A Family Guide to Wellness: Creating a family wellness culture that supports healthy lifestyles - Softcover

Allen, Judd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0941703320 ISBN 13: 9780941703321

Publisher: Healthyculture.com, 2011

Synopsis

A Family Guide to Wellness offers a step-by-step approach to building a family wellness culture that makes the healthy choice the easier choice. It will help you become an effective champion for health and happiness within your unique family system. You will learn to: • Establish wellness guidelines that lower resistance to change and build trust. • Create a family wellness portrait that identifies positive and negative influences. • Mobilize effective peer support among family for lifestyle improvement goals. • Choose goals that make wellness “the way we do things around here.” • Develop wellness traditions, rewards and other cultural influences in your family. • Use wellness activities to strengthen family relationships.

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About the Author

Judd Allen earned his Ph.D. in community psychology from New York University. His books include Bringing Wellness Home, Kitchen Table Talks for Wellness, Wellness Leadership, and Healthy Habits, Helpful Friends. Judd is president of the Human Resources Institute, an editor of the American Journal of Health Promotion, and a member of the board of directors of the National Wellness Institute. He has held the position of senior research analyst at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and served on the faculty of Cornell University Medical College. Judd has completed the New York City Marathon more than 25 times and has competed in multiple Ironman-distance triathlons and long-distance cross-country ski races. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Edition details

• Publisher: Healthyculture.com
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941703320
• ISBN 13: 9780941703321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38