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Friday, May 29, 2009

NH Author Signings at BEA: Schedule

FRIDAY Janet Horn, MD & Robin H. Miller, MD: Smart Woman's Guide to Midlife & Beyond Blake E. S. Taylor: ADHD & Me Wendy T. Behary, LCSW: Disarming the Narcissist SATURDAY R. Keith McCormick, DC: The Whole-Body Approach to Osteoporosis Laura Arens Fuerstein, Ph.D.: My Mother, My Mirror Lucy Howard-Taylor: Biting Anorexia SUNDAY Lucy Howard-Taylor: Biting Anorexia Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D.: The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones

Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Friday, May 29, 2009

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Our booth at BEA [pics]

picture 1: New Harbinger booth (featured books: 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, Digging Out, Stop Walking on Eggshells, 2nd ed., Facing Bipolar, Biting Anorexia, Buddha's Brain) picture 2: featured books: More Vegetables Please!, 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, Digging Out

Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Thursday, May 28, 2009

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The Secret First Step to Mindful Eating

by guest blogger Susan Albers, Psy.D. Acceptance is one of the seven skills of a mindful eater. It sounds counterintuitive that accepting yourself just as you are is a necessary step to mindful eating and losing weight. If you have struggled with disordered eating or dieting, you know first hand the emotional tug-of-war that comes with accepting your natural body shape as it is. Too often, disliking your body or refusing to accept your size leads to repetitive fad dieting, self-hate and a harsh inner critic. You can easily get caught in punishing yourself by depriving yourself of food, wearing uncomfortable clothes, or you might rob yourself of good times because you are afraid to be in a bathing suit around friends. The path to mindful eating begins with looking at your situation threw a new lens. So, what is acceptance? Acceptance is defined as experiencing a situation and having no intention of trying to change it. If acceptance is tou...

Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Book Expo America

New Harbinger is attending BEA and located at booth #3148

Monday, May 25, 2009

Counting Experiential Calories

by guest blogger Pavel Somov, Ph.D. Put aside this annoying business of counting nutritional calories for a moment and ask yourself: what else am I getting out of this eating moment? How is my Mind being enriched? A Nutritional Calorie is a unit of energy. The job of a Nutritional Calorie is to fuel your Body. An Experiential Calorie -- to coin a term -- is a unit of awareness, a unit of conscious presence, a unit of meaning. The job of an Experiential Calorie is to enrich your Mind. Take a moment to count the latter... Ask yourself: What are the Meditational Calories of this moment? Indeed, as you eat, pause to consider the interdependence of people, places and events that converged into one seamless process in time to finally reach your lips. Of course, the Sun didn't shine for you and the grapes didn't grow for you and the farmer didn't collect the grapes for you and the canner didn't can the grape jelly for you in particular... And yet, somehow, as you are sprea...

Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Monday, May 25, 2009

Friday, May 22, 2009

Thyroid: Small Gland, Big Deal

Your thyroid is a miraculous gland. Located at the base of the front of your neck, it produces the hormones that are responsible not just for a sharp mind, but also for the svelte figure and cheerful outlook of our youth. Do you look around and see yourself or friends, family, and strangers your age getting bigger, balder, and more irritable? As we age, many people, especially women, develop low thyroid function, which is reflected in weight gain, hair loss, constipation, dry skin, high cholesterol, fatigue, allergies, breathing problems, impaired vision and hearing, sleeping disorders, dizziness, numbness, loss of libido, aches and pains, more frequent infections, and increasing incidence of mental and emotional problems such as depression, rage, anxiety, irritability, and even schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (De Groot, Hennemann, and Larsen 1984). Let’s face it, any of these symptoms would be enough to make us depressed and irritable. Sadly, even though no other hormone affects su...

Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Friday, May 22, 2009

Thursday, May 21, 2009

The Art of Lowering Your Standards

Costs and Benefits of Lowering Your Standards If perfectionism is a problem for you, chances are that the high standards you hold for yourself or others are long-standing and deeply ingrained. The thought of giving up these standards may be very frightening for a number of reasons. First, although you may be aware of your tendency to be perfectionistic, it may be difficult for you to determine which beliefs are overly perfectionistic and which standards are appropriate. If overcoming perfectionism involves lowering certain standards, you may be fearful of lowering the “wrong” standards. Second, you may be reluctant to relax your standards if you believe that your performance will suffer. For example, if you believe that it is very important to be on time for appointments and therefore you always allow an extra hour to get anywhere, you may be fearful of giving up this practice in case you end up being late for appointments in the future. If you tend to be very detailed in everyth...

Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Thursday, May 21, 2009

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Pleasure Healing: What and Why?

by guest blogger Mary Beth Janssen Henry Miller said “the aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware—joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” Amen. Pleasure Healing is a dynamic 21st century approach to waking up to your full human potential, to higher levels of consciousness, and the resultant well-being. Many of us are simply living on the surface. Pleasure healing encourages you to plunge into the depths of who you are—your essence. Pleasure healing activities nurture you and give you a respite from the stressors in your life. They get you to pay attention. You come inside to the core of your being and commune with your higher self. When you pay exquisite attention, your energy shifts and you become the best that you can be—and you have fun while you’re at it! The capacity for delight is awakened and enlivened. Pleasure healing is when we engage in mindful practices, therapies and treatments drawn from the spa world for purposes of nurturing ourselves a...

Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Wednesday, May 20, 2009

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