Healthy Mother Healthy Child : Creating Balance in Everyday Life

by Irvine, Elizabeth Ann

• ISBN13: 9780977617814
• ISBN10: 0977617815
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Independent Pub Group

Summary

This book is about creating balance and joy in everyday life. Drawing on her personal wisdom as registered nurse, yoga teacher, and mother of three, author Beth Irvine teaches families practical ways to build healthier lifestyles. Using simple language and gorgeous photographs, Irvine invites her readers to engage in yoga, breathing techniques, meditation, creative expression, wholesome nutrition, and introduces them to complementary therapies such as homeopathy. She then applies these practices to common health problems, both physical and emotional, all the while respecting both conventional western and complementary medicines. This guidebook empowers parents to lay the foundation of a healthier, happier life for their children whether by: Creating simple but meaningful family rituals Making a soothing and secure home environment Addressing issues affecting a child's self-esteem Irvine's message of hope and inspiration to parents everywhere is this: just a few small steps in the right direction really will build stronger families from the inside-out.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Irvine, BSN Elizabeth Irvine is a nurse, mother, author and craniosacral practitioner who throughout her years of dedicated professional work in the health care field has fused her skills in allopathic and alternative modalities to help others help themselves. While living in London her articles appeared in Yoga and Health, Positive Health as well as numerous other magazines. She has taught yoga for nine years, and produced a DVD entitled Yoga for Mother and Child. Her first book, Healthy Mother Healthy Child creating balance in every day life, is being released in April 2007 everywhere books are sold. Elizabeth is a health and wellness expert on the national website club mom www.clubmom.com founded by Meredith Viera of the Today show. Irvine currently owns a private wellness practice in Houston and is a guest speaker at many educational events.