I wanted to share this new self-help book Breath for the Soul: Self-Care Steps to Wellness I received a copy of in exchange for a review.
Last week I decided that I was going to start taking time for myself. I’ve implemented a rule in my home that the first hour I am up for David and Charlie not to speak to me or bother me. This is my time. Just as the hour before I go to bed is. In these two hours I am to do something I enjoy. In the morning I make a cup of Coffee or Tea and find a place to curl up and read a book of my choice for 30 minutes.
While I’ m reading. I have Charlie doing reading the same book for his Homeschool Reading Class. Once the 30 minutes are up, we meet and discuss what we read. What we’ve learned from the book we’ve read. From spending time together reading and discussing the books David has even found a few books to read. Which has helped bring them closer together.
For my book this week I’ve chosen Breath for the Soul: Self-Care Steps to Wellness to read because I haven’t been taking care of myself the way I should. Which is not only affecting my health but my marriage and my relationship with my son. I knew the negative thoughts had to stop or I would end up fighting depression I might never get out of.
Breath for the Soul: Self-Care Steps to Wellness touches on grief. For those that didn’t know I deal with from my daughter death e very day. Nutrition and not eating the right foods. As well as overeating a lot of the time is destroying my plans to lose weight. Movement which I hate to say I haven’t been doing is also hindering my health. The Weather is bad but that shouldn’t stop me from getting in movement throughout the day. Because I could walk in the house. I’ve just been too lazy to do.
It’s time to stop making excuses and do something each and every day not for anyone else buy myself. Because I’m not hurting anyone else but myself. Which is crazy and something I need to stop asap. With me doing this I will be teaching my family nothing is going to stop me harming myself and it’s not okay to harm our bodies. Which isn’t the message I want to give Charlie or David.
Breath for the Soul: Self-Care Steps to Wellness which is written by a doctor and an inspirational writer who teamed up you know you’re only going to get the best advice to better your lives. I had so many things in common with Dr. Jan Patterson that it was like finding a long-lost friend. I knew she would understand the things I struggle with because we’ve gone through a lot of the same things from being a bereaved parent to a Cancer Survivor as many of my family had Cancer or have Cancer now.
I liked knowing there are tips and recipes we can use in our personal lives to change things. As well as giving me advice to share with my friends who are facing the things the Authors talk about in Breath for the Soul: Self-Care Steps to Wellness . Which should be on everyone’s must read list and the perfect Gift to give to those who enjoy reading and creating a better life for themselves.
About the book:
When have you read a book where a recognized doctor and an award-winning inspirational writer team up to explore ways you can use your breath, movement, nutrition, and spirit to care for yourself? Then you know you’re reading Breath for the Soul.
Dr. Jan Patterson is a Cancer survivor, bereaved parent, an integrative medicine and infectious disease doctor who has practiced and taught medicine for thirty years. Phyllis Clark Nichols is no stranger to grief either and has been the caregiver to her husband for ten years through three battles with Cancer. They team up in Breath for the Soul: Self-Care Steps to Wellness to inform and inspire you for self-care.
No one is immune from stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. What if there are methods that empower you to help yourself? Learn to use breath, movement, nutrition, and spirit to enhance your health and wellness. Dr. Jan and Phyllis review these solutions.
Breath for the Soul, is a plan for self-care integrating ancient and modern practices that work, providing a practical, step-by-step approach that recognizes more than physical needs. You are a soul, a complex person, a total self, needing nurture and care.
Breath for the Soul is a full toolkit of evidence-based information, inspiring stories, trusted resources, healthy recipes, and a simple plan to give you control over your self-care. Empower yourself with these simple tools using an innovative approach. Put yourself on the path to health, wellness, and wholeness.
Meet the Authors: Dr. Jan Patterson
Dr. Jan Patterson believes in using all the tools in the toolbox. She has been an infectious diseases physician and medical educator for more than 30 years. She has been involved with patient care, medical research, education, health care improvement, and administration during her career. Her most rewarding work endeavors have been in collaborative leadership of new programs.
After some life-changing personal losses, she trained in integrative medicine. She is passionate about using holistic therapies to integrate with conventional medicine–using all the tools in the toolbox–for the care of the whole patient–body, mind, spirit, and soul.
Dr. Jan underwent medical training at UT Houston, Vanderbilt, and Yale. She and her physician husband, Tom, returned to Texas 29 years ago to raise their sons and work in patient care, research, and teaching of infectious diseases at UT Health San Antonio. Jan’s most proud accomplishments are her remarkable sons. The family enjoyed many travels as Jan and Tom shared research and medical education around the world.
Jan was raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where she learned to milk Goats and grow vegetables. She loved music and singing at an early age and taught herself to play guitar as a teenager. Faith, family, friends, and her love of music have strengthened her through difficult times in life. Her creative spirit results in artistic efforts that renew her perspective.
She and her husband live in an historic neighborhood and where they walk and jog along the San Antonio River with their two dogs. They enjoy gardening and grow vegetables, flowers, and a multitude of herbs. Jan loves to concoct essential oil preparations for family and friends. She is grateful that her Chef husband is always inventing new recipes. Jan and Tom also spend time in the Texas Hill Country where they hike, sit by the fire, and watch the stars.
Meet the Author: Phyllis Clark Nichols
Phyllis Clark Nichols believes everyone could use a little more hope and light. Her character-driven Southern fiction explores profound human questions from within the simple lives of small town communities you just know you’ve visited before. With a love for nature, art, music, faith and ordinary people, she tells redemptive tales of loss and recovery, estrangement and connection, longing and fulfillment, often through surprisingly serendipitous events.
Phyllis was raised in the deep shade of magnolia trees in Cairo, Georgia. Now she lives in the Texas Hill Country with her portrait-artist husband, where red birds and axis deer are her ever-ravenous neighbors. She is an English major, , concert artist and co-founder of a national cable network for people with disabilities. For over a decade she has worked in the orphanages of Guatemala and currently serves on several non-profit boards where she works with others who are equally passionate about bringing hope and light to those who need it most.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
