Mindful Choices for Well-Being offers a holistic, action-oriented process of choosingand creating well-being using proven methods for transformational change. TheShearers developed Mindful Choices Therapy during three decades of clinicalpractice. A cornerstone of their method is the systematic mastery of 10 interrelatedMindful Choices: - Breath awareness and retraining- Begin and end days peacefully- Mindful eating- Cultivating mindfulness- Self-reflection- Living your values- Intentional relating- Mindful movement- Mindful Choices tools- Self-acceptance & Self-compassionTheir how-to manual for life planning features fictional characters going through real-lifestruggles and changes, providing examples of a powerful therapy that blends neuroscience, Buddhist psychology, contemplative traditions, and mindfulness-based behavioraltherapies. The tools described in the book will help you move from a life of too muchstress and anxiety (what the authors call "dis-ease") to a life of well-being, balance, and adeep sense of purpose. Instead of acting on autopilot, falling back on habits learned over alifetime, you can can learn how to mindfully make clear choices aimed at creating the lifeyou truly want.Mindful awareness is the starting point for making great choices. Mindful Choices Therapyprovides the tools for transforming those great choices into powerful and effective habits.Both licensed mental health professionals, Bill and Robin Shearer come from diversebackgrounds. Bill started out as a United States history teacher and went on to an Air Forcecareer, retiring as a Lt. Col. He has been a licensed psychologist in California since 1977.Robin began her career as a school nurse and neonatal intensive care nurse before becominga marriage and family therapist. Long on education (the shearers have seven graduate degreesbetween them), the couple has spent decades not only providing treatment in a mental healthsetting, but living their values in real life. They engage in a variety of balancing and revitalizingpractices such as yoga, meditation and being surrounded by nature. Robin is an avid equestrian.Bill is a wildlife photographer and artist. In short, they practice what they teach, and they are ona mission. While specializing in providing treatment for addictions, eating disorders, problemrelationships, and stress and anxiety disorders - problems characterized by a lack of balanceand resilience - their main passion is helping others move beyond dissatisfaction with life ormental health issues, to a life of meaning, purpose, and deepsatisfaction - a life of "thriving."