Book Review Archives - Health, Home, & Happiness

75 Hard Challenge and Phases

75 Hard is a mental fitness challenge by Andy Frisella of the Real AF* podcast . The 75-hard, part of the Live Hard Program has an initial challenge, and then 3 additional phases, all completed within one calendar year. The 75 Hard and Live Hard Program all have secondary benefits of physical and mental health …

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Review: Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

Lies My Doctor Told Me by Ken Berry, MD is a must-read for everyone who wants to separate the facts from fiction regarding mainstream health advice. This engaging book tackles the big myths in mainstream medicine in an easy-to-understand science-backed style. Armed with your new knowledge, your health will benefit from respectfully questioning your doctor’s …

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Hold Onto Your Kids: Attachment Theory {Book Review}

As I mentioned, I’m in ongoing education on how to better parent the emotional aspects of raising small (and growing!) humans. The most recent discovery that has been helpful with this process is learning about attachment theory (which is different from Dr. Sears’ attachment parenting). I recently listened to Hold Onto Your Kids on audio …

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Book Review: Chop Wood Carry Water

One of my recent reads that changed my attitude about daily life, Chop Wood Carry Water is an exceptional book that teaches us to appreciate the processes of life. The book starts by following a man training to become a Samurai archer, which surprisingly had lessons that seamlessly transferred to my suburban life raising 3 children …

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Book Review: The Web That Has No Weaver, Understanding Chinese Medicine

The Web That Has No Weaver, Understanding Chinese Medicine by Ted Jay Kaptchuk OMD was recommended to me by a local practitioner and teacher of Chinese medicine when I asked for ‘something along the lines of Chinese Medicine for Dummies’. I’ve just recently started learning about traditional Chinese medicine, and have found it fascinating, effective, …

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Review: Paleo Comfort Foods Cookbook (and Brussels Sprouts Slaw Recipe)

Paleo Comfort Foods is a must have book for anyone who is or wants to go grain free. The enticing full color pictures on every page, clear directions, and easy to find ingredients make cooking grain free exciting! I’ve had grain-free-wannabe friends take a look at this book and exclaim that they’d want to cook …

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Book Review: The Body Ecology Diet by Donna Gates

The Body Ecology Diet, by Donna Gates, is a fantastic book that I found fascinating from the first page. The Body Ecology Diet incorporates different health theories that author Donna came across when searching for her own healing. The book will appeal to those who have an interest in alternative medicine, it includes elements from ancient Chinese …

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Review: Special Needs Kids Go Pharm Free by Judy Converse

I was excited to learn recently that Judy Converse has a new book out. Her Special Needs Kids Eat Right book was what inspired me to start our whole dietary intervention journey with my daughter, who is on the autistic spectrum, over a year ago. I didn’t think that Special Needs Kids Go Pharm Free …

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Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma

The Omnivore’s Dilemma is a story of our whole American industrial food chain, from the standard American Diet, that surprisingly consists mostly of corn, to the hunter/gatherer diet of local self-gathered and hunted food. The first part of The Omnivore’s Dilemma is about corn and the industrial farming practices that are making a mess out …

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Review: Real Food for Mother and Baby by Nina Planck

Share I ordered a bunch of books right before Christmas this year and with it’s cute cover, Real Food for Mother and Baby is the first one I picked up to read. It was a great book that would be suitable to give a ‘beginner’ real foodist who was thinking about starting a family, yet …

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Protection, Fear, and more Book Review- The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecker

Back when we weren’t using the internet last spring/summer, I got to the library and reserved all the books I had been meaning to read since forever. And then in those books, I looked in the back under ‘recommended reading’ and reserved those books that looked interesting. In Protecting the Gift, he recommended Packaging Girlhood, …

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