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This book, a companion to Conquer Your Stress at Work is made to cover common issues in the workplace. Learn how to fit in fitness, what nutrition choices will work best for you, stretches to stay healthy and how to boost your energy in the afternoon. Special tips are included for job specifics like sitting all day, driving, standing all day and heavy lifting. An encyclopedia of tips to keep you healthy during the workday whether at a desk, in the car, on a construction site or sitting at a home office. Perfect for every profession.

This book teaches five techniques to reduce stress in the workplace. Starting with basic breath work, then moving to affirmations, visualization, mindfulness and a simple meditation. These methods are proven to not only reduce stress, but also enhance performance, improve communication and increase health. Also covered are warning signs of stress, what mind/body medicine really is and how to incorporate these techniques.

As a young child, Kathy Gruver discovered a gift for helping, first by massaging her father's neck during car trips, then by assisting a massage therapist who took the kinks out of Gruver and her fellow college acting students. An only child, unpopular in school, she watched her mother suffer with cancer for nine years, and observed her father as devoted caregiver. Finding outlets in theatre and dance, Gruver came west to forge a career as an actress. Along the way, she discovered healing modalities, became a massage therapist, and shares her gift of finding what her clients' real problems were beyond their presenting symptoms. She continued to pursue higher learning and advanced degrees. Her motto: Go for it. Her desire in life: helping others.

To become the best at what she does, she delved deeply into numerous modalities, which she shares with readers, liberally sprinkled with detailed information as well as anecdotes both heartwarming and heartbreaking, about herself and her many memorable clients over the last twenty years. Gruver demystifies nutrition, meditation, reiki, massage (even how to set up your own practice, as well as the numerous opportunities for employment in the field and how to determine the one for you), homeopathy, herbs, affirmations, cancer, hypnosis, and more. Gruver's literal journey led her to such places as Stonehenge and flying trapeze; her journey toward self-acceptance was furthered as an artist's model and being stranded in a foreign country. While her journey may not be ours, it's there for us to savor and learn and grow.

Learn tips from two pros about how to build your business from day one to closing day. Topics covered include online marketing, social media, business plans, headshots, elevator speeches, audits and getting sued to selling your practice. A must for anyone who wants to be a successful alternative medicine practitioner. Co-written with Steven Brynoff.

According to Kathy Gruver, PhD, health and wellness expert and award-winning author of The Alternative Medicine Cabinet, stress will always be a part of life. But we can control how we react to stress.

In her new book, Conquer Your Stress with Mind/Body Techniques, Gruver explains the stress response, its history, and how it affects us today. She gives practical tips for decreasing the body’s reaction to stress and how using simple mind/body techniques can increase health by lessening tension.

Dr. Gruver offers a treasure trove of easy methods readers can do at home, in her down-to-earth style. She demystifies the multitude of available professional therapies that you can incorporate into your life.

Fun, fit, and quick-witted, Gruver tells it like it is, in her balanced approach to combining Western and Alternative views. The book is liberally sprinkled with examples from Kathy’s own life, expert friends’ stories, and from her clients’ experiences.

Topics include: Creative Visualization/Guided Imagery … Warning Signs of Stress: Physical, Behavioral, Emotional, Cognitive … BioDots … Affirmations … Meditation and Mindfulness … Herbs … Pain management … the “How to Stay Sick” list … the “How to Stay Healthy” list, and more – all offered with both scientific and anecdotal information, in Dr. Gruver’s down-to-earth style.

Delve inside the stress response and how it affects our health. Read current studies and learn how mind/body techniques can help stop the stress response, put you in more control and improve your health. Perfect for health practitioners as a way to improve their practice and help more people, but also for the layperson who wants to know more about meditation, visualization, affirmations, positive thought and dozens of modalities that will improve your health. A fun, easy read with tons of practical information to you help you have a better life.

This book is a must-have for anyone seeking to expand their knowledge of natural health and mind/body medicine, written in an easy to understand and informative way. The Alternative Medicine Cabinet covers a wide range of modalities such as massage techniques, homeopathics and Bach Flower Essences, and also provides natural solutions for common ailments like stress, back pain, sleep issues, and more serious conditions such as depression and cancer. Mind/body medicine, nutrition, women's health issues, patient advocacy and obesity are also addressed. There are also insightful tips for corporate health and wellness.

This easy to read book has an extensive index to find what you are searching for as well as recommended resources for continued learning. Wanted to learn about different massage modalities or what reiki, homeopathics or Bach Flower Essences are? This is the perfect book. Written with humor and a down to earth style, read it from the beginning or skip to what interests you most. It is a must have book for anyone curious about natural health.

The DVD has approximately 50 minutes of hands on time, plus numerous special features including a game illustrating right and wrong techniques, common massage/medical terminology, massage modalities, anatomy and adapting the practice for a bed or the floor. Massage is shown with both verbal instruction and reminders on the screen with original music. Easy to follow, hands-on instruction with a professional therapist teaching you the techniques. Perfect if you already do massage and want to hone your skills and save your thumbs or if you've always wanted to learn.