The First Forty Days

Author : Heng Ou,Amely Greeven,Marisa Belger
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781613129418

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The First Forty Days by Heng Ou,Amely Greeven,Marisa Belger Pdf

After labor, it’s time for rest: A gentle guide to zuo yuezi, the ancient Chinese practice of postpartum self-care, including sixty simple recipes. The first forty days after the birth of a child offer an essential and fleeting period of rest and recovery for the new mother. Based on Heng Ou’s own postpartum experience with zuo yuezi, a set period of “confinement” in which a woman remains at home focusing on healing and bonding with her baby, The First Forty Days revives the lost art of caring for the mother after birth. As modern mothers are pushed to prematurely “bounce back” after delivering their babies, and are often left alone to face the physical and emotional challenges of this new stage of their lives, the first forty days provide a lifeline—a source of connection, nourishment, and guidance. This book includes sixty simple recipes for healing soups, replenishing meals and snacks, and calming and lactation-boosting teas, all formulated to support the unique needs of the new mother. In addition to recipes, this warm and encouraging guide offers advice on arranging a system of help during the postpartum period, navigating relationship challenges, and honoring the significance of pregnancy and birth. Fully illustrated, it is a practical guide and inspirational read for all new mothers and mothers-to-be—the perfect ally during the first weeks with a new baby. “Bringing our attention back to the importance of the postpartum period for new mothers helps to create space for this essential period of integration and recovery . . . an invaluable companion during the first 40 days and beyond.” —Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein, filmmakers, The Business of Being Born

Author : Heng Ou,Amely Greeven,Marisa Belger
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781683357995

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Awakening Fertility by Heng Ou,Amely Greeven,Marisa Belger Pdf

A guide to caring for mind and body while trying to conceive from the bestselling authors of The First Forty Days, with recipes included. The path to motherhood is a deep and transformative process. It can also include unexpected twists and turns. Awakening Fertility is a loving companion to accompany you along the journey—whether your desire to become a mother burns fiercely today or is a future calling just beginning to stir. Intended for women at every stage of the preconception process, this book offers wisdom and guidance to support your body, mind, and spirit—including nearly 50 delicious recipes to nourish yourself deeply.

Author : Melody Beattie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781439102169

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Make Miracles in Forty Days by Melody Beattie Pdf

We've all had situations in our lives that seem beyond our control or that have no clear remedy. In this concise, inspirational guide, bestselling self-help guru Melody Beattie shows us that we have the ability to make a miracle for almost any circumstance we're facing. She offers a distillation of what she knows about gratitude, surrender, and connecting with our essential power. She challenges us to be more present each day and details a six-week action plan, the Miracle Exercise, to jump-start transformation in our lives.--From publisher description.

Author : Sarah Brangwynne,Sasha Rose Oxnard
Publisher : Ancient Faith Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944967648

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A Sacred Beginning by Sarah Brangwynne,Sasha Rose Oxnard Pdf

Traditionally, the Orthodox Church has appointed forty days of rest and seclusion after childbirth for mothers to recover from the rigors of birth and get to know their new babies. In the modern world, it can be difficult to understand how to use this time to the fullest in the way it was intended. The authors of A Sacred Beginning-a therapist and a pediatrician who are both mothers themselves-come to the rescue with a resource that addresses the spiritual, emotional, and physical aspects of a mother's recovery from birth and embarkation on her new life. Whether you are preparing to birth your first baby or your tenth, you will find in this book a wealth of spiritual food, comfort, encouragement, and sound advice to guide you, one postpartum day at a time.

Author : Kimberly Ann Johnson
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781611804003

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The Fourth Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson Pdf

A guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels. This holistic guide offers practical advice to support women through postpartum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels—and provides women with a roadmap to this very important transition that can last from a few months to a few years. Kimberly Ann Johnson draws from her vast professional experience as a doula, postpartum consultant, yoga teacher, body worker, and women’s health care advocate, and from the healing traditions of Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and herbalism—as well as her own personal experience—to cover • how you can prepare your body for birth; • how you can organize yourself and your household for the best possible transition to motherhood; • simple practices and home remedies to facilitate healing and restore energy; • how to strengthen relationships and aid the return to sex; • learning to exercise safely postpartum; • carrying your baby with comfort; • exploring the complex and often conflicting emotions that arise postpartum; • and much more.

Author : Bob Simon
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Persian Gulf War, 1991
ISBN : UOM:39015025275283

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Forty Days by Bob Simon Pdf

CBS News correspondent Bob Simon recounts his captivity in Iraq during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Author : Timothy Goodman,Jessica Walsh
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781613127155

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40 Days of Dating by Timothy Goodman,Jessica Walsh Pdf

“What would happen if Harry met Sally in the age of Tinder and Snapchat? . . . A field guide to Millennial dating in New York City” (New York Daily News). When New York–based graphic designers and long-time friends Timothy Goodman and Jessica Walsh found themselves single at the same time, they decided to try an experiment. The old adage says that it takes forty days to change a habit—could the same be said for love? So they agreed to date each other for forty days, record their experiences in questionnaires, photographs, videos, texts, and artworks, and post the material on a website they would create for this purpose. What began as a small experiment between two friends became an Internet sensation, drawing five million unique (and obsessed) visitors from around the globe to their site and their story. 40 Days of Dating: An Experiment is a beautifully designed, expanded look at the experiment and the results, including a great deal of material that never made it onto the site, such as who they were as friends and individuals before the forty days and who they have become since.

Author : John Booker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000451092

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Forty Days by John Booker Pdf

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. Quarantine was performed in virtual prisons ranging from mud huts in the Danube basin to a converted fort on Malta, evoking every emotion from hatred and hostility through to resignation and even contentment. Drawing on the diaries and journals of some 300 men and women of many nationalities over more than two centuries, the author describes the inadequate accommodation, poor food and crushing boredom experienced by detainees. The book also draws attention to comradeship, sickness, and death in detention, as well as Casanova’s unique ability to do what he did best even in the lazaretto of Ancona. Other well-known detainees included Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain and Sir Walter Scott. Lavishly illustrated, the work includes a gazetteer of 49 lazarettos in Europe and Asia Minor, with inmates’ comments on each. This book will appeal to all those interested in the history of medicine and the history of travel.

Author : Robert Schnase
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426715945

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Forty Days of Fruitful Living by Robert Schnase Pdf

Forty Days of Fruitful Living

Author : Debi Holmes-Binney
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580054188

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Desert Sojourn by Debi Holmes-Binney Pdf

The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian trading route. Faith Adiele, a black Buddhist nun, enters a deserted train station at 3:00 a.m. in a Thai village controlled by armed bandits. Ena Singh negotiates with Russian police to visit the blue-domed city of Samarkand. In A Woman Alone, these women and others tell their funny, thrilling, occasionally terrifying, ultimately transformative stories of navigating some of the most unusual destinations on the globe.

Author : Sean Palmer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830847471

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Forty Days on Being a Three by Sean Palmer Pdf

What is it like to be an Enneagram Three? Pastor Sean Palmer reflects on this question in a spirit of honest self-assessment. He draws wisdom from the deep wells of both counseling and spirituality using illustrations from Scripture and life. Each of the forty daily readings concludes with an opportunity for further engagement such as a journaling prompt, a written prayer, or a spiritual practice. Any of us can find aspects of ourselves in any of the numbers. The Enneagram is a profound tool for empathy, so whether or not you are a Three, you will grow from your reading about Threes and enhance your relationships across the Enneagram spectrum.

Author : Tara Beth Leach
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830847532

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Forty Days on Being a Six by Tara Beth Leach Pdf

"When I discovered I was an Enneagram Six, I didn't want to be one." Pastor Tara Beth Leach continues, "I hated that I was marked by fear," reflecting on how fear and anxiety can plague a Six—whether they are pulling back from or diving right in to the things that feel threatening. She explores what it means for her to be a redeemed Six who is allowing Jesus to transform her a little at a time. Whether you are a Six, have a Six wing, or have a friend or spouse who is a Six, you will find wisdom here as Tara Beth explores her own journey of deepening self-understanding through the Enneagram. To take you deeper, each of these forty daily readings concludes with a prayer, a spiritual practice, or a reflection question.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547117650

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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Michaela Özelsel
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781590300534

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Forty Days by Michaela Özelsel Pdf

This is a woman's firsthand account of a Sufi halvet, a forty-day retreat conducted in complete isolation, along with strict fasting from sunrise to sundown. Voluntarily confined to a sparsely furnished room amid the bustle of Istanbul, Michaela Özelsel will occupy her time with reading the Qur'an and works of Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and with praying and practicing the powerful Sufi exercise known as zhikr, the rhythmic repetition of names of God or other sacred formulas, accompanied by movements of the head or body. In intimate detail Dr. Özelsel shares her experiences as she strives to attain true "Islam" in its meaning of surrender or unconditional acceptance of the will of God. Her daily journal ranges over the frustrations of noisy neighbors, power outages, and a poorly heated room; her inner longings, doubts, and memories of the life course that has brought her to this moment; and the most inspirational philosophical insights, dreams and visions, and ecstatic raptures. The second half of the book is devoted to the author's psychological and cultural commentary on her experiences, including observations about the methods of Sufi schooling, sexuality and spirituality, and the relationship with the spiritual guide. Forty Days is unique in the literature of spiritual education because it is informed by her knowledge of contemporary research from several disciplines, thus creating a bridge between ancient wisdom and scientific investigation.

Author : Franz Werfel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel Pdf