By Pat Thomas

A First Look at Health and Fitness

This title explores what an amazing thing the human body is. It looks at different parts of the body, and how they work. The book also explains how the human body needs support from its owner. This includes eating nutritious foods, exercising, getting enough sleep and fresh air. Illness is also looked at, and how every little illness you get helps to support your body’s ability to fight disease later on.

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by Pat Thomas

How safe is your home?

We diligently scrub, launder, deodorise and disinfect ourselves and our surroundings, in order to ensure our continued good health and well-being. But the shocking fact is that many of the products we use to ensure that we are clean and protected are made from highly toxic chemicals.

We buy these products in good faith in supermarkets and shops and use them in our daily efforts towards good hygiene, unaware that they contain a range of ingredients known to cause, among other things, hormone disruption, mood swings, birth defects and even cancer.

Cleaning Yourself to Death takes a thorough look at the range of everyday cleaning products in our cupboards: what they contain, how they are sold and how we overuse them.

Pat Thomas begins her campaigning book with comprehensive information about the skin and respiratory systems and how chemicals are absorbed through them. She then takes an in-depth look at the toiletries and household products we all use, and their adverse effects on our health.

Full of practical, hard-hitting information, valuable tips on how to lessen our exposure to toxins and natural, effective alternatives, this book is a must for every home.

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by Helen Porter, Helen Quested, Adrienne Clarke and Pat Thomas

This beautiful TimeLife book, written by experts in the field, includes everything you need to know to live a healthy organic life.

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By Pat Thomas

A First Look at Friendship

Children soon discover that having a friend and being a friend affect the way they feel about themselves. The author discusses the rewards and responsibilities of friendship, and shows how the ability to form a friendship is a vital part of every child’s emotional development Titles in this sensitively presented series explore the dynamics of various relationships experienced by children of preschool through early school age. Kids are encouraged to understand personal feelings and social problems as a first step in dealing with them. Written by psychotherapist and counselor Pat Thomas, these books promote positive interaction among children, parents, and teachers. The story lines are simple and direct – easily accessible to younger children. There are full-color illustrations on every page.

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By Pat Thomas

A First Look at Death

This reassuring picture book explores the difficult issue of death for young children. Children’s feelings and questions about this sensitive subject are looked at in a simple but realistic way. This book helps them to understand their loss and come to terms with it.

Written by a trained psychotherapist, journalist and parent, and illustrated by an experienced children’s book artist, this is part of an acclaimed and successful series of picture-book non-fiction for Early Years. Books in the series give advice and promote interaction between children, parents, and teachers on a wide variety of personal, social and emotional issues. They are excellent tools for teachers to use during classroom discussions.

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By Pat Thomas

A First Look at Bullying

A reassuring picture book that  looks at the causes and the effects of both physical and verbal bullying and encourages communication of fears and worries to those that can help. Charmingly clear illustrations give readers immediate access to complex situations and feelings and provide further stimulus for discussion. Notes for teachers and parents, plus suggested further resources, help adults to make the most of the learning opportunities inherent in the book.

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By Pat Thomas

A First Look at Sibling Rivalry

My Brother, My Sister and Me explores a child’s worries about having a sibling, emphasising the positive aspects of having someone to play with and share things with. It reminds children that their feelings are normal and each child is unique.

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by Pat Thomas

Among women there used to be a ‘common’ sense of what was appropriate, effective and safe in pregnancy and birth.

Today, common sense has given way to expert opinion. Pat Thomas’s excellent guide hopes to restore a little balance. It will provide women with the resources they need not only to cope with, but to enjoy, their pregnancy.

The author treats pregnancy as a state of health, suggesting practical guidelines for good diet and gentle exercises while offering sensible advice for common complaints that may occur.

She also deals with the mother’s emotional wellbeing both during and after pregnancy and looks sympathetically at the role of the man and how it can be enhanced to the benefit of both parents. Written in a supportive and easy style, the book includes helpful nutritional, useful addresses and further reading.

Published by NewLeaf in October 1999 this book was reissued  by Crossing Press in 2002 as  Healthy Pregnancy: A Natural Approach.

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by Pat Thomas

Ninety per cent of adults have had a headache at some time in their lives.

Almost twenty per cent suffer from chronic headaches, with migraines comprising eight per cent of these. Headaches are responsible for more visits to the GP – and for more drugs bought – than any other condition. Where this conventional approach seems not to be working, the world of alternative health seems to have excelled.

Headaches: The CommonSense Approach helps the reader become their own ‘headache detective’. Thoroughly researched and written in an accessible style, Pat Thomas discusses who gets headaches and why.

She helps track down their cause and covers in detail the solutions, from stress relief and diet to the various alternative remedies available such as herbs, aromatherapy, massage, acupuncture and hypnotherapy. Including helpful charts, useful addresses and further reading, this book itself will become a welcome relief for the many sufferers.

Published by NewLeaf in October 1999 this book was reissued  by Crossing Press in 2001 as Overcoming Headaches: A Natural Approach

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By Pat Thomas

A First Look at Where Babies Come From

This picture book explores the conception and birth of a child in reassuringly simple- but honest – terms. It is part of a series of information books which promote interaction between children, parents and teachers on personal, social and emotional issues. Notes for parents and teachers at the back of the book provide valuable advice for how to share this book with your child or class.

Written by a trained psychotherapist, journalist and parent, and illustrated by an experienced children’s book artist, this title is part of an acclaimed and successful series of picture-book non-fiction for Early Years. Books in the series give advice and promote interaction between children, parents, and teachers on a wide variety of personal, social and emotional issues.

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