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Next Level by Stacy Sims

Catherine — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:40:36 +0000

In 2025 more than 1 BILLION women worldwide will be experiencing menopause. How’s that for a book review opening? That means all of its stages whether it’s peri, menopause, or post. For author Stacy Sims this is something that’s been ignored for far too long and that she’s been researching for decades. She’s got her […]

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The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

Catherine — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:49:22 +0000

I don’t often discuss personal issues in this blog, but for those of you who have been around long enough, you know I have multiple sclerosis. Recently, I read a book that resonated so deeply with me I knew it could have the same impact on other readers. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan […]

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Good Morning, Monster

Catherine — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 04:38:22 +0000

Good Morning, Monster is not only the title of Catherine Gildiner’s book, but what one of her patients actually heard every day of her childhood. And not in a loving ‘you’re grumpy’ or ‘you’ve got bedhead’ way, but with true disdain. Gildiner is a psychologist in Canada and in Good Morning, Monster she’s pulled together the […]

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Catherine — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 07:49:30 +0000

Sometimes a book comes my way not from reviews or recommendations, but from simple proximity—I see it at the library and decide to read it. Very often these are some of my favorite books. This is the case with Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. It’s her account of being a therapist and […]

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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Catherine — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:27:17 +0000

My timing for this review may be a bit off as tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a day of food, but Salt Sugar Fat is not about home cooked meals. Instead, it is a depressing tour of tour of the multitude of ways in which the food industry has duped the American consumer for the last […]

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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Catherine — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:18:04 +0000

You are an outgoing, ambitious journalist already writing for The New York Post at age twenty-four. Suddenly, you start feeling a little off—no appetite, fatigue, and you’re pretty sure people are talking about you. The physical problems increase as do the mental ones—you know people are talking about you and you can see things that […]

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