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The Yin & Yang of Wellness Coaching - A Handbook for Healers (195 pages in PDF).combines Chinese Medical Theory, a precious gift to the world, with the art and science of wellness coaching. I wrote this e-book for four reasons, and specifically for practitioners of acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

• To improve clinic results.
• To increase patient-visits.
• To optimize your own health.
• To help our profession step up to the next level.

Some features

• Why and how effective treatments still require wellness coaching.
• Why Chinese Medical Theory prepares us to become the premier wellness coaches of the world.
• A brief review of Chinese Medical Theory, for those who want it.
• How three interconnected and unhealthy habits cause the vast majority of chronic disorders.
• Why wellness begins with the shen and bodytrust, not with the mouth, the gym, or the treatment room.
• How to start coaching your patients.
• Countering liver qi stagnation through mindfulness, bodytrust, religion/Taoist philosophy, and movement.
• Why the hurrying lifestyle causes the majority of autoimmune diseases and inflammatory disorders.
• The difference between hunger and appetite.
• The vital importance of the hunger feeling, and what it’s presence or absence signifies.
• The survival function of obesity for humans and bears.
• The superiority of OMAD (One-Meal-A-Day) to diets, fasting, and drugs, for getting lean and clean.
• How to prescribe realistic fitness programs that improve flexibility, strength, and endurance.
• The low-down on longevity: Healthy at 100; delayed compressed morbidity; the Seven Longevity Principles.