Lisa Morrone - Get Healthy, for Heavens Sake: 7 Steps to Living Strong, Loving God, and Serving Others

Overcoming Overeating:

A practical, sustainable, and results-oriented approach that will guide you to permanent mind changeOvercoming Overeating provides both the why and the how toward becoming the new, healthy you.

J. RON EAKER, MD
physician and author of Fat-Proof Your Family

A comprehensive remedy for weight loss. Lisa rightly views weight problems as having their origin in not just physical, but also mental, emotional, and spiritual arenasAn invaluable resource to the countless people struggling in this area of their life.

DAVID HAWKINS, PHD
psychologist and author of
When Pleasing Others Is Hurting You

Overcoming Headaches and Migraines:

A gift to headache sufferers and those in the health professions who are committed to helping them.

HOWARD MAKOFSKY, PT, DHSC, OCS
head pain expert

Lisa Morrones extensive preparation, research, and years of experience are reflected in the safe and clinically proven techniques she recommends. A must-read for primary and specialty providersand of course, anyone who suffers from headaches.

WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER, MD, FAAP
ear, nose, and throat specialist

Overcoming Back and Neck Pain:

The treatments recommended are practical, well described, and well illustratedAn invaluable resource.

JOHN LABIAK, MD
orthopaedist and spinal surgeon

A very practical approach to the key things patients really need to know. I recommend it to all sufferers from spine problemsI appreciate Lisas treatment of every person as someone who has not only a body and mind, but a spirit as well.

KENT KEYSER, MS, PT, OCS, COMT, ATC, FFCFMT, FAAOMPT
practicing and teaching physical therapist

Diabetes:

I love this book because it takes you on a journey through diabetes and then gives you a light at the end of the tunnel, teaching how to prevent type 2 diabetes and how to reverse the pre-diabetic state and metabolic syndrome. Should be read by everyone interested in living a full and healthy life.

MARIANO CASTRO-MAGANA, MD
director, pediatric endocrinology and metabolism,
Winthrop Hospital, Mineola, New York

Get Healthy

for Heavens Sake

LISA MORRONE, P.T.

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON

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Illustrations by Rose C. Miller

Lisa Morrone is published in association with William K. Jensen Literary Agency, 119 Bampton Court, Eugene, Oregon 97404.

Readers are advised to consult with their physician or other professional practitioner before implementing any suggestions that follow. This book is not intended to take the place of sound professional advice, medical or otherwise. Neither the author nor the publisher assumes any liability for possible adverse consequences as a result of the information contained herein.

GET HEALTHY, FOR HEAVENS SAKE

Copyright 2011 by Lisa Morrone, P.T.

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Morrone, Lisa, 1967-

Get healthy, for heavens sake / Lisa Morrone.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-7369-2704-8 (pbk.)

1. Health. 2. HealthReligious aspectsChristianity. I. Title.

RA776.5.M635 2011

613dc22

2010021577

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This book is dedicated to youyes, you, its reader. Each day as I sat down to write I thought of you and have prayed for just the right words to encourage you along your journey toward better health and more vibrant living. May you find hope, healing, and health on each page!

This book is the direct result of Your new vocational call on my life back in 2006, Lord Jesus. Without Your Holy Spirits prompting, this book and all the others Ive written would not have come to be. I am humbled by the tens of thousands who have read and been helped by my words of instruction and healing. May Your ministry continue through me, and may I always be willing to respond in obedience when You call my namethe first time.

Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.

PSALM 102:18

I t was the summer before I was to begin the fifth grade. On the very same day the world lost Elvis, the king of rock n roll, I lost my second mother, my Aunt Catherine, to breast cancer. She was only 52. And though that loss was devastating for me, God was true to His promise to make all things work together for good, for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. Within the very hour of my aunts death, my unclefresh in his griefdrew me into his arms and said, Lisa, I want you to promise me that you will always take care of your body. Make sure you keep yourself healthy.

At ten years old, I stood there stunned. Up to that point I had always assumed that sickness or disease was something that just happened to people. It had never occurred to me that humans had the power to positively (or negatively) influence their future health. Having watched my aunt suffer terribly throughout my childhood, and having seen how her longing to play a vital role in the Christian community went unrealized, I determined that, as far as it depended on me, I would walk a different road and make the necessary investments to ensure that I had a healthy future.

Investments of any kind are best realized when we use some forethought. As a rule of thumb, the sooner you begin investing, the better off you are in the future. For example, when it comes to finances, if youre like me, you may feel frustrated with yourself for not having begun saving years earlier. Sooner or later it dawns on us that in order to achieve maximal return on our investments, we need to take advantage of the principle of compounding interest. In giving advice to those whove yet to begin investing, financial gurus always recommend that