Two books by Natural Awakenings contributors are hitting the shelves in October.

Life coach Diane Martinez celebrated her first book, Open Up and Get Unstuck: The Gateway to Living Your Best Life, Your Whole Life, at a launch party in Marietta in early September. 

“I was inspired to write Open Up and Get Unstuck after observing how many people feel unfulfilled in their lives, yet know at some level, life can offer more,” says Martinez. “It is my intention that the book will be helpful to those who sense that low hum of discontentment in their lives, but don’t know what to do about it or where to begin.” 

At the end of each chapter, Martinez offers practices to open body, mind and spirit and to help readers get unstuck. At the end of the book, she interviews four of her coaching clients who move from being stuck to a place of “clarity, confidence and contentment.” 

Martinez’s book is available in print and e-book formats on Amazon and Barnes and Noble sites. 

BreastQuake: Ten Proven Steps to Healing and Preventing Breast Cancer Without Surgery, Radiation, or Chemotherapy, Dr. Toni Galardi’s second book, will become available on October 10 in print and e-book formats on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. 

Galardi’s book is about her personal journey healing from breast cancer naturally, in do-it- yourself fashion. “It examines the role that body shame, food addiction, toxic partnerships, career burnout, childhood trauma and chronic stress play in the formation of breast cancer cells,” says Galardi, a life coach, psychotherapist and astrologer. She developed a 10-point protocol for her own healing and health maintenance and includes meditations and/or coaching exercises in each chapter. 

In addition, Galardi interviewed 100 women about their views of their breasts, which she calls “eye opening.” She notes, too, that even though the book is a primer on breast health, the functional medicine interventions she writes about have also been used to heal prostate cancer.