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A Woman's Guide To A Midlife Divorce
by Susanne Katz and Marilynn Winston, Ph.D.
This book is a woman's guide to facing and managing her mid-life divorce. Our team of professionals has contributed their expertise, which has assisted many women in understanding the process of looking at the business of divorce and setting realistic expectations. Women who experienced a mid life divorce have shared their personal, stories and advice. We encourage women to look at themselves, set their goals, choose and communicate with their professionals, and reach for the best possible outcome.
About the Author
Susanne Katz is a writer, curator and photographer living in Atlanta, Ga. She earned he AB in Journalism from Georgia State University, where she also did graduate studies in art history. Susanne has written museum publication guides including High Museum of Art and Art is All Around Us. This former museum director is active in Atlanta's arts community and a founder of Atlanta Celebrates Photography. Divorced in mid-life, this mother and grandmother is now happily enjoying a new relationship. Marilyn Winston is a psychologist, educator and writer living in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her Ph.D. from Georgia State University. she has been in private practice for over twenty years. She has been both a faculty member and guest lecturer for Atlanta universities including Emory University, GA Tech, GA State Univ and the Univ of Phoenix. Married for 41 years, Marilynn is a mother and grandmother.
Accidental Sisterhood: Take Control of Your Bladder
and Your Life
by Raymond A. Bologna
"The Accidental Sisterhood" is about the female pelvic floor -- the hammock of muscle that spans a woman's pelvic opening -- and the part it plays in the quality of her life and what can happen when it, literally, lets her down -- loss of bladder control and sexual dysfunction. Inside this groundbreaking book, women will find everything they need to know about incontinence, including a logical solution to help prevent bladder problems and achieve bladder freedom without medication or surgery in as few as four weeks. With 18 full-color illustrations, including 14 anatomical diagrams, it offers insights into why a strong pelvic floor is important to every woman and why it matters to her and her partner. An all-natural approach to pelvic floor health, "The Accidental Sisterhood Progressive Plan" comprises three essential parts: 1. Progressive Pelvic Floor Exercises: Rebuilding what you can't see. 2. Bladder Training: Unlearning old habits. 3. Behavior Modification: Changing your lifestyle. The Sisterhood Plan will also help prevent bladder-control problems in the future. And, in some cases, The Sisterhood Plan has been used alongside surgery to lessen recovery time and preserve long-term success. "The Accidental Sisterhood" comes to you as a package that includes a valuable tool to help you make the most of "The Sisterhood Plan"-- "The Sisterhood Fluid Intake and Voiding Diary and Personal Progressive Exercise Log." Designed in a discreet, purse-size format, "The Sisterhood Journal" helps you individualize the program to your specific needs. And, with each completed week, you'll see progress every step of the way.
About the Author
Raymond A. Bologna, M. D. Dr. Bologna, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, received his doctor of medicine from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM) and completed his residency in urology at NEOUCOM's affiliated Urology Program. He went on to complete a fellowship in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He then completed a second fellowship in Advanced Pelvic Floor Surgery at Summa Health System, Akron, Ohio. Dr. Bologna is co-chairman of Female Pelvic Medicine at Akron General Medical Center and chairman of that same division for the department of Urology at Summa Health System. He is also an assistant professor of urology and director of adult research for the Department of Urology at NEOUCOM. Dr. Bologna practices urology and female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery in Akron, Ohio. Jennifer Heisel Mangano, M. A., P. T. Ms. Heisel Mangano received a bachelor of science from The Ohio State University's Physical Therapy Program. She holds a master's degree in exercise physiology from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Ms. Heisel Mangano, who specializes in women's health physical therapy, is coordinator of the Women's Health Division of Portage Physical Therapists and director of the group's Wadsworth (Ohio) Clinic. She has published a number of articles in her area of specialization and lectures widely on the subject before university, community, and professional audiences.
Back On Top: Fearless Dating After Divorce
by Ginger Emas
Back on Top reveals today’s new rules and dating dilemmas; the secrets of online profiles, speed dating, and lock-and-key parties; the truth about Internet intimacy; what to wear on your first date, and when to take it off.
Reviews
“In Back on Top, Ginger helps women open up to the possibility that dating ‘again’ can be an adventure in healing and self-discovery. The reader receives helpful, smart guidance and gets the extra benefit of tummy-tightening laughter! Very illuminating!”—Brenda Knosher, LCSW, psychotherapist
“Ginger may have underestimated her audience; MEN are going to want to read this, too!”—Dr. Jeffrey Cohen
Full Mouse, Empty Mouse: A Tale of Food and Feelings
by Dina Zeckhausen, Ph.D.
A mouse family (the Squeaks) lives quietly in a house inhabited by humans. But when the mice children, Billy Blue and Sally Rose, are discovered by the humans, their lives become filled with daily upset. Not wanting to bother their parents, Billy Blue eats to push down his distress, while Sally Rose is so anxious she can't nibble a thing. Eventually they realize the importance of talking about feelings and learn to find comfort in healthy ways.
This is a good first book to help children understand different feelings, learn to talk about them, and use means other than food to express them.
Reviews
Grade 2–4—In this story meant to help children understand eating disorders, two mice respond to social stressors by overeating for comfort or by failing to eat at all. Billy Blue grows fat, while Sally Rose grows thin. They don't want to trouble their parents with problems, but they do eventually confide in an aunt. Expressing their concerns puts them on the path to recovery and healthy eating. The forced nature of the rhyming text detracts from the serious message of the story. "The way for you to be your best?/Get your Heart's words off your chest./Trust your family, don't pretend,/For love will be there in the end." Paintings in an old-fashioned, realistic style match the formal tone of the text. Back matter includes an extensive note to parents, discussion questions, and Internet resources. Because few fictionalized resources exist for eating disorders, this well-intentioned book may find an audience despite the stiff presentation.—Julie R. Ranelli, Queen Anne's County Free Library, Stevensville, MD
Nothing Like Sunshine: A Story in the Aftermath of the MLK Assassination
by Ben Kamin
A coming-of-age story based in the 1960s, NEW YORK TIMES contributor - Rabbi Ben Kamin - has written a definitive personal expression about race, friendship, and his personal love for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This is a story that spans a four-decade search for a lost high school chum, a deep misunderstanding, and a coming to terms with an America painfully evolving from the assassination of MLK to the promise of Barack Obama.
The book is a remembrance of Kamin's life at Cincinnati's aging Woodward High School, a microcosm of the 1960s and of America itself, as well as a detailed account of Kamin's search for his friend Clifton, for America, for the key to understanding what race relations really are in the United States. Simultaneously, it is the story of the emerging rabbi's exploration of the legacy of his spiritual mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Cincinnati to Cleveland to Memphis to New Orleans and other points while constantly bringing him home to Clifton and 'the heaving hallways' of that high school.
Review
No single writer living in America today can communicate the black-white story more evocatively than Ben Kamin. --T. George Harris, former bureau chief TIME- LIFE, senior editor of LOOK magazine, founding editor of PSYCHOLOGY TODAY and SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH