year Journey by VR Peterson
You must be joking! What is Parkinson’s disease? Why is this happening to me? What caused this to happen? In January 2007, at the age of sixty-one, fit and active educator Vic Peterson is completely rocked by the news that the tremor in his right...
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5 Minute Psychotherapy Techniques
Trauma-Informed Practices by Jenny H. Hsueh
Five Minute Psychotherapy Techniques is a one-stop resource that makes psychotherapy from many schools of thought easy to learn and apply. The techniques are trauma-informed, evidence-based, and drawn from mindfulness, body-based therapy,...
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123 Very Short Stories from a Long Life in Medicine
by Stan Lubin
A baby is born, after a long nerve-wracking labour. A family struggles to make the right end-of-life decision for an elderly relative. Addicts and eccentrics find themselves in hospital emergency rooms. And doctors are there: treating patients...
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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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How I Got Better From A Traumatic Brain Injury
For anyone who ever had a TBI, past or present by Madeleine Welton
Both incredibly informative and deeply heart-rending, How I Survived a Traumatic Brain Injury tells the story of author Madeleine Welton’s recovery after she sustained a traumatic brain injury in 1993. Her moving account of learning to walk,...
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Searching for Truth
Illusions or Realities by Jacques G. LeBlanc
Searching for truth is not a search for God. It is a journey into the self and what shapes humanity on earth. Truth seeking involves deep introspection and reflection, an open mind and the courage to look into life in our society and our earth....
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Frontiers
The Journey of Two Surgeons Through Stroke by Dr. Siva Murugappan and Dr. Prema Samy
We can’t always predict when the unexpected will happen. Dr. Siva Murugappan understands this more than most. As a general surgeon, he’s an expert on prevention and protocols. A stroke definitely wasn’t on the agenda; he’d just climbed Mount...