Motivation Counseling Opportunities for Patients and Their Families

Life-style Counsel is an integral part of the treatment model developed by Dr. Abernathy. It is one of 4 critical areas of management in an effective weight loss program or rejuvenation program. The other critical areas are Clinical Nutrition, Physical Fitness, and Endocrine Health.

Patients are encouraged to manage their mental status and sense of well-being. This is an area that many Americans ignore since our culture does not really support mental wellness. Since the Reagan era, services and governmental compassion for people with emotional problems has virtually disappeared. Just look at the prison system. I suspect that at least half the people in jail needed mental health counseling which was never available. In today’s world, people are often conditioned to ignore the responsibility they have for their own mental well-being.

Motivation and insight are results of a good psycho-social education program. It is comparable to psycho-therapy ‘lite’ . Methods for emotional management are taught within an atmosphere of compassion. Individual and family counseling is a great way to change one’s environment and ability to ‘self manage’ as they lose weight or change their Life situation. Our patients want to change their lives and live their dreams. It is imperative that a patients’ mental status lines up with their physical changes. To ignore this may result in redundant self defeating life situations…. Usually reasons they need a structured program in the first place. If you change, so does your world.

Self management is not only necessary for optimal living, but there are destructive forces that cause brain degeneration. What’s the point of doing a makeover and ignoring the importance of brain health. It has been proven that poor food choices and obesity contributes to brain impairment. Cardiovascular disease and other similar diseases which are food and behavior related, will cause quick degeneration of brain cells and also contribute to mental illness. This can be observed by virtue of how someone acts and feels about themselves and also through the examination of the brain itself. Advancing atherosclerosis can cause the most wonderful people and turn them into people out of control. It is similar to the effects of long term alcoholism or cigarette smoking.

At our clinics we try to offer individual, family counseling, and support groups. Having a compassionate and knowledgeable circle of care, patients are able to evolve more effectively and gather self empowerment that will help them for the rest of their lives. It is also a healthy situation for families. Attitudes and habits can travel between generations and have a life of its own. Therapeutic counseling can stop this pattern and help your children live free of the same issues that brings patients into our programs.

At our Colorado Springs office, a support group is now available each week. Please check with Dr. Abernathy about the schedule and content of the groups. Each counseling program is priced low to encourage patients to participate. Send your inquiries to: doctor@bodysolutionsrx.com.

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