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Recommended Reading

  • Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

    Period Repair Manual is your guide to better periods using natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, and natural hormones. It contains advice and tips for women of every age and situation. If you have a period (or want a period), then this book is for you.

    Topics include:

    How to come off hormonal birth control

    What your period should be like

    What can go wrong

    How to talk to your doctor

    Treatment protocols for all common period problems, including PCOS and endometriosis

    The second edition contains insights from Dr. Jerilynn Prior, more than 300 new references, and an additional chapter on perimenopause and menopause.

    Written by a naturopathic doctor with more than twenty years experience, this book is a compilation of everything that works for hormonal health.

  • In the FLO: Unlock Your Hormonal Advantage and Revolutionize Your Life

    The bestselling author of WomanCode presents a biohacking program for women, teaching them how to use their natural 28-day cycle to optimize their time, diet, fitness, work, and relationships.

    Women have a important biological rhythm they experience every month that affects productivity, weight, sex drive, energy, and mood. It is essential to be aware of and take care of this rhythm, but it has been widely ignored by medical, nutrition and fitness research. So as women, we diet, we deprive, and we cram as much as possible into our day, striving to accomplish impossible to-do lists, and scheduling our lives based on a 24-hour time cycle, ignoring the intuitive time our bodies naturally keep: a monthly cycle with four hormonal phases that offer incredible advantages.

    In the FLO presents a revolutionary 4-week solution to manage your energy and time according to your female biochemistry. By working with each phase, you’ll support your hormones, unlock peak creativity and performance, and avoid burnout. You’ll know exactly when to eat certain foods, clear your social calendar, or ask for a raise—and you’ll have the tools to do so, including:

    · Meal plans and recipes for each phase

    · Charts for phase-specific exercises, work tasks, and relationship activities

    · A daily planner that helps you align with your strengths in each phase

    · A biohacking toolkit for navigating period problems and hormonal birth control

    Alisa Vitti, functional nutrition and women’s hormone expert, bestselling author of WomanCode, and founder of modern hormone healthcare company FLOliving.com, has been teaching women how to reclaim their rhythm for nearly twenty years and has witnessed the incredible rewards it offers—including losing stubborn weight, regaining energy, clearing skin, and minimizing PMS.

    By getting In the FLO, you’ll get more done with less effort, you’ll feel better consistently throughout the month, and you’ll enjoy the freedom that comes with living on your own time.

  • The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep and Sex Drive; Lose Weight; Feel Focused, Vital, and Energized Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol

    The New York Times bestselling guide to hormone balance helps women of all ages achieve increased energy, resilience, vitality, and sensuality through science-based natural therapies.

    All too often women are told that feeling moody, asexual, tapped out, dried up, stressed out, and sleep deprived is just a part of being female. Or they’re led to believe that the answer can be found only at the bottom of a bottle of prescription pills. Dr. Sara Gottfried, a Harvard-educated physician and nationally recognized, board-certified gynecologist, refuses to accept that being a woman means feeling overwhelmed or that popping pills is the new normal. In The Hormone Cure, she shares the unique hormone-balancing program that she has used to help thousands of women reclaim wellness, verve, and optimal health.

    Combining natural therapies with rigorous scientific testing and using an informative questionnaire to identify the common causes of hormonal imbalance, Dr. Gottfried provides an individualized plan in nonjudgmental and thoughtful language. Based on ten years’ study of cutting-edge medical research as a specialist in functional and integrative therapies, Dr. Gottfried’s three-tiered treatment strategy includes:

    •Supplements and targeted lifestyle changes that address underlying deficiencies

    •Herbal therapies that restore balance and optimize your body’s natural function

    •Bioidentical hormones—most available without a prescription

    The Hormone Cure is a groundbreaking book that demonstrates how balancing your hormones can cure underlying health issues and result in restored sleep, greater energy, improved mood, easy weight loss, increased productivity, and many more benefits. Dr. Sara Gottfried’s The Hormone Cure will transform your life.

  • The 4-Week Endometriosis Diet Plan: 75 Healing Recipes to Relieve Symptoms and Regain Control of Your Life

    Treat your endo by treating yourself to the right foods.

    Endometriosis feels like an endless challenge, but you can give your body a boost in the battle against pain and bloating. The 4-Week Endometriosis Diet Plan shows you how to manage endo naturally by taking control of what you eat—which has been proven to help you feel better.

    This up-to-date, month-long plan is designed to reverse malnutrition, balance blood sugar, and reduce your discomfort—while letting you customize meals for your body. The recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert include tasty ingredients like garden veggies, fresh fish, healing herbs, grass-fed meats, and more. Keep tabs on your progress with a symptom tracker, and discover lifestyle adjustments that could further reduce your endometriosis symptoms.

    The 4-Week Endometriosis Diet Plan includes:

    Guide to endo—Learn what endometriosis means, why it's hard to diagnose, what range of treatments are available—and that you're not alone.

    4 healing weeks—Address your endometriosis symptoms with a 28-day meal plan, including nutrition facts and shopping lists.

    75 nourishing recipes—Enjoy flavorful dishes like Moroccan Turkey and Sweet Potato Breakfast Bake, Summer Herbed Carrots, Lemon Walnut Mackerel, Mum's Flourless Chocolate Cake, and more.

    Keep your body—and taste buds—happy with The 4-Week Endometriosis Diet Plan.

  • The Moon Cycle Cookbook: A Holistic Nutrition Guide for a Well-Balanced Menstrual Cycle

    The Moon Cycle Bakery, founded in 2017, creates sweet treats that replenish certain micronutrients women lose during the different stages of their menstrual cycle. In The Moon Cycle Cookbook, bakery founder Devon Loftus and nutritionist Jenna Radomski empower women to nourish themselves with recipes for sweets, savory meals, and snacks, organized around each of the four phases of the menstrual cycle, that can be customized to suit their bodies’ fluctuating needs.

    Every recipe is formulated with the knowledge of what is happening hormonally in a woman’s body during each cycle phase, using ingredients that replenish and support essential nutrients.

    Suffering from cramps? Try adding more cacao to your diet.

    Mood swings? A sweet potato brownie can help with that.

    A happy mix of creativity, self-empowerment, and downright deliciousness, this wellness guide demystifies menstrual health, educating readers about their unique needs and helping them to deepen their self-care regimen.

    Sidebars feature suggested self-care practices and rituals to enhance a woman's connection to her body and understanding of how to nurture a healthy cycle.

  • Ayurveda for Women: The Power of Food as Medicine with Recipes for Health and Wellness

    Eat to heal! This accessible Ayurveda book for women taps into the ancient wisdom and power of food as medicine with recipes, menus, and culinary remedies for dosha imbalances and common ailments.

    Practiced for over 5,000 years in India, Ayurveda is the health-care manual for balanced energy and finding relief from ailments that affect a woman’s well-being. Certified Ayurveda practitioner Emily L. Glaser shares her knowledge of this holistic medicine in an accessible way—with guidance on how to integrate Ayurveda on the path toward healing and balanced living. The power of Ayurveda’s timeless wisdom, writes Glaser, can be found in the kitchen and what you put in your body. Every meal is an opportunity to choose food as medicine, and when you do, Ayurvedic cooking can be a powerful approach to taking control of your health while supporting the demands of day-to-day life. This Ayurveda book includes:

    Ayurveda basics: Get an overview of the holistic principles, determine your unique constitution and any dosha imbalances, and discover the foods and recipes that are right for you.

    Encyclopedia + remedies cookbook: From hot flashes and menstrual cramps to depression and insomnia, learn how to find relief across a wide variety of health issues and restore imbalances with traditional Ayurveda recipes.

    Accessible everyday recipes: Find helpful menus and simple, seasonal recipes designed for your unique energetic balance.

  • Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Lif

    A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.

    For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently—and far less seriously—than its male counterpart.

    That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them.

    In the years since the book’s initial publication, countless women have learned through Nagoski’s accessible and informative guide that things like stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it—and that even if you don’t always feel like it, you are already sexually whole by just being yourself. This revised and updated edition continues that mission with new information and advanced research, demystifying and decoding the science of sex so that everyone can create a better sex life and discover more pleasure than you ever thought possible.

  • Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine New Edition: 560 Herbs and Remedies for Common Ailments

    Discover how to make and use natural remedies from home-grown herbs to improve your health and wellbeing.

    In recent years, more people than ever have turned to natural remedies for general health and wellbeing, and for help with ailments, from the common cold to arthritis. This comprehensive book of expert advice teaches you how to grow your own herbs, harvest plants from the wild, and process ingredients to create your own cabinet of natural remedies, all with safety in mind.

    In this updated, expanded, and fully redesigned edition of his bestselling classic, author Andrew Chevallier – a fellow and former president of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists – combines the latest scientific research with the traditional and folkloric use of the plants to give detailed information about the benefits and constituents of more than 560 herbs, from aloe vera and cardamom through to witch hazel and yarrow.

    Dive deep into the pages of this nature book to discover:

    - An unrivalled and expanded range of herbs, showcasing more than 560 plants and their properties, as well as remedy lists for almost 150 ailments, from stress to skin problems.

    - Written by bestselling author Andrew Chevallier, an experienced medical herbalist and healer.

    - Combines detailed images with an accessible writing style, making herbal healing and home remedies applicable for all.

    - Updated throughout to include the latest scientific research, including 11 new key herbs.

    Clear imagery will help you identify and distinguish between the different healing plants, while a detailed self-help section shows you how to treat more than 150 common ailments, including with practical herbal remedies you can make at home: learn how to create delicate tea infusions, strong tinctures, sweet syrups, infused oils, powdered poultices, and more.

    Whether you're a natural health newbie or an experienced herbalist, the Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine is the unrivaled guide to natural healing, with practical recipes and advice you can trust.

  • The Vagus Nerve Reset: Train Your Body to Heal Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety

    With practical, immediate ways to establish a mindful connection with our bodies, The Vagus Nerve Reset is an introduction to the nervous system, and helps us tap into our body’s innate capacity to process and return to a state of safety, transforming the way we respond to every kind of challenge in life.

    Feeling anxious and disconnected are signs of a nervous system that’s out of balance. Something as small as a curt message from your boss can be perceived by your body as a threat—which triggers a change in your vagus nerve (a cranial nerve that runs from your brain to your abdomen). In The Vagus Nerve Reset, somatic therapist Anna Ferguson offers easy tools and exercises, grounded in the science of Polyvagal Theory, to help train your nervous system to stop overreacting and start responding more calmly to day-to-day stressors. By tuning in to your vagus nerve you can gently shape your nervous system to achieve greater resilience, improved sleep and digestion, relief from anxiety, and healing from past traumas.

    The power of somatic therapy: learn how to work with your body to change the way you feel, think, and behave to become more resilient

    Positively change your mood and behavior: you’ll assess how your vagus nerve is functioning, then incorporate practices such as breath, touch, movement, and intention to grow your connection to your body

    Polyvagal Theory made easy: understand the underlying principle of how the nervous system regulates feelings of safety and how one responds to experiences in the world

  • Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

    The instant New York Times bestseller

    End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself.

    Healthy boundaries. We all know we should have them--in order to achieve work/life balance, cope with toxic people, and enjoy rewarding relationships with partners, friends, and family. But what do "healthy boundaries" really mean--and how can we successfully express our needs, say "no," and be assertive without offending others?

    Licensed counselor, sought-after relationship expert, and one of the most influential therapists on Instagram Nedra Glover Tawwab demystifies this complex topic for today's world. In a relatable and inclusive tone, Set Boundaries, Find Peace presents simple-yet-powerful ways to establish healthy boundaries in all aspects of life. Rooted in the latest research and best practices used in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), these techniques help us identify and express our needs clearly and without apology--and unravel a root problem behind codependency, power struggles, anxiety, depression, burnout, and more.

  • Radical Intimacy: Cultivate the Deeply Connected Relationships You Desire and Deserve

    A narrative guide and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world.

    “With intimacy as the foundational principle of our existence, we can build a life based on what we truly need, not what we think we need or have been told we need. By embracing the practice of radical intimacy, I can confidently promise my readers a personal revolution of self-acceptance, appreciation, vitality, and confidence. And without fail, mind-blowing, soul-stirring, earth-shattering sex follows.”—Zoë Kors

    Part practical guide, part client stories, part personal narrative, Zoë Kors draws on her experience as a sex and intimacy coach, thought leader, and relationship writer in sharing her powerful and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our intimate relationships over time. She addresses the essential truth that is almost universally missed in discussions of sex and intimacy: We can meet each other only to the extent that we can meet ourselves.

    Kors guides the reader on a five‑part journey through nine areas of opportunity for deepening intimacy with themselves, their partner, and their world, inviting them to embrace emotional, physical, and energetic self‑mastery, which is required to skillfully relate with others. At the conclusion of each part, there are a collection of experiential exercises which support the reader in embodying the concepts they’ve just read. Voice-driven, accessible, and with the right amount of tough love, Radical Intimacy takes the mystery out of human connection.

    From academia and science to mysticism and self-development, Kors delivers a rich and varied understanding of human sexuality and intimacy through the lens of the body, brain, heart, spirit, and culture.