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ABOUT GOOD FLOW
For all menstruating persons who struggle through that time of the month, this empowering handbook helps you develop a holistic approach to living with your period and its physical and emotional side effects
If you’re a person who menstruates, you’ve probably experienced unpredictable cycles, mood swings, cravings, and unpleasant physical symptoms like bloating—not to mention painful cramps, trouble sleeping, and more.
Pop culture tells us to pop a Midol and open a pint of ice cream, but the average person with a uterus spends the equivalent of ten years menstruating. That’s too much time to feel out of control. The good news is that you don’t need to.
This handbook from two certified yoga and Ayurveda teachers will give you the information and tools you need to feel your best when you normally feel at your worst. Good Flow contains advice on:
Eating, exercising, and introspecting for every stage of your cycle
Herbal tonics to ease cramping and bloating
Self-care rituals for soothing discomfort
Understanding and managing your moods
Noticing red flags that require a medical diagnosis
Don’t settle for discomfort! Learn how to take action no matter what kind of menstruation experience you’re having so you can feel like your best self.
Posted by Kim Ismael
Kid Olympians
Before they were famous, they were kids, struggling with regular-kid problems like bullies, homework, and arguments with their siblings. Inspiring anecdotes and playful illustrations reveal the relatable childhood escapades of celebrated presidents, great athletes, groundbreaking scientists, and other future legends.
Posted by Kim Ismael
Work It Out
An encouraging fitness book that meets you where you are—even if you’re lying on the floor.
Exercise is the most reliable way to improve mental health. But if you’re depressed, anxious, burned out, or struggling, it may feel impossible to get started, get serious, or even get up.
Written by an autistic personal trainer, Work It Out busts myths about fitness while providing clear, actionable advice on how to:
- Incorporate exercise into your daily life
- Build an adjustable workout plan for both good and bad mental health days
- Shake off the messages that say you’re never doing enough
- Set up a workout log that motivates you in exactly the way you need
- Celebrate all your achievements, including getting out of bed
- But also get a little exercise in bed, if that’s where you are today
Frank, funny, and sympathetic, Work It Out offers realistic tips, encouragement, and dozens of activity ideas for times when exercise is the only thing that will help—and the last thing you want to do.
Posted by Kim Ismael
Goblin Mode
Embrace your inner goblin! Learn to decorate, dress, craft, forage, and live according to the goblin principles of community, diversity, proud weirdness, and joyful mess.
Do you ever feel strange, gross, chaotic, underappreciated, or like you don’t quite fit in? Great news: you might be a goblin! That means your imperfections and idiosyncrasies are the most awesome things about you, and you can build a more balanced, comfortable, harmonious life by accepting and honoring them—taking inspiration from the frogs, fungus, moss, rocks, and dirt that goblins love.
Can a mushroom give you fashion tips? Can a snail teach you to be a better person? You bet they can—and in this book you’ll also learn to:
- Build a moss garden for your lair
- Grow and use medicinal plants
- Forage for berries (even in the city)
- Mend your cozy sweaters
- Display your cool rock collection
- And more!
Anyone can be a goblin, and Goblin Mode includes life advice for celebrating physical and mental diversity, rejecting prejudice, and generally hanging on to a little joy.
Featuring 25 whimsical illustrations by Marian Churchland, Goblin Mode will help you rethink your relationship with your body, your home, your community, and the earth.
Posted by Kim Ismael