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Self-Nurture: Learning to Care for Yourself as Effectively as You Care for Everyone Else
- By Alice Domar, Ph.D. and Henry Dreher. Viking, 1999. Paperback: Penguin, 2001- National Bestseller (San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe).
- Finalist "Books for a Better Life" Award
- Amazon.com's Editor's Choice: Best Health Book of 2000
- First serial rights obtained by Family Circle; second serial rights to Natural Health.
- A selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club.
- Publicity: Good Morning America, NPR's Talk of the Nation
Think about how you feel at the end of a day when you find your first free moment so late in the evening that you're too exhausted to enjoy it. If you've had too many days like this, find the help you need to transform your life in Self-Nurture. Harvard psychologist Alice D. Domar, Ph.D. and health writer Henry Dreher show you how to restructure your life in a way that lets you breathe. Here are inspiring stories, easy-to-follow exercises, and meditations that will shift your focus from self-sacrifice to self-care. Written with wisdom and humor, Self-Nurture will empower you to develop the same fierce and tender concern for yourself that you've always given to those you love-a gift for anyone who needs to learn the art of self-care.
Review from Amazon.com (Selected as best health book of 2001 by Amazon editors)
"One of the greatest challenges women face is learning how to nurture themselves. The tendency, of course, is for women to put themselves last on the list--taking care of everyone and everything else before they tend to their own emotional, physical, or spiritual needs, according to author Alice D. Domar, Ph.D. Yet, ironically, when women put themselves last on the list, they find themselves stressed out, depleted of energy, and unable to give their family members or jobs the full attention they need. As the director of the Mind/Body Center for Women's Health at Harvard Medical School, Domar has developed a comprehensive, year-long program to help women learn the crucial art of self-nurturing.
"The book is divided into a year of seasonal themes, starting with winter, which represents a time of "primal self-care." Domar offers specific meditation and relaxation exercises as well as essays that help women contemplate their role in the family. In springtime, Domar emphasizes physical strengthening and healing through exercises, yoga, and creating a more positive body image. Ultimately, Domar leads women into a discussion of spiritual strengthening--how to bring the soul into the workplace, and why it's essential that women commit to a connection with God or one's unique spirituality. Fortunately, Domar has been teaching this path for years, which means her advice is tried and tested (she's somewhat famous for treating stress-reduction techniques to chronically infertile women and helping the vast majority to conceive). Her approach is inviting, funny, and (best of all) practical for women of all walks of life." --Gail Hudson
Review From Publisher's Weekly (Starred review)
"Distinguished from other books on managing women's particular stresses by Domar's expert credentials and the respect, collegiality and purpose with which she addresses her audience, this book persuasively argues that all women should commit as much effort to their own creative, emotional and spiritual self-care as they do to the needs of others. At a Harvard fertility clinic, psychologist Ph.D. Domar introduced a variety of stress management techniques to women whose high-tech fertilization procedures were not working. The high pregnancy rates that followed were widely covered by the media. As a result, Harvard funded a Mind/Body Center for Women's Health at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, directed by Domar, to explore the effects of stress on women's illnesses. Well versed in the literature and research of mind-body practices, Domar (Healing Mind, Healthy Woman) synthesizes popular and effective stress-reduction techniques--including Benson's Relaxation Response, breathing work, muscle relaxation, meditation, mindfulness and yoga--and recommends their specific application. She draws from the work of Maggie Scarf, Julia Cameron and Thomas Moore, as well as from her practice and her own life, to illustrate their effects. Contemporary but by no means faddish, the book encourages keeping a journal and using affirmations, nurturing one's body, and performing acts of kindness. Moreover, it effectively demonstrates the need and value of these practices in women's lives."
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words
"This is a wonderful book about living with integrity not just toward others but toward ourselves as well."
Joan Borysenko, author of A Woman's Book of Life
"Reading Self-Nurture is like a gift to yourself or any woman you know and care about."
James S. Gordon, Director, Center for Mind-Body Medicine, author of Manifesto for a New Medicine’
"In Self-Nurture, Dr. Alice Domar and Henry Dreher offer women a guide to caring for themselves in every sense of the meaning of those words. The book, like a wise friend, is clear, thoughtful, and always compassionate."
Herbert Benson, M.D., author of The Relaxation Response and Timeless Healing
"Practical and understanding advicve from a highly respected and trusted researcher and therapist whose knowledge can now benefit many more."
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