Reading List
Boothroyd, Gregory
Going Home: A Positive Emotional Guide for Promoting Life-Generating Behaviors
Written by two mental health professionals, “Going Home” is written with light humor and practical style to help you identify patterns of defeating behaviors. Amazon
Byng, Stephanie
An Eco-Babe’s Guide to Greening It – Everything a Modern Woman Needs to Know to Live an Eco-Friendly Life
Living green is not about changing who we are, it about adjusting how we are. Together, we will learn about ways to green our: Menstrual Cycles, Beauty Regimes, Eating Habits, Wardrobe, Homes, Cleaning Habits and Supplies, Trash and Waste, Workplaces, Babies (diapering, feeding, clothing, and furnishing), and much more! Amazon
Chapman, Gary
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouse’s primary love language—quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. Amazon
Covey, Stephen
First Things First
Far from the traditional “be-more-efficient” time-management book with shortcut techniques, First Things First shows you how to look at your use of time totally differently. Amazon
Covey, Stephen
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
True success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. Amazon
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is “flow,” an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding–an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences a person can have. Amazon
Fenton, Mark
The Complete Guide to Walking, New and Revised: For Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness
Mark Fenton strides right past all the fad-and-gimmick fitness books with practical, no-nonsense advice to help people of all ages, sizes and shapes start and stick with exercise. Amazon
Gentry, Judi Haven
Aging Outrageously Well: How to Save Your Own Life and Have Fun Doing It
Not just another chronicle of health advice, this book will motivate readers to make the most of each day and to follow along in the footsteps of the trailblazers who appear in its pages. Amazon
Hill Ph.D., James O.
The Step Diet: Count Steps, Not Calories to Lose Weight and Keep It off Forever
The Step Diet Book is a motivational walking program that will help millions of overweight Americans lose weight and keep it off forever. Amazon
Lansky, Vicki
Feed Me! I’m Yours
Add variety and balance at mealtime with Vicki’s child-tested breakfast, lunch, and dinner ideas. Amazon
Liu, Charles
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Phoenix: Including Tempe, Scottsdale, and Glendale
Liu leads hikers and walkers through a diverse collection of superb trails perfect for hikers of all experience levels. Amazon
May, Michelle
Am I Hungry? What to Do When Diets Don’t Work
This book represents a paradigm shift in the way the medical field will approach weight loss. Amazon
Rath, Tom
How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life
In this brief but significant book, the authors, a grandfather-grandson team, explore how using positive psychology in everyday interactions can dramatically change our lives. Amazon
Ray, Cosmic
Hiking Phoenix: Favorite Day Hikes
Hiking Phoenix details 50 of the best of the best day hikes in and around Phoenix. Amazon
Seinfeld, Jessica
Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food
By solving problems on a practical level for parents, Seinfeld addresses the big picture issues that surround childhood obesity and its long–term (and ruinous) effects on the body. Amazon
The Sports Medicine Council British Columbia
The Beginning Runner’s Handbook: The Proven 13-Week Walk-Run Program
New to this edition are sections on training to run faster and farther, interval and tempo training; maintaining fitness on vacation; training for a half and full marathon; and coming back from injuries. Amazon
Willett, Walter C.
Eat, Drink and Be Healthy
Aimed at nothing less than totally restructuring the diets of Americans, Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy may well accomplish its goal. Dr. Walter C. Willett gets off to a roaring start by totally dismantling one of the largest icons in health today: the USDA Food Pyramid that we all learn in elementary school. Amazon
Zinczenko, David
Eat This, Not That! Thousands of Simple Food Swaps that Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds–or More! The revolutionary concept that the battle of the bulge is won not through deprivation and discipline, but by making a series of simple food swaps that can save you hundreds – if not thousands – of calories a day. Amazon
