Jim Bartley

Bliss House

This is a beautifully told story of faith and loss during the 1993 Serbian-Bosnian conflict. Recovering from his lover Pimm's death, Cliff travels to Yugoslavia with Pimm's fated birth papers, hoping to uncover his past. He's led to a monastery in a Western Serbian town. Just beyond the border, in Bosnia, brutal war rages. Cliff's time in Serbia stretches into a three-year personal and spiritual journey involving an illicit love affair and a harrowing trip to Bosnia. Jim Bartley (Toronto) is the First Fiction reviewer for the GLOBE AND MAIL and a playwright. This is his debut novel.

A Novel

Drina Bridge

Tania Clifton-Smith

A revolutionary book from top Ear, Nose & Throat surgeon, Dr Jim Bartley, and highly-regarded breathing expert,Tania Clifton-Smith, who believe that good breathing patterns can dramatically improve the lives of people with major diseases such as heart disease, asthma and depression. Breathing well helps us relax, normalises body biochemistry, reduces muscle pain and allows the re-establishment of normal posture and movement. Part I discusses the role of smell and the "nose brain" in our everyday lives. These chapters provide a physiological, scientific basis to the book. Part II discusses basic breathing techniques, posture, self-massage and muscle stretching techniques. These are the self-help techniques that you can adopt to help yourself. Part III discusses common disease conditions that can be improved by attention to breathing techniques. These include asthma, heart disease, migraine, tension headache, jaw-joint pain, anxiety and depression.

A New Zealand Guide

Breathing Matters

Easy-to-read advice for the lay person on treating common headache and facial pain conditions, such as migraine and tension headache. Written by eminent surgeon Jim Bartley ,who became interested in facial pain when he realised that many of the patients that he was seeing with sinusitis were actually suffering from tension headache. Healing severe headaches often requires a multi-facted approach - this book includes advice on sleep, relaxation, nutrition and pain management. It includes explanations of the processing of pain, emotions and pain, migraine, tension headache, the breathing connection, the dental department, the neck, post-traumatic headache and sinusitis pain. It also discusses treatments: breathing, sleep, exercise, diet, food triggers (including gluten) and allergies, herbs and supplements, posture, massage, medication, using the mind, complementary therapies and evolving therapies. The World Health Organisation listed migraine as one of the top four disabling medical conditions with levels of pain, distress and disability comparable to heart disease, cancer or low back pain.

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