2023 Awards – Health Wellness Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Health Wellness

Health - Wellness

Winner

Beating Burnout, Finding Balance: Mindful Lessons for a Meaningful Life

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Author:

Melo Calarco

How is your book helping others?

Fundamentally, the book helps people manage stress and prevent burnout. Each chapter ends with a practical takeaway technique to help people practice mindfulness and reclaim their self-care practices. It also shares ways to find purpose and balance in life.

Health - Wellness

Winner

The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life

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Author:

D. Terrence Foster, MD

How is your book helping others?

The Stress Book takes a comprehensive approach to stress management and prevention and how modifying your lifestyle and taking practical steps can help significantly reduce the level of stress you are experiencing.
This book intends to help people struggling with challenging situations in most aspects of life, such as stressful jobs, complex personal or toxic relationships, finances, business, etc. Over forty approaches to stress reduction, management, and prevention are covered in this book, giving you practical guidance applicable to most of life's problems and circumstances.This book's goal, in part, is to help prevent people from getting involved in these and other difficult situations that may be stressful before stress is manifested.

The Stress Book will significantly improve people's lives at any level of society who may be experiencing stress in their personal, business, or professional lives. Thereby enabling them to live a longer, more prosperous, and enjoyable life.

Health - Wellness

Finalist

Death by Comfort: How modern life is killing us and what we can do about it

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Author:

Paul Taylor

How is your book helping others?

Death by Comfort makes an impact with its very title. Value abounds in every chapter, each meticulously researched and supported by cutting-edge science. Perhaps the biggest impact Death by Comfort makes is its practical solutions to our complex health issues.
Modern humans are the most overweight, depressed, medicated, and addicted cohort of adults that has ever lived, yet life has never been so good! Our sedentary lifestyles and ultra-processed foods are making us overweight and sick. Our digital world is leaving us physically disconnected. The solution? Embrace discomfort. This book explores the science behind counting your steps, cold showers, intermittent fasting, ‘digital sunsets’, and much, much more.
Reading Death by Comfort offers a sense of relief. With every ‘aha’ moment – where complex physiology and psychology is simply explained, with accompanying practical tools – the reader is left with a true drive to positively impact their own physical and mental health.

2023 Awards – Psychology Health Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Self-Help Psychology

2023 Goody Business Book Awards in the category of Health - Psychology.

Health - Psychology

Winner

Swipe: The Science Behind Why We Don't Finish What We Start

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Author:

Tracy Maylett

Co-Authors:

Tim Vandehey

How is your book helping others?

Why is it so hard to finish what we start? Every day we wake up determined to engage with life—to finish that novel, overcome work challenges, repair a strained relationship, or reach fitness goals. Despite our best intentions, we fall short. Are we doomed to a lifetime of regret?

Reaching goals after repeated frustration starts with understanding the impulse known as the Swipe, a side effect of our high-tech culture. Drawing on disciplines from neurobiology to business and based on a massive database, Tracy Maylett and Tim Vandehey reveal a powerful psychological process that makes us disengage from what (or who) we care about most—often when we’re heartbreakingly close to real breakthroughs.

In Swipe, readers learn how this mechanism works and recognize when they’re caught on the “Hamster Wheel.” They’ll discover how to short-circuit the Swipe, reengage, and finally finish what they start.

Health - Psychology

Winner

Frazzlebrain: Break Free From Anxiety, Anger, and Stress Using Advanced Discoveries in Neuropsychology

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Author:

Gina Simmons Schneider Ph.D.

How is your book helping others?

FRAZZLEBRAIN is the first known book to address the link between anxiety, anger, and stress while employing groundbreaking remedies from neuropsychology. Readers of FRAZZLEBRAIN will learn how focused thoughts, intentional behaviors, and healing experiences shape the structure and function of the brain. They learn how to tame cynicism and hostility and generate more hopeful thoughts. Readers explore the relationship between the gut and the brain. They learn how time spent in nature heals the nervous system. Daily, routine, and random acts of kindness help connect us to others and strengthen resilience. Readers learn how to create healing experiences that can help the brain recover from trauma. Cultivating positive emotions changes brain chemistry and promotes good health and stronger relationships. FRAZZLEBRAIN includes 23 mood-boosting exercises to settle the nervous system and provide immediate relief from anxiety, anger, and stress.

Health - Psychology

Finalist

The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life

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Author:

D. Terrence Foster, MD

How is your book helping others?

The Stress Book takes a comprehensive approach to stress management and prevention and how modifying your lifestyle and taking practical steps can help significantly reduce the level of stress you are experiencing.
This book intends to help people struggling with challenging situations in most aspects of life, such as stressful jobs, complex personal or toxic relationships, finances, business, etc. Over forty approaches to stress reduction, management, and prevention are covered in this book, giving you practical guidance applicable to most of life's problems and circumstances.This book's goal, in part, is to help prevent people from getting involved in these and other difficult situations that may be stressful before stress is manifested.

The Stress Book will significantly improve people's lives at any level of society who may be experiencing stress in their personal, business, or professional lives. Thereby enabling them to live a longer, more prosperous, and enjoyable life.

Health - Psychology

Finalist

Dear Psychosis,

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Author:

Sarah Martin

How is your book helping others?

What would you do if you received a message from a stranger telling you that your daughter, who is travelling alone in Turkey, is having some sort of mental ill health episode?
Dear Psychosis, is a confronting, frightening, dramatic and a no-holds-barred account of a family’s experience following their daughter’s psychotic episode in Istanbul, and her later diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

To some it may be a warning, to others a story of hope. Most of all, it shows how the love and care given by strangers and the courage, strength and fortitude of a family paved the way for their daughter’s recovery and inspired the family to break the silence around mental illness.

This book will give you strength, hope, awareness, resilience, empathy and knowledge - whether you are a carer, a loved one or experience mental ill health yourself.

Dear Psychosis, is a powerful story that needs to be heard.

Break. The. Silence.

2023 Awards – Parenting and Family Health Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Health Parenting and Family

2023 Goody Business Book Awards in the category of Health - Parenting and Family.

Health - Parenting and Family

Winner

The B.A.B.Y. Book: Best Advice for Baby & You: The Essential Parent's Hospital Guide to Postpartum Care From Delivery to Discharge...and Beyond!

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Author:

Karen Lea Brewer BSN, RNC-MNN

How is your book helping others?

This book helps to educate parents on what to expect after the delivery of their baby. What mothers need to know about taking care of themselves for the first few days, what parents need to know about caring and feeding their baby, and what to expect over the next couple days during their hospital stay.

Most parents have not been patients in the hospital, so to be in the hospital for the delivery of their child/children can be a very anxiety-provoking time. Not only does mom need care but so do their baby/babies. This makes it twice as scary for parents. This guide goes over everything they can expect to happen with them, how to navigate those first few days, and how to handle a few things more after they are discharged.

With the nursing shortage ever-growing, education will no doubt be put on the back burner and patients will suffer because of it. This guide will help bridge that educational gap and help parents have a great, anxiety-reducing start to their new life together.

Health - Parenting and Family

Finalist

Low-Demand Parenting: Dropping Demands, Restoring Calm, and Finding Connection with your Uniquely Wired Child

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Author:

Amanda Diekman

How is your book helping others?

Low-demand parenting allows you to drop the demands and expectations that are making family life impossible and embrace the joyful freedom of living life with low demands. It can be a particularly effective approach for children with high anxiety levels including neurodivergent children. Amanda talks from experience and teaches you how to identify what the big, tiny and invisible demands are for your own child and gives you the step-by-step instructions on how to drop them. Full of practical resources and scripts that are easy to implement in busy everyday life, this book is your flashlight and your map to parenting your uniquely wired child. It will not tell you where to go, but it will help you find your way so you and your family thrive.

2023 Awards – Mind, Body, Spirit Health Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Health Mind Body Spirit

2023 Goody Business Book Awards in the category of Health - Mind, Body, Spirit.

Health - Mind, Body, Spirit

Winner

Frazzlebrain: Break Free From Anxiety, Anger, and Stress Using Advanced Discoveries in Neuropsychology

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Author:

Gina Simmons Schneider Ph.D.

How is your book helping others?

FRAZZLEBRAIN is the first known book to address the link between anxiety, anger, and stress while employing groundbreaking remedies from neuropsychology. Readers of FRAZZLEBRAIN will learn how focused thoughts, intentional behaviors, and healing experiences shape the structure and function of the brain. They learn how to tame cynicism and hostility and generate more hopeful thoughts. Readers explore the relationship between the gut and the brain. They learn how time spent in nature heals the nervous system. Daily, routine, and random acts of kindness help connect us to others and strengthen resilience. Readers learn how to create healing experiences that can help the brain recover from trauma. Cultivating positive emotions changes brain chemistry and promotes good health and stronger relationships. FRAZZLEBRAIN includes 23 mood-boosting exercises to settle the nervous system and provide immediate relief from anxiety, anger, and stress.

Health - Mind, Body, Spirit

Finalist

The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life

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Author:

Mike Rucker

How is your book helping others?

The Fun Habit is more than just a how-to guide—it’s a life-changing book that redefines our perception of happiness. It serves as a startling awakening in a world mired in illusionary pursuits of success and perpetual busyness. The book leads the reader to reevaluate what is “meaningful” by providing an effective toolkit that can be put into practice immediately. Backed by comprehensive research and personal experiences, the various tools found within will help you integrate more enjoyment into your daily life—making fun habitual rather than a rarity. The book offers a fresh, profound view on things like friendships, pursuing goals, helping others, and living in the present. For those who desire a balance between responsibilities and pleasure, The Fun Habit serves as a comprehensive roadmap—to better value our limited time, celebrate the act of living, and never again deprioritize the revitalizing power of having fun.

2023 Awards – Health Memoir

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Health Memoir

2023 Goody Business Book Awards in the category of Health Memoir.

Health - Memoir (Health)

Winner

In Pillness and in Health: A memoir

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Author:

Henriette Ivanans

How is your book helping others?

What if your husband gave you a kidney and you chugged a beer with your painkillers the next day?What if your loving marriage became a tortured threesome? Husband, Wife and Pills?
Meet Henriette and Kevin. As newlyweds, they move to LA to conquer Hollywood. When the dream begins to fade, Henriette delves into a secret life of Pills. Diagnosed with a rejecting kidney transplant, she becomes crippled by fear. Convinced Kevin can never understand, her part-time narcotic trysts explode into a full-blown pharmaceutical affair.

Health - Memoir (Health)

Finalist

Behind the Facade: A Mental Health Memoir

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Author:

Lauren Bartleson Ms

How is your book helping others?

Raw, real, and heartbreakingly honest, Behind the Facade is one woman’s journey of overcoming everyday trauma.
To the outside world, Lauren Bartleson had it all: her dream job, an award-winning blog, and a picture-perfect marriage. Online and in person, she put on a smile, trying to convince herself as much as others that she was okay. In reality, she was anything but.