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Your Mind Catches Every Detail – Except the One That Keeps Sabotaging Your Love Life. Discover why being neurodivergent AND anxiously attached creates relationship challenges others can't understand – and the breakthrough approach that finally makes connection feel safe. For the neurodivergent mind, anxious attachment isn't just relationship insecurity—it's a perfect storm where your brain's unique wiring collides with attachment patterns that traditional relationship advice simply doesn't address.

Now, in audio for the first time, The Birth Partner remains the definitive guide to helping a woman through labor and birth. The Birth Partner includes thorough information on preparing for labor and knowing when it has begun; normal labor and how to help the woman every step of the way; epidurals and other medications for labor; pitocin and other means, including natural ones, to induce or speed up labor; non-drug techniques for easing labor pain; and more.

Women are pursuing their health like never before. Whether it’s juicing, biohacking, clutching crystals, or sipping collagen, today there is something for everyone, as the wellness industry has grown from modest roots into a $4.4 trillion entity and a full-blown movement promising health and vitality in the most fashionable package. But why suddenly are we all feeling so unwell? The truth is that deep within the underbelly of self-care—hidden beneath layers of clever marketing—wellness beckons with a far stronger, more seductive message than health alone.

Loss is difficult...and universal. What do we say? What do we do? Part how-to guide, part hopeful manifesto, Cultivating the Doula Heart provides a clear framework for supporting those facing hardship, grief, and loss. Succinct and straightforward, this work of heart covers: Components of Doula Care, Aspects of Loss, Ways of Being/Ways of Doing, Grief Support, and Contemplative Exercises.

It is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light streaming through the windows, so bright she has to squint, but she finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness, becoming unstable, untethered. As the months come and go and the seasons turn, she must confront what she has lost and what she will become.

Have you ever wondered how a nice person like yourself became a magnet for louses, lowlifes, lunatics, and liars? If so, then this book is definitely a must-read for you. Trust that it will help you with all your relationships, including personal, professional, platonic, and romantic ones. More importantly, this book will help you have a better relationship with God and with yourself. Be prepared to be shocked as you learn just how bad your so-called good traits can be.

Adopting a healthier lifestyle can be challenging, and past efforts may not have yielded the desired results. This book is here to change that. It delivers simple, flexible, evidence-based insights that seamlessly integrate into your daily routine.

Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its 12 chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming through windows, dappled light in the park, distant fireworks, dazzling floodwater, desaturated streetlamps and mysterious explosions. The delicate prose is beautifully patterned: the cumulative effect is disarmingly powerful and bright after-images remain in your mind for a long time afterwards.

Rina Flanagan grew up in Africa, dodging snakes, elephants, teasing uncles and cousins, and other even scarier imagined creatures, and somehow survived to tell the tale...

When Sasha's lover, Alpha, publicly dumps her, she tries to see the bright side of life. However, Alpha's new girlfriend, Tabby, makes Sasha feel ashamed about her circumstances. Tabby and her pals continually make fun of Sasha and harass her when the opportunity comes. Despite her past and hardships, Sasha strives to strike the appropriate balance between her wolf and her new emotions. Even though she does not believe that being in a relationship has any advantages, she is desperate to meet someone who can help her attain her full potential.

Zoey Le Mar has, what she thinks, is a typical preteen life in the suburbs: soccer; a strict yet, loving father and mother; a pesky little brother, Owen; and two best friends, Danielle Hernandez and Lucy Le Mar. Without warning, during the preparations for Owen's birthday party, Zoey receives her first premonition, based on a secret truth. It starts to undermine her once peaceful, 11-year-old existence. The forewarning matches a recurring dream that has plagued Zoey since Owen's current age.

A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past, and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what it is. We are taken to 1945, Hiroshima, and Mizuki's grandfather as a teenage boy chatting at home with his friend Hiro. Moments later the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. What follows is a searing account of the blinding flash, the harrowing search for family and the devastation both human and physical.

Elizabeth Blake, or Lizzie to her friends, had to let go of her identity the day she said "I do" to Victor. She became a robot that he programmed, the perfect doctor's wife. Everything from her hair to her clothes, even her long-standing relationship with her best friend Stella had to go. Lizzie soon finds herself in slacks and button down shirts and her long chestnut hair tied up in a bun. As for her sex life, even on the two occasions a year that Victor does feel like having sex, it is cold and clinical.

When Lark's mum takes her family with her on a research trip to Cambodia, Lark never expects that she'll end up stranded on a deserted island, with no one but a baby gibbon for company. But that's exactly what happens. Lost and with no idea how to survive in the jungle, Lark must learn the ways of the wild from the gibbon. And in return, try to help the gibbon find her way home.

In this fun-filled dive into the wellness industry, journalist Rina Raphael looks at the roots of a sector that is now worth $4.5 trillion dollars and explores why it's been so alluring to women all over the globe, promising health and vitality in the most fashionable package. At times both fun and funny, from interviews with leading players in the industry to adventures in more bizarre practices, The Gospel of Wellness reveals how its growth is a direct result of gender inequalities and structural sexism within medicine and society.

RINAによる「オオカミと７匹の子供ヤギ」朗読です

RINAによる「桃太郎」朗読です

When Alicia gave Maggie a book on healthy eating that she truly thought she would enjoy, Maggie turned on Alicia and never wanted to see or speak to her again. Although Alicia tried asking her what happened, Maggie was adamant on having no contact with Alicia, except for the one time she sent her a letter asking her for money owed to her for accompanying her on her trip and assisting her with office work, although that was never the agreement, and which Alicia ignored.

While all cats are special this tale is of my beloved Felix, who went beyond special to become extraordinary. I dedicate this story to anyone who has loved, or been loved, by their cat.

Sally and Mindy, both real estate agents, drive around the mall's parking lot looking for Mindy's car. Mindy parked there several hours earlier, but it is nowhere to be found. Mindy is getting angry, as she realizes that the people who stole her car can find where she lives through the insurance information left in the car. She also left some real estate files in the car. She is worried about what they will do next. Later, Mindy discovers who she really is and why she was sent to Earth, and what leads to her capture.