BOOKS
Principles of Movement
By Brent Anderson PhD PT Ocs Pma-CPT
From the founder of Polestar Pilates, Principles of Movement is a practical resource guide on movement science for movement practitioners, therapists, and anyone looking for a practical and easy approach to assess, facilitate, and enhance movement. Author Dr. Brent Anderson draws upon his 30 years of experience in rehabilitation and movement science, showing the strong correlation between motor control and biomechanics, and integrating new work on fascia, pain interpretation, and behavioral elements associated with movement. It’s a resources that provides students and practitioners alike with a framework to evaluate, facilitate, and optimize the quality of movement.
Publisher: Slack
Sustainable Diets: How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System
By Pamela Mason and Tim Lang
This book explores what is meant by sustainable diets and why this has to be the goal for the Anthropocene, the current era in which human activities are driving the mismatch of humans and the planet. Food production and consumption are key drivers of transitions already underway, yet policy makers hesitate to reshape public eating habits and tackle the unsustainability of the global food system. The authors propose a multi-criteria approach to sustainable diets, giving equal weight to nutrition and public health, the environment, socio-cultural issues, food quality, economics and governance. This six-pronged approach to sustainable diets brings order and rationality to what either is seen as too complex to handle or is addressed simplistically and ineffectually. The book provides a major overview of this vibrant issue of interdisciplinary and public interest. It outlines the reasons for concern and how actors throughout the food system (governments, producers, civil society and consumers) must engage with (un)sustainable diets.
Publisher: Routledge
Rising on the spectrum
Autism by the numbers: Explaining its apparent rise by Spectrum, among autism’s many mysteries is its apparent rise around the world. But how common is it, exactly? And is it really more prevalent today than in generations past? This downloadable book gives an in-depth look into how we view autism now and why it may have led to some rise in the population on the spectrum.
Publisher: Spectrum News
AUDIO BOOK
Drugs That Could Change Your Life—A Guide from the Expert
By Professor David Nutt
We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalization and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to disordered eating and even addiction and chronic pain.
Professor David Nutt, a leading Neuropsychopharmacologists, has spent 15 years researching this field. In 2018, he co-founded the first academic psychedelic research center—underpinned by his mission to provide evidence-based information. It revived interest in the understanding and use of this drug in its many forms, including MDMA, ayahuasca, magic mushrooms, LSD and ketamine.
The results of this have been nothing short of ground-breaking for the future.
Source: Hachette Go
PODCAST
Healing 2.0: The Power of Apologies
Why is it so hard to say ‘I’m sorry?’ In the final episode of our Healing 2.0 series, we talk with psychologist Tyler Okimoto about the mental barriers that keep us from admitting when we’ve done something wrong, as well as the transformative power of apologies. If you liked this episode, check out the rest of our Healing 2.0 series. And if you know someone who would benefit from the ideas we explored in this series, please share these episodes with them. Thanks!
(Apple Podcast)
