I was recently given an opportunity by Mom Central to attend a Spring Beauty Event hosted by Zyrtec. Zrtec understand that with Spring approaches and flowers begin to bloom it can cause those with allergies to begin to experience difficulties. We can have a puffy face, red nose and watery eyes. These symptoms make it impossible for most woman to use makeup.

This event brought out beauty expert Rebekah George who taught me a few tips on how to diminish eye puffiness and draw away the redness caused by allergies.

According to Zyrtec 96% of women suffer from allergy symptoms. Of the 1,000 female allery sufferers surveyed, half have missed a date or social event because they felt their allergy-related beauty challenges made them look too bad to leave the house.

What should you do?

Here are some tips.
1. Keep it simple by not wearing alot of make up. Dampen your makeup brush to apply the products.
2. Your eyes are the first signs of allergies, so use softer colors and less pigment, they can help to lighten and brighten eyes.
3. Take a break from makeup, apply self-tanner instead for a fresh and healthy glow that lasts all day.

Welcome to the New World of Guides

The Mommy MD Guide to Pregnancy and Birth, is filled with tips that doctors who are also mothers use for their own families during their own pregnancies and births. To create it, we spoke with 60 doctors who are also mothers; we call them Mommy MD Guides. We spoke with many Mommy MD Guides who are still in the trenches with their babies.

Some of them were even pregnant when we talked. We also spoke with Mommy MD Guides whose babies are grown up with babies of their own. They are Grammy MD Guides! Combined, these physicians have centuries of experience as doctors, and among them they have 146 children. The 900+ reassuring, trusted, and often even humorous tips in this book are presented in the Mommy MD Guides own words, and each tip is clearly attributed to the doctor who lived it. Because doctors so often see the things that can go wrong, they try to do everything as right as they can for their own health and for that of their families.

Physicians are a healthier group than the whole. Even though women physicians sometimes will just suffer with things that take time and that affect them alone, pregnancy is different. Most doctors go the extra mile to take care of their own bodies while they are carrying their babies. The Mommy MD Guide to Pregnancy and Birth offers tips on both the challenges and also the celebrations of pregnancy. You will discover how Mommy MD Guides made it through pesky pregnancy challenges such as morning sickness, back pain, and heartburn, and you will also learn how they enjoyed wonderful celebrations of pregnancy such as telling their partners the good news, baby showers, and meeting their babies for the first time. This book is a reassuring look at pregnancy that is filled with practical, actionable tips that work. After all, if a physician juggling a busy practice and a hectic home or a resident working 110 hours a week used a tip, no doubt it worked. And if it worked for her, it will likely work for you too.

When to Call Your Doctor or Midwife sidebars offer critical information of when to seek medical help. Mommy MD Guide Recommended Product sidebars feature products that Mommy MD Guides found invaluable during their pregnancies, including cost and availability information. MomMy Time sidebars suggest ways for moms-to-be to relax, de-stress, and enjoy this amazing, wonderful time in their lives.

At first when I heard that my book club was going to read Spontaneous Happiness by Dr. Andrew Weill, I was a little worried. Over the past 10 years I have gone through alot of emotional upheaval in my life losing the ones I love and I have read books that never seem to help.

When I learned that this books was about emotional well-being it got me more curious and wanted to read more and learn. This book looks at the physica and mental wellneess in a way of using classic meditation techniques (which did not work for me in the past), with nutrition and life style changes geared at preventiing behavior which makes dealing with life difficult for people.

Dr. Andrew Weill defines depression as having a lack of self-esteem, insomnia, lack of energy, decreased concentration and hopelessness. The author predicts that depression will increase in the coming years without adequate coping strategies and intervention. This is absolutely true as I have learned this lesson. Relaxing techniques like sitting, meditation and activities; such as, cooking help to curb mental restlessness. All of these things I did not think of before.

I really enjoyed the book and gained alot of insight from its pages.

Disclaimer: I received this book through The Blogger Connection, The Book Connection, but the opinions are my own.