Cleveland Clinic Foundation Creative Cooking for Renal Diabetic Diets
Author: Pat Ellis
Special diets are often difficult to follow because they soon become boring and monotonous. This cookbook was written to add variety and imagination to readers' diets. Favorite everyday and special occasion recipes are given to make meals more pleasurable and the diets easier to follow. This cookbook has been compiled through the efforts of many individuals at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Renal patients submitted many recipes, and all recipes have been tested in the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Department of Nutrition Therapy test kitchen. Dialysis and pre-dialysis patients use this book. It contains 288 recipes for holidays and entertaining as well as for everyday use. Directions are easy to follow and printed in extra-large type. Recipes are modified for sodium, potassium, protein and fluid control. Most recipes use ingredients already at hand; only a few dietetic foods are required. Index and nutrient analyses are included for individual servings and total recipes.
See also: The 9 11 Commission Report or Plan B 30
Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal
Author: Belleruth Naparstek
If you or someone you love has suffered a traumatic event, you know the devastating impact it can have on your life and your spirit. Life-threatening accidents, illnesses, assaults, abusive relationships—or a tragedy like 9/11—all can leave deep emotional wounds that persist long after physical scars have healed. Survivors become “invisible heroes,” courageously struggling to lead normal lives in spite of symptoms so baffling and disturbing that they sometimes doubt their own sanity.
Now there is new hope for the millions affected by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Drawing on more than thirty years’ experience as a therapist and on the most recent cutting-edge research, Belleruth Naparstek presents a clinically proven program for recovery using the potent tool of guided imagery. She reveals how guided imagery goes straight to the right side of the brain, where it impacts the nonverbal wiring of the nervous system itself, the key to alleviating suffering.
Filled with the voices of real trauma survivors and therapists whose lives and work have been changed by this approach, Invisible Heroes offers:
• New understanding of the physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects of PTSD, who is most susceptible, and why symptoms can get worse rather than better with time
• Important insights into how the brain and body respond to trauma, why conventional talk therapy can actually impede recovery, and why the nonverbal, image-based right brain is crucial to healing
• A step-by-step program with more than twenty scripts for guided-imagery exercises tailored to the three stages of recovery, fromimmediate relief of anxiety attacks, flashbacks, nightmares, and insomnia, to freedom from depression and isolation, to renewed engagement with life
• A helpful guide to the best of the new imagery-based therapies, and how to incorporate them into an overall recovery plan
Belleruth Naparstek concludes with the inspiring words of survivors who have found their way back to peace, purpose, and
a deep joy in living. Her compassionate, groundbreaking book can lead you and
those in your care to the same renewal and healing.
Publishers Weekly
In the wake of 9/11, there was much media coverage of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD-the long-term stress response whose symptoms include chronic pain, nightmares and panic attacks-and how to treat it. Naparstek, a therapist for more than 30 years, is an advocate of guided imagery, as opposed to talk therapy, and in this book she uses case histories to illustrate how it works; she also looks at recent research on the brain that shows why this method is effective and offers step-by-step instructions on using guided imagery, which she defines as "deliberate, directed daydreaming," for healing trauma. According to Naparstek, trauma damages the left brain, which is language oriented, and talking about the trauma can actually worsen symptoms. Imagery, on the other hand affects the right brain, the seat of the emotions. Guided imagery is "fast, powerful, costs little or nothing," says the author; it can be done alone or in groups, with the help of tapes that walk the stress victim through the process of finding images that help heal the trauma. Clinicians will find the entire book useful; people seeking help may not need explanations of the biochemical processes underlying PTSD, but will respond to Napartek's passionate advocacy of a simple, gentle healing method. (Aug.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
Licensed independent social worker Naparstek here expands on earlier work (Staying Well with Guided Imagery), assimilating 30 years' professional experience with recent research findings about guided imagery, a powerful trauma recovery tool. The opening chapters explain the physical and cognitive effects of trauma, its emotional and behavioral impact, and firsthand stories of patients who have lived through and continue to heal from traumatic episodes. Part 2 fully describes guided imagery, defined here as deliberate, directed daydreaming to create a mind-state ideal for catalyzing desired changes in mind, body, psyche, and spirit. Naparstek provides practical guided-imagery tactics for the three stages of trauma and explains how and why they work. Readers are shown why conventional talk therapy can actually impede recovery and why the nonverbal, image-based right brain is crucial to healing. Included are more than 20 scripts for guided-imagery exercises. While accessible to lay readers, the material will greatly benefit professionals; Naparstek carefully distinguishes between the professional use of guided imagery and the use of visualization, as covered in works by Shakti Gawain (e.g., Creative Visualization Meditations). Highly recommended. Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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