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Mother Nurture
by Rick Hanson, Jan Hanson, Ricki Pollycove
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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (April 02 2002)
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Chapter 1: A Mother's Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships
Mothers today juggle more tasks, work longer hours, and sleep less than their own mothers did. Yet the self-healing revolution has overlooked the most significant issue in the lives of some twenty million women: how to cope with the relentless, sometimes

Chapter 1: A Thin Soup of Resources
If the demands on a person grow, her resources should grow as well. We're sure that one sort of resource has increased since you had children: the emotional fulfillment of being a mother. But otherwise, have your resources grown since your baby was born?


About the Author

Rick Hanson, Ph.D.Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist who works with couples, individual adults, and children. He has written and lectured extensively on parental stress and depletion, ways to nurture mothers and fathers, and how a couple can be both strong teammates and intimate friends while raising a family. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, Dr. Hanson did management consulting before earning his Ph.

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Jan Hanson, M.S., L.Ac.Jan Hanson, M.S., L.Ac.

Jan Hanson, M.S., is an acupuncturist and nutritionist whose private practice focuses on women's health and on temperament problems in children. In addition to developing protocols for preventing and reversing maternal depletion, she has written articles and presented workshops on family health and on holistic approaches to childhood illnesses. While working in the Neurochemistry Research Laboratory at the Veteran's Hospital in Sepulveda, California, she co-authored a study that was published when she was 18 years old.

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Ricki Pollycove, M.D., M.H.S.Ricki Pollycove, M.D., M.H.S.

Ricki Pollycove, M.D., M.H.S., is the founding director for Education and Program Development at the California Pacific Medical Center Breast Health Center, and a past chief of the Division of Gynecology there. She is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a member of the North American Menopause Society, American Society of Reproductive Medicine, the American Society of Breast Diseases, and past editor in chief of the San Francisco Medical Society Magazine.

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