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Self-Care is Essential

A Personal Resiliency Program for Healthcare Professionals, First Responders & Other Caregivers

Foreword by Laura Dimon
Preface by Aimee Dannaoui
Explores simple and meaningful self-care techniques to positively shift and benefit the lives who need it the most and often forget to take care of themselves: caregivers and essential workers.

Wellness and self-care do not have to be overwhelming, expensive, or complicated nor do they need to revolve around consumption. Especially for essential workers and caregivers, time and energy are precious.

The main goal for this book is to build up one's resilience, leaving them supported, prepared and ready to walk through life more present, and more importantly, feeling better, emotionally, and physically, as well as to lead each day with mindful consciousness.

The book features science-backed research and time-tested ways to improve emotional, spiritual, and physical health, helping readers become the best version of themselves. Essentially, the book helps those who have been used to helping others and ignoring their own needs for so long.

Some of the benefits contained inside include:
  • The power of taking time for yourself and practicing self-care
  • Stress-reduction techniques
  • How to eliminate distractions
  • Time management skills
  • Strategies to lower anxiety
  • Instructions for at-home yoga
  • Primer on self-reflection, meditation and mindfulness
  • Tips for coping and motivation

This book aims to break the cycle, motivate, and excite you to start your self-care journey. Learn how to take responsibility for your own life, as well discovering the tools needed to live a fulfilled lifestyle of ease, grace, and joy.
"...guides us towards a path of resilience and self-nourishment." —N. Tamara Ramirez, RN, Co-Executive Director of CODE YOU

"The tools Gwen provides in this book are user-friendly for all to benefit." —Salliann Schippers, LCSW Behavioral Health Specialist

"...self-care is a necessity for physical and mental survival." —Jo-Ann Avalone, retired NYPD 911 first responder

"...provides universally relevant, time-tested techniques that puts every reader in the driver’s seat on the road to better physical, emotional and spiritual health." —Judy Dimon

"Gwen has a vast knowledge of how the physical body and energetic body are connected." —Pamela Fellows, meditation teacher

"The practices Gwen teaches are accessible and straightforward enough that they have become a part of my daily routine and changed the way that I approach and meet each day." —Mystie Arnold, RYT, PYFS

"From yoga to massage to goal-setting tips, Gwen’s expertise and experience breathe new life into whole-body wellness." —Crystal Fenton, yoga teacher and author
Gwen Lawrence has been a practicing fitness professional since 1990. Her current practice includes private yoga training, class instruction, her sport-specific Power Yoga for Sports training program, and her VYX™ (Vinyasa Yoga Extreme) system. Gwen is the yoga instructor for several New York Yankees baseball players, team yoga instructor for the New York Giants and New York Knicks, and many youth teams in a variety of sports. Her writing appears in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Fitness, Shape, and Yoga Journal. View titles by Gwen Lawrence

About

Explores simple and meaningful self-care techniques to positively shift and benefit the lives who need it the most and often forget to take care of themselves: caregivers and essential workers.

Wellness and self-care do not have to be overwhelming, expensive, or complicated nor do they need to revolve around consumption. Especially for essential workers and caregivers, time and energy are precious.

The main goal for this book is to build up one's resilience, leaving them supported, prepared and ready to walk through life more present, and more importantly, feeling better, emotionally, and physically, as well as to lead each day with mindful consciousness.

The book features science-backed research and time-tested ways to improve emotional, spiritual, and physical health, helping readers become the best version of themselves. Essentially, the book helps those who have been used to helping others and ignoring their own needs for so long.

Some of the benefits contained inside include:
  • The power of taking time for yourself and practicing self-care
  • Stress-reduction techniques
  • How to eliminate distractions
  • Time management skills
  • Strategies to lower anxiety
  • Instructions for at-home yoga
  • Primer on self-reflection, meditation and mindfulness
  • Tips for coping and motivation

This book aims to break the cycle, motivate, and excite you to start your self-care journey. Learn how to take responsibility for your own life, as well discovering the tools needed to live a fulfilled lifestyle of ease, grace, and joy.

Praise

"...guides us towards a path of resilience and self-nourishment." —N. Tamara Ramirez, RN, Co-Executive Director of CODE YOU

"The tools Gwen provides in this book are user-friendly for all to benefit." —Salliann Schippers, LCSW Behavioral Health Specialist

"...self-care is a necessity for physical and mental survival." —Jo-Ann Avalone, retired NYPD 911 first responder

"...provides universally relevant, time-tested techniques that puts every reader in the driver’s seat on the road to better physical, emotional and spiritual health." —Judy Dimon

"Gwen has a vast knowledge of how the physical body and energetic body are connected." —Pamela Fellows, meditation teacher

"The practices Gwen teaches are accessible and straightforward enough that they have become a part of my daily routine and changed the way that I approach and meet each day." —Mystie Arnold, RYT, PYFS

"From yoga to massage to goal-setting tips, Gwen’s expertise and experience breathe new life into whole-body wellness." —Crystal Fenton, yoga teacher and author

Author

Gwen Lawrence has been a practicing fitness professional since 1990. Her current practice includes private yoga training, class instruction, her sport-specific Power Yoga for Sports training program, and her VYX™ (Vinyasa Yoga Extreme) system. Gwen is the yoga instructor for several New York Yankees baseball players, team yoga instructor for the New York Giants and New York Knicks, and many youth teams in a variety of sports. Her writing appears in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Fitness, Shape, and Yoga Journal. View titles by Gwen Lawrence