40 Days to Better Living--Optimal Health [Paperback]

Dr. Scott Morris (Author), Church Health Center (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2011 | Series: 40 Days to Better Living

You want to feel better—and 40 Days to Better Living: Optimal Health provides clear, manageable steps to get you there, through life-changing attitudes and actions. If you’re ready to really live better, select one or more elements of the 7-step Model for Healthy Living—Faith, Medical, Movement, Work, Emotional, Family and Friends, and Nutrition—and follow the 40-day plan to improve your life, just a bit, day by day. With plenty of practical advice, biblical encouragement, and stories of real people who’ve taken the same journey, this book—from the Church Health Center in Memphis, the largest faith-based clinic of its type in the U.S.—may be the most important book you read this year!

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Editorial Reviews

Review

This book was a wonderful surprise. It is so synthesized and succinct, and yet full of useful information. The format also was really unique. 
 
This book will be one someone could work through again and again and make more progress towards a balanced life each time. They will find a balance between mind, body and spirit. This was an amazing book that anyone looking to live life and live it to the full could benefit from reading.

(Steven McEvoy 20110528)

If you really devoted yourself to following this book for the 40 days, you really could change your life.  
 
Great book to get you up and moving, watching your weight and your health with faith as your base.  Great motivation!

(Kathryn Poulin Mysteries, Etc. )

I previously read Dr. Morris’ book Health Care You Can Live With and was quite impressed with it.  Let me say this one I really loved!  I was actually surprised – I wasn’t expecting it to be so helpful!

I wasn’t expecting to have a plan laid out before and to have blanks I could go through and figure out what I needed help with.  I really really liked this format for this style of book — it puts it in an action plan at your finger tips and gives you a timeline to finish it!  Talk about setting people up for success!

(Amydeanne The 160 Acre Woods )

Book Description

Many people want to feel better—and this book provides clear, manageable steps to get them there, through life-changing attitudes and actions. Readers choose the areas of life they want to improve—Faith, Medical, Movement, Work, Emotional, Family and Friends, and Nutrition—and follow the 40-day plan to better living.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Barbour Books (July 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1616262648
• ISBN-13: 978-1616262648
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #565,664 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #19 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Health, Mind & Body > Disorders & Diseases > Heart Disease

More About the Author

G. Scott Morris, M.D., M.Div. is founder and Executive Director of the Church Health Center, which has as its mission to seek to reclaim the Church's biblical commitment to care for our bodies and spirits. The Church Health Center opened in 1987 to provide primary health care to low-income, uninsured working people of Memphis. The CHC, a health care ministry supported by a broad base of the faith and medical communities, has over 55,000 patients of record in its Clinic. The CHC has also developed its Wellness ministry where the best disease prevention efforts of medicine are combined with the pastoral and spiritual care of the faith community. Learn more at www.churchhealthcenter.org or http://healthcareyoucanlivewith.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Back to the Basics - Body, Mind and Spirit, September 29, 2011

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Steven R. McEvoy "MCWPP" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 40 Days to Better Living--Optimal Health (Paperback)

This book was a wonderful surprise. It is so synthesized and succinct, and yet full of useful information. The format also was really unique. Written as a 40 day guidebook to better health, Dr. Scott Morris, the medial and spiritual leader of the Church Health Center in Memphis, has created an easy to use guidebook. Each week begins with a testimony, a story from someone who has made changes in their life, but the cool thing about these stories, is they have not all reached their goals, but have made progress and are working hard to make the changes they want to see. Then each day begins with a morning reflection. Followed by a few areas for some short journaling, you can also track your physical activity. Then there are some guiding questions for daily practices in the areas of work, emotional life, family and friends, movement, faith life and nutrition. Each day is a 4 page spread, starting with a morning reflection/meditation, followed by the daily practices sections and then an evening wrap up. This book will be one someone could work through again and again and make more progress towards a balanced life each time. They will find a balance between mind, body and spirit. This was an amazing book that anyone looking to live life and live it to the full could benefit from reading.

5.0 out of 5 stars 40 Days to Better Living: Optimal Health, September 24, 2011

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Lollipops "lollipops5" (Arkansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 40 Days to Better Living--Optimal Health (Paperback)

40 DAYS TO BETTER LIVING: OPTIMAL HEALTH is a health guided book designed to help you begin to feel better about your health and to start taking control of it, in baby steps.

Each day's readings include Bible readings, places to make notes about your work, your habits, your current exercise plan (or lack of one), and gives basic instructions.

For instance, one of the days in the beginning of the plan reminds you to call your doctor for a physical checkup, if its been more than a year since you had one. There are even spaces provided to record the time and day of your appointment.

One of the days asks you to list ten things about your faith life, positive and negative.

There are spaces to list things that you like or dislike about your job, and another space to list the things about which you have some control over to change.

Not only that, but in the book we're introduced to people like Eddie, who walks five miles a day after surviving a serious accident and being told he'd never walk again. People like Iva who lost over 200 pounds and manages diabetes by making simple lifestyle changes.

40 DAYS TO BETTER LIVING: OPTIMAL HEALTH will teach you how to:

. Eat better

. Exercise

. Enjoy family and friends

. Work with your doctor

. Connect with God

40 DAYS TO BETTER LIVING: OPTIMAL HEALTH is designed to look like a magazine, and it reads like one in a way. It is book-sized, but it reads easily, there isn't a lot of clutter on a page, and it is arranged attractively. The text is also broken up by use of color, pictures, and plenty of space to record your thoughts, prayers, information, answers, and reminders. Highly recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars Daily Devotional Focusing on Health and Wellness, July 29, 2011

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Miriam from Wheels Have Eyes (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 40 Days to Better Living--Optimal Health (Paperback)

I thought this was a fabulous easy to read book. It is written in a daily devotional format with a daily reading and focus of the various ascpects of life. Each week begins with a true life story of a person who has made changes to improve their health and lives. I like the daily format that encourages development of health goals and changes. I would recommend this to anyone who is wanting to make some health changes, as it provides daily encouragement and focus. The book uses a daily scripture reading that applies to the focus of the day. I would give this book high recommendations for inspirational reading.