Retraining Your Brain For A Conscious Lifestyle: How to Take Control of Your Health and Thrive

By Heather Deranja

In Retraining Your Brain for a Conscious Lifestyle, an audio course from Scribd Coach, dietitian, personal trainer, cognitive behavioral specialist, and health coach Heather Deranja explains how listeners can live a “conscious lifestyle” to stay mindful of their health and go from surviving to thriving. In the course, Deranja explores consciousness, emotional homeostasis, and negative core beliefs; covers actions you can take to shift your mindset and take control of your health; explains everything that goes into living a conscious lifestyle; and much more. She also shares exercises along the way so you can begin putting what you’ve learned into practice.

Ready to thrive? Click in for Heather Deranja’s expert advice!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: May 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094434391

Heather Deranja

Heather Deranja is a registered dietitian, personal trainer, cognitive behavioral specialist, and health coach committed to helping women who feel defeated go from surviving to thriving. Her mission is to show what’s possible when you let go of your limitations and empower yourself to take action towards a healthier, happier life. To learn more about Heather and her work, visit her website, HeatherDeranja.com, or find her on Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram @heatherderanja.

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Retraining Your Brain For A Conscious Lifestyle

RETRAINING YOUR BRAIN FOR A CONSCIOUS LIFESTYLE

How to Take Control of Your Health and Thrive

HEATHER DERANJA

SCRIBD COACH

Copyright © 2022 by Heather Deranja

All rights reserved

ISBN: 9781094439143

First e-book edition: April 2022

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Introduction

Hello! Thanks for joining me. My name is Heather Deranja, and this is Retraining Your Brain For A Conscious Lifestyle: How to Take Control of Your Health and Thrive, a course from Scribd Coach.

No matter how old you are, your brain has been trained to block certain information. Lots of times, we latch on so tightly to one piece of information that we can’t comprehend anything else.

For instance, sometimes, when I’m reading a book, I’ll latch on to a belief or information that defies my belief. Although I keep reading the entire time, I’m stuck processing that one point over and over in my head. I’m forcing my brain to justify my belief by telling myself, This information just isn’t right. That kind of thinking needs to be retrained so that we’re open to understanding what it takes to live a conscious lifestyle.

What do I mean by conscious lifestyle? We’ll get to that soon.

First, though, I’d like to ask: What brings you here? Many of you likely feel there is an overall sense of something being off, but you can’t quite put your finger on what, and nothing you do to fix it seems to work.

You may be suffering from anxiety or depression, chronic fatigue, constant stress, or any number of other symptoms. You may have even gone to the doctor, just to be told that it’s just part of the aging process. Well, I’m here to call bull on that. It’s not part of the aging process; in fact, you can reverse what you’re experiencing in order to feel vitality and longevity — which we all desperately desire to live our best lives.

Over the years, I’ve come to realize that my struggles with mental and physical health haven’t been a waste — rather, they happened for me so that I could find holistic practices to navigate myself to better health. It’s a reverse-engineering method that I’ve taken myself through, and I’m excited to be here delivering the information to you. I’ve applied the advice in this course to