Live Your Life, Not Your Diagnosis: How to Manage Stress and Live Well with Your New Health Condition

by Andrea Wildenthal Hanson

Overview

Discussing everything from diet and exercise to stress and emotion management, Live Your Life, Not Your Diagnosis provides tools readers can use immediately to help them feel better while living with a diagnosis. Written by a master certified mindset coach who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000, readers won’t find negative, scary stories about how a diagnosis will hurt them. Instead, they will find stories of bravery, wellness, support, and detailed steps on how they too can live their life—not their diagnosis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683507956
Publisher:	Morgan James Publishing
Publication date:	07/17/2018
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Andrea Wildenthal Hanson is a bestselling author, master certified mindset coach, speaker, and creator of The Health Mindset Podcast. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000, Andrea shares her practice of incorporating the mind, body, and soul with everyday health. In addition to running multiple workshops and classes for organizations such as the National MS Society and the MS Association of America, she taught a series of classes for the MAPSS-MS (Memory, Attention, and Problem Solving Skills for Persons with MS) research project based at UT Austin. Her books, Live Your Life, Not Your Diagnosis: How to Manage Stress and Live Well with Multiple Sclerosis and Stop Carrying the Weight of Your MS: The Art of Losing Weight, Healing Your Body and Soothing Your Multiple Sclerosis empower people to become their own wellness hero. She teaches a customized and effective approach to health that includes life balance, mindset tune-ups, mind/body tools for nutrition, and stress management so that clients can create the life they’ve always wanted. Andrea currently resides 5,000 feet up in the Rockies outside of Aspen, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Dedication xi

Foreword xv

Introduction Are Yon With Me? xxiii

Chapter 1 Creating Something New 1

Chapter 2 Exercise is an Easy Move 11

Chapter 3 The Art of Eavesdropping 25

Chapter 4 How To Do Emotions 39

Chapter 5 Taking the Stress Down a Notch 53

Chapter 6 Be Extraordinary to Yourself 65

Chapter 7 How to Cultivate Energy 79

Chapter S The Truth About Honesty 91

Chapter 9 Putting the Layers Togethet 101

Chapter 10 Moving Forward 117

Acknowledgments 123

About the Author 125

Thank You 127

Chapter 1 Stop Carrying the Weight of Your MS 129