Reviews of Health, Healing, and Wellness Books and Documentaries
This section offers thoughtful reviews of health, healing, and wellness books and selected documentaries, helping you discern which speak to you. With a focus on practical insight and honest reflection, these reviews guide you toward resources that deepen understanding, challenge assumptions, and support your journey toward lasting, whole-person well-being.
Reviews of Health, Healing, and Wellness Books and Documentaries
Empowering Reading: Beyond Weight Loss Jabs Book Review. Many people are unfortunately turning to weight loss injectables and pills with multiple adverse effects to lose weight. This book shows how you can do it naturally.
Empowering Reading: Reclaiming Silence Book Review. Has your device (devices?) taken over your life? Do you find yourself reaching for your phone the second you are bored or between tasks? This book is the perfect antidote.
Empowering Reading: A Path Forward Book Review. An all too real parable or fable about the unhealthy lifestyles we are living and the positive changes we can make to turn things around before it is too late.
Empowering Reading: The Unmasking Effect Book Review. Many, if not all of us, have been greatly affected by people and events beyond our control, especially from childhood. This book is a roadmap to healing wholeness.
Empowering Reading: Cooking For Mother Book Review. So many great aspects of this book, including an education on our poor food system, explaining the purpose of a dieta, and wonderfully simple recipes.
Empowering Reading: Life - The Instruction Manual Book Review. How to take criticism. How to make good first impressions. How to live a good life. This book is a toolkit filled with practical ‘adulting’ advice and exercises.
Empowering Reading: Move Free, Age Strong Book Review. A powerful book that urges us to rethink what aging means and to focus more on the many benefits of movement – and its impact on longevity and on living life to the fullest.
Empowering Reading: How to Love Book Review. This pocket-sized book may look small and unassuming, but it packs a punch regarding love, stating that “true love brings us beauty, freshness, stability, solidity, peace, and freedom.”
Empowering Reading: Conquering King Stomach Book Review. Are you serving your “King Stomach” with a diet of sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods, or are you focused on your health and a long healthspan? This book explains all.
Empowering Reading: The Joy of Imperfect Love Book Review. This is the book if you are looking for an uplifting, powerful, and transformative missive that could change your life.
Empowering Reading: The Great Plant-Based Con Review. Regardless of whether you are a carnivore, omnivore, vegetarian, or vegan, this book will challenge some of your assumptions.
Empowering Reading: The Top Five Regrets of the Dying Book Review. Life is a gift, but how many of us are too busy, too hurt, or too afraid to embrace its beauty? This book is a great reminder for all of us to seek healing and live with no regrets.
Empowering Reading: Lessons We Can Learn From The Myth of Normal. The main takeaway from this brilliant book is that we should all seek healing from our past traumas because the process of healing is liberating. Healing brings us on a journey to becoming whole again.
Empowering Reading: Lessons We Can Learn From The Serviceberry. Imagine living in a world where the currency of exchange is gratitude and kindness, where we celebrate gratitude, kindness, reciprocity, and community.
Empowering Reading: We Are Drowning in Dopamine: A Review of Dopamine Nation. Dopamine Nation is a fascinating examination of how we have overwhelmed ourselves with artificial sources of pleasure that often lead to dangerous and unhealthy addictions.
Empowering Reading: Unsafe at Any Meal... A Must-Read Book for All. This book should be a best-seller, placed into the hands of everyone looking to eat better and healthier… while not being poisoned by hidden ingredients in most conventional and convenience foods.
Empowering Reading: Lessons from Dr. David Perlmutter’s Grain Brain and Brain Maker. Both are fantastic launchpads for learning more about brain health and what we can do to holistically heal and protect our brains.
Empowering Reading: Lessons from Dr. Frank Forgnoni’s Vision For All Ages: Better Vision for Better Living. Provides an outstanding overview of vision and eye health, and is a fantastic resource, especially for families
Empowering Reading: A Review of Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health. A powerful and mind-blowing look at medical dogma and how it affects your health choices.
Empowering Reading: How to Use Mindfulness as a Mental Health Tool: To Beat Depression and Anxiety and Change Your Brain. A review of Debbie Hampton's enlightening and deeply thorough book on mindfulness.
Empowering Reading: Jaded Health Book Review: It’s Like Having Your Own Health Coach. A review of David Medansky's straightforward approach to simple rules for living a healthy life.
Empowering Reading: A Review of Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World. A powerful read from agricultural guru Joel Salatin.
Empowering Reading: A Review of Macie and the Magic Veggies. An entertaining and empowering children's story about healthy foods from author Peter Contardo.
What Can We Learn From Apple Cider Vinegar. A review focused on important lessons learned from the Netflix limited series based on the actual events of a wellness influencer who lost her way.
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