Life after Self Harm or Healthy Carb Cookbook for Dummies

Life after Self-Harm: A Guide to the Future

Author: Ulrike Schmidt

Suicide. Cutting. Self-mutilation. In many countries, there has been an alarming increase in rates of self-harm, yet the crippling stigma attached to these difficulties often leads to sub-optimal care. Life After Self-Harm is written for individuals who have deliberately harmed themselves. Illustrated with multiple case-histories, it teaches users important skills, such as: understanding and evaluating self-harm, keeping safe in a crisis, dealing with seemingly insolvable problems, developing coping strategies and for re-connecting with life.

Developed through a major research project, the contents of the manual have been informed and shaped by many users and expert professionals. Health workers who regularly come into contact with individuals who have self-harmed will find the wealth of practical advice in this book extremely valuable for recommendation to patients either as a self-help book or in the context of brief therapy.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Major health warning
	Note to health care practitioner
1	Getting started	1
2	What to do in a crisis	29
3	Learning to solve problems	41
4	Learn to change your thinking	63
5	Alcohol, drugs, and pills: do you need to cut down or stop?	85
6	Some further thoughts	97
7	For relatives and friends	107

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Healthy Carb Cookbook for Dummies

Author: Jan McCracken

According to USA Weekend, over a quarter of the adults in the U.S. have tried a low-carb diet. Many people have enjoyed lasting success. Others have felt mystified or deprived and given up!

Whether you’re a first-timer or a “try, try-againer”, this book helps you get with the low-carb program and stick with it! Building on the success of Low-Carb Dieting For Dummies, it gives you loads of nutritional information plus more than 100 sumptuous low-carb recipes like Crunchy Brunch Oatmeal Pecan Waffles, Caribbean Chicken, Chile Spiced Broccoli, and Lemon Torte with Raspberries. Low-Carb Cookbook For Dummies includes:

• A complete nutritional analysis for each recipe so you can’t go wrong

• Lots of recipes for dishes with 5 carbs or less

• Recipes that de-carb no-nos like Southern fried chicken and Philly cheese steak sandwiches

• Recipes for soups, seafood, and meat dishes, including pork chops, lamb and steaks (with a steak chart so you can chart a low-carb course)

• Recipes for great desserts, including chocolate specialties and cheesecake

• Vegetarian recipes and crock pot specialties

• Terrific wrap recipes using lettuce, tortillas, or crepes

• Guidelines for eating low-carb when you’re dining out or brown-bagging it

Author Jan McCracken, a health advocate and low-carber for more than ten years, has written two low-carb cookbooks and is a contributor to numerous low-carb publications. Having fallen off the low-carb wagon several times herself, she alerts you to things that can sabotage yoursuccess and clues you in on carb counting and techniques that have worked for her. You’ll get started right with:

• Mini-courses on low-carb math and on low-carb nutritition and the glycemic index

• A shopping list for stocking a low-carb kitchen

• The scoop on different kinds of carbs and artificial sweeteners

• Tips on using spices creatively for variety and flavor

• Advice on incorporating exercise, including taking the first step (and lots more steps) with a pedometer

• Tips for reducing stress (a common cause of bingeing)

With this information, you won’t be mystified. With the fantastic recipes, you won’t feel deprived. You will be inspired to stick to a low-carb lifestyle—one that can help you lose weight and feel healthier!