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8 Keys to Mental Health Through Exercise

Inspiring strategies from a wellness expert for keeping fit, relieving stress, and strengthening emotional well-being.

We all know that exercise is good for physical health, but recently, a wealth of data has proven that exercise also contributes to overall mental well-being. Routine exercise alleviates stress and anxiety, moderates depression, relieves chronic pain, and improves self-esteem.

In this inspiring book, Christina Hibbert, a clinical psychologist and expert on women's mental health, grief, and self-esteem, explains the connections between exercise and mental well-being and offers readers step-by-step strategies for sticking to fitness goals, overcoming motivation challenges and roadblocks to working out, and maintaining a physically and emotionally healthy exercise regimen. This book will help readers to get moving, stay moving, and maintain the inspiration they need to reap the mental health benefits of regular exercise. The 8 keys include improving self-esteem with exercise, exercising as a family, getting motivated, changing how you think about exercise, and the FITT principle for establishing an effective exercise routine.

Contents:

  • Part 1: Understand
  • Key 1: Heal your Mind and Body with Exercise
  • Key 2: Improve your Self-Esteem with Exercise
  • Key 3: Exercise As a Family
  • Part 2: Prepare
  • Key 4: Get Motivated
  • Key 5: Change How You Think About Exercise
  • Key 6: Overcome Roadblocks
  • Part 3: Exercise For Life
  • Key 7: Get FITT—Physically and Mentally
  • Key 8: Implement Your Vision and Flourish

Author Bio:

DR. Christina Hibbert is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, speaker and thought leader in the areas of motherhood, women’s mental health, postpartum, parenting, grief/loss, and personal growth.

Review:

“A delightful synopsis of why exercise is so essential to our mental health. With a narrative that is both a pleasure to read and superbly sensitive to the common barriers that get in our way, Dr. Hibbert shows the reader how to harness the motivation for self-care and well-being. Hibbert's clinical skills and down-to-earth guidance can make a believer out of the most resistant exerciser! “ - Karen Kleiman, Founder and Director of The Postpartum Stress Center, author of Therapy and the Postpartum Woman.

8 Keys to Mental Health Through Exercise

Author: Christina Hibbert

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