Welcome to my Wellness, Selfcare and Relationship web site,
I'm Dr. Carolyn
Chambers Clark, wellness, selfcare, and relationship expert.
I'm a nurse with a masters degree in individual, couple, group and family relationships, and a doctoral degree from
Columbia University focused on wellness and how to best help people learn new behaviors.
My purpose is to help you achieve a high state of wellness, no matter your age
or medical condition, so keep reading...
Let's start by defining What
is wellness?
Wellness is achieving a personal balance in your life. It includes
eating well, sleeping well, moving, well, breathing well, setting personal health and wellness goals, keeping your
stress at a level that works for you, having positive relationships, and doing all this in a purposeful way. For example,
humor and positive thinking are two ways to up your wellness quotient. (See "Humorous Books to up Your Wellness Quotient" below
for some ideas!)
What do I mean by purposeful? Wellness doesn't just happen. You have to decide to be well
and then pursue it. On this web site, I'm your guide for finding personal wellness.
What is the
difference between wellness and health? Health is a medical term based on your temperature, blood pressure, how
often you breathe, and laboratory tests. There are no laboratory tests for wellness. You know when you're well. You
feel good, you're at peace. You can be well even when you're dying or ill if
you have a purpose that brings you peace.
In wellness, you are the
expert in you. Only you know how well you feel at any given moment and what works best
for you. Here's an example...A physician can take your blood pressure and it can zoom way up because you're anxious,
so the blood pressure taken at that moment may not be an accurate reading of how well
you are or even what your health is. This is called "White coat hypertension."
Having a blood pressure apparatus at home and taking your blood pressure when you
feel relaxed will usually give you a much lower reading. Learning relaxation procedures is even better because
then you can stay relaxed in the physician's office and in other stressful situations.
Although I use research results in my articles on this web site, bear in mind
that research findings only tell you "the average response to a particular treatment."
That means half of the people above and below that average response have another reaction.
This is why personal
care wellness is so important. You are a unique human being with unique human responses
to foods, exercise, stress reduction methods, and so on. That's why my books and articles give you many kinds
of self-care approaches you can take for a particular condition. You
become your own research project, trying different safe and reliable self-care methods
that have worked for other people, and finding what works best for you.
HUMOROUS BOOKS TO UP YOUR WELLNESS QUOTIENT
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What
is self-care? Self-care actions are things you can do for yourself to up your
health and be well.
Scroll down for wellness books, e-books, and self-care articles.
You can also find information about all my e-books on the left hand side of this
and every page on this web site. Just click on the one(s) that interest you and you'll be taken to information
on that topic. To return here, just click at the top of the links (Wellness, SelfCare,
Relationships and HOME PAGE) to your left on any page, and you'll come back to this
home page.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
Some of my books...
 
COMPLEMENTARY
HEALTH FOR WOMEN provides safe and effective wellness and selfcare actions based on the latest
research for the following conditions: - Alzheimer's/memory
- Anxiety
- Bladder Infections (cystitis)
- Blood
Pressure (hypertension)
- Breast Cancer
- Cervical Cancer
- Colon and Rectal Cancer
- Depression
- Digestion (Constiption, Crohn;s, Diarrhea, GERD or Heartburn, IBS/IBD
- Endometrial Cancer
- Falls
- Fatigue
- Fibroids
- Gastric
Cancer
- Heart/Blood Vessels
- Incontinence
- Insomnia
- Kidney Conditions
- Liver Conditions
- Lung
Conditions
- Menopause
- Migraines
- Osteoporosis/osteopenia
- Ovarian Cancer
- Overweight/Obesity
- Pain
- Pancreatic Cancer
- PMS
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
- Pregnancy/Labor/Delivery
- Stroke
You
may know you need to change your lifestyle if you want to prevent or reduce your symptoms,
but what exactly should you change? COMPLEMENTARY
HEALTH FOR WOMEN provides specific directions for preventing and/or reducing symptoms
for each condition. The recommendations
aren't based on opinion or a general wellness approach. All suggestions
are based on recent research findings. Each
procedure works well with medical treatment or by itself, and includes specific
directions based on research findings for making simple changes to your environment
to make it healthier, how to safely use herbs/essential oils, change your mindset,
eat specific wellness foods, and how to use specific stress management actions, supplements,
exercise/movement, and touch therapies (reflexology, acupressure, massage, etc.). Includes recommended amount,
precautions and warnings, long-term vs. short-term use and expected effects.
Special for my web site visitors!
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discounted rate now, (U.S. shipping only)by clicking on the BUY NOW button below.
(offered here new for $10.99)
Women in their
30's (or earlier if they have a hysterectomy) can have menopausal challenges such as *Emotional
ups and downs *Fatigue *Fuzzy thinking *Weight gain *Joint and muscle pain *Insomnia
*Skin, hair, and/or bladder changes *Decreased sex drive *Hot flashes
LIVING WELL WITH MENOPAUSE: WHAT YOUR DOCTOR DOESN'T TELL YOU THAT
YOU NEED TO KNOW presents menopause as a natural process and provides nutritional. herbal,
environmental, exercise, stress reduction, healing measures and ways to obtain support while going through the process,
especially from significant people and relationships in your life. Helps you find and
work with the right health care or wellness practitioner and develop your own
Menopause Success Plan. Christiane
Northrup, MD, New York Times Best-selling author of The Wisdom of Menopause says LIVING
WELL WITH MENOPAUSE is "Loaded with practical, well-researched information
to help women negotiate menopause in good spirits and good health."
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WITH MENOPAUSE before supplies run out.
Do you experience: * Dizziness? * Heart palpitations? *
Unreasonable fears? * Obsessive
thoughts, behaviors or images? * Discomfort in confining or public places? You may be suffering from high anxiety This book discusses the
causes and effects of anxiety, helps you self-diagnose your anxiety, presents the types of anxiety
disorders in simple terms, and discusses the side effects of anti-anxiety medications. LIVING WELL WITH ANXIETY:
WHAT YOUR DOCTOR DOESN'T TELL YOU THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW presents wellness,
selfcare, and relationship measures that work with medicines or by
themselves, including:
1. Foods
that reduce anxiety 2. Herbs that can
reduce anxiety 3.
Things in your environment that could be adding to your anxiety 4. How to use exercise to reduce your anxiety 5. Other anxiety-reducing and healing measures that can enhance your
wellness 6. How
relationships, developing a sense of purpose and even spiritual measures, such as prayer, can
help 7. How to find and
work with the right health practitioner 8. How to develop your own Anxiety Success Plan that will work for you. Joan Borysenko, PhD, author
of Inner Peace for Busy People says, "Anyone who suffers from anxiety should read this concise,
helpful, easy-to-follow guide. It can change your life!" To receive an autographed, discounted copy of LIVING
WELL WITH ANXIETY, click on the BUY NOW button now before supplies run out.
THE HOLISTIC
NURSING APPROACH TO CHRONIC DISEASE provides an overview of helpful wellness and selfcare approaches
to 20 commonly encountered chronic conditions, ranging from diabetes to sleep disorders. The
interventions described for each condition include recommendations for diet, herbal
supplements, accupressure, guided imagery, and stress management and exactly what to
do. Treatment planning emphasizes minimally invasive wellness approaches. Each chapter includes a specific
example of a holistic nursing assessment, a collaborative treatment plan with a list of possible
interventions you can work out with your nurse practitioner or physician, and a section
on evaluating the effects of treatment. Click
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HOLISTIC ASSERTIVENESS
SKILLS was written for nurses, but applies to anyone who wants to get what they want out of life.
It's full of concrete skills to help change your attitudes and behaviors, which might ultimately lead to
more job, professional, and personal satisfaction...in other words, to help you feel
well.
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GROUP LEADERSHIP
SKILLS teaches skills and strategies for becoming an effective group leader. The information, simulations,
and case studies can be used to help provide support, run more effective meetings, attain goals, or
provide educational experiences--in organizations, businesses, schools, or communities.
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E-BOOKS AND FREE
ARTICLES
Acne ebook
ADHD
ebook
Adrenals
ebook
Anthrax
Alzheimer's
- what you can do to prevent it and reduce symptoms if you or a loved one has it
Anxiety
Appetite/Anorexia
Arthritis
Asthma/Allergies
Autism
Back
Conditions
Bladder
Spasms/Stress Incontinence ebook
Bloating
ebook
Blood
Clots
Bone
Health
Breast
Cancer
Breasts
- Sagging, itching, rash...
Bullying
Bursitis
Cancer
Cholesterol
Colitis/Crohn's
Cysts
Depression
ebook
Diabetes
Eczema
Endometriosis
Epilepsy
Fatigue
Fibrocystic
Breasts
Fibroids
Fibromyalgia
Fungal
Infections, including Tinea Versicolor
Gallbladder
Gout
Headache
Relief ebook
Healing
Vegetables
Heartburn/Acid
Reflux
HIV/AIDS
Hot
Flashes
Hypertension
(High Blood Pressure)
Infertility
Joint
Pain
Kidneys/Kidney
Stones/Acid/Base Balance
Liver
Lupus
Macular
Degeneration
Medical
Tests: What You Should Know
Menopause
Menstrual
Cramps/PMS
Migraines
MS
(multiple sclerosis)
Muscle
Pain
Nausea
Nutritional
Deficiencies & Cancer,Heart Disease, Stroke, & Diabetes
Osteoporosis
Ovarian
Cysts
Overweight
Pancreatic
Cancer
Pain
Panic
Attacks
Parkinson's
Perimenopausal
Bleeding
Phlebitis
Pituitary
Problems
Post
Partum Depression
Pre-Eclampsia
Pregnancy
Prostate
Rosacea
Stress:
Simple and easy way to relieve
Surgery
and Post-Surgery: How to Have Best Results
Thyroid
Tooth
Erosion
Vaginitis
Family/Relationship Wellness
Assertive Communication
Children
and Weight Loss
Communicating
with Your Adult Children
Couple
Communication
Help
Baby Grow
Helping
with Homework
Helping
with Math Concepts
Helping
a Child Learn to Read
Parenting
Help
with your Relationship/Marriage
Relationship
Consultation
School
Preparation Checklist
What
Preschoolers Need To Grow
Whole
Brain Thinking
Fitness
A Great Body ebook - wellness approaches
Affirmations
and Imagery to Help You Heal
Leadership
LEADERSHIP survey and BOOKS
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Tips
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Stay well and use your personal power wisely!
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