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The intertwining of the personal life along with the professional life of a Doula shows the frailties and strengths of being a woman. Learning to understand and accept our inner landscape is an adventure, one that requires great strength and courage to be able to look into the less desirable shadows of ourselves and embrace it all. By doing so we can become whole beings capable of standing strong and true, able to hear the voice of our own intuition and be brave enough to listen.

A Birth Path describes the entire birthing process in nine detailed steps to raise awareness of what mother, baby, and attending father experience during this miraculous life transition. It delves into the physical, spiritual, and energetical to bring light to the conscious and subconscious aspects of the integrative beauty of birth.

The desire to travel is instinctive; to see what's ahead of us, around the corner, or across the sea. We've been curious about the world since time began. So get out there, see the world, have an adventure, have fun, live! This section of British Columbia may have some of the most diverse landscape anywhere in Canada: from the high mountains at the western edge of the Rockies, to the desert climates of the Okanagan, to the thick forests outside Kamloops.

During the 20th century, modern births in America came to involve mostly male physicians, hospitals, technological interventions, and quick, routine procedures. In a unique and detailed historical study, Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession, Laura E. Ettinger fills a void with the first book-length documentation of the emergence of American nurse-midwifery.

From Delicate Arch to the Zion Narrows, Utah’s five national parks and eight national monuments are home to some of America’s most amazing scenic treasures, created over long expanses of geologic time. In Wonders of Sand and Stone, Frederick H. Swanson traces the recent human story behind the creation of these places as part of a protected mini-empire of public lands.

Nathan and his family enjoy Sunday dinners at Nana Cassandras house, where they talk about all kinds of things around the table. One evening, Nana surprises everyone with something she read online: Story time at the library had been canceled. Nathan is very sad, so he and Nana visit the library the next day to be sure. When the librarian explains that the story time reader had moved to a new town, Nathan and Nana set out to solve the problem by finding new readers.

Go on a trip through the alphabet where silly letter rhymes and tongue-twisters bring humor and delight to children of all ages. Numerous opportunities for sounding out rhythms give young listeners more exposure to phonics - making each word a stimulating learning adventure!

The Wholehearted Life is the culmination of Susyn Reeve's lifelong work. Comprised of 365 days of change-your-life ideas that can be executed in just a few minutes each day, this is a guide to a life of contentment and community, where you give and receive love, including the oft-missing self-love and compassion.

Named after George Vancouver, the British explorer who sailed down the Pacific Coast to Burrard Inlet in 1792, Vancouver is one of the world's great natural harbors. The downtown area is flanked on three sides by ocean with Burrard Inlet to the north that extends eastward for miles to Port Moody. English Bay sits to the west of downtown and False Creek to the south.