Tackle weight loss, failure and unruly children in these new books
By M. CLARE HAEFNER | Covers courtesy of the publishers
Many people struggle with health issues — from finding the right diet plan to lose weight, to understanding how the brain works to process emotions and behaviors. Though medical advice should never come solely from books, these new releases may inspire you to make changes to improve your health or outlook, or motivate you to seek help from a licensed medical or mental health professional.
Drawing from her experience coaching hundreds of women, advanced certified weight and life coach Heather V. Beardsley takes readers on a journey of self-discovery, teaching them how to reshape their mindset and transform their relationship with food. Love Life and Lose Weight prompts readers to reflect on their habits to understand why they make certain decisions about food, then encourages them to make sustainable changes that Beardsley says will help them eat better, trust their bodies and lose weight. As with any diet plan, readers are encouraged to check with their doctor to ensure changes will not adversely affect any health conditions or medications.
We all fail, but Amy Edmondson believes it’s how we fail that matters. Rather than seeing it as the opposite of success, she believes failure can be a friend as long as we also learn to prevent harmful forms of failure. Grounded in decades of award-winning research, Right Kind of Wrong presents a framework to think, discuss and practice failure wisely. Edmondson explains the three archetypes of failure — basic, complex and intelligent — then showcases how to minimize unproductive failure while maximizing gains from mistakes of all kinds.
Kids driving you crazy? Check out Calm the Chaos by Dayna Abraham. Her clearly organized, methodical approach to parenting offers a road map with five steps to calming the chaos — getting to safety, restoring trust and energy, finding calm in the moment, getting ahead of the moment, and defining family success. Each step, backed by science and tested by hundreds of families, comes with a framework that is easy to remember when emotions run high. Abraham’s goal is to help parents support healthy kids and have a safe, happy home.
