Monday 24 September 2018

Lifestyle Counselling and Coaching for the Whole Person:

Or how to integrate nutritional insights, exercise and sleep coaching into talk therapy

Draft-cover-3By Dr Jim Byrne, with Renata Taylor-Byrne
Updated on 24th September 2018A low-cost Kindle eBookversion of this book is now available (in addition to the paperback).
You can find both options on the same page at any of the major Amazon  outlets.
This is the book that many counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists have lauded and applauded in numerous comments on LinkedIn and Facebook, over the past few months.  But why are they so interested and excited by this new book?
Lifestyle counselling is the futureBecause this book explains how to integrate diet and nutrition, inner dialogue, physical exercise, re-framing of experience, and sleep science into *Lifestyle Counselling* practice. And lifestyle counselling practice is the most likely future direction of all systems of counselling, coaching and psychotherapy.  
Lifestyle counselling broadens talk therapy by including consideration of the nutritional state of the client; their approach to sleep hygiene; and their level of physical activity.
We explore the scientific research which demonstrates definite links between those and other lifestyle factors and emotional problems and mental illness. We see this as the core of most healing practices of the future, combined with talk therapy, and emotional self-management.
For some years to come, this form of practice will be a novel service offering for clients who have realised that:

Sunday 2 September 2018

Dr Jim’s Counselling Blog:

Lifestyle counselling resources are now being made available in low-cost eBook format via Kindle:

https://abc-counselling.org/2018/09/02/lifestyle-counselling-resources-available-in-ebook-format/