Healthy Living | Metropolitan Library System

1. Due to maintenance work, the Midwest City Library is closed today (Monday, May 13).

2. The Kiosk at Mitch Park is also closed for maintenance. At this time, we don't have an estimated completion date.

The Almonte Library will be closed Sat., 5/4 through Tue., 5/14, to prepare for their grand reopening in their new building on Wed., 5/15 at 10 AM.

1) Healthy and delicious Instant Pot: inspired meals with a world of flavor

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Vegetables to the front: We’ve flipped the traditional ratio on its head by keeping our protein portions small while making vegetables superabundant.
Embrace the fresher side of Instant Pot cooking with satisfying meals and exciting flavors to invigorate weeknight dinner.

These wholesome recipes are easy—over half ready in an hour or less—yet are anything but predictable, with options that bring a variety of...

2) Healthy at last: a plant-based approach to preventing and reversing diabetes and other chronic illnesses

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‘Chronic diseases may often be reversed and prevented by changing diet and lifestyle. In this important and compelling book, Eric Adams describes how. Highly recommended.’ - Dean Ornish MD, author of five New York Times bestsellers including UnDo It
Can you dramatically improve your health by embracing a plant-based diet? Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, believes that you can.

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3) Healthy heart, healthy brain: the proven personalized path to protect your memory, prevent heart attacks and strokes, and avoid chronic illness

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4) The path between us: an Enneagram journey to healthy relationships

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Stabile, Suzanne

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Over 100,000 Copies Sold Worldwide!
IVP Readers' Choice Award

Most of us have no idea how others see or process their experiences. And that can make relationships hard, whether with intimate partners, with friends, or in our professional lives. Understanding the motivations and dynamics of these different personality types can be the key that unlocks sometimes mystifying behavior in others—and in ourselves.

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5) Design a healthy home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

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With indoor air pollution at its worst, and many of us spending more time in our own homes, this interior design guide will help you create calm, social, and comfortable spaces.

Let leading sustainability architect, Oliver Heath, give you all the practical solutions you need to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing.
Inside the pages of this home decor book, you'll discover how to detoxify your home by making small...

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"Take Care prioritizes Black women and their experiences and encourages them to take care of themselves in order to bring their best self into the world. A space for Black women to cultivate their joy is truly a necessity at a time when Black lives are at the forefront of discussions online and in the media, and Take Care is the book to ensure that."--

7) The emotion code: how to release your trapped emotions for abundant health, love, and happiness

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Nelson, Bradley

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In this newly revised and expanded edition of The Emotion Code, renowned holistic physician and lecturer Dr. Bradley Nelson skillfully lays bare the inner workings of the subconscious mind. He reveals how emotionally-charged events from your past can still be haunting you in the form of "trapped emotions"--emotional energies that literally inhabit your body. These trapped emotions can fester in your life and body, creating pain, malfunction, and eventual...

8) Healthier together: recipes for two--nourish your body, nourish your relationships

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A healthy cookbook to share with a partner, featuring more than 100 recipes designed to nourish your bodies and souls.
An Epicurious Best Cookbook for Spring • “Healthier Together focuses on real whole foods and bringing community together.”—Kelly LeVeque, celebrity nutritionist and bestselling author of Body Love
Food writer and health blogger Liz...

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Influencers volume 1

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Amazon's Best Romances of 2022
Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of May
Goodreads' Most Anticipated May Romances
SheReads' Best Romance Books Coming in 2022
A gym nemesis pushes a fitness influencer to the max in Amy Lea’s steamy debut romantic comedy.

Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. After her recent breakup, she has...

10) Change your brain every day: simple daily practices to strengthen your mind, memory, moods, focus, energy, habits, and relationships

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With a page for each day of the year-- 366 motivations, exercises, and strategies-- Amen helps you manage your mind to support your happiness, inner peace, and success. You can literally change your brain, and when you do, you change your life. Learning to love and care for your brain will help you decrease your stress, improve your relationships, and prevent you fro becoming a burden to those you love. -- adapted from jacket and perusal of book

11) The integrative guide to good health

12) Burnout: the secret to unlocking the stress cycle

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game-changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Dare to Lead
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize...

13) Built to move: the ten essential habits to help you move freely and live fully

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Starrett, Kelly

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After decades spent working with pro-athletes, Olympians, and Navy Seals, mobility pioneers Kelly and Juliet Starrett began thinking about the physical well-being of the rest of us. What makes a durable human? How do we continue to feel great and function well as we age? And how do we counteract the effects of technology-dependence, sedentary living, and other modern ways of life on our body's natural need for activity? The answers lie in an easy-to-use...

14) Codependent no more: how to stop controlling others and start caring for yourself

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Beattie, Melody

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"Melody Beattie's compassionate and insightful look into codependency--the concept of losing oneself in the name of helping another--has guided millions of readers toward the understanding that they are powerless to change anyone but themselves and that caring for the self is where healing begins. Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to a loved one's self-destructive...

15) After she falls

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Schober, Carmen

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Strong-willed Adri Rivera always dreamed of becoming a professional mixed martial artist, but then she fell in love with a man who smashed everything to pieces. When their tumultuous relationship finally comes to a head, Adri flees with their young daughter to her small hometown in the mountains of Pennsylvania. There, she must face the people she left behind and put her broken life back together as a single mother. Adri struggles to regain her...

16) The self-care solution: a year of becoming happier, healthier, and fitter--one month at a time

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Ashton, Jennifer

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ABC’s chief medical correspondent helps you ring in the New Year right with a resolution that’s actually doable: a year-long plan to improve your emotional and physical health—from giving up alcohol to doing a digital detox, but each for only one month.

Dr. Jennifer Ashton is at the top of her field as an ob-gyn and news correspondent. But even at the top there’s still room to improve, and with The Self-Care

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17) Breathe in, breathe out: restore your health, reset your mind and find happiness through breathwork

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Sandeman, Stuart

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Stuart Sandeman reveals the hidden power of breathing and how, by changing the way you breathe, you can transform the way you think and feel. Since tragic loss brought him to breath work, Stuart has changed the lives of thousands through his signature sessions. Now he wants the same for you. Whether you want focus or flow, more energy or less anxiety, Stuart can tell you how to get it. Combining modern science and ancient wisdom, he sets out how to...

18) The well-lived life: a 102-year-old doctor's six secrets to health and happiness at every age

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McGarey, Gladys

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"Dr. Gladys McGarey, a centenarian still-practicing doctor and the mother of holistic medicine, reveals her powerful and life-changing secrets for how to live with joy, vitality, and purpose at any age. On these pages, Dr. McGarey shares her six actionable secrets to enjoying lives that are long, happy, and purpose-driven. She talks about how to embrace your life fully and feel motivated every day; how to move--spiritually, mentally, and physically--to...

19) I'm so effing tired: a proven plan to beat burnout, boost your energy, and reclaim your life

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A guide to conquering burnout and increasing your energy from a leading medical doctor and nutrition expert EXHAUSTION DOESN'T HAVE TO BE YOUR NEW NORMAL Does it feel like your life is too busy, your days are too short, and you're feeling overworked, overstressed, and overtired? Chances are you've asked your doctor for help, only to be told that it's because of your age, or your workload, or, worse, that it's just "normal." If so, you're not alone....

20) The blue zones: 9 lessons for living longer from the people who've lived the longest

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National Geographic

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Reveals the secrets of longevity of communities of long-lived people in: Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, California; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Okinawa, Japan; and Ikaria, Greece.