Wellness, SelfCare & Relationship Resources

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.

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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.

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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."

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:

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

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!"

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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.

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