The Estrogen-Depression Connection: the Hidden Link Between Hormones & Women’s Depression. Karen Miller & Steven Rogers, $18.95

This book uncovers the most recent findings on the role of estrogen in women's depression across the life cycle and then offers advice about treatments for depression related to estrogen fluctuations.

Mean Mothers: Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt. Peg Streep, $32.99

Drawn from research and the real-life experiences of adult daughters, Mean Mothers illuminates one of the last cultural taboos: what happens when a woman does not or cannot love her own daughter. This essential volume focuses on the subtle forms of psychological damage inflicted by mothers on their unappreciated daughters—and offers help and support to those women who were forced to suffer a parent’s cruelty and neglect.

The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being. Daniel Siegel, $35.00

A new framework for maintaining mental health and well-being.

Three human experiences have been documented as promoting well-being: secure attachment, mindfulness meditation, and effective psychotherapy. Leading neurobiologist Daniel Siegel presents a unifying theory that shows that the effects of these three experiences have a similar neural mechanism. Siegel uses theory, science, and anecdote to reveal how to transform the brain as well as promote well-being.

The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems. Ronald Siegel, $16.50

Mindfulness offers a path to well-being and tools for coping with life's inevitable hurdles. And though mindfulness may sound exotic, you can cultivate it — and reap its proven benefits — without special training or lots of spare time. In this inviting guide, you’ll get effective strategies to use while driving to work, walking the dog, or washing the dishes, plus tips on creating a formal practice routine in as little as 20 minutes a day. Flexible, step-by-step action plans will help you become more focused and efficient in daily life; cope with difficult feelings, such as anger and sadness; deepen your connection to your spouse or partner; feel more rested and less stressed; curb unhealthy habits; find relief from anxiety and depression; and resolve stress-related pain, insomnia, and other physical problems. Free audio downloads of the meditation exercises are available at the author's website. Start living a more balanced life — today.

The Mindfulness Solution to Pain. Jackie Gardner-Nix & Lucie Costin-Hall, Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn, $26.95

In The Mindfulness Solution to Pain, the authors modify Jon Kabat-Zinn's original mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) program to create a new program they call mindfulness based chronic pain management (MBCPM). This book provides a clear, breakdown of the MBCPM program, in which readers are introduced to the concepts of mindfulness and meditation.

From the outset, the authors explain why the mind is so important in managing pain. Initial chapters introduce the readers to how the mind processes pain, the role of life experiences, genetics, the physiology of their fight and flight responses, and the role of chronic responses in impairing healing, sleep, and other important bodily functions. The rationale for working with the mind in addition to, or instead of, the other standard interventions, is emphasized. In all, regular practice of these techniques offers a good chance of quality-of-life improvement for chronic pain sufferers.

Mindset. The New Psychology of Success. Carol Dweck, $19.95

Psychologist Carol Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success — but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals–personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.

A Moment’s Peace: a Mom’s Guide to Creating Calm Amidst the Chaos. Elizabeth Irvine, $21.95

Designed for those who may only have 10 minutes a day to call their own, this guide provides busy moms with the needed skills and techniques to create their own sense of peace and face daily challenges from a calm and grounded place. Maintaining that well-being comes from the inside, the guide teaches mothers to look at life with fresh eyes and to empower themselves to change the way they respond to their often chaotic and stressful environments. The step-by-step plans incorporate a series of relaxation techniques, hints for developing meaningful family rituals, instructions for gentle but powerful breathing, and body awareness skills that lay the groundwork for the development of peaceful moments that eventually lead to a life of steady, grounded calm.

Through her experience as an ICU nurse, mother of three, yoga instructor and author, Elizabeth Irvine believes we can create a healthier, happier way of being from the inside out and raise families who care—about themselves, about each other, and about the world around them.

My Stroke of Insight: a Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey. Jill Bolte Taylor, $18.50

On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a 37 year old Harvard-trained neuroscientist, experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. Over the next four hours, Dr. Bolte Taylor observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read or recall her life. It would take her eight years to recover.

My Stroke of Insight is a unique and inspiring tale that brings personal experience together with professional understanding. This is a valuable recovery guide for those touched by brain injury and trauma.

New Medicine Complete Family Health Guide. David Peters, $29.95

Integrating complementary, alternative and conventional medicine, this is a comprehensive and balanced guide to the best treatments for you and your family.

Our Bodies, Ourselves: a New Edition for a New Era. The Boston Women's Health Collective, $34.50

This best-selling book on all aspects of women's health is the classic resource that women of all ages turn to for information about every aspect of their well-being. Completely revised for the first time in a decade, these pages give women everything they need for making key decisions about their health. This updated edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves includes the latest on:

• Nutrition and exercise
• Relationships, sexuality, and sexual health
• Complementary health practices
• Reproductive choices, pregnancy, and childbearing
• Growing older
• Medical testing and procedures
• The rearranged food pyramids
• Sexual orientation and gender identity
• Advice for making safer sex more fun
• The latest on breast-feeding
• Support for women experiencing pregnancy loss
• And much, much more…

Together with its companion website (www.ourbodiesourselves.org), Our Bodies, Ourselves is a one-stop resource for women of all generations.

Partners in Healing: Simple Ways to Offer Support, Comfort and Care to a Loved One Facing Illness. William Collinge, $16.75

This book offers a new sense of empowerment for the intimate partners of people living with serious health problems. Collinge draws on cutting-edge scientific research along with his experience counseling couples facing serious illness to offer a range of insights, strategies, and techniques that caregivers can utilize to promote their partners’ physical and emotional well-being—while also promoting their own.

When I’m Gone: Practical Notes for Those You Leave Behind. Kathleen Fraser, $19.95

A fill-in book and resource manual to help family members better handle the details of life when someone dies or has to be away from home for extended periods of time. Includes space to give contact information, location of key documents, wills and living wills, medical records, child and pet care instructions, finances and property, home and vehicle maintenance, computer passwords and special notations.

Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing, Revised Edition. Christiane Northrup, $24.00

When it was first published in 1994, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom quickly became an international bestseller. Now, in this revised and updated edition, world-renowned women’s health expert Dr. Christiane Northrup shares with us the latest developments and advances that will maximize our potential for living well in our bodies today.

Work Your Strengths: a Scientific Process to Identify Your Skills and Match Them to the Best Career for You. Chuck Martin, Richard Guare & Peg Dawson, $24.95

Your brain is hardwired with a unique combination of 12 different executive skills—the cognitive strengths that determine how well you will perform in a particular role. Your strongest and weakest executive skills can make the difference between big-time career success and years of disappointment and failure.

Work Your Strengths helps you avoid “trial-and-error” career moves by matching your strengths to the jobs that call on those skills specifically. Not ready for a move yet? Work Your Strengths can also make a world of difference in the job you’re in now. It can help you not only focus on the projects best suited for you but also recognize skills in others and assign tasks accordingly.