The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health, and Life [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Dr. Linda Clever has developed a do-it-yourself tool kit with The Fatigue Prescription, based on years of medical practice, life experience, and the success of RENEW. Filled with easy self-assessments, informational charts, and sound advice from a physician who healed herself, this book will help you avoid illness, reset priorities, and most importantly, regain your health and happiness.

Are you living your to-do list rather than living your life? Many of us run from task to task and are burning the nearly non-existent candle at both ends. We are sleep-deprived, overworked, overwhelmed, and undernourished in body and soul. We slam energy drinks, gnaw ...
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Overview

Dr. Linda Clever has developed a do-it-yourself tool kit with The Fatigue Prescription, based on years of medical practice, life experience, and the success of RENEW. Filled with easy self-assessments, informational charts, and sound advice from a physician who healed herself, this book will help you avoid illness, reset priorities, and most importantly, regain your health and happiness.

Are you living your to-do list rather than living your life? Many of us run from task to task and are burning the nearly non-existent candle at both ends. We are sleep-deprived, overworked, overwhelmed, and undernourished in body and soul. We slam energy drinks, gnaw energy bars, and constantly drink caffeine to keep going as our adrenal glands struggle to keep up. Most of us are one health crisis away from financial devastation—and yet, we are hurtling towards physical breakdown each over-scheduled day. Our lives demand too much of us; when everything is a priority, this can make us sick and tired. Dr. Clever discovered the personal cost of this lifestyle and has since devoted herself to helping people renew themselves and regain balance in life.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781573445627
  • Publisher: Cleis Press
  • Publication date: 2/1/2010
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 216
  • Sales rank: 522,607
  • File size: 790 KB

Meet the Author

Linda Hawes Clever, MD, is a native of Seattle, Washington who earned her undergraduate and medical degrees at Stanford University. Linda is known for "firsts,” which include: first medical director of the teaching clinic at San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Hospital; founder and chair of the Department of Occupational Health at Pacific Medical Center (now California Pacific Medical Center); first woman Governor in the American College of Physicians; and first woman editor of the Western Journal of Medicine. She is a member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

In 1998, she founded RENEW, a non-profit organization that aims to help busy, devoted people regain—or maintain—their effectiveness and creativity. Linda has chaired the boards of KQED and San Francisco University High School, and served on the Stanford University Board of Trustees for fourteen years. She currently belongs to the board of Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services and chairs its foundation board as well. She is a dedicated walker and enjoys good company, good conversation, and good cookies.

Table of Contents

Foreword xix

Introduction: The Renew-O-Meter xxi

Part 1 The Diagnosis 1

Chapter 1 How Did You Get So Busy? How Did You Get So Tired? 3

Inclinations You are Born With: Your Inheritance 5

Growing Up 6

Your Energy Bucket 8

Courage and Pride 17

The Four Steps 20

Chapter 2 Your Own Checkup 23

How are you Feeling and Doing These Days? 25

Body Beautiful (or at least Body Healthy) 28

The State of Your Spirit 37

Your Relationships 40

Your Learning Checkup 44

Your Attitude Checkup 47

Chapter 3 The Problems and the Promise 53

Benefits of the Fatigue Prescription 56

Reaping Benefits Requires Risks 58

Going Beyond Balance 61

Part 2 The Renewing Remedy 63

Chapter 4 The Four Steps 65

Step 1 Awareness 66

Step 2 Reflection 69

Step 3 Conversation 77

Step 4 Plan-and-Act 79

Chapter 5 The Values Proposition 83

Values and Fatigue 85

How Values Work 86

Recalling and Revising Your Own Values 89

Your Current Values 94

Chapter 6 Discovering What You Really Want and How to Get it 97

What Do You Really Want? 98

How to Get What You Really Want 101

Your Own Stockpile for Renewing 110

Chapter 7 Get in Shape 119

Relationships 121

Spirituality and Religion 121

Building Your Body's Staying Power: Physical Fitness 122

You've Got Attitude 134

Renewing Rituals 141

Chapter 8 Liberated From Fatigue and Staying Renewed 147

The Fatigue Prescription as a Family Matter 148

Making Good Choices 149

Contending with Fear, Anger and Procrastination 150

Updating Your Values 154

Making Time 155

Maintaining a Positive Perspective 156

Staying in Touch with Your Lifelines 157

Saying No-and Yes-at the Right Time 165

Staying Up 170

Afterword 173

Resources 174

About Renew 183

About The Author 185

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