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    Mind-ing Your Body: Mending Your Cravings
    Mind-ing Your Body: Mending Your Cravings
    Mind-ing Your Body: Mending Your Cravings
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    Mind-ing Your Body: Mending Your Cravings

    By Arlene Unger, PhD

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    The key to wellness is to be aware of what your body is telling you. This awareness can support a healthy body and one's self-esteem and overall sense of well-being. Exercise and your relationship with food are critical. The trick is to select an appropriate level of exercise and to understand the difference between food cravings and food needs.

    Many Checklists, Activities and Bonus Materials.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReal Psych Solutions
    Release dateJun 14, 2010
    ISBN9781452380728
    Mind-ing Your Body: Mending Your Cravings
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    Arlene Unger, PhD

    Dr Arlene K Unger has a busy private clinical practice located at The Center for Empowerment, Dana Point, CA, USA and has been active in online therapy for several years and the mental health profession for several decades, having held licenses/certifications as a Speech Pathologist (SP), Marriage, Family and Child Counselor (MFCC), Dance Therapist (ADTR), and currently Clinical Psychologist (PSY licensure) and Certified Wellness Coach, and Nutritionist.Dr. Unger uses both Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) approaches to treating children/adolescents, individual adults, couples and families. She provides both children and adults with solution focused psychological counseling for a wide spectrum of clinical disorders and/or behavioral concerns. She has extensive experience in conducting Fitness for Duty, Employee Assistance Manager Referrals, Return-To-Work, Substance Abuse evaluations, Adoption and Custody, and Gastric Bypass evaluations.Dr. Unger, and her husband Stefan Unger, PhD, started Real Psych Solutions in February 2009 to provide practical Self-Help materials based on professional mental health counseling and wellness/lifestyle/executive coaching and to explain the appropriate roles for Self-Help, coaching and counseling. Dr Unger is the author of numerous articles at the website.CURRENT LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS: PhD in Clinical Psychology (PSY Licensure); EAP (Employee Assistance Professional); CD (Chemical Dependency); SAP (Substance Abuse Professional); Domestic Violence; Neuropsychological Testing; Wellness and Health Coaching; Executive Coaching; Nutrition

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      Mind-ing Your Body - Arlene Unger, PhD

      Mind-ing Your Body - Mending Your Cravings

      by

      Arlene K Unger, PhD

      Clinical Psychologist (PSY 15383)

      Certified Wellness Coach

      Certified Nutritionist

      Real Psych Solutions

      at

      The Center for Empowerment

      34052 La Plaza Dr #107

      Dana Point, CA 92629

      drarleneunger@gmail.com

      eBook published by: Real Psych Solutions at Smashwords

      ©2009-2010 Arlene K Unger, PhD. All rights reserved.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Look for additional eBook titles by Dr Unger at Smashwords.

      See About the Author for more information and the titles of many free articles by Dr Unger.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Mind-ing Your Body - Mending Your Cravings

      Free Bonus Article: Getting the Exercise Habit

      Free Bonus Article: Habit Busting!

      Free Bonus Article: Self-Loathing to Self-Loving

      About the Author

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      Mind-ing Your Body - Mending Your Cravings

      by Arlene K Unger, PhD

      The key to wellness is to be aware of what your body is telling you. This awareness can support not only a healthy body but also one’s self-esteem. Exercise and your relationship with food are critical. The trick is to select an appropriate level of exercise and to understand the difference between food cravings and needs.

      Our body talks to us through negative signals such as aches and pains, as well as through positive signals such as higher energy levels, and feelings of exhilaration and well being. If we choose to follow them, these signals can be a lifeline that can lead us to healthy choices for eating and exercise. Our bodies don’t lie, but our perceptions of the message can be incorrect. It’s not a mind body dichotomy (a popular academic theme in the 90s, but going back much further) it’s a mind body disconnect.

      *For instance, when you have the flu, your body says, Let’s shut down and chill out for a while. You feel lethargic and uncomfortable and don’t really want to move. This is actually good! If you fight against the lethargy, you run the risk of weakening your immune system even

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