Matt Mumber - Sustainable Wellness: An Integrative Approach to Transform Your Mind, Body, and Spirit

Praise for Sustainable Wellness

Matt Mumber and Heather Reed have taken the heart of integrative medicine and put it into action by reflecting on their life work and writing this beautiful book together. With inspiring teaching stories, thoughtful questions, and practical exercises they teach us how to get well or stay well.

Victoria Maizes, MD; executive director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine; professor of Clinical Medicine, Family Medicine, and Public Health, University of Arizona

At long last a manual on the fine details of wellness! Supported by an extensive bibliography and years of experience, the authors lay out a series of tools to help guide those of us in need of refocusing our lives. The language is explicit, succinct, and easily comprehensible by everyone regardless of background. Healthcare professionals will particularly be enthralled with the easy-to-follow suggestions that cover topics in detail not discussed elsewhere. A book for the 21st century and beyond that you will come back to often. I thank the authors for their time and dedication and the readily apparent passion they display throughout this scholarly book. It is truly a must read.

Alfonso Diaz, MD, FACC, medical director, Harbin Clinic

Sustainable Wellness is a must-read book for all. [Mumber and Reed] have written a captivating book that is easy to read and full of great advice! They clearly describe practical ways we can all improve ourselves and become healthier and happier human beings. They cover in detail the ways to reach sustainable wellness through nutrition, physical activity, and stress management.

Omer Kucuk, MD; professor of Hematology-Oncology and Urology; leader, Prostate Cancer Research Program; director, Multidisciplinary Genitourinary Oncology Group; chief, Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University

Sustainable Wellness offers a refreshingly mature and practical synthesis of wisdom from the field of integrative healthcare. The authors genuine caring and experience shine through as they illuminate proven pathways to living with greater mindfulness and satisfaction, no matter what current health challenges we may face. In a crowded field, this book stands out as exceptionally reader-friendly and inspiring. I highly recommend it to all who wish to live life to the fullest.

William Collinge, PhD; author of Partners in Healing; founder of the Touch, Caring & Cancer Program

From the voices of two masterful healers, readers hear the simple truths that enable us to achieve the health and wellness we so desire. Because Matt and Heather clearly serve others and navigate their own journeys of health and healing, their approach is simultaneously practical and profound. What I admire most about their work is that it leaves me with renewed confidence in myself as a healer. Its the most empowering feeling to recognize that I am the healer I am seeking and have the tools and knowledge to make it so!

Nancy M. Paris, MS, FACHE; president & CEO, Georgia Center for Oncology Research and Education (Georgia CORE)

In Sustainable Wellness, Dr. Matt Mumber draws on his many years of personal and professional experience to offer a powerful, inspiring approach to creating sustainable body/mind/spirit health and wellbeing. His vision of whole-person medicine is a gift for anyone seeking a healthier, more authentic, and more fulfilling life. Individuals, and medicine as a whole, will benefit greatly from his wisdom, caring, and insights.

Jeremy Geffen, MD, FACP; medical oncologist; author of The Journey Through Cancer

Dr. Matt and Heather Reed understand that achieving and maintaining sustainable wellness requires that we go beyond the current doctor (teacher) and patient (submissive sufferer) paradigm. This wonderful book artfully explains why health starts within oneself; why a patient-centered approach to care is best achieved with true physician collaboration; and how self-efficacy can be practiced and beneficial in myriad ways, based on each persons unique makeup.

Glenn Sabin, cancer survivor; founder of FON therapeutics

Sustainable Wellness is a breath of fresh air in the healthcare field. Clearly written with simple suggestions, it opens the door to recognizing that wellness is available to each person, right now!

Janice L. Marturano, executive director, Institute for Mindful Leadership

As the spouse of a 10-year cancer survivor and as a collaborator with Dr. Mumber, I have seen his integrative approach to sustainable wellness at work in two different aspects of my life and that of my wife. Im delighted that he and Heather Reed have written this book, so that you dont need to have cancer or engage in a research project to learn these life tools. I have been surprised and impressed by the power that these tools provide in my life.

John Grout, The David C. Garrett Professor and Dean of the Campbell School of Business, Berry College

Dr. Matt and Heather draw on their experiences and practices to provide a well-marked path to health. This book gives readers confidence and inspiration to follow their own journey to wellness. I highly recommend it to all who wish to find that most elusive jewel of life: balance.

Ken Davis, MD; CEO, Harbin Clinic LLC

The world has been waiting for this book. It is not just a support and self-care manual for living life in ways that sustain health and well-being; Sustainable Wellness guides the reader on an easy, steady, and comfortable journey that makes the going as joyful as any imagined destination.

Jnani Chapman, RN, BSN; senior staff member of Commonweal; founder and Director of YCat Yoga Therapy Training Program

Sustainable Wellness removed me from my frightening path of cancer. It brought my mind, body, and spirit back to living. I am a lady in my 60s and for the first time in my life I really wrapped my mind around the concept of breath. I finally understand the gift of breath being with me from my moment of birth until my last breath at death. I finally understand the respect my breath is due from me as an individual. Now I can close my eyes, take conscious breaths in and out, and physically and spiritually rejoice at the sounds, feelings, and wellness my breath provides me throughout each day. The program taught me how to cultivate awareness for the remainder of my time. I thank Dr. Matt and Heather for sharing the warmth in their hearts and the knowledge in their minds. They gave me the support that I needed to once again see the light on this beloved Earth and to trust bringing conventional, complementary, and alternative medicine together. I found my smile again!

Linda Gray, group and retreat participant

SUSTAINABLE
Wellness

AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH
to
Transform Your Mind,
Body, and Spirit

MATT MUMBER, MD
AND HEATHER REED

Foreword by Dr. Andrew Weil

Copyright 2012 by Matt Mumber and Heather Reed

All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher, The Career Press.

SUSTAINABLE WELLNESS