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