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    The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health, and Life

    The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health, and Life

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    by Linda Hawes Clever, Dean Ornish


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      ISBN-13: 9781573445627
    • Publisher: Viva Editions
    • Publication date: 02/01/2010
    • Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 216
    • File size: 852 KB

    LINDA HAWES CLEVER, MD, attended Stanford University, where she earned her medical degree. Linda is known for “firsts,” which include: first woman Governor in the American College of Physicians; and first woman editor of the Western Journal of Medicine. She is a member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences,and Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF. In 1998, she founded RENEW, a non-profit organization that aims to help busy, devoted people regain—or maintain—their effectiveness and creativity. Linda has chaired the board of KQED Public Radio and served on the Stanford University Board of Trustees for fourteen years.

    Table of Contents

    Foreword xix

    Introduction: The Renew-O-Meter xxi

    Part 1 The Diagnosis 1

    Chapter 1 How Did You Get So Busy? How Did You Get So Tired? 3

    Inclinations You are Born With: Your Inheritance 5

    Growing Up 6

    Your Energy Bucket 8

    Courage and Pride 17

    The Four Steps 20

    Chapter 2 Your Own Checkup 23

    How are you Feeling and Doing These Days? 25

    Body Beautiful (or at least Body Healthy) 28

    The State of Your Spirit 37

    Your Relationships 40

    Your Learning Checkup 44

    Your Attitude Checkup 47

    Chapter 3 The Problems and the Promise 53

    Benefits of the Fatigue Prescription 56

    Reaping Benefits Requires Risks 58

    Going Beyond Balance 61

    Part 2 The Renewing Remedy 63

    Chapter 4 The Four Steps 65

    Step 1 Awareness 66

    Step 2 Reflection 69

    Step 3 Conversation 77

    Step 4 Plan-and-Act 79

    Chapter 5 The Values Proposition 83

    Values and Fatigue 85

    How Values Work 86

    Recalling and Revising Your Own Values 89

    Your Current Values 94

    Chapter 6 Discovering What You Really Want and How to Get it 97

    What Do You Really Want? 98

    How to Get What You Really Want 101

    Your Own Stockpile for Renewing 110

    Chapter 7 Get in Shape 119

    Relationships 121

    Spirituality and Religion 121

    Building Your Body's Staying Power: Physical Fitness 122

    You've Got Attitude 134

    Renewing Rituals 141

    Chapter 8 Liberated From Fatigue and Staying Renewed 147

    The Fatigue Prescription as a Family Matter 148

    Making Good Choices 149

    Contending with Fear, Anger and Procrastination 150

    Updating Your Values 154

    Making Time 155

    Maintaining a Positive Perspective 156

    Staying in Touch with Your Lifelines 157

    Saying No-and Yes-at the Right Time 165

    Staying Up 170

    Afterword 173

    Resources 174

    About Renew 183

    About The Author 185

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    Dr. Linda Clever has developed a do-it-yourself tool kit with The Fatigue Prescription, based on years of medical practice, life experience, and the success of RENEW. Filled with easy self-assessments, informational charts, and sound advice from a physician who healed herself, this book will help you avoid illness, reset priorities, and most importantly, regain your health and happiness. Are you living your to-do list rather than living your life? Many of us run from task to task and are burning the nearly non-existent candle at both ends. We are sleep-deprived, overworked, overwhelmed, and undernourished in body and soul. We slam energy drinks, gnaw energy bars, and constantly drink caffeine to keep going as our adrenal glands struggle to keep up. Most of us are one health crisis away from financial devastation—and yet, we are hurtling towards physical breakdown each over-scheduled day. Our lives demand too much of us; when everything is a priority, this can make us sick and tired. Dr. Clever discovered the personal cost of this lifestyle and has since devoted herself to helping people renew themselves and regain balance in life.

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    From the Publisher
    "If you are tired of the army of health experts and their bewilderingly complex, ever-changing advice, The Fatigue PRescription is for you. In this practical, crystal-clear book, Dr. Linda Hawes Clever maps a solid plan that will increase your zest and fulfillment in life."

    — Larry Dossey, MD
    Author: The Power of Premonitions

    “The Fatigue Prescription is a compelling book designed for these busy times; Dr. Clever offers a practical means of taking stock of self, and then embarking on a wise means of renewal.”

    —ABRAHAM VERGHESE author of CUTTING FOR STONE

    "How do we get through our to-do list day in and day out without getting flat out exhausted? Sounds like a tall order but the Fatigue Prescription gives you concrete strategies to rise above the busy schedules and rediscover the meaning behind the madness. Going beyond quick fixes takes courage and discipline on your part, but this book is packed with easy-to-use tools to bring the vitality and joy back into your life."

    Jamie Woolf
    author of Mom-in-Chief: How Wisdom From the Workplace Can Save Your Family From Chaos

    "This dynamo of a book by renowned physician Dr.Linda Hawes Clever is direct
    from her heart to yours. This is a one-stop resource for deepening your
    self-awareness and reconnecting with sources of energy and optimism you may
    have presumed lost. Just as she promises, you will emerge from this reading
    experience wiser, happier, healthier!"

    — Janet Bickel, M.A., Career and Leadership Development Coach and
    Consultant,former Association of American Medical Colleges Associate Vice President

    "Linda Hawes Clever, wise-physician of the body and of the spirit, has long been an admired national leader in helping others help themselves. In The Fatigue Prescription Dr. Clever has extended her healer’s reach to those of us with full hectic schedules and seemingly not enough energy to deal with them. Drawing upon her extensive experience in the area of renewal, she offers valuable insights for diagnosing and dealing with the fatigue of ‘too much to do’. “Taking care of yourself is not selfishness, it’s self preservation” is Dr. Clever's clear and saving message. Here is a prescription worth filling."

    —Charles J. Hatem, MD, Harold Amos Academy Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

    "Fatigue is the number one problem that I see in my busy psychiatric practice. Women are especially vulnerable. We do too much and yet we have much more to do. Traditional medications don’t work, counseling doesn’t usually address this problem and our families and employers always seem to want more. Dr. Linda Clever gives us realistic and practical tools to help all of us live a calmer, more satisfying life. I strongly recommend reading this book as you begin your journey of renewal."

    Leslie Lundt MD, XM Radio Host and author of "Think Like a Psychiatrist"

    "Dr. Linda Clever's book makes a compelling case for making self care a priority. This book is absolutely essential reading."

    Deborah Kesten, author of The Enlightened Diet and The Healing Secrets of Food

    "In Dr. Clever's extraordinary book, I have found the prescription I need to continue to pursue my life path with purpose and passion, but in good health with minimal workaholic stress. I am sure her wise and broad- based advice will prove a blessing to readers from a host of varied backgrounds, not just overly future-oriented folks, like me."
    —Phil zimbardo,Ph.D.

    "The renewal process needs constant watering. Linda Clever has written a great and helpful book that deservedly belongs next to John Gardner's
    'Self-Renewal.' 'The Fatigue Prescriptions' is a deep and practical book that will do a world of good for anyone who reads it. It can help all of us learn to go slow in a fast world."
    —Jim Thompson, Founder, Positive Coaching Alliance

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