Lifestyle Counselling and Coaching of the Whole Person: Or How to Integrate Nutritional Insights, Physical Exercise and Sleep Coaching Into Talk Thera, Paperback/Jim Byrne

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Contributor(s):Author: Jim Byrne Contribution by: Renata Taylor-Byrne Illustrator: Charles Saul In this book, you will find a very clear, brief, easy to read introduction to a novel approach to 'counselling the whole person'. This emotive-cognitive approach does not restrict itself to mental processes. We go beyond what the client is 'telling themselves', or 'signalling themselves'; or what went wrong in their family of origin. We also include how well they manage their body-brain-mind in terms of diet, exercise, sleep, and emotional self-management (including self-talk, or inner dialogue). And we propose that it is better for counsellors and therapists to operate in a primarily right-brain modality, and to use the left-brain, cognitive processes, secondarily. The most important, and novel, chapters in this book are as follows: Chapter 4, which summarizes our research on the impact of diet/nutrition and physical exercise on mental health and emotional wellbeing. Chapter 5, which reviews the science of sleep hygiene, plus common sense insights, and presents a range of lifestyle changes to promote healthy sleep, and thus to improve mental and emotional wellbeing. Chapter 9, which explains how to incorporate the learning from chapters 4 and 5 into any system of talk therapy or counselling. There is also a chapter (8) on counselling individuals using our Emotive-Cognitive approach, in which there is a section (8. 3(b)) on using the Holistic SOR model to explore many aspects of the lifestyle of the client. To be more precise: The holistic SOR model states that a client (a person) feels and reacts, at point 'R' (Response), to a (negative or positive) stimulus at point 'S' (Stimulus), on the basis of the current state of their social-body-mind (or their whole Organism). Important variables include the following: How well rested are they? How high or low is their blood-sugar level (which is related to diet and nutrition)? How well connected are they to significant others (which