The Vitality Map: A Guide to Deep Health, Joyful Self-Care, and Resilient Well-Being - Softcover

Zucker, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099740891X ISBN 13: 9780997408911

Publisher: LomaSerena Press, 2016

Synopsis

2017 Nautilus Silver Award -- Health, Healing, Wellness, Vitality2017 Best Book Awards -- Health: Alternative Medicine, Finalist

Are you deeply healthy? Not just free of disease or illness, but living with a profound sense of vitality that sustains you as you move through your life? This can be hard to achieve in the midst of life's competing priorities...whether it's our families, our careers, our social lives, or our passions, our attention and care is often focused more on those around us than on ourselves. And, as a result, we get depleted. 
But in order to sustain all the things you care most deeply about, you need to build a strong foundation of health and vitality. In THE VITALITY MAP: A Guide to Deep Health, Joyful Self-Care, and Resilient Well-Being, naturopathic physician Dr. Deborah Zucker shows you how. 

TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO HEALTH 

Each year, thousands of new health books are published offering quick, easy lifestyle changes that will lead you to the "promised land" of overflowing vitality and boundless energy. While many of these approaches are valid, few are built to last. When confronted with the inevitable pressures and old habits, our best intentions often crumble. 

Why? Most health solutions don't go deep enough. They focus on symptoms, ingredients, habits, diets, and exercises. But they don't get to the bottom of your fundamental relationship to health and how you care for yourself. In The Vitality Map, Dr. Zucker guides you on a deep and transformative journey that helps you to build a strong foundation for long-term health, vitality, and well-being. 

Based on her own profound health transformation and her work as a licensed naturopathic physician, Dr. Zucker helps you to disentangle from the patterns that hold you back from real and lasting health breakthroughs: 

• The boom and bust cycles 
• The constant need to put others first 
• The feeling that no matter what health strategy you try, you always end up back in the same place

By going step-by-step through her 9 Keys, you'll skillfully shine a light on these unconscious patterns and build new ones that will guide you on your health journey. 

THE 9 KEYS TO DEEP VITALITY 

The Vitality Map isn't just a book full of theories and ideas. Dr. Zucker's 9 Keys are based on her own personal health journey--a struggle with chronic fatigue and other persistent health issues in which she uncovered many of the hidden assumptions and habits that were holding her back from being deeply healthy. 

Building on this experience, Dr. Zucker dedicates a chapter to each key and uses anecdotes from her own life and her work with her clients to illuminate her vitality principles. She also provides practical exercises, meditations, and inquiry questions for each key so you can put them to use right away in your own life: 

• KEY #1: Honoring Your Unique Life 
• KEY #2: Facing and Embracing Your Shadows 
• KEY #3: Strengthening Your Self-Awareness Muscles 
• KEY #4: Cultivating Resilience 
• KEY #5: Aligning with Your "Yes!" 
• KEY #6: Experimenting with Playful Curiosity 
• KEY #7: Discovering Easeful Discipline 
• KEY #8: Inviting Support and Connection 
• KEY #9: Living Like You Matter

The Vitality Map doesn't offer a quick fix. The 9 Keys make up a long-term guide to developing a healthy foundation that will sustain your life, your work, and your being.

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About the Author

Dr. Deborah Zucker is a naturopathic physician, transformational health coach, and award-winning author of The Vitality Map: A Guide to Deep Health, Joyful Self-Care, and Resilient Well-Being. As the founder of Vital Medicine, she offers many local, virtual and retreat-based programs for individuals and groups. She holds a doctorate in naturopathic medicine from Bastyr University where she has also served as adjunct faculty. To learn more about Deborah visit: vitalmedicine.com.

Review

"Deborah Zucker is a gifted healer, working with great compassion to help others find their holistic health mojo. Her book will be a beacon and a gift to many." 
--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

"Health involves more than a normal physical exam, blood tests, and scans. 'Health' is related to 'wholeness' and 'holy'--how we fit into the grand pattern of existence, where we find meaning, purpose, and fulfillment. Dr. Deborah Zucker is a wise guide who will help anyone go beyond the 'merely material' to find what genuine health is all about." 
--Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind

"The Vitality Map reveals the path you need to take to find your true self and fulfill your meaningful desires and needs. Deborah's words are a guidebook and life coach on your journey through life." 
--Bernie Siegel, MD, author of The Art of Healing and 365 Prescriptions for the Soul

"Deborah Zucker offers a foundational piece missing in our urgency to 'get better': a skillful and compassionate relationship with the process of healing ourselves so that our illnesses can become gateways to a more integrated life."
--Vicki Robin, author of Blessing the Hands that Feed Us and Your Money or Your Life

"At least 97% of Americans lack one more of the essentials for health. And at least 90% are the result of poor health habits! The Vitality Map offers the guide to optimal health!" --C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, founder of the International Institute of Holistic Medicine

Edition details

• Publisher: LomaSerena Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 099740891X
• ISBN 13: 9780997408911
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224