WorksThe Frailty Myth: Re-Defining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls
In this compelling and highly praised book ("Provocative"--The New Yorker; "Persuasive"--Chicago Tribune), bestselling author Colette Dowling shows how girls are weaned from the use of their bodies even before they begin school. By adolescence, girls' strength and aerobic powers start to decline, unless they are exercising vigorously--and most aren't. Yet it appears that strength and physical skill--for all females--are only matters of learning and training. Men don't have a monopoly on physical ability; new studies show that when women and men are matched in size and level of training,the strength gap closes. Drawing extensively on up-to-the-minute research,The Fraily Myth reveals an astonishing picture of the new woman. She is confident, both phsycialy and mentally; she is a person we would like our daughters to become. The Cinderella Complex
Like Cinderella, many women today are still waiting for something external to transform their lives. We may venture forth into the world, travel, make money, but underneath lurks a wish to be saved, a deep yearning for dependence. Using her own experience and four years of research, Colette Dowling shows why The Cinderella Complex is so widespread. The book offers women a real opportunity to achieve the emotional independence that means so much more than a new job or a new love. You cannot read it without changing the way you think--and maybe the way you live. You Mean I Don’t Have to Feel This Way?
New Help for Depression, Anxiety and Addiction Colette Dowling watched depression destroy her husband’s life and leap to the next generation to nearly destroy her daughter’s--until dramatic help was found. Now her ground-breaking book offers the same lifesaving help to the millions who still suffer from depression and related disorders--which include panic, anxiety, phobias, PMS, alcohol and drug abuse, bulimia, migraine, and obesity. You Mean I Don’t Have to Feel This Way? documents the latest research that links depression and related disorders to a physical cause and shows why willpower, understanding, and psychotherapy, when used alone, so often fail to work. And it explains the state-of-the-art medical treatments that can bring about dramatic improvement--and often full recovery--within weeks. Red Hot Mamas:
Coming into Our Own at Fifty From the bestselling author of The Cinderella Complex comes this bracingly honest, intimately personal, and ultimately empowering guide for every woman edging up to, at, or just beyond age fifty. Colette Dowling introduces the "Red Hot Mamas," women who have arrived at midlife to find that it isn’t the beginning of the end, but a time to finally come into their own. Listen to their stories--of moving beyond fears of aging and changing, of learning to chart their own course, of discovering a new sense of freedom and power--and you may find the inspiration you need to build the life you want to live for the next thirty or forty years. |
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