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Get the Summary of Emily Nagoski's Come As You Are in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes.
As you read this summary, you will discover how you can grow more fully in your sex life as a woman. You will also discover: that your sexuality is influenced and limited by social...
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Get the Summary of Megan Ramos's The Essential Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Essential Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women" by Megan Ramos explores the benefits of intermittent fasting (IF) for women, emphasizing its role in weight management, hormone balance, and overall health. Ramos distinguishes fasting from starvation, highlighting its safety and efficacy...
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#1 Women are more ready than men to tackle the next phase of their lives. They don't just survive, they prevail. They are liberated to look at other, perhaps larger matters.
#2 Your Next Third is the great period of your life, after the absolute worst has already happened. Instead of getting old and fat and ridiculous in your thirties and forties, you can remain essentially...
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#1 Focus on your own needs, and not those of others, if you want to have a lean, strong body. Exercising is the best way to help your loved ones, as well as yourself, in the long run.
#2 You should make time for yourself to exercise, as exercise is critical to your health and well-being. However, gyms are also guilty of exploiting the belief that women like exercising...
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#1 I was twelve hours from death when I called the surgeon who had removed my cervix. I was loath to cry wolf again, but my apartment looked like a crime scene. I was crying medium-sized dog, possibly rabid.
#2 I was grateful for my escape from a toxic and lonely marriage, but I've been as alone as I've ever been. My eldest has been living with his girlfriend in Bangkok,...
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#1 Acupuncture is the stimulation of specific acupuncture points along the skin of the body involving various methods such as penetration by thin needles or the application of heat, pressure, or laser light. It is a form of alternative medicine and a key component of traditional Chinese medicine.
#2 The meridian system is a traditional Chinese medicine belief about a...
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Book Preview: #1 Winnicott's term, Good Enough Mother, refers to a mother who meets her child's needs in this way. parenting that is good enough takes many forms, but all of them meet a child's emotional or physical need in any given moment.
#2 Emotionally neglectful parents are those who fail their child in some critical way in a moment of crisis, causing the child a wound that may...
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#1 There are times when you feel hesitant or unsure about something, so you seek a bit of reassurance, and it works. But there are other times when you become so overwhelmed with the need to know for sure that you are making the right decision or evaluating something properly that no amount of reassurance seems enough.
#2 Sometimes reassurance sticks and sometimes it...
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Get the Summary of Brendan Borrell's The First Shots in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive through compulsively readable, first-time reporting on the players leading the fight against a vicious virus. The First Shots, soon to be the subject...
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#1 I took my first microdose of LSD today. I had never been a regular drug user, but I had used illegal drugs several times in my life. I was not a fan of the taste of alcohol, and was easily intoxicated. I rarely drank.
#2 I had no idea how to buy drugs, so I began calling my gay male friends, hoping they would know someone who knew someone who knew someone who could...
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Book Preview: #1 Do not tell your narcissistic mother that you have a personality disorder. She will not hear you, and she will become even more defensive and attack you if you do. She needs to believe she is perfect, and will never consider that she is less than perfect.
#2 The first step in dealing with your mother is to continue seeing her as often as you already do, but keep your...
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#1 The first five words or phrases that come to mind when you think of an old person are usually negative. However, this reflects the vast range of age beliefs that exist in different cultures, which ultimately determines how we age and how well we hear and remember.
#2 Age beliefs are mental maps of how we expect older people to behave based on age. They are the product...
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#1 The human mind is made up of subpersonalities, or parts, that exist inside of us and struggle with irrational emotions and desires. These parts are like little people who are doing the best they can to cope with discomfort and pain.
#2 IFS is not the first system of therapy to recognize this. Carl Jung saw it a century ago, and other therapy approaches have been built around this...
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Get the Summary of David Nott's War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
For more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993 to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with...
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#1 Mothering is the most important job there is, and yet when we try to define what makes a good mother, we are unable to find the right words. Mothering requires three essential elements: nurturance, protection, and guidance.
#2 Mother Hunger emerges from the intergenerational inheritance of a culture that prefers men and masculine traits, while devaluing women and feminine traits.
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#1 There is a big discrepancy among experts' estimates of how many thyroid patients exist in the United States. The common assessment seems to be about 20 million Americans, while some groups estimate 27 million, with 13 million of them undiagnosed.
#2 The only way to prevent yourself from rapidly deteriorating from hypothyroidism is to learn all you can about the condition,...
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#1 When the Monkey Mind is in charge, it uses your self-judgments to create dramatic storylines. Anxiety fuels this critical story, throwing plot twists and dramatic turns into the movie of your life. When you listen to the Monkey Mind, you may feel a variety of emotions such as anger, disappointment, sadness, shame, fear, and depression.
#2 The author's wife, Elizabeth,...
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#1 The game of golf is 90 percent mental. When Yogi Berra became manager of the Yankees, a reporter asked if he had enough experience to handle the job. Sure, Berra said. I've been playing 18 years, and you can observe a lot just by watching.
#2 The mind is like a VCR. It records sights and sounds, and the tape plays continuously. The human body treats every vivid thought...
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#1 The aphrodisia regime, defined in terms of marriage, procreation, and a disqualification of pleasure, was formulated by non-Christian philosophers and teachers, and their pagan society followed it. Christians did not follow this code of conduct, but they did follow the same principles.
#2 The work of Clement of Alexandria, at the end of the second century, offers...
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