Life Coaching and Mind/Body Wellness: New Book by America's #1 Health Coach Bridges the Gap to Deliver Lasting Health Change Solutions

The Health Seeker's Handbook: Revolutionary Advice on How to Shape Up, Trim Down, and Chill Out...from America's #1 Health Coach" integrates cutting edge life-coaching strategies with proven mind/body health and wellness strategies to provide lasting solutions for anyone who wants to lose weight, get fit, reduce stress, or make just about any other lifestyle change.

East Amherst, NY (PRWEB) January 10, 2004 --Kick the willpower habit!" exhorts Bob Merberg, author of The Health Seekers Handbook" (Well Lit Books, isbn 0-9743762-4-8). As an alternative, Merberg - drawing from the fast growing field of life coaching" and the best proven methods of mind/body wellness - presents a practical new approach consistent with the latest health behavior research.

In The Health Seekers Handbook" - subtitled Revolutionary Advice on How to Shape Up, Trim Down, and Chill Out...from Americas #1 Health Coach" - Merberg offers a collection of innovative and customizable solutions for readers who aspire to get fit, lose weight, reduce stress, or make other lasting lifestyle changes. He cautions that behavioral strategies based on willpower alone - despite the publics steadfast allegiance to them - lead to frustration and disillusionment, and rarely to success.

Using illustrative stories and simple Mind Your Change" activities, Merberg coaches readers to:

-- Shape Up their lives, by discovering new possibilities, increasing their confidence, creating an environment conducive to healthy living, establishing strong supportive relationships, and building on their strengths.

-- Trim Down their distractions, by tuning in their self-awareness, simplifying their lifestyles, letting go of stale goals, clarifying and focusing on whats truly important, and being fully present in the moment.

-- Chill Out, by taking leave of guilt, disappointment, limiting beliefs, and other forms of self-deprecation that stand in the way of well-being.

'The Health Seekers Handbook isnt like other self-help books," Merberg comments. It offers real solutions that are both quick and lasting, but that dont require sacrifice and struggle. And as part of making this process enjoyable, I made sure the book - while compelling and occasionally poignant - doesnt take itself too seriously."

Merberg, founder of the Center for Personal Health Coaching, has used innovative coaching models to help health seekers break through to their goals for more than 15 years. He is a faculty member for Wellcoaches Corporation, a graduate of Coach University, and holds a Masters degree in Exercise Science and Community Health.

The Health Seekers Handbook" (196 pages, $14.95) is available via bookstores nationwide and from online retailers. More information about the book is available at http://www.healthseekershandbook.com.
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