Book Description
Think about how you feel at the end of a day when
every waking minute has been filled with obligations to your
mate, friends, colleagues or kids-when you found your first
free moment so late in the evening that you were too
exhausted even to seize it for yourself? If you've had too
many days like this-and what woman hasn't?-you'll find in Self-Nurture
the help you need to transform your life. Psychologist Alice
D. Domar, Ph.D., acknowledged for her cutting-edge work in
stress management for women, believes that learning to
nurture ourselves is essential for women today whose lives
often feel overwhelming. Most women, says Dr. Domar, have to
juggle the roles of caregiver, breadwinner, and nurturer-and
have been taught to put everyone else's needs ahead of our
own. The result is a near-epidemic of physical, emotional,
and spiritual fatigue.
Domar doesn't believe you have to give up your life to
simplify it- she shows you how to live your same old life in
a new way- a way that lets you breathe. In this illuminating
and heartening book, Dr. Domar draws on her many years of
clinical experience and research to offer women practical
ways to nurture body, mind, self, and spirit. She has shown
that women who nurture themselves lead healthier, more
joyous, and ultimately more meaningful lives. Here are
inspiring stories, easy-to-follow exercises, and meditations
that will transform your focus from self-sacrifice to
self-care. Seasoned by her multiple roles as wife, mother,
psychologist, daughter, sister, and friend, Dr. Domar
explains how to nurture using:
( The "relationship quadrant"- a new way to look at
and resolve the problems in your closest relationships
( Strategies for transforming negative thoughts about your
work, career, and creative life into positive ones that are
rooted in self-esteem
( Enriching ideas on how to carve out real time for
guilt-free leisure
( Ways to develop a self-nurturing spirituality
You know someone who needs this book- and you probably know
you need it, too. Written with wisdom and humor, it will
empower you to develop the same fierce and tender concern for
yourself that you've always shared with those you love.
Self-Nurture is nothing less than an exploratory map for
meeting your own needs-a gift for yourself or anyone you love
who needs to learn the art of self-care.
