The Complete Wellbeing Manual: Your Guide to an Optimally Healthy Mind and Body

by Emma Van Hinsbergh

The Complete Wellbeing Manual is your modern-day guide to ultimate health and happiness.

A comprehensive source of information and inspiration, this illustrated full-color book contains everything you need to know to bring balance and harmony into your life. Learn how to transform your lifestyle, banish stress, supercharge your diet, reach your fitness goals and boost your vitality levels.

Taking a holistic approach to all-round health and wellbeing, this inspirational self-help bible contains DIY techniques, expert advice and quick-fix tips to boost your mind, body and soul.

If you're looking to achieve the perfect work/life routine, get a better night's sleep, balance your hormones or boost your immunity, this is the book for you.

• Feel fitter and healthier every day
• Top nutrients to age-proof your life
• Simple rituals to banish anxiety
• Unlock the key to better relationships
• Boost your mood with feel-good foods
• Easy exercises to lift your energy

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

Published January 15, 2023

Reviews

[Stacy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is something I didn't know I needed and am so glad I read it. I finished this in one day. I found it so helpful with amazing tips and reminders that are easy to incorporate in your life. It was easy to follow and if you want to reread a topic, you can find what you want with no problem. This book really put some things in perspective and gave me alot to think about.

I have so many highlighted things in this book but this one really resonated with me "Feeling better is within our control".

[Online Eccentric Librarian · Rating 3 out of 5]

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This is a very friendly and easy to read book full of plenty of photographs and call outs. At times, it felt more like a catalogue for a stock photography site and perhaps it was a bit too full of platitudes. I also felt that it seemed directed more at retired and elderly due to its simplicity and focus on graphical representations of concepts and ideas. But in all, there was enough substance to help individuals start an important journey of finding balance and peace in life.

The book has seven chapters: Introduction, Lifestyle, Free Your Mind, Eat Well, Move your Body, Health Matters, Healthy Aging. These chapters cover issues such as stress, work/home balance, nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, regrets, etc. Each discussion features one or several photographs, callouts, and very brief paragraphs. Because the book is so graphical, I would recommend choosing a hard copy (or the digital copy if use an e reader with a graphical format (e.g., use your computer to read it rather than a Kindle)).

The book is full color with plenty of colored call outs. There is a lot of psychology here: e.g., in many chapters you are asked questions about yourself (your behaviors, what you eat, etc.) that will help you tailor the book to your particular life's situation. In this way, the friendliness and personal targeting make it more useful to the reader.

It's important to note that this is a general overview type of book. You will get very brief recommendations that may make it harder to know where to start. A good example will be the discussions on moving - it'll suggest you do strength training but not really any exercises. Or, yoga will be suggested and there are several large illustrations of a couple of yoga poses to try out - but you'll need to research further yourself for a more comprehensive routine. This brevity of topic discussion is understandable by the authors in order to keep the book manageable. But to me, it felt like too many of the topics were just skimmed.

Admittedly, I really prefer more in-depth discussions rather than a survey course of wellness with lots of pretty stock photos. But I think many will be able to use this as a starting place to finding a more meaningful and balanced life. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

[M Samuell · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent jumping-off point for holistic wellness.

Includes (limited) resources about different styles of diets and self-care including recipes, exercises, breathwork, mental health and more.

Hinsbergh really works to make self-care accessible in this richly illustrated tome, breaking each aspect of wellness into its own correlating chapter. Lifestyle, mental health, diets, exercise, health and aging. Each cites several sources and offers actionable steps to include it in your wellness journey.

My main complaint would be that in collecting information, the author ends up including several contradictory ideas, especially in the chapter about dieting. While I understand that she is working to present each concept in its integrity, it could provide conflict for anyone choosing to use this manual as instruction rather than an introduction to various concepts that may or may not work for them.

Definitely a well-collected guide, but not something I will find myself referencing for anything other than recipes and the occasional exercise.

[Thank you to NetGalley and Arcturus Publishing for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.]

[Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book covers health with information attuned to nature and relaxation. It recommends making life more simple and uses yoga techniques to help achieve this. Taking a holistic approach to all-round health and wellbeing, this inspirational self-help bible contains DIY techniques, expert advice and quick-fix tips to boost your mind, body and soul.
If you're looking to achieve the perfect work/life routine, get a better night's sleep, balance your hormones, boost your immunity or banish health niggles, this is the book for you.

* Feel fitter and healthier every day
* Top nutrients to age-proof your life
* Simple rituals to banish anxiety
* Unlock the key to better relationships
* Boost your mood with feel-good foods
* Easy exercises to lift your energy

[Joni Owens · Rating 4 out of 5]

Complete is a good word to describe this book. It covers all aspects of your life. The beginning was especially useful to me. I think this is a great book to start the year off right.

[Susie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this, it covered so many different wellbeing areas, that it makes it suitable for all ages.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

[Kara Rowley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting