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Well Being

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Category: Health & Fitness - Alternative Therapies

Now in paperback! A fitness celebrity shares her story of overcoming autoimmune disease—and helps you chart your own path to wellness in body, mind, and soul.

Being diagnosed with a chronic illness can be stressful, confusing, and scary—especially when the path to healing seems to be nowhere in sight.

Valentina Gaylord

knows this firsthand because she has lived it. She survived a terrifying series of health challenges that started when she was stricken with Bell’s palsy and launched on a years-long journey to recover her health—which, after exhausting every avenue that conventional medicine could offer, she finally did by turning within.



In

Well Being

, Gaylord dissects the course of her own decline from exuberant wife, mother, and fitness entrepreneur to pain-riddled, exhausted, and desperate victim of disease. She details the dedicated and educated response she brought to her debilitating illnesses as she battled to restore her health. And as she tells her story, she invites you to chart your own path of healing in body, mind, and soul.



Drawing on her personal experience and intensive research as well as her work with clients in the boutique fitness studios she founded and owned for over ten years, Gaylord shares exercises and techniques that put mindset, emotional wellness, and spiritual awareness at the forefront of health. In each chapter, she offers thoughtful questions and carefully crafted journal prompts to help you:



  • Pay attention to your body and listen to its messages for you
  • Unravel the mysteries of your own health challenges
  • Start to write your own healing story
  • Find your way to true well-being—not just renewed vitality but a new sense of fulfillment and purpose that will transform your life

“Untangling the impacts of autoimmune disease was just the beginning for me,” Gaylord writes. “It demanded an evolution of my mind, heart, soul, and body. My reawakening took over a decade. Yours will not.”

Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Steven C. ★★★★★

I read this in two sittings, mostly because the section on gentle movement during flare-ups felt like it was written specifically for me. The paperback format makes it easy to dog-ear the pages I keep returning to. It's rare that a wellness book respects how exhausting chronic illness actually is.

Victoria ★★★★★

I picked this up expecting another celebrity wellness memoir and ended up reading it in two sittings. Her honesty about the hard days with autoimmune disease made the mind and soul sections feel earned rather than preachy, and the paperback format makes it easy to flip back to the exercises.

Grace ★★★★★

I wasn't expecting a paperback to hit this hard, but her chapter on pacing yourself through flare-ups felt like she was writing about my own mornings. Finished it in two sittings and immediately lent it to my sister.