Big Breath

Calm your worries and build your bravery — or just relax during a busy day or wind down before bed All day long, you breathe — in and out, in and out — without even thinking about it. But did you know that you can play with your breath, use it to take you on an adventure? All you have to do is find a comfy spot and close your eyes. Does your breath sound like ocean waves? Like the wind before a storm or a breeze at the start of spring? Can you feel it all the way down to the tips of your toes? By the time you open your eyes, you might just feel a little lighter, calmer, more relaxed. In Big Breath, William Meyer’s gentle prompts, alongside Brittany R. Jacobs’s wonderful illustrations, make meditation as fun as a game, but with big results.

Big Breath In follows the ups and fateful downs of living with cystic fibrosis (CF), the journey to receiving a double lung transplant, and the hope of a second chance at life that transplant brings. Documenting the daily struggle of living with CF, George outlines both CF’s deadly consequences and how it works. Despite this, he stresses that people with CF are like everyone else, just trying to navigate the unpredictability of regular life, but through a CF lens. Documenting George’s declining health, culminating in being wait-listed for a double lung transplant, Big Breath In speaks to what it’s like to live with significantly decreased lung function, and what the process is to be wait-listed. George reveals his own struggle in trying to accept the "new normals" that his fragile health brought, and his need to let go of his "old life" and accept the new life he finds himself living. Over a year and a half later, perilously close to death, George kept waiting for a phone call that might not come in time. When a match is finally found, the longest wait of his life begins, complete with giant waves of hope and despair. In addition to writing about his surgery and immediate recovery in hospital, he also writes about other character-forming events, including the death of his brother, and meeting, dating, and marrying his wife. His experiences shaped him in incredible ways and helped him fight for his second chance at life.

Victoria worries . . . a lot! She receives some wise advice from her favorite teddy bear, Baxter. Learn how Baxter's special word helps Victoria's worries get much, much smaller. This beautifully illustrated book teaches young children mindful breathing to help them with their worries. Teachers, parents, clinicians and other helpful grown-ups can practice this easy technique with their children to create calmer families, schools, and communities.

Section 1. Newborn to three months. ch. 1. Nose-breathing a must!. ch. 2. Throaty gurgles: the low-down on the lazy voice box. ch. 3. Newborn breathing issues related to feeding. ch. 4. Back to sleep and beyond: SIDS prevention. ch. 5. Wheezing: can a newborn have asthma?.ch. 6. Respiratory infections in newborns. ch. 7. Clear the air for your newborn -- Section 2. Three months to one year. ch. 8. Stuffy nose in babies: what's up there?. ch. 9. Throaty noises and stridor. ch. 10. Feeding issues for healthy breathing. ch. 11. Sleepy breathing in the first year. ch. 12. Respiratory illnesses in babies: croup and crud. ch. 13. Nebulizers: what's in them?. ch. 14. Clear the air for the first year -- Section 3. One to five years. ch. 15. Stuffy nose/runny nose/sinusitis - From friends and foes. ch. 16. Snoring: what's that noise?. ch. 17. Choking hazards: what is safe to eat? ch. 18. Hoarseness in toddlers and preschoolers: shhhhh! ch. 19. Wheezing and coughing: when is it asthma? ch. 20. Respiratory illnesses in toddlers and preschoolers: Yuck! ch. 21. Clear the air for your child

When children become overwhelmed by big emotions, what should they do? Take a Deep Breath? Yes!! My Deep Breath is a book that does just that. This book shows a little boys journey through a variety of emotions that he encounters each day and while these emotions can be extremely scary for children, if we teach children ways to deal with their emotions in a positive manner, they become less scary and more accepting. The parents are able to guide the little boy through this journey of emotional intelligence by using the power of deep breathing and mindfulness. Each illustration shows different emotions, negative and positive. These include: -Anger, -Sad -Scared -Nervous -excited -surprised Every page in this book has vibrant illustrations to show the different emotions that the child experiences and a parent helping the child through each scenario, followed by deep breathing to help the child learn how to self-regulate. The Language used in this book is straightforward and simple to enable children to follow, understand and engage with the book. My Deep Breath is a book that is essential not only for a child and parent to read, but teachers to read with their students and caregivers to read with their children. With growing mental health concerns in our society, it is important to teach our future adults coping mechanisms at a very young age.

A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

Dr. Ginnelle Ries has witnessed proof that this life is not the end and miracles do happen. Take a Deep Breath is two memoirs intertwined into one. The first is the story of Ginnelle, a girl who from a young age strives to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor. It chronicles her life as she struggles with the insecurities of her younger years and her simple wish to be loved. It shares her poignant relationship with her father, her resiliency as she attends medical school as a single mother on welfare, and the stories of the patients she will never forget. You will rejoice with her as she finds love and grieve with her as she loses loved ones. Living through a life-threatening illness brings her full circle and to a point where she can finally say, "No matter what, it will be okay." The second and more important story is the spiritual one, not distinct but rather woven intimately within Ginnelle's life. You will share in her spiritual growth and discovery and the stories of miraculous healings, guardian angels, and messages from loved ones who have passed. You will be beside her as she hears her husband recount his life-after-death experience and be with her as she witnessed something during the death of a loved one that convinced her that this life is not the end. Take a Deep Breath will make you laugh, will make you cry, but, more importantly, will give you hope that we are not alone; this life is not the end; and miracles do happen.

Josh doesn't like people looking at him and he's in the school play Can Miss Button help him to be brave? And can Miss Button be brave when she is faced by something she doesn't like? This series introduces young children to different aspects of our emotions and behaviour. A fictional story is backed up by suggestions for activities and ideas to talk about, while a wordless storyboard encourages children to tell another story.