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How to Get Pregnant is the essential guide to helping you achieve a happy, healthy pregnancy, telling you all you need to know about fertility and conception in one volume. The average couple takes around six months to conceive, and as many as a quarter of all couples take up to one year - after this time around one in six couples will continue to have problems and may need to seek help. This book provides vital, easily accessible information for couples at all stages, including updates on the latest developments, from ICSI to alternative therapies, nutritional advice, and all the most useful website and contact addresses. * Simple ways to enhance your natural fertility * Causes of infertility and the treatments available * When to seek medical advice * How to make the most of medical solutionsInvaluable advice on emotional well-being for partners, and their friends and families

A charming and practical guide on how to live a more organised life.How much time would you save if you didn't have to spend it looking for mislaid car keys or that school permission slip you should have signed? How much simpler and less stressful could life be, if only you were a little more organised?In I Want to Be Organised, Harriet Griffey shows how a few simple steps can help turn the most chaotic and dysfunctional amongst us into the serenely organised someone who never misses their grandmother's birthday, loses the dry-cleaning slip, or fails to plan a successful dinner party.This book is full of practical solutions, tips, and inspiration to help eliminate clutter, chaos, and stress and save both time and money in the process.

Our bodies are built for movement, but our modern lives mean that we spend much of our time in sedentary occupations, whether that’s at our desks, commuting long distances by car or even just at home watching the television. Back aches, migraines, RSI and even digestion problems can all be caused or aggravated by long hours spent sitting. In Sit Strong, Harriet Griffey shows you what you can do to strengthen your body and improve flexibility to help counter the very real health risks caused by excessive sitting. Divided into five main areas – head and neck; shoulders and upper back; arms; lower back and bottom; and legs – each section provides a series of gentle, movement-based exercises, designed to target areas that can be badly affected. Illustrated throughout, these exercises can be easily combined and incorporated into a personalised routine and fitness plan. With advice on specialist help and alternative ways to stretch and strengthen, Sit Strong gives you everything you need to improve your overall health, posture and core strength. Start today and feel better immediately.

Whether you're a creative professional or an aspiring amateur, everyone can benefit from being more inventive in their daily lives. In I Want to be Creative, Harriet Griffey collates core ideas and exercises expressly devised to get your creative juices flowing. Creativity is an expression of yourself and the way in which you choose to live your life. You can express your creativity in all sorts of ways, from the way you dress to what you cook, to the books you read and the music you listen to. Being creative lets you explore what can be difficult to express, our emotions for example, perhaps through art, music or creative writing. Nourishing your creativity can also help you to think outside of the box when handling problems and finding solutions, allowing you see the world in more than one way. I Want to be Creative includes a range of simple and adventurous solutions, exercises for creating daily doodles, advice on how to break through the dreaded artist's block, free association exercises and tips and tricks to finding inspiration on your daily commute. Harriet Griffey provides a practical guide to promoting and maintaining a creative mind that will help you discover the power of imagination at work, home and play.

To be able to concentrate is the key to better focus and achieving more, but in our 24/7 constantly switched-on environment, it’s not always easy. A relentless barrage of external interruptions, combined with internal preoccupations, can make it increasingly difficult to concentrate. In I Want to Concentrate, Harriet Griffey examines why it’s important and what gets in the way of our concentration, while offering practical information, pointers and ideas on how to regain control over the chattering monkeys in our heads and our lives. If you want to concentrate better and benefit from its positive affect on your work and personal life, I Want to Concentrate will help you get back into the habit, improving relationships and reducing stress along the way.

“And what is this writing, anyway, as a human activity or as a vocation, or as a profession, or as a hack job, or perhaps even as an art, and why do so many people feel compelled to do it?” - from On Writers and Writing, by Margaret AtwoodWriting for yourself is a wonderful way to explore personal creativity and whatever you want to write, a daily practice will enhance your skill and confidence.Write Every Day is a brilliantly accessible book that demystifies the process and will help you see new ways to put pen to paper and discover your own unique writing style. Divided into 12 sections that range across voice, narrative, plot, structure, point of view, characterisation, dialogue, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose and memoir, Harriet Griffey shows you how to let go of any inhibitions, overcome writers block and expand your writing potential.Featuring creative writing tasks to develop ideas and skills, quick and simple word play tasks, as well as practical exercises, journal reminders and other writer’s tips and inspiring quotes, Write Every Day is an exciting way to unleash your inner wordsmith, kick-start your imagination and get you writing.

If you feel permanently exhausted, wrung out, trapped, angry and dissociated you may be experiencing symptoms of burnout. Do you feel you are working harder and longer but achieving less?Do you constantly feel under the weather, or suffer persistent aches, pains, niggles and minor illnesses that won’t go away? Living in a constant state of low-level stress, with an increasing reliance on our stress hormones to keep us going, can lead to adrenal exhaustion.One of the difficulties with burnout is that its build-up can be very gradual and it’s all too easy to hit crisis point without realising that this is where we’ve been headed for weeks, if not for months or years. In From Burnout to Balance, Harriet Griffey helps readers to reclaim their life by recognising their own signs of stress, managing these and avoiding their escalation through positive lifestyle changes, and ensuring basic self-care measures every day – adequate sleep, regular nutritious meals, exercise and relaxation – to keep body and mind resilient, all helps.Featuring a quiz on how to recognise burnout, information on how to understand what is the root cause of any issues, a 24-hour crisis plan and four-week programme to help you recover your life, this book is essential reading for anyone who is experiencing symptoms or burnout and wants to live a calm, happy, stress-free life.

Writing for yourself is a wonderful way to explore personal creativity – each of these 100 prompts will enhance your skill and confidence and get you closer to being the writer you want to become.Write Now is a brilliantly accessible book that demystifies the process and will help you see new ways to put pen to paper and discover your own unique writing style. Divided into 12 sections that range across voice, narrative, plot, structure, point of view, characterisation, dialogue, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose and memoir, Harriet Griffey shows you how to let go of any inhibitions, overcome writer's block and expand your writing potential. Featuring creative writing tasks to develop ideas and skills, quick and simple word play tasks, as well as practical exercises, Write Now is an exciting way to unleash your inner wordsmith, kick-start your imagination and get you writing.