KJ Landis - Happy Healthy You: Your Total Wellness Toolkit For Renewing Body, Soul and Mind

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2017907498

Name: KJ Landis

Happy, Healthy You: Your Total Wellness Toolkit for Renewing Body, Soul, and Mind

ISBN: (paperback) 978-1-63353-623-4 , (ebook) 978-1-63353-624-1

BISAC - HEA024000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Womens Health

Printed in the United States of America

Endorsements

For readers seeking to retool their life, KJ Landis offers soulful direction and encouragement. Whether you are under normal stress or suffering from tragedy, there is healing within yourself. As a hospice and bereavement professional, I see tremendous value in utilizing these stories and techniques for personal thriving after loss.

Tracie Pyers, MSW, Medical Social Worker, Mission Hospice and Home Care

KJ Landis new book is compelling, with varied exercises in each chapter to help the reader work through their problems and reach positive solutions to lifes challenges (workplace issues, sexual trauma, loss of loved ones, etc.). I found many of the exercises thought-provoking and so varied in style that anyone should be able to find at least one to match his or her comfort level.

She concludes her book by saying it is a testimony to Positive Psychology, and challenges us to use the information she provides to help us get unstuck, and then a natural flow will be available when new challenges arise. Indeed, this book serves as a bridge between real people with real problems, and real hope.

Pat Madden, MPH, Social Scientist Research Coordinator, Stanford University School of Medicine

Having as many tools as possible in our toolbox is essential for good mental health. KJs book is one of those tools. She provides healthy mental exercises anyone can utilize when dealing with stressful issues and challenges that life can throw at us.

Kendra Coyle, LSW, Former Social Worker at Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA

KJ Landis newest book Happy Healthy You is a true gift. In a world which constantly focuses us on the lack, the scarcity, and the negative, she offers a physical, mental, and spiritual guide to living a healthy life from the inside out. This is a must read for anyone who is seeking a path to spiritual renewal, healthy living, and a better life. Truly, an inspirational must read!

Sydney Mintz, Rabbi, Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco

If you ever wanted a wise coach to whisper in your ear, and cheer you up when things went wrong, heres the book for you. Happy, Healthy You engages the reader with a personal touch, well researched strategies, and stories that inspirea true companion book on the road of your lifethat youll return to again and again.

Kate Farrell, Librarian, Author of Word Weaving: A Teaching Sourcebook, Storyteller, Educator, Librarian, Former President, Womens National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter

Inspirational, entertaining, and heartfelt are three great ways to describe KJ Landis latest book. In the beginning, KJ states, I do not have a perfect life, but I do have a beautiful life. You do too. This really gets the reader thinking about the positive aspects we all can choose to focus on. With each chapter, you feel as if KJ is cheering you on to greater things. She is motivating you to become your superior self through realistic situations and real world exercises that can be implemented at your leisure. KJ truly does want each of us to reach for our superior selves, and it is evident through her inspirational, fun, and heartfelt tone. Do yourself a favor, reach for your yellow highlighter, read and mark up this book, dog-ear these pages, and have author and life coach KJ Landis help you along the journey of your own life. You will not regret it.

Suzie Roth, MLS, Research Librarian/Instructional Services Coordinator, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

KJ Landis shows exhilarating enthusiasm for sharing how to drop destructive choices and habits, and then fully prepares the reader with healthier replacements. Her stories, exercises, and suggestions combine good sense, warmth, wisdom, and up-to-date approaches to optimum living.

Melissa Riley, MLS, Self-Healing Program Coordinator, Reference Librarian, Public Library

We are as happy as we make up our minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Maya Angelou

Dedicated to the elders in my tribe:

Hilda & Myron
Leota & Gary
Joseph & Mavis
and of course,
I would be nothing without my loves:
Torino, Golden, & Sage

Contents

My chance meeting with KJ Landis was unrelated to her passion for health and well-being. Yet, without her saying a word about the subject, I immediately sensed a special aura and exuberance around her. I later realized I had simply picked up on her energy, which conveys the very principles for which she advocates.

On the surface one might surmise that KJ and I could not be farther apart on the healthcare spectrum. She espouses a natural approach to prevent imbalances and resolve ailments, both physical and mental. My career has been spent in the prescription pharmaceutical industry. Shouldnt we be diametrically opposed in support of our own interests and views towards quality of life and longevity? Nothing could be more incorrect, and the answer lies in the fact that I am truly thrilled KJ asked me to write the foreword for her new book.

The prescription drug industry accounts for just 10% of our countrys more than one trillion dollar annual healthcare bill, while also preventing much more expensive hospitalizations every day. I sincerely believe it is also a fact that following KJs teachings can dramatically reduce the incidence of hospitalization as well as the excessive use of prescription drugs. This is good news for everyone, and good for our economy in terms of individual productivity and taxpayer burden.

KJs expertise extends to two primary areas in her first book, the foods and beverages we choose to consume, and in this, her newest publication, the mental perspective. Our minds play a critical role in every aspect of our overall health. Oncologists Ive met acknowledge that 50% or more of the success for any treatment outcome has to do with the cancer patient having a positive mental attitude. I am convinced that a majority of the prescription drugs used for conditions such as anxiety/depression, as well as obesity and diabetes, could be minimized or eliminated by following KJs simple and realistic lifestyle recommendations.