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Promoting Wellness in The Workplace

Healthy Profits: The 5 Elements of Strategic Wellness in the Workplace is now available. Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer has contributed the chapter on Loss in the Workplace to this new resource coordinated by Sandra Larkin written to promote Health and Wellness in the Workplace.

Healthy Profits, the Book is a resource for people and businesses who are already working to address the problems and create healthier and more productive workplaces. It is also a wake-up call for those who have not yet realized the challenges and opportunities of wellness in the workplace.

The 200 page Healthy Profits, the Book contains concise chapters organized into five major areas that will allow employees and employers to strengthen and develop the social, intellectual, physical, emotional and occupational areas of their lives.

Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer, Comfortdoc, is one of 32 authors who have contributed to Healthy Profits: The 5 Elements of Strategic Wellness in the Workplace. Her chapter is entitled "Loss and the Workplace: What to Do at Work When the World Crashes in Around You."

Healthy Profits Author - Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer

Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS, FT, CWS is a respected physician, an expert in life challenges, loss, grief and bereavement, professional health educator, professor, lecturer and author. She received her Medical and Master's Degrees from the University of California, Davis.

Dr. Dyer also has expertise in wellness education and health promotion. She teaches college courses in Nutrition and Wellness and a graduate course in Grief, Loss and Bereavement.

Be watching for a longer e-Book version of Dr. Dyer's chapter "Loss and the Workplace: What to Do at Work When the World Crashes in Around You."

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  1. Purchase Your Copy of Healthy Profits
  2. Healthy Profits - Table of Contents
  3. Healthy Profits in the Amazon Spotlight
  4. More on Grief in the Workplace
  5. More about Healthy Profits, the Book
  6. How to Get Your Copy of Healthy Profits the Book
  7. Authors for Healthy Profits, the Book
  8. Tweets on Health Profits Book on Twitter
  9. Health Profits in the Amazon Spotlight
  10. Buy the Healthy Profits Book
  11. Tweets on Healthy Profits on Twitter
  12. More on Wellness in the Workplace
  13. Articles about the Benefits of Promoting Workplace Wellness
  14. Nutrition & Wellness Edublog
  15. Dr. Dyer's Health & Wellness Lenses for Adults
  16. Workplace Wellness and Worksite Health Resources on Amazon
  17. Dr. Dyer's Health & Wellness Lenses for Children
  18. More on Grief and Loss in the Workplace
  19. A Featured Lens on Grief in the Workplace
  20. Articles on Grief in the Workplace
  21. Dr. Dyer's Grief & Loss Featured Lenses
  22. Grief, Loss & Transitions Blog
  23. More of Dr. Dyer's Grief & Loss Featured Lenses
  24. Grief and Loss Books Available on Amazon

Healthy Profits

A Wellness Transfusion

Purchase Your Copy of Healthy Profits

You can purchase your own copy of Healthy Profits: The 5 Elements of Strategic Wellness through the Health Profits website for $22.50 including shipping.

Healthy Profits will be available for purchase soon through Amazon.com

Healthy Profits - Table of Contents

Here is a listing of the major sections and chapters from the Healthy Profits Book
  • Section 1: Physical Wellness

    Physical Wellness: Personal Assessment

    The Mystery Revealed-WHY Wellness Works - Kathy Cash

    The Five Basics for Optimal Health: Discovering the Gift of Stress - Dr. Darren R. Weissman

    Simple Tips for Eating Healthy - Dori Babcock

    Getting Active? Start SMART! - Tara Zachgo

    Are We Sitting Comfortably? Then, Let's Begin - Leslie Kahn

  • Section 2: Intellectual Wellness

    Intellectual Wellness: Personal Assessment

    Your Wellness Vision: Turning Resolutions into Reality - Merrilee Shopland, MA

    The Energizing Power of Focus - Anne Ward and Bob Sandidge

    Eliminating Dental Stress Leverages Wellness - Andrea H. Brockman, RN, DDS

    Wellness Coaching: Partnering to Make Positive Changes - Diana Stratigakis and Billie Jo Hance

  • Section 3: Occupational Wellness

    Occupational Wellness: Personal Assessment

    Occupational Wellness - Katy D. Quinn, RN, BSN

    Are You READY for Flexible Scheduling? The 8 hard questions you need to ask yourself! - Janice Newman

    Can that Strong Peppermint Candy Really Help Me to Focus? (The Answer: YES!) - Nicole Pfeffer Crombie

    Combine Wellness with Workplace Safety and Health: 12 Steps You Can Take to Increase Your Total Health!. - Jonathan Klane, M.S.Ed., CIH, CHMM, CET

    Training your Business: The Proactive vs. Reactive Approach to a Safe Workplace - Brian Leonard

  • Section 4: Emotional Wellness

    Emotional Wellness: Personal Assessment

    Going for the Gold - Maintaining Work-Life Balance - Dr. Arien van der Merwe, MBChB, FRIPH, FRCAM

    To Err Is Human-To Forgive Is Healthy - Retta Flagg

    Emotional Wellness: Keeping It Real and Keeping Your Cool When All Around You Others are Losing Theirs - Patrice Rancour, MS, RN, CS

    Loss and the Workplace: What to Do at Work When the World Crashes in Around You - Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer, MD, MS

  • Section 5: Social Wellness

    Social Wellness: Personal Assessment

    Shape Up The Nation: Using Our Social Networks to Promote Wellness - Rajiv Kumar

    Whole Brain Thinking and Planning - David Lazear

    The Poison of Workplace Gossip - Devin Hakala, MS, LMFT

    Boundaries on the Clock: Stories to Live By - Lizzie Linton

    Being Social and Productive - Mr. Rooney

  • Section 6: Putting It All Together

    Learning by Example: Leveraging Clinicians at the Worksite for Better Health and Wellness - Sharon Glave Frazee, PhD, Ginger M. Barron-Brown, RPH, Sabrina Morgan-Graves, MD, Marcia Hamman, RN, BSN, Myra Wellingham, RN, MHA, and Jeffery Davis, MBA

    Putting It All Together: Whole Person Strategic Wellness - Sandra Larkin

Healthy Profits in the Amazon Spotlight

Healthy Profits: The 5 Elements of Strategic Wellness in the Workplace

Healthy Profits: The 5 Elements of Strategic Wellness in the Workplace

by: Sandra Larkin, Bob Sandidge, Anne Ward, Dr. Darren R Weissman, Dr. Arien van der Merwe, Retta Flagg, and 26 other wellness experts

Amazon Price: $22.50 (as of 02/14/2012)Buy Now

Now available on Amazon.

The thirty-one wellness experts in this book will help you gain the knowledge to make the journey interesting in each of the five strategic elements of health: physical, intellectual, social, occupational, and emotional.

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More about Healthy Profits, the Book

Healthy Profits will provide adults with concise chapters to strengthen and develop the social, intellectual, physical, emotional and occupational areas of their lives.

Subject matter experts from a broad range of disciplines and practices have contributed chapters that are organized under the five key theme areas or social, intellectual, physical, emotional and occupational.

The objectives for the book are as follows:

    1. Provide adults with short informational articles to strengthen and develop the social, intellectual, physical, emotional and occupational areas of employees in corporate life.

    2. Include case studies of companies that are using a formal corporate wellness program and those who are would like to begin one. Relate these findings back to the continued profitability of the company and their effect on productivity, morale, retention and loyalty the organization mission and vision.

    3. Provide healthy related resource material to increase or renew reader knowledge.

    4. Continue to inspire and introduce new concepts that will motivate readers to make continual changes to lifestyles and patterns.

    5. Include assessments so readers recognize their varying states of wellness in the five strategic areas.
You can purchase the Healthy Profits Book from the Health Profits website and soon from Amazon.com.

Source: Healthy Profits. The Book. Yellow Duck Press.

Bringing Wellness to the Workplace

Bringing Wellness to the Workplace

Healthy Profits Book Website

The Healthy Profits Book now has it's own official website were you can find out even more about this new book on workplace wellness.
Healthy Profits: The 5 Elements of Strategic Wellness in the Workplace.
The main website for Healthy Profits: The 5 Elements of Strategic Wellness in the Workplace.
Healthy Profits: The Book
Once Sandra began articulating her message, it became clear that workplace wellness was an increasing issue not only in lost organizational revenue but also in loss of employees health, productivity and work/life balance.
Healthy Profits Authors
Meet the Authors of Healthy Profits.

Healthy Profits Book

Promoting Health & Wellness
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How to Get Your Copy of Healthy Profits the Book

Buy Healthy Profits Book

You can purchase your own copy of the Health Profits Books through the Healthy Profits Book Website at the link to the left or through the Health Profits website.

The price for the book is $23.00 and includes shipping.

Authors for Healthy Profits, the Book

The experts authors chosen to contribute to Healthy Profits, the Book come from a variety of different fields, but all focus on some aspect of Workplace Wellness.

Authors are listed alphabetically.
  • Dori Babcock
    Dori Babcock is the director of the Northwest Health and Wellness Institute and formerly the Health and Wellness Consultant for the Weyerhaeuser Company's Excel Wellness Program.
  • Dr. Andrea Brockman
    Dr. Andrea Brockman is President of OraMedica International, LLC a wellness company founded in 2003 devoted to helping improve total health through knowledge of the dental connections to chronic disease, pain, obesity, and stress.
  • Kathy Cash, RN, CHPD
    Kathy Cash, RN, CHPD, is a retired Lieutenant Colonel. One of the Air Force's top Health Promotion Administrators, Kathy went on to design the first Department of Defense prevention program for a Fortune 500 HMO.
  • Nicole Pfeffer Crombie
    Nicole Pfeffer Crombie received her masters degree in occupational therapy from Chatham University in Pittsburgh , PA. She has worked in outpatient pediatric rehab, the school systems, and early intervention/home care.
  • Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS
    Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS, FT, CWS is a respected physician, an expert in life challenges, loss, grief and bereavement, professional health educator, professor, lecturer and author.
  • Retta Flagg
    Retta Flagg is the owner of The Healing Touch of Pittsburgh, LLC and president of Integrated Spirit, Inc. through which she teaches advanced massage therapy skills, wellness programs, and self empowerment techniques.
  • Dr. Sharon Glave Frazee
    Sharon Glave Frazee, PhD is employed by Take Care Health Systems, the nation's leading provider of employer-sponsored health, wellness, fitness and pharmacy programs for large employers.
  • Devin Hakala, MS, LMFT
    Devin Hakala, MS, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Devin received his Bachelor's degree from UW-Madison, and his Master's degree from Edgewood College.
  • Leslie Kahn
    Leslie Kahn is a state licensed massage therapist and a graduate of the Chicago School of Massage Therapy, August 1996.
  • Jonathan Klane, M.S.Ed.
    Jonathan Klane, M.S.Ed., CIH, CHMM, CET provides health, safety, training, wellness, and consulting services and is a faculty member at Thomas College in their Graduate Program teaching EHS and Wellness.
  • Rajiv Kumar
    Rajiv Kumar is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Shape Up The Nation, a team-based employee wellness program.
  • David Lazear
    David Lazear is the best-selling author of eight books on applications of the theory of multiple intelligences for business and education.
  • Brian Leonard
    Brian Leonard is the President and CEO of Code Red, LLC. Code Red addresses the need for workplace safety by creating emergency response teams, implementing AEDs, as well as CPR and first aid training programs.
  • Lizzie Linton
    Lizzie Linton is an academic professional currently working on her masters in the field of reading education.
  • Janice Newman, SPHR
    Janice (Jan) Newman, SPHR, MHRM, CELS, possesses nearly 2 decades of progressively responsible, executive-level experience in Human Resources.
  • Katy D. Quinn, RN, BSN
    Katy D. Quinn, RN, BSN, is Director of Operations for Take Care Health Systems Employer Solutions, the nation's leading provider of employer-sponsored health, wellness, fitness and pharmacy programs for large employers.
  • Patrice Rancour, MS,RN
    Patrice Rancour, MS,RN,CS, when not serving as Prospective Health Care Program Manager for Ohio State University's award-winning Faculty/Staff Wellness Program , is involved in her private practice working with people facing life-threatening illnesses, teaching and writing.
  • Mr. Rooney
    Mr. Rooney is the Vice-President of Security for Sandra Larkin Wellness Strategies, LLC and a Workplace Wellness Consultant.
  • Bob Sandidge
    Bob Sandidge is an author, trainer, and marketing communication professional.
  • Merrilee Shopland, M.A.
    Merrilee Shopland, M.A. has been an educator and speaker in the wellness industry since 1985.
  • Billie Jo Hance, BS
    Billie Jo Hance, BS is employed by Take Care Health Systems Employer Solutions, the nation's leading provider of employer-sponsored health, wellness, fitness and pharmacy programs for large employers.
  • Diana Stratigakis, MAPP
    Diana Stratigakis, MAPP is employed by Take Care Health Systems Employer Solutions, the nation's leading provider of employer-sponsored health, wellness, fitness and pharmacy programs for large employers.
  • Dr. Arien Van Der Merwe
    Dr. Arien Van Der Merwe MBChB, FRIPH, MISMA is a medical doctor, author and specialist corporate health & wellness service provider.
  • Anne Ward
    Anne Ward is a change agent, author, trainer, facilitator, coach, and consultant who has worked in the realms of Change, Growth, Communications, Marketing, and Organizational and Personal Development actively since 1991.
  • Dr. Darren R. Weissman
    Dr. Darren R. Weissman is the author of The Power of Infinite Love & Gratitude, an internationally renowned teacher and speaker, and the developer of The LifeLine Technique%u2122.
  • Tara L. Zachgo
    Tara L. Zachgo graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Kinesiology from Kansas State University. Currently working as a Health Promotion Clinical Specialist at Fort HealthCare located in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, she is taking what she accomplished as the Corporate Wellness Coordinator of Fort HealthCare.

The Book on Wellness in The Workplace

The Five Elements of Strategic Wellness

Healthy Profits, the Book focuses on Five Elements of Strategic Wellness. The five elements are:
  1. Wellness Strategy I - Emotional Wellness
  2. Wellness Strategy II - Intellectual wellness
  3. Wellness Strategy III - Occupational wellness
  4. Wellness Strategy IV - Physical wellness
  5. Wellness Strategy V - Social wellness

Health Profits in the Amazon Spotlight

Healthy Profits: The 5 Elements of Strategic Wellness in the Workplace

Healthy Profits: The 5 Elements of Strategic Wellness in the Workplace

by: Sandra Larkin, Bob Sandidge, Anne Ward, Dr. Darren R Weissman, Dr. Arien van der Merwe, Retta Flagg, and 26 other wellness experts

Amazon Price: $22.50 (as of 02/14/2012)Buy Now

Healthy Profits is now available on Amazon.

The thirty-one wellness experts in this book will help you gain the knowledge to make the journey interesting in each of the five strategic elements of health: physical, intellectual, social, occupational, and emotional.

Buy the Healthy Profits Book

More about Healthy Profits, the Book

The Project
Healthy Profits is an idea that grew from Sandra Larkin's personal experience of being challenged with balancing corporate success with personal wellness.
The Book
Healthy Profits will provide adults with concise chapters to strengthen and develop the social, intellectual, physical, emotional and occupational areas of their lives.
Authors for Healthy Profits, the Book
The complete list of Authors for Healthy Profits, the Book.

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