Planning Your Health & Wellness Book Made Easy!Writing a book is one of the best things you can do for your health and wellness business.Let's face it: health and wellness is a very crowded niche, and it's hard to stand out from the crowd. That's exactly what your book will help you do.But how do you write a book that's actually good, a book that your readers won't hate? How do you write a book that doesn't suck?You follow a proven framework to write a book that gives readers real results, builds trust, and establishes you as a real expert.This workbook walks you through the process of planning a business-building health and wellness book that your readers will love. Using the Fast Author Framework?, you'll plan a book that drives readers to become clients and gives you instant authority and credibility at the same time.If you want to write a health and wellness book but you don't have time to waste writing a book that isn't good, How to Write a Health and Wellness Book is the book-planning workbook you've been looking for.

Two of the top experts in the field of writing and wellness join with 15 others to show us how writing is used to heal physical illness, emotional trauma, and spiritual pain.

Mental health is on everyone's mind these days. In addition to the large spike we're seeing in diagnoses of depressive and anxiety related disorders, there's an alarming rate of teen suicide due to a number of factors: lack of access to health care, lack of resources, social change, thin social bonds, and lack of coping skills. People feel desperate. Not only the sufferers of the disease, but those who are charged to care for them; parents and school staff. People are looking for a something to help, but don't know what to do. There are mental health services available in schools, however, in order to use them the student must have a positive diagnosis for a mental or behavioral disorder. This is a time consuming and expensive process that students avoid at all costs because they don't want to be labeled as a broken human being. School officials' hands are tied, they don't have a way to screen students for mental illness. The easiest solution seems to be giving every student the tools to promote their own mental health, but which tools? How do they work? Pioneering a program to meet this need head on, the author found a way to reach students and give them the tools they need through a medium they already experience daily; music. This book is written in a popular, conversational style. It's easily accessible to those who don't know much about music, providing just enough information to get them started writing great songs without overwhelming them with heavy theory. It is a practical guide for using songwriting for personal fulfillment that backs up its assertions with research based evidence from multiple fields of study: physics, psychology, anthropology, music therapy, evolutionary biology, and the wisdom of centuries of music makers. UNIQUE ANGLESIn this book, the author: Presents his story and how he uses songwriting to address his mental illness. Presents stories of other songwriters and students who have used songwriting for their own benefitPresents a compelling tour of the history and science behind music and it's power on the human mind and bodyTeaches basic music theoryOffers a practical guide to personal songwriting Presents exercises to work songwriting into a daily practice of wellnessREADER BENEFITSThe reader will gain an understanding of the mechanics of sound and it's pathway to our brainThe reader will learn why music has an impact on our minds and bodiesThe reader will explore and be challenged by the concept of wellnessThe reader will learn how to write good songsThe reader will learn how to express themselves in a healthy wayThe reader will discover the rich inner landscape revealed to them through a deep relationship with musicThe reader will discover more of themselves and how to deal with their emotionsThe reader will be challenged to incorporate songwriting into their live

Preventive care and health promotion are essential in today's demanding health care environment. This concise how-to guide gives you the information you need to assess for and write effective, wellness-oriented nursing diagnoses. Let this easy-to-use resource show you how to maximize wellness and client functioning throughout the lifespan; develop key assessment questions based on developmental tasks; assess individual strengths to promote positive health benefits for the ill and well client; write wellness nursing diagnoses for individuals, groups, families and communities; and link the relationships among wellness nursing diagnosis, client or group behaviors and nursing interventions.

Five Ways to Better Days is a guide to using expressive writing to achieve health and happiness, bringing the reader through a programme of expressive writing and other important practical mental health and wellbeing strategies. In doing so it focuses on five key areas of positive psychology: Gratitude: recognition and appreciation for what you already have in your life Flow: how to immerse yourself in the present moment Flexible thinking: how to appreciate other viewpoints and become more tolerant Goals: how to identify what is most emotionally important and practically achievable in your life Connections: how to value and deepen your connections with others In an exceptionally practical way, each section of the book provides the reader with writing and non-writing suggestions, practices, ideas and activities to deepen their sense of wellbeing. Linking the fields of expressive writing and positive psychology in a new and dynamic way, this book provides a practical guide for both the general reader and mental health professionals in counselling, health and social care settings. The practicality of the book also makes it an ideal book for workshops and expressive writing/psychology course material. The techniques provided are based on psychological principles but also on the author’s own knowledge and experience of the rich field of expressive writing. Five Ways to Better Days is for anyone who wants to use writing to enhance their creativity and their sense of wellbeing, health, resilience and happiness.

Within these pages you will find several themes to challenge or support your attitudes, values, and beliefs about health behaviors. By writing in the Health and Wellness Journal Workbook you will be able to learn why you behave the way you do. Each of the 76 health and wellness themes is discussed and followed by an exercise. These themes integrate all the dimensions of health and wellness from emotional to social to spiritual health. The related exercises ask you to reflect by responding to specific questions related to each theme. Each exercise is carefully designed to encourage self-responsibility, positive behavior change, and total well-being.

How to use a journal to communicate with your deepest self Step-by-step advice on keeping every type of journal--from a personal diary to a dream chronicle Simple exercises that bring out the poet /journalist/profiler/narrator in everyone The Omega Institute, the nation's largest holistic education and retreat center, has helped tens of thousands of people in their search for well-being, personal growth, and spiritual development through its world-renowned workshops and retreats. Now the experts at the Omega Institute share their wisdom with you in a unique series of books that provide the guidance, the inspiration, and the skills you need to bring increased meaning and vitality into your life. . . . Scripting a record of your internal life consistently and over a period of time allows you to give voice to your subconscious, commit otherwise fleeting thoughts to paper, and liberate your dreams. But where does a nonwriter begin? Writing Your Authentic Self is the beginner's guide to crafting an intimate, enlightening, and, most of all, genuine memoir. Whether your interests are spiritual, artistic, or historical (a genealogical journal is a gift for the generations to come!), there is a type of journal that will bring out the writer in you. Written by one of the top creativity experts at the Omega Institute--and containing advice and inspiration from dozens of experts in the field--Writing Your Authentic Self shows you: How to capture experiences, record your dreams, embrace your memories, and free your muse--even if you have never written for pleasure How to find the best journal format to express your true self How to have your journal teach you . . . about your goals, your challenges, your strengths, and perhaps your real calling Don't miss these other outstanding Omega Institute Mind, Body, Spirit books: Vitality and Wellness The Essentials of Yoga And coming soon . . . Contemplative Living The Power of Ritual Bodywork Basics

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Program Development and Grant Writing in Occupational Therapy: Making the Connection is a practical guide to program development and grant writing. This text describes the process of developing a good idea into a sustainable and meaningful program related to occupational therapy principles and client needs. Readers will learn how to conduct a needs and asset assessment, develop strategies for writing a grant proposal that maximizes funding, learn where to find data, and tips on how to garner support from stakeholders. This essential text contains process worksheets at the end of each chapter to help readers process and apply the chapter concepts. These worksheets can be used by instructors as learning activities in courses related to community practice, program development and grant writing. Program Development and Grant Writing in Occupational Therapy: Making the Connection features learning objectives, key terms, process worksheets, case studies, review questions, grant samples and more!