Thriving Moving Forward: A Guide to Healthy Aging
About this ebook
The aging process can include words like “thriving” instead of “declining” like it does now.
Many people believe they are doomed to decline based on their inherited genes. However, the plethora of research shows that your genes constitute only up to 20% of the risk of inherited disease(s).
How we decline is up to us. We control more than we think.
Omlie and Anderson team up to share ways for you to take responsibility and control of your health. Being struck with a chronic disease (such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s) is not necessarily an inevitability that you need to accept as a natural part of aging. Much of what ails us as we age can be preventable through a healthy lifestyle.
This is a beginner’s manual for you to age well. It contains the information you need to create a customized health plan. What's important, and how to incorporate healthy changes into your life.
For many of us, the best time to start living a healthy lifestyle is 20 to 30 years ago. The second best time is right now.
It's time to stop sitting on the sidelines and take control of your life. It's time.
About the author
Debbye Omlie started learning about healthy living principles in her early thirties. She started a worksite wellness program for a Honeywell division, heralded by the American Heart Association as a model in New Mexico. With a passion for health, she has worked in communications, marketing, public relations, and events for numerous healthcare organizations promoting healthy living principles for over 15 years.
But when her family started dying from preventable lifestyle-related diseases, Omlie knew she had to find a better way to live. This book is the result of her research into scientific evidence-based information. This is a healthy aging beginner’s manual with information about where one can start and how to create a customized plan for yourself.
Omlie earned a Master of Mass Communication degree from Arizona State University, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Blake Anderson earned his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Washington and turned that into a successful 30-year career in the tech industry, over 20 of which were spent at Microsoft, working in various teams from Office to Bing to Xbox.
Blake's health journey started when he discovered himself overweight and out of shape. He was able to turn his health around through small, but meaningful, changes that led to the results he wanted to see. The lifestyle changes stuck and so did the results! While in the midst of his health transformation, he was beset by personal tragedy. After struggling for many years, he re-imagined a better future for himself and through creativity and persistence, was able to build a new life out of the ashes his old life had become.
Driven by his own personal success and fueled by a passion to help others, Blake started his own Life and Wellness Coaching business, called Honu Perspective. He has a Wellness Coach certification from the Mayo Clinic and Breakthrough Coaching and Neuro-Transformational Coaching certifications from Elite Coaching University. He enjoys helping clients dig deep to work through their fears, limiting beliefs, and other resistance to change, empowering them to accomplish their goals and achieve a more balanced life and greater sense of well-being.
Blake currently lives in Kirkland, Washington with his beautiful wife, Brandi, and their precious little newborn, Braelyn.
