Sherwood Mark - Quest for Wellness: A Practical & Personal Wellness Plan For Optimum Health In Your Body, Mind, Emotions, & Spirit

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The Quest For Wellness A Practical and Personal Wellness Plan for Optimum Health in your Body, Mind, Emotions and Spirit.

2015 Mark Sherwood, ND with Michele Sherwood, DO

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Emerge Publishing, LLC

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Tulsa, Oklahoma 74137

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Cover Design: Christian Ophus | Emerge Publishing, LLC

Interior Design: Anita Stumbo

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

BISAC Category: HEA010000 Healthy Living; HEA016000 Naturopathy

ISBN: 978-1-943127-05-4 Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-943127-06-1 Digital

Printed in Canada.

Contents

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

A note to the reader as you begin:

This book is not intended as a substitute for the medical advice of physicians. The reader should regularly consult a physician in matters relating to his/her health and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention.

Foreword

Whenever someone asks my number one strategy for fat loss, they probably expect me to mention ditching gluten or eating low-sugar impact. Maybe they assume Ill talk about how burst training coupled with weight resistance becomes your metabolic Spanx to keep you lean, toned, and healthy.

Good guesses, but not even close.

People appear surprised to learn my biggest needle mover has nothing to do with diet or exercise. If you arent getting seven to nine hours of high quality, uninterrupted sleep every night, your best efforts for weight loss and optimal health will seriously crash.

Of course diet and exercise play significant roles, but focus solely there and you overlook strategies like sleeping sufficiently, controlling stress, and developing meaningful relationships that prove equally important to becoming lean and healthy.

That all-encompassing approach underlies The Quest for Wellness . Beyond just engaging your physical self, authors Dr. Mark Sherwood and Dr. Michele Neil-Sherwood challenge us to embrace a truly holistic approach to become lean, energetic, and vibrantly healthy.

Their message is disarmingly simple: Being healthy neednt become a full-time effort. Instead, they provide simple but effective strategies like eating real food, transitioning into a low-sugar impact diet, getting enough sleep, giving back, and reducing stress.

In this book youll find a valuable diet and exercise plan, but youll also learn how things like keeping the right mindset and connecting deeply with others foster wellness at a whole different level.

Spirituality plays a crucial role within this well-rounded approach. Science has always been a little uneasy with prayer and other spiritual approaches, occasionally dismissing it as, well, unscientific or unsubstantiated.

On the contrary, numerous studies confirm praying and positive thinking dramatically impact everything from cancer to rheumatoid arthritis to depression.

I witnessed that healing power firsthand when a hit-and-run driver struck my teenage son Grant in September 2012. While doctors appeared pessimistic, I cultivated a steadfast optimism and reached out to those closest to me for prayer, advice, and support.

During those challenging months, I learned asking for help allows others to tap into their deepest resources and serve others, which is our life purpose.

Ultimately, a combination of prayer, hope, love, and tenacity along with an amazing team of medical professionals saved Grant. He not only survived; he thrived, and today hes better than ever.

To truly care for your loved ones, you have to care for yourself first. When you arent being your best self, you cant help others. Conversely, being a beacon of strength, resiliency, and glowing health helps other people shine their own light.

That take-control, self-empowering message runs throughout The Quest for Wellness . You must want to have more energy and strength, the authors write. And, you must want to do the simple things necessary for gaining more energy and strength ... and do these things consistently and persistently.

Steady, sustained effort pays off. While indeed simple, the strategies within these pages put you in the drivers seat of health to deliver powerful, transformative, lasting changes.

Heres to embracing your health on every level!

JJ Virgin

New York Times Best-Selling Author

The Virgin Diet

Sugar Impact Diet

Introduction

In a world where healthcare costs are one of the top five expenses for any company, the only way to successfully manage the health and well-being of your workforce is through a well structured and implemented Wellness program.

Several years ago I had the good fortune to be introduced to Mark Sherwood. As a business consultant, I was seeking a professional who had deep expertise in designing and implementing a world-class Wellness program for both small and large companies. Marks unique and effective holistic methodology gets proven results with sustainable impact.

Not only does Mark have a strong passion for wellness, fitness and balance, his expertise, experience and credentials provide the perfect foundation for The Quest For Wellness. His three phase approach is easy to follow and inspires the reader to stay with the program through his inspirational style.

While many approaches focus on a short-term plan to get to a specific goal, The Quest For Wellness takes you on a journey of self-awareness and incremental growth to equip you with a plan for life.

Mark not only coaches others to find their best self, he is a role-model for everything he professes. By purchasing The Quest For Wellness, you have taken the first step in changing your lifestyle to provide you with increased energy and strength in every aspect of your life.

Teri Aulph

Teri Aulph Consulting

The public has an insatiable appetite for books and products that have to do with health and wellness. The market responds to that thirst with thousands of items coming out every year and much of what the public is given are untruths, schemes and false promises, so the search continues ad nauseum. That was until Dr. Mark and Dr. Michele wrote The Quest for Wellness. For anyone wanting true health, longevity and a life changed forever, the search is now over. Whether your wellness efforts include physical, emotional, intellectual or spiritual, you have found what you need. Take it from someone who has spent half a lifetime searching for the answer. Your answer is here and it is time to really live the rest of your life.

Major Travis Yates, Tulsa Police Department

Law Officer Magazine International Trainer of the Year