By Wanda Deschamps (May 6, 2021) Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind, Judson Brewer, PenguinRandomHouse, March 9, 2021, 304 pp., $30.90 Unwinding Anxiety speaks from both the brain and the heart. Author Dr. Judson Brewer has experiential knowledge and education in the topic of mental health and writes in … [Read more...] about Unwinding Anxiety: From the brain and heart
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DEI is officially hot: The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders
By Ginelle Skerritt (May 3, 2021) The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of All of Us, Andrés Tapia and Alina Polonskaia, BK Business, October 20, 2020, 216 pp., $36.49 I am noticing a trend. We seem to be going through a period where Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training, books and gurus are like the haute couture of … [Read more...] about DEI is officially hot: The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders
David Love: Thoughts of an Environmental Fundraiser
by Gail Picco (April 30, 2021) Green Green: Reflections on 51 Years of Raising Money for Nature, David Love, Civil Sector Press, April 22, 2021, 187 pp., $32.00 It was a sort of epiphany says David Love. He and his wife Ann, who helped found Pollution Probe, were working up north setting up an independent school in Yukon. At the same time, one of the first … [Read more...] about David Love: Thoughts of an Environmental Fundraiser
Latest from André Picard: Neglected No More is a plea to stop dehumanizing elders
by Roger Ali (March 30, 2021) Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic, André Picard, PenguinRandomHouse Canada, March 2, 2021, 208 pp., $19.95 Neglected No More by André Picard is a compelling read about the urgent need to improve the lives of Canada’s elders in the wake of the pandemic. He makes … [Read more...] about Latest from André Picard: Neglected No More is a plea to stop dehumanizing elders
How to lose everything: Unimaginable and uplifting
By Wanda Deschamps (February 18, 2021) How to lose everything: A memoir, Christa Couture, Douglas & McIntyre, September 1, 2020, 228 pp., $24.72 Full disclosure: I wasn’t going to read How to Lose Everything by Christa Couture. I heard a bit about the content: childhood cancer, the death of an infant followed by the loss of her one-year old baby, then … [Read more...] about How to lose everything: Unimaginable and uplifting