Category: Book Reviews
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The Gerson Therapy – a book about getting well.
I started reading “The Gerson Therapy” again. This time in desperation. After a five day long headache something had to change. Too tired to attack a diet change head but with enough energy to ease into it, I began by making the simple Hippocrates soup (certain vegetables cooked and blended together) recommended for daily consumption.…
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The Book “Why We Get Fat” by Gary Taubes, and Weight Loss
My daughter Melissa has introduced me to the Keto diet philosophy, so I am listening to the book she recommended, “Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It” by Gary Taubes on Audible. Taubes presents exhaustive research and sites study after study to back up his claims. I find this to be very helpful…
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Late Nights and Weight Loss (also update on zoom balls)
Late nights and weight loss do not mix. At least for me, I find the later in the day the less will power I have to ignore the comfort foods that make me feel full and sleepy. I would go to bed earlier but I have a difficult time going to sleep, even when I…
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Belief and Weight Loss
In the book ” The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg, one of the key elements that is important in changing a habit, such as the way one eats, is belief that change is possible. I can see how that is true. Nothing is done that is done without belief that it is possible. …
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Habits and Weight Loss
Recently the women in our household have been listening to a book called, “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg. We are into it by three CD’s so far and I have learned that habits are formed in a sequence: first is the trigger, next the thing that we do when the trigger happens which…
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Focusing Away Depression
I awoke today frustrated about how I was feeling. For the past few days I have been feeling depressed and overwhelmed. I wanted to call my daughters and whine about it, but I couldn’t find my phone. I thought about going to see my therapist but remembered I have all the tools I need, I…
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"Tales of Power" a book by Carlos Castenada
When I was a teenager my father and I read the Carlos Castaneda books. Well, he read them all but I read the first few and got turned off by the selfishness of their goals. After going to Tracker school for a couple years I decided to re-read them from a new perspective. I understood…
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“Tales of Power” a book by Carlos Castenada
When I was a teenager my father and I read the Carlos Castaneda books. Well, he read them all but I read the first few and got turned off by the selfishness of their goals. After going to Tracker school for a couple years I decided to re-read them from a new perspective. I understood…
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"The Places That Scare You" a book by Pema Chodron
I was at Brighten Bush hot springs gift store and this book jumped right out at me and grabbed me. The cover, an image of a dark, craggy, old, leafless tree, typified the heavy, overgrown, ominous trees that tend to somehow, inexplicably, surround haunted houses. I thought, “Who would write a book like that and…
Michele Ballantyne 