Bøker av Melissa Monroe

"Unlock the Power of Nutrition for Optimal Renal Health!Are you or a loved one seeking to nourish your kidneys and thrive with vitality? Dive into the pages of 'Renal Diet Cookbook: A Complete Guide to Renal Health' and embark on a transformative journey towards renewed wellness.Discover over 100 mouthwatering recipes meticulously crafted to support renal function while tantalizing your taste buds. From hearty mains to delectable desserts, each dish is designed to be deliciously kidney-friendly, low in sodium, and packed with essential nutrients.But this book is more than just recipes-it's your comprehensive roadmap to understanding the intricate relationship between diet and renal health. Uncover expert insights, practical tips, and customizable meal plans to empower you on your quest for vibrant well-being.Are you ready to take charge of your renal health and savor every flavorful bite along the way? Grab your copy of 'Renal Diet Cookbook' today and embark on a flavorful journey towards optimal wellness!"

Mom's Search for Meaning was awarded Honorable Mention in Writer's Digest 2023 Self-Published Book Awards. Paralyzed by guilt, grief, and PTSD after her 2-year-old daughter Alice died in her sleep of unknown causes, acupuncturist Melissa Monroe determined not to become a victim in the story of her life. While taking the advice she had given to many grief and trauma patients throughout the years, hoping she could create a meaningful life without closure, she took notes throughout her healing process. Struggling to advance her timeline beyond that of her daughter's - and still eager to be the keeper of Alice's stories - Melissa began to write about Alice's life and the impact of her death. She became her own lab rat, trying various approaches to healing with the hope that her experience might be helpful to others stuck in a trauma time loop. As much a study of trauma's effect on time perception as it is an intimate view into the heart and mind of a bereaved mother, "Mom's Search for Meaning" shows us that meaning resides in the search itself ... with a spoonful of gallows humor to help the medicine go down.

A new collection from one of the most exciting voices in American poetry.For many years, Melissa Monroe has been assembling one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary American poetry, drawing on all different kinds of writing, from technical manuals to books of spells to dictionaries of slang, to explore the many ways-poetry is, after all, one of them-in which we human beings seek to know and control the elusive realities of the world around and within us. Her subject is both the strangeness of things and the strangeness of the things we think, and she has an unsurpassed eye for the wilderness between them that we inhabit. The poems collected in Medusa Beach include "Planetogenesis," recording the life of an imaginary planet; "Whiz Mob," a sequence of haikus composed in the criminal argot of 1940s America; "Frequently Asked Questions About Spirit Photography"; and the title poem, which interweaves an account of the life and thought of the great German philosopher and marine biologist Ernst Haeckel with a meditation on the many historical and natural historical avatars of the figure of Medusa. As formally adventurous as they are rigorous, disconcertingly comic, and deeply strange, the poems in Medusa Beach are the work of a true American original.