Pathways through Long-Term Health Conditions: Lifestyle Medicine to Maximise Your Wellbeing - Paperback

by Donald Moss (Author), Angele McGrady (Author)

A self-help guide for people living with a chronic illness, based on a Lifestyle Medicine approach. The book aims to empower those living with long-term illnesses to take control and make impactful decisions on their own behalf and in partnership with professional providers.A positive, practical guide to living with chronic health conditions such as cancer, heart disease, depression, arthritis and IBS. This is a hopeful and uplifting book that empowers readers to take action on their own behalf. Through clear explanations and enlightening case examples, the authors explain how to apply the three-step Pathways Model of self-care deciding to change, mastering skills and more sophisticated strategies to help individuals take better care of themselves, and to feel more active and empowered in partnership with professional providers.

Author Biography

ANGELE McGRADY is a professor at the University of Toledo Medical Center, Ohio. She has extensive experience teaching behavioural science, and she has designed programs to prevent burnout and build resiliency in health care providers. Her clinical practice focuses on applying the Pathways Model to patients with complex chronic medical and emotional issues. DON MOSS is a clinical health psychologist and psychophysiologist. He is Dean of the Graduate College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences at Saybrook University in Pasadena, California. Over five decades, his passion has been to help people with medical illnesses to help themselves, manage their illnesses, reduce their suffering, and live more fully despite illness.