Ergebnis für "Wellness" in Belletristik

Als Jack und Elizabeth 1993 ein Paar werden, spricht alles gegen sie. Doch der junge Fotograf mit den bäuerlichen Wurzeln und die Psychologiestudentin aus gutem Hause heiraten – und erleben in der vibrierenden Kunstszene Chicagos aufregende erste Jahre. Doch nicht alles läuft glatt. Inmitten von Achtsamkeitsseminaren, polyamourösen Bekanntschaften und schrillen Immobilienträumen droht ihre Ehe zu scheitern.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary...

Dry handelt vom Trinken und wie es ein Leben bestimmt. Und es handelt vom Aufhören. Dass sich eine Frau aus der Abhängigkeit ins Schreiben begibt. Klar tritt sie eine Reise in die Kindheit, zum früh verstorbenen Mann, zu den eigenen Rollen als Mutter, Geliebte, Tochter an. Christine Koschmieder scheint immer alles geschafft zu haben: Sie hat den Tod ihres Mannes verarbeitet, drei Kinder großgezogen, Karriere im Kulturbetrieb gemacht. Heimlich geholfen hat ihr dabei der Alkohol. Doch mit Ende 40 weiß sie nicht mehr weiter und liefert sich in eine Suchtklinik ein.

Chicago 1993. Elizabeth e Jack sono arrivati nella grande metropoli a vent'anni, due origini molto diverse, ma lo stesso obiettivo di costruirsi una vita. Elizabeth studia psicologia, Jack è fotografo. Una sera, a un concerto, Jack si fa coraggio e avvicina Elizabeth invitandola a bere qualcosa. Il periodo dell'università vissuto insieme è esaltante, ma a distanza di vent'anni, dopo il matrimonio, dopo un figlio, cosa resta?

Do you have trouble unwinding after a stressful day? Do you lie down at night and spend hours trying to get to sleep? But, it feels like you just can't stop thinking about what you forgot to do today, what you could've done better, what you need to get done tomorrow, or what happens if something unexpected happens. Your brain keeps on going even though you desperately want to rest. Even worse, it feels like you are focused on negative things. And all you want is rest. You want to shut your brain down!

According to Freud, our unconscious impulses are not random, but packed with meaning, taking on color, form, and even a storyline. All dreams are actually wish fulfillments, and interpreting them can bridge the gap to the conscious, resulting in more meaningful living.

Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson's Clarissa, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokov's Lolita, and Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy retreat center into the hot new self-care brand in this “wryly funny [and] fabulous debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review). “A satire both cutting and careful in its approach, The Glow...

If you love faith-filled tales of the West, overcoming stories of resilient love, and characters that embody the pioneering spirit, you will be swept away with The Widows of Wellness Creek Complete Box Set.

Anne is barely keeping it together. A frazzled ghostwriter and aspiring novelist, she juggles nine-year-old twins and a listless marriage from an overcrowded Manhattan apartment, spreading herself thinner each day. Just as Anne is about to give up on her dreams, she lands her biggest client yet: Melody Wells. Melody paints a picture of serenity and empowerment in the lavender haze of her visualization workshops—however, the one thing she can’t manifest are the pages her publisher is demanding for her new motivational book. Enter Anne.

This searing novel from the bestselling author of Such a Bad Influence, follows a young woman whose life is upended when a journalist uncovers her hidden past as the daughter of an insidious cult leader. From the outside, Catharine West’s childhood sounds idyllic—balmy days spent running...

Krystal Heeling is the CEO of Verdant Corpora, a boutique wellness brand, and when she writes an email to her brand ambassadors, she doesn’t pull her punches. Heeling’s underlings fall like flies as they unwittingly fall short of the Paltrowian ideals to which Heeling so ardently aspires; principles that she herself cannot consistently achieve. Yours in Wellness is a short, incisive, humorous take on the wellness industry that you will be sure to enjoy while sipping an $11 acai-wheatgrass kombucha. As we say in the land of coffee enemas, “Bottoms up!”

A teenage girl with a good family and a seemingly easy life struggles with a darkness whenever no one is looking. She desperately tries to hold herself together, convinced she just needs to try harder and pretend she’s okay to avoid becoming a burden to those around her. She doesn’t understand why she can’t just be stronger. As forgotten childhood memories keep trying to push to the surface, she loses more and more control.

Are you too busy to breathe, let alone meditate? Overwhelmed by the idea of self-care routines that require hours, expensive candles, or pretending to like kale smoothies? Self-Care(ish) Sanity Hacks is here to help. This hilarious and practical guide skips the fluff and gets straight to self-care hacks that actually fit into a busy life—because you deserve to feel human, even if your schedule disagrees.

Ироничная и пронзительная исповедь нового поколения о поиске любви к себе. Когда давит усталость от мегаполиса, одиночества и культуры достигаторства. Когда поискам любви, дружбы и понятного, осмысленного занятия мешает рабская зависимость от сервисов и личного комфорта. Лене тридцать. Внешне у нее понятная сложившаяся жизнь: карьера в креативном агентстве, ипотека, вечеринки, друзья. Но ещё у нее есть тайна — булимия. Вот уже больше десяти лет Лена сидит на диете, срывается, снова голодает — и так по кругу.

Erik Bernstein wasn’t afraid of death. He was afraid of life. He battled with inadequacy and the feeling that he never belonged. He became an expert at deflecting intimacy to mask his shame, lies, self-doubt, and bad choices. From the time he was eleven years old, or even younger, death was never far from his mind. Needless to say, death was front of mind as he sat in the back corner of the synagogue, watching his own funeral.

Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive homelessness, lockup, and the young man's nightmares, which may be more prophecy than madness.

After a hard-fought battle in the heart, Progen has defeated the agents of the entity that wants to destroy the body he is determined to control. It was a temporary defeat, however, as the entity retreated up into the body’s brain, safely entrenched behind the blood-brain barrier that is preventing the dungeon crystal from accessing the coveted home base of the central nervous system. As he further establishes his control over the different systems that he can access, a grievous wound to the body creates a problem that could spell the end of his objective.

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.

An "engrossing, affecting, and singular" (Publishers Weekly) debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world. While god is sending her signs through Instagram and Spotify demanding she break up with her girlfriend, Norma meets with a new therapist for one...