The Wellness Compass Travel Guide: Tools for a Successful Lifelong Journey

by Joda P Derrickson

Overview

Do you want to maintain high levels of health, happiness, and
accomplishment for a lifetime?

In The Wellness Compass Travel Guide, Dr. Joda P. Derrickson provides a
practical framework for assessing, improving, and maintaining diverse
aspects of personal well-being. This flexible step-by-step handbook puts
you in the driver’s seat by providing:

> The Wellness Compass, a navigational tool to maintain balanced
well-being.

> The Wellness Compass Guidebook, a compilation of resources
and activities that facilitates self-defined strategies for resolving
wellness challenges.

> The Wellness Compass Journey, a three-step process for goal
achievement with step-by-step guidance, tips to prevent
backsliding, and strategies to maintain a lifelong wellness lifestyle.

Whether you use this system to accomplish a single New Year’s Resolution
or to maintain high levels of well-being across your lifetime, it’s flexible.
Adapt it. Make it your own. Keep climbing your mountains and achieving
your dreams!

Additional copies of activities can be downloaded from www.wellnesscompasstravelguide.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532012051
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/16/2017
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.14(d)

Editorial Reviews

2017-09-25
A debut guide offers readers advice on achieving wellness in the most foundational aspects of their lives.Derrickson's book "is about obtaining and maintaining wellness through proactive self-care." The author has simplified previous theories on the subject by grouping wellness principles into five overarching categories forming a compass (with the fifth one as the center): spiritual well-being, socioemotional well-being, physical health, life's purpose, and maintaining balance. Her chapters follow an organized pattern of providing an overview of each dimension followed by the associated goals. For readers unsure of where to start, she offers a Wellness Compass Profile self-assessment toward the end of the volume (one of many beneficial resources) to help readers see how they are faring in each category. Her ideas are well-supported by research (cited in footnotes) and are written to be applicable to everybody, regardless of religion, gender, race, age, or background. For example, the spiritual dimension focuses on upholding universal, honorable principles, and the life's purpose category encourages goals such as constant learning and sustaining financial security. Instead of being purely informational, this thorough manual often simultaneously acts as a workbook, presenting various assessments to give direction, questions to encourage reflection, and activities to promote action. Derrickson's organization is skillful, not just on a large scale with polished chapters, but also on a small scale with bold headings, clearly focused sections, well-formatted lists, and aptly placed visuals and charts. The casual reader may be overwhelmed by the length and density of the material, but as the author asserts, "If you are searching for quick fixes, keep looking!" The content is ultimately designed for deep personal study and application, and there truly is something here for everyone. The author's prose style is much more fact-based than story-based, so those who learn best through narrative may struggle. But that doesn't stop this work from being very appealing and highly effective.Comprehensive, rich, engaging, and organized—a superb manual for improving one's life.

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